Words every Freshman should know

Maya W.

1. accentuate
2. alliteration
3. analogy
4. antibody
5. aspire
6. bamboozle
7. bizarre
8. boisterous
9. boycott
10. camouflage
11. chronology
12. commemorate
13. cower
14. decorum
15. deduction
16. deign
17. despondent
18. dialogue
19. divulge
35. hypocrisy
36. immune
37. impertinent
38. inference
39. introspection
40. jaunty
41. jovial
42. kilometer
43. labyrinth
44. laconic
45. lichen
46. light-year
47. maneuver
48. marsupial
49. metaphor
50. mosaic 51. mutation
52. nebula
53. nocturnal
54. nuisance
69. random
70. recede
71. renaissance
72. renegade
73. repose
74. sacrifice
75. silhouette
76. solstice
77. spectrum
78. stereotype
79. strategy
80. suffrage
81. symbiosis
82. tariff
83. technique
84. tempo
85. toxin
86. tranquility
87. tumult

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