100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know: The Vocabulary Reference for Preparing Students to Master Complex Reading

by American Heritage

Prepare your student for high school.

100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know focuses on words that nearly every freshman will encounter over the course of the school year. Chosen with various criteria in mind, some represent key concepts in important areas of the curriculum, while others are more familiar in meaning but present challenges of spelling or usage. All are words that students can expect to see regularly in their high school reading and beyond.   Each word is fully defined and shown in typical contexts with example sentences and quotations, many of which are taken from award-winning authors such as John Knowles, Harper Lee, George Orwell, and Katherine Paterson. Together, these 100 words represent the increasingly sophisticated and complex vocabulary that freshmen must master as they continue their education at the next level.

Genres: Reference

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2004

Reviews

[Toryn]

I think there were like 3 I didn’t know 🤷‍♀️

[Vivian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know how many of these words I knew 40 years ago as a high school freshman, but at this reading I knew all but two of them -- #60 phloem and #98 xylem (which shows I'm not well versed in plant biology).

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this for Damian but read through it first. Pretty good word selection and I'd say he knows almost all of them, if not all.

[Karie Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tool! I would recommend this to all of my fellow graduates!

[Makena Hulme · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an important book to remind us all to keep large vocabularies. I also really enjoyed the extra excerpts from novels and history to put the words into context.

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

daily vocabulary lesson

[Audrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

The eighth graders really liked this one as a source for vocabulary words.