100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know

by American Heritage (Editor), Houghton Mifflin Company (Manufactured by)

Following the success of 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know, the editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries have developed this new book of 100 words tailored especially to high school freshmen. This second book in the 100 Words series focuses on the kinds of words that a successful middle school graduate can learn from rigorous coursework in a variety of subjects and that nearly every freshman will encounter over the course of the school year.

The words have been 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. And each word is fully defined as well as shown in typical contexts with example sentences and quotations, many of which are taken from award-winning authors such as Harper Lee, George Orwell, Katherine Paterson, and John Knowles.

Together, these 100 words represent the increasingly sophisticated and complex vocabulary that freshmen must master as they continue their education at the next level. To learn them is not only to gain useful knowledge — it is to step into a broader world.

Genres: Reference

83 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2004

Reviews

[Toryn]

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

[Vivian]

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]

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]

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

[Makena Hulme]

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]

daily vocabulary lesson

[Audrey]

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