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100

flat, dry grasslands



What are the steppe?   

100

What is fancy word for addition?

What is sum?

100

The mayor of Boston.

Who is Marty Walsh?

100


a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly

What is an allusion?

100

Able or likely to change or be changed : not always the same


Sometimes an X or a Y in math

What is a variable?

200

a ceramic made of fine clay baked at very hot temperatures

What is porcelain?

200

The fancy word for multiplied

What is the product?


200

the quality or state of being without principles of right and wrong aka morals.


What is immorality?


Similar to corruption or depravity.

200

: the quality of being honest and fair


: the state of being complete or whole

What is integrity?


200

A solution with a pH greater than 7

the fundamental part of something 

place where military operations begin

What is a base?

300

the art of making beautiful handwriting

What is calligraphy?

300

characterized by or being an extremely rapid increase

What is exponential as in exponents?

300

The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington DC.

What is the The Pentagon?

300

to lower in character or dignity

rhymes with caffeine

What is demean?

She feels that such work demeans her.

300

a material of a particular kind


The floor was covered with a white, powdery _____________ that turned out to be flour.

What is a substance?

400

violent acts meant to cause fear in people

What is terror or terrorism?

400

: close or near : sharing a border, wall, or point


it has these letters    n e t j d a a c



What is adjacent?

400

States have governors.  In Massachusetts that is person is....

Who is Charlie Baker?

400

the practice of doing something (such as hiring a person who belongs to a minority group) only to prevent criticism and give the appearance that people are being treated fairly

What is tokenism?

400

a picture or symbol used in a system of writing to represent a thing or an idea

ideogram

500

a count of the number of people in a country, city, or town

What is a census?

500

The prefix that means "many"

What is "poly" as in polygon or polymer or polytheism.

500

including or involving many things 

: wide in range or amount

2 syllables

this meaning does not involve a broom

What is sweeping?

500

relating to boring or unpleasant work that does not require special skill

Some people hate ________ work like washing dishes, scrubbing floors and dusting.  

What is menial?

500

one of the parts of which something is made up


A building block or component

Periodic table of ______________


What is an element?

600

a member of a violent or uncivilized group of people especially in past times


Who is a barbarian?

600

7th graders should know what this is called!

What is a tessellation?

600

cruel or unjust use of power or authority

rhymes with aggression 

What is oppression?

600

The colonists challenged this great power in the U.S Revolutionary War.

Who are the British?

600

a chemical with a sour taste that forms a salt when mixed with a base


pH less than 7

What is an acid?