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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Caveat
Pecuniary
Ellipsis
Chortle
2. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Milieu
Patrician
Ken
Symbiotic
3. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
Prevaricate
Reticent
Chortle
4. Being everywhere
Ken
Patrician
Ubiquitous
Vociferous
5. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Reticent
Pusillanimous
Allegory
Symbiotic
6. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Indolent
Avarice
Eclectic
Vilify
7. Full; entire; complete
Levity
Codicil
Vociferous
Plenary
8. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Logomachy
Sojourn
Myopic
Consanguineous
9. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Unilateral
Puerile
Indolent
Erudite
10. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Syllogism
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Disingenuous
Proclivity
11. Lacking in courage and resolution
Didactic
Plenary
Equivocate
Pusillanimous
12. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Diction
Proclivity
Inane
Loquacious
13. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Diction
Obviate
Cadre
Equivocate
14. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Sine qua non
Hyperbole
Simile
Forbearance
15. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Acrimony
i.e.
Hyperbole
Pusillanimous
16. Environment; setting
Milieu
Acerbic
Sardonic
Syntax
17. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Acumen
Ubiquitous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Scintilla
18. Bitterly sarcastic
Symbiotic
Sardonic
Abrogate
Pejorative
19. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Unilateral
Chortle
NB
Forbearance
20. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Syntax
Iconoclast
Reticent
Ubiquitous
21. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Pecuniary
Adumbrate
Allegory
Finite
22. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Acumen
Apocryphal
Syllogism
Binary
23. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Levity
Forbearance
Simile
Puerile
24. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Limited liability companies
Pedantic
Erudite
Levity
25. Displaing a lack of maturity
Sine qua non
Puerile
Sardonic
Milieu
26. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Ethereal
Acumen
Arcane
Adumbrate
27. Course - base - instinctive
Logomachy
Salient
Vociferous
Visceral
28. Extremely scanty (bare)
Avarice
Abrogate
Concatenation
Exiguous
29. Argument over the definition of words
Avarice
Forbearance
Logomachy
Consanguineous
30. To make faulty or imperfect
Succinct
Acerbic
Vitiate
Pernicious
31. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Levity
Simile
Superfluous
Didactic
32. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Ellipsis
Chortle
Limited liability companies
Superfluous
33. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Ellipsis
Avarice
Didactic
Res Ipsa Loquitur
34. Having bounds
Eclectic
Allegory
Carpe diem
Finite
35. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Adumbrate
Unilateral
Plenary
Collegial
36. Understood by only a few
Acrimony
Vilify
Arcane
Iconoclast
37. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Acrimony
Nefarious
Aphorism
Ubiquitous
38. Happening by chance
Dilatory
Metaphor
Reticent
Fortuitous
39. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Reticent
Ellipsis
Didactic
Finite
40. A natural inclination; predisposition
Syllogism
Ethereal
Ellipsis
Proclivity
41. Favoring social equality
E.g.
Egalitarian
NB
Ethereal
42. To prevent by interception
Fait accompli
Forbearance
Salient
Obviate
43. Extravagant exaggeration
Egalitarian
Vilify
Hyperbole
Puerile
44. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Forbearance
Hyperbole
Superfluous
Specious
45. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Capricious
Diction
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Tautological
46. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Pecuniary
Cadre
Apocryphal
Syntax
47. Id est (that is)
Metaphor
i.e.
Obviate
Vitiate
48. Relating to money
Pecuniary
Salient
Pejorative
Renege
49. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Prevaricate
Fortuitous
Bi-polar
50. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Proclivity
Salient
Ellipsis
Ameliorate