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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To depart from or evade the truth
Requisite
Prevaricate
Banal
Pernicious
2. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Erudite
Bifurcate
Levity
Indolent
3. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
i.e.
Allegory
Milieu
Facetious
4. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Reticent
Disingenuous
Equivocate
Tautological
5. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Levity
Loquacious
Diction
Ubiquitous
6. Necessary; indispensable
Requisite
Reticent
Pejorative
Iconoclast
7. To divide into two parts or branches
Bifurcate
Concatenation
Demagogue
Codicil
8. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Sojourn
Didactic
Verve
Dilatory
9. Favoring social equality
Forbearance
Logomachy
Verve
Egalitarian
10. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Avarice
Pernicious
Cadre
Carpe diem
11. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Inchoate
Sojourn
Vitiate
Fait accompli
12. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Capricious
Indolent
Acerbic
Demagogue
13. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them
Sine qua non
Scintilla
Exiguous
Metaphor
14. Full; entire; complete
Cadre
Capricious
Plenary
Succinct
15. The thing speaks for itself
Codicil
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Sojourn
Myopic
16. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Patrician
Pecuniary
Prevaricate
17. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Inane
Probity
Ken
Ameliorate
18. Lofty with pride
Supercilious
Pusillanimous
Succinct
Forbearance
19. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Abrogate
Ellipsis
Puerile
Allegory
20. An amendment to an existing will
Euphemism
Allegory
Codicil
Loquacious
21. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Succinct
Chortle
Indolent
Vilify
22. Displaing a lack of maturity
Equivocate
Finite
Specious
Puerile
23. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Ephemeral
Carpe diem
Limited liability companies
Fait accompli
24. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Indolent
Caveat
Pedantic
Didactic
25. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Abrogate
Plenary
Adumbrate
Logomachy
26. Deadly
Vitiate
Pernicious
Consanguineous
Specious
27. Commonplace; trivial
Sardonic
Banal
Carpe diem
Disingenuous
28. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Logomachy
Syllogism
Adumbrate
Hyperbole
29. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Acerbic
Salient
E.g.
Collegial
30. A chain; a succession
Ethereal
Didactic
Demagogue
Concatenation
31. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Collegial
Scintilla
Banal
32. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Carpe diem
Ellipsis
Consanguineous
Tautological
33. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Superfluous
Caveat
Logomachy
Avarice
34. To go back on a promise or commitment
Succinct
Renege
Sine qua non
Ken
35. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Iconoclast
Fortuitous
Superfluous
Ameliorate
36. Having only one side
Proclivity
Limited liability companies
Unilateral
i.e.
37. Disparaging - belittling
Dilatory
Pejorative
Hyperbole
Res Ipsa Loquitur
38. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Requisite
Forbearance
Simile
Verve
39. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Adumbrate
Levity
Forbearance
Hyperbole
40. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Acrimony
Equivocate
Pedantic
Chortle
41. Understood by only a few
Tautological
Milieu
Arcane
Metaphor
42. Environment; setting
Loquacious
Pernicious
Logomachy
Milieu
43. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Forbearance
Symbiotic
Bi-polar
Allegory
44. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Renege
Lexicon
Abrogate
Succinct
45. Honesty - uprightness
Vilify
Probity
Carpe diem
Loquacious
46. To prevent by interception
Succinct
Obviate
Caveat
Verve
47. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Ethereal
Eclectic
Fait accompli
Acumen
48. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Binary
Lexicon
Exiguous
Pecuniary
49. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Ubiquitous
Myopic
Symbiotic
Succinct
50. A natural inclination; predisposition
Scintilla
Loquacious
Proclivity
Adumbrate