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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To go back on a promise or commitment
Cadre
Reticent
Renege
Chicanery
2. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Apocryphal
Dilatory
Eclectic
E.g.
3. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Arcane
Vilify
Hyperbole
Loquacious
4. Being everywhere
Verve
Ubiquitous
NB
Scintilla
5. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Syllogism
Avarice
Finite
6. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Indolent
Aphorism
Arcane
Bi-polar
7. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Avarice
Adumbrate
Indolent
8. Lofty with pride
Iconoclast
Inane
Supercilious
Loquacious
9. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syntax
Diction
Ephemeral
Hyperbole
10. A natural inclination; predisposition
Pecuniary
Metaphor
Proclivity
Plenary
11. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Simile
Iconoclast
Arcane
Avarice
12. Relating to money
Pecuniary
Bifurcate
Sine qua non
Superfluous
13. Understood by only a few
Caveat
Cadre
Arcane
Prevaricate
14. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Caveat
Plenary
Erudite
Carpe diem
15. Whimsical; changeable
Caveat
Reticent
Puerile
Capricious
16. The use of trickery to deceive
Chicanery
Loquacious
Lexicon
Plenary
17. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Cadre
Forbearance
Hyperbole
Avarice
18. Necessary; indispensable
Requisite
Hyperbole
Aphorism
Vilify
19. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Simile
Fait accompli
Chicanery
Pecuniary
20. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Facetious
Ephemeral
Pedantic
Probity
21. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
Aphorism
Syntax
Obviate
22. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Fortuitous
Acrimony
E.g.
Vitiate
23. Brief - concise
Sardonic
Didactic
Cadre
Succinct
24. Id est (that is)
Aphorism
i.e.
Disingenuous
Abrogate
25. Displaing a lack of maturity
Plenary
Pernicious
Puerile
i.e.
26. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Unilateral
Egalitarian
Salient
Supercilious
27. Making a loud outcry
Acerbic
Ethereal
Vociferous
Syllogism
28. To make or grow better
Ethereal
Ameliorate
Carpe diem
Requisite
29. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Cadre
Lexicon
Sojourn
Vilify
30. To make faulty or imperfect
Vitiate
Acrimony
Binary
Allegory
31. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Acrimony
Ellipsis
Nefarious
Salient
32. Having bounds
Plenary
Acerbic
Unilateral
Finite
33. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Salient
Symbiotic
Pedantic
Arcane
34. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Halcyon
Codicil
Hyperbole
Sine qua non
35. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Fortuitous
Probity
Equivocate
Vilify
36. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Syntax
Tautological
Plenary
Specious
37. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Verve
Acrimony
Proclivity
Finite
38. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Reticent
Patrician
Plenary
Pedantic
39. An indispensable thing
Nefarious
Superfluous
Sine qua non
Demagogue
40. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Acrimony
Abrogate
Unilateral
Disingenuous
41. Extravagant exaggeration
Diction
Bi-polar
Salient
Hyperbole
42. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Consanguineous
Abrogate
Diction
Plenary
43. To depart from or evade the truth
Binary
E.g.
Prevaricate
Eclectic
44. A chain; a succession
Concatenation
Equivocate
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Carpe diem
45. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Ellipsis
Pejorative
Acumen
Ubiquitous
46. To divide into two parts or branches
Pedantic
Bifurcate
Levity
Metaphor
47. Commonplace; trivial
Acumen
Capricious
Vociferous
Banal
48. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Vitiate
i.e.
Fortuitous
49. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Dilatory
Diction
Exiguous
Sojourn
50. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Adumbrate
Metaphor
Erudite
NB