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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Inclined to keep quiet
Symbiotic
Reticent
Carpe diem
Obviate
2. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Sardonic
Supercilious
i.e.
Erudite
3. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Ubiquitous
Visceral
Verve
Logomachy
4. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Chortle
Finite
Metaphor
Disingenuous
5. To depart from or evade the truth
Aphorism
Prevaricate
Requisite
Milieu
6. Bitterly sarcastic
Logomachy
Sardonic
Consanguineous
Verve
7. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Hyperbole
Aphorism
Dilatory
Visceral
8. Id est (that is)
i.e.
Bifurcate
Acrimony
Sardonic
9. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Facetious
Reticent
Vilify
Capricious
10. An indispensable thing
Capricious
Limited liability companies
Sine qua non
Supercilious
11. Course - base - instinctive
Avarice
Syntax
Demagogue
Visceral
12. Making a loud outcry
Vociferous
Renege
i.e.
Didactic
13. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Demagogue
Succinct
Nefarious
Scintilla
14. Extremely scanty (bare)
Exiguous
Supercilious
Proclivity
E.g.
15. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Proclivity
Vociferous
Logomachy
Ethereal
16. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
NB
Loquacious
Indolent
Ken
17. Seize the moment
i.e.
Bifurcate
Sine qua non
Carpe diem
18. Favoring social equality
Patrician
Loquacious
Egalitarian
E.g.
19. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Abrogate
Renege
Specious
Hyperbole
20. Exempli gratia (for example)
Unilateral
E.g.
Sardonic
Finite
21. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Fait accompli
Pejorative
Abrogate
22. Disparaging - belittling
Sojourn
Sine qua non
Codicil
Pejorative
23. Lacking in courage and resolution
Pusillanimous
Exiguous
Iconoclast
Avarice
24. Wicked in the extreme
i.e.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Consanguineous
Nefarious
25. The use of trickery to deceive
Vilify
Banal
Indolent
Chicanery
26. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Loquacious
Unilateral
Tautological
27. Full; entire; complete
Patrician
Lexicon
Diction
Plenary
28. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
Verve
Didactic
Ethereal
29. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Ellipsis
Ubiquitous
Metaphor
Levity
30. To prevent by interception
Adumbrate
Obviate
Proclivity
Sojourn
31. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Requisite
Milieu
Inane
Vociferous
32. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Salient
Chortle
Bi-polar
Ellipsis
33. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Avarice
Ethereal
Acerbic
Diction
34. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Chicanery
Sine qua non
Requisite
Didactic
35. An amendment to an existing will
NB
Tautological
Codicil
Ameliorate
36. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Acumen
Obviate
Salient
37. Honesty - uprightness
Symbiotic
Salient
Probity
Unilateral
38. Argument over the definition of words
Sardonic
Probity
Logomachy
Renege
39. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Myopic
Iconoclast
Ubiquitous
Nefarious
40. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Hyperbole
Disingenuous
Ken
41. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Fortuitous
Euphemism
Collegial
Symbiotic
42. Relating to money
Ubiquitous
Hyperbole
Equivocate
Pecuniary
43. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Abrogate
Loquacious
Limited liability companies
Salient
44. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Obviate
Scintilla
Logomachy
Ellipsis
45. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Patrician
Sojourn
Inchoate
Pusillanimous
46. Whimsical; changeable
Salient
Proclivity
Renege
Capricious
47. Displaing a lack of maturity
Puerile
Obviate
Adumbrate
Bifurcate
48. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Hyperbole
Obviate
Syntax
Forbearance
49. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Verve
Aphorism
Nefarious
Abrogate
50. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pedantic
Facetious
Demagogue
Diction