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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To depart from or evade the truth
Ellipsis
Facetious
Syntax
Prevaricate
2. A natural inclination; predisposition
Allegory
Proclivity
Scintilla
Dilatory
3. A warning or caution
Egalitarian
Caveat
Apocryphal
Res Ipsa Loquitur
4. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Apocryphal
Adumbrate
Cadre
Scintilla
5. The use of trickery to deceive
Acerbic
Scintilla
Iconoclast
Chicanery
6. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Demagogue
Metaphor
Dilatory
Caveat
7. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Ken
Chicanery
Equivocate
Lexicon
8. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Pecuniary
Syntax
Concatenation
Didactic
9. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Milieu
Sardonic
Erudite
Arcane
10. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Ken
Sardonic
Allegory
Chortle
11. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Tautological
Capricious
Inchoate
Pedantic
12. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Fortuitous
Cadre
Superfluous
Erudite
13. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Simile
Salient
Myopic
Proclivity
14. Honesty - uprightness
Facetious
Probity
Abrogate
Inchoate
15. Lacking in courage and resolution
Capricious
Proclivity
Pusillanimous
Acerbic
16. Deadly
Sine qua non
Egalitarian
Ameliorate
Pernicious
17. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Fait accompli
Ameliorate
Demagogue
18. Being everywhere
Ubiquitous
Allegory
Requisite
Inane
19. Id est (that is)
Symbiotic
Facetious
Milieu
i.e.
20. The thing speaks for itself
Ubiquitous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Chortle
Bifurcate
21. Commonplace; trivial
Loquacious
Banal
Pedantic
Res Ipsa Loquitur
22. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
Proclivity
Unilateral
Obviate
23. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Adumbrate
Facetious
Myopic
Codicil
24. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
i.e.
Halcyon
Disingenuous
Sojourn
25. Extremely scanty (bare)
Exiguous
Sardonic
Indolent
Plenary
26. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Consanguineous
Iconoclast
Supercilious
Vilify
27. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Vitiate
Unilateral
Allegory
Ephemeral
28. Necessary; indispensable
Ubiquitous
Consanguineous
Simile
Requisite
29. Seize the moment
Dilatory
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Carpe diem
Collegial
30. To make faulty or imperfect
Verve
Vitiate
Obviate
Diction
31. Very talkative
Diction
Ameliorate
Loquacious
Inchoate
32. To prevent by interception
Obviate
Limited liability companies
Pernicious
Facetious
33. Wicked in the extreme
Levity
Nefarious
Caveat
Reticent
34. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Ameliorate
Limited liability companies
Obviate
Verve
35. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Requisite
Demagogue
Inchoate
Aphorism
36. Inclined to keep quiet
Ethereal
Renege
Reticent
Abrogate
37. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Ellipsis
Vitiate
Obviate
Proclivity
38. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Levity
Syllogism
Logomachy
Facetious
39. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syntax
Vociferous
Acerbic
NB
40. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Logomachy
Ken
Ethereal
Pedantic
41. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Levity
Logomachy
Exiguous
42. Displaing a lack of maturity
Puerile
NB
Proclivity
Aphorism
43. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Loquacious
Symbiotic
Collegial
E.g.
44. Brief - concise
E.g.
Indolent
Succinct
Forbearance
45. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Ameliorate
NB
Concatenation
Diction
46. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
i.e.
Unilateral
Vilify
Consanguineous
47. Having only one side
Caveat
Unilateral
Acerbic
Collegial
48. Short lived
Inchoate
Unilateral
Acrimony
Ephemeral
49. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Puerile
Forbearance
Fait accompli
Vilify
50. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Pecuniary
Pejorative
Cadre
Equivocate