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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Necessary; indispensable
Pejorative
Dilatory
Requisite
Acerbic
2. Exempli gratia (for example)
Levity
Symbiotic
Plenary
E.g.
3. Environment; setting
Exiguous
Caveat
Milieu
Sojourn
4. Seize the moment
Acrimony
Carpe diem
Binary
Egalitarian
5. To prevent by interception
Visceral
Tautological
Obviate
i.e.
6. Deadly
Pernicious
Fortuitous
Ubiquitous
Ellipsis
7. Understood by only a few
Unilateral
Arcane
Acumen
Milieu
8. Wicked in the extreme
Arcane
Inane
Nefarious
Equivocate
9. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Acrimony
Demagogue
Fortuitous
Allegory
10. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Equivocate
Inane
Codicil
Dilatory
11. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Demagogue
Pernicious
Acumen
Adumbrate
12. Disparaging - belittling
Pernicious
Finite
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Pejorative
13. To divide into two parts or branches
Vitiate
Dilatory
Erudite
Bifurcate
14. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Chicanery
Fait accompli
Sine qua non
Bi-polar
15. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Facetious
Avarice
Ameliorate
Verve
16. Extravagant exaggeration
Renege
Inane
Hyperbole
Scintilla
17. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Fait accompli
Pedantic
Pusillanimous
Specious
18. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Lexicon
Succinct
Tautological
Chortle
19. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
NB
Arcane
Probity
20. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Equivocate
Renege
Forbearance
21. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Myopic
Requisite
Acerbic
Symbiotic
22. Extremely scanty (bare)
Salient
Exiguous
Verve
Superfluous
23. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Cadre
Pedantic
Pecuniary
Pejorative
24. To make faulty or imperfect
Aphorism
Vitiate
Erudite
Verve
25. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Erudite
Plenary
Concatenation
Obviate
26. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
i.e.
Requisite
Consanguineous
Lexicon
27. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Inane
Levity
Fortuitous
Lexicon
28. Id est (that is)
i.e.
E.g.
NB
Requisite
29. Honesty - uprightness
Renege
Probity
Syntax
Demagogue
30. The use of trickery to deceive
Milieu
Chicanery
Halcyon
Hyperbole
31. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Lexicon
Avarice
Inchoate
Adumbrate
32. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Halcyon
Eclectic
Allegory
Acerbic
33. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Chortle
Prevaricate
Arcane
Didactic
34. A natural inclination; predisposition
Limited liability companies
Proclivity
i.e.
Apocryphal
35. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Scintilla
Syntax
Dilatory
Pejorative
36. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Eclectic
Vilify
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Proclivity
37. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Acerbic
Ubiquitous
Reticent
Simile
38. To go back on a promise or commitment
Renege
Prevaricate
Symbiotic
Dilatory
39. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Forbearance
Aphorism
Exiguous
Diction
40. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Ken
Acumen
Caveat
Inchoate
41. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Sojourn
Consanguineous
Equivocate
Acumen
42. Commonplace; trivial
Eclectic
Patrician
Banal
NB
43. Having bounds
Vilify
Unilateral
Finite
Inane
44. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
NB
Banal
Vilify
Erudite
45. Very talkative
Euphemism
Loquacious
Collegial
Pernicious
46. 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
Dilatory
Ubiquitous
Metaphor
Loquacious
47. Happening by chance
Halcyon
Fortuitous
Syntax
Aphorism
48. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Egalitarian
Plenary
Limited liability companies
Ameliorate
49. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Exiguous
Verve
Scintilla
Acumen
50. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Prevaricate
Abrogate
Fortuitous
Pernicious