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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Acrimony
Acumen
Pusillanimous
Capricious
2. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Plenary
Patrician
Codicil
Obviate
3. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Plenary
Exiguous
Levity
4. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Egalitarian
NB
Succinct
Milieu
5. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Succinct
Facetious
Acrimony
Sardonic
6. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Abrogate
Inchoate
Specious
Pusillanimous
7. Lofty with pride
Supercilious
Allegory
Ken
Pernicious
8. Environment; setting
Carpe diem
Milieu
Cadre
Levity
9. To depart from or evade the truth
Bifurcate
Chortle
Prevaricate
Erudite
10. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Fait accompli
Vitiate
Verve
Diction
11. To go back on a promise or commitment
Iconoclast
Fortuitous
Ephemeral
Renege
12. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Inane
Myopic
Exiguous
Allegory
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
Vociferous
Diction
Metaphor
Unilateral
14. A warning or caution
Syntax
Chortle
Patrician
Caveat
15. The use of trickery to deceive
Facetious
Demagogue
Chicanery
Euphemism
16. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Fortuitous
Apocryphal
Requisite
Specious
17. Deadly
Indolent
Aphorism
Facetious
Pernicious
18. To prevent by interception
Facetious
Nefarious
Obviate
Requisite
19. To make faulty or imperfect
Fortuitous
Demagogue
Vitiate
Caveat
20. The thing speaks for itself
Succinct
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Banal
Avarice
21. Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
Acerbic
Acumen
Halcyon
22. A chain; a succession
Proclivity
Simile
Concatenation
Pecuniary
23. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
Limited liability companies
Ubiquitous
Levity
24. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Levity
Specious
Reticent
Syntax
25. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Syntax
Metaphor
Halcyon
Iconoclast
26. A natural inclination; predisposition
Acrimony
Proclivity
Reticent
Levity
27. Lacking in courage and resolution
Ephemeral
Probity
Pusillanimous
Plenary
28. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Demagogue
Acumen
Cadre
Vilify
29. Making a loud outcry
Didactic
Vociferous
Euphemism
Codicil
30. Inclined to keep quiet
Syllogism
Vitiate
Reticent
Adumbrate
31. Honesty - uprightness
Simile
Probity
Concatenation
Allegory
32. To divide into two parts or branches
Reticent
Vilify
Unilateral
Bifurcate
33. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Symbiotic
Verve
Chicanery
Facetious
34. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Chicanery
Diction
Avarice
Halcyon
35. Being everywhere
Ubiquitous
Metaphor
Collegial
Ethereal
36. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Prevaricate
Forbearance
NB
Pernicious
37. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Sojourn
Abrogate
NB
38. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Supercilious
Pejorative
Didactic
Iconoclast
39. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
E.g.
Chortle
Concatenation
Ameliorate
40. Disparaging - belittling
Pejorative
Collegial
Euphemism
Apocryphal
41. An amendment to an existing will
Vilify
Metaphor
Codicil
Dilatory
42. Displaing a lack of maturity
Demagogue
Puerile
Banal
Adumbrate
43. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Ethereal
Aphorism
NB
Binary
44. Brief - concise
Aphorism
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Succinct
Salient
45. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Nefarious
Erudite
Cadre
Diction
46. Bitterly sarcastic
Avarice
Salient
Sardonic
Pecuniary
47. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Myopic
Disingenuous
Logomachy
Vilify
48. Happening by chance
Aphorism
Fortuitous
Limited liability companies
Succinct
49. Exempli gratia (for example)
Capricious
Simile
E.g.
Ubiquitous
50. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Finite
Avarice
Capricious
Equivocate