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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Equivocate
Salient
Hyperbole
Simile
2. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Pejorative
Bi-polar
Iconoclast
Nefarious
3. Extravagant exaggeration
Pusillanimous
Hyperbole
Demagogue
Proclivity
4. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Specious
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Prevaricate
Salient
5. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Specious
Patrician
Pecuniary
Inane
6. Brief - concise
Ellipsis
Pejorative
Succinct
Scintilla
7. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Metaphor
Collegial
i.e.
Didactic
8. Full; entire; complete
Collegial
Euphemism
Plenary
Indolent
9. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
Lexicon
Diction
Pernicious
10. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Milieu
Vitiate
Obviate
Erudite
11. To depart from or evade the truth
NB
Sardonic
Prevaricate
Ken
12. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Nefarious
Diction
Concatenation
Proclivity
13. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Cadre
Milieu
Avarice
Logomachy
14. Having bounds
Finite
Milieu
Specious
Ken
15. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Facetious
Acerbic
Pernicious
Obviate
16. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Disingenuous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Loquacious
17. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Salient
Abrogate
Pecuniary
NB
18. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Logomachy
Ellipsis
Ubiquitous
Avarice
19. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Diction
Tautological
Simile
20. Extremely scanty (bare)
Ethereal
Exiguous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Chortle
21. A chain; a succession
Concatenation
Renege
Cadre
Prevaricate
22. To divide into two parts or branches
Bifurcate
Demagogue
Levity
Forbearance
23. Bitterly sarcastic
Euphemism
Bi-polar
Sardonic
Fait accompli
24. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Verve
Sojourn
Lexicon
Fait accompli
25. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Apocryphal
Consanguineous
Abrogate
Myopic
26. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Collegial
Scintilla
Consanguineous
Pernicious
27. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pedantic
Ken
Hyperbole
Vilify
28. Seize the moment
Sojourn
Carpe diem
Facetious
Chicanery
29. Happening by chance
Facetious
Cadre
Fortuitous
Banal
30. An indispensable thing
Concatenation
Sine qua non
Pedantic
Specious
31. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Pedantic
Pusillanimous
Caveat
Consanguineous
32. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Verve
Indolent
NB
Succinct
33. Favoring social equality
Visceral
Inchoate
Egalitarian
Lexicon
34. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Scintilla
Forbearance
Syllogism
Apocryphal
35. Inclined to keep quiet
Iconoclast
Acerbic
Ubiquitous
Reticent
36. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Pejorative
Fortuitous
Logomachy
Binary
37. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Indolent
Sojourn
Ubiquitous
Adumbrate
38. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Levity
Chicanery
Puerile
Halcyon
39. Course - base - instinctive
Hyperbole
Reticent
Visceral
Simile
40. Wicked in the extreme
Inane
Visceral
Nefarious
Eclectic
41. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Myopic
Reticent
Fait accompli
Forbearance
42. Deadly
Bi-polar
Inchoate
Pernicious
Tautological
43. Necessary; indispensable
Sardonic
Ephemeral
Requisite
Loquacious
44. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Vilify
Inchoate
Supercilious
Vociferous
45. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Allegory
Avarice
Pernicious
46. To prevent by interception
Acrimony
Demagogue
Abrogate
Obviate
47. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Equivocate
Capricious
Limited liability companies
Prevaricate
48. Exempli gratia (for example)
E.g.
Eclectic
Avarice
Logomachy
49. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Carpe diem
Aphorism
Succinct
Sojourn
50. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Syntax
Ethereal
Probity
Succinct