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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Halcyon
Apocryphal
Bi-polar
Pedantic
2. A warning or caution
Acumen
Caveat
Verve
Demagogue
3. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Patrician
Vilify
Abrogate
Probity
4. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Milieu
Tautological
Adumbrate
Patrician
5. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Specious
Puerile
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Vitiate
6. Seize the moment
Pedantic
Disingenuous
Hyperbole
Carpe diem
7. Having only one side
Unilateral
Halcyon
Allegory
Levity
8. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Pecuniary
Inane
Probity
9. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Erudite
Nefarious
Aphorism
Equivocate
10. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Concatenation
Symbiotic
Aphorism
Egalitarian
11. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Reticent
Equivocate
Ubiquitous
Simile
12. Bitterly sarcastic
Visceral
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Sardonic
Facetious
13. Course - base - instinctive
Patrician
Superfluous
Visceral
Vociferous
14. Very talkative
Loquacious
Syntax
Didactic
Superfluous
15. Extravagant exaggeration
Adumbrate
Aphorism
Hyperbole
Bi-polar
16. An amendment to an existing will
Specious
Loquacious
Verve
Codicil
17. Brief - concise
Fortuitous
Pernicious
Succinct
Concatenation
18. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Logomachy
Superfluous
Ameliorate
Codicil
19. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Vociferous
NB
Caveat
Simile
20. Being everywhere
Euphemism
i.e.
Ubiquitous
Unilateral
21. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Chicanery
Ethereal
Caveat
22. To make or grow better
Forbearance
Pusillanimous
Dilatory
Ameliorate
23. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Obviate
Verve
Sine qua non
24. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Ellipsis
Erudite
Avarice
Sojourn
25. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Equivocate
Ethereal
Erudite
Syntax
26. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Bifurcate
Logomachy
Forbearance
Dilatory
27. The thing speaks for itself
Erudite
Nefarious
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Binary
28. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Forbearance
Pusillanimous
Chicanery
Halcyon
29. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Binary
Aphorism
Equivocate
Vitiate
30. Id est (that is)
Prevaricate
Pedantic
i.e.
Adumbrate
31. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Bi-polar
Nefarious
Hyperbole
Tautological
32. Having bounds
Probity
Finite
Scintilla
Levity
33. A chain; a succession
Succinct
Arcane
Pecuniary
Concatenation
34. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Scintilla
Loquacious
Ken
Inchoate
35. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Ubiquitous
Caveat
Syntax
Chortle
36. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Adumbrate
Renege
Limited liability companies
Egalitarian
37. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Allegory
Visceral
Collegial
Facetious
38. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Ubiquitous
Superfluous
Binary
Salient
39. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Euphemism
Carpe diem
Halcyon
Consanguineous
40. To divide into two parts or branches
Patrician
Limited liability companies
Bifurcate
Collegial
41. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Loquacious
Collegial
NB
42. Whimsical; changeable
Capricious
Erudite
Allegory
Symbiotic
43. Happening by chance
Pernicious
Fortuitous
Ken
Avarice
44. To depart from or evade the truth
Prevaricate
Milieu
Erudite
Unilateral
45. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Fait accompli
Unilateral
Sojourn
Tautological
46. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Vitiate
Binary
Diction
Chortle
47. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Acerbic
Iconoclast
Acumen
Puerile
48. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Exiguous
Visceral
Tautological
49. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Succinct
Nefarious
Scintilla
Didactic
50. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Ken
Nefarious
Patrician
Myopic