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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Specious
Ken
Obviate
Chicanery
2. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Bi-polar
Simile
Allegory
i.e.
3. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Bifurcate
Indolent
Finite
Verve
4. Disparaging - belittling
Pejorative
Fortuitous
Avarice
Apocryphal
5. Relating to money
Pecuniary
Consanguineous
Inane
Obviate
6. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Adumbrate
Iconoclast
i.e.
Simile
7. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Hyperbole
Vilify
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Lexicon
8. The thing speaks for itself
Simile
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Demagogue
Pernicious
9. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Arcane
Symbiotic
Plenary
Dilatory
10. To divide into two parts or branches
Prevaricate
Bifurcate
Caveat
Res Ipsa Loquitur
11. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Hyperbole
Vilify
Symbiotic
12. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Indolent
Iconoclast
Disingenuous
Milieu
13. A chain; a succession
Metaphor
Carpe diem
Simile
Concatenation
14. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
NB
Abrogate
Inane
Lexicon
15. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Puerile
Patrician
Exiguous
Allegory
16. Course - base - instinctive
Ethereal
Visceral
Requisite
Probity
17. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Collegial
Diction
Ethereal
Equivocate
18. Short lived
Ameliorate
Concatenation
Reticent
Ephemeral
19. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Forbearance
Scintilla
Requisite
Pernicious
20. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Indolent
Vilify
Simile
Iconoclast
21. Being everywhere
Levity
Ephemeral
Ubiquitous
Pernicious
22. Lacking in courage and resolution
Ken
Pusillanimous
Diction
NB
23. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Didactic
Syllogism
Acrimony
Consanguineous
24. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Fortuitous
Specious
Egalitarian
Didactic
25. A natural inclination; predisposition
Puerile
Carpe diem
Ellipsis
Proclivity
26. An amendment to an existing will
Levity
Codicil
Superfluous
Proclivity
27. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Disingenuous
Collegial
Didactic
Salient
28. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Loquacious
Apocryphal
Allegory
Inchoate
29. Necessary; indispensable
Didactic
Eclectic
Lexicon
Requisite
30. Full; entire; complete
Euphemism
Plenary
Capricious
Ameliorate
31. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Capricious
Ellipsis
Bifurcate
Verve
32. Lofty with pride
Supercilious
Hyperbole
Forbearance
Acumen
33. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Facetious
Obviate
Unilateral
Acrimony
34. 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
Vitiate
Facetious
Symbiotic
Metaphor
35. Commonplace; trivial
Sojourn
Scintilla
Tautological
Banal
36. Displaing a lack of maturity
Puerile
Succinct
Indolent
Symbiotic
37. To depart from or evade the truth
Prevaricate
Acumen
Chortle
E.g.
38. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Dilatory
Caveat
Inane
Tautological
39. Wicked in the extreme
Bifurcate
Requisite
Capricious
Nefarious
40. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Erudite
Ellipsis
Demagogue
Abrogate
41. To make or grow better
Nefarious
Ameliorate
Acerbic
Pejorative
42. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Ellipsis
Forbearance
Binary
Facetious
43. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Demagogue
Chortle
Pejorative
Proclivity
44. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Ephemeral
Binary
Patrician
Puerile
45. To make faulty or imperfect
Exiguous
Euphemism
Ellipsis
Vitiate
46. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Forbearance
Vociferous
Requisite
47. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Specious
Egalitarian
Avarice
Erudite
48. Exempli gratia (for example)
Hyperbole
E.g.
Vociferous
Cadre
49. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Pejorative
Sardonic
Acerbic
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50. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Logomachy
Pecuniary
Halcyon
Aphorism