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100 Words For Every College Student
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Ameliorate
Specious
Consanguineous
2. Commonplace; trivial
Verve
Banal
Collegial
Caveat
3. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Metaphor
Eclectic
Adumbrate
Equivocate
4. To make faulty or imperfect
Lexicon
Exiguous
Vitiate
Symbiotic
5. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Binary
Ubiquitous
Ellipsis
6. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Acumen
Avarice
Egalitarian
Chortle
7. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Probity
Superfluous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Caveat
8. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Forbearance
Patrician
Iconoclast
Didactic
9. Brief - concise
Didactic
Succinct
Requisite
Adumbrate
10. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Pernicious
Consanguineous
Fortuitous
Aphorism
11. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Metaphor
E.g.
Fait accompli
Dilatory
12. A chain; a succession
Concatenation
Myopic
Binary
Ken
13. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Collegial
Consanguineous
Acumen
Equivocate
14. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Syntax
Syllogism
Consanguineous
Symbiotic
15. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Eclectic
Syntax
Codicil
Plenary
16. Inclined to keep quiet
Syllogism
Reticent
Binary
Indolent
17. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Vociferous
Milieu
Syntax
Capricious
18. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Hyperbole
NB
Inane
Vilify
19. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Ellipsis
Sine qua non
Facetious
Euphemism
20. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Syllogism
Egalitarian
Obviate
Consanguineous
21. Whimsical; changeable
Aphorism
Codicil
Capricious
E.g.
22. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Fortuitous
Reticent
Myopic
Diction
23. Extremely scanty (bare)
Succinct
Ameliorate
Pejorative
Exiguous
24. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Pecuniary
Reticent
Succinct
Facetious
25. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Salient
Reticent
Pedantic
26. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Arcane
Loquacious
Disingenuous
Salient
27. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Requisite
Syllogism
Scintilla
Arcane
28. Full; entire; complete
Scintilla
Consanguineous
Plenary
Ethereal
29. Relating to money
Ubiquitous
Vilify
Pecuniary
Sine qua non
30. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Halcyon
Chortle
Finite
Abrogate
31. Wicked in the extreme
Obviate
i.e.
Nefarious
Egalitarian
32. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Obviate
Specious
Bi-polar
33. Very talkative
Loquacious
Pernicious
Superfluous
Caveat
34. Disparaging - belittling
Simile
Adumbrate
Obviate
Pejorative
35. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Hyperbole
Milieu
Inane
Chicanery
36. Exempli gratia (for example)
Euphemism
Avarice
Supercilious
E.g.
37. Seize the moment
Halcyon
Ameliorate
Ubiquitous
Carpe diem
38. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Verve
Disingenuous
Allegory
Pernicious
39. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Exiguous
Concatenation
Didactic
Diction
40. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Requisite
Ken
Patrician
Euphemism
41. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Carpe diem
Finite
Avarice
Cadre
42. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
Cadre
Loquacious
Reticent
43. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Sojourn
Obviate
Ameliorate
44. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Obviate
NB
Levity
Nefarious
45. Displaing a lack of maturity
Equivocate
Plenary
Puerile
Pusillanimous
46. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Probity
Caveat
Halcyon
Tautological
47. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Acerbic
Ken
Milieu
Diction
48. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Pusillanimous
Egalitarian
Indolent
Ethereal
49. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Pedantic
Indolent
Acrimony
Symbiotic
50. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Tautological
Dilatory
Pejorative
Simile