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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Disparaging - belittling
Unilateral
Requisite
Pejorative
Pedantic
2. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Avarice
E.g.
Capricious
Didactic
3. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Dilatory
Ken
Arcane
Plenary
4. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Fortuitous
Facetious
Equivocate
Adumbrate
5. Honesty - uprightness
Supercilious
Reticent
Probity
Unilateral
6. Full; entire; complete
Plenary
Logomachy
Probity
Scintilla
7. Very talkative
Puerile
Apocryphal
Pecuniary
Loquacious
8. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Adumbrate
Euphemism
Egalitarian
9. To make faulty or imperfect
Superfluous
Allegory
Limited liability companies
Vitiate
10. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pedantic
Pecuniary
Probity
Egalitarian
11. Having bounds
Syllogism
Supercilious
Finite
Pernicious
12. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Aphorism
Requisite
Ethereal
Halcyon
13. A warning or caution
Caveat
Pejorative
NB
Res Ipsa Loquitur
14. Whimsical; changeable
Capricious
Inane
Sojourn
Reticent
15. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Scintilla
Consanguineous
Cadre
Caveat
16. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Prevaricate
NB
Apocryphal
Abrogate
17. Necessary; indispensable
Apocryphal
Acrimony
Bifurcate
Requisite
18. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Finite
Collegial
Unilateral
Ubiquitous
19. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Vilify
Symbiotic
Pejorative
Facetious
20. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Fait accompli
Bifurcate
Forbearance
Indolent
21. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Limited liability companies
Myopic
NB
Ameliorate
22. Extremely scanty (bare)
Exiguous
Unilateral
Patrician
Puerile
23. Environment; setting
Milieu
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Pedantic
Finite
24. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Acrimony
Facetious
Pusillanimous
Specious
25. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
NB
Loquacious
Plenary
26. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Ken
Ameliorate
Tautological
Sojourn
27. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Ethereal
Avarice
Eclectic
Nefarious
28. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Tautological
Egalitarian
Ubiquitous
Scintilla
29. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Fait accompli
Pernicious
Bi-polar
Caveat
30. A chain; a succession
Bifurcate
Fait accompli
Concatenation
Binary
31. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Ephemeral
Myopic
Sine qua non
Levity
32. Seize the moment
Exiguous
Ethereal
Carpe diem
Pernicious
33. Being everywhere
Ellipsis
Egalitarian
Acrimony
Ubiquitous
34. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Bifurcate
Forbearance
Allegory
35. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syntax
Simile
Ellipsis
E.g.
36. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Erudite
Pernicious
Succinct
Superfluous
37. Short lived
Exiguous
Ephemeral
Binary
Res Ipsa Loquitur
38. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Diction
Limited liability companies
Ellipsis
Capricious
39. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Tautological
Acrimony
Nefarious
Binary
40. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Patrician
Iconoclast
Proclivity
Inchoate
41. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Scintilla
Acerbic
Caveat
Dilatory
42. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Inchoate
Vilify
Ubiquitous
Iconoclast
43. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Ellipsis
Consanguineous
Binary
Syllogism
44. To depart from or evade the truth
Prevaricate
Avarice
Apocryphal
Acumen
45. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Tautological
Obviate
Apocryphal
Forbearance
46. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Milieu
Cadre
Hyperbole
Fait accompli
47. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Tautological
Didactic
Salient
Plenary
48. Understood by only a few
Arcane
Pejorative
Didactic
Bi-polar
49. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Aphorism
Facetious
NB
Puerile
50. Favoring social equality
Apocryphal
Egalitarian
Proclivity
Patrician