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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Puerile
Apocryphal
Didactic
Chortle
2. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Collegial
Euphemism
Acumen
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3. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Symbiotic
Halcyon
Ken
Codicil
4. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Aphorism
Forbearance
Consanguineous
Visceral
5. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Vitiate
Binary
Inane
Diction
6. Happening by chance
Indolent
Eclectic
Disingenuous
Fortuitous
7. Honesty - uprightness
Salient
Probity
Consanguineous
Acrimony
8. A warning or caution
Inchoate
Caveat
Aphorism
Abrogate
9. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Vilify
Cadre
Facetious
Ken
10. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Prevaricate
Fortuitous
Obviate
11. Extravagant exaggeration
Verve
Proclivity
Disingenuous
Hyperbole
12. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Logomachy
Arcane
Abrogate
13. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Allegory
Apocryphal
Aphorism
Syntax
14. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Sojourn
Bi-polar
NB
Ethereal
15. Course - base - instinctive
Prevaricate
Didactic
Ken
Visceral
16. An amendment to an existing will
Sojourn
Codicil
Probity
Finite
17. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Codicil
Consanguineous
Adumbrate
Plenary
18. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
i.e.
Vociferous
Forbearance
Specious
19. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Verve
Inchoate
Exiguous
Pusillanimous
20. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Requisite
Collegial
Symbiotic
Cadre
21. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Superfluous
Euphemism
Allegory
Pedantic
22. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Avarice
Tautological
Superfluous
Diction
23. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Prevaricate
Erudite
Collegial
Ellipsis
24. Lacking in courage and resolution
Pusillanimous
Carpe diem
Scintilla
Plenary
25. Wicked in the extreme
Nefarious
Succinct
Chicanery
Sine qua non
26. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Codicil
Bifurcate
Cadre
Demagogue
27. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Syllogism
Ephemeral
Sardonic
28. Argument over the definition of words
Loquacious
Logomachy
Erudite
Sine qua non
29. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Acumen
Egalitarian
Vilify
Symbiotic
30. Id est (that is)
Diction
Ken
i.e.
Avarice
31. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Proclivity
Bifurcate
Pejorative
Avarice
32. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Vilify
Puerile
Pernicious
Visceral
33. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Aphorism
Levity
Inchoate
Equivocate
34. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Carpe diem
Eclectic
NB
Ethereal
35. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Pecuniary
Inchoate
Sine qua non
Fait accompli
36. Understood by only a few
Loquacious
Carpe diem
Ubiquitous
Arcane
37. Extremely scanty (bare)
Requisite
Exiguous
Acerbic
Limited liability companies
38. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Carpe diem
Salient
Ameliorate
Banal
39. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Abrogate
Milieu
Demagogue
Caveat
40. Disparaging - belittling
Consanguineous
Pejorative
Pecuniary
Plenary
41. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Avarice
Inchoate
Adumbrate
Pedantic
42. Whimsical; changeable
Capricious
Halcyon
Facetious
Abrogate
43. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Scintilla
Loquacious
Equivocate
44. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Avarice
Equivocate
Acrimony
Concatenation
45. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Pedantic
Succinct
Scintilla
46. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Pejorative
Ethereal
Requisite
Inane
47. Seize the moment
Carpe diem
Codicil
Iconoclast
Fait accompli
48. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Patrician
Iconoclast
Arcane
Bifurcate
49. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Pernicious
Forbearance
Patrician
50. To divide into two parts or branches
Obviate
Diction
Iconoclast
Bifurcate