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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Simile
Probity
Patrician
Pedantic
2. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Avarice
Ken
Disingenuous
Erudite
3. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Specious
Hyperbole
Fait accompli
Binary
4. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Eclectic
Dilatory
Ethereal
Erudite
5. Being everywhere
Ephemeral
Syntax
Ubiquitous
Concatenation
6. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Sojourn
Concatenation
Chortle
Exiguous
7. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Pecuniary
Renege
Levity
Vilify
8. Making a loud outcry
Forbearance
Vociferous
Sine qua non
Diction
9. To go back on a promise or commitment
Syntax
Renege
Milieu
Vilify
10. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Acerbic
Myopic
Ellipsis
Fortuitous
11. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Pernicious
Euphemism
Loquacious
Binary
12. Bitterly sarcastic
Loquacious
Sardonic
Acumen
Sine qua non
13. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Equivocate
Demagogue
Acumen
Salient
14. Seize the moment
Pecuniary
Carpe diem
Inane
Apocryphal
15. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Obviate
Inane
Acumen
Prevaricate
16. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Didactic
Supercilious
Finite
Pernicious
17. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Fortuitous
NB
Patrician
Syntax
18. Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
Logomachy
Patrician
Sojourn
19. The use of trickery to deceive
Chicanery
i.e.
Forbearance
Levity
20. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Syllogism
Verve
Indolent
21. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Simile
Syllogism
Ethereal
i.e.
22. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Iconoclast
Carpe diem
Scintilla
Ken
23. A chain; a succession
Limited liability companies
Didactic
Simile
Concatenation
24. 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
Patrician
Eclectic
Metaphor
Vitiate
25. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Cadre
Avarice
Verve
Sojourn
26. Deadly
Dilatory
Acrimony
Binary
Pernicious
27. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Ephemeral
Didactic
Avarice
Superfluous
28. To make or grow better
Pecuniary
Chicanery
Ameliorate
Vociferous
29. Displaing a lack of maturity
Syntax
Vitiate
Chicanery
Puerile
30. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Renege
Iconoclast
Tautological
Scintilla
31. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Ameliorate
Adumbrate
Requisite
Aphorism
32. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
Codicil
Disingenuous
Reticent
33. Brief - concise
Eclectic
Salient
Pusillanimous
Succinct
34. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Disingenuous
Ephemeral
Concatenation
Vilify
35. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Caveat
Cadre
Binary
36. Course - base - instinctive
Indolent
Codicil
Visceral
Allegory
37. Extremely scanty (bare)
Acrimony
Cadre
Pedantic
Exiguous
38. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
NB
Unilateral
Symbiotic
Iconoclast
39. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Proclivity
Caveat
Hyperbole
Disingenuous
40. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Pedantic
Specious
Eclectic
41. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Logomachy
Binary
Ellipsis
Supercilious
42. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Myopic
Apocryphal
Syntax
Superfluous
43. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
Concatenation
i.e.
Avarice
44. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Aphorism
Chortle
Binary
Erudite
45. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Acumen
Forbearance
Facetious
i.e.
46. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Pernicious
Eclectic
Nefarious
Tautological
47. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Facetious
Adumbrate
Syllogism
48. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Logomachy
Supercilious
Visceral
Pedantic
49. The thing speaks for itself
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Fortuitous
Proclivity
Nefarious
50. Having bounds
Iconoclast
Bifurcate
Finite
Requisite