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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Probity
Salient
Fortuitous
2. Brief - concise
Requisite
Succinct
Exiguous
Pernicious
3. A warning or caution
Concatenation
Pecuniary
Hyperbole
Caveat
4. To depart from or evade the truth
Egalitarian
Finite
Binary
Prevaricate
5. 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
Pecuniary
Specious
Erudite
Metaphor
6. Necessary; indispensable
Ephemeral
Binary
Facetious
Requisite
7. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Erudite
Limited liability companies
Inchoate
Verve
8. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Aphorism
Milieu
Renege
Requisite
9. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Limited liability companies
Aphorism
Symbiotic
Pedantic
10. Bitterly sarcastic
Banal
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Sardonic
Syllogism
11. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
E.g.
Demagogue
Levity
Plenary
12. Seize the moment
Vilify
Consanguineous
Carpe diem
Visceral
13. Happening by chance
Avarice
Ken
Fortuitous
Codicil
14. Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
Vociferous
Tautological
NB
15. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Myopic
NB
Didactic
Limited liability companies
16. Displaing a lack of maturity
Bi-polar
Plenary
Arcane
Puerile
17. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Verve
Milieu
Superfluous
18. To make or grow better
Ken
Ameliorate
Probity
i.e.
19. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syntax
Probity
Levity
Vilify
20. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Forbearance
Eclectic
i.e.
Pusillanimous
21. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Acrimony
Avarice
Pecuniary
Obviate
22. Disparaging - belittling
Pejorative
Concatenation
Pedantic
Verve
23. Course - base - instinctive
Halcyon
Acrimony
Loquacious
Visceral
24. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Collegial
Logomachy
Equivocate
Ellipsis
25. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Pecuniary
Plenary
Probity
26. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Limited liability companies
Allegory
Bi-polar
Avarice
27. Environment; setting
Exiguous
Codicil
Supercilious
Milieu
28. To go back on a promise or commitment
Renege
Logomachy
Ethereal
Ubiquitous
29. Full; entire; complete
Succinct
Acumen
Plenary
Puerile
30. Making a loud outcry
Scintilla
Plenary
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Vociferous
31. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Eclectic
Reticent
Cadre
Abrogate
32. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Plenary
Chortle
Puerile
Sojourn
33. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Renege
Ellipsis
Symbiotic
34. Being everywhere
Lexicon
Simile
Ubiquitous
Acumen
35. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Hyperbole
Tautological
Pernicious
Logomachy
36. Inclined to keep quiet
Euphemism
Renege
Reticent
Bifurcate
37. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Sojourn
Facetious
Collegial
Banal
38. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Arcane
Iconoclast
Finite
39. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Eclectic
Ethereal
Fortuitous
Pusillanimous
40. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Lexicon
Indolent
Plenary
Renege
41. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Forbearance
Didactic
Binary
Apocryphal
42. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Iconoclast
Renege
Salient
Requisite
43. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Eclectic
Acumen
Ameliorate
Patrician
44. The thing speaks for itself
Fortuitous
Egalitarian
Facetious
Res Ipsa Loquitur
45. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Symbiotic
Demagogue
Disingenuous
Arcane
46. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Ubiquitous
Capricious
Ellipsis
Acerbic
47. To divide into two parts or branches
Symbiotic
Ellipsis
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Bifurcate
48. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Erudite
Banal
Consanguineous
Renege
49. An indispensable thing
Reticent
Sine qua non
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Diction
50. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Hyperbole
Allegory
Reticent
Logomachy