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100 Words For Every College Student
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Loquacious
Dilatory
Pejorative
2. Understood by only a few
E.g.
Obviate
Sine qua non
Arcane
3. Whimsical; changeable
Plenary
Nefarious
Capricious
E.g.
4. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
E.g.
Patrician
Succinct
Inane
5. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Requisite
Syllogism
Banal
Didactic
6. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Acumen
Vociferous
Pedantic
7. Happening by chance
Pernicious
Fortuitous
Dilatory
Lexicon
8. Making a loud outcry
Forbearance
Cadre
Vociferous
Puerile
9. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Facetious
Acrimony
Tautological
Caveat
10. Argument over the definition of words
Salient
Dilatory
Limited liability companies
Logomachy
11. To go back on a promise or commitment
Capricious
Sardonic
Renege
i.e.
12. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Aphorism
Adumbrate
Ken
Syntax
13. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Demagogue
Hyperbole
Syntax
Specious
14. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Chicanery
Aphorism
Reticent
15. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Allegory
Iconoclast
Vociferous
Eclectic
16. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Vociferous
Allegory
Ethereal
Fortuitous
17. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Carpe diem
Finite
Syntax
18. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Pedantic
Arcane
Dilatory
Patrician
19. Seize the moment
Carpe diem
Logomachy
Reticent
Aphorism
20. An indispensable thing
Patrician
Diction
Milieu
Sine qua non
21. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Probity
Egalitarian
Chortle
Erudite
22. Brief - concise
Succinct
Pernicious
Plenary
Prevaricate
23. Relating to money
Prevaricate
Milieu
Myopic
Pecuniary
24. An amendment to an existing will
Chortle
Pusillanimous
Bifurcate
Codicil
25. Bitterly sarcastic
E.g.
Proclivity
Sardonic
Avarice
26. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Sojourn
Acerbic
Simile
Euphemism
27. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Prevaricate
Vilify
Avarice
Egalitarian
28. Course - base - instinctive
Symbiotic
Visceral
Exiguous
Inchoate
29. Full; entire; complete
Loquacious
Plenary
Disingenuous
Scintilla
30. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
Egalitarian
Forbearance
Requisite
31. Deadly
Nefarious
Pernicious
Lexicon
Codicil
32. Having bounds
Finite
Verve
Forbearance
Puerile
33. Extremely scanty (bare)
Equivocate
Exiguous
Dilatory
Proclivity
34. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Specious
Arcane
Chortle
Inchoate
35. Necessary; indispensable
Syntax
Disingenuous
Bi-polar
Requisite
36. Very talkative
Syntax
Loquacious
Aphorism
Visceral
37. To divide into two parts or branches
Bifurcate
Ken
Banal
Tautological
38. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Consanguineous
Pecuniary
Banal
39. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Arcane
Puerile
Dilatory
Syllogism
40. To depart from or evade the truth
Pernicious
Logomachy
Halcyon
Prevaricate
41. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Pusillanimous
Fait accompli
Lexicon
Inchoate
42. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Hyperbole
Carpe diem
Dilatory
Consanguineous
43. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Abrogate
Forbearance
Lexicon
Fait accompli
44. The thing speaks for itself
Logomachy
Plenary
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Supercilious
45. A natural inclination; predisposition
Banal
Proclivity
Chicanery
Simile
46. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Erudite
NB
Facetious
Adumbrate
47. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Bi-polar
Capricious
Aphorism
Halcyon
48. Disparaging - belittling
Acerbic
Syllogism
Pejorative
Vociferous
49. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Halcyon
Concatenation
Ken
Vitiate
50. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Binary
Collegial
Consanguineous
Abrogate