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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Bitterly sarcastic
Sardonic
Ken
Bifurcate
Limited liability companies
2. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Acumen
Levity
Consanguineous
Apocryphal
3. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Egalitarian
Levity
NB
Succinct
4. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Acerbic
Simile
Salient
Verve
5. A warning or caution
Fortuitous
Caveat
Supercilious
Apocryphal
6. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Supercilious
Carpe diem
Halcyon
Bi-polar
7. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Limited liability companies
Capricious
Tautological
Ameliorate
8. Having bounds
Simile
Indolent
Finite
i.e.
9. Wicked in the extreme
Patrician
Allegory
Nefarious
Requisite
10. To go back on a promise or commitment
Renege
Inchoate
Sardonic
Codicil
11. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Allegory
Inane
Syntax
Collegial
12. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Facetious
Bi-polar
Indolent
Verve
13. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Symbiotic
Codicil
Erudite
Vociferous
14. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Bifurcate
NB
Symbiotic
Binary
15. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Syntax
Euphemism
Apocryphal
Collegial
16. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Caveat
Logomachy
Egalitarian
Cadre
17. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Fait accompli
Banal
Probity
Chicanery
18. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Pecuniary
Fait accompli
Prevaricate
Salient
19. The use of trickery to deceive
Caveat
Ethereal
Chicanery
Cadre
20. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Pedantic
Euphemism
Vociferous
Consanguineous
21. 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
Tautological
Capricious
Specious
Metaphor
22. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Lexicon
Hyperbole
Exiguous
23. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
i.e.
Indolent
Plenary
Aphorism
24. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Res Ipsa Loquitur
NB
Superfluous
Demagogue
25. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Consanguineous
Chicanery
Adumbrate
Limited liability companies
26. Whimsical; changeable
Inane
Euphemism
Capricious
Pernicious
27. Short lived
Ephemeral
Syllogism
Hyperbole
Consanguineous
28. Inclined to keep quiet
Avarice
Reticent
Supercilious
Adumbrate
29. Having only one side
Forbearance
Exiguous
Unilateral
Superfluous
30. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
i.e.
Avarice
Ephemeral
Pernicious
31. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Fortuitous
Caveat
Specious
32. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
NB
Arcane
Renege
Simile
33. Necessary; indispensable
Facetious
Ellipsis
Requisite
Ameliorate
34. Full; entire; complete
Nefarious
Equivocate
Plenary
Fait accompli
35. Understood by only a few
Binary
E.g.
Arcane
Chicanery
36. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Didactic
Vilify
Ethereal
Avarice
37. Relating to money
Halcyon
Salient
Pecuniary
Forbearance
38. Argument over the definition of words
Pedantic
Avarice
Ellipsis
Logomachy
39. Id est (that is)
i.e.
Avarice
Proclivity
Iconoclast
40. To prevent by interception
Obviate
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Acerbic
Tautological
41. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Facetious
Probity
Scintilla
Puerile
42. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Fortuitous
Erudite
Ellipsis
Tautological
43. Lacking in courage and resolution
Adumbrate
Milieu
Pusillanimous
Syllogism
44. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Diction
Arcane
Sojourn
Didactic
45. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
Fait accompli
Bifurcate
Finite
46. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Acrimony
Equivocate
Ken
Inchoate
47. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Vociferous
Euphemism
Diction
Specious
48. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
i.e.
Loquacious
Chicanery
49. Exempli gratia (for example)
Euphemism
E.g.
Caveat
Renege
50. Very talkative
Symbiotic
Binary
Loquacious
Levity