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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To divide into two parts or branches
Ellipsis
Arcane
Bifurcate
Facetious
2. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Iconoclast
Reticent
Disingenuous
Forbearance
3. Disparaging - belittling
Proclivity
Sojourn
Consanguineous
Pejorative
4. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Requisite
Probity
Binary
5. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Levity
Sardonic
Disingenuous
Abrogate
6. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
i.e.
Ellipsis
Supercilious
Myopic
7. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Ken
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Inchoate
8. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Limited liability companies
Symbiotic
Supercilious
9. To go back on a promise or commitment
Metaphor
Renege
Myopic
Verve
10. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Ethereal
Vociferous
Myopic
i.e.
11. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Reticent
Demagogue
Inchoate
12. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Eclectic
Ephemeral
Demagogue
Fait accompli
13. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Chicanery
Levity
Fait accompli
Fortuitous
14. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Supercilious
Salient
Specious
Simile
15. Making a loud outcry
Pecuniary
Vociferous
Logomachy
Scintilla
16. Inclined to keep quiet
Pusillanimous
Reticent
Concatenation
Exiguous
17. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Salient
Chicanery
Pejorative
Ken
18. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Finite
Concatenation
Superfluous
Acrimony
19. Necessary; indispensable
Renege
Milieu
Requisite
Chicanery
20. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Euphemism
Ken
Aphorism
Scintilla
21. To depart from or evade the truth
Prevaricate
Eclectic
Fortuitous
Diction
22. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
i.e.
Superfluous
Fortuitous
Acerbic
23. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Codicil
Verve
Vilify
Ellipsis
24. A natural inclination; predisposition
Bifurcate
Diction
Proclivity
Ethereal
25. Short lived
Equivocate
Ephemeral
Succinct
Bifurcate
26. An indispensable thing
Vilify
Sardonic
Probity
Sine qua non
27. Bitterly sarcastic
Sardonic
Cadre
Levity
Halcyon
28. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Exiguous
Disingenuous
Unilateral
Obviate
29. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Ken
Arcane
Sojourn
Eclectic
30. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Bifurcate
Chortle
Reticent
Fait accompli
31. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Probity
Chicanery
Patrician
32. To prevent by interception
Halcyon
Ethereal
Visceral
Obviate
33. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Symbiotic
Abrogate
Equivocate
Simile
34. Wicked in the extreme
Pejorative
Exiguous
NB
Nefarious
35. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Loquacious
i.e.
Facetious
Sardonic
36. Brief - concise
Succinct
Consanguineous
Ubiquitous
Tautological
37. Having bounds
Finite
Allegory
Ephemeral
Ken
38. Understood by only a few
Chortle
Salient
Binary
Arcane
39. Whimsical; changeable
Hyperbole
Capricious
Diction
Abrogate
40. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Tautological
Didactic
Capricious
41. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Pejorative
Iconoclast
Disingenuous
Capricious
42. Id est (that is)
Ameliorate
i.e.
Codicil
Prevaricate
43. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Acumen
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Pedantic
Consanguineous
44. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Prevaricate
Finite
Disingenuous
Adumbrate
45. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Supercilious
Halcyon
Prevaricate
Codicil
46. Course - base - instinctive
Adumbrate
Pernicious
Visceral
Chicanery
47. More than is wanted or is sufficient
i.e.
Superfluous
Probity
Carpe diem
48. Having only one side
Metaphor
Chortle
Unilateral
Eclectic
49. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Disingenuous
Syntax
Scintilla
Collegial
50. Displaing a lack of maturity
Ameliorate
Inane
Equivocate
Puerile