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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Ameliorate
Chortle
Bifurcate
2. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Arcane
Facetious
Inane
Finite
3. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Didactic
Nefarious
Erudite
Plenary
4. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Sojourn
Carpe diem
Collegial
Vitiate
5. To divide into two parts or branches
Prevaricate
Bifurcate
Specious
Requisite
6. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Vociferous
Specious
Iconoclast
Inchoate
7. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
NB
Binary
Indolent
Adumbrate
8. Displaing a lack of maturity
Puerile
Pernicious
E.g.
Demagogue
9. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Lexicon
Disingenuous
Logomachy
Diction
10. A warning or caution
Acumen
Fortuitous
Erudite
Caveat
11. Commonplace; trivial
Abrogate
Ethereal
Vociferous
Banal
12. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Ethereal
Bi-polar
Ellipsis
Collegial
13. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Indolent
Egalitarian
Carpe diem
Salient
14. Environment; setting
Egalitarian
Milieu
Carpe diem
Ken
15. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Iconoclast
Limited liability companies
Pejorative
Fortuitous
16. An amendment to an existing will
NB
Simile
i.e.
Codicil
17. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Abrogate
Exiguous
Avarice
Proclivity
18. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Fortuitous
Sardonic
Syllogism
Collegial
19. Brief - concise
Succinct
Finite
Lexicon
Levity
20. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Forbearance
Logomachy
Verve
21. Disparaging - belittling
Superfluous
Pejorative
Milieu
Res Ipsa Loquitur
22. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Equivocate
Patrician
Probity
Bi-polar
23. Understood by only a few
Pecuniary
Pernicious
Arcane
Ephemeral
24. An indispensable thing
Caveat
Sardonic
Logomachy
Sine qua non
25. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Nefarious
Bifurcate
Prevaricate
26. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Superfluous
Consanguineous
Acerbic
Myopic
27. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Vilify
Vitiate
Eclectic
Halcyon
28. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Fortuitous
Limited liability companies
Allegory
Metaphor
29. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Consanguineous
Ephemeral
Facetious
Abrogate
30. Favoring social equality
Verve
Ubiquitous
Sojourn
Egalitarian
31. To depart from or evade the truth
Vociferous
Simile
Prevaricate
Plenary
32. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Allegory
Dilatory
Succinct
Tautological
33. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Limited liability companies
Apocryphal
Halcyon
Puerile
34. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syntax
Indolent
Abrogate
Eclectic
35. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Inchoate
Supercilious
Erudite
Eclectic
36. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Pejorative
E.g.
Proclivity
37. Inclined to keep quiet
Patrician
Inchoate
Reticent
Sardonic
38. Bitterly sarcastic
Capricious
Sardonic
Sine qua non
Symbiotic
39. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Specious
Abrogate
Tautological
Caveat
40. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Salient
Adumbrate
Ken
Halcyon
41. Having only one side
Unilateral
Patrician
Avarice
Collegial
42. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Arcane
Facetious
Euphemism
Nefarious
43. 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
Exiguous
Metaphor
Bifurcate
Proclivity
44. Necessary; indispensable
Requisite
Unilateral
Simile
Limited liability companies
45. To make faulty or imperfect
Pusillanimous
Vitiate
Acumen
Bifurcate
46. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Disingenuous
Limited liability companies
Concatenation
Levity
47. Extremely scanty (bare)
Milieu
Finite
Exiguous
Specious
48. Whimsical; changeable
Ethereal
Capricious
Consanguineous
Carpe diem
49. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Chicanery
Levity
Diction
Inane
50. Exempli gratia (for example)
Myopic
Exiguous
Specious
E.g.