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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Disparaging - belittling
Unilateral
Pejorative
Renege
Sojourn
2. To depart from or evade the truth
Bifurcate
Prevaricate
Aphorism
Succinct
3. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Egalitarian
Forbearance
Lexicon
Pejorative
4. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Ken
Inane
Eclectic
Ameliorate
5. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Avarice
Capricious
Acumen
Forbearance
6. A warning or caution
Caveat
Sine qua non
NB
Didactic
7. Wicked in the extreme
Nefarious
Consanguineous
Chortle
Milieu
8. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Levity
Euphemism
Syntax
Abrogate
9. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
E.g.
Sojourn
Fait accompli
Arcane
10. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Succinct
Hyperbole
Loquacious
Disingenuous
11. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Banal
Plenary
Allegory
Sardonic
12. To divide into two parts or branches
Binary
Bifurcate
Pejorative
Concatenation
13. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Binary
Fait accompli
Supercilious
Bi-polar
14. Full; entire; complete
Plenary
Pecuniary
Vitiate
Equivocate
15. Id est (that is)
Vitiate
Concatenation
Sojourn
i.e.
16. Inclined to keep quiet
Milieu
Acumen
Reticent
Fait accompli
17. Having only one side
Unilateral
Sardonic
Levity
Pejorative
18. An indispensable thing
Superfluous
Ellipsis
Vilify
Sine qua non
19. The use of trickery to deceive
Sojourn
Facetious
Ken
Chicanery
20. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
NB
Specious
Pedantic
21. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Verve
Vitiate
Ken
Demagogue
22. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Consanguineous
Didactic
Caveat
Aphorism
23. Brief - concise
Aphorism
Succinct
NB
Myopic
24. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Collegial
Concatenation
Unilateral
Iconoclast
25. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Egalitarian
Syllogism
Salient
Simile
26. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Chortle
Metaphor
Hyperbole
27. Lacking in courage and resolution
Dilatory
Aphorism
Pusillanimous
Facetious
28. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Halcyon
Logomachy
Adumbrate
Abrogate
29. Lofty with pride
Supercilious
Inchoate
Verve
Pernicious
30. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Prevaricate
Collegial
Facetious
Halcyon
31. Relating to money
Pecuniary
Ubiquitous
Sardonic
Vitiate
32. An amendment to an existing will
Inchoate
Abrogate
Plenary
Codicil
33. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Obviate
Concatenation
Proclivity
Ellipsis
34. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Binary
Superfluous
Requisite
Syllogism
35. Extremely scanty (bare)
Limited liability companies
Exiguous
Facetious
Euphemism
36. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Binary
Euphemism
Demagogue
Pernicious
37. 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
Ameliorate
Syllogism
Ethereal
Metaphor
38. To make or grow better
Lexicon
Ameliorate
Milieu
Loquacious
39. Course - base - instinctive
Codicil
Metaphor
Visceral
Demagogue
40. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Ubiquitous
Finite
E.g.
Syllogism
41. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Vitiate
Tautological
Erudite
Unilateral
42. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Dilatory
Scintilla
Forbearance
Plenary
43. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Vilify
Lexicon
Plenary
Didactic
44. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Visceral
Equivocate
Renege
Pecuniary
45. Commonplace; trivial
Cadre
Banal
Supercilious
Reticent
46. Environment; setting
Capricious
Acerbic
Collegial
Milieu
47. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Vitiate
Abrogate
Concatenation
Diction
48. Understood by only a few
Hyperbole
Loquacious
Arcane
Bifurcate
49. To go back on a promise or commitment
Renege
Puerile
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Finite
50. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Superfluous
Syntax
Loquacious
Bifurcate