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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Vitiate
Superfluous
Halcyon
Chortle
2. To prevent by interception
Codicil
Obviate
Patrician
Visceral
3. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Diction
Sine qua non
4. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Eclectic
Abrogate
Avarice
Didactic
5. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Chortle
Succinct
Bi-polar
NB
6. Being everywhere
Ethereal
Ubiquitous
E.g.
Avarice
7. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Allegory
Collegial
Myopic
Superfluous
8. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Reticent
Plenary
i.e.
Iconoclast
9. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Ethereal
Pedantic
Diction
Ameliorate
10. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Syllogism
Scintilla
Ken
Diction
11. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Pedantic
Ethereal
Inane
Vociferous
12. To go back on a promise or commitment
Lexicon
Renege
Scintilla
Demagogue
13. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Loquacious
Apocryphal
Logomachy
Adumbrate
14. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Allegory
Ethereal
Prevaricate
Scintilla
15. Brief - concise
Aphorism
Succinct
Avarice
Inchoate
16. Honesty - uprightness
Abrogate
Limited liability companies
Sine qua non
Probity
17. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Levity
Cadre
Sojourn
Collegial
18. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Chortle
Sine qua non
Adumbrate
Facetious
19. Environment; setting
Milieu
Didactic
Acumen
Iconoclast
20. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Scintilla
Collegial
Lexicon
Myopic
21. Full; entire; complete
Verve
Ameliorate
Plenary
Obviate
22. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Reticent
Pusillanimous
Patrician
Eclectic
23. A warning or caution
Collegial
Erudite
Caveat
Facetious
24. To make faulty or imperfect
Vitiate
Pernicious
Dilatory
Syllogism
25. Id est (that is)
Lexicon
Plenary
Pernicious
i.e.
26. Course - base - instinctive
Fait accompli
Visceral
Pejorative
Milieu
27. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Exiguous
Simile
Cadre
Hyperbole
28. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Bi-polar
Demagogue
Prevaricate
Concatenation
29. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Adumbrate
Fait accompli
Cadre
Bifurcate
30. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Superfluous
Ken
Renege
Indolent
31. Deadly
Halcyon
Pernicious
Didactic
Ken
32. Making a loud outcry
Plenary
Chicanery
Vociferous
Bifurcate
33. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Demagogue
Pejorative
Verve
Symbiotic
34. Lacking in courage and resolution
Inane
Erudite
Pusillanimous
Allegory
35. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Loquacious
Didactic
Myopic
Fait accompli
36. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Inchoate
Probity
Disingenuous
Vilify
37. Necessary; indispensable
Unilateral
Prevaricate
Demagogue
Requisite
38. Understood by only a few
Bi-polar
Arcane
Tautological
Inchoate
39. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Fait accompli
Caveat
Syntax
Arcane
40. 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
Loquacious
Metaphor
Simile
Erudite
41. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Diction
Facetious
Unilateral
Disingenuous
42. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Ellipsis
Fortuitous
Syllogism
Aphorism
43. Extremely scanty (bare)
Salient
Euphemism
Erudite
Exiguous
44. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Egalitarian
Collegial
Acrimony
Metaphor
45. Lofty with pride
Fait accompli
Supercilious
Avarice
Prevaricate
46. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Plenary
Bi-polar
Dilatory
Sardonic
47. Whimsical; changeable
Acerbic
Capricious
Disingenuous
Caveat
48. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Scintilla
Myopic
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Vociferous
49. Displaing a lack of maturity
Iconoclast
Puerile
Sine qua non
Syllogism
50. The thing speaks for itself
Aphorism
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Apocryphal
Ephemeral