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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Limited liability companies
Syllogism
Eclectic
Obviate
2. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Patrician
Scintilla
Levity
Supercilious
3. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
Lexicon
Pedantic
Caveat
4. Environment; setting
Milieu
Dilatory
Forbearance
Vociferous
5. Happening by chance
Puerile
Logomachy
Fortuitous
Consanguineous
6. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
Scintilla
Specious
Acrimony
7. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Allegory
Myopic
Collegial
Avarice
8. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Ameliorate
Simile
Chicanery
Indolent
9. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Pejorative
Demagogue
Fait accompli
Avarice
10. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Ken
Vociferous
Equivocate
Vitiate
11. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Syllogism
Ethereal
Myopic
Iconoclast
12. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Indolent
Symbiotic
Concatenation
Forbearance
13. Extremely scanty (bare)
Pejorative
Exiguous
Fortuitous
Pusillanimous
14. An indispensable thing
Pecuniary
Scintilla
Sine qua non
Supercilious
15. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Symbiotic
Apocryphal
Supercilious
Fortuitous
16. Whimsical; changeable
Cadre
Capricious
Vociferous
Pejorative
17. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Specious
Myopic
Disingenuous
Caveat
18. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Demagogue
Ephemeral
Verve
Plenary
19. Having only one side
Nefarious
Demagogue
Salient
Unilateral
20. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Succinct
Syllogism
Sojourn
Ethereal
21. Lacking in courage and resolution
Vilify
Pernicious
Sardonic
Pusillanimous
22. To depart from or evade the truth
Reticent
i.e.
Prevaricate
Succinct
23. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Symbiotic
Abrogate
Diction
Exiguous
24. Id est (that is)
i.e.
Carpe diem
Abrogate
Lexicon
25. Extravagant exaggeration
Limited liability companies
Proclivity
Arcane
Hyperbole
26. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Chortle
Fortuitous
Aphorism
Requisite
27. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Syllogism
Acrimony
Scintilla
Pedantic
28. Relating to money
Eclectic
Pecuniary
Pusillanimous
Inane
29. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Abrogate
Supercilious
Equivocate
Symbiotic
30. To divide into two parts or branches
Bifurcate
Scintilla
Unilateral
Ephemeral
31. Very talkative
Loquacious
Ken
Hyperbole
Verve
32. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Caveat
Levity
Specious
Patrician
33. A natural inclination; predisposition
Proclivity
Apocryphal
Inchoate
Ameliorate
34. Commonplace; trivial
Equivocate
Didactic
Bifurcate
Banal
35. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Capricious
Euphemism
Apocryphal
36. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Sojourn
Ephemeral
Milieu
Pedantic
37. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Fait accompli
Cadre
Capricious
Forbearance
38. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Prevaricate
Acerbic
Binary
Patrician
39. Bitterly sarcastic
Symbiotic
Verve
Hyperbole
Sardonic
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
Acrimony
Sojourn
Scintilla
Metaphor
41. The thing speaks for itself
Requisite
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Renege
Reticent
42. To make faulty or imperfect
Vitiate
Allegory
Unilateral
Pernicious
43. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Ubiquitous
Erudite
Dilatory
Sine qua non
44. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Loquacious
Collegial
Levity
Salient
45. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Halcyon
Cadre
Aphorism
Vilify
46. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Inane
Concatenation
Avarice
Ethereal
47. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Facetious
Aphorism
Allegory
Avarice
48. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Myopic
Consanguineous
Ameliorate
Vociferous
49. Wicked in the extreme
Collegial
Egalitarian
NB
Nefarious
50. Exempli gratia (for example)
E.g.
Erudite
Halcyon
Caveat