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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Abrogate
Egalitarian
Visceral
Pusillanimous
2. Id est (that is)
Requisite
Pedantic
Egalitarian
i.e.
3. Wicked in the extreme
Euphemism
Nefarious
Syllogism
Pernicious
4. The thing speaks for itself
Loquacious
Cadre
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Plenary
5. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Levity
Renege
Pusillanimous
Bi-polar
6. Having only one side
Unilateral
E.g.
Bifurcate
Superfluous
7. Deadly
Pernicious
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Sardonic
8. To make faulty or imperfect
Dilatory
Bi-polar
Ubiquitous
Vitiate
9. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Vociferous
Ethereal
Sine qua non
Didactic
10. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Fait accompli
Vitiate
Ellipsis
Scintilla
11. Exempli gratia (for example)
Syllogism
E.g.
Vitiate
Pedantic
12. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Eclectic
Adumbrate
Vitiate
Forbearance
13. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Sardonic
Collegial
Milieu
14. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Avarice
Apocryphal
E.g.
Pernicious
15. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Disingenuous
E.g.
Superfluous
Prevaricate
16. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Patrician
Erudite
Specious
Adumbrate
17. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Sardonic
Logomachy
Plenary
Forbearance
18. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Vitiate
NB
Ken
Pecuniary
19. Full; entire; complete
Plenary
Pernicious
Hyperbole
Res Ipsa Loquitur
20. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Arcane
Superfluous
Aphorism
21. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Aphorism
Euphemism
Diction
Proclivity
22. Necessary; indispensable
Sardonic
Scintilla
Chortle
Requisite
23. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Capricious
Lexicon
Carpe diem
Bi-polar
24. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Ethereal
Collegial
Chortle
Acrimony
25. A warning or caution
Ubiquitous
Caveat
Levity
Fortuitous
26. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Bifurcate
i.e.
Consanguineous
Fait accompli
27. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Egalitarian
Requisite
Ken
Aphorism
28. 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
Indolent
Metaphor
Salient
Patrician
29. Relating to money
Sardonic
Pecuniary
Salient
Sojourn
30. Whimsical; changeable
Capricious
Logomachy
Vitiate
Proclivity
31. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Consanguineous
Lexicon
Requisite
Specious
32. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Logomachy
Simile
Avarice
Renege
33. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Cadre
Myopic
Pedantic
Facetious
34. Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Banal
Erudite
35. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Exiguous
Scintilla
Sine qua non
Visceral
36. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Syllogism
Acumen
Reticent
Codicil
37. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Prevaricate
Ken
Fortuitous
38. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Chortle
Aphorism
Diction
Erudite
39. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Proclivity
Salient
Obviate
Dilatory
40. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Ellipsis
Puerile
Tautological
Cadre
41. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
NB
Chortle
Pusillanimous
Didactic
42. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Acumen
Aphorism
Iconoclast
Allegory
43. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Diction
Levity
Syntax
Patrician
44. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Specious
Fait accompli
Sine qua non
45. Environment; setting
Ameliorate
Milieu
Banal
E.g.
46. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Sardonic
Caveat
Acrimony
Chortle
47. Seize the moment
Fait accompli
Euphemism
Carpe diem
Specious
48. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Sine qua non
E.g.
Bifurcate
49. Bitterly sarcastic
Logomachy
Pecuniary
Sardonic
Visceral
50. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Demagogue
Acerbic
Plenary
Concatenation