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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Pedantic
Fortuitous
Collegial
Halcyon
2. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Demagogue
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Syllogism
Avarice
3. Full; entire; complete
Plenary
Aphorism
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Fortuitous
4. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Equivocate
Exiguous
Carpe diem
Indolent
5. An indispensable thing
Erudite
Sine qua non
Pedantic
Caveat
6. Favoring social equality
Patrician
Prevaricate
Egalitarian
Myopic
7. Wicked in the extreme
Reticent
Hyperbole
Nefarious
Myopic
8. Extremely scanty (bare)
Sojourn
Scintilla
Disingenuous
Exiguous
9. Relating to money
Pecuniary
Salient
Banal
Equivocate
10. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
E.g.
Consanguineous
Inane
Collegial
11. Inclined to keep quiet
Hyperbole
Indolent
Ubiquitous
Reticent
12. Having only one side
Verve
Concatenation
Avarice
Unilateral
13. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Ethereal
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Limited liability companies
Ellipsis
14. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Vitiate
Proclivity
Simile
Acerbic
15. Environment; setting
Eclectic
Ken
Milieu
Renege
16. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Banal
Limited liability companies
Adumbrate
E.g.
17. Having bounds
Obviate
Abrogate
Finite
Unilateral
18. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Reticent
Salient
NB
Erudite
19. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Bi-polar
Succinct
Ameliorate
Res Ipsa Loquitur
20. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Equivocate
Specious
Eclectic
Logomachy
21. Seize the moment
Aphorism
Arcane
Carpe diem
Requisite
22. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Symbiotic
Ellipsis
Patrician
Chortle
23. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Banal
Pecuniary
Requisite
24. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Inchoate
Tautological
E.g.
Arcane
25. To depart from or evade the truth
Prevaricate
Diction
Lexicon
Visceral
26. Disparaging - belittling
Vociferous
Pejorative
Bi-polar
Ubiquitous
27. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pedantic
Sojourn
Chortle
Inane
28. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Arcane
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Unilateral
Lexicon
29. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Dilatory
Patrician
NB
Demagogue
30. A warning or caution
Caveat
Vilify
Ameliorate
Bi-polar
31. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Avarice
Didactic
Ellipsis
Pernicious
32. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Fait accompli
Equivocate
Logomachy
Disingenuous
33. Exempli gratia (for example)
E.g.
Pernicious
Superfluous
Succinct
34. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Demagogue
Abrogate
Ken
Plenary
35. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Acumen
Levity
Halcyon
Plenary
36. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Acumen
Myopic
Patrician
Succinct
37. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Adumbrate
Succinct
Forbearance
Ellipsis
38. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Symbiotic
Salient
Demagogue
39. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Obviate
Eclectic
Iconoclast
Inchoate
40. A natural inclination; predisposition
Proclivity
Egalitarian
Simile
Abrogate
41. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Sojourn
Nefarious
Euphemism
42. 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
Metaphor
Egalitarian
Puerile
Vitiate
43. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
i.e.
Aphorism
Capricious
Ameliorate
44. Bitterly sarcastic
Acerbic
Requisite
Didactic
Sardonic
45. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Diction
Verve
Specious
Ethereal
46. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Adumbrate
Vitiate
Acumen
47. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Verve
Logomachy
Renege
Sojourn
48. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Allegory
Symbiotic
Patrician
Inane
49. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Ephemeral
Disingenuous
Iconoclast
Adumbrate
50. Lofty with pride
Facetious
Plenary
Concatenation
Supercilious