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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Pedantic
Forbearance
Myopic
Codicil
2. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Disingenuous
Forbearance
Exiguous
Unilateral
3. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Apocryphal
Carpe diem
Hyperbole
Didactic
4. Argument over the definition of words
Concatenation
Sardonic
Logomachy
Vilify
5. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Patrician
Puerile
Sojourn
Eclectic
6. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Ethereal
Levity
Simile
Pedantic
7. Relating to money
Salient
Consanguineous
Pecuniary
Milieu
8. The use of trickery to deceive
Syntax
Inchoate
Prevaricate
Chicanery
9. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
NB
Pusillanimous
Puerile
Tautological
10. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Pernicious
Eclectic
Succinct
11. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syllogism
NB
Ken
Syntax
12. Environment; setting
Ameliorate
Ephemeral
Milieu
Myopic
13. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Facetious
Bifurcate
Fortuitous
14. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Acrimony
Ameliorate
Inane
Supercilious
15. Bitterly sarcastic
Eclectic
Sardonic
Renege
Apocryphal
16. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Syntax
Cadre
Avarice
Erudite
17. Whimsical; changeable
Aphorism
Bi-polar
Capricious
Pedantic
18. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Bifurcate
i.e.
Facetious
19. Having only one side
Plenary
Capricious
Unilateral
Binary
20. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Hyperbole
Logomachy
Acumen
21. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Succinct
Abrogate
Specious
Simile
22. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Ephemeral
Allegory
Halcyon
Forbearance
23. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Exiguous
Apocryphal
Caveat
Res Ipsa Loquitur
24. To go back on a promise or commitment
Plenary
Sojourn
Chicanery
Renege
25. A chain; a succession
Acerbic
Concatenation
Puerile
Nefarious
26. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Metaphor
Indolent
Equivocate
Demagogue
27. Exempli gratia (for example)
Facetious
Arcane
E.g.
Codicil
28. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Bifurcate
Scintilla
Forbearance
Acrimony
29. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Scintilla
Renege
Levity
Loquacious
30. Deadly
Hyperbole
Halcyon
Pernicious
Iconoclast
31. Understood by only a few
Verve
Arcane
Levity
Proclivity
32. The thing speaks for itself
Renege
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Eclectic
Concatenation
33. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Bi-polar
Acrimony
Plenary
Equivocate
34. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Caveat
Facetious
Symbiotic
Metaphor
35. Necessary; indispensable
Renege
Requisite
Obviate
Forbearance
36. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Bi-polar
Caveat
Puerile
Superfluous
37. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Ephemeral
Requisite
Pedantic
Disingenuous
38. Displaing a lack of maturity
Simile
Puerile
Ethereal
Inane
39. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Acerbic
Abrogate
Chortle
Ellipsis
40. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Vilify
Bi-polar
Eclectic
Consanguineous
41. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Puerile
Vitiate
Halcyon
Proclivity
42. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Vociferous
Sojourn
Visceral
Myopic
43. A warning or caution
Sine qua non
Caveat
Succinct
Patrician
44. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Limited liability companies
Supercilious
Abrogate
Syntax
45. Lacking in courage and resolution
Vilify
Concatenation
Consanguineous
Pusillanimous
46. Happening by chance
Pernicious
Verve
Chicanery
Fortuitous
47. An amendment to an existing will
Codicil
Symbiotic
Fortuitous
Ethereal
48. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Sojourn
Binary
Ephemeral
Adumbrate
49. To make faulty or imperfect
Bifurcate
Vitiate
Reticent
Lexicon
50. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Vitiate
Requisite
Pedantic