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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Abrogate
Myopic
Acerbic
Equivocate
2. Making a loud outcry
Visceral
Cadre
Aphorism
Vociferous
3. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Loquacious
Visceral
Myopic
Apocryphal
4. Having only one side
Chortle
Unilateral
Ephemeral
Adumbrate
5. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Unilateral
Acerbic
Limited liability companies
Simile
6. A natural inclination; predisposition
Myopic
Proclivity
E.g.
Ameliorate
7. The use of trickery to deceive
Chicanery
Carpe diem
NB
Pejorative
8. To make or grow better
Acrimony
Ameliorate
Allegory
Sojourn
9. Being everywhere
Equivocate
Ubiquitous
Halcyon
Ameliorate
10. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Halcyon
Salient
Ken
Arcane
11. Understood by only a few
Proclivity
Arcane
Bi-polar
Vilify
12. A warning or caution
Proclivity
Limited liability companies
Chicanery
Caveat
13. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Allegory
Facetious
Superfluous
Disingenuous
14. Lacking in courage and resolution
Forbearance
Requisite
Milieu
Pusillanimous
15. Happening by chance
Fortuitous
Vociferous
Codicil
Chicanery
16. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Inchoate
Avarice
Scintilla
Finite
17. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Ken
Myopic
Renege
18. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Salient
Collegial
Renege
Syntax
19. Seize the moment
Chortle
Carpe diem
Lexicon
Apocryphal
20. Deadly
Bifurcate
Pernicious
NB
Visceral
21. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Superfluous
Banal
Sine qua non
Consanguineous
22. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
NB
Diction
Aphorism
Patrician
23. A chain; a succession
Concatenation
Demagogue
Inchoate
Hyperbole
24. To prevent by interception
Obviate
Bi-polar
Ephemeral
Scintilla
25. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Logomachy
Chicanery
Salient
Inane
26. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Facetious
Pedantic
Diction
Egalitarian
27. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Tautological
Didactic
Egalitarian
Equivocate
28. Commonplace; trivial
Eclectic
Vitiate
Banal
Aphorism
29. The thing speaks for itself
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Pernicious
Erudite
Ken
30. Displaing a lack of maturity
Diction
Forbearance
Puerile
Ameliorate
31. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Diction
Carpe diem
Demagogue
Equivocate
32. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Capricious
Scintilla
Sardonic
Cadre
33. Relating to money
Pecuniary
Binary
Inchoate
Ellipsis
34. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Halcyon
Puerile
Tautological
Pernicious
35. Short lived
Ephemeral
Superfluous
NB
Simile
36. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Ameliorate
Hyperbole
Ephemeral
Acrimony
37. Exempli gratia (for example)
Carpe diem
E.g.
Scintilla
Indolent
38. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
i.e.
Verve
Obviate
Avarice
39. To divide into two parts or branches
Bi-polar
Myopic
Bifurcate
Euphemism
40. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Facetious
Syllogism
Arcane
Disingenuous
41. Honesty - uprightness
Vilify
Probity
Specious
Proclivity
42. Having bounds
Levity
Finite
Bifurcate
Ubiquitous
43. To make faulty or imperfect
Myopic
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Pejorative
Vitiate
44. Very talkative
Halcyon
Logomachy
Loquacious
Equivocate
45. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
NB
Demagogue
Ethereal
Tautological
46. Disparaging - belittling
Vociferous
Nefarious
Fait accompli
Pejorative
47. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Patrician
Scintilla
Nefarious
Iconoclast
48. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Renege
Prevaricate
Specious
Metaphor
49. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Tautological
Chortle
Bifurcate
50. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Levity
Sojourn
Pejorative
Renege