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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Making a loud outcry
Adumbrate
Vociferous
Capricious
Bi-polar
2. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Limited liability companies
Acerbic
Visceral
Scintilla
3. Short lived
Diction
Ephemeral
Vilify
Sardonic
4. The use of trickery to deceive
Inchoate
Chicanery
Ethereal
Acumen
5. Disparaging - belittling
Logomachy
i.e.
Pejorative
Tautological
6. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Unilateral
Ubiquitous
Tautological
Chortle
7. A warning or caution
Caveat
Binary
Milieu
Carpe diem
8. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Scintilla
Lexicon
Probity
9. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Ethereal
Abrogate
Pernicious
Specious
10. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Codicil
Vociferous
Logomachy
11. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Supercilious
Caveat
Equivocate
Logomachy
12. An amendment to an existing will
Acumen
Vilify
Limited liability companies
Codicil
13. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
E.g.
NB
Inane
Lexicon
14. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Sardonic
Chortle
Ken
Levity
15. Understood by only a few
Arcane
Avarice
Hyperbole
Sine qua non
16. Lacking in courage and resolution
Pusillanimous
Plenary
Prevaricate
Eclectic
17. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Iconoclast
Nefarious
Codicil
Inane
18. Environment; setting
Scintilla
Milieu
Carpe diem
Limited liability companies
19. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Unilateral
Limited liability companies
Indolent
Equivocate
20. Deadly
Renege
Chicanery
Caveat
Pernicious
21. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Probity
Erudite
Acerbic
Obviate
22. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Cadre
Tautological
Didactic
23. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Ameliorate
Allegory
Adumbrate
NB
24. Id est (that is)
Puerile
i.e.
Specious
Metaphor
25. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Pernicious
Collegial
Succinct
Inchoate
26. Happening by chance
Pedantic
Codicil
Fortuitous
Forbearance
27. Displaing a lack of maturity
Abrogate
Puerile
Chicanery
Finite
28. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Egalitarian
Specious
Disingenuous
Renege
29. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
NB
Consanguineous
Ephemeral
Cadre
30. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Apocryphal
Chicanery
Pejorative
Lexicon
31. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Concatenation
Adumbrate
Halcyon
Forbearance
32. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Demagogue
Renege
Simile
Scintilla
33. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pedantic
Visceral
Salient
Milieu
34. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Acrimony
Chicanery
Demagogue
Nefarious
35. Extremely scanty (bare)
Exiguous
NB
Syllogism
Visceral
36. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Loquacious
Ellipsis
Vociferous
Tautological
37. Being everywhere
Hyperbole
Forbearance
Ubiquitous
Ameliorate
38. Course - base - instinctive
Disingenuous
Finite
Hyperbole
Visceral
39. Seize the moment
Ken
Requisite
Egalitarian
Carpe diem
40. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Adumbrate
Didactic
Metaphor
Ubiquitous
41. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Exiguous
Hyperbole
Bi-polar
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42. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Tautological
Myopic
Metaphor
Patrician
43. Honesty - uprightness
Inchoate
Probity
E.g.
Nefarious
44. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Adumbrate
Chortle
Inchoate
Symbiotic
45. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Binary
Erudite
Sojourn
Simile
46. Relating to money
Pernicious
Pecuniary
Finite
Hyperbole
47. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Eclectic
Superfluous
Concatenation
Nefarious
48. Brief - concise
Myopic
Succinct
Unilateral
Iconoclast
49. Argument over the definition of words
Diction
Logomachy
Pecuniary
Res Ipsa Loquitur
50. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Acumen
Superfluous
Disingenuous
Pusillanimous
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