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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Displaing a lack of maturity
Caveat
Lexicon
Puerile
Halcyon
2. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Unilateral
Forbearance
Adumbrate
Limited liability companies
3. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Scintilla
Levity
Visceral
Vilify
4. Short lived
Diction
Milieu
Ephemeral
Obviate
5. Bitterly sarcastic
Allegory
Ellipsis
Sardonic
Codicil
6. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Iconoclast
Dilatory
Simile
Finite
7. Honesty - uprightness
Obviate
Probity
NB
Didactic
8. To divide into two parts or branches
Dilatory
Symbiotic
Bifurcate
Finite
9. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Ken
Equivocate
Cadre
Unilateral
10. An amendment to an existing will
Prevaricate
Codicil
Banal
Apocryphal
11. Lacking in courage and resolution
Metaphor
Demagogue
Symbiotic
Pusillanimous
12. Happening by chance
Fortuitous
Superfluous
Demagogue
Succinct
13. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Abrogate
Consanguineous
Fait accompli
Myopic
14. Course - base - instinctive
Supercilious
Visceral
Carpe diem
Probity
15. Disparaging - belittling
Obviate
Abrogate
Ubiquitous
Pejorative
16. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
Salient
Halcyon
Forbearance
17. Understood by only a few
Acrimony
Arcane
Verve
Simile
18. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Milieu
Lexicon
Capricious
Erudite
19. The use of trickery to deceive
Symbiotic
Chicanery
i.e.
Sardonic
20. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Pusillanimous
Acumen
Forbearance
Syllogism
21. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Symbiotic
Syllogism
Consanguineous
Aphorism
22. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Exiguous
Syllogism
Patrician
Levity
23. Deadly
Banal
Vociferous
Pernicious
Fortuitous
24. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Tautological
Codicil
Abrogate
Caveat
25. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Fait accompli
Patrician
Allegory
Syllogism
26. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Supercilious
Visceral
Unilateral
27. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Banal
Indolent
i.e.
Binary
28. Favoring social equality
Egalitarian
Caveat
Hyperbole
Visceral
29. A chain; a succession
Concatenation
Verve
Loquacious
Adumbrate
30. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Aphorism
Superfluous
Bifurcate
Eclectic
31. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Binary
Lexicon
Inchoate
Syntax
32. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Lexicon
Acrimony
Unilateral
Erudite
33. 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
Halcyon
Erudite
Egalitarian
34. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Didactic
Ken
Lexicon
Acerbic
35. Lofty with pride
Metaphor
Indolent
Supercilious
Verve
36. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Vociferous
Chortle
Proclivity
Indolent
37. Environment; setting
Equivocate
Euphemism
Avarice
Milieu
38. Extremely scanty (bare)
Allegory
Pedantic
Exiguous
Ubiquitous
39. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Salient
Ellipsis
Tautological
Euphemism
40. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Limited liability companies
i.e.
Supercilious
41. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Symbiotic
Demagogue
Obviate
Syntax
42. Brief - concise
Succinct
Indolent
Halcyon
Myopic
43. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Caveat
Iconoclast
Simile
44. Relating to money
Succinct
Pecuniary
NB
Hyperbole
45. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Consanguineous
Halcyon
Puerile
Loquacious
46. To go back on a promise or commitment
Renege
Finite
Myopic
Egalitarian
47. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Euphemism
Obviate
Sine qua non
Inane
48. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
NB
Exiguous
Plenary
Ethereal
49. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Forbearance
Egalitarian
Pedantic
Sardonic
50. Full; entire; complete
Inchoate
Adumbrate
Logomachy
Plenary