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100 Words For Every College Student
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Honesty - uprightness
Equivocate
i.e.
Probity
Tautological
2. To prevent by interception
Obviate
Abrogate
Myopic
Simile
3. Seize the moment
Ethereal
Sardonic
Capricious
Carpe diem
4. The use of trickery to deceive
Visceral
NB
Chicanery
Pejorative
5. Making a loud outcry
Myopic
Ameliorate
Erudite
Vociferous
6. Environment; setting
Milieu
Scintilla
Adumbrate
Patrician
7. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Ubiquitous
Fortuitous
Renege
Apocryphal
8. To depart from or evade the truth
Fortuitous
Scintilla
Hyperbole
Prevaricate
9. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Limited liability companies
Sojourn
Renege
Avarice
10. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Facetious
Syntax
Abrogate
Ellipsis
11. Commonplace; trivial
Requisite
Banal
Carpe diem
Pernicious
12. Inclined to keep quiet
Visceral
Bi-polar
Reticent
Pernicious
13. Argument over the definition of words
Limited liability companies
Logomachy
Indolent
Unilateral
14. Full; entire; complete
Plenary
Acerbic
Scintilla
Ellipsis
15. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Banal
Specious
Carpe diem
NB
16. To make or grow better
Ken
Loquacious
Ameliorate
Syntax
17. Brief - concise
Facetious
Succinct
Probity
Carpe diem
18. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Succinct
Obviate
Diction
Ameliorate
19. Disparaging - belittling
Nefarious
Tautological
Pejorative
Limited liability companies
20. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Acerbic
Sardonic
Abrogate
Vitiate
21. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Demagogue
Myopic
Eclectic
Disingenuous
22. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Visceral
Obviate
Verve
Simile
23. Lofty with pride
Sardonic
Supercilious
Capricious
Simile
24. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Patrician
Concatenation
i.e.
Simile
25. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Salient
Chortle
Simile
Vociferous
26. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Consanguineous
Pedantic
Patrician
NB
27. Exempli gratia (for example)
Demagogue
Metaphor
Collegial
E.g.
28. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Bifurcate
Acrimony
Binary
Salient
29. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Didactic
Avarice
Acumen
Abrogate
30. To divide into two parts or branches
Pecuniary
Disingenuous
Bifurcate
Tautological
31. To make faulty or imperfect
Allegory
Obviate
Syntax
Vitiate
32. Lacking in courage and resolution
Syllogism
Abrogate
Limited liability companies
Pusillanimous
33. To go back on a promise or commitment
Pernicious
Renege
NB
Fortuitous
34. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Binary
Reticent
Ken
Symbiotic
35. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
NB
Fortuitous
Iconoclast
Inchoate
36. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Sine qua non
Superfluous
Iconoclast
Levity
37. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Collegial
Acumen
Euphemism
Lexicon
38. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Inane
Consanguineous
Collegial
Ameliorate
39. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Collegial
Demagogue
E.g.
Cadre
40. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Finite
Acerbic
Halcyon
Salient
41. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Pedantic
Ephemeral
NB
Tautological
42. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Acerbic
Demagogue
Milieu
Visceral
43. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Pusillanimous
Levity
Vilify
44. Happening by chance
Lexicon
Abrogate
Fortuitous
Chortle
45. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Supercilious
Binary
Acrimony
Chortle
46. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Scintilla
Lexicon
Finite
Sardonic
47. An amendment to an existing will
Codicil
Ethereal
Sojourn
Salient
48. Very talkative
Halcyon
Cadre
Loquacious
Vitiate
49. Relating to money
Syllogism
Pecuniary
Hyperbole
E.g.
50. Displaing a lack of maturity
Aphorism
Sojourn
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Puerile