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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. To make vicious and defamatory statements about
Vilify
Supercilious
Patrician
Proclivity
2. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Patrician
Chortle
Halcyon
Simile
3. An amendment to an existing will
Apocryphal
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Cadre
Codicil
4. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Supercilious
Aphorism
Loquacious
Capricious
5. Favoring social equality
Fait accompli
Euphemism
Loquacious
Egalitarian
6. Lofty with pride
Succinct
Supercilious
Proclivity
Codicil
7. Environment; setting
Chicanery
Collegial
Vilify
Milieu
8. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Bifurcate
Indolent
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Fait accompli
9. Having bounds
Tautological
Finite
Loquacious
Supercilious
10. Lacking in courage and resolution
Euphemism
Chicanery
Salient
Pusillanimous
11. To go back on a promise or commitment
Pedantic
Renege
Consanguineous
Obviate
12. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Equivocate
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Cadre
Iconoclast
13. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Acrimony
Simile
Nefarious
Tautological
14. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Allegory
Bi-polar
Cadre
Disingenuous
15. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Pernicious
Syntax
Dilatory
Bi-polar
16. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Requisite
Superfluous
Facetious
Probity
17. Necessary; indispensable
Bifurcate
Requisite
Concatenation
Pusillanimous
18. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Lexicon
Nefarious
Concatenation
Sine qua non
19. To make faulty or imperfect
Superfluous
Pusillanimous
Vitiate
Caveat
20. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Prevaricate
Superfluous
Levity
Res Ipsa Loquitur
21. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Superfluous
Verve
Adumbrate
22. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Acerbic
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Acumen
Eclectic
23. Having only one side
Nefarious
Unilateral
Chicanery
Aphorism
24. Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
Renege
Visceral
Unilateral
25. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Banal
Forbearance
Probity
NB
26. A chain; a succession
Bi-polar
Requisite
Concatenation
Salient
27. An indispensable thing
Ellipsis
Ethereal
Sine qua non
Bi-polar
28. Wicked in the extreme
Carpe diem
Prevaricate
Nefarious
Consanguineous
29. Commonplace; trivial
Banal
Visceral
Plenary
Aphorism
30. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
E.g.
Acrimony
Collegial
Vociferous
31. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Abrogate
Acumen
Ellipsis
i.e.
32. To divide into two parts or branches
Bifurcate
Scintilla
Plenary
Aphorism
33. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
Syllogism
Equivocate
Consanguineous
34. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Visceral
Scintilla
Acumen
Inchoate
35. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Facetious
Euphemism
Salient
Symbiotic
36. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Diction
Demagogue
Proclivity
Requisite
37. The choice and use of words in speech or writing
Binary
Diction
Milieu
Iconoclast
38. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Ken
Chicanery
Sojourn
Patrician
39. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Didactic
Facetious
Myopic
40. Understood by only a few
Abrogate
Ellipsis
Reticent
Arcane
41. Extremely scanty (bare)
Visceral
Fortuitous
Exiguous
Ameliorate
42. Brief - concise
Abrogate
Ephemeral
Succinct
Adumbrate
43. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters - figures - or events in narrative - dramatic - or pictorial form
Carpe diem
Dilatory
Scintilla
Allegory
44. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Erudite
Forbearance
Ubiquitous
Salient
45. Disparaging - belittling
Concatenation
Pejorative
Euphemism
Exiguous
46. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Caveat
Acerbic
Chortle
Vitiate
47. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Consanguineous
Bi-polar
Syllogism
Binary
48. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Chicanery
Myopic
Didactic
Renege
49. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pedantic
Nefarious
Superfluous
Inchoate
50. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Dilatory
Reticent
Supercilious
Pusillanimous