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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Pejorative
Erudite
Syllogism
2. Honesty - uprightness
Dilatory
Probity
Syntax
Specious
3. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Eclectic
Lexicon
Avarice
Ken
4. Understood by only a few
Arcane
Bifurcate
Syllogism
Halcyon
5. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Levity
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Fait accompli
Syllogism
6. Displaing a lack of maturity
Apocryphal
Chortle
Exiguous
Puerile
7. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Forbearance
Cadre
Iconoclast
Renege
8. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Salient
Carpe diem
Finite
Exiguous
9. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Limited liability companies
Vilify
Collegial
Pedantic
10. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Salient
Indolent
Euphemism
Syntax
11. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Hyperbole
Indolent
Ubiquitous
Verve
12. A warning or caution
Facetious
Prevaricate
Caveat
Inchoate
13. A chain; a succession
Codicil
Finite
Concatenation
Sardonic
14. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Limited liability companies
Ameliorate
Equivocate
NB
15. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Facetious
Finite
Ameliorate
Acumen
16. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Loquacious
Bi-polar
Scintilla
Hyperbole
17. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Plenary
Syntax
Avarice
Lexicon
18. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Diction
Facetious
Inane
Probity
19. To make or grow better
Superfluous
Ameliorate
Allegory
Banal
20. Having bounds
Ubiquitous
Fortuitous
Visceral
Finite
21. Environment; setting
Halcyon
E.g.
Pecuniary
Milieu
22. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Apocryphal
Demagogue
Disingenuous
Euphemism
23. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Ken
Simile
NB
Pejorative
24. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Verve
Dilatory
Indolent
Reticent
25. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Fortuitous
Adumbrate
Symbiotic
Bifurcate
26. Full; entire; complete
Simile
Requisite
Plenary
Ephemeral
27. Necessary; indispensable
Requisite
Chortle
Carpe diem
Pernicious
28. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Disingenuous
Ethereal
Cadre
Inane
29. Inclined to keep quiet
Reticent
Sardonic
Aphorism
Fait accompli
30. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Iconoclast
Ethereal
Ubiquitous
31. Whimsical; changeable
Iconoclast
Capricious
Caveat
Unilateral
32. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Tautological
Arcane
Binary
Superfluous
33. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Caveat
Acerbic
Abrogate
Milieu
34. Bitter - harsh - or biting sharpness
Codicil
Acrimony
Renege
Concatenation
35. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Chicanery
Equivocate
Consanguineous
Pedantic
36. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Ken
Fait accompli
Diction
Egalitarian
37. Id est (that is)
i.e.
Limited liability companies
Renege
Adumbrate
38. An indispensable thing
Finite
Syllogism
Sine qua non
Caveat
39. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Syntax
Eclectic
Lexicon
Equivocate
40. Bitterly sarcastic
Sardonic
Disingenuous
Iconoclast
Equivocate
41. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Demagogue
Pedantic
Pecuniary
Syntax
42. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Nefarious
Indolent
Lexicon
Ethereal
43. To prevent by interception
Obviate
Vilify
Sojourn
Limited liability companies
44. Being everywhere
Chortle
Ubiquitous
Bifurcate
Loquacious
45. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Visceral
Salient
Fait accompli
46. Wicked in the extreme
Nefarious
Bi-polar
Renege
Sojourn
47. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Halcyon
i.e.
Ephemeral
Adumbrate
48. To go back on a promise or commitment
Milieu
Renege
Sojourn
Allegory
49. Extremely scanty (bare)
Exiguous
Vociferous
Eclectic
Loquacious
50. Deadly
Pernicious
Loquacious
Ephemeral
Prevaricate