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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
i.e.
Egalitarian
Limited liability companies
Specious
2. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Facetious
Visceral
Simile
Patrician
3. Full; entire; complete
Ephemeral
Plenary
Pecuniary
Erudite
4. Displaing a lack of maturity
Cadre
Puerile
Ubiquitous
Lexicon
5. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Finite
Carpe diem
Simile
Reticent
6. Characterized by a narrow - often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pusillanimous
Renege
Facetious
Pedantic
7. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Abrogate
Bi-polar
Renege
Pernicious
8. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Euphemism
Iconoclast
Loquacious
Levity
9. Deadly
Hyperbole
Pernicious
Sine qua non
Salient
10. Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
Puerile
Inchoate
Fait accompli
11. An amendment to an existing will
Caveat
Codicil
Sojourn
Vociferous
12. Happening by chance
Bifurcate
Pusillanimous
Fortuitous
Symbiotic
13. Argument over the definition of words
Logomachy
Avarice
Hyperbole
Halcyon
14. Brief - concise
Exiguous
Cadre
Succinct
Superfluous
15. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Chicanery
Collegial
Verve
Ellipsis
16. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Bifurcate
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Aphorism
Symbiotic
17. Wicked in the extreme
NB
Nefarious
Demagogue
Caveat
18. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Disingenuous
Ethereal
Syntax
Ken
19. To make faulty or imperfect
Caveat
Vitiate
Succinct
Euphemism
20. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Arcane
Proclivity
Superfluous
Lexicon
21. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Tautological
Loquacious
Acerbic
Proclivity
22. The use of trickery to deceive
Adumbrate
Hyperbole
Eclectic
Chicanery
23. Being everywhere
Arcane
Iconoclast
Exiguous
Ubiquitous
24. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Codicil
Lexicon
Nefarious
Tautological
25. The thing speaks for itself
Bifurcate
Renege
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Syntax
26. 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
Eclectic
Diction
Prevaricate
Metaphor
27. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Eclectic
Loquacious
Pecuniary
Salient
28. Inclined to keep quiet
Obviate
Reticent
Avarice
Symbiotic
29. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Obviate
Banal
Bi-polar
Binary
30. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Indolent
Renege
Levity
Supercilious
31. To make or grow better
Acumen
Sine qua non
Ameliorate
Simile
32. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Diction
Scintilla
Symbiotic
Allegory
33. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Salient
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Ken
34. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Patrician
Specious
Obviate
Sojourn
35. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Acrimony
Syllogism
Equivocate
Prevaricate
36. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Demagogue
Obviate
Tautological
Avarice
37. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Iconoclast
Syllogism
Acerbic
Salient
38. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Eclectic
NB
Prevaricate
Logomachy
39. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Specious
Myopic
Verve
Dilatory
40. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Patrician
Specious
Carpe diem
41. A chain; a succession
Facetious
Inane
Levity
Concatenation
42. Honesty - uprightness
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Eclectic
Probity
Allegory
43. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Sojourn
Probity
Acerbic
Fait accompli
44. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Nefarious
Exiguous
Facetious
Acerbic
45. Disparaging - belittling
Sine qua non
Facetious
Logomachy
Pejorative
46. Commonplace; trivial
Diction
Banal
Nefarious
Demagogue
47. A natural inclination; predisposition
Abrogate
Superfluous
Banal
Proclivity
48. Having only one side
Succinct
Unilateral
Metaphor
E.g.
49. To prevent by interception
Finite
Fortuitous
Obviate
Syntax
50. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Finite
Specious
Disingenuous
Ethereal