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100 Words For Every College Student
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1. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Fait accompli
Cadre
Chicanery
Salient
2. Wicked in the extreme
Unilateral
Vociferous
Nefarious
Puerile
3. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Inane
Cadre
Didactic
Sardonic
4. Extravagant exaggeration
Forbearance
Patrician
Renege
Hyperbole
5. To divide into two parts or branches
Caveat
Equivocate
Bifurcate
Fortuitous
6. Environment; setting
Milieu
Metaphor
Tautological
Reticent
7. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Avarice
Myopic
Sardonic
Vociferous
8. To sketch - outline in a shadowy way
Adumbrate
Allegory
Vitiate
Diction
9. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Demagogue
Arcane
Erudite
Egalitarian
10. Having bounds
Finite
Probity
Pusillanimous
Apocryphal
11. Having only one side
Bi-polar
Patrician
Unilateral
Aphorism
12. The use of trickery to deceive
Ephemeral
Syntax
Capricious
Chicanery
13. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Syntax
Simile
Disingenuous
Pedantic
14. Lacking in courage and resolution
Loquacious
Bi-polar
Demagogue
Pusillanimous
15. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Metaphor
Iconoclast
Didactic
Dilatory
16. To make or grow better
Pejorative
Renege
Ameliorate
Superfluous
17. The thing speaks for itself
Nefarious
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Tautological
Inchoate
18. A chain; a succession
Concatenation
Reticent
Inane
Cadre
19. Understood by only a few
Carpe diem
Arcane
Milieu
Dilatory
20. Happening by chance
Demagogue
Superfluous
Fortuitous
Sardonic
21. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Aphorism
Levity
E.g.
Inane
22. 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
Pernicious
Metaphor
Symbiotic
Exiguous
23. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Iconoclast
Arcane
Metaphor
24. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Abrogate
Ellipsis
Metaphor
Proclivity
25. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Pejorative
Tautological
Erudite
Carpe diem
26. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Adumbrate
Sojourn
Pecuniary
NB
27. Perception; understanding; knowledge
Forbearance
Diction
Ken
Acerbic
28. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Concatenation
Sardonic
Dilatory
Equivocate
29. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
i.e.
Prevaricate
Fait accompli
Salient
30. A stock of terms used in a particular profession - subject or style; a vocabulary
Collegial
Eclectic
Lexicon
Proclivity
31. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Bifurcate
Ellipsis
Indolent
Supercilious
32. Sharp - biting - or acid in temper - expression - or tone
Acerbic
Abrogate
Ethereal
Lexicon
33. An indispensable thing
Unilateral
Dilatory
Sine qua non
Metaphor
34. Inclined to keep quiet
Pecuniary
Pernicious
Indolent
Reticent
35. Bitterly sarcastic
Syllogism
Inane
Sardonic
NB
36. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Consanguineous
Euphemism
Codicil
Acrimony
37. Brief - concise
Pejorative
Egalitarian
Succinct
NB
38. Very talkative
Symbiotic
Puerile
Myopic
Loquacious
39. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Indolent
Visceral
Bi-polar
Syllogism
40. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Chortle
Logomachy
Fortuitous
Bi-polar
41. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Probity
Fortuitous
Erudite
Codicil
42. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Halcyon
Ethereal
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Scintilla
43. Being everywhere
Abrogate
Acumen
Ubiquitous
Pecuniary
44. To go back on a promise or commitment
Collegial
Renege
Chicanery
Proclivity
45. 'tongue-in-cheek-advice' characterized by wit and pleasantry
Arcane
Facetious
Avarice
Egalitarian
46. A tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Aphorism
Facetious
Specious
Prevaricate
47. Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Halcyon
Loquacious
Vociferous
Acumen
48. Id est (that is)
Hyperbole
Codicil
Finite
i.e.
49. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Verve
Patrician
Fortuitous
Indolent
50. Necessary; indispensable
Requisite
Banal
Pernicious
Bi-polar