ENGLISH:100 Words Every College Students Should Know

Abrogate:: to cancel, destroy, revoke, or void
Acerbic:: sharp, biting, or acid in temper, expression, or tone
Acrimony:: bitter, harsh, or biting sharpness
Acumen:: quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)
Adumbrate:: to sketch, outline in a shadowy way
Ameliorate:: to make or grow better
Aphorism:: a tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
Apocryphal:: of doubtful authority or authenticity
Allegory:: the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
Arcane:: understood by only a few
Avarice:: an excessive desire of gain; greediness
Banal:: commonplace; trivial
Bifurcate:: to divide into two parts or branches
Binary:: characterized by or consisting of two parts or components
Bi-polar:: having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Cadre:: a core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Capricious:: whimsical; changeable
Carpe diem:: seize the moment
Caveat:: a warning or caution
Chicanery:: the use of trickery to deceive
Chortle:: to utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle
Codicil:: an amendment to an existing will
Collegial:: characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Concatenation:: a chain; a succession
Consanguineous:: related by blood, descended from the same ancestor
Demagogue:: a leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion, prejudice, etc., in order to achieve power
Diction:: the choice and use of words in speech or writing
Didactic:: conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Dilatory:: inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Disingenuous:: not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
Eclectic:: made up of or combining elements from varying sources
E.g.:: exempli gratia (for example)
Egalitarian:: favoring social equality
Ellipsis:: Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or *** for example)
Ephemeral:: short lived
Equivocate:: to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Erudite:: characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned
Ethereal:: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Euphemism:: a mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Exiguous:: extremely scanty (bare)
Facetious:: "tongue-in-cheek-advice" characterized by wit and pleasantry
Fait accompli:: an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Finite:: having bounds
Forbearance:: patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Fortuitous:: happening by chance
Halcyon:: peaceful, undisturbed, and happy
Hyperbole:: extravagant exaggeration
Iconoclast:: one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
i.e.:: id est (that is)
Inane:: without contents, empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Inchoate:: partially but not fully in existence or operation
Indolent:: avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Ken:: perception; understanding; knowledge
Levity:: frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Lexicon:: a stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject or style; a vocabulary
Limited liability companies:: (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Logomachy:: argument over the definition of words
Loquacious:: very talkative
Metaphor:: 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
Milieu:: environment; setting
Myopic:: lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
NB:: nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Nefarious:: wicked in the extreme
Obviate:: to prevent by interception
Patrician:: a person of refined upbringing, manners and taste
Pecuniary:: relating to money
Pedantic:: characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Pejorative:: disparaging, belittling
Pernicious:: deadly
Plenary:: full; entire; complete
Prevaricate:: to depart from or evade the truth
Probity:: honesty, uprightness
Proclivity:: a natural inclination; predisposition
Puerile:: displaying a lack of maturity
Pusillanimous:: lacking in courage and resolution
Renege:: to go back on a promise or commitment
Requisite:: necessary; indispensable
Res Ipsa Loquitur:: the thing speaks for itself
Reticent:: inclined to keep quiet
Salient:: noticeable; also, projecting; also, leaping
Sardonic:: bitterly sarcastic
Scintilla:: a minute amount; an iota or trace
Simile:: a word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by "like" or "as"
Sine qua non:: an indispensable thing
Sojourn:: a temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Specious:: apparently right; superficiallly fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Succinct:: brief, concise
Supercilious:: lofty with pride
Superfluous:: more than is wanted or is sufficient
Syllogism:: logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
Symbiotic:: a relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Syntax:: the study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Tautological:: needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Ubiquitous:: being everywhere
Unilateral:: having only one side
Verve:: energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
Vilify:: to make vicious and defamatory statements about
Visceral:: course, base, instinctive
Vitiate:: to make faulty or imperfect
Vociferous:: making a loud outcry