| 100 WORDS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW |
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| There is a book published by Houghton Mifflin Books called "100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know" which caught my eye in a bookstore, so I picked it up. Now, not only am I a high school graduate, but I'm also a college graduate, and although having a college degree may not mean much at times, it still surprised me that I only knew about twenty-five of the words well enough. Anyway, this is the list. If you don't know enough of these, you should be ashamed of yourself. Now, go buy the book! |
| abjure abrogat abstemious acumen antebellum auspicious belie bellicose bowdlerize chicanery chromosome churlish circumlocution circumnavigate deciduous deleterious diffident enervate enfranchise epiphany equinox euro evanescent expurgate facetious |
| fatuous feckless fiduciary filibuster gamete gauche gerrymander hegemony hemoglobin homogeneous hubris hypoteneuse impeach incognito incontrovertible inculcate infrastructure interpolate irony jejune kinetic kowtow laissez faire lexicon loquacious |
| lugubrious metamorphosis mitosis moiety nanotechnology nihilism nomenclature nonsectarian notarize obsequious oligarchy omnipotent orthography oxidize parabola paradigm parameter pecuniary photosynthesis plagiarize plasma polymer precipitous quasar quotidian |
| recapitulate reciprocal reparation respiration sanguine soliloquy subjugate suffragist supercilious tautology taxonomy tectonic tempestuous thermodynamics totalitarian unctuous usurp vacuous vehement vortex winnow wrought xenophobe yeoman ziggurat |
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