James Niño D.

Cruz
Grade 11 – Love & Faith
100 Words Every College Student 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
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

Cadre - a core or nucleus of trained or otherwise Finite - having bounds

qualified personnel around which an organization is
Forbearance - patience; good-natured tolerance of delay
formed
or incompetence
Capricious - whimsical; changeable
Fortuitous - happening by chance
Carpe diem - seize the moment
Halcyon - peaceful, undisturbed, and happy
Caveat - a warning or caution
Hyperbole - extravagant exaggeration
Chicanery - the use of trickery to deceive
Iconoclast - one who attacks and seeks to overthrow
Chortle - to utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant traditional or popular ideas of institutions
laugh or chuckle
i.e. - id est (that is)
Codicil - an amendment to an existing will
Inane - without contents, empty; void of sense or
Collegial - characterized by or having authority vested intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
equally among colleagues
Inchoate - partially but not fully in existence or
Concatenation - a chain; a succession operation

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
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 corporation 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 Syntax - the study of the rules whereby words or other
literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in elements of sentence structure are combined to form
place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy grammatical sentences
between them
Tautological - needless repetition of the same sense in
Milieu - environment; setting different words; redundancy
Myopic - lack of discernment or long-range perspective Ubiquitous - being everywhere
in thinking or planning
Unilateral - having only one side
NB - nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to
Verve - energy and enthusiasm in the expression of
direct attention to something particularly important
ideas
Nefarious - wicked in the extreme
Vilify - to make vicious and defamatory statements
Obviate - to prevent by interception about something
Patrician - a person of refined upbringing, manners, and Visceral - course, base, instinctive
taste
Vitiate - to make faulty or imperfect
Pecuniary - relating to money
Vociferous - making a loud outcry
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; superficially 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
dependence