the 100 words high school graduates should know

[yermom]

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/


abjure
abrogate
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
hypotenuse
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

i think someone is just trying to sell dictionaries :eek:

[OSUAggie]

Yes, a superior command of a language that you can then butcher by attempting to use 70% of these words in either speeches or writings.

[tommieharris91]

They'll learn about the word "plagiarize" in college.

[SicEmBaylor]

Yes, a superior command of a language that you can then butcher by attempting to use 70% of these words in either speeches or writings.
That's just the excuse they give you at OSU so the profs don't have to look up those words when grading your papers.

[OSUAggie]

The same OSU that provided the education for your parents to let your *** sit around doing jack **** while taking just under a decade to get your undergrad?

[Taxman71]

They would do alot better if someone would teach them that interest equals principal times rate instead of "how much is my monthly payment?".

[Jello Biafra]

The same OSU that provided the education for your parents to let your *** sit around doing jack **** while taking just under a decade to get your undergrad?


says fire marshall bill .......


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[Jello Biafra]

eheh...i guess i had the wrong ag....meh. you all look alike anyway :)

[def_lazer_fc]

funny, i didn't see poontang on that list anywhere.