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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
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The American Heritage Dictionary editors made this list of words that every high school graduate should know.
| | 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 |
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wow... I don't even know half of these Comment by: Editor ziggurat??? Come on. You're making that up. Comment by: brotherbrawler
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