204 smart words to impress a native speaker of English!

A   affable   affinity   affliction   affluent   alacrity   alleviate   ambiguous   ambivalent   amiable

animosity   annex   apocryphal   apprehensive   aqueous   arduous   aroma   atone   attrition  
avarice

B   bellicose   belligerent   beneficiary   brazen   brusque

C   capricious   charisma   chastise   cognitive   coherent   complicity   comprehensive   concoct

condone   congenial   congenital   consensus   contiguous   convivial   cryptic   culpable   curtail

D   dangle   dearth   deference   delineate   derogatory   diligent   disparage   docile   doleful  

dormant   drought   dubious   dumbfound   duplicity

E   eccentric   efface   egocentric   elucidate   eminent   enchant   endeavor   enigma   enthrall  

esoteric   exacerbate   extol   extraneous

F   felicity   fidelity   flagrant   flimsy   frugal   futile

G   gaudy   ghastly   gluttony   gratuitous   gregarious   grumble

H   haughty   heterogeneous   homogeneous   hypocrisy

I   imminent   impediment   indigenous   indulgent   ingenuous   inherent   insatiate   instigate  

intrepid   irate

J   jeopardy

L   laconic   lament   latent   lithe   lurid   leash   loafer   lucrative   lustrous

M   malign   meddle   mend   mendacious   minuscule   mirth   munificent

N   nausea   neglect   nihilism   nocturnal   nominal   notorious   noxious   nuance

O   oblique   obscure   officious   opaque

P   parsimonious   pejorative   perch   pervade   petulant   philanthropy   philistine   pillage  

plethora   ponderous   postulate   precipitous   precursor   presumptuous   prevail   prodigious  
prodigy   proliferate   prolific   proprietary   provident   proximity   prudent

Q   quashed   quenching

R   rancor   reciprocal   reclusive   renaissance   replenish   reproach   reticent   reverberate  

revere   rigor   rotundity   rudimentary
S   salvage   scattered   scrupulous   sentient   serendipity   shatter   shunned   sketchy   sporadic
squander   stagnation   stifled   strive   subjugate   sublime   succumb   superfluous   surreptitious

T   taciturn   taciturn   tangible   tantalize   tenacious   tentative   torpid   treacherous   tremor  

tyro

U   uproar

V   vanity   vehemence   venerate   verisimilitude   vestige   vigilance   vilify   vindicate  

visionary   vitriolic   volatile   voluptuous

W   wan   wile   wrinkle

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

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of a well-rounded high school graduate be like? These 100 words provide the starting
point in answering that question. The list is representative of the words that serious
students will encounter in their coursework and will come to use as adults, whether in
conversation or while reading the daily newspaper. Each word is fully defined and
shown in context with example sentences from well-known authors. 100 Words Every
High School Graduate Should Know is a must-have for every grad, perfect for building
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A   abjure   abrogate   abstemious   acumen   antebellum   auspicious

 B   belie   bellicose   bowdlerize

C   chicanery   chromosome   churlish   circumlocution   circumnavigate

D   deciduous   deleterious   diffident

E   enervate   enfranchise   epiphany   equinox   euro   evanescent   expurgate

F   facetious   fatuous   feckless   fiduciary   filibuster

G   gamete   gauche   gerrymander

H   hegemony   hemoglobin   homogeneous   hubris   hypotenuse

I   impeach   incognito   incontrovertible   inculcate   infrastructure   interpolate   irony

J   jejune

K   kinetic   kowtow

L   laissez faire   lexicon   loquacious   lugubrious

M   metamorphosis   mitosis   moiety

N   nanotechnology   nihilism   nomenclature   nonsectarian   notarize

O   obsequious   oligarchy   omnipotent   orthography   oxidize

P   parabola   paradigm   parameter   pecuniary   photosynthesis   plagiarize   plasma   polymer  

precipitous

Q   quasar   quotidian

R   recapitulate   reciprocal   reparation   respiration

S   sanguine   soliloquy   subjugate   suffragist   supercilious

T   tautology   taxonomy   tectonic   tempestuous   thermodynamics   totalitarian

U   unctuous   usurp

V   vacuous   vehement   vortex

W   winnow   wrought

X   xenophobe
 Y   yeoman

Z   ziggurat