[$tinkle]

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

i recognize most of them enough to be effective in "balderdash"
can define half of them (if i'm allowed to use my hands)
and use about a dozen of them; and even then i think i'm sounding "smart"

here's the list:


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

 

[$tinkle]

didn't recognize these at all:

abstemious
bowdlerize
diffident
evanescent
expurgate
pecuniary
quotidian
ziggurat

 

[HAB]

Isn't ziggurat a Gary Fisher bike?




It's also a temple from one of the pre-Columbian civilizations in South America. Or somthing like that.

 

[HAB]

Err, I was half right. They're Mesopotamian, not American.

 

[$tinkle]

Isn't ziggurat a Gary Fisher bike?

i thought it was a candy bar

then again, i thought charleston chew was #24 at Taste of Shanghai

 

[metalhead119042]

A Ziggurat is the center of a Mesopotamian civilization. World history ftw.

 

[narlus]

plasma

at least nate knew one.

 

[binary visions]

Nice list. I think I could reliably define a bit more than half, and balderdash/guess/gesture through about half the remaining.

I wonder how many words on that list your average high school graduate really knows? We had some kids graduate from my school who were totally illiterate.

 

[mattmatt86]

I'm going to make it my goal to learn and know everyone of those words and use them correctly in a conversation during this next semester at College. Yea I know that sounds stupid, but I'm on this whole change my life/learn new things/eat better/exercise more plan for this next school year.

 

[narlus]

abjure
abrogate
bowdlerize
circumlocution
inculcate
jejune
quotidian
tautology

these are ones which i really don't know.

 

[valve bouncer]

these are ones which i really don't know.

tautology

Yeah that one stumped me too. I didn't know what it meant.

 

[I Are Baboon]

I know about a third of those words.

 

[$tinkle]

i know churlish, gauche, & jejune from watching 8 seasons of frazier.

yay for t.v.

 

[ridiculous]

I'm going to make it my goal to learn and know everyone of those words and use them correctly in a conversation during this next semester at College. Yea I know that sounds stupid, but I'm on this whole change my riding/learn new riding /eat better after riding/ride more plan for this next school year.

fixed

 

[pinkshirtphotos]

im stupid i cant even read half them words

 

[stinkyboy]

In high school I only knew the word debauchery.

 

[ridiculous]

I know 41 most of them are the science related ones. Im calling that an improvement considering the English section of my SAT only contributed 38% of my points.

 

[norbar]

**** english isn't my 1st language and I live in a non eng speaking country and I get similar results than the rest of you. Awkward...

**** english cartoon network in childhood really saves your ass

 

[$tinkle]

gauche means left in french

i can has cred?

 

[sanjuro]

abjure
bowdlerize
hypotenuse
moiety

 

[Silver]

What an absolutely useless list...

 

[narlus]

What an absolutely useless list...

don't be so feckless.

 

[$tinkle]

don't be so feckless.

i think you mean "don't be a feckless cunt"

 

[ultraNoob]

52/100, not bad considering I've already had a few to drink.... hmmm maybe if I drink more I'll score higher.

 

[PatBranch]

I know about a third to half of those. I need to go back to high school again too.

 

[PatBranch]

abjure
bowdlerize
hypotenuse
moiety

I suck at geometry, but I think a hypotenuse is the long side of a triangle.

 

[SkaredShtles]

I would dare to guess that 95% of high school teachers in this country couldn't tell you what 10% of those words mean...

 

[$tinkle]

I would dare to guess that 95% of high school teachers in this country couldn't tell you what 10% of those words mean...

that would change if they would focus less on extra-curriculars with the student body

 

[V-Dub GTI]

I suck at geometry, but I think a hypotenuse is the long side of a triangle.

Yes it is.

 

[sanjuro]

Ok, I only need to use the dictionary 3 more times.

 

[HAB]

I would dare to guess that 95% of high school teachers in this country couldn't tell you what 10% of those words mean...

Unfortunatly, I have to agree with you.

 

[$tinkle]

bump for mooshoo