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Title: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 02, 2007, 04:15:11 AM

According to Houghton Mifflin you should know the following 100 words...
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/ (http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/)

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The following is the entire list of 100 words:

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

How did you do?  ;D

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Tom on June 02, 2007, 05:22:13 AM

 :o I know them all!

Some better than others, but I know them all!

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 02, 2007, 07:19:03 AM

We'll never get Roger to use all them in one weekend!

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Diamond Lil on June 02, 2007, 08:57:03 AM

fell at the last fence..ziggurat?...desperate now for that to come up in a crossword next time I attempt the one in the 'Babylonian Times'

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Malc on June 03, 2007, 12:46:33 PM

Well, I've been called almost all of them at some time or other.

Are we supposed to have heard them at some stage (yes) or should we know what they all mean? (yes, sort of).

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 03, 2007, 01:18:37 PM

Heard of about two thirds, and knew the meaning of about half.

The rest I found rather recandite, if not orphic. Certainly acroamatic.

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Mince on June 03, 2007, 02:53:19 PM

"recondite", Tarquin.

Title: Re: Should you have graduated High School?
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 03, 2007, 03:56:54 PM

I stand currected!