100 Words Every High-School Graduate should know. How many do you know?
Definitions:
abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum, auspicious, belie, bellicose, bowdleriz, 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
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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My English teacher at NAIT called the people that didn't do anything in class... if they even came to class, FITs... Feckless Incompetent Twits. Now I now what Feckless means.
Indeed, it is a perfectly cromulent word, and has undoubtedly embiggened my vocabulary!
Also, it seems that "Feckless Incompetent Twit" is an oxymoron.
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