100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

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The editors of the American HeritageŽ dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

Please note: If anyone has concerns about specific words, please let me know <a href= "http://perlle.43people.com">here</a>. Or email me at lrperlle at yahoo dot com.
Just deleting words screws up the list for everyone else who has the list.
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    abstemious

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    abrogate
    by to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal: to abrogate a law.

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    acumen

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    antebellum

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    auspicious

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    belie

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    bellicose

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    bowdlerize
    by to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable

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    chicanery

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    chromosome

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    churlish

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    circumlocution

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    circumnavigate

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    deciduous

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    deleterious

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    diffident

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    enervate

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    enfranchise

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    epiphany

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    equinox

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    euro

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    evanescent

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    expurgate

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    facetious

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    fatuous

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    feckless

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    fiduciary

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    filibuster

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    gamete

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    gauche

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    gerrymander

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    hegemony

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    hemoglobin

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    homogeneous

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    hubris

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    hypotenuse

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    impeach

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    incognito

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    incontrovertible

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    inculcate

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    infrastructure

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    interpolate

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    irony

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    jejune

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    kinetic

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    kowtow

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    laissez faire

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    lexicon

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    loquacious

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Barbara Calfee
Wickliffe

I'm A Tutor — 25 weeks ago

I think this list is SUPER!!

Jan 03, 01:33PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

tomthedestroyer

Untitled — 28 weeks ago

With 2 years to go until I graduate, 63% isn’t that bad.

Dec 18, 07:56PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

listenstolongview
Nowhere

hm... — 1 year ago

Going into my junior year of college and I got 67%...I must say though that apart from using these ridiculously long and complicated words to help lengthen my term papers, I really don’t think I would actually use these words in normal conversation….

Jul 01, 06:43PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

fuzzybat06

Hmmm.. — 1 year ago

61 percent. I should be better than that.

Jun 25, 09:53PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

calmargulis

Good List — 1 year ago

No, this list is fantastic. Can you live a long, happy life and never use the word ‘moiety’? Yes, of course.

But if you read the New York Times front page every day, by the end of the year you will have seen all of these words. (Except perhaps moiety.)

Mar 18, 03:03PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

jina86

i'm a senior in college. — 1 year ago

and while i know most, a couple of these words are flat out random. i don’t understand how some are at all relevant to a high school graduate’s education. maybe it’s because i’m an IR major.

Nov 04, 08:50PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

tiddleyboom
Charlotte

duh — 1 year ago

Well, I felt a little dumb reading through this list. The first go through, I knew 84%. The rest I looked up on dictionary.com and now I know 100%. Yeah, I know I’m a dork.

Nov 03, 07:41PM | 2 comments | Reply to this

soleillevant
Saskatoon

Untitled — 1 year ago

I’m Canadian, and in grade 11, and I know quite a few of them… it seems to me most of these are used in classic literature, or math/science textbooks. Good list, but I wouldn’t call it practical.

Jul 24, 08:52PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Perlle
East Hampton

New list — 1 year ago

If you like this list check out this one as well:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/37270

Jul 07, 12:48PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mlecke

Offensive Icon for Unctuous — 2 years ago

Seriously, someone should change the picture for unctuous. Not funny. Put in a picture of Uriah Heep from David Copperfield.

Jun 26, 10:30AM | 1 comment | Reply to this


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