100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know on Lists of Bests

Barbara Calfee

I'm A Tutor — 4 years ago

I think this list is SUPER!!

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

tomthedestroyer

Untitled — 4 years ago

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

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

listenstolongview

hm... — 4 years 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.. — 4 years ago

61 percent. I should be better than that.

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

calmargulis

Good List — 5 years 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. — 5 years 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

duh — 5 years 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

Untitled — 5 years 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