100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

Given how few of them puzzled me I think I need to move on to the 100 words that a college graduate should know.

Or do we break it down into words for associates, bachelors, masters and PHD?

I cast my vote for graduated lists for graduate students.

I don’t know who has been putting in the pictures, but they are great!

Some of these are concepts that are more important to understand as the broader ideas and history they convey, rather than simply as vocabulary words, esp the socio-political and scientific words.

I think people will have different ideas of what “knowing” means. For me, I consider that I know a word if I can give someone its definition. If not, I’m familiar with it, but it doesn’t count.

Most of these are familiar to me. I use at least half of them, from time to time. But there’s no point in feeling guilty about not knowing them or in general in having a small vocabulary, unless you really have something to say.

Here’s a word I’ve had to use once or twice, that you probably won’t ever need:

heteroskedasticity.

enjoy!

Some of these I think I recognize from context, but I’d be hardpressed if someone said “What does ‘obseqious’ mean?” to give a cogent, concise answer so I didn’t count those. Guess I need to invest in more effort with vocabulary words to develop a more florid (G) prose.