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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

The editors of the American Heritage® 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.
Also, someone changed the title of the list, and I had to change it back. Please do not that.

(found at: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/)

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 abjure - To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate.
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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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Created by Perlle on Apr 21, 2006.