100 words Every High School Graduate Should Know

[Monroe]

Came across this list earlier. I guess I need to go back to high school, because I only the definition of about ten of these words

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


“The words we suggest,” says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, “are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language.”


The following is the entire list of 100 words Every High School Graduate Should Know:


abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
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

[cC.Agitator]

Im a sophomore in hs, and I know 75% of the words, is that good?

[Monroe]

I suppose so.

[Aether]

chromosome circumnavigate diffident enervate enfranchise epiphany equinox euro evanescent fatuous hegemony hemoglobin homogeneous incognito incontrovertible infrastructure interpolate irony kinetic metamorphosis mitosis nanotechnology nihilism nomenclature notarize omnipotent orthography oxidize parabola paradigm parameter photosynthesis plagiarize plasma polymer quasar recapitulate reparation respiration sanguine subjugate tempestuous thermodynamics vehement vortex xenophobe yeoman ziggurat, these are the ones I know.

[DJFX]

Frosh, I know like 10 ^.^
I should get out the good' ol urbandictionary, huh?

[Nevad]

Good thing english aint my first language

[DR809]

I know around 97% of these otherwise i know more that arent on the list

[Monroe]

i know more that arent on the list

I would hope you know more than 100 words.

[DR809]

lmaooo of course :P