100 words HS grads should know.
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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.
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I consider myself pretty well read but there are a lot of these I couldn't use in a sentence.
Here is the A to C list: - abjure
- abrogate
- abstemious
- acumen
- antebellum
- auspicious
- belie
- bellicose
- bowdlerize
- chicanery
- chromosome
- churlish
- circumlocution
- circumnavigate
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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