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Another 100 Words Every Adult Should Know

February 28, 2025 - pdf

Another 100 Words Every Adult Should Know

No. Term Definition
1. Aberration Deviation from what is normal or expected.
2. Abhor To detest or strongly dislike.
3. Acumen Keen insight or quick judgment.
4. Adamant Refusing to be persuaded or change one’s mind.
5. Adversary Opponent or enemy.
6. Advocate To publicly support or recommend.
7. Affable Friendly and easy to talk to.
8. Aggregate A whole formed by combining elements.
9. Altruistic Selflessly concerned for others.
10. Ambivalent Having mixed or uncertain feelings.
11. Amicable Characterized by friendly goodwill.
12. Anecdote Short, interesting personal story.
13. Anomaly Something unusual or irregular.
14. Antiquated Old-fashioned or outdated.
15. Apathy Lack of interest or enthusiasm.
16. Arbitrary Based on random choice or whim.
17. Ascertain To find out with certainty.
18. Audacious Bold and daring.
19. Avarice Extreme greed for wealth.
20. Bellicose Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
21. Benevolent Kind and generous.
22. Bolster To support or strengthen.
23. Brevity Concise and exact use of words.
24. Capricious Given to sudden, unpredictable changes.
25. Catalyst Something causing significant change.
26. Chastise To rebuke or reprimand severely.
27. Coalesce To come together to form one mass.
28. Cohesion Unity or sticking together.
29. Complacent Self-satisfied, unconcerned.
30. Condone To accept or overlook behavior considered wrong.
31. Conjecture Guess based on incomplete evidence.
32. Consensus General agreement.
33. Construe To interpret in a particular way.
34. Contentious Controversial or prone to arguing.
35. Copious Abundant in quantity.
36. Cryptic Mysterious or obscure.
37. Debilitate To make someone weak.
38. Decorum Behavior keeping with good taste.
39. Deleterious Causing harm or damage.
40. Demagogue A leader exploiting emotions to gain power.
41. Diligent Hardworking and meticulous.
42. Disparage To belittle or criticize unfairly.
43. Disseminate To spread widely.
44. Eclectic Selecting from diverse sources.
45. Elucidate To clarify or explain clearly.
46. Eminent Distinguished or famous.
47. Equanimity Calmness under pressure.
48. Esoteric Understood by few; obscure.
49. Expedite To speed up the process.
50. Fallacious Based on incorrect reasoning.
51. Fastidious Very attentive to detail.
52. Fervent Showing intense passion.
53. Garrulous Excessively talkative.
54. Gregarious Fond of company; sociable.
55. Harbinger Something signaling future events.
56. Haughty Arrogantly superior.
57. Imminent About to happen.
58. Immutable Unchanging over time.
59. Impartial Unbiased and fair.
60. Imperative Essential or urgent.
61. Indolent Habitually lazy.
62. Innocuous Harmless or inoffensive.
63. Insidious Subtly harmful or deceitful.
64. Judicious Wise, showing sound judgment.
65. Laudable Deserving praise.
66. Lucid Clear and understandable.
67. Malicious Intentionally harmful.
68. Mitigate To make less severe or intense.
69. Mundane Lacking excitement; ordinary.
70. Nuance Subtle difference or distinction.
71. Obsolete No longer in use; outdated.
72. Ostensible Stated or appearing true, but not necessarily so.
73. Palpable Capable of being felt or perceived.
74. Paradigm A typical example or model.
75. Pecuniary Relating to money.
76. Pernicious Highly destructive or harmful.
77. Pragmatic Practical rather than idealistic.
78. Precocious Advanced or mature at an early age.
79. Prevalent Widespread or commonly occurring.
80. Proclivity Natural inclination or tendency.
81. Prudent Careful, cautious, and wise.
82. Recalcitrant Stubbornly resistant to authority.
83. Redundant No longer needed; superfluous.
84. Relinquish To voluntarily give up.
85. Resilient Able to quickly recover from difficulties.
86. Reticent Reserved or unwilling to communicate.
87. Sagacious Wise, insightful, discerning.
88. Scrupulous Diligent, thorough, extremely attentive.
89. Serendipity Accidental beneficial discovery.
90. Superfluous Unnecessary or excessive.
91. Taciturn Quiet and reserved in speech.
92. Tenacious Persistent, determined.
93. Transient Temporary, short-lived.
94. Ubiquitous Existing everywhere simultaneously.
95. Unilateral Involving only one side or party.
96. Vacillate To alternate indecisively between choices.
97. Vehement Showing strong, passionate feeling.
98. Venerate To regard with great respect.
99. Vindicate To clear from blame or suspicion.
100. Zealous Enthusiastically devoted.
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