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100 Words That All High School Graduates — And Their Parents — Should Know 
BOSTON, MA — 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 measurethemselves. 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: 
 
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 
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