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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
 ziggurat
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