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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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一个都不懂的飘过～
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同飘
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很不错的单词啊！有时间记一下
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这个只能用来激励一下自己，单纯背单词效率太差
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preschooler 回去唸書了....
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euro
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我很高兴，有认识的
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我从来都认为我的英文水平连小学生都不如
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我的是小学3年级水平
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粗看了一下,还是认识10几个的...
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认识三个呢
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不会一个都不懂吧 kowtow可是中文啊
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什么中文意思？
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磕头
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好難喔！
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不加分给我 可是我发现的
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连kd 都不如了.孩子的书竟然都有不会的单词.
这些就更别说了.
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真伤心，提起英文就木信心
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准备和孩子一起记单词了
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kao 就认识4个，这些词好像有点这也性质。
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好难……平时真的用得到吗？感觉不是非常常用的词
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NND，象考GRE的。
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没错。估计我记不住几个。
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OMG, I only know less than 5 words.
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妈呀，我是怎么毕业得
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用得到的才能记住. 跟些生僻的字纠结不是自己找不痛快么?
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