100 Words Every High School Grad Should Know
Grant Barrett
gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Wed Sep 18 22:00:17 UTC 2002
Basically a press release for the American Heritage College Dictionary,
but still interesting: "100 words that all high school graduates--and
their parents--should know."
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/
ahdcollege/atof.shtml
The pages include phonetic pronunciation, an audio clip of each word,
and definitions. It starts:
abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
...
It ends:
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat
--
Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
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