100 Words Every High School Grad Should Know

[Steven Howard]

Our high school must have been lacking!

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:00:17 -0400
Subject: 100 Words Every High School Grad Should Know

> 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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