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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
Of the whole list, I think I can define about 70 or 80, and demonstrate the most common context you would use the remaining 20 or 30 in while not being entirely sure of their exact meaning.
I'm not quite sure what the point of the list is, though. There are two I can think of, one charitable and the other uncharitable:
* Charitable: Finding out what these words mean makes you find out about the contexts where they're used, which means you'll learn a lot about language, literature, science, logic, mathematics, politics and economics; they're indicators of a good all-round education.
* Uncharitable: Knowing these words means you can sound like you've had a good all-round education when you've not looked further than the pages of this book.
( Anyway, here are some further thoughts about sections of the word list. )
Of the whole list, I think I can define about 70 or 80, and demonstrate the most common context you would use the remaining 20 or 30 in while not being entirely sure of their exact meaning.
I'm not quite sure what the point of the list is, though. There are two I can think of, one charitable and the other uncharitable:
* Charitable: Finding out what these words mean makes you find out about the contexts where they're used, which means you'll learn a lot about language, literature, science, logic, mathematics, politics and economics; they're indicators of a good all-round education.
* Uncharitable: Knowing these words means you can sound like you've had a good all-round education when you've not looked further than the pages of this book.
( Anyway, here are some further thoughts about sections of the word list. )
