Top 100 Vocabulary Words That Adults Should Know
Top 100 Vocabulary Words That Adults Should Know
Educators often use words with meanings that students may not fully understand. Rather than looking foolish and asking for an explanation, students may go through years of schooling and not truly grasp the meaning of important terminology.
After consulting with a past English teacher, my sister, Lesley Hamilton, and a future English teacher, my daughter, Terra Rothpletz, we came up with a list of 100 words that are dispersed by educators but not necessarily understood by students. Rather than list the definitions here, I thought it might be better to just include the link so that you could test yourself. Look at the following words and see how well you do. To find out the definitions, just click on the word.
- Acquiesce
- Acronym
- Ambiguity
- Analogy
- Anachronism
- Andragogy
- Antithesis
- Antonym
- Articulate
- Assonance
- Benchmarking
- Brainstorming
- Circumspect
- Clandestine
- Cognition
- Collaborate
- Colloquial
- Connotation
- Contrived
- Conundrum
- Correlation
- Criterion
- Cumulative
- Curriculum
- Deference
- Developmental
- Dialect
- Diction
- Didactic
- Dissertation
- Divergent
- Egregious
- Eloquence
- Emergent
- Empathy
- Enigma
- Epitome
- Epiphany
- Epitaph
- Erudite
- Existential
- Exponential
- Formative
- Holistic
- Homonym
- Hubris
- Hyperbole
- Incongruous
- Infamy
- Initiation
- Innate
- Intellectual
- Interactive
- Irony
- Jargon
- Juxtaposition
- Malapropism
- Magnanimous
- Mentor
- Metaphor
- Meticulous
- Mnemonic
- Monologue
- Motif
- Myriad
- Nemesis
- Nominal
- Norms
- Obfuscate
- Obtuse
- Onomatopoeia
- Ostentatious
- Oxymoron
- Paradox
- Paraphrase
- Pedantic
- Pedagogy
- Perusal
- Phonemes
- Phonological
- Plagiarism
- Plethora
- Posthumously
- Preposition
- Pretentious
- Pseudonym
- References
- Reflection
- Rubric
- Sardonic
- Satire
- Simile
- Soliloquy
- Superfluous
- Syntax
- Thesis
- Validity
- Vernacular
- Virtual
- Vocational