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100 Words Everyone Should Know, According to American Heritage

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this list appeared in many American newspapers in the fall of 2002.
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  ·