100 words to know, but only 57 you will ever use (Wizbang)

Houghton Mifflin has published a list of words every high school senior should know. I've used words like feckless and diffident in conversation(usually with myself or on my blog LOL), and I knew a few yeoman over the years, but when is the last time any of us employed the word ziggurat?

Education Blogger Joanne Jacobs says she hasn't used that word or gamete of late. Maybe we lack the acumen or I'm too busy being churlish. The full list is below the fold.

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

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Comments (12)

They forgot arrogant,condec... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Glenn | April 12, 2008 12:52 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)

Glenn:

They forgot arrogant,condecending and most important pretentious.

Posted on April 12, 2008 12:52

I am lapidary but not erist... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by proof | April 12, 2008 1:29 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)

proof:

I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words. -W. F. Buckley, Jr.

Posted on April 12, 2008 13:29

Oh, and they forgot my favo... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by proof | April 12, 2008 1:30 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Oh, and they forgot my favorite: sesquipedalian!

Posted on April 12, 2008 13:30

Pellucid... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by Glenn | April 12, 2008 1:51 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Pellucid

Posted on April 12, 2008 13:51

I used to use "vacuous" a l... (Below threshold)

5. Posted by SPQR | April 12, 2008 3:47 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

SPQR:

I used to use "vacuous" a lot, but after you banned that commentator, I did not need it as much ...

Posted on April 12, 2008 15:47

I've used ziggurat to descr... (Below threshold)

6. Posted by Mikey NTH | April 12, 2008 5:18 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Mikey NTH:

I've used ziggurat to describe a skyscraper (an older one). Does that count?

Posted on April 12, 2008 17:18

but when is the last tim... (Below threshold)

7. Posted by James Cloninger | April 12, 2008 6:40 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)

James Cloninger:

but when is the last time any of us employed the word ziggurat?

When I do my Arnold Rimmer immitation, up up the ziggarat, lickety-split!

Posted on April 12, 2008 18:40

Curmudgeons don't need to u... (Below threshold)

8. Posted by epador | April 12, 2008 7:16 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

epador:

Curmudgeons don't need to use big words.

Posted on April 12, 2008 19:16

Corpulent is one of ... (Below threshold)

9. Posted by Oyster | April 12, 2008 8:37 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Oyster:

Corpulent is one of my favorites.

Posted on April 12, 2008 20:37

I forgot mitosis, I never k... (Below threshold)

10. Posted by bryanD | April 13, 2008 12:58 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)

bryanD:

I forgot mitosis, I never knew moiety, and I have a ziggurat in my pants.

Speaking of: where's embiggen?

Posted on April 13, 2008 00:58

I quit zmoking ziggurats 10... (Below threshold)

11. Posted by ptg | April 13, 2008 9:28 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

ptg:

I quit zmoking ziggurats 10 years ago. Dey vas make me zick.

Posted on April 13, 2008 09:28

This strikes me as a list o... (Below threshold)

12. Posted by BlogDog | April 13, 2008 10:37 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

BlogDog:

This strikes me as a list of perfectly cromulent words.

Posted on April 13, 2008 10:37

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