100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

[pne]

From aquariumgirl's journal:

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

Haven't had time to cast more than a cursory glance at the list, but I know I certainly don't know all of them. Will have to take a closer look when I have more tuits.

Comments

[kake]

And every twentysomething who claims to be an indie-kid should know at least one song for each word, where said word appears in the lyric...

(j4 is the most likely to be able to meet this challenge, I think, though I don't know whether she'd self-identify as indie-sorrel.)

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

*Ali gets as far as enervate and starts giggling*

I suspect I know around two thirds of those words, a more interesting statistic being how many of them I would naturally use.

Also, is it just me or are quite a high proportion of them scientific terminology?

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Hrm - I recognised 68 - could probably define 50+ of them.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

It is interesting that so many of them are scientific. I think I know all of them, if not to define, at leas thtat they won't give me pause in a sentence. But who needs to know what a ziggurat is, at least once you're past 6th grade world history?

[timwi.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I know maybe at most 10 of those words. :-D

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

I recognize 85, could probably come up with an actual definition of 75-ish, and have used at least 60 in sentences. =) But I like strange words, and it helps that I know most of the scientific terms. I think I'm going to print this list out and try to learn all the words!