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Writing for Business and Pleasure |
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Dictionary have compiled a vocabulary list titled “100 words that all high
school graduates – and their parents – should know.” From that list I have selected 60 words I think every on-the-job writer should know. Though unscientifically compiled, my selections reflect my experience in reading thousands of pages of work-related writing each year. How many of the following words do you know? Look for some of them in my “Word of the Week” exercise in the months ahead. |
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acumen auspicious belie bowdlerize chicanery deleterious diffident expurgate facetious fatuous feckless |
interpolate |
precipitous quotidian recapitulate reciprocal reparation sanguine subjugate supercilious tautology tempestuous thermodynamics totalitarian unctuous usurp vacuous vehement vortex winnow xenophobe yeoman |
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