Comments on: 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:57:04 +0000

nope. that is what a dictonary is for.

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:55:57 +0000

i asked my english teacher to tell me the difference and he said he struggles witht the difference between the two as well. so much for knowing the difference, eh?

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:53:16 +0000

umm hemoglobin is spelt right. i am a nurse and its written “hemoglobin”. just so you know.

By: areyoukidding?

areyoukidding? — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:43:59 +0000

And the last time I checked “you” is spelled “y-o-u” not “u.” Hopefully, you will believe me without looking it up.

By: s1GM4

s1GM4 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:55:54 +0000

i knew 74 of those and i’m in my second semester of freshman year. is that bad?

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By: John Smith

John Smith — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:34:12 +0000

You shouldn’t know all of these words many of them are useless to you unless you come across them when reading. Your vocabulary will not make or break you success, although having a good vocabulary may help :_

By: you should know this is....

you should know this is.... — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:09:17 +0000

so subjective and irrelevant. lemme guess; the poster knows all these words. i get by everyday life without using bowdlerize or yeoman, thank you… the writer of this list can bowdlerize a rock up his own yeoman, if you know what i mean… that insult holds more value and meaning than most of these random words do today. and its not because “america’s being dumbed down” like some people have said. language evolves, so naturally the words that make you sound like an uptight, elitist douchebag get phased out over time by commonly used words.
this is a good list of words to select from if you’re looking to stroke your ego and alienate the majority of people around you… it will make most people want to leave an ‘abstemious’ pile on your front step

By: Rowan Watson

Rowan Watson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:00:20 +0000

I’m a high school dropout, and I only had to look up one word, moiety, and that was only because I had a moment of self-doubt. Turns out, I was right.

So, tell me again, that NOBODY knows these words.

By: nate

nate — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:17:20 +0000

Agree with Godspeed You!. Maybe in a perfect world for English teachers these would be words every HS student should learn; but the reality is students will never come across the majority of words on this arbitrary list. Thanks, but I’ll continue to use “unsophisticated” words like upbeat instead of sanguine.

More important for students to learn how to construct sentences than learn obscure vocab. Do you see some of these office emails/whatever that get sent out? Vocab won’t help crappy structure.