Words that every educated person should know...

recreant, levity, daft, fissile, stoicism, felicitous, ratiocination, inanely, voluble, anathema, patina, brinkmanship, panoply, comportment, propriety, irascible, ingenuous, whimsy, reticent, logorrhea, piety, nepotism, overt, dictum, ostensibly, exigent, pacifism, tautology, nostrum, polemical, hubris, demagoguery, hyperbole, malfeasance, culpable, subsumes, fawning, paternalism, egregious, politicking, adroit, obsequiousness, pernicious, salient, austerity, excoriate, acrimony, Luddite, polemic, panacea, volte-face, ignominious, vicissitudes, transmogrified, eleemosynary, convoke, harbinger, autodidact, salmagundi, furtiveness, iconoclastic, dialectical, onerous, lacunae, capriciously, inculcating, deus ex machina, rictus, diatribe, trifecta, epiphenomenon, vilification, attenuates, parochial, Delphic, nugatory, scintillating, coeval, rued, neocolonialism, conciliator, dynamism, reticence, brouhaha, archaic, centrifugal, rigmarole, miscegenation, despotic, idiosyncratic, consternation, pedantic, acquiesced, renascent, contumely, metonymic, prolific, caprice, adjudicate, mercurial, chattel, diminutive, edifying, captious, umbrage, autocratic, Malthusianism, pert, vituperative, pariah, temerity, conciliatory, abrogate, reprehensible, jaundiced, adiposity, cantankerous, pecuniary, juxtaposition, vacuous, ineradicable, prevaricated, exhorted, vociferously, agglomeration, nexus, proviso, abscond, propitious, volitional, specious, circuitous, fiat, reprobate, egalitarianism, ancillary, fetter, eschewing, evince, circumlocution, devolution, baroque, tacit, chaste, arbitrage, parvenu, demagogue, lionize, seditious, cringing, epistemology, perambulate, sumptuous, rhetoricians, deluge, impetus, manifold, sobriquet, irrefragable, vogue, concomitant, compunction, vilifying, unrequited, sanctimonious, rancor, wheedle, gestalt, repudiate, epic, pundits, analogue, scruple, eschew, ennui, fiat, asinine, statist, homily, imbroglio, volition, vociferous, xenophobic, hamlets, megalomaniac, imbibe, officious, epigone, amenable, frisson, phlegmatic, sycophancy, exuberant, metonymy, supposition, repudiation, immutable, proselytizing, acquisitive, sacrosanct, retrograde, Byzantine, peculation, denigration, anachronistic, apocryphal, bereft, pithy, debauchery, fecundity, avarice, calumny, redoubts, animist, abject, edacious, acrimonious, gala, recalcitrant, amiable, accolade, perquisite, colloquial, allay, modicum, perforce, efficacy, insipid, presumption, ballast, ergo, digerati, tenacious, taxonomy, anaemic, admonishing, Rubicon, assiduously, paucity, spurious, admonitions, sardonic, solidarity, endogenously, dilettante, germane, somniferous, commination, antipathy, plenary, arduous, centripetal, draconian, audacious

... just kidding. This is just a compilation of interesting words that I've been collecting for about a year now. As soon as I'm able to pick a random word on this list and give the definition, I'll stop going to school. This is the test.