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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Thermodynamics
homogeneous
Abstemious
Abrogate
2. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Bellicose
loquacious
Acumen
3. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Nanotechnology
deleterious
hegemony
4. A language user's knowledge of words
fiduciary
lexicon
infrastructure
circumlocution
5. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
evanescent
Moiety
hegemony
Thermodynamics
6. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
hubris
Wrought
Totalitarian
Parameter
7. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
Paradigm
Abjure
Oligarchy
8. Promising success
interpolate
Thermodynamics
hubris
Auspicious
9. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Quotidian
chromosone
Photosynthesis
10. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Bellicose
homogeneous
Vehement
Acumen
11. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Oxidize
lexicon
Sanguine
infrastructure
12. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Polymer
Precipitous
Tautology
hemoglobin
13. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Parameter
Plasma
loquacious
kinetic
14. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
incontrovertible
deleterious
infrastructure
diffident
15. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Oligarchy
Oxidize
deciduous
expurgate
16. Careless or irresponsible
Usurp
feckless
Paradigm
Precipitous
17. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Tectonic
gauche
Plagiarize
Photosynthesis
18. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
circumlocution
Usurp
hemoglobin
Sanguine
19. To bring under complete control
Yeoman
Subjugate
enfranchise
Sanguine
20. Showing a lack of intelligence
Wrought
Vaccuous
Paradigm
Respiration
21. A half
Abstemious
Totalitarian
Moiety
irony
22. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Plasma
Subjugate
Nonsectarian
23. (v) to set free or endow
Nomenclature
infrastructure
Abrogate
enfranchise
24. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Pecuniary
Bowdlerize
Lugubrious
Orthography
25. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Nanotechnology
chromosone
Totalitarian
Sanguine
26. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Photosynthesis
Polymer
Recapitulate
enfranchise
27. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Parameter
feckless
Precipitous
diffident
28. Excessively flattering
Precipitous
Subjugate
Uncouous
hubris
29. Needless repetion of an idea
equinox
hypotenuse
Tautology
Nihilism
30. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
jejune
Acumen
lexicon
31. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
feckless
chromosone
Abjure
hubris
32. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
Nonsectarian
Taxonomy
Antebellum
33. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
churlish
Quasar
Notarize
Vehement
34. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Oxidize
hemoglobin
circumlocution
35. A compound of high molecular weight
Obsequious
Polymer
Precipitous
Recapitulate
36. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Xenophobe
hypotenuse
Orthography
Oligarchy
37. (v) to fly or sail around
Taxonomy
circumnaviagte
homogeneous
loquacious
38. To take and use ideas from another's work
Vortex
Sanguine
Bowdlerize
Plagiarize
39. The time when day and night are of equal length
Taxonomy
feckless
Mitosis
equinox
40. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Vortex
Paradigm
Reparation
fiduciary
41. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
fiduciary
gauche
Parabola
42. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
gerrymander
infrastructure
Yeoman
Orthography
43. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Oligarchy
Moiety
Abjure
Suffragist
44. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Nonsectarian
Bellicose
incognito
45. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
diffident
Obsequious
Taxonomy
Abrogate
46. Before or exisiting before a war.
inculcate
Obsequious
Antebellum
incontrovertible
47. Not open to question or dispute
churlish
Xenophobe
equinox
incontrovertible
48. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Subjugate
Metamorphosis
deleterious
Vaccuous
49. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Abrogate
Antebellum
Paradigm
Tectonic
50. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
lexicon
Abstemious
kowtow
Supercilious