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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
gamete
evanescent
equinox
2. Leadership
Parabola
Bowdlerize
hegemony
Taxonomy
3. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
kowtow
Xenophobe
Winnow
Mitosis
4. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Omnipotent
Nomenclature
Abrogate
5. To seperate
Winnow
hemoglobin
Totalitarian
enervate
6. Needless repetion of an idea
Respiration
incognito
Quotidian
Tautology
7. To take and use ideas from another's work
Xenophobe
Abstemious
incognito
Plagiarize
8. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Nanotechnology
Moiety
Oligarchy
9. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Nanotechnology
gamete
Photosynthesis
Tempestuous
10. Lacking interest or significance
laissez-faire
Parabola
jejune
deciduous
11. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Usurp
Quasar
deleterious
12. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Abrogate
Ziggurat
homogeneous
Notarize
13. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Abjure
Tautology
Nihilism
Metamorphosis
14. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
infrastructure
Notarize
epiphany
15. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
epiphany
kowtow
Sanguine
circumlocution
16. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Nihilism
Precipitous
Nonsectarian
Suffragist
17. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
diffident
facetious
Thermodynamics
hegemony
18. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Oxidize
Obsequious
euro
19. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Belie
Oxidize
kowtow
Moiety
20. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Usurp
Orthography
Abrogate
incognito
21. Showing a lack of intelligence
irony
circumlocution
Plasma
Vaccuous
22. A language user's knowledge of words
Nomenclature
Recapitulate
Orthography
lexicon
23. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Ziggurat
Nomenclature
jejune
24. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
hegemony
Quasar
Acumen
circumnaviagte
25. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Taxonomy
Abjure
chromosone
Reparation
26. Full of trivial conversation
Vaccuous
Vortex
loquacious
Notarize
27. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
hemoglobin
Abrogate
Oligarchy
28. A half
gamete
Moiety
Mitosis
infrastructure
29. Promising success
Auspicious
Wrought
deleterious
lexicon
30. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Omnipotent
irony
Parabola
31. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
equinox
Pecuniary
facetious
32. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
churlish
Bowdlerize
Supercilious
infrastructure
33. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Parameter
feckless
filibuster
diffident
34. Having ones identity concealed
Quotidian
filibuster
Obsequious
incognito
35. A technology executed on the scale of less than 100 nanometers - the goal of which is to control individual atoms and molecules - especially to create computer chips and other microscopic devices
Paradigm
Nanotechnology
circumnaviagte
Parabola
36. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
fatuous
interpolate
filibuster
Plagiarize
37. Violent commotion
Uncouous
Tempestuous
Pecuniary
Obsequious
38. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Vortex
Yeoman
Paradigm
39. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Abrogate
hegemony
kinetic
40. Not open to question or dispute
Wrought
Tectonic
expurgate
incontrovertible
41. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
circumnaviagte
hegemony
Acumen
Chicanery
42. (adj) rude - boorish
Reparation
Auspicious
churlish
laissez-faire
43. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Antebellum
fatuous
Subjugate
44. Careless or irresponsible
Taxonomy
Ziggurat
hypotenuse
feckless
45. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Totalitarian
Supercilious
deciduous
46. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
Plagiarize
Notarize
incognito
47. Whirling mass of movment
Thermodynamics
Bellicose
Vortex
Abjure
48. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
incognito
Bellicose
circumnaviagte
49. The act of talking while or as if alone
Subjugate
Auspicious
circumlocution
Soliloguy
50. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
hubris
infrastructure
Soliloguy
Subjugate