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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. To bring under complete control
gerrymander
Soliloguy
Subjugate
Wrought
2. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Abstemious
feckless
Winnow
3. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Yeoman
Metamorphosis
fiduciary
4. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
equinox
filibuster
Sanguine
homogeneous
5. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Xenophobe
Quasar
Sanguine
gamete
6. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Moiety
Oxidize
Mitosis
euro
7. To show to be false
Soliloguy
circumlocution
Belie
facetious
8. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Nihilism
Xenophobe
Winnow
9. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Abjure
kowtow
Usurp
impeach
10. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Obsequious
Thermodynamics
Plasma
11. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
lexicon
Uncouous
Parameter
12. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
Suffragist
Reparation
incontrovertible
13. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
irony
euro
fiduciary
14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Photosynthesis
Parabola
infrastructure
15. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Pecuniary
loquacious
homogeneous
16. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Vaccuous
gauche
Wrought
Oligarchy
17. Lacking interest or significance
Belie
jejune
Yeoman
loquacious
18. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
fiduciary
Abrogate
Abstemious
Sanguine
19. To take and use ideas from another's work
Vehement
hemoglobin
Plagiarize
Bowdlerize
20. Whirling mass of movment
Quasar
Thermodynamics
Vortex
Tempestuous
21. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
homogeneous
Usurp
Polymer
22. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
evanescent
Chicanery
Tectonic
enervate
23. To seperate
Winnow
hypotenuse
Obsequious
Parameter
24. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Vaccuous
Omnipotent
Plagiarize
Nonsectarian
25. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
evanescent
Quotidian
Paradigm
Precipitous
26. (adj) rude - boorish
Respiration
Parameter
infrastructure
churlish
27. A half
Moiety
churlish
Oxidize
infrastructure
28. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
enervate
Wrought
hemoglobin
29. Showing strong feeling
Vaccuous
Vehement
Usurp
Recapitulate
30. (adj) harmful [to health]
Orthography
deleterious
Paradigm
Belie
31. Of or pertaining to money
Winnow
homogeneous
Polymer
Pecuniary
32. Promising success
hegemony
Bellicose
Nomenclature
Auspicious
33. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Lugubrious
deleterious
hegemony
Abrogate
34. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Soliloguy
Obsequious
inculcate
Vaccuous
35. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
evanescent
Totalitarian
Nonsectarian
interpolate
36. Violent commotion
Acumen
Tempestuous
loquacious
incontrovertible
37. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
filibuster
Metamorphosis
Paradigm
Supercilious
38. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Ziggurat
Xenophobe
Abstemious
deciduous
39. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Tectonic
Ziggurat
Plagiarize
40. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
circumlocution
Thermodynamics
loquacious
Totalitarian
41. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Subjugate
irony
Xenophobe
42. Of the same kind
chromosone
homogeneous
fiduciary
Precipitous
43. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Respiration
Sanguine
Xenophobe
44. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
infrastructure
Sanguine
hypotenuse
facetious
45. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
fatuous
facetious
Paradigm
Chicanery
46. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
incognito
chromosone
Lugubrious
deciduous
47. Worked to shape by beating
hubris
Wrought
Vehement
lexicon
48. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Omnipotent
kowtow
Paradigm
49. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
lexicon
Suffragist
irony
Reparation
50. A compound of high molecular weight
expurgate
Tectonic
Polymer
Thermodynamics