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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Humorous - not meant seriously
circumnaviagte
Thermodynamics
gauche
facetious
2. Having ones identity concealed
Sanguine
gamete
incognito
Abstemious
3. Vanishing
Precipitous
Yeoman
Lugubrious
evanescent
4. A half
gerrymander
Plagiarize
Moiety
irony
5. Full of trivial conversation
Vaccuous
circumlocution
loquacious
Moiety
6. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
evanescent
Nonsectarian
impeach
Recapitulate
7. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
churlish
incontrovertible
Yeoman
Vaccuous
8. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
circumlocution
Nonsectarian
feckless
Bowdlerize
9. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
infrastructure
facetious
gauche
circumnaviagte
10. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
filibuster
Nanotechnology
Plasma
11. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Reparation
diffident
Vortex
deleterious
12. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Nihilism
Lugubrious
Metamorphosis
Winnow
13. Showing a lack of intelligence
fatuous
Vaccuous
Nomenclature
Bowdlerize
14. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
chromosone
Nihilism
Suffragist
expurgate
15. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Lugubrious
chromosone
Sanguine
Plagiarize
16. (adj) harmful [to health]
Yeoman
incontrovertible
inculcate
deleterious
17. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Nihilism
inculcate
filibuster
Abjure
18. Whirling mass of movment
Parabola
jejune
Vortex
deleterious
19. Worked to shape by beating
Polymer
Parameter
loquacious
Wrought
20. (v) to deprive of force or strength
hemoglobin
enervate
Obsequious
filibuster
21. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Chicanery
facetious
infrastructure
Quotidian
22. Before or exisiting before a war.
laissez-faire
Quasar
Vortex
Antebellum
23. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hegemony
deciduous
hypotenuse
Omnipotent
24. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
loquacious
expurgate
Recapitulate
Thermodynamics
25. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Uncouous
facetious
Recapitulate
Sanguine
26. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Tautology
Vortex
Sanguine
Abstemious
27. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Ziggurat
Vortex
Parameter
impeach
28. The time when day and night are of equal length
homogeneous
infrastructure
equinox
Uncouous
29. Promising success
interpolate
Sanguine
expurgate
Auspicious
30. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Supercilious
Usurp
homogeneous
31. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
gauche
Belie
hegemony
32. The usual method of cell division - characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form - which condenses into chromosomes - each of which separates longitudinally into two parts - one part of each chromoso
Mitosis
chromosone
Nanotechnology
Plagiarize
33. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
chromosone
epiphany
Abjure
Vortex
34. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
fatuous
Tempestuous
Ziggurat
Precipitous
35. Supplying motive force
kinetic
circumlocution
feckless
gauche
36. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Omnipotent
Tectonic
Usurp
laissez-faire
37. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Plagiarize
Photosynthesis
inculcate
38. Of the same kind
hubris
Acumen
Paradigm
homogeneous
39. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Oxidize
euro
filibuster
40. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Pecuniary
infrastructure
Omnipotent
deciduous
41. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Plasma
laissez-faire
Uncouous
42. The official currency of the European Union
incontrovertible
euro
Oxidize
inculcate
43. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Yeoman
Antebellum
filibuster
Respiration
44. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Precipitous
infrastructure
chromosone
Lugubrious
45. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
incontrovertible
interpolate
epiphany
irony
46. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Suffragist
Notarize
Mitosis
circumlocution
47. Leadership
Acumen
hypotenuse
hegemony
Vehement
48. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Metamorphosis
Sanguine
Oligarchy
infrastructure
49. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
deciduous
euro
Pecuniary
Oxidize
50. 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
Nanotechnology
Respiration
Supercilious
Polymer