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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. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Bowdlerize
Pecuniary
Subjugate
2. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
gauche
Mitosis
Recapitulate
3. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
fiduciary
Tectonic
enfranchise
Chicanery
4. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
irony
Lugubrious
Usurp
hypotenuse
5. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
feckless
Abstemious
kowtow
6. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
fiduciary
Yeoman
Belie
laissez-faire
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Bellicose
Reparation
laissez-faire
interpolate
8. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Reparation
infrastructure
equinox
Omnipotent
9. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Nonsectarian
Respiration
Omnipotent
10. (adj) shedding leaves annually
incognito
deciduous
Taxonomy
inculcate
11. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Acumen
jejune
Quotidian
12. Humorous - not meant seriously
hubris
Ziggurat
facetious
Vortex
13. 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
Reparation
irony
Quasar
14. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Nomenclature
kowtow
hubris
Abrogate
15. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Belie
interpolate
enfranchise
Parameter
16. A compound of high molecular weight
inculcate
Plagiarize
Polymer
jejune
17. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
enfranchise
equinox
Totalitarian
circumlocution
18. Not open to question or dispute
enfranchise
Nomenclature
interpolate
incontrovertible
19. Of or pertaining to money
Nonsectarian
circumnaviagte
Pecuniary
Parabola
20. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Xenophobe
Quasar
Quotidian
21. Technigue of classification
Parameter
Taxonomy
Sanguine
deciduous
22. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
interpolate
Photosynthesis
gamete
fatuous
23. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
laissez-faire
expurgate
Tectonic
24. Showing strong feeling
Wrought
Taxonomy
Vehement
Thermodynamics
25. (adj) harmful [to health]
Winnow
Paradigm
deleterious
fiduciary
26. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
homogeneous
impeach
evanescent
27. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
deciduous
gerrymander
jejune
28. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Oligarchy
evanescent
Uncouous
29. Vanishing
Nomenclature
Yeoman
Taxonomy
evanescent
30. Promising success
Auspicious
kinetic
Photosynthesis
Lugubrious
31. Worked to shape by beating
Abrogate
Wrought
Acumen
Yeoman
32. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
fiduciary
Abjure
Recapitulate
hegemony
33. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
feckless
euro
Wrought
34. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
Plagiarize
Precipitous
Usurp
35. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Mitosis
Vortex
deciduous
epiphany
36. To take and use ideas from another's work
Parabola
epiphany
facetious
Plagiarize
37. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Plasma
incontrovertible
Paradigm
Supercilious
38. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Subjugate
Respiration
Abstemious
fiduciary
39. To bring under complete control
kinetic
Subjugate
Totalitarian
fatuous
40. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Paradigm
Abstemious
Parameter
interpolate
41. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Thermodynamics
Suffragist
Parabola
Bowdlerize
42. Showing a lack of intelligence
Obsequious
Vaccuous
lexicon
hemoglobin
43. Excessively flattering
circumnaviagte
Uncouous
circumlocution
Tectonic
44. The act of talking while or as if alone
expurgate
kinetic
Soliloguy
Polymer
45. To show to be false
euro
churlish
Belie
circumnaviagte
46. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
Respiration
Subjugate
Tautology
47. 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
impeach
Xenophobe
Taxonomy
Mitosis
48. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Tempestuous
Yeoman
Nonsectarian
Quasar
49. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Vortex
jejune
chromosone
deleterious
50. Leadership
Nanotechnology
Winnow
hegemony
Supercilious