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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. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Totalitarian
impeach
jejune
Orthography
2. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Obsequious
Supercilious
laissez-faire
Nihilism
3. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Nomenclature
Quasar
hemoglobin
irony
4. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
hegemony
incognito
Photosynthesis
5. 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
Obsequious
Nanotechnology
Xenophobe
irony
6. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Respiration
euro
Supercilious
Nomenclature
7. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Respiration
Ziggurat
deciduous
8. Careless or irresponsible
interpolate
Xenophobe
feckless
Quasar
9. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
equinox
Metamorphosis
Quasar
10. To abolish by formal orr official means.
enervate
Subjugate
chromosone
Abrogate
11. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Yeoman
impeach
expurgate
equinox
12. Supplying motive force
laissez-faire
Quotidian
kinetic
gauche
13. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
inculcate
Wrought
Ziggurat
Reparation
14. Showing strong feeling
Parabola
Notarize
Vehement
Sanguine
15. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Nihilism
Tectonic
homogeneous
Paradigm
16. (adj) rude - boorish
Totalitarian
churlish
euro
Oxidize
17. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Abrogate
Nonsectarian
Parameter
Precipitous
18. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Polymer
Soliloguy
interpolate
irony
19. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Nomenclature
fatuous
Reparation
20. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Sanguine
Totalitarian
Taxonomy
21. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Suffragist
Polymer
hemoglobin
22. Inclined or eager to fight.
Oxidize
homogeneous
Bellicose
hegemony
23. The official currency of the European Union
homogeneous
deleterious
Parameter
euro
24. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Abstemious
Chicanery
interpolate
Photosynthesis
25. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Winnow
deleterious
gauche
Usurp
26. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Nonsectarian
evanescent
inculcate
27. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
hypotenuse
Paradigm
Nanotechnology
Yeoman
28. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Bowdlerize
Photosynthesis
Tempestuous
Uncouous
29. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
fiduciary
Tectonic
Abstemious
Sanguine
30. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
expurgate
Totalitarian
kowtow
hypotenuse
31. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Metamorphosis
evanescent
fatuous
Parameter
32. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
deleterious
Usurp
epiphany
evanescent
33. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Nihilism
churlish
Nanotechnology
34. A compound of high molecular weight
Nihilism
Polymer
homogeneous
Vehement
35. Of the same kind
feckless
homogeneous
fatuous
Plagiarize
36. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
enervate
gamete
Recapitulate
Lugubrious
37. To seperate
Usurp
Winnow
chromosone
deciduous
38. Technigue of classification
Vehement
circumnaviagte
Suffragist
Taxonomy
39. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
gamete
chromosone
Obsequious
Antebellum
40. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Plasma
deciduous
fatuous
Tautology
41. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
hemoglobin
filibuster
enervate
Nihilism
42. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
fiduciary
Reparation
inculcate
chromosone
43. Not open to question or dispute
chromosone
incontrovertible
enervate
Oligarchy
44. A half
Parabola
Moiety
enfranchise
Supercilious
45. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
churlish
Polymer
Taxonomy
kowtow
46. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Notarize
churlish
jejune
47. Violent commotion
Suffragist
Lugubrious
Tempestuous
Totalitarian
48. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
interpolate
Respiration
Suffragist
facetious
49. Having ones identity concealed
Metamorphosis
incognito
enervate
lexicon
50. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Oxidize
Precipitous
Abrogate
Thermodynamics