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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Plagiarize
Quotidian
Orthography
Respiration
2. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Notarize
Suffragist
Moiety
3. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Omnipotent
Recapitulate
Vortex
Metamorphosis
4. Full of trivial conversation
Subjugate
loquacious
Nanotechnology
kinetic
5. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Suffragist
kowtow
Bowdlerize
lexicon
6. To show to be false
equinox
circumnaviagte
Nihilism
Belie
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Vaccuous
incognito
laissez-faire
Nomenclature
8. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
filibuster
fiduciary
incognito
irony
9. Supplying motive force
Omnipotent
kinetic
Ziggurat
enervate
10. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Bowdlerize
deleterious
circumnaviagte
11. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
churlish
interpolate
hemoglobin
12. The official currency of the European Union
Quasar
euro
deleterious
Vortex
13. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Abrogate
gauche
impeach
Moiety
14. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Thermodynamics
feckless
Reparation
Nonsectarian
15. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
gerrymander
Omnipotent
Nonsectarian
enfranchise
16. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Thermodynamics
Vaccuous
irony
17. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
hegemony
Nomenclature
equinox
Xenophobe
18. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Bellicose
Paradigm
euro
19. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Abrogate
circumlocution
Plasma
filibuster
20. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Paradigm
Parabola
Chicanery
21. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Antebellum
enervate
Ziggurat
22. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Uncouous
irony
Vehement
Bellicose
23. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
gerrymander
Xenophobe
impeach
Orthography
24. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Antebellum
epiphany
expurgate
25. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Plasma
evanescent
Parameter
expurgate
26. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
deciduous
facetious
infrastructure
Bowdlerize
27. The time when day and night are of equal length
Abrogate
Bellicose
equinox
Oligarchy
28. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
expurgate
gerrymander
Abstemious
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Mitosis
Acumen
diffident
Belie
30. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
hypotenuse
Plagiarize
Uncouous
31. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
feckless
diffident
Nonsectarian
32. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Recapitulate
deleterious
Obsequious
33. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
filibuster
Precipitous
Usurp
laissez-faire
34. Worked to shape by beating
enervate
Plagiarize
Wrought
Oligarchy
35. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Acumen
Oligarchy
euro
36. Technigue of classification
jejune
homogeneous
Taxonomy
Quasar
37. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Vehement
Ziggurat
Totalitarian
kowtow
38. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
equinox
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
39. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
infrastructure
interpolate
Parameter
gauche
40. Excessively flattering
Plasma
Uncouous
Obsequious
Recapitulate
41. A half
Yeoman
Moiety
diffident
Suffragist
42. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
enfranchise
expurgate
churlish
43. Humorous - not meant seriously
euro
Orthography
Thermodynamics
facetious
44. Complacently or inanely foolish
Nanotechnology
Subjugate
Totalitarian
fatuous
45. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Tectonic
incontrovertible
euro
46. Leadership
Omnipotent
Precipitous
Plasma
hegemony
47. To seperate
Metamorphosis
Pecuniary
Winnow
Vortex
48. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Abrogate
Taxonomy
Quotidian
49. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
expurgate
deciduous
Reparation
Belie
50. The act of talking while or as if alone
Tempestuous
Quasar
Soliloguy
Notarize