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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
equinox
enervate
Obsequious
2. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
euro
inculcate
kowtow
Reparation
3. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Bowdlerize
irony
Yeoman
Acumen
4. 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
Ziggurat
hubris
churlish
Nanotechnology
5. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
Uncouous
Bowdlerize
Auspicious
6. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
lexicon
Nanotechnology
Plasma
7. (v) to set free or endow
epiphany
enfranchise
loquacious
incontrovertible
8. Careless or irresponsible
Subjugate
Vaccuous
Paradigm
feckless
9. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
incognito
Nonsectarian
facetious
chromosone
10. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
hypotenuse
Chicanery
Respiration
Belie
11. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
evanescent
gamete
laissez-faire
Obsequious
12. Promising success
Polymer
Wrought
Auspicious
Lugubrious
13. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Tautology
Quotidian
gauche
gamete
14. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
equinox
Abstemious
Nihilism
Oligarchy
15. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Vehement
Bowdlerize
gauche
Tectonic
16. Excessive pride or self confidence
Quotidian
filibuster
hubris
Omnipotent
17. Of the same kind
enfranchise
jejune
homogeneous
Photosynthesis
18. A language user's knowledge of words
interpolate
Totalitarian
deleterious
lexicon
19. Vanishing
diffident
laissez-faire
Polymer
evanescent
20. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Omnipotent
Supercilious
inculcate
Paradigm
21. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Abstemious
Suffragist
laissez-faire
Tectonic
22. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Nonsectarian
Parameter
Reparation
kowtow
23. Whirling mass of movment
Respiration
Abjure
Vortex
chromosone
24. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
homogeneous
Sanguine
Orthography
interpolate
25. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Parameter
Ziggurat
Lugubrious
irony
26. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
deciduous
homogeneous
hubris
epiphany
27. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
gauche
irony
Oxidize
Acumen
28. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Vehement
feckless
Thermodynamics
gauche
29. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
chromosone
Quasar
Notarize
Plasma
30. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
chromosone
Usurp
gamete
infrastructure
31. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Lugubrious
churlish
Ziggurat
32. To take and use ideas from another's work
Notarize
Plagiarize
infrastructure
Vehement
33. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Polymer
Auspicious
hypotenuse
Acumen
34. Complacently or inanely foolish
Uncouous
loquacious
fatuous
lexicon
35. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Quotidian
Respiration
circumlocution
Abrogate
36. A half
Quotidian
Taxonomy
Moiety
gerrymander
37. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
expurgate
Supercilious
Photosynthesis
Polymer
38. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Soliloguy
hemoglobin
Nonsectarian
Recapitulate
39. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
laissez-faire
Oxidize
Parabola
40. Having ones identity concealed
Bellicose
hypotenuse
incognito
Moiety
41. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Nonsectarian
Omnipotent
Precipitous
filibuster
42. Before or exisiting before a war.
Polymer
inculcate
impeach
Antebellum
43. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
impeach
Respiration
Oxidize
expurgate
44. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Vehement
jejune
Reparation
45. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
jejune
Sanguine
Plagiarize
46. A compound of high molecular weight
hegemony
Polymer
enervate
Sanguine
47. Lacking interest or significance
expurgate
Abjure
jejune
churlish
48. Showing a lack of intelligence
Obsequious
expurgate
Vaccuous
Oxidize
49. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
feckless
expurgate
Oxidize
fiduciary
50. To show to be false
Soliloguy
Totalitarian
Tempestuous
Belie