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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Acumen
kinetic
Soliloguy
gauche
2. Of or pertaining to money
Tempestuous
Abstemious
fatuous
Pecuniary
3. To bring under complete control
hypotenuse
jejune
Subjugate
loquacious
4. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
enervate
Nomenclature
incognito
lexicon
5. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
Abrogate
incontrovertible
Soliloguy
6. Careless or irresponsible
gauche
euro
Metamorphosis
feckless
7. Full of trivial conversation
Recapitulate
loquacious
Parameter
Quotidian
8. Showing strong feeling
Auspicious
Vehement
Abrogate
Nanotechnology
9. Promising success
Auspicious
Belie
expurgate
Parameter
10. A half
facetious
Abstemious
Moiety
Obsequious
11. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Recapitulate
Vaccuous
Abstemious
Precipitous
12. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
evanescent
Antebellum
Acumen
Quotidian
13. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
gauche
Xenophobe
Parabola
14. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
gerrymander
irony
filibuster
Vortex
15. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Tautology
gerrymander
interpolate
Lugubrious
16. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
feckless
chromosone
hypotenuse
Tempestuous
17. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
enervate
Wrought
evanescent
interpolate
18. Violent commotion
expurgate
Plasma
Tempestuous
Oxidize
19. To take and use ideas from another's work
loquacious
kinetic
fiduciary
Plagiarize
20. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
Parameter
Belie
Metamorphosis
21. Complacently or inanely foolish
Paradigm
Vehement
jejune
fatuous
22. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
infrastructure
enfranchise
epiphany
incognito
23. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Bellicose
Mitosis
Parabola
24. Inclined or eager to fight.
Auspicious
Nihilism
Bellicose
incontrovertible
25. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Xenophobe
Vortex
infrastructure
gauche
26. Not open to question or dispute
Pecuniary
incontrovertible
impeach
Precipitous
27. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Sanguine
Plasma
Suffragist
Omnipotent
28. Lacking interest or significance
Taxonomy
Totalitarian
lexicon
jejune
29. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Thermodynamics
kinetic
equinox
Obsequious
30. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Abstemious
Uncouous
diffident
31. 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
Pecuniary
Respiration
gauche
32. (adj) shedding leaves annually
expurgate
interpolate
deciduous
Parabola
33. To seperate
hemoglobin
Winnow
Reparation
enfranchise
34. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
gamete
Reparation
infrastructure
filibuster
35. (v) to fly or sail around
expurgate
fiduciary
Yeoman
circumnaviagte
36. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
fatuous
loquacious
enfranchise
Reparation
37. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Quasar
Winnow
Abrogate
Thermodynamics
38. Having ones identity concealed
diffident
circumnaviagte
Bowdlerize
incognito
39. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Vortex
enfranchise
expurgate
40. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
hubris
Usurp
hemoglobin
kinetic
41. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Tectonic
gerrymander
enervate
lexicon
42. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Obsequious
Parameter
churlish
Parabola
43. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Xenophobe
Nonsectarian
Ziggurat
fiduciary
44. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
laissez-faire
Acumen
churlish
hemoglobin
45. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
hypotenuse
Abjure
Oxidize
46. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Taxonomy
Orthography
Totalitarian
inculcate
47. The official currency of the European Union
Photosynthesis
fatuous
euro
Yeoman
48. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
diffident
Sanguine
Acumen
gamete
49. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Nonsectarian
fiduciary
Uncouous
50. Whirling mass of movment
Totalitarian
Vortex
Moiety
diffident