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100 Words For Every Graduate

Subjects : english, vocabulary
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To bring under complete control






2. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office






3. Supplying motive force






4. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches






5. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition






6. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen






7. To show to be false






8. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc






9. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force






10. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling






11. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy






12. (v) to set free or endow






13. To renouce - repudiate - or react.






14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color






15. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid






16. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy






17. Lacking interest or significance






18. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.






19. To take and use ideas from another's work






20. Whirling mass of movment






21. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary






22. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)






23. To seperate






24. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination






25. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies






26. (adj) rude - boorish






27. A half






28. The time when day and night are of equal length






29. Showing strong feeling






30. (adj) harmful [to health]






31. Of or pertaining to money






32. Promising success






33. To abolish by formal orr official means.






34. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning






35. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby






36. Violent commotion






37. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous






38. (adj) shedding leaves annually






39. Inclined or eager to fight.






40. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion






41. Needless repetion of an idea






42. Of the same kind






43. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary






44. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle






45. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model






46. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree






47. Worked to shape by beating






48. Before or exisiting before a war.






49. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage






50. A compound of high molecular weight