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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
Polymer
Suffragist
fiduciary
2. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
diffident
Nomenclature
expurgate
3. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Vaccuous
Precipitous
diffident
4. To show to be false
Suffragist
hemoglobin
Belie
Reparation
5. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
hemoglobin
Uncouous
Recapitulate
fiduciary
6. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
impeach
Quotidian
Bellicose
epiphany
7. The act of talking while or as if alone
Notarize
Soliloguy
Vaccuous
Pecuniary
8. To seperate
Oxidize
Winnow
Thermodynamics
enervate
9. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Obsequious
Taxonomy
Omnipotent
Yeoman
10. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
epiphany
equinox
Antebellum
11. The time when day and night are of equal length
interpolate
Suffragist
equinox
Nanotechnology
12. Supplying motive force
hubris
Soliloguy
kinetic
lexicon
13. (v) to deprive of force or strength
jejune
enervate
Metamorphosis
Polymer
14. The official currency of the European Union
gauche
Omnipotent
euro
incontrovertible
15. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Obsequious
Usurp
Supercilious
Uncouous
16. Excessive pride or self confidence
enfranchise
Oligarchy
facetious
hubris
17. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Tautology
Oxidize
Belie
Subjugate
18. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Oxidize
Wrought
Obsequious
19. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Bellicose
Metamorphosis
Supercilious
20. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Polymer
evanescent
Tectonic
diffident
21. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
enervate
Mitosis
Reparation
irony
22. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Xenophobe
laissez-faire
irony
Bowdlerize
23. The usual method of cell division - characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form - which condenses into chromosomes - each of which separates longitudinally into two parts - one part of each chromoso
Suffragist
incognito
Acumen
Mitosis
24. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
circumlocution
Metamorphosis
Paradigm
loquacious
25. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Omnipotent
hypotenuse
equinox
Mitosis
26. Vanishing
Omnipotent
evanescent
Abrogate
Vaccuous
27. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
fatuous
hypotenuse
euro
28. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Metamorphosis
Lugubrious
Bellicose
Vortex
29. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
euro
interpolate
homogeneous
30. Of or pertaining to money
deciduous
Pecuniary
Paradigm
Belie
31. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Reparation
Supercilious
Plasma
deciduous
32. Not open to question or dispute
Nomenclature
Lugubrious
incontrovertible
incognito
33. (adj) harmful [to health]
churlish
euro
diffident
deleterious
34. Whirling mass of movment
fatuous
Lugubrious
Vortex
circumlocution
35. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Polymer
loquacious
Respiration
circumnaviagte
36. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hypotenuse
deciduous
Bellicose
Chicanery
37. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Wrought
Nanotechnology
diffident
38. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Tautology
Abstemious
Precipitous
equinox
39. Having ones identity concealed
Omnipotent
Photosynthesis
Plasma
incognito
40. Worked to shape by beating
Tempestuous
Respiration
Vehement
Wrought
41. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Notarize
Orthography
Parabola
Reparation
42. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
fatuous
Auspicious
diffident
43. A half
Moiety
Yeoman
Acumen
Nanotechnology
44. Violent commotion
Parabola
Tempestuous
interpolate
Bowdlerize
45. 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
Abstemious
circumlocution
irony
46. Careless or irresponsible
Belie
feckless
fiduciary
chromosone
47. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
irony
Plasma
diffident
48. Of the same kind
Bellicose
filibuster
kinetic
homogeneous
49. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
kinetic
Ziggurat
incontrovertible
equinox
50. A compound of high molecular weight
Nomenclature
Thermodynamics
Polymer
impeach