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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Auspicious
Ziggurat
hegemony
gamete
2. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Abjure
Oligarchy
Thermodynamics
epiphany
3. (adj) shedding leaves annually
enervate
equinox
deciduous
Plasma
4. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Omnipotent
Auspicious
enervate
Tectonic
5. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
inculcate
Paradigm
Auspicious
homogeneous
6. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Nomenclature
Subjugate
Quotidian
Sanguine
7. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Plagiarize
gerrymander
Photosynthesis
8. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
circumlocution
hubris
Chicanery
9. Excessive pride or self confidence
Polymer
Precipitous
Acumen
hubris
10. A half
Nomenclature
Moiety
feckless
churlish
11. Worked to shape by beating
hegemony
Obsequious
incognito
Wrought
12. Violent commotion
Polymer
epiphany
Tempestuous
Photosynthesis
13. Complacently or inanely foolish
Supercilious
Precipitous
fiduciary
fatuous
14. Having ones identity concealed
Abrogate
incognito
Oxidize
Tempestuous
15. Showing strong feeling
laissez-faire
Vaccuous
Vehement
evanescent
16. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Yeoman
irony
Respiration
Notarize
17. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
evanescent
epiphany
kinetic
fiduciary
18. A compound of high molecular weight
Abrogate
Polymer
interpolate
enfranchise
19. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
chromosone
Parameter
infrastructure
facetious
20. Technigue of classification
Vehement
Taxonomy
incognito
gamete
21. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
euro
gerrymander
inculcate
Abjure
22. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
enervate
Bowdlerize
churlish
Bellicose
23. (v) to set free or endow
fatuous
Quasar
deciduous
enfranchise
24. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Vaccuous
facetious
loquacious
25. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Abstemious
Subjugate
interpolate
Respiration
26. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Recapitulate
Usurp
Quotidian
27. Not open to question or dispute
Sanguine
Ziggurat
circumlocution
incontrovertible
28. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
expurgate
Pecuniary
Nomenclature
29. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
Orthography
laissez-faire
Taxonomy
30. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Sanguine
Abrogate
Auspicious
31. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Photosynthesis
gauche
inculcate
Acumen
32. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Photosynthesis
Metamorphosis
interpolate
chromosone
33. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Taxonomy
Nonsectarian
gerrymander
deleterious
34. Promising success
Nihilism
Auspicious
Ziggurat
impeach
35. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
chromosone
jejune
Nomenclature
Abstemious
36. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Yeoman
Recapitulate
Quotidian
Abjure
37. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
incognito
Omnipotent
Suffragist
kinetic
38. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Orthography
Abstemious
Taxonomy
Winnow
39. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
equinox
Yeoman
inculcate
Pecuniary
40. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Plagiarize
Supercilious
Parabola
hypotenuse
41. Before or exisiting before a war.
Soliloguy
Antebellum
Lugubrious
Precipitous
42. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
euro
enfranchise
Oligarchy
43. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
homogeneous
interpolate
Bowdlerize
Chicanery
44. Needless repetion of an idea
incontrovertible
jejune
Tautology
laissez-faire
45. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Nomenclature
Yeoman
expurgate
laissez-faire
46. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Bowdlerize
chromosone
Plagiarize
Yeoman
47. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
kowtow
Obsequious
Abjure
Supercilious
48. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
feckless
Precipitous
Bowdlerize
49. To show to be false
circumnaviagte
deciduous
Belie
Abjure
50. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
feckless
Belie
Tectonic
Soliloguy