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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
laissez-faire
Taxonomy
Plagiarize
2. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
irony
Metamorphosis
enfranchise
jejune
3. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
inculcate
circumlocution
fiduciary
Wrought
4. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Photosynthesis
gamete
Nomenclature
Xenophobe
5. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Totalitarian
Belie
Yeoman
Parameter
6. (v) to set free or endow
Pecuniary
enfranchise
Obsequious
euro
7. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
chromosone
homogeneous
Quasar
8. A language user's knowledge of words
Mitosis
lexicon
Parameter
interpolate
9. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Sanguine
Subjugate
irony
Taxonomy
10. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
fiduciary
Oxidize
Recapitulate
Moiety
11. Needless repetion of an idea
infrastructure
Tautology
Wrought
homogeneous
12. Inclined or eager to fight.
fiduciary
hegemony
Bellicose
Winnow
13. Promising success
Auspicious
enervate
feckless
Tautology
14. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Notarize
Mitosis
equinox
Nomenclature
15. Of or pertaining to money
Wrought
jejune
irony
Pecuniary
16. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Suffragist
gerrymander
Recapitulate
chromosone
17. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
hemoglobin
Bellicose
Mitosis
18. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Tempestuous
Belie
Quotidian
19. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
irony
Suffragist
Uncouous
20. Technigue of classification
Notarize
Taxonomy
circumnaviagte
Oligarchy
21. (adj) rude - boorish
Chicanery
Oxidize
Supercilious
churlish
22. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Tectonic
facetious
Uncouous
impeach
23. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Sanguine
Oligarchy
Nonsectarian
Paradigm
24. (adj) harmful [to health]
Vaccuous
Parameter
gerrymander
deleterious
25. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Abjure
Tectonic
interpolate
Vehement
26. The official currency of the European Union
Tautology
Oligarchy
euro
Nihilism
27. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Winnow
Antebellum
Vortex
Obsequious
28. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Ziggurat
circumlocution
Antebellum
29. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Bellicose
chromosone
Omnipotent
Sanguine
30. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Respiration
Wrought
Nanotechnology
expurgate
31. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
incontrovertible
circumnaviagte
Uncouous
32. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Notarize
Bowdlerize
Totalitarian
33. To bring under complete control
filibuster
Notarize
Moiety
Subjugate
34. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Abjure
diffident
Abstemious
Quotidian
35. Showing strong feeling
Tautology
Recapitulate
Vehement
Soliloguy
36. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Abstemious
Recapitulate
laissez-faire
37. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
fiduciary
Respiration
Bellicose
Abjure
38. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
diffident
Ziggurat
Parameter
filibuster
39. Leadership
euro
hegemony
Yeoman
Totalitarian
40. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Paradigm
Oxidize
Winnow
Polymer
41. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
jejune
impeach
Auspicious
Nihilism
42. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Yeoman
fatuous
Oligarchy
filibuster
43. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Parabola
jejune
hypotenuse
inculcate
44. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Photosynthesis
Vortex
deleterious
45. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Parabola
Notarize
Tectonic
46. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Notarize
Quasar
Supercilious
irony
47. A half
impeach
Moiety
jejune
Yeoman
48. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Ziggurat
deciduous
Recapitulate
Plasma
49. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
homogeneous
diffident
Xenophobe
circumlocution
50. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Vehement
Usurp
Suffragist
Nonsectarian