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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
diffident
filibuster
Vehement
2. Showing strong feeling
Ziggurat
Abjure
Vehement
laissez-faire
3. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
Quotidian
deciduous
Notarize
4. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
epiphany
Precipitous
Subjugate
Vehement
5. Showing a lack of intelligence
gerrymander
Totalitarian
Vaccuous
Quasar
6. (adj) rude - boorish
Pecuniary
gerrymander
Soliloguy
churlish
7. A compound of high molecular weight
Sanguine
Lugubrious
kinetic
Polymer
8. Needless repetion of an idea
Nanotechnology
gauche
Wrought
Tautology
9. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
gauche
Supercilious
Uncouous
Lugubrious
10. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Subjugate
deciduous
Respiration
Auspicious
11. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Uncouous
Omnipotent
Paradigm
Acumen
12. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Reparation
Quotidian
impeach
Usurp
13. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Acumen
Abjure
Tautology
Plasma
14. Technigue of classification
impeach
Taxonomy
diffident
gerrymander
15. (v) to fly or sail around
fiduciary
Respiration
circumlocution
circumnaviagte
16. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
circumnaviagte
Bowdlerize
Usurp
17. Of the same kind
kinetic
loquacious
homogeneous
Abrogate
18. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Taxonomy
Recapitulate
feckless
expurgate
19. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Bellicose
infrastructure
facetious
Acumen
20. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
interpolate
churlish
Reparation
lexicon
21. The official currency of the European Union
Vehement
incontrovertible
Vortex
euro
22. Not open to question or dispute
Plasma
gerrymander
incontrovertible
Auspicious
23. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
hegemony
Uncouous
homogeneous
24. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
feckless
circumnaviagte
Omnipotent
irony
25. Violent commotion
circumnaviagte
Tempestuous
Soliloguy
Lugubrious
26. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
churlish
circumnaviagte
Taxonomy
gauche
27. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Tempestuous
Vortex
Yeoman
Nomenclature
28. Inclined or eager to fight.
Totalitarian
Bellicose
Abstemious
Taxonomy
29. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Vaccuous
Plagiarize
infrastructure
Xenophobe
30. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Moiety
Recapitulate
gamete
hegemony
31. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Quotidian
Reparation
Abjure
32. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
inculcate
Supercilious
Recapitulate
33. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
equinox
Plasma
Taxonomy
34. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Nihilism
Paradigm
Recapitulate
35. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Mitosis
Usurp
hegemony
36. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
loquacious
Abrogate
Parameter
Obsequious
37. The act of talking while or as if alone
Taxonomy
Nanotechnology
Oxidize
Soliloguy
38. Worked to shape by beating
facetious
Wrought
Abjure
Obsequious
39. Leadership
Photosynthesis
euro
Sanguine
hegemony
40. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Winnow
Plagiarize
interpolate
Oxidize
41. Promising success
Tectonic
hypotenuse
Auspicious
Winnow
42. Supplying motive force
Nomenclature
Paradigm
Sanguine
kinetic
43. Humorous - not meant seriously
homogeneous
Pecuniary
Ziggurat
facetious
44. A language user's knowledge of words
jejune
Tautology
Orthography
lexicon
45. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Moiety
Polymer
Usurp
fatuous
46. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
epiphany
euro
circumnaviagte
gerrymander
47. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Lugubrious
gerrymander
gamete
48. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
incognito
Suffragist
gerrymander
hubris
49. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
Mitosis
Plagiarize
lexicon
50. Having ones identity concealed
Obsequious
kinetic
incognito
Belie