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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
Mitosis
Notarize
incognito
2. Keen - insight - shrewdness
facetious
Nonsectarian
Acumen
incontrovertible
3. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
Obsequious
epiphany
gerrymander
4. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Bowdlerize
facetious
Lugubrious
Nihilism
5. (adj) rude - boorish
enervate
equinox
infrastructure
churlish
6. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Oxidize
deleterious
Orthography
euro
7. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Nomenclature
churlish
jejune
impeach
8. Complacently or inanely foolish
Lugubrious
enervate
filibuster
fatuous
9. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Antebellum
Winnow
Uncouous
inculcate
10. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Yeoman
Pecuniary
loquacious
11. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Tectonic
Chicanery
jejune
gerrymander
12. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
facetious
kowtow
fatuous
expurgate
13. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
lexicon
diffident
Parabola
circumnaviagte
14. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Nihilism
Omnipotent
incognito
Sanguine
15. Showing strong feeling
incontrovertible
Vehement
Paradigm
epiphany
16. A half
Moiety
inculcate
facetious
churlish
17. Technigue of classification
Thermodynamics
enervate
Paradigm
Taxonomy
18. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Nonsectarian
Metamorphosis
Oligarchy
Tectonic
19. Vanishing
evanescent
Paradigm
Photosynthesis
Thermodynamics
20. Excessive pride or self confidence
Recapitulate
epiphany
filibuster
hubris
21. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
diffident
Tectonic
Orthography
22. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
gauche
Taxonomy
Moiety
23. Of the same kind
Parabola
Subjugate
homogeneous
enervate
24. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
hypotenuse
incontrovertible
gauche
Parameter
25. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Auspicious
Parameter
enervate
26. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Orthography
Bellicose
Supercilious
Recapitulate
27. Showing a lack of intelligence
Metamorphosis
Taxonomy
Subjugate
Vaccuous
28. Excessively flattering
euro
Parameter
Uncouous
fiduciary
29. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
circumnaviagte
gauche
Thermodynamics
Metamorphosis
30. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Chicanery
Bellicose
impeach
deciduous
31. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Soliloguy
gauche
Abjure
32. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Thermodynamics
Abrogate
Taxonomy
33. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
chromosone
diffident
epiphany
34. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Taxonomy
Xenophobe
hypotenuse
Quasar
35. Before or exisiting before a war.
Oxidize
Vortex
Antebellum
hubris
36. To show to be false
gauche
Belie
Orthography
Totalitarian
37. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
facetious
Precipitous
Ziggurat
expurgate
38. (v) to set free or endow
Parameter
enfranchise
Parabola
Photosynthesis
39. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
inculcate
Totalitarian
feckless
Tectonic
40. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Belie
fiduciary
Parabola
expurgate
41. Full of trivial conversation
Polymer
kowtow
loquacious
fatuous
42. Violent commotion
loquacious
Mitosis
Tempestuous
Plasma
43. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Taxonomy
Acumen
Tectonic
44. 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
Mitosis
Parameter
feckless
Acumen
45. Worked to shape by beating
Acumen
kinetic
Uncouous
Wrought
46. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Antebellum
Bowdlerize
infrastructure
Tautology
47. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Notarize
Usurp
Tectonic
filibuster
48. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Auspicious
evanescent
Quotidian
49. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Reparation
expurgate
Nanotechnology
deleterious
50. To bring under complete control
Thermodynamics
hubris
Subjugate
expurgate