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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Excessively flattering
Moiety
Acumen
Paradigm
Uncouous
2. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
hemoglobin
Yeoman
Ziggurat
impeach
3. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Quotidian
Auspicious
Vortex
4. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Nihilism
Acumen
Antebellum
Plasma
5. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
circumnaviagte
Tautology
inculcate
kowtow
6. Inclined or eager to fight.
fiduciary
Bellicose
circumlocution
Notarize
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
homogeneous
gamete
Supercilious
8. Before or exisiting before a war.
Nihilism
Abjure
Antebellum
Usurp
9. Complacently or inanely foolish
gauche
Antebellum
impeach
fatuous
10. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Bowdlerize
Subjugate
circumlocution
enfranchise
11. The act of talking while or as if alone
jejune
Xenophobe
Pecuniary
Soliloguy
12. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
gerrymander
Oligarchy
inculcate
Bowdlerize
13. Sythesis of complex organic materials
diffident
hypotenuse
Photosynthesis
Suffragist
14. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Totalitarian
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
Tautology
15. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
deciduous
Precipitous
Nomenclature
hypotenuse
16. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Plagiarize
Nihilism
Uncouous
17. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Plagiarize
hegemony
inculcate
18. 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
Ziggurat
Nanotechnology
expurgate
Pecuniary
19. To abolish by formal orr official means.
deleterious
Yeoman
loquacious
Abrogate
20. (adj) harmful [to health]
kinetic
deleterious
Soliloguy
facetious
21. Full of trivial conversation
gamete
Omnipotent
fiduciary
loquacious
22. Promising success
Taxonomy
Vehement
Auspicious
Bellicose
23. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Obsequious
Ziggurat
Metamorphosis
Acumen
24. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Plasma
diffident
laissez-faire
25. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
lexicon
hypotenuse
gamete
filibuster
26. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Mitosis
Soliloguy
euro
27. Whirling mass of movment
Supercilious
Vortex
epiphany
churlish
28. 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
Antebellum
irony
Plagiarize
Mitosis
29. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Lugubrious
filibuster
Abstemious
30. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
churlish
gamete
Reparation
Chicanery
31. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Supercilious
Pecuniary
inculcate
32. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Yeoman
epiphany
Abstemious
Xenophobe
33. A language user's knowledge of words
Reparation
Plagiarize
lexicon
gauche
34. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Reparation
Obsequious
Nihilism
35. Supplying motive force
kinetic
circumlocution
Suffragist
Quasar
36. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
kinetic
circumlocution
Photosynthesis
37. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
kinetic
Photosynthesis
Usurp
38. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Precipitous
Vehement
Tectonic
Vortex
39. Of or pertaining to money
Nanotechnology
Bellicose
Tautology
Pecuniary
40. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
inculcate
Obsequious
Bowdlerize
Nomenclature
41. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Parameter
Quasar
Nanotechnology
42. Showing a lack of intelligence
irony
Vaccuous
Omnipotent
Pecuniary
43. Needless repetion of an idea
feckless
Tautology
Soliloguy
Quasar
44. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
circumlocution
enfranchise
filibuster
hypotenuse
45. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
kinetic
interpolate
Photosynthesis
Nihilism
46. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gerrymander
gauche
equinox
enfranchise
47. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
incontrovertible
incognito
Photosynthesis
48. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Omnipotent
Nanotechnology
diffident
Reparation
49. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
hypotenuse
Tautology
Nonsectarian
50. (v) to fly or sail around
euro
Totalitarian
circumnaviagte
Taxonomy