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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. Not open to question or dispute
kowtow
Abstemious
incontrovertible
hemoglobin
2. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
homogeneous
Parabola
expurgate
3. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Abstemious
circumnaviagte
epiphany
4. Vanishing
Orthography
hypotenuse
evanescent
Paradigm
5. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Bowdlerize
hypotenuse
circumnaviagte
6. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
irony
Oligarchy
Auspicious
circumnaviagte
7. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Totalitarian
hubris
Notarize
8. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Nonsectarian
Orthography
inculcate
9. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
gamete
Lugubrious
Vortex
10. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Belie
Nonsectarian
Tectonic
11. Leadership
Parabola
gamete
hegemony
Chicanery
12. A compound of high molecular weight
Acumen
Polymer
Antebellum
interpolate
13. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Tectonic
loquacious
chromosone
Totalitarian
14. A half
euro
Oligarchy
Oxidize
Moiety
15. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
hypotenuse
hemoglobin
Abjure
16. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Vehement
Obsequious
Yeoman
hypotenuse
17. Careless or irresponsible
Quotidian
Auspicious
feckless
circumlocution
18. Of or pertaining to money
fiduciary
impeach
Pecuniary
Ziggurat
19. The time when day and night are of equal length
Totalitarian
Abjure
impeach
equinox
20. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Tautology
Supercilious
Usurp
kinetic
21. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
lexicon
Oxidize
feckless
Sanguine
22. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
irony
Quasar
Totalitarian
23. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
enfranchise
Sanguine
Soliloguy
24. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
expurgate
Quasar
Moiety
25. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
enfranchise
lexicon
gerrymander
Yeoman
26. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Oligarchy
deciduous
Subjugate
chromosone
27. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
diffident
Reparation
Wrought
28. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Tectonic
Obsequious
expurgate
Nonsectarian
29. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
enfranchise
Oligarchy
Tautology
30. (v) to deprive of force or strength
jejune
enervate
Parabola
Taxonomy
31. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
hypotenuse
feckless
Subjugate
32. Of the same kind
Lugubrious
homogeneous
Winnow
Usurp
33. To seperate
epiphany
Acumen
irony
Winnow
34. Supplying motive force
euro
Tectonic
Quasar
kinetic
35. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
deciduous
Tautology
Ziggurat
diffident
36. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Xenophobe
Quasar
Thermodynamics
Respiration
37. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
gauche
Omnipotent
hemoglobin
38. (v) to fly or sail around
Antebellum
circumnaviagte
lexicon
kinetic
39. 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
diffident
Uncouous
Nanotechnology
epiphany
40. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
laissez-faire
hegemony
deleterious
41. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Nomenclature
Lugubrious
kowtow
loquacious
42. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
equinox
Supercilious
Vortex
43. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
interpolate
expurgate
feckless
44. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Nanotechnology
Precipitous
infrastructure
expurgate
45. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Pecuniary
circumlocution
Paradigm
hubris
46. Having ones identity concealed
inculcate
Belie
incognito
chromosone
47. Whirling mass of movment
infrastructure
Lugubrious
Polymer
Vortex
48. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Nomenclature
Notarize
inculcate
homogeneous
49. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Vaccuous
Reparation
Sanguine
fatuous
50. 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
Subjugate
Mitosis
Nanotechnology
incontrovertible