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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
incognito
Paradigm
fiduciary
2. Humorous - not meant seriously
Orthography
filibuster
facetious
Sanguine
3. Excessive pride or self confidence
enfranchise
hubris
feckless
Oxidize
4. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
churlish
Uncouous
fiduciary
5. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Moiety
Precipitous
Yeoman
Plagiarize
6. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Lugubrious
hypotenuse
Uncouous
gerrymander
7. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Tautology
gerrymander
Photosynthesis
infrastructure
8. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
loquacious
Nonsectarian
enervate
Wrought
9. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Parameter
Vehement
Chicanery
10. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
impeach
Nihilism
feckless
Xenophobe
11. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
deleterious
Oligarchy
Vaccuous
12. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Omnipotent
kinetic
enfranchise
13. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Lugubrious
Suffragist
Sanguine
hypotenuse
14. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
jejune
irony
Usurp
gerrymander
15. Showing strong feeling
Abrogate
enervate
Vehement
Sanguine
16. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
enervate
Abjure
deleterious
evanescent
17. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
euro
hypotenuse
Orthography
Chicanery
18. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
lexicon
Wrought
Chicanery
filibuster
19. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Soliloguy
Usurp
hemoglobin
Precipitous
20. Supplying motive force
kowtow
kinetic
Quotidian
jejune
21. Full of trivial conversation
interpolate
Tempestuous
Uncouous
loquacious
22. Of the same kind
Nanotechnology
Xenophobe
homogeneous
Tectonic
23. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Pecuniary
Parabola
Xenophobe
fatuous
24. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
kowtow
Recapitulate
lexicon
gauche
25. A compound of high molecular weight
Auspicious
Notarize
Polymer
Totalitarian
26. Having ones identity concealed
Vaccuous
Totalitarian
filibuster
incognito
27. Before or exisiting before a war.
Xenophobe
Auspicious
Antebellum
fiduciary
28. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
circumnaviagte
Parabola
impeach
29. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
inculcate
Parabola
chromosone
30. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hypotenuse
deciduous
Abstemious
Belie
31. 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
Vehement
Antebellum
Nanotechnology
impeach
32. Careless or irresponsible
Wrought
Lugubrious
enfranchise
feckless
33. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Xenophobe
Reparation
deciduous
Uncouous
34. Violent commotion
Ziggurat
Tempestuous
Uncouous
feckless
35. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Quotidian
Totalitarian
Obsequious
36. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Nanotechnology
equinox
Recapitulate
Obsequious
37. Vanishing
evanescent
chromosone
Parabola
Acumen
38. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Abrogate
Totalitarian
Vehement
diffident
39. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Winnow
feckless
Omnipotent
incognito
40. The time when day and night are of equal length
Tautology
enervate
equinox
Pecuniary
41. Inclined or eager to fight.
Obsequious
hegemony
Oligarchy
Bellicose
42. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
equinox
Bowdlerize
Parabola
43. Leadership
incognito
hegemony
Vortex
Vaccuous
44. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Yeoman
Totalitarian
loquacious
Belie
45. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Parabola
Metamorphosis
Vehement
46. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Vehement
facetious
Omnipotent
Quasar
47. Complacently or inanely foolish
equinox
fatuous
Photosynthesis
Recapitulate
48. Whirling mass of movment
equinox
impeach
Uncouous
Vortex
49. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
expurgate
enervate
Pecuniary
fiduciary
50. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
gamete
Sanguine
fiduciary
jejune