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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
jejune
fiduciary
loquacious
Orthography
2. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Omnipotent
Nonsectarian
Tectonic
Bowdlerize
3. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Auspicious
Vortex
gamete
4. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Parabola
Oligarchy
Precipitous
5. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
churlish
Yeoman
Omnipotent
Abjure
6. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Supercilious
Photosynthesis
irony
Sanguine
7. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Acumen
Plasma
gerrymander
8. Showing a lack of intelligence
Oxidize
Reparation
Moiety
Vaccuous
9. To take and use ideas from another's work
Taxonomy
Bowdlerize
Plagiarize
inculcate
10. Having ones identity concealed
Parabola
irony
incognito
Reparation
11. The official currency of the European Union
Ziggurat
Wrought
chromosone
euro
12. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Reparation
Polymer
Nomenclature
13. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hegemony
deciduous
Vehement
Parameter
14. A compound of high molecular weight
Respiration
Polymer
euro
churlish
15. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Ziggurat
Nonsectarian
deciduous
16. Excessive pride or self confidence
enervate
incontrovertible
hubris
Chicanery
17. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
Lugubrious
Tautology
circumnaviagte
18. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Tectonic
gamete
Abstemious
Totalitarian
19. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Tectonic
hypotenuse
Nomenclature
20. Excessively flattering
Supercilious
Uncouous
Abstemious
Taxonomy
21. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Nomenclature
infrastructure
homogeneous
inculcate
22. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Xenophobe
filibuster
Suffragist
deciduous
23. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
homogeneous
Tautology
interpolate
hemoglobin
24. To bring under complete control
Vortex
Subjugate
feckless
euro
25. (v) to fly or sail around
incontrovertible
Antebellum
circumnaviagte
Tautology
26. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
hegemony
Thermodynamics
gerrymander
Nomenclature
27. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
expurgate
Yeoman
interpolate
Supercilious
28. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Photosynthesis
Yeoman
circumlocution
Plasma
29. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
laissez-faire
Tectonic
Yeoman
hypotenuse
30. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Respiration
expurgate
Abstemious
evanescent
31. Careless or irresponsible
hypotenuse
kinetic
feckless
Belie
32. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
lexicon
Pecuniary
Abrogate
Supercilious
33. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Quasar
inculcate
Nonsectarian
34. To abolish by formal orr official means.
facetious
Suffragist
Soliloguy
Abrogate
35. Keen - insight - shrewdness
incognito
Acumen
Omnipotent
gerrymander
36. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Suffragist
Obsequious
Parameter
Vaccuous
37. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
enervate
inculcate
hegemony
Oxidize
38. Leadership
Vortex
euro
kinetic
hegemony
39. Supplying motive force
enfranchise
Tempestuous
Chicanery
kinetic
40. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
homogeneous
Nonsectarian
Paradigm
Tectonic
41. Technigue of classification
Belie
infrastructure
Suffragist
Taxonomy
42. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Supercilious
hypotenuse
kinetic
Respiration
43. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
fatuous
Yeoman
Quotidian
impeach
44. Full of trivial conversation
Sanguine
gauche
loquacious
incontrovertible
45. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Parameter
Supercilious
Reparation
Bowdlerize
46. Of or pertaining to money
Nomenclature
diffident
fiduciary
Pecuniary
47. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Nomenclature
Auspicious
Parameter
kowtow
48. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Oxidize
impeach
gerrymander
Ziggurat
49. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Auspicious
Parabola
hemoglobin
Polymer
50. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Tectonic
Xenophobe
irony
Metamorphosis