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100 Words For Every Graduate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A language user's knowledge of words
Thermodynamics
Recapitulate
enfranchise
lexicon
2. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
churlish
Nanotechnology
Taxonomy
kowtow
3. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Pecuniary
Vaccuous
Usurp
4. Of or pertaining to money
hypotenuse
Moiety
Bowdlerize
Pecuniary
5. To bring under complete control
gauche
Subjugate
Precipitous
fatuous
6. Showing a lack of intelligence
Parabola
Moiety
Totalitarian
Vaccuous
7. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
homogeneous
kinetic
Vortex
gamete
8. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
loquacious
Suffragist
churlish
Tectonic
9. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
epiphany
laissez-faire
Lugubrious
10. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
feckless
Nanotechnology
Abstemious
11. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
kowtow
Omnipotent
Vortex
12. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
chromosone
churlish
Reparation
13. To seperate
filibuster
Abjure
Winnow
churlish
14. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Sanguine
Xenophobe
fiduciary
Vortex
15. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Polymer
gerrymander
incognito
Photosynthesis
16. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Nomenclature
diffident
gerrymander
Nonsectarian
17. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Chicanery
Abjure
epiphany
Thermodynamics
18. Before or exisiting before a war.
Abrogate
Quotidian
chromosone
Antebellum
19. 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
Respiration
jejune
loquacious
Nanotechnology
20. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Polymer
Thermodynamics
Abrogate
21. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Wrought
jejune
Reparation
22. Lacking interest or significance
euro
Bellicose
jejune
Oxidize
23. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Abjure
Tectonic
Yeoman
24. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Auspicious
Parabola
Photosynthesis
Abrogate
25. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Plagiarize
incognito
Respiration
Supercilious
26. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Belie
feckless
Quasar
epiphany
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Belie
Tectonic
hemoglobin
Taxonomy
28. To show to be false
chromosone
Belie
Nanotechnology
Recapitulate
29. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
gamete
Auspicious
Orthography
Sanguine
30. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
diffident
gerrymander
Belie
Suffragist
31. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Thermodynamics
Usurp
gauche
lexicon
32. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Oxidize
Abrogate
Polymer
Supercilious
33. 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
Tautology
Suffragist
Supercilious
Mitosis
34. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
circumnaviagte
Tempestuous
fiduciary
Bowdlerize
35. Promising success
Plasma
Auspicious
Obsequious
Sanguine
36. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Pecuniary
Tautology
circumlocution
Nomenclature
37. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
kowtow
Vaccuous
Oligarchy
equinox
38. Showing strong feeling
Bowdlerize
epiphany
Sanguine
Vehement
39. The time when day and night are of equal length
filibuster
equinox
fiduciary
impeach
40. A half
Recapitulate
epiphany
Moiety
chromosone
41. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Wrought
incontrovertible
Quotidian
42. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Nanotechnology
euro
inculcate
Precipitous
43. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
hubris
hypotenuse
homogeneous
44. (adj) shedding leaves annually
chromosone
epiphany
deciduous
Mitosis
45. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Winnow
Bellicose
Obsequious
46. Full of trivial conversation
gauche
Moiety
loquacious
Precipitous
47. Technigue of classification
fiduciary
evanescent
Tautology
Taxonomy
48. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
gauche
circumlocution
irony
interpolate
49. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Thermodynamics
fatuous
Auspicious
50. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Yeoman
Quotidian
hypotenuse
Omnipotent