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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. 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
Sanguine
hubris
infrastructure
Mitosis
2. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Wrought
Nonsectarian
irony
hemoglobin
3. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
kowtow
Metamorphosis
deleterious
4. The time when day and night are of equal length
laissez-faire
equinox
Xenophobe
gerrymander
5. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Antebellum
Soliloguy
Tectonic
6. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Abstemious
Metamorphosis
evanescent
7. Lacking interest or significance
Antebellum
Bowdlerize
jejune
gauche
8. Having ones identity concealed
filibuster
fiduciary
incognito
feckless
9. A half
Winnow
gamete
Moiety
irony
10. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Metamorphosis
Respiration
Abstemious
circumlocution
11. To seperate
Polymer
Omnipotent
Abjure
Winnow
12. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
fiduciary
Orthography
Antebellum
Taxonomy
13. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
infrastructure
Abstemious
gamete
chromosone
14. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Orthography
circumlocution
facetious
Suffragist
15. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Nonsectarian
Pecuniary
Usurp
fiduciary
16. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
expurgate
enervate
Tempestuous
17. To show to be false
Usurp
Parameter
Orthography
Belie
18. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Oligarchy
Chicanery
laissez-faire
Usurp
19. Keen - insight - shrewdness
feckless
Usurp
Bowdlerize
Acumen
20. Violent commotion
Vehement
Yeoman
Totalitarian
Tempestuous
21. Not open to question or dispute
Subjugate
Tectonic
incontrovertible
Antebellum
22. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Oligarchy
Plagiarize
Parameter
Abjure
23. The liquid part of blood or lymph
equinox
Wrought
Plasma
Notarize
24. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
Recapitulate
Orthography
Tectonic
25. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
fatuous
Paradigm
Quotidian
Nonsectarian
26. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Abrogate
Usurp
chromosone
27. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Soliloguy
Belie
Chicanery
Nonsectarian
28. Humorous - not meant seriously
Yeoman
facetious
circumnaviagte
Acumen
29. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Wrought
Notarize
Bellicose
circumlocution
30. The official currency of the European Union
Nonsectarian
euro
hypotenuse
diffident
31. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
incognito
filibuster
Quasar
32. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
circumnaviagte
Soliloguy
Metamorphosis
fiduciary
33. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Thermodynamics
enfranchise
Soliloguy
34. Vanishing
Notarize
evanescent
Xenophobe
circumnaviagte
35. (adj) rude - boorish
facetious
Tectonic
impeach
churlish
36. Whirling mass of movment
hemoglobin
Oligarchy
Vortex
Uncouous
37. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Bellicose
Suffragist
loquacious
Obsequious
38. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Acumen
Parabola
impeach
Plagiarize
39. Leadership
deciduous
interpolate
homogeneous
hegemony
40. (adj) harmful [to health]
Soliloguy
deleterious
Tautology
deciduous
41. Technigue of classification
loquacious
Taxonomy
Winnow
Moiety
42. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
impeach
Precipitous
Photosynthesis
gamete
43. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
irony
Notarize
Oligarchy
interpolate
44. A compound of high molecular weight
hypotenuse
Mitosis
Polymer
fiduciary
45. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Respiration
impeach
infrastructure
Oligarchy
46. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
incontrovertible
Taxonomy
facetious
47. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
kinetic
expurgate
churlish
Yeoman
48. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Antebellum
enervate
Lugubrious
gamete
49. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
jejune
circumlocution
Oxidize
Nihilism
50. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
equinox
Abstemious
Quasar