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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Abstemious
Tectonic
Precipitous
deciduous
2. Inclined or eager to fight.
Yeoman
Plasma
filibuster
Bellicose
3. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
filibuster
Plagiarize
deleterious
4. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
impeach
Wrought
Vehement
Oxidize
5. Leadership
Reparation
Lugubrious
expurgate
hegemony
6. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
enervate
interpolate
laissez-faire
diffident
7. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Orthography
Totalitarian
gauche
8. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Paradigm
Metamorphosis
Ziggurat
lexicon
9. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Vortex
Usurp
Lugubrious
10. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Subjugate
Thermodynamics
impeach
Oligarchy
11. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Obsequious
Wrought
Suffragist
facetious
12. Keen - insight - shrewdness
hegemony
Acumen
fiduciary
gamete
13. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Precipitous
chromosone
Polymer
14. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Suffragist
Mitosis
lexicon
Orthography
15. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
hemoglobin
circumlocution
epiphany
kinetic
16. Whirling mass of movment
Notarize
Vortex
Bowdlerize
Winnow
17. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Taxonomy
Abstemious
Precipitous
hypotenuse
18. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
facetious
churlish
Sanguine
Oligarchy
19. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Reparation
Uncouous
hypotenuse
20. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
loquacious
Chicanery
diffident
fiduciary
21. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Soliloguy
feckless
Recapitulate
Notarize
22. Full of trivial conversation
Oligarchy
interpolate
loquacious
Parameter
23. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
gauche
Lugubrious
Vortex
Xenophobe
24. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Abstemious
Suffragist
Yeoman
loquacious
25. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Wrought
Bowdlerize
Vaccuous
Bellicose
26. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Orthography
Vortex
Totalitarian
27. Technigue of classification
lexicon
circumnaviagte
Taxonomy
Yeoman
28. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
fatuous
Omnipotent
Notarize
inculcate
29. To show to be false
enfranchise
Belie
Suffragist
Nomenclature
30. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Usurp
circumnaviagte
Reparation
Bellicose
31. Lacking interest or significance
filibuster
circumnaviagte
jejune
chromosone
32. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Auspicious
Abrogate
facetious
Pecuniary
33. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
deciduous
Vehement
Notarize
34. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Wrought
interpolate
Paradigm
Vaccuous
35. A language user's knowledge of words
Abrogate
lexicon
equinox
Abstemious
36. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Omnipotent
hegemony
Suffragist
37. (adj) harmful [to health]
Nonsectarian
deleterious
Oligarchy
gauche
38. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
hegemony
Uncouous
Paradigm
Taxonomy
39. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
Oxidize
euro
Suffragist
40. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Tectonic
facetious
gauche
41. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gauche
Tempestuous
gamete
Tectonic
42. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Bellicose
hegemony
Xenophobe
expurgate
43. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Wrought
jejune
incontrovertible
44. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Omnipotent
Moiety
kowtow
45. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
gerrymander
Wrought
Polymer
46. Not open to question or dispute
Taxonomy
euro
incontrovertible
enfranchise
47. (v) to deprive of force or strength
fatuous
enervate
Photosynthesis
equinox
48. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Mitosis
laissez-faire
deleterious
deciduous
49. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Respiration
hemoglobin
gerrymander
50. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Vaccuous
Recapitulate
Nonsectarian
Suffragist