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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Usurp
epiphany
Moiety
inculcate
2. Humorous - not meant seriously
Yeoman
Auspicious
Bellicose
facetious
3. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Supercilious
Yeoman
Abrogate
4. Technigue of classification
Taxonomy
Obsequious
Antebellum
Plasma
5. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Chicanery
deciduous
loquacious
irony
6. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
enfranchise
Mitosis
circumnaviagte
Oxidize
7. The liquid part of blood or lymph
circumlocution
Plasma
loquacious
Suffragist
8. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Nomenclature
gamete
deleterious
Photosynthesis
9. To take and use ideas from another's work
Obsequious
facetious
Plagiarize
expurgate
10. Lacking interest or significance
Uncouous
Tempestuous
jejune
Vehement
11. (v) to set free or endow
Yeoman
Abrogate
enfranchise
Mitosis
12. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Abjure
Usurp
Bowdlerize
13. Careless or irresponsible
Ziggurat
feckless
Abstemious
Polymer
14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
churlish
homogeneous
Lugubrious
15. Excessively flattering
jejune
Usurp
Yeoman
Uncouous
16. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Quasar
feckless
enervate
Parameter
17. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
hemoglobin
hubris
Totalitarian
Acumen
18. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
Acumen
Belie
infrastructure
19. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Quotidian
facetious
filibuster
Nihilism
20. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Parabola
Yeoman
Subjugate
incontrovertible
21. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
churlish
Nihilism
Pecuniary
22. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Chicanery
Thermodynamics
euro
facetious
23. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Paradigm
fatuous
Metamorphosis
jejune
24. A half
gerrymander
deleterious
Notarize
Moiety
25. Supplying motive force
Metamorphosis
Chicanery
kinetic
homogeneous
26. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
hemoglobin
Tectonic
inculcate
Obsequious
27. Complacently or inanely foolish
hypotenuse
Quasar
fatuous
Belie
28. Violent commotion
Precipitous
Tempestuous
euro
Yeoman
29. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
Suffragist
gauche
Photosynthesis
30. Whirling mass of movment
Supercilious
Vortex
Reparation
hegemony
31. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Winnow
Abstemious
Vortex
gauche
32. (adj) rude - boorish
lexicon
incontrovertible
Ziggurat
churlish
33. Before or exisiting before a war.
loquacious
Tectonic
Antebellum
gauche
34. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
interpolate
euro
Precipitous
Tectonic
35. Promising success
Auspicious
Lugubrious
expurgate
Pecuniary
36. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
interpolate
circumnaviagte
Omnipotent
Acumen
37. 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
irony
Oligarchy
Mitosis
Winnow
38. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
hemoglobin
hypotenuse
Usurp
Auspicious
39. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Ziggurat
gerrymander
Notarize
irony
40. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
chromosone
Precipitous
interpolate
Recapitulate
41. The act of talking while or as if alone
evanescent
Soliloguy
enervate
hubris
42. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Auspicious
Lugubrious
Abrogate
equinox
43. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
evanescent
feckless
Belie
44. To bring under complete control
Thermodynamics
infrastructure
Subjugate
circumnaviagte
45. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Supercilious
hemoglobin
Parabola
Plasma
46. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Nonsectarian
gamete
hubris
47. Having ones identity concealed
facetious
kowtow
gauche
incognito
48. Showing a lack of intelligence
Supercilious
Abrogate
Vaccuous
Quotidian
49. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Tectonic
Supercilious
Nihilism
Ziggurat
50. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
infrastructure
diffident
Recapitulate