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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Showing a lack of intelligence
fatuous
Bowdlerize
Moiety
Vaccuous
2. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Acumen
hegemony
deleterious
Photosynthesis
3. 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
Supercilious
Mitosis
deleterious
Photosynthesis
4. Vanishing
filibuster
Abjure
feckless
evanescent
5. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Abjure
laissez-faire
Abrogate
Parabola
6. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
gamete
inculcate
Bowdlerize
Recapitulate
7. Having ones identity concealed
Photosynthesis
kowtow
incognito
Bellicose
8. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
diffident
Bellicose
laissez-faire
Uncouous
9. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Orthography
Wrought
Quasar
circumlocution
10. Needless repetion of an idea
Winnow
Usurp
Mitosis
Tautology
11. Leadership
Wrought
Abjure
infrastructure
hegemony
12. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Taxonomy
filibuster
Usurp
Polymer
13. Keen - insight - shrewdness
hegemony
enervate
Oxidize
Acumen
14. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
impeach
Acumen
Sanguine
15. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Wrought
Bellicose
incognito
16. Worked to shape by beating
Mitosis
Auspicious
Wrought
Oligarchy
17. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Plagiarize
incontrovertible
incognito
18. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
inculcate
chromosone
enfranchise
19. Promising success
Orthography
Nanotechnology
Auspicious
Uncouous
20. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
facetious
Tautology
filibuster
21. Full of trivial conversation
Recapitulate
loquacious
enfranchise
Respiration
22. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
deleterious
Abrogate
Orthography
23. To take and use ideas from another's work
Abrogate
Suffragist
Polymer
Plagiarize
24. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Bellicose
euro
diffident
Xenophobe
25. A language user's knowledge of words
Taxonomy
lexicon
Recapitulate
Photosynthesis
26. Of or pertaining to money
jejune
Vortex
Pecuniary
loquacious
27. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
circumnaviagte
Uncouous
Oligarchy
Abstemious
28. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
hypotenuse
Nihilism
fiduciary
hegemony
29. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Abjure
feckless
kowtow
Obsequious
30. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Nanotechnology
Recapitulate
Notarize
Abstemious
31. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Nanotechnology
epiphany
irony
32. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
gerrymander
euro
Auspicious
33. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Nihilism
loquacious
Quasar
Acumen
34. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
Omnipotent
filibuster
homogeneous
35. To show to be false
Notarize
filibuster
Belie
deleterious
36. Violent commotion
Nomenclature
Tempestuous
Thermodynamics
Quotidian
37. (v) to fly or sail around
Thermodynamics
Precipitous
Respiration
circumnaviagte
38. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
churlish
irony
Respiration
kinetic
39. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Lugubrious
Mitosis
deleterious
40. Humorous - not meant seriously
infrastructure
facetious
Notarize
Respiration
41. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Plasma
hemoglobin
Abstemious
42. Excessive pride or self confidence
Omnipotent
Bellicose
hubris
epiphany
43. Inclined or eager to fight.
Subjugate
Bellicose
Thermodynamics
Obsequious
44. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Abrogate
Tautology
Yeoman
Paradigm
45. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Omnipotent
Parameter
gerrymander
Recapitulate
46. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Polymer
Xenophobe
Sanguine
47. To seperate
Winnow
incognito
hubris
irony
48. Before or exisiting before a war.
Abstemious
Antebellum
Mitosis
Vaccuous
49. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Supercilious
expurgate
Metamorphosis
hubris
50. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
chromosone
expurgate
Totalitarian