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100 Words For Every Graduate

Subjects : english, vocabulary
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A language user's knowledge of words






2. Excessively flattering






3. The basic structure or features of a system or organization






4. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning






5. Needless repetion of an idea






6. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office






7. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model






8. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc






9. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.






10. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition






11. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts






12. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary






13. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary






14. Inclined or eager to fight.






15. Having ones identity concealed






16. 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






17. The liquid part of blood or lymph






18. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen






19. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs






20. Whirling mass of movment






21. To renouce - repudiate - or react.






22. To show to be false






23. The official currency of the European Union






24. To take and use ideas from another's work






25. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion






26. 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






27. Promising success






28. Vanishing






29. Complacently or inanely foolish






30. To abolish by formal orr official means.






31. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)






32. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid






33. The act of talking while or as if alone






34. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree






35. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle






36. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique






37. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing






38. Keen - insight - shrewdness






39. (adj) harmful [to health]






40. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning






41. Humorous - not meant seriously






42. Not open to question or dispute






43. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes






44. Someone who hates or fears foreigners






45. (v) to set free or endow






46. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby






47. (v) to deprive of force or strength






48. Of the same kind






49. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous






50. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage