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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
hubris
Omnipotent
Antebellum
Supercilious
2. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Totalitarian
Soliloguy
infrastructure
laissez-faire
3. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Recapitulate
Oligarchy
Plasma
Bowdlerize
4. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Yeoman
infrastructure
Polymer
interpolate
5. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Parabola
incognito
gauche
6. The official currency of the European Union
Nanotechnology
hypotenuse
deleterious
euro
7. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Thermodynamics
Omnipotent
irony
Tectonic
8. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Reparation
Antebellum
inculcate
Orthography
9. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Thermodynamics
Oxidize
interpolate
Reparation
10. Full of trivial conversation
deciduous
loquacious
hegemony
Vehement
11. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
incontrovertible
Usurp
Subjugate
gauche
12. The act of talking while or as if alone
Plasma
Soliloguy
Photosynthesis
interpolate
13. Lacking interest or significance
Nanotechnology
Tempestuous
churlish
jejune
14. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Reparation
Respiration
inculcate
Plasma
15. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Supercilious
enervate
circumlocution
gauche
16. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Wrought
Bowdlerize
Yeoman
Tectonic
17. The liquid part of blood or lymph
lexicon
Plasma
Yeoman
Abstemious
18. Violent commotion
Plagiarize
Tempestuous
Totalitarian
impeach
19. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Sanguine
Nihilism
Oxidize
Thermodynamics
20. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
Nanotechnology
Orthography
Auspicious
21. Needless repetion of an idea
Tempestuous
Abrogate
Tautology
Antebellum
22. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Vaccuous
equinox
Tectonic
incognito
23. Leadership
hegemony
Vaccuous
Lugubrious
Notarize
24. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Mitosis
Moiety
euro
25. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Nonsectarian
Orthography
filibuster
Precipitous
26. Of the same kind
loquacious
homogeneous
fatuous
Winnow
27. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Orthography
Tempestuous
Parameter
28. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Notarize
Obsequious
Precipitous
Moiety
29. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Uncouous
Orthography
inculcate
incognito
30. Excessive pride or self confidence
Yeoman
Photosynthesis
kinetic
hubris
31. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Acumen
hegemony
Yeoman
chromosone
32. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Bellicose
hegemony
filibuster
33. Inclined or eager to fight.
Subjugate
Reparation
Bellicose
Suffragist
34. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Antebellum
Bellicose
fiduciary
Totalitarian
35. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
gerrymander
infrastructure
diffident
36. (adj) rude - boorish
Parameter
Oligarchy
Quasar
churlish
37. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Metamorphosis
Bowdlerize
Reparation
Suffragist
38. 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
Mitosis
jejune
Reparation
hypotenuse
39. Promising success
Auspicious
Mitosis
Quotidian
enervate
40. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Precipitous
fiduciary
Notarize
Soliloguy
41. Vanishing
inculcate
homogeneous
Antebellum
evanescent
42. To take and use ideas from another's work
loquacious
Soliloguy
Plagiarize
Tautology
43. A language user's knowledge of words
Orthography
enfranchise
gamete
lexicon
44. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
gerrymander
Wrought
Nanotechnology
45. 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
Nanotechnology
Totalitarian
Vaccuous
laissez-faire
46. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Acumen
gamete
Usurp
kowtow
47. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
interpolate
churlish
deleterious
Nihilism
48. To show to be false
Moiety
Belie
hegemony
Nihilism
49. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Mitosis
gauche
Photosynthesis
Acumen
50. Showing strong feeling
deciduous
Vortex
deleterious
Vehement