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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Leadership
Pecuniary
Photosynthesis
hegemony
Nonsectarian
2. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Abstemious
Nihilism
Metamorphosis
3. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
churlish
Nonsectarian
Respiration
Auspicious
4. The act of talking while or as if alone
Polymer
Soliloguy
Omnipotent
chromosone
5. Showing strong feeling
fatuous
diffident
Vehement
irony
6. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
gauche
Winnow
Tautology
Chicanery
7. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Metamorphosis
Belie
Abjure
8. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Oligarchy
Xenophobe
Precipitous
Vehement
9. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
circumlocution
euro
irony
Pecuniary
10. Not open to question or dispute
Yeoman
incontrovertible
euro
Vehement
11. Worked to shape by beating
Precipitous
Wrought
gamete
Moiety
12. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Nihilism
Tautology
Abjure
facetious
13. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Belie
Sanguine
Parameter
Abjure
14. Showing a lack of intelligence
Uncouous
Parabola
Totalitarian
Vaccuous
15. (adj) harmful [to health]
Totalitarian
deleterious
Vortex
Tectonic
16. To seperate
infrastructure
deleterious
Plagiarize
Winnow
17. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Orthography
Paradigm
Quasar
Wrought
18. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Photosynthesis
Metamorphosis
impeach
19. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Acumen
homogeneous
Supercilious
Photosynthesis
20. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Vortex
impeach
chromosone
Nomenclature
21. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
gamete
Ziggurat
Oligarchy
Obsequious
22. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Photosynthesis
Metamorphosis
Sanguine
23. Having ones identity concealed
Thermodynamics
Acumen
Moiety
incognito
24. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Taxonomy
chromosone
Metamorphosis
25. (v) to fly or sail around
Wrought
circumnaviagte
Obsequious
Precipitous
26. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
hemoglobin
loquacious
homogeneous
27. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Bellicose
Thermodynamics
gerrymander
chromosone
28. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Omnipotent
gerrymander
Obsequious
Wrought
29. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
irony
inculcate
Notarize
Respiration
30. Technigue of classification
enfranchise
Obsequious
Taxonomy
Suffragist
31. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Suffragist
fatuous
lexicon
32. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
homogeneous
infrastructure
jejune
gamete
33. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Orthography
hemoglobin
deciduous
Metamorphosis
34. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
diffident
Quasar
Omnipotent
35. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Usurp
enervate
enfranchise
circumlocution
36. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Tectonic
Uncouous
Polymer
hemoglobin
37. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Nonsectarian
gauche
Orthography
Recapitulate
38. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Thermodynamics
Bowdlerize
Nihilism
euro
39. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Nanotechnology
Orthography
kinetic
40. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Chicanery
Nonsectarian
inculcate
impeach
41. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Wrought
Tectonic
enervate
Precipitous
42. The liquid part of blood or lymph
lexicon
Plasma
interpolate
deciduous
43. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
gamete
Notarize
Metamorphosis
filibuster
44. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Tautology
gerrymander
Belie
45. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Taxonomy
Recapitulate
hemoglobin
46. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
homogeneous
gauche
Reparation
Quasar
47. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Quotidian
Mitosis
Usurp
48. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Supercilious
Polymer
deciduous
Paradigm
49. Promising success
Wrought
interpolate
Auspicious
gamete
50. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
epiphany
Subjugate
Abjure