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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Bowdlerize
Thermodynamics
impeach
inculcate
2. Before or exisiting before a war.
Plagiarize
Antebellum
euro
Auspicious
3. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
euro
Vehement
circumlocution
epiphany
4. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Subjugate
expurgate
laissez-faire
Oligarchy
5. Showing strong feeling
Nomenclature
churlish
hubris
Vehement
6. Lacking interest or significance
churlish
jejune
Reparation
Uncouous
7. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Totalitarian
infrastructure
Ziggurat
Xenophobe
8. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Notarize
Plasma
hemoglobin
9. Worked to shape by beating
Tempestuous
Acumen
Quotidian
Wrought
10. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
laissez-faire
Antebellum
Xenophobe
Nanotechnology
11. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Parameter
Plasma
Usurp
impeach
12. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
incontrovertible
expurgate
Obsequious
Plasma
13. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Vehement
Reparation
incognito
14. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
facetious
Taxonomy
Xenophobe
15. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Polymer
Obsequious
feckless
Supercilious
16. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Xenophobe
Recapitulate
Yeoman
Paradigm
17. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Parabola
Thermodynamics
Abjure
Nanotechnology
18. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Bowdlerize
Metamorphosis
enervate
deleterious
19. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
irony
diffident
interpolate
20. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Vaccuous
Acumen
Abrogate
Nomenclature
21. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Suffragist
Orthography
Notarize
interpolate
22. Complacently or inanely foolish
enfranchise
Totalitarian
fatuous
hegemony
23. A language user's knowledge of words
Ziggurat
lexicon
inculcate
Antebellum
24. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Auspicious
Yeoman
Tautology
Parameter
25. Excessively flattering
Nanotechnology
Uncouous
homogeneous
Tautology
26. The official currency of the European Union
euro
hubris
hemoglobin
Polymer
27. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
feckless
evanescent
Abjure
Bowdlerize
28. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Paradigm
Pecuniary
circumlocution
29. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Tempestuous
incontrovertible
filibuster
30. Careless or irresponsible
incognito
feckless
Lugubrious
kowtow
31. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
gauche
Winnow
diffident
Sanguine
32. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
inculcate
evanescent
gamete
Bellicose
33. Full of trivial conversation
circumnaviagte
evanescent
loquacious
Supercilious
34. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Abjure
inculcate
Acumen
35. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
fiduciary
Tectonic
Pecuniary
Sanguine
36. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
kowtow
Polymer
Plasma
filibuster
37. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Tempestuous
Vortex
Omnipotent
38. To show to be false
epiphany
Belie
Sanguine
homogeneous
39. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Oxidize
circumlocution
Acumen
Suffragist
40. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Taxonomy
Oligarchy
Mitosis
41. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
deleterious
circumlocution
Winnow
Nanotechnology
42. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
loquacious
Totalitarian
equinox
gauche
43. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Lugubrious
expurgate
Oligarchy
interpolate
44. Violent commotion
Abstemious
fiduciary
loquacious
Tempestuous
45. Technigue of classification
incognito
Taxonomy
deleterious
Antebellum
46. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Orthography
incognito
Parameter
47. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
euro
Suffragist
Quotidian
Bellicose
48. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Parameter
expurgate
lexicon
49. Of or pertaining to money
Moiety
Plasma
hubris
Pecuniary
50. The time when day and night are of equal length
infrastructure
incontrovertible
equinox
Vaccuous