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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
enfranchise
jejune
Reparation
Ziggurat
2. Technigue of classification
fatuous
Tectonic
Nomenclature
Taxonomy
3. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
inculcate
hypotenuse
infrastructure
Precipitous
4. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
deleterious
Reparation
evanescent
5. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Subjugate
Nomenclature
Quasar
6. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Recapitulate
incontrovertible
circumnaviagte
Chicanery
7. Promising success
Winnow
Auspicious
Nihilism
Metamorphosis
8. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Orthography
Pecuniary
gauche
9. (v) to set free or endow
Orthography
Soliloguy
Abjure
enfranchise
10. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
diffident
Recapitulate
Nanotechnology
hypotenuse
11. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
hypotenuse
Sanguine
Notarize
Orthography
12. To show to be false
feckless
Belie
Bellicose
Quotidian
13. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Vaccuous
Antebellum
Supercilious
Paradigm
14. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
Parameter
enervate
Oligarchy
15. Of or pertaining to money
Moiety
Parameter
expurgate
Pecuniary
16. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
incognito
Precipitous
gerrymander
17. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Auspicious
Vehement
Metamorphosis
18. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Mitosis
epiphany
Bellicose
19. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
irony
facetious
churlish
Nonsectarian
20. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Acumen
Nanotechnology
inculcate
Vehement
21. Showing a lack of intelligence
expurgate
irony
Vaccuous
Nonsectarian
22. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Vaccuous
impeach
interpolate
Antebellum
23. 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
Uncouous
Nanotechnology
filibuster
gerrymander
24. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Tautology
gerrymander
Oligarchy
Sanguine
25. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nihilism
Nomenclature
churlish
hypotenuse
26. Leadership
loquacious
Abjure
epiphany
hegemony
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
circumlocution
Photosynthesis
Parabola
28. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Nanotechnology
Abstemious
Vehement
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
expurgate
Supercilious
hegemony
Acumen
30. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Vehement
incontrovertible
Supercilious
irony
31. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
euro
jejune
Tectonic
Metamorphosis
32. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Vortex
Nihilism
Oxidize
enervate
33. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
filibuster
euro
hegemony
34. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
Supercilious
Bowdlerize
Tempestuous
35. A half
enervate
Moiety
Tautology
deleterious
36. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Abjure
kinetic
Quasar
enervate
37. Inclined or eager to fight.
epiphany
deciduous
Paradigm
Bellicose
38. A language user's knowledge of words
enervate
gamete
Vehement
lexicon
39. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
enfranchise
Parameter
Totalitarian
Bellicose
40. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
evanescent
Bellicose
fiduciary
Thermodynamics
41. Full of trivial conversation
Belie
loquacious
Metamorphosis
Ziggurat
42. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Supercilious
Oxidize
incognito
43. Having ones identity concealed
Ziggurat
Parabola
incognito
evanescent
44. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
filibuster
laissez-faire
circumnaviagte
45. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Vaccuous
Reparation
Quotidian
46. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
homogeneous
Nomenclature
Bowdlerize
Thermodynamics
47. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
churlish
deciduous
jejune
epiphany
48. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Subjugate
Oxidize
euro
49. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
Moiety
Antebellum
Thermodynamics
50. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
lexicon
Recapitulate
Omnipotent