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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
interpolate
churlish
Paradigm
Chicanery
2. Complacently or inanely foolish
Recapitulate
fatuous
Plagiarize
Ziggurat
3. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Tempestuous
Yeoman
enfranchise
Totalitarian
4. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
laissez-faire
loquacious
Ziggurat
chromosone
5. Showing strong feeling
Tectonic
Vehement
Totalitarian
Auspicious
6. Of or pertaining to money
Plasma
deciduous
Pecuniary
hegemony
7. To take and use ideas from another's work
Winnow
Plagiarize
laissez-faire
Vaccuous
8. The act of talking while or as if alone
incognito
Plasma
hemoglobin
Soliloguy
9. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Omnipotent
Metamorphosis
Vortex
loquacious
10. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
interpolate
Obsequious
Nonsectarian
incognito
11. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Suffragist
Metamorphosis
Recapitulate
fiduciary
12. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
fiduciary
hemoglobin
deleterious
13. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
facetious
Notarize
Reparation
lexicon
14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Oligarchy
Parabola
hemoglobin
Vortex
15. Full of trivial conversation
Abjure
gerrymander
loquacious
facetious
16. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
homogeneous
Wrought
Taxonomy
17. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Tautology
Wrought
irony
gamete
18. Lacking interest or significance
Abstemious
gerrymander
jejune
Thermodynamics
19. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
enervate
equinox
Bowdlerize
kowtow
20. A language user's knowledge of words
jejune
Recapitulate
lexicon
Photosynthesis
21. To seperate
Winnow
Abstemious
hubris
Quasar
22. Vanishing
evanescent
Quasar
incognito
Abjure
23. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
loquacious
Mitosis
Parameter
24. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
deciduous
Lugubrious
gamete
feckless
25. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
interpolate
churlish
Paradigm
Abstemious
26. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
fatuous
kowtow
Nanotechnology
27. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
filibuster
Sanguine
Thermodynamics
Nihilism
28. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
Orthography
Vehement
Totalitarian
29. To show to be false
Chicanery
Ziggurat
Belie
Nihilism
30. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Vehement
churlish
Abjure
31. Leadership
Metamorphosis
Antebellum
Vehement
hegemony
32. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Abjure
Notarize
enfranchise
33. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
kinetic
irony
Usurp
circumlocution
34. Excessive pride or self confidence
Nanotechnology
deciduous
hubris
Nihilism
35. Inclined or eager to fight.
feckless
Bellicose
Polymer
Nihilism
36. Humorous - not meant seriously
Vehement
Notarize
facetious
filibuster
37. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Oxidize
hemoglobin
fiduciary
filibuster
38. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Reparation
infrastructure
Paradigm
interpolate
39. (v) to fly or sail around
Belie
circumnaviagte
Oligarchy
irony
40. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Polymer
Sanguine
Plasma
jejune
41. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Pecuniary
Orthography
kowtow
Taxonomy
42. Technigue of classification
Thermodynamics
Taxonomy
irony
Pecuniary
43. A compound of high molecular weight
Reparation
chromosone
Polymer
fatuous
44. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
facetious
circumlocution
Quasar
Quotidian
45. Promising success
kinetic
Auspicious
Chicanery
Abrogate
46. (v) to set free or endow
infrastructure
enfranchise
Paradigm
circumlocution
47. Violent commotion
Orthography
Nihilism
Tempestuous
Bowdlerize
48. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Subjugate
Photosynthesis
incognito
49. (adj) harmful [to health]
gerrymander
deleterious
euro
Nihilism
50. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
enervate
Taxonomy
Obsequious
Usurp