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100 Words For Every Graduate

Subjects : english, vocabulary
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The time when day and night are of equal length






2. Whirling mass of movment






3. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy






4. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning






5. To renouce - repudiate - or react.






6. Lacking interest or significance






7. Promising success






8. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing






9. Vanishing






10. Total rejection of established laws and institutions






11. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle






12. Of the same kind






13. The basic structure or features of a system or organization






14. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly






15. The official currency of the European Union






16. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning






17. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch






18. Showing a lack of intelligence






19. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts






20. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize






21. Not open to question or dispute






22. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines






23. (adj) rude - boorish






24. Complacently or inanely foolish






25. Technigue of classification






26. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color






27. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby






28. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something






29. Someone who hates or fears foreigners






30. A compound of high molecular weight






31. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion






32. To take and use ideas from another's work






33. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage






34. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc






35. Sythesis of complex organic materials






36. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies






37. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes






38. (v) to deprive of force or strength






39. Keen - insight - shrewdness






40. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone






41. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force






42. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid






43. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination






44. The act of talking while or as if alone






45. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy






46. The liquid part of blood or lymph






47. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.






48. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition






49. (v) to fly or sail around






50. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.