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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Paradigm
Belie
Supercilious
Polymer
2. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
churlish
Precipitous
hypotenuse
gamete
3. Vanishing
enervate
Soliloguy
inculcate
evanescent
4. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Uncouous
gamete
Plasma
Lugubrious
5. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
Tectonic
Bellicose
Uncouous
6. Of or pertaining to money
Tempestuous
diffident
Precipitous
Pecuniary
7. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Moiety
Omnipotent
Taxonomy
Quasar
8. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
hegemony
Sanguine
Nomenclature
9. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Subjugate
Tectonic
laissez-faire
Oligarchy
10. Of the same kind
Quotidian
feckless
Thermodynamics
homogeneous
11. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Recapitulate
Winnow
Reparation
deleterious
12. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Belie
Nomenclature
churlish
Nonsectarian
13. Before or exisiting before a war.
Oxidize
Omnipotent
Antebellum
Nanotechnology
14. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
gamete
epiphany
laissez-faire
15. Having ones identity concealed
Vortex
irony
Quotidian
incognito
16. The act of talking while or as if alone
Oligarchy
jejune
Soliloguy
Subjugate
17. Leadership
Totalitarian
hegemony
deleterious
Parameter
18. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Usurp
Polymer
inculcate
Paradigm
19. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Quotidian
Abjure
Thermodynamics
circumlocution
20. To abolish by formal orr official means.
filibuster
Plagiarize
Abrogate
facetious
21. Showing strong feeling
equinox
gerrymander
Abrogate
Vehement
22. A half
Wrought
Tectonic
Nomenclature
Moiety
23. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Nonsectarian
Metamorphosis
Tectonic
deciduous
24. The official currency of the European Union
homogeneous
euro
chromosone
fatuous
25. The usual method of cell division - characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form - which condenses into chromosomes - each of which separates longitudinally into two parts - one part of each chromoso
Mitosis
Orthography
incontrovertible
inculcate
26. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Suffragist
infrastructure
Acumen
inculcate
27. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
filibuster
Quasar
euro
28. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
hemoglobin
Quotidian
feckless
29. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
deleterious
Recapitulate
Photosynthesis
Usurp
30. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
loquacious
incontrovertible
Polymer
Chicanery
31. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
kowtow
impeach
Quotidian
Nomenclature
32. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Plagiarize
Nonsectarian
gauche
33. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Photosynthesis
Reparation
Nanotechnology
epiphany
34. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
hegemony
diffident
Antebellum
Soliloguy
35. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Recapitulate
Reparation
Omnipotent
36. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Sanguine
Omnipotent
impeach
feckless
37. A language user's knowledge of words
Precipitous
Tautology
incontrovertible
lexicon
38. Supplying motive force
Lugubrious
Vaccuous
Abrogate
kinetic
39. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Suffragist
loquacious
churlish
40. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
hypotenuse
Soliloguy
enervate
41. (adj) rude - boorish
equinox
churlish
Abjure
hemoglobin
42. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
fiduciary
Orthography
Respiration
43. Showing a lack of intelligence
Tectonic
Vaccuous
kowtow
Tempestuous
44. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Tautology
loquacious
Abjure
Precipitous
45. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
jejune
incontrovertible
Sanguine
46. 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
impeach
Notarize
Nanotechnology
infrastructure
47. To take and use ideas from another's work
gauche
Plagiarize
feckless
Oxidize
48. Complacently or inanely foolish
Precipitous
feckless
fatuous
Thermodynamics
49. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Nonsectarian
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
50. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
inculcate
enfranchise
Subjugate