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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Having ones identity concealed
Belie
filibuster
hegemony
incognito
2. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Polymer
Reparation
loquacious
gerrymander
3. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
epiphany
facetious
Sanguine
Notarize
4. Lacking interest or significance
deleterious
hegemony
jejune
kowtow
5. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
jejune
impeach
Vaccuous
6. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
hemoglobin
Chicanery
Bellicose
Orthography
7. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
circumnaviagte
gerrymander
Plagiarize
fatuous
8. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Soliloguy
deleterious
Wrought
circumlocution
9. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
Quotidian
Recapitulate
Photosynthesis
10. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
fiduciary
Orthography
Precipitous
11. Worked to shape by beating
kinetic
enervate
Precipitous
Wrought
12. To seperate
enervate
Plasma
Winnow
Taxonomy
13. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Supercilious
Nonsectarian
feckless
14. Violent commotion
Quasar
Tempestuous
feckless
jejune
15. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
churlish
infrastructure
enfranchise
Tectonic
16. 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
Nanotechnology
Polymer
Tectonic
infrastructure
17. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Omnipotent
Parabola
Thermodynamics
Nonsectarian
18. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
churlish
Tectonic
Parabola
Wrought
19. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
deciduous
Orthography
inculcate
expurgate
20. Leadership
hegemony
Tautology
Yeoman
Respiration
21. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Nomenclature
Xenophobe
Photosynthesis
Precipitous
22. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Nihilism
hemoglobin
Reparation
23. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
filibuster
Abrogate
churlish
Respiration
24. (adj) harmful [to health]
Uncouous
Moiety
deleterious
hubris
25. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
incontrovertible
Abjure
Pecuniary
Oligarchy
26. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Nanotechnology
Tautology
fiduciary
Abjure
27. Keen - insight - shrewdness
epiphany
Sanguine
Paradigm
Acumen
28. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Totalitarian
enervate
Acumen
29. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Notarize
Reparation
chromosone
Bowdlerize
30. Sythesis of complex organic materials
jejune
Photosynthesis
hegemony
Vortex
31. Needless repetion of an idea
Nanotechnology
Tautology
Subjugate
Parabola
32. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
feckless
circumlocution
Tempestuous
Quasar
33. A half
Moiety
fatuous
Quasar
diffident
34. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Subjugate
Xenophobe
Reparation
35. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Parabola
Obsequious
Lugubrious
36. Excessive pride or self confidence
Nanotechnology
hubris
hegemony
Totalitarian
37. The time when day and night are of equal length
hegemony
circumlocution
equinox
Vortex
38. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Pecuniary
kinetic
Supercilious
enervate
39. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Nihilism
Thermodynamics
feckless
chromosone
40. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
interpolate
Tautology
Antebellum
Totalitarian
41. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Tautology
evanescent
circumlocution
42. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Tempestuous
homogeneous
enervate
43. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Wrought
Bowdlerize
homogeneous
44. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Uncouous
Tautology
Parameter
45. Promising success
Moiety
Nanotechnology
Antebellum
Auspicious
46. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
Moiety
hubris
irony
47. Careless or irresponsible
Moiety
Totalitarian
Plagiarize
feckless
48. A compound of high molecular weight
Usurp
hypotenuse
Plagiarize
Polymer
49. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Yeoman
Abrogate
Parameter
Totalitarian
50. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Abjure
Nonsectarian
Moiety