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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Promising success
circumnaviagte
Auspicious
Wrought
impeach
2. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Lugubrious
Acumen
Parameter
hypotenuse
3. The official currency of the European Union
Polymer
euro
Parabola
Soliloguy
4. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
lexicon
Quotidian
Yeoman
churlish
5. Humorous - not meant seriously
expurgate
Nihilism
loquacious
facetious
6. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gauche
incontrovertible
Recapitulate
gerrymander
7. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
Tautology
loquacious
incognito
8. Complacently or inanely foolish
Quasar
fatuous
Oxidize
Nomenclature
9. Before or exisiting before a war.
fatuous
Antebellum
Subjugate
feckless
10. 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
Paradigm
kinetic
Tempestuous
11. Needless repetion of an idea
circumnaviagte
Precipitous
Tautology
hubris
12. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Polymer
Usurp
Notarize
Mitosis
13. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
hegemony
epiphany
chromosone
infrastructure
14. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
gerrymander
Wrought
Omnipotent
Pecuniary
15. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
fiduciary
Suffragist
homogeneous
Nihilism
16. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Quasar
filibuster
circumnaviagte
incognito
17. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Abrogate
Nonsectarian
laissez-faire
loquacious
18. Vanishing
evanescent
churlish
Acumen
Precipitous
19. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Omnipotent
Sanguine
Abrogate
Totalitarian
20. The liquid part of blood or lymph
hubris
Plasma
evanescent
Chicanery
21. Inclined or eager to fight.
deciduous
Metamorphosis
Bellicose
Tectonic
22. (v) to set free or endow
facetious
Xenophobe
enfranchise
Auspicious
23. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
homogeneous
Antebellum
facetious
24. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Vehement
deciduous
irony
Plasma
25. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
hemoglobin
diffident
Abjure
Soliloguy
26. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Recapitulate
Sanguine
Precipitous
facetious
27. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Ziggurat
expurgate
deciduous
28. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Plagiarize
hemoglobin
facetious
29. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
kinetic
Paradigm
Auspicious
Soliloguy
30. 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
Photosynthesis
jejune
Nanotechnology
Plasma
31. Of or pertaining to money
hypotenuse
Pecuniary
Wrought
Reparation
32. A half
Moiety
Tautology
feckless
deleterious
33. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
circumnaviagte
kowtow
gerrymander
Auspicious
34. To abolish by formal orr official means.
inculcate
Oligarchy
filibuster
Abrogate
35. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Moiety
Parameter
expurgate
Nihilism
36. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
enervate
Pecuniary
Bowdlerize
37. A compound of high molecular weight
hemoglobin
Notarize
Polymer
Tectonic
38. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Oxidize
incontrovertible
laissez-faire
39. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Abstemious
Chicanery
Respiration
40. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Respiration
Notarize
Lugubrious
impeach
41. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Totalitarian
Vaccuous
Metamorphosis
deciduous
42. (v) to fly or sail around
Notarize
gerrymander
circumnaviagte
incognito
43. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
hegemony
Bowdlerize
Uncouous
Oligarchy
44. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Photosynthesis
enfranchise
Omnipotent
Chicanery
45. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
hegemony
enervate
Quasar
46. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Oligarchy
Plasma
Moiety
47. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
hypotenuse
Acumen
incontrovertible
infrastructure
48. Showing a lack of intelligence
Usurp
irony
Vaccuous
Lugubrious
49. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
enervate
hemoglobin
Polymer
fatuous
50. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
gauche
Moiety
Plasma