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100 Words For Every Graduate
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1. The time when day and night are of equal length
lexicon
hypotenuse
chromosone
equinox
2. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
Reparation
Photosynthesis
facetious
3. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
lexicon
Paradigm
gauche
kinetic
4. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
loquacious
Sanguine
Orthography
Obsequious
5. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Abrogate
Mitosis
Bellicose
6. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Vehement
Paradigm
Notarize
7. Promising success
Auspicious
Thermodynamics
jejune
Pecuniary
8. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Nanotechnology
Xenophobe
Soliloguy
9. Vanishing
Uncouous
diffident
Oxidize
evanescent
10. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
infrastructure
Nanotechnology
Nihilism
Tempestuous
11. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Winnow
Moiety
hypotenuse
Vaccuous
12. Of the same kind
Ziggurat
hypotenuse
homogeneous
Plasma
13. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Usurp
Omnipotent
Suffragist
14. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Chicanery
inculcate
homogeneous
Paradigm
15. The official currency of the European Union
hubris
Thermodynamics
Vortex
euro
16. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Abstemious
inculcate
Chicanery
irony
17. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
equinox
Recapitulate
Pecuniary
Yeoman
18. Showing a lack of intelligence
homogeneous
loquacious
Tautology
Vaccuous
19. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Thermodynamics
Wrought
Quasar
chromosone
20. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
infrastructure
Subjugate
Recapitulate
circumlocution
21. Not open to question or dispute
Quasar
diffident
incontrovertible
deciduous
22. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Quotidian
Parameter
Auspicious
Antebellum
23. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
impeach
expurgate
hypotenuse
24. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
infrastructure
Tempestuous
Photosynthesis
25. Technigue of classification
kowtow
Taxonomy
enfranchise
Nonsectarian
26. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Plagiarize
Recapitulate
hemoglobin
chromosone
27. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Nanotechnology
Pecuniary
churlish
28. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Abstemious
facetious
churlish
29. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Tempestuous
homogeneous
Wrought
Xenophobe
30. A compound of high molecular weight
Abstemious
Notarize
Polymer
fatuous
31. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Plagiarize
Taxonomy
Soliloguy
32. To take and use ideas from another's work
Bowdlerize
Plagiarize
enfranchise
gamete
33. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
fiduciary
Suffragist
impeach
Quotidian
34. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Obsequious
Vehement
Metamorphosis
Xenophobe
35. Sythesis of complex organic materials
loquacious
Notarize
Photosynthesis
gauche
36. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Plasma
Taxonomy
infrastructure
Precipitous
37. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
kowtow
Nihilism
Orthography
gamete
38. (v) to deprive of force or strength
hegemony
filibuster
enervate
Wrought
39. Keen - insight - shrewdness
circumnaviagte
hypotenuse
Acumen
diffident
40. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Recapitulate
Bowdlerize
Abstemious
41. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Vaccuous
Metamorphosis
enfranchise
Usurp
42. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Bowdlerize
Taxonomy
diffident
Quotidian
43. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
diffident
incontrovertible
Wrought
44. The act of talking while or as if alone
Uncouous
Tectonic
Soliloguy
Mitosis
45. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Xenophobe
facetious
chromosone
Thermodynamics
46. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Uncouous
Precipitous
diffident
47. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
churlish
Abstemious
diffident
Taxonomy
48. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
circumnaviagte
Mitosis
Sanguine
Vortex
49. (v) to fly or sail around
expurgate
circumnaviagte
Plasma
inculcate
50. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
gauche
gerrymander
Metamorphosis