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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. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Recapitulate
churlish
Lugubrious
2. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
incognito
Orthography
Parameter
equinox
3. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
hubris
Polymer
Nihilism
4. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Nanotechnology
circumlocution
interpolate
Photosynthesis
5. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Ziggurat
interpolate
Oligarchy
6. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Nomenclature
Acumen
Parameter
Auspicious
7. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Abrogate
Precipitous
Yeoman
8. A half
Tempestuous
Moiety
irony
Paradigm
9. Lacking interest or significance
inculcate
Chicanery
Lugubrious
jejune
10. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Bowdlerize
Nihilism
Plagiarize
11. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
homogeneous
Belie
Notarize
chromosone
12. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Chicanery
kowtow
Abrogate
Quotidian
13. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Xenophobe
circumlocution
Pecuniary
14. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Paradigm
circumnaviagte
laissez-faire
kowtow
15. Complacently or inanely foolish
Taxonomy
fatuous
Nomenclature
Tectonic
16. A compound of high molecular weight
hubris
Polymer
Photosynthesis
Tempestuous
17. (v) to set free or endow
Totalitarian
inculcate
Moiety
enfranchise
18. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
hemoglobin
Polymer
fatuous
diffident
19. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Quasar
gauche
lexicon
Nonsectarian
20. Technigue of classification
Tautology
facetious
Taxonomy
evanescent
21. Worked to shape by beating
enfranchise
Wrought
irony
Plasma
22. Vanishing
Vehement
evanescent
Chicanery
impeach
23. To seperate
Wrought
Ziggurat
Winnow
Totalitarian
24. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
Tempestuous
Pecuniary
facetious
25. Inclined or eager to fight.
churlish
diffident
Bellicose
Bowdlerize
26. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Quasar
gerrymander
hypotenuse
Sanguine
27. Having ones identity concealed
Obsequious
Antebellum
incognito
Totalitarian
28. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
fatuous
deciduous
Oxidize
Xenophobe
29. A language user's knowledge of words
Yeoman
hegemony
Usurp
lexicon
30. Promising success
Precipitous
Reparation
Auspicious
Tempestuous
31. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Orthography
Tautology
Vortex
Metamorphosis
32. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Soliloguy
deciduous
hemoglobin
Moiety
33. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Wrought
Soliloguy
hubris
34. To take and use ideas from another's work
Parameter
Abstemious
Plagiarize
Tempestuous
35. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
enervate
Photosynthesis
Nihilism
Recapitulate
36. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Chicanery
Sanguine
Precipitous
gerrymander
37. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
jejune
Paradigm
Subjugate
38. The official currency of the European Union
loquacious
Oxidize
euro
Suffragist
39. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Pecuniary
Thermodynamics
Paradigm
40. To bring under complete control
kinetic
fatuous
laissez-faire
Subjugate
41. Excessively flattering
Vaccuous
chromosone
Uncouous
Photosynthesis
42. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Pecuniary
kowtow
Thermodynamics
43. To show to be false
Belie
homogeneous
Bellicose
Thermodynamics
44. (adj) harmful [to health]
Totalitarian
filibuster
epiphany
deleterious
45. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
hypotenuse
Photosynthesis
lexicon
46. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Pecuniary
hegemony
filibuster
Precipitous
47. Excessive pride or self confidence
expurgate
circumnaviagte
loquacious
hubris
48. Careless or irresponsible
Bellicose
Orthography
feckless
interpolate
49. Supplying motive force
hypotenuse
Photosynthesis
kinetic
Uncouous
50. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Abrogate
facetious
jejune