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100 Words For Every Graduate

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday






2. Keen - insight - shrewdness






3. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion






4. The act of talking while or as if alone






5. Inclined or eager to fight.






6. The time when day and night are of equal length






7. Full of trivial conversation






8. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning






9. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc






10. To bring under complete control






11. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition






12. Of the same kind






13. Violent commotion






14. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches






15. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary






16. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes






17. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree






18. Careless or irresponsible






19. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage






20. To take and use ideas from another's work






21. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid






22. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts






23. Showing strong feeling






24. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy






25. To renouce - repudiate - or react.






26. 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






27. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.






28. Worked to shape by beating






29. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model






30. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force






31. (adj) shedding leaves annually






32. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning






33. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.






34. Excessive pride or self confidence






35. Before or exisiting before a war.






36. A language user's knowledge of words






37. To abolish by formal orr official means.






38. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice






39. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics






40. Showing a lack of intelligence






41. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary






42. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify






43. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office






44. To show to be false






45. Humorous - not meant seriously






46. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing






47. (v) to deprive of force or strength






48. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize






49. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle






50. Total rejection of established laws and institutions