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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Vanishing
loquacious
Orthography
fatuous
evanescent
2. Full of trivial conversation
jejune
churlish
Totalitarian
loquacious
3. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Notarize
incognito
Xenophobe
Supercilious
4. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Auspicious
Tautology
Abrogate
5. Violent commotion
Thermodynamics
Abrogate
Tempestuous
Tautology
6. 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
Vehement
Subjugate
hemoglobin
7. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Xenophobe
Photosynthesis
interpolate
Winnow
8. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Sanguine
Plagiarize
Nomenclature
irony
9. Inclined or eager to fight.
Lugubrious
Bellicose
incognito
Abjure
10. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
lexicon
Belie
gerrymander
Lugubrious
11. To take and use ideas from another's work
Yeoman
Plagiarize
Reparation
Parabola
12. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Oligarchy
Moiety
expurgate
Paradigm
13. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
filibuster
Notarize
Ziggurat
Nonsectarian
14. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
epiphany
Respiration
Parabola
loquacious
15. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Winnow
diffident
euro
16. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Quotidian
Subjugate
Auspicious
Nihilism
17. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Antebellum
Parabola
lexicon
Abstemious
18. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Subjugate
Plasma
Reparation
19. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Ziggurat
Metamorphosis
Pecuniary
20. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Acumen
Bowdlerize
laissez-faire
gamete
21. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
fatuous
Quasar
infrastructure
Metamorphosis
22. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Nihilism
chromosone
hubris
23. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
infrastructure
Paradigm
fiduciary
Pecuniary
24. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Suffragist
Wrought
deciduous
Omnipotent
25. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Polymer
interpolate
Pecuniary
filibuster
26. The act of talking while or as if alone
Nanotechnology
Soliloguy
interpolate
Moiety
27. Technigue of classification
Tectonic
Bellicose
Vortex
Taxonomy
28. Lacking interest or significance
Winnow
Wrought
jejune
hypotenuse
29. Excessively flattering
Antebellum
Uncouous
incognito
Belie
30. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Orthography
Nomenclature
Moiety
gauche
31. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Tempestuous
Sanguine
Thermodynamics
32. (v) to fly or sail around
Winnow
circumnaviagte
Xenophobe
deleterious
33. Leadership
inculcate
hegemony
Vortex
deleterious
34. Of or pertaining to money
incognito
Pecuniary
inculcate
equinox
35. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Abrogate
lexicon
Lugubrious
Auspicious
36. Showing a lack of intelligence
equinox
Vaccuous
Totalitarian
Recapitulate
37. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
gauche
Auspicious
laissez-faire
diffident
38. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
epiphany
irony
euro
39. The liquid part of blood or lymph
enfranchise
Plasma
Uncouous
Chicanery
40. (adj) rude - boorish
deleterious
churlish
Lugubrious
lexicon
41. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Quotidian
Reparation
incontrovertible
Thermodynamics
42. 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
Totalitarian
Mitosis
evanescent
enfranchise
43. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Acumen
impeach
Reparation
Oxidize
44. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Nomenclature
Paradigm
Oligarchy
Usurp
45. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
diffident
Supercilious
Totalitarian
Usurp
46. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
loquacious
Moiety
Totalitarian
Abrogate
47. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
circumnaviagte
inculcate
Respiration
48. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Bowdlerize
hemoglobin
Suffragist
laissez-faire
49. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Obsequious
Metamorphosis
Taxonomy
Bowdlerize
50. To seperate
Metamorphosis
Winnow
Ziggurat
interpolate