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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. To seperate
Winnow
Moiety
gamete
Acumen
2. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
incognito
loquacious
Obsequious
Reparation
3. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
evanescent
fiduciary
interpolate
Vortex
4. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Auspicious
Nomenclature
Soliloguy
Parameter
5. (v) to set free or endow
Supercilious
Sanguine
Recapitulate
enfranchise
6. The time when day and night are of equal length
hemoglobin
fatuous
facetious
equinox
7. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Vaccuous
Suffragist
Thermodynamics
8. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Supercilious
Sanguine
Acumen
Yeoman
9. 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
Nihilism
churlish
Nanotechnology
Recapitulate
10. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Metamorphosis
gerrymander
Oligarchy
Nanotechnology
11. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Parameter
incontrovertible
deciduous
12. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
chromosone
gauche
Taxonomy
Suffragist
13. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Lugubrious
churlish
Paradigm
Nomenclature
14. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
irony
impeach
Usurp
Chicanery
15. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Metamorphosis
infrastructure
Nanotechnology
filibuster
16. Lacking interest or significance
Photosynthesis
jejune
diffident
Yeoman
17. (adj) rude - boorish
Nonsectarian
churlish
Soliloguy
gauche
18. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
kinetic
Quasar
Usurp
expurgate
19. Humorous - not meant seriously
deciduous
Bowdlerize
facetious
expurgate
20. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Nanotechnology
infrastructure
Oxidize
diffident
21. Needless repetion of an idea
inculcate
Obsequious
Tautology
expurgate
22. Leadership
homogeneous
Nonsectarian
hegemony
jejune
23. Showing strong feeling
Nanotechnology
Vehement
evanescent
kinetic
24. Having ones identity concealed
irony
Tectonic
incognito
Acumen
25. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
expurgate
Photosynthesis
circumlocution
26. To bring under complete control
Belie
Subjugate
Recapitulate
Tempestuous
27. Of the same kind
Thermodynamics
homogeneous
Oligarchy
hemoglobin
28. 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
Pecuniary
Nonsectarian
Mitosis
hubris
29. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Recapitulate
Acumen
gamete
circumlocution
30. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Notarize
Paradigm
hypotenuse
31. Worked to shape by beating
Notarize
Vortex
facetious
Wrought
32. A half
Notarize
Moiety
equinox
Photosynthesis
33. A language user's knowledge of words
Abjure
Lugubrious
lexicon
Quotidian
34. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Vehement
laissez-faire
hypotenuse
Acumen
35. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
equinox
Sanguine
feckless
Abstemious
36. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
enfranchise
Polymer
Totalitarian
37. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
interpolate
churlish
Abjure
laissez-faire
38. Violent commotion
Tectonic
expurgate
kinetic
Tempestuous
39. Complacently or inanely foolish
Soliloguy
Plasma
gamete
fatuous
40. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
fatuous
infrastructure
Ziggurat
hemoglobin
41. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
feckless
Metamorphosis
Totalitarian
hemoglobin
42. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Ziggurat
Sanguine
Plagiarize
43. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Totalitarian
Chicanery
Orthography
jejune
44. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Oligarchy
Nonsectarian
evanescent
Suffragist
45. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Taxonomy
gerrymander
Subjugate
Metamorphosis
46. Excessive pride or self confidence
fiduciary
hegemony
Taxonomy
hubris
47. Whirling mass of movment
Omnipotent
Vortex
Vaccuous
deleterious
48. Showing a lack of intelligence
Parameter
Nanotechnology
Vaccuous
Quotidian
49. To abolish by formal orr official means.
gerrymander
Auspicious
Bowdlerize
Abrogate
50. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Recapitulate
Obsequious
Photosynthesis