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100 Words For Every Graduate

Subjects : english, vocabulary
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1. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique






2. The official currency of the European Union






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






4. Keen - insight - shrewdness






5. Having ones identity concealed






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






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






8. Sythesis of complex organic materials






9. Showing strong feeling






10. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.






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






12. A language user's knowledge of words






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






14. Full of trivial conversation






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






16. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday






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






18. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)






19. Whirling mass of movment






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






21. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable






22. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines






23. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination






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






25. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public






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






27. To renouce - repudiate - or react.






28. The act of talking while or as if alone






29. Leadership






30. Inclined or eager to fight.






31. Complacently or inanely foolish






32. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby






33. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.






34. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly






35. (adj) harmful [to health]






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






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






38. Technigue of classification






39. The liquid part of blood or lymph






40. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid






41. 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






42. A compound of high molecular weight






43. Before or exisiting before a war.






44. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy






45. (adj) shedding leaves annually






46. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling






47. Vanishing






48. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous






49. Of the same kind






50. 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