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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Quasar
incontrovertible
Reparation
facetious
2. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Tautology
Parabola
Obsequious
churlish
3. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Tectonic
Vortex
Plasma
Usurp
4. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Respiration
Quotidian
Soliloguy
gerrymander
5. A half
Moiety
Yeoman
euro
lexicon
6. Careless or irresponsible
Reparation
gamete
feckless
Vaccuous
7. Of or pertaining to money
Recapitulate
Pecuniary
Auspicious
feckless
8. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vehement
Vaccuous
evanescent
Nanotechnology
9. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
loquacious
gauche
Omnipotent
gamete
10. (adj) harmful [to health]
Auspicious
deleterious
circumlocution
Tautology
11. Before or exisiting before a war.
hypotenuse
Antebellum
deleterious
Oxidize
12. (adj) shedding leaves annually
expurgate
deciduous
Supercilious
Yeoman
13. A language user's knowledge of words
Quotidian
incognito
diffident
lexicon
14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
kowtow
gamete
Paradigm
hemoglobin
15. To seperate
Chicanery
Nomenclature
enervate
Winnow
16. Not open to question or dispute
Yeoman
incontrovertible
Nanotechnology
Tautology
17. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Belie
incontrovertible
Metamorphosis
18. (v) to fly or sail around
Abjure
diffident
Taxonomy
circumnaviagte
19. Excessively flattering
Vehement
evanescent
Uncouous
Belie
20. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Nanotechnology
epiphany
loquacious
Bowdlerize
21. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Thermodynamics
Ziggurat
Precipitous
22. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Paradigm
Nomenclature
Parameter
23. Inclined or eager to fight.
Oligarchy
Notarize
Yeoman
Bellicose
24. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
chromosone
circumlocution
kowtow
Suffragist
25. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Parameter
impeach
Bowdlerize
26. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
enervate
facetious
Moiety
Precipitous
27. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Polymer
Abstemious
Totalitarian
Bowdlerize
28. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Uncouous
Nomenclature
Supercilious
Quasar
29. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
kinetic
gauche
deleterious
Bellicose
30. Needless repetion of an idea
fiduciary
Wrought
Bellicose
Tautology
31. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Nihilism
Ziggurat
hegemony
Vortex
32. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
hegemony
enervate
Supercilious
Lugubrious
33. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Totalitarian
Omnipotent
Metamorphosis
34. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
deciduous
Nihilism
feckless
Bellicose
35. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Recapitulate
Notarize
Respiration
Nomenclature
36. 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
enfranchise
hemoglobin
Mitosis
Thermodynamics
37. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Xenophobe
infrastructure
Orthography
Bellicose
38. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
infrastructure
Abstemious
circumlocution
filibuster
39. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Bowdlerize
deciduous
facetious
40. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
Winnow
Supercilious
kinetic
41. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
epiphany
Acumen
kowtow
42. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Lugubrious
fiduciary
laissez-faire
Supercilious
43. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Metamorphosis
Notarize
Parameter
impeach
44. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
hegemony
irony
Quotidian
impeach
45. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
laissez-faire
Omnipotent
infrastructure
46. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
kowtow
expurgate
Abjure
Notarize
47. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Abstemious
laissez-faire
Wrought
48. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
enfranchise
Chicanery
Tautology
fiduciary
49. Technigue of classification
Omnipotent
Mitosis
Taxonomy
Nihilism
50. Excessive pride or self confidence
gerrymander
deleterious
hubris
Belie