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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Tempestuous
Abjure
Tautology
2. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Vortex
Respiration
gamete
3. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Mitosis
deleterious
Supercilious
Lugubrious
4. Supplying motive force
Vaccuous
evanescent
gerrymander
kinetic
5. (adj) rude - boorish
Obsequious
churlish
irony
evanescent
6. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Nomenclature
hypotenuse
Paradigm
7. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Plasma
Respiration
Pecuniary
8. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Supercilious
Notarize
Oligarchy
9. To show to be false
circumlocution
fiduciary
Lugubrious
Belie
10. The act of talking while or as if alone
impeach
Soliloguy
filibuster
Precipitous
11. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
hypotenuse
Plasma
Quasar
12. To bring under complete control
chromosone
Subjugate
circumlocution
kowtow
13. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
Notarize
Omnipotent
Supercilious
14. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
Soliloguy
Nomenclature
interpolate
15. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Nomenclature
Parameter
Omnipotent
16. Showing a lack of intelligence
enervate
evanescent
Vaccuous
Acumen
17. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
Nihilism
Parabola
infrastructure
18. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Oxidize
Taxonomy
Wrought
Totalitarian
19. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
jejune
interpolate
Tempestuous
inculcate
20. Humorous - not meant seriously
circumlocution
facetious
Ziggurat
Quotidian
21. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
impeach
equinox
Oligarchy
Quasar
22. (v) to fly or sail around
deleterious
circumnaviagte
Subjugate
gamete
23. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
deleterious
Lugubrious
Plagiarize
incontrovertible
24. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
infrastructure
Orthography
Nihilism
Abjure
25. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
equinox
fiduciary
Oligarchy
Tectonic
26. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Lugubrious
Orthography
Acumen
Metamorphosis
27. Complacently or inanely foolish
equinox
chromosone
fatuous
Metamorphosis
28. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
Winnow
incontrovertible
Tempestuous
29. Before or exisiting before a war.
Bowdlerize
Auspicious
Antebellum
Obsequious
30. Needless repetion of an idea
Nanotechnology
Tautology
Lugubrious
Parabola
31. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Abrogate
Yeoman
Parameter
epiphany
32. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
hemoglobin
Supercilious
Bowdlerize
33. To seperate
deleterious
interpolate
Ziggurat
Winnow
34. A compound of high molecular weight
Thermodynamics
Antebellum
Polymer
Metamorphosis
35. Whirling mass of movment
enervate
Vortex
Winnow
hubris
36. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
diffident
laissez-faire
Chicanery
Obsequious
37. Technigue of classification
euro
Suffragist
Taxonomy
deciduous
38. (v) to set free or endow
Sanguine
Wrought
enfranchise
gauche
39. Having ones identity concealed
Obsequious
Xenophobe
Nomenclature
incognito
40. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Suffragist
Nonsectarian
Notarize
Abjure
41. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Plasma
Moiety
loquacious
Abstemious
42. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Vortex
Paradigm
Obsequious
diffident
43. Worked to shape by beating
euro
hemoglobin
epiphany
Wrought
44. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
interpolate
Xenophobe
kinetic
Usurp
45. 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
Yeoman
chromosone
Sanguine
Mitosis
46. Leadership
hegemony
equinox
homogeneous
Uncouous
47. To take and use ideas from another's work
Suffragist
Oligarchy
Plagiarize
Sanguine
48. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
Recapitulate
Moiety
Tautology
49. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Respiration
Precipitous
Acumen
interpolate
50. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Vortex
deciduous
kinetic
Abstemious