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100 Words For Every Graduate
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english
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1. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
circumnaviagte
fatuous
incognito
2. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
irony
Oxidize
hemoglobin
3. Vanishing
evanescent
Paradigm
expurgate
Taxonomy
4. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
kinetic
diffident
Oligarchy
5. Careless or irresponsible
Precipitous
feckless
Nomenclature
lexicon
6. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Abrogate
facetious
Polymer
7. Excessively flattering
Pecuniary
Uncouous
Abstemious
Vortex
8. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Parameter
enervate
Abrogate
gamete
9. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Recapitulate
Omnipotent
Xenophobe
gauche
10. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Orthography
Supercilious
Nonsectarian
infrastructure
11. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
evanescent
Moiety
Nihilism
12. Excessive pride or self confidence
Wrought
hubris
Omnipotent
gauche
13. Sythesis of complex organic materials
incognito
Abjure
Xenophobe
Photosynthesis
14. Showing strong feeling
Auspicious
Paradigm
Vehement
expurgate
15. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Omnipotent
interpolate
loquacious
Respiration
16. The time when day and night are of equal length
Winnow
epiphany
equinox
Recapitulate
17. Not open to question or dispute
Nomenclature
incontrovertible
Precipitous
equinox
18. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Sanguine
fatuous
Polymer
19. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
irony
Totalitarian
filibuster
20. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
incontrovertible
Yeoman
Belie
21. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Mitosis
Vortex
irony
Reparation
22. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Oligarchy
kinetic
filibuster
deciduous
23. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Pecuniary
Orthography
Bellicose
Vehement
24. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Oligarchy
Notarize
fiduciary
Moiety
25. Before or exisiting before a war.
Yeoman
Oxidize
Respiration
Antebellum
26. Of the same kind
homogeneous
hemoglobin
Abstemious
gauche
27. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Quotidian
Tectonic
Yeoman
Tautology
28. Worked to shape by beating
Orthography
Wrought
hubris
equinox
29. Needless repetion of an idea
gauche
expurgate
inculcate
Tautology
30. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
feckless
kinetic
Polymer
31. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Parameter
Reparation
laissez-faire
gauche
32. Showing a lack of intelligence
Paradigm
Vaccuous
Oligarchy
Precipitous
33. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Moiety
Vortex
kinetic
34. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Yeoman
Subjugate
deciduous
feckless
35. Complacently or inanely foolish
Oxidize
Usurp
Nanotechnology
fatuous
36. The official currency of the European Union
interpolate
Pecuniary
euro
Reparation
37. To abolish by formal orr official means.
homogeneous
Metamorphosis
Abrogate
Bowdlerize
38. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
enfranchise
incontrovertible
expurgate
Pecuniary
39. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Soliloguy
kinetic
Lugubrious
Quotidian
40. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
chromosone
Omnipotent
incontrovertible
Parabola
41. (v) to set free or endow
Quasar
Respiration
homogeneous
enfranchise
42. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Belie
Mitosis
Chicanery
Tautology
43. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Sanguine
hegemony
Bowdlerize
Taxonomy
44. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Bellicose
epiphany
Suffragist
Thermodynamics
45. Lacking interest or significance
hubris
euro
hemoglobin
jejune
46. Promising success
Antebellum
hubris
Vehement
Auspicious
47. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Chicanery
hypotenuse
Sanguine
48. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Ziggurat
incognito
Nihilism
Xenophobe
49. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
churlish
Lugubrious
Winnow
Omnipotent
50. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
Acumen
Mitosis
Photosynthesis