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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. A language user's knowledge of words
Tectonic
Auspicious
lexicon
kowtow
2. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
gerrymander
Abrogate
incontrovertible
3. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Vaccuous
Acumen
infrastructure
Totalitarian
4. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
gerrymander
jejune
Usurp
5. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
deleterious
Obsequious
Abjure
6. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
hegemony
Nomenclature
Sanguine
impeach
7. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
hubris
Chicanery
circumnaviagte
Paradigm
8. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
chromosone
Nomenclature
Tempestuous
enervate
9. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Nomenclature
Plagiarize
Omnipotent
Abstemious
10. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
filibuster
Sanguine
hubris
fatuous
11. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
hubris
gerrymander
Quasar
filibuster
12. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
deciduous
Moiety
incognito
13. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Quotidian
Yeoman
feckless
circumlocution
14. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Abrogate
Auspicious
Quasar
15. Having ones identity concealed
fatuous
lexicon
Obsequious
incognito
16. 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
enfranchise
Nanotechnology
Omnipotent
facetious
17. The liquid part of blood or lymph
fatuous
Plasma
Sanguine
Belie
18. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Recapitulate
euro
Oxidize
Tautology
19. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Abstemious
Suffragist
Chicanery
laissez-faire
20. Whirling mass of movment
Abrogate
Moiety
Tempestuous
Vortex
21. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Yeoman
Bellicose
Recapitulate
Abjure
22. To show to be false
Quotidian
Winnow
Paradigm
Belie
23. The official currency of the European Union
gamete
Obsequious
euro
Tautology
24. To take and use ideas from another's work
infrastructure
Plagiarize
diffident
Tempestuous
25. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
fatuous
Supercilious
circumnaviagte
26. 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
Mitosis
Bowdlerize
Lugubrious
27. Promising success
Auspicious
Chicanery
infrastructure
enfranchise
28. Vanishing
Bellicose
Parameter
Totalitarian
evanescent
29. Complacently or inanely foolish
Totalitarian
chromosone
fatuous
Quotidian
30. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Metamorphosis
Abrogate
enfranchise
Yeoman
31. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Metamorphosis
filibuster
gerrymander
Soliloguy
32. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Thermodynamics
diffident
Mitosis
Usurp
33. The act of talking while or as if alone
Vaccuous
Lugubrious
Tautology
Soliloguy
34. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Bowdlerize
hemoglobin
Lugubrious
inculcate
35. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
chromosone
hypotenuse
Winnow
jejune
36. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Auspicious
hypotenuse
Oligarchy
Bellicose
37. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
circumnaviagte
Ziggurat
Parameter
38. Keen - insight - shrewdness
gauche
Photosynthesis
Acumen
hubris
39. (adj) harmful [to health]
gamete
Acumen
Supercilious
deleterious
40. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
kinetic
Uncouous
irony
Quotidian
41. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Plasma
Chicanery
hemoglobin
42. Not open to question or dispute
Respiration
circumlocution
incontrovertible
Abrogate
43. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Tautology
gamete
Totalitarian
deleterious
44. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Antebellum
Oxidize
feckless
45. (v) to set free or endow
kowtow
Abstemious
enfranchise
Notarize
46. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
jejune
Notarize
interpolate
Acumen
47. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Pecuniary
Supercilious
incontrovertible
enervate
48. Of the same kind
Nanotechnology
homogeneous
epiphany
kowtow
49. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
gerrymander
Supercilious
feckless
facetious
50. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Oligarchy
Suffragist
Recapitulate
Uncouous