100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know – Flashcards
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Abjure
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to formally reject a belief (recant)
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Abrogate
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to formally abolish (revoke)
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Abstemious
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moderate in eating and drinking (ascetic)
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Acumen
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keen insight (discernment)
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Antebellum
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before the war (especially the American civil war)
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Auspicious
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promising success (propitious)
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Belie
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to be in contradiction with (misrepresent)
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Bellicose
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eager to fight (pugnacious)
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Bowdlerize
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to remove objectional content from a written work (expurgate)
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Chicanery
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artful deception (subterfuge)
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Chromosome
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threadlike DNA-containing structure
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Churlish
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lacking manner (boorish)
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Circumlocution
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indirect expression (rambling)
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Circumnavigate
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to travel around
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Deciduous
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shedding seasonally (ephemeral)
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Deleterious
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harmful to health (injurious)
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Diffident
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lacking self-confidence (unassertive)
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Enervate
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to weaken mentally or morally; lacking strength
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Enfranchise
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to set free; to grant the right to vote
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Epiphany
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sudden realization
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Equinox
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day of equal day and night (March 22; September 21)
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Euro
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official common currency of the EU
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Evanescent
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fading away
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Expurgate
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to remove objectionable content from written work
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Facetious
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joking, often inappropriately
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Fatuous
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foolish
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Feckless
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without purpose
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Fiduciary
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financial person; related to public trust, esp. regarding currency
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Filibuster
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to obstruct legislation, esp. by long speeches; exceptionally long speech meant to prevent legislation
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Gamete
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male or female sexual reproductive cell
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Gauche
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lacking social grace
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Gerrymander
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to divide a geopolitical region to favor a political party's votership; a redrawing of a region's boundaries
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Hegemony
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predominant influence of one nation over another
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Hemoglobin
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oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells
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Homogeneous
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of the same kind; essentially alike
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Hubris
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excessive pride or self-confidence
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Hypotenuse
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the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle
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Impeach
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to accuse (a public official) of misconduct
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Incognito
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having one's identity concealed
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Incontrovertible
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not open to question
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Inculcate
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to teach by repetition (Latin word for trample)
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Infrastructure
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underlying framework of a system
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Interpolate
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to estimate the value of; to insert words into the middle of a text
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Irony
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the use of words to express the opposite of the literal meaning; discrepancy in expected and actual results; discrepancy between character's knowledge and the audience's
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Jejune
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dull; immature
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Kinetic
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relating to motion
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Kowtow
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(Mandarin origins) to act in a servile manner
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Laissez Faire
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governmental theory stating government shouldn't interfere with economy; to let act in freedom
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Lexicon
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vocabulary of language or people; book containing words and definitions
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Loquacious
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talkative
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Lugubrious
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dismal
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Metamorphosis
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complete change of substance or appearance
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Mitosis
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cell division resulting in chromosomes
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Moiety
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one of two parts of a group or tribe
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Nanotechnology
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design of tiny things
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Nihilism
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philosophical rejection of established laws and institutions
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Nomenclature
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system of names used in particular field or community
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Nonsectarian
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not limited to specific religious denomination
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Notarize
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to certify a document with a signature
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Obsequious
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overly obedient or servile
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oligarchy
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rule by few
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omnipotent
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all powerful
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orthography
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study of how letters are arranged
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oxidize
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to combine with oxygen; to rust
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parabola
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mathematical curve
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paradigm
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a typical example, a system of ideas
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parameter
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limiting factor or boundary
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pecuniary
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involving money
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photosynthesis
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process by which green plants convert CO2 into oxygen
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Plagiarize
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to copy another person's idea and claim as original
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plasma
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clear, yellowish fluid component of blood
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polymer
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strong compound with competing small molecules
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precipitous
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with excessive or careless speed; very steep
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quasar
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distant yet high energy astronomical object
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quotidian
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commonplace; daily
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recapitulate
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to restate briefly
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reciprocal
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mutual
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reparation
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repayment for damage, loss or suffering; sum of money paid by victorious country to the defeated one
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respiration
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breathing
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sanguine
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cheerfully optimistic; reddish
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Soliloquy
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self revealing monologue delivered alone on stage
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subjugate
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to make submissive or servile
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suffragist
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an advocate for the right to vote (especially for women)
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supercilious
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full of comtempt or arrogance
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tautology
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needless repition of an idea, especially through words
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Taxonomy
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the study, technique or study of classification
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tectonic
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of or pertaining to structure
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tempestuous
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stormy or turbulent
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thermodynamics
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physics of energy
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totalitarian
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controlling the freedom, will or thought of others
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unctuous
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greasy; insincerely pious or moralistic
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usurp
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to seize and hold without legal right
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vacuous
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lacking ideas; unitelligent
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vehement
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with conviction
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vortex
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whirling mass or air, water, fire or energy
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winnow
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to separate by fanning; often appears with down
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wrought
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worked; produced by beating with a hammer
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xenophobe
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person who fears or hates foreign people or foreign things
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yeoman
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a worker; manual laborer
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ziggurat
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ancient Mesopotamian, pyramid-like structure
