100 words

Abjure

to renounce or to avoid

Abrogate

to abolish

Abstemious

moderate in eating and drinking (ascetic)

Acumen

quickness and keenness or judgement and insight

Antebellum

before the war (especially the American civil war)

Auspicious

promising success (propitious) / favorable circumstance

Belie

to misrepresent

Bellicose

eager to fight (pugnacious)

Bowdlerize

censorship

Chicanery

the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose

Chromosome

threadlike DNA-containing structure

Churlish

lacking manner / mean

Circumlocution

indirect expression (rambling)

Circumnavigate

to travel around

Deciduous

shedding seasonally (ephemeral)

Deleterious

causing harm or damage

Diffident

modest or shy

Enervate

to weaken mentally or morally; lacking strength / energy

Enfranchise

to set free; to grant the right to vote

Epiphany

sudden realization

Equinox

day of equal day and night (March 22; September 21)

Euro

official common currency of the EU

Evanescent

fading away / vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor

Expurgate

remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account); censor; bowdlerize

Facetious

joking, often inappropriately

Fatuous

foolish

Feckless

lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.

Fiduciary

relating to money

Filibuster

to obstruct legislation, esp. by long speeches; exceptionally long speech meant to prevent legislation

Gamete

male or female sexual reproductive cell

Gauche

lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless

Gerrymander

to manipulate the boundaries so as to favor one party or class

Hegemony

leadership or dominance, espcially by one country or social group over others

Hemoglobin

iron count

Homogeneous

uniform in structure / of the same or similar nature or kind

Hubris

overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance

Hypotenuse

the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle

Impeach

to make an accusation / to charge a public official with improper conduct

Incognito

having one's identity concealed

Incontrovertible

impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Inculcate

to teach or to instill an idea / attitude etc

Infrastructure

underlying framework of a system

Interpolate

to insert or introduce between other elements or parts

Irony

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

Jejune

not interesting; dull

Kinetic

of, relating to, or produced by motion

Kowtow

to kneel and touch the forehead to the ground as expression of deep respect, worship, and submission

Laissez Faire

governmental theory stating government shouldn't interfere with economy; to let act in freedom

Lexicon

a dictionary / stock of terms used in a particular profession

Loquacious

talkative

Lugubrious

dismal

Metamorphosis

complete change of substance or appearance

Mitosis

cell division resulting in chromosomes

Moiety

a half

Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from individual atoms and molecules.

Nihilism

An extreme form of skepticism that denies that existence is real; The belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated; belief that nothing is real

Nomenclature

system of names used in art or science

Nonsectarian

not limited to specific religious denomination

Notarize

to certify a document with a signature

Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning; similar to kowtow

oligarchy

rule by few

omnipotent

all powerful

orthography

the conventional spelling system of a language; spelling

oxidize

to combine with oxygen; to rust

parabola

mathematical curve

paradigm

a typical example, a system of ideas / a pattern or model; A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline

parameter

limiting factor or boundary

pecuniary

Of or relating to money; Requiring payment of money

photosynthesis

process by which green plants convert CO2 into oxygen

Plagiarize

to copy another person's idea and claim as original

plasma

clear, yellowish fluid component of blood

polymer

strong compound with competing small molecules

precipitous

with excessive or careless speed; very steep

quasar

distant yet high energy astronomical object

quotidian

commonplace; daily

recapitulate

to restate briefly

reciprocal

mutual

reparation

repayment for damage, loss or suffering; sum of money paid by victorious country to the defeated one

respiration

breathing

sanguine

cheerfully optimistic; reddish

Soliloquy

self revealing monologue delivered alone on stage

subjugate

to make submissive or servile

suffragist

an advocate for the right to vote (especially for women)

supercilious

full of comtempt or arrogance

tautology

needless repition of an idea, especially through words

Taxonomy

the study, technique or study of classification

tectonic

of or pertaining to structure

tempestuous

stormy or turbulent

thermodynamics

physics of energy

totalitarian

controlling the freedom, will or thought of others

unctuous

greasy; insincerely pious or moralistic

usurp

to seize and hold without legal right

vacuous

lacking ideas; unitelligent

vehement

with conviction

vortex

whirling mass or air, water, fire or energy

winnow

to separate by fanning; often appears with down

wrought

worked; produced by beating with a hammer

xenophobe

person who fears or hates foreign people or foreign things

yeoman

a worker; manual laborer

ziggurat

ancient Mesopotamian, pyramid-like structure