100 High school vocab words
abjure -correct answer_to renounce upon oath abrogate -correct answer_to abolish by
authoritative action abstemious -correct answer_marked by restraint especially in the
consumption of food or alcohol acumen -correct answer_keenness and depth of perception,
discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters antebellum -correct
answer_existing before a war auspicious -correct answer_affording a favorable auspice belie
-correct answer_to give a false impression of bellicose -correct answer_favoring or inclined to
start quarrels or wars bowdlerize -correct answer_to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or
modifying parts considered vulgar chicanery -correct answer_deception by artful subterfuge or
sophistry chromosome -correct answer_any of the rod-shaped or threadlike DNA-containing
structures of cellular organisms that are located in the nucleus of eukaryotes, are usually
ring-shaped in prokaryotes (as bacteria), and contain all or most of the genes of the organism
churlish -correct answer_of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl circumlocution -correct
answer_the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea circumnavigate
-correct answer_to go completely around (as the earth) especially by water deciduous -correct
answer_falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle
deleterious -correct answer_harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way diffident -correct
answer_hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence enervate -correct
answer_lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor enfranchise -correct answer_to set free (as
from slavery) epiphany -correct answer_January 6 observed as a church festival in
commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or
in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ equinox -correct
answer_either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects
the ecliptic euro -correct answer_the basic unit of currency among membrers of the European
Monetary Union evanescent -correct answer_tending to vanish like vapor expurgate -correct
answer_to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous facetious -correct
answer_joking or jesting often inappropriately fatuous -correct answer_complacently or inanely
foolish feckless -correct answer_generally incompetent and ineffectual fiduciary -correct
answer_one that holds a fiduciary relation or acts in a fiduciary capacity filibuster -correct
answer_an irregular military adventurer gamete -correct answer_a mature male or female
germ cell usually possessing a haploid chromosome set and capable of initiating formation of a
new diploid individual by fusion with a gamete of the opposite sex gauche -correct
answer_lacking social experience or grace gerrymander -correct answer_the act or method of
gerrymandering hegemony -correct answer_preponderant influence or authority over others
hemoglobin -correct answer_an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood
cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme
molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form
in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after
surrender of its oxygen homogeneous -correct answer_of the same or a similar kind or nature
abjure -correct answer_to renounce upon oath abrogate -correct answer_to abolish by
authoritative action abstemious -correct answer_marked by restraint especially in the
consumption of food or alcohol acumen -correct answer_keenness and depth of perception,
discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters antebellum -correct
answer_existing before a war auspicious -correct answer_affording a favorable auspice belie
-correct answer_to give a false impression of bellicose -correct answer_favoring or inclined to
start quarrels or wars bowdlerize -correct answer_to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or
modifying parts considered vulgar chicanery -correct answer_deception by artful subterfuge or
sophistry chromosome -correct answer_any of the rod-shaped or threadlike DNA-containing
structures of cellular organisms that are located in the nucleus of eukaryotes, are usually
ring-shaped in prokaryotes (as bacteria), and contain all or most of the genes of the organism
churlish -correct answer_of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl circumlocution -correct
answer_the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea circumnavigate
-correct answer_to go completely around (as the earth) especially by water deciduous -correct
answer_falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle
deleterious -correct answer_harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way diffident -correct
answer_hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence enervate -correct
answer_lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor enfranchise -correct answer_to set free (as
from slavery) epiphany -correct answer_January 6 observed as a church festival in
commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or
in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ equinox -correct
answer_either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects
the ecliptic euro -correct answer_the basic unit of currency among membrers of the European
Monetary Union evanescent -correct answer_tending to vanish like vapor expurgate -correct
answer_to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous facetious -correct
answer_joking or jesting often inappropriately fatuous -correct answer_complacently or inanely
foolish feckless -correct answer_generally incompetent and ineffectual fiduciary -correct
answer_one that holds a fiduciary relation or acts in a fiduciary capacity filibuster -correct
answer_an irregular military adventurer gamete -correct answer_a mature male or female
germ cell usually possessing a haploid chromosome set and capable of initiating formation of a
new diploid individual by fusion with a gamete of the opposite sex gauche -correct
answer_lacking social experience or grace gerrymander -correct answer_the act or method of
gerrymandering hegemony -correct answer_preponderant influence or authority over others
hemoglobin -correct answer_an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood
cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme
molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form
in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after
surrender of its oxygen homogeneous -correct answer_of the same or a similar kind or nature
