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    1. This document lists 99 words that every high school graduate should know, along with their definitions. 2. The words cover a wide range of topics and parts of speech, including verbs like "abjure" and "abrogate", adjectives like "abstemious" and "auspicious", and nouns like "chromosome" and "epiphany". 3. Many of the words describe advanced concepts found in subjects like science ("mitosis"), history ("antebellum"), and politics ("filibuster").

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    1. This document lists 99 words that every high school graduate should know, along with their definitions. 2. The words cover a wide range of topics and parts of speech, including verbs like "abjure" and "abrogate", adjectives like "abstemious" and "auspicious", and nouns like "chromosome" and "epiphany". 3. Many of the words describe advanced concepts found in subjects like science ("mitosis"), history ("antebellum"), and politics ("filibuster").

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    1. This document lists 99 words that every high school graduate should know, along with their definitions. 2. The words cover a wide range of topics and parts of speech, including verbs like "abjure" and "abrogate", adjectives like "abstemious" and "auspicious", and nouns like "chromosome" and "epiphany". 3. Many of the words describe advanced concepts found in subjects like science ("mitosis"), history ("antebellum"), and politics ("filibuster").

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    99 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

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    1. This document lists 99 words that every high school graduate should know, along with their definitions. 2. The words cover a wide range of topics and parts of speech, including verbs like "abjure" and "abrogate", adjectives like "abstemious" and "auspicious", and nouns like "chromosome" and "epiphany". 3. Many of the words describe advanced concepts found in subjects like science ("mitosis"), history ("antebellum"), and politics ("filibuster").

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    99 words every high school graduate should know

    abjure lugubrious
    abrogate metamorphosis
    abstemious mitosis
    acumen moiety
    antebellum nanotechnology
    auspicious nihilism
    belie nomenclature
    bellicose nonsectarian
    bowdlerize notarize
    chicanery obsequious
    chromosome oligarchy
    churlish omnipotent
    circumlocution orthography
    circumnavigate oxidize
    deciduous parabola
    deleterious paradigm
    diffident parameter
    enervate pecuniary
    enfranchise photosynthesis
    epiphany plagiarize
    equinox plasma
    euro polymer
    evanescent precipitous
    expurgate quasar
    facetious quotidian
    fatuous recapitulate
    feckless reciprocal
    fiduciary reparation
    filibuster respiration
    gamete sanguine
    gauche soliloquy
    hegemony subjugate
    hemoglobin suffragist
    homogeneous supercilious
    hubris tautology
    hypotenuse taxonomy
    impeach tectonic
    incognito tempestuous
    incontrovertible thermodynamics
    inculcate totalitarian
    infrastructure unctuous
    interpolate usurp
    irony vacuous
    jejune vehement
    kinetic vortex
    kowtow winnow
    laissez faire wrought
    lexicon xenophobe
    loquacious yeoman
    ziggurat
    1. Abjure:
    (Verb) To state publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving
    2. Abrogate:
    (Verb) To end a law, agreement or custom formally
    3. Abstemious:
    (Adjective) Not doing things which give you pleasure, especially not eating good food or drinking
    alcohol
    4. Acumen:
    (Noun) skill in making correct decisions and judgments in a particular subject, such as business or
    politics
    5. Antebellum:
    (Adjective) relating to the time before a war, especially the American Civil War
    6. Auspicious:
    (Adjective) suggesting a positive and successful future

    7. Belie:
    (verb) to show something to be false, or to hide something such as an emotion
    8. Bellicose:
    (adjective) wishing to fight or start a war
    9. Bowdlerize:
    (verb) to remove words or parts from a book, play or film that are considered to be unsuitable or
    offensive

    10. Chicanery:
    (noun) clever, dishonest talk or behaviour which is used to deceive people
    11. Chromosome:
    (noun) any of the rod-like structures found in all living cells, containing the chemical patterns
    which control what an animal or plant is like
    12. Churlish:
    (adjective) rude, unfriendly and unpleasant
    13. Circumlocution:
    (noun) (an example of) an indirect way of saying something, especially something unpleasant
    14. Circumnavigate:
    (verb) to move around something in order to avoid hitting it
    15. Deciduous:
    (adjective) A deciduous tree loses its leaves in autumn and grows new ones in the spring.
    16. Deleterious:
    (adjective) harmful
    17. Diffident:
    (adjective) shy and not confident of your abilities
    18. Enervate:
    (verb) to make you feel tired and weak
    19. Enfranchise:
    (verb) to give a person or group of people the right to vote in elections
    20. Epiphany:
    (noun) when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious of, something
    that is very important to you or a powerful religious experience
    21. Equinox:
    (noun) either of the two occasions in the year when day and night are of equal length
    22. Euro:
    (prefix)
     relating to the European Union
     relating to Europe
    23. Evanescent:
    (adjective) lasting for only a short time, then disappearing quickly and being forgotten
    24. Expurgate:
    (verb) to remove parts of a piece of writing that are considered likely to cause offence
    25. Facetious:
    (adjective) not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever
    26. Fatuous:
    (adjective) stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about
    27. Feckless:
    (adjective) describes people or behavior with no energy and enthusiasm
    28. Fiduciary:
    (adjective) relating to the responsibility to look after someone else's money in a correct way
    29. Filibuster:
    (verb) to make a long speech in order to delay or prevent a new law being made

    30. Gamete:
    (noun) a cell connected with sexual reproduction, which is either a male sperm or a female egg
    31. Gauche:
    (adjective) awkward and uncomfortable with other people, especially because young and without
    experience
    (noun)

    32. Hegemony:
    (noun) (especially of countries) the position of being the strongest and most powerful and
    therefore able to control others
    33. Hemoglobin:
    (noun) a substance in red blood cells which combines with and carries oxygen around the body,
    and gives blood its red color
    34. Homogeneous:
    (adjective) consisting of parts or people which are similar to each other or are of the same type
    35. Hubris:
    36. Hypotenuse:

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