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1. A half
Moiety
loquacious
Oxidize
enfranchise
2. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
Taxonomy
Recapitulate
Nanotechnology
3. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Oxidize
gamete
kowtow
loquacious
4. Technigue of classification
enfranchise
Taxonomy
Suffragist
impeach
5. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Auspicious
Metamorphosis
Precipitous
Nanotechnology
6. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Bellicose
Subjugate
Nanotechnology
7. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Quotidian
hubris
Precipitous
jejune
8. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
infrastructure
Supercilious
evanescent
9. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Abjure
infrastructure
Metamorphosis
feckless
10. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Vaccuous
gamete
evanescent
11. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Yeoman
filibuster
Tempestuous
12. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Reparation
lexicon
Bowdlerize
Nanotechnology
13. Whirling mass of movment
Thermodynamics
Paradigm
churlish
Vortex
14. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
hegemony
fiduciary
filibuster
feckless
15. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Tautology
impeach
inculcate
Thermodynamics
16. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Soliloguy
laissez-faire
Usurp
17. Before or exisiting before a war.
Tempestuous
gerrymander
Antebellum
Pecuniary
18. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Nonsectarian
Ziggurat
Nanotechnology
19. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Vehement
Obsequious
euro
20. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Auspicious
laissez-faire
Mitosis
Recapitulate
21. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
homogeneous
Plagiarize
jejune
irony
22. Complacently or inanely foolish
Winnow
deciduous
hegemony
fatuous
23. Promising success
kowtow
Auspicious
Quotidian
enervate
24. (adj) rude - boorish
feckless
churlish
Reparation
homogeneous
25. Of the same kind
gamete
Polymer
Lugubrious
homogeneous
26. To seperate
fatuous
Sanguine
Winnow
Bellicose
27. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
evanescent
Suffragist
filibuster
28. The act of talking while or as if alone
expurgate
Metamorphosis
Soliloguy
circumnaviagte
29. Sythesis of complex organic materials
deciduous
Auspicious
Photosynthesis
Belie
30. Leadership
expurgate
Uncouous
hegemony
jejune
31. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Subjugate
Soliloguy
Notarize
Totalitarian
32. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
circumlocution
laissez-faire
Nihilism
33. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Metamorphosis
gerrymander
expurgate
34. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
lexicon
irony
Quasar
Metamorphosis
35. Vanishing
evanescent
hegemony
gerrymander
Pecuniary
36. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Polymer
Notarize
enervate
Obsequious
37. Not open to question or dispute
interpolate
loquacious
incontrovertible
Recapitulate
38. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Xenophobe
hypotenuse
Abrogate
Recapitulate
39. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Ziggurat
Suffragist
evanescent
40. Humorous - not meant seriously
gerrymander
epiphany
irony
facetious
41. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Metamorphosis
Omnipotent
Lugubrious
42. (v) to set free or endow
Plagiarize
Polymer
equinox
enfranchise
43. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Thermodynamics
Quotidian
irony
44. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Taxonomy
Auspicious
Abrogate
45. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Plasma
Nomenclature
Paradigm
homogeneous
46. The time when day and night are of equal length
Abjure
filibuster
equinox
Thermodynamics
47. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Totalitarian
Lugubrious
gauche
Recapitulate
48. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
Acumen
Nomenclature
Obsequious
49. (adj) harmful [to health]
laissez-faire
deleterious
Precipitous
Sanguine
50. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
loquacious
inculcate
Nomenclature
Wrought