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1. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
deciduous
Soliloguy
Nonsectarian
2. To seperate
facetious
Moiety
Paradigm
Winnow
3. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Quasar
Obsequious
Bowdlerize
Metamorphosis
4. Excessive pride or self confidence
chromosone
Soliloguy
Suffragist
hubris
5. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Tautology
Quasar
evanescent
Nanotechnology
6. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
deciduous
Thermodynamics
homogeneous
7. Showing a lack of intelligence
Soliloguy
Vaccuous
hegemony
enervate
8. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
kinetic
Bowdlerize
Plagiarize
9. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
diffident
chromosone
gauche
Quotidian
10. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
laissez-faire
Totalitarian
Obsequious
11. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
incognito
Nanotechnology
Vortex
12. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
enfranchise
interpolate
Abjure
13. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Wrought
Totalitarian
euro
enervate
14. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
facetious
fiduciary
Acumen
circumlocution
15. Promising success
Plagiarize
Auspicious
Totalitarian
kowtow
16. A half
Paradigm
Plasma
Moiety
hubris
17. Full of trivial conversation
Mitosis
Ziggurat
loquacious
enervate
18. Not open to question or dispute
Respiration
Suffragist
equinox
incontrovertible
19. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Wrought
expurgate
fiduciary
Lugubrious
20. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
hubris
Sanguine
impeach
21. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
jejune
Respiration
gamete
circumnaviagte
22. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Precipitous
Antebellum
enervate
23. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Quasar
Soliloguy
expurgate
Parameter
24. Vanishing
Recapitulate
Parabola
deciduous
evanescent
25. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
kowtow
Moiety
hemoglobin
Nonsectarian
26. To take and use ideas from another's work
Tectonic
Plagiarize
Uncouous
gerrymander
27. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Quotidian
Nomenclature
laissez-faire
lexicon
28. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
hegemony
Acumen
gerrymander
29. Careless or irresponsible
chromosone
Quotidian
facetious
feckless
30. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Plagiarize
Abrogate
Polymer
31. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Parameter
Acumen
Chicanery
32. Sythesis of complex organic materials
euro
Recapitulate
Notarize
Photosynthesis
33. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Suffragist
feckless
Thermodynamics
interpolate
34. Before or exisiting before a war.
Soliloguy
impeach
Antebellum
Bowdlerize
35. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Wrought
deleterious
deciduous
Totalitarian
36. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Nonsectarian
feckless
Precipitous
Photosynthesis
37. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
incontrovertible
Notarize
Usurp
38. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Parabola
Sanguine
feckless
Paradigm
39. The official currency of the European Union
circumnaviagte
gamete
Tectonic
euro
40. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
chromosone
jejune
Omnipotent
irony
41. The liquid part of blood or lymph
incontrovertible
Auspicious
Nonsectarian
Plasma
42. Worked to shape by beating
homogeneous
Wrought
circumnaviagte
Photosynthesis
43. Of or pertaining to money
filibuster
infrastructure
loquacious
Pecuniary
44. Excessively flattering
Oxidize
Polymer
Nomenclature
Uncouous
45. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Acumen
Oxidize
Supercilious
Mitosis
46. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
Vortex
equinox
Nihilism
47. The usual method of cell division - characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form - which condenses into chromosomes - each of which separates longitudinally into two parts - one part of each chromoso
Mitosis
Tautology
Oligarchy
homogeneous
48. Humorous - not meant seriously
Subjugate
hegemony
Orthography
facetious
49. A technology executed on the scale of less than 100 nanometers - the goal of which is to control individual atoms and molecules - especially to create computer chips and other microscopic devices
Nanotechnology
churlish
Nihilism
Plagiarize
50. A compound of high molecular weight
Parabola
Plagiarize
Tautology
Polymer