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1. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
Obsequious
deciduous
Bellicose
2. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
kinetic
inculcate
Ziggurat
Recapitulate
3. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
kowtow
gamete
Paradigm
Quasar
4. Having ones identity concealed
homogeneous
Nonsectarian
incognito
circumnaviagte
5. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Taxonomy
Respiration
Abrogate
homogeneous
6. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
inculcate
Usurp
filibuster
Vaccuous
7. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
loquacious
Parabola
filibuster
8. Worked to shape by beating
hubris
Wrought
lexicon
Uncouous
9. Supplying motive force
Tectonic
kinetic
Quotidian
circumlocution
10. Lacking interest or significance
Bellicose
Vaccuous
jejune
Mitosis
11. Violent commotion
Plasma
Metamorphosis
Reparation
Tempestuous
12. Showing strong feeling
Quotidian
Vehement
Suffragist
Winnow
13. The time when day and night are of equal length
enervate
equinox
Soliloguy
Abstemious
14. Humorous - not meant seriously
Soliloguy
Nonsectarian
facetious
Abrogate
15. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
enervate
Nonsectarian
epiphany
gauche
16. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
laissez-faire
epiphany
irony
enfranchise
17. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
incognito
jejune
Notarize
fiduciary
18. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Nanotechnology
Photosynthesis
hegemony
19. Technigue of classification
Tempestuous
Plasma
Taxonomy
expurgate
20. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Uncouous
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Oligarchy
21. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
loquacious
expurgate
Bowdlerize
22. (v) to fly or sail around
loquacious
circumnaviagte
deleterious
Recapitulate
23. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
churlish
filibuster
kowtow
Pecuniary
24. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Parameter
Quotidian
Ziggurat
25. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Tempestuous
Soliloguy
impeach
hemoglobin
26. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Recapitulate
Bowdlerize
Obsequious
diffident
27. (adj) shedding leaves annually
fatuous
Subjugate
Thermodynamics
deciduous
28. Of the same kind
Abrogate
Nomenclature
gerrymander
homogeneous
29. Vanishing
evanescent
Wrought
Soliloguy
Respiration
30. Complacently or inanely foolish
Obsequious
fatuous
irony
Notarize
31. To show to be false
Photosynthesis
Subjugate
Belie
feckless
32. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Respiration
chromosone
jejune
Abjure
33. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
deciduous
Oxidize
Acumen
filibuster
34. (v) to deprive of force or strength
gauche
Reparation
Nomenclature
enervate
35. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Ziggurat
Bowdlerize
Thermodynamics
Photosynthesis
36. Not open to question or dispute
deleterious
Respiration
Nonsectarian
incontrovertible
37. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
gauche
equinox
Polymer
Recapitulate
38. Of or pertaining to money
Belie
kinetic
Nonsectarian
Pecuniary
39. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Abstemious
hubris
Respiration
Photosynthesis
40. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Ziggurat
Paradigm
Tectonic
41. The act of talking while or as if alone
Yeoman
Soliloguy
Chicanery
Bowdlerize
42. Full of trivial conversation
facetious
fiduciary
Vortex
loquacious
43. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
infrastructure
Totalitarian
Plagiarize
gamete
44. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Soliloguy
Quotidian
Paradigm
45. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
kowtow
Notarize
Vaccuous
Wrought
46. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Nihilism
Parameter
Lugubrious
Soliloguy
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
gamete
Mitosis
Notarize
kowtow
48. The official currency of the European Union
euro
lexicon
kinetic
Paradigm
49. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
facetious
deciduous
gamete
Wrought
50. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
diffident
Nanotechnology
Bowdlerize
facetious