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1. The liquid part of blood or lymph
feckless
Acumen
Plasma
Paradigm
2. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
incognito
Photosynthesis
Wrought
3. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
interpolate
gamete
Ziggurat
kowtow
4. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Nihilism
Bellicose
Metamorphosis
Chicanery
5. Showing strong feeling
Abjure
Winnow
irony
Vehement
6. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
infrastructure
loquacious
expurgate
jejune
7. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
churlish
filibuster
Nomenclature
Vehement
8. Promising success
circumnaviagte
Precipitous
hegemony
Auspicious
9. Keen - insight - shrewdness
equinox
Acumen
Wrought
Nanotechnology
10. Vanishing
incontrovertible
evanescent
Parabola
hemoglobin
11. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Chicanery
jejune
Moiety
Nomenclature
12. Full of trivial conversation
incognito
Supercilious
loquacious
Tempestuous
13. To bring under complete control
Winnow
Subjugate
laissez-faire
Moiety
14. Needless repetion of an idea
interpolate
Tautology
Xenophobe
Precipitous
15. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
euro
Acumen
Ziggurat
16. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Tautology
Precipitous
gauche
circumnaviagte
17. Whirling mass of movment
Acumen
enervate
Vortex
Plagiarize
18. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
circumlocution
Quotidian
incontrovertible
hemoglobin
19. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
facetious
Nomenclature
impeach
Reparation
20. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Mitosis
Bellicose
Precipitous
21. A language user's knowledge of words
Metamorphosis
Vortex
lexicon
homogeneous
22. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
Tautology
Moiety
Bellicose
23. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
fatuous
circumlocution
Oxidize
Totalitarian
24. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
enervate
fatuous
gauche
25. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Vehement
Notarize
hubris
Totalitarian
26. Careless or irresponsible
fatuous
facetious
feckless
deleterious
27. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
incontrovertible
Tempestuous
Tectonic
Quasar
28. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
evanescent
Metamorphosis
jejune
Abstemious
29. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
equinox
gauche
feckless
Yeoman
30. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Quotidian
Tempestuous
gauche
circumlocution
31. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Yeoman
impeach
epiphany
Vaccuous
32. 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
Photosynthesis
Suffragist
enfranchise
Nanotechnology
33. 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
hypotenuse
Polymer
irony
Mitosis
34. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
interpolate
Plagiarize
Oligarchy
chromosone
35. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Soliloguy
Vehement
Abjure
36. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
Photosynthesis
Abjure
hypotenuse
37. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
lexicon
Parabola
gerrymander
Abstemious
38. Excessive pride or self confidence
fiduciary
Plagiarize
jejune
hubris
39. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Notarize
Vaccuous
Belie
40. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
facetious
Tectonic
Orthography
41. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
kinetic
Usurp
circumlocution
Tautology
42. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
circumlocution
Wrought
Orthography
43. (adj) shedding leaves annually
gerrymander
hemoglobin
deciduous
Abjure
44. Before or exisiting before a war.
Pecuniary
Antebellum
expurgate
Thermodynamics
45. Leadership
equinox
interpolate
hegemony
Plagiarize
46. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
enervate
inculcate
incontrovertible
Tautology
47. (v) to fly or sail around
Quotidian
deciduous
Sanguine
circumnaviagte
48. Inclined or eager to fight.
hemoglobin
Bellicose
Wrought
irony
49. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Ziggurat
kowtow
Nonsectarian
Reparation
50. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Reparation
Abjure
impeach
gauche