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1. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Acumen
Notarize
loquacious
2. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
Metamorphosis
interpolate
Vortex
3. Before or exisiting before a war.
chromosone
Subjugate
jejune
Antebellum
4. (adj) shedding leaves annually
infrastructure
fiduciary
deciduous
Belie
5. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Nomenclature
Omnipotent
jejune
Supercilious
6. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Nonsectarian
Acumen
hegemony
gauche
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
fatuous
Plasma
hemoglobin
Tectonic
8. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Acumen
equinox
Suffragist
9. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
enervate
Quasar
Nomenclature
10. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
impeach
Sanguine
irony
Lugubrious
11. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Uncouous
Notarize
kinetic
12. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
chromosone
deleterious
Omnipotent
13. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
interpolate
Sanguine
Plasma
Nanotechnology
14. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Obsequious
enervate
circumlocution
hypotenuse
15. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Polymer
Ziggurat
incontrovertible
16. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
euro
Notarize
Oligarchy
Respiration
17. To abolish by formal orr official means.
hegemony
Photosynthesis
Usurp
Abrogate
18. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Parabola
lexicon
Paradigm
homogeneous
19. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Uncouous
Oligarchy
Parameter
Xenophobe
20. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
expurgate
Pecuniary
Yeoman
Acumen
21. Humorous - not meant seriously
Vaccuous
gerrymander
Totalitarian
facetious
22. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
impeach
incontrovertible
interpolate
23. Whirling mass of movment
Polymer
Quasar
hemoglobin
Vortex
24. Vanishing
Uncouous
lexicon
Suffragist
evanescent
25. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
epiphany
Quasar
Photosynthesis
26. A compound of high molecular weight
hubris
Polymer
Ziggurat
filibuster
27. Full of trivial conversation
Acumen
Sanguine
Abjure
loquacious
28. Having ones identity concealed
gerrymander
incognito
Polymer
Abjure
29. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Paradigm
Tectonic
Precipitous
30. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Respiration
Auspicious
Vehement
31. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Precipitous
Oxidize
Respiration
Obsequious
32. Sythesis of complex organic materials
filibuster
Photosynthesis
feckless
Supercilious
33. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Wrought
hubris
Recapitulate
Subjugate
34. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Vehement
infrastructure
Thermodynamics
Quasar
35. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Photosynthesis
Xenophobe
filibuster
36. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Abrogate
Precipitous
Pecuniary
37. The liquid part of blood or lymph
incognito
Plasma
Nihilism
gamete
38. Leadership
hegemony
Moiety
circumlocution
Antebellum
39. Showing a lack of intelligence
Nihilism
interpolate
Omnipotent
Vaccuous
40. (adj) rude - boorish
jejune
Obsequious
churlish
expurgate
41. (adj) harmful [to health]
Subjugate
deleterious
Abstemious
chromosone
42. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
Nonsectarian
Thermodynamics
equinox
43. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
incognito
Respiration
Omnipotent
Vaccuous
44. Of the same kind
Recapitulate
jejune
epiphany
homogeneous
45. A half
feckless
Polymer
laissez-faire
Moiety
46. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
incognito
Bellicose
Ziggurat
Oligarchy
47. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Mitosis
incontrovertible
enfranchise
48. 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
Recapitulate
Mitosis
lexicon
Tempestuous
49. Technigue of classification
fiduciary
equinox
irony
Taxonomy
50. Excessively flattering
Ziggurat
Respiration
Uncouous
Taxonomy