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1. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
inculcate
Nomenclature
jejune
2. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
equinox
Tautology
Suffragist
fiduciary
3. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
epiphany
Supercilious
feckless
4. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
kinetic
Soliloguy
Thermodynamics
Oligarchy
5. (adj) rude - boorish
Precipitous
impeach
churlish
Notarize
6. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Nihilism
Soliloguy
Recapitulate
circumlocution
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
loquacious
churlish
hemoglobin
Paradigm
8. Having ones identity concealed
kinetic
Abstemious
Plasma
incognito
9. Careless or irresponsible
Auspicious
gauche
Yeoman
feckless
10. (v) to set free or endow
Reparation
enfranchise
gamete
Tempestuous
11. Promising success
Vaccuous
epiphany
Tectonic
Auspicious
12. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Supercilious
Winnow
Sanguine
Suffragist
13. (adj) harmful [to health]
Lugubrious
deleterious
Totalitarian
hubris
14. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
Chicanery
Precipitous
Uncouous
15. Complacently or inanely foolish
fiduciary
Quasar
Belie
fatuous
16. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Plasma
incognito
irony
interpolate
17. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Plasma
Abrogate
Uncouous
18. 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
loquacious
feckless
Nanotechnology
Subjugate
19. Full of trivial conversation
gerrymander
loquacious
Moiety
incognito
20. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Yeoman
Thermodynamics
equinox
Usurp
21. To seperate
expurgate
Recapitulate
Winnow
Suffragist
22. Leadership
diffident
Abjure
hegemony
impeach
23. Humorous - not meant seriously
Vehement
deleterious
facetious
incognito
24. Technigue of classification
incognito
loquacious
Taxonomy
Tectonic
25. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Wrought
churlish
circumlocution
26. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Parabola
Oxidize
gamete
Obsequious
27. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
irony
homogeneous
Tectonic
28. (v) to deprive of force or strength
filibuster
kinetic
enervate
diffident
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Subjugate
feckless
Winnow
Acumen
30. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Nanotechnology
circumnaviagte
Vaccuous
31. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tempestuous
Tectonic
Quasar
epiphany
32. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
enervate
hypotenuse
euro
circumnaviagte
33. A half
Uncouous
Abjure
diffident
Moiety
34. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Nomenclature
churlish
Yeoman
35. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
feckless
equinox
hypotenuse
36. The act of talking while or as if alone
Belie
Oligarchy
Subjugate
Soliloguy
37. To show to be false
inculcate
Parameter
Nanotechnology
Belie
38. Before or exisiting before a war.
deleterious
Parameter
Antebellum
gamete
39. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Auspicious
Oxidize
inculcate
Notarize
40. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
churlish
Notarize
Oxidize
impeach
41. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
lexicon
Subjugate
incontrovertible
42. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Suffragist
feckless
Parameter
Nonsectarian
43. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Precipitous
Xenophobe
Nihilism
Oxidize
44. 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
Ziggurat
kowtow
enfranchise
45. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Respiration
Lugubrious
Pecuniary
Polymer
46. Vanishing
Nihilism
expurgate
jejune
evanescent
47. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Lugubrious
homogeneous
Suffragist
Orthography
48. A compound of high molecular weight
Respiration
Subjugate
irony
Polymer
49. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Chicanery
Quasar
laissez-faire
Xenophobe
50. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Bellicose
Tectonic
Taxonomy
Photosynthesis