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1. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
Antebellum
epiphany
Oligarchy
2. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
Oligarchy
Totalitarian
Chicanery
3. Of the same kind
feckless
loquacious
homogeneous
churlish
4. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Lugubrious
Obsequious
Nihilism
5. Vanishing
Moiety
evanescent
Antebellum
euro
6. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gerrymander
gauche
Acumen
Subjugate
7. (v) to fly or sail around
Obsequious
enervate
circumnaviagte
Nonsectarian
8. Leadership
laissez-faire
Abrogate
hegemony
Suffragist
9. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fatuous
infrastructure
Metamorphosis
fiduciary
10. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
filibuster
Vehement
Thermodynamics
gerrymander
11. A compound of high molecular weight
Supercilious
Polymer
incontrovertible
Plasma
12. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Oligarchy
hegemony
impeach
fiduciary
13. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
circumlocution
Parabola
Mitosis
14. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
loquacious
Plagiarize
Polymer
15. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Nihilism
Lugubrious
Vortex
Precipitous
16. Showing a lack of intelligence
inculcate
Vaccuous
Suffragist
Quasar
17. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Totalitarian
Usurp
irony
Acumen
18. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Omnipotent
deleterious
Bowdlerize
enfranchise
19. Having ones identity concealed
circumnaviagte
incognito
expurgate
epiphany
20. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
gauche
Bellicose
Supercilious
gamete
21. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Lugubrious
Sanguine
enfranchise
Parameter
22. Before or exisiting before a war.
Wrought
expurgate
Parameter
Antebellum
23. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
infrastructure
circumnaviagte
Vehement
24. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Vehement
Ziggurat
enervate
laissez-faire
25. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Wrought
infrastructure
Orthography
Oxidize
26. Needless repetion of an idea
interpolate
Tautology
Uncouous
Oxidize
27. Humorous - not meant seriously
Sanguine
Tempestuous
facetious
Supercilious
28. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
evanescent
Omnipotent
incontrovertible
Metamorphosis
29. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
euro
Nanotechnology
Vehement
30. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Xenophobe
Oligarchy
Chicanery
Parabola
31. (v) to deprive of force or strength
circumnaviagte
Wrought
Sanguine
enervate
32. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Oxidize
Recapitulate
Acumen
Xenophobe
33. Violent commotion
Omnipotent
Tempestuous
hemoglobin
Mitosis
34. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
lexicon
Nihilism
evanescent
Recapitulate
35. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Orthography
epiphany
Pecuniary
Reparation
36. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Chicanery
Wrought
infrastructure
Vehement
37. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Notarize
Sanguine
Usurp
Omnipotent
38. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Obsequious
Plasma
Belie
39. Whirling mass of movment
euro
Vortex
lexicon
filibuster
40. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
diffident
deciduous
Mitosis
41. Inclined or eager to fight.
Reparation
Bellicose
Supercilious
Oxidize
42. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Abstemious
Parabola
Totalitarian
Tectonic
43. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Nonsectarian
Plasma
gerrymander
Quasar
44. Of or pertaining to money
Acumen
Sanguine
circumlocution
Pecuniary
45. A language user's knowledge of words
Abrogate
lexicon
Metamorphosis
Plasma
46. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Bowdlerize
Supercilious
feckless
gerrymander
47. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
kinetic
Auspicious
expurgate
Suffragist
48. Not open to question or dispute
Nomenclature
Uncouous
incontrovertible
Nonsectarian
49. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
interpolate
epiphany
Paradigm
hemoglobin
50. Promising success
hegemony
equinox
Plasma
Auspicious