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1. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
Moiety
circumnaviagte
evanescent
2. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Supercilious
Ziggurat
equinox
3. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Notarize
Xenophobe
Oligarchy
Thermodynamics
4. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Plasma
Chicanery
Nomenclature
Sanguine
5. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
epiphany
filibuster
incontrovertible
Tectonic
6. Whirling mass of movment
gamete
Vortex
Uncouous
incognito
7. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Bellicose
Ziggurat
Thermodynamics
Winnow
8. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Tectonic
Reparation
homogeneous
9. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
feckless
Mitosis
Omnipotent
deleterious
10. Supplying motive force
gauche
kinetic
Oxidize
facetious
11. A half
Moiety
Taxonomy
Nihilism
infrastructure
12. 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
enfranchise
Wrought
Nanotechnology
Abrogate
13. 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
incognito
Soliloguy
Sanguine
Mitosis
14. Technigue of classification
Totalitarian
loquacious
Abjure
Taxonomy
15. Excessive pride or self confidence
jejune
hegemony
Pecuniary
hubris
16. Worked to shape by beating
Yeoman
evanescent
Wrought
Mitosis
17. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
enervate
Parabola
gerrymander
Oligarchy
18. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Bowdlerize
Nonsectarian
hubris
19. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Quotidian
laissez-faire
Nomenclature
homogeneous
20. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Ziggurat
laissez-faire
expurgate
churlish
21. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Abrogate
chromosone
Wrought
22. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
circumnaviagte
Bowdlerize
lexicon
23. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
gauche
evanescent
chromosone
kinetic
24. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
churlish
Plagiarize
deciduous
Nihilism
25. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hubris
Sanguine
deciduous
Suffragist
26. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
chromosone
Abjure
fiduciary
Quasar
27. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Vehement
gamete
Chicanery
infrastructure
28. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Sanguine
Oligarchy
hegemony
Ziggurat
29. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Supercilious
Taxonomy
inculcate
Notarize
30. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
deciduous
Omnipotent
Obsequious
fiduciary
31. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
Xenophobe
fiduciary
Nihilism
32. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Quasar
Precipitous
Quotidian
33. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
incontrovertible
kinetic
hypotenuse
Supercilious
34. Of or pertaining to money
gauche
feckless
Pecuniary
hubris
35. (v) to set free or endow
Yeoman
gamete
enfranchise
Notarize
36. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
equinox
homogeneous
Wrought
37. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
Bowdlerize
infrastructure
gerrymander
38. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Soliloguy
Respiration
Acumen
gerrymander
39. To show to be false
Oxidize
Belie
churlish
Uncouous
40. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Xenophobe
Bowdlerize
Metamorphosis
Tempestuous
41. (v) to fly or sail around
gerrymander
circumnaviagte
Parameter
Chicanery
42. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Suffragist
Obsequious
Notarize
43. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Tautology
Photosynthesis
enervate
44. Of the same kind
Nonsectarian
homogeneous
Wrought
Antebellum
45. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Quotidian
Abstemious
Photosynthesis
46. Humorous - not meant seriously
enervate
kowtow
facetious
feckless
47. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
laissez-faire
Recapitulate
Thermodynamics
irony
48. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Photosynthesis
Antebellum
Recapitulate
Ziggurat
49. A compound of high molecular weight
Totalitarian
deciduous
Metamorphosis
Polymer
50. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
facetious
Auspicious
Polymer