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1. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Bellicose
gamete
impeach
Obsequious
2. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
evanescent
Oligarchy
loquacious
3. (v) to set free or endow
Parabola
deleterious
Notarize
enfranchise
4. (adj) harmful [to health]
Tectonic
Recapitulate
deleterious
Tautology
5. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
laissez-faire
filibuster
deleterious
feckless
6. The time when day and night are of equal length
incontrovertible
equinox
Polymer
Paradigm
7. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Bowdlerize
Parabola
loquacious
gauche
8. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
deleterious
impeach
Tautology
9. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
expurgate
circumnaviagte
Yeoman
Vortex
10. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Paradigm
Nonsectarian
Subjugate
11. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Supercilious
hypotenuse
Vaccuous
12. Before or exisiting before a war.
diffident
euro
Metamorphosis
Antebellum
13. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
kowtow
Subjugate
enfranchise
14. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Nanotechnology
chromosone
feckless
Bowdlerize
15. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
fiduciary
Abstemious
hemoglobin
Abjure
16. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Acumen
churlish
Bellicose
17. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Bowdlerize
hypotenuse
Reparation
laissez-faire
18. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
kowtow
gamete
Parameter
Obsequious
19. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Antebellum
deleterious
chromosone
impeach
20. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
impeach
infrastructure
evanescent
Recapitulate
21. Worked to shape by beating
enfranchise
Lugubrious
Polymer
Wrought
22. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Quotidian
Abstemious
inculcate
fiduciary
23. A half
Moiety
gauche
kowtow
hemoglobin
24. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Bowdlerize
Recapitulate
Ziggurat
interpolate
25. 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
Nanotechnology
Soliloguy
Wrought
Yeoman
26. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
Vaccuous
feckless
Bellicose
27. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
incontrovertible
Recapitulate
Yeoman
Chicanery
28. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Omnipotent
incognito
Supercilious
interpolate
29. Humorous - not meant seriously
circumlocution
Metamorphosis
Nonsectarian
facetious
30. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Precipitous
Totalitarian
gerrymander
Abjure
31. A compound of high molecular weight
Acumen
Polymer
Bowdlerize
evanescent
32. Careless or irresponsible
enfranchise
facetious
lexicon
feckless
33. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Tautology
Xenophobe
diffident
34. Promising success
gamete
Auspicious
Metamorphosis
Sanguine
35. 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
filibuster
kinetic
Bowdlerize
36. To show to be false
Reparation
churlish
Uncouous
Belie
37. Supplying motive force
Respiration
Orthography
kinetic
Parameter
38. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Polymer
Lugubrious
Nanotechnology
incontrovertible
39. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
irony
hubris
Usurp
Bellicose
40. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Nanotechnology
hubris
deleterious
Orthography
41. (adj) rude - boorish
Wrought
churlish
Soliloguy
infrastructure
42. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
equinox
Tempestuous
Suffragist
chromosone
43. Of or pertaining to money
Taxonomy
Bellicose
Nanotechnology
Pecuniary
44. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Reparation
Quotidian
Supercilious
Orthography
45. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Quotidian
Paradigm
Parameter
Tectonic
46. Full of trivial conversation
Mitosis
jejune
loquacious
fiduciary
47. Vanishing
Winnow
hegemony
evanescent
Notarize
48. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Sanguine
Vortex
expurgate
49. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
loquacious
filibuster
Metamorphosis
hemoglobin
50. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Wrought
Paradigm
incognito
deciduous