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1. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Acumen
homogeneous
facetious
Parabola
2. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Yeoman
hegemony
Vortex
expurgate
3. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Antebellum
Chicanery
Tempestuous
4. To seperate
Tectonic
Belie
Paradigm
Winnow
5. Needless repetion of an idea
Supercilious
Respiration
laissez-faire
Tautology
6. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nomenclature
homogeneous
kinetic
Nonsectarian
7. 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
hemoglobin
Mitosis
Respiration
jejune
8. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
enervate
epiphany
Orthography
Suffragist
9. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Quasar
Thermodynamics
fatuous
10. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Mitosis
Recapitulate
Winnow
Xenophobe
11. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Paradigm
Abjure
Nomenclature
loquacious
12. Leadership
Soliloguy
circumlocution
enervate
hegemony
13. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
Parameter
Usurp
Quotidian
14. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Auspicious
Precipitous
Chicanery
euro
15. Not open to question or dispute
gamete
Supercilious
incontrovertible
irony
16. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
hubris
laissez-faire
gauche
17. Lacking interest or significance
expurgate
jejune
Yeoman
Uncouous
18. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Precipitous
hemoglobin
Lugubrious
Auspicious
19. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Usurp
laissez-faire
kinetic
fiduciary
20. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Quasar
Abrogate
Lugubrious
Winnow
21. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Vehement
circumnaviagte
Soliloguy
22. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Pecuniary
Oxidize
enfranchise
23. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Acumen
epiphany
Antebellum
loquacious
24. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
lexicon
Subjugate
Pecuniary
25. Before or exisiting before a war.
Sanguine
Antebellum
Supercilious
Nihilism
26. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Parameter
Moiety
Suffragist
irony
27. A compound of high molecular weight
Winnow
Nanotechnology
Polymer
Chicanery
28. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
loquacious
Nomenclature
Acumen
29. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
jejune
Orthography
Oligarchy
30. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Oligarchy
interpolate
Usurp
Metamorphosis
31. Promising success
Mitosis
Auspicious
inculcate
Tectonic
32. (v) to deprive of force or strength
facetious
Nomenclature
enervate
deciduous
33. A language user's knowledge of words
Abrogate
lexicon
evanescent
churlish
34. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
Wrought
Moiety
Abjure
35. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Plagiarize
diffident
Ziggurat
homogeneous
36. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
evanescent
Parabola
Parameter
homogeneous
37. (v) to fly or sail around
deleterious
interpolate
Polymer
circumnaviagte
38. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
hubris
circumlocution
Reparation
Orthography
39. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
feckless
lexicon
kinetic
40. A half
Acumen
epiphany
Moiety
Parabola
41. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Vortex
Nanotechnology
Plagiarize
42. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Respiration
euro
gauche
irony
43. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Moiety
Belie
Wrought
Ziggurat
44. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
churlish
evanescent
Totalitarian
chromosone
45. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
churlish
Abstemious
Obsequious
46. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Sanguine
Recapitulate
Plasma
47. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Vaccuous
Metamorphosis
circumnaviagte
Photosynthesis
48. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Thermodynamics
Paradigm
Moiety
Usurp
49. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Oxidize
Thermodynamics
gerrymander
irony
50. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Xenophobe
loquacious
Reparation
Nomenclature