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1. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Vortex
enervate
Subjugate
2. Lacking interest or significance
Orthography
jejune
Sanguine
laissez-faire
3. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
deleterious
deciduous
inculcate
4. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
feckless
Wrought
expurgate
incontrovertible
5. (v) to fly or sail around
interpolate
Tempestuous
deciduous
circumnaviagte
6. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
epiphany
Quotidian
Xenophobe
Bowdlerize
7. A half
Moiety
Tautology
Sanguine
Plagiarize
8. Humorous - not meant seriously
fatuous
diffident
facetious
Yeoman
9. To seperate
Vehement
Metamorphosis
equinox
Winnow
10. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Bellicose
chromosone
kinetic
Yeoman
11. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
enervate
epiphany
fatuous
12. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Metamorphosis
Thermodynamics
Parabola
Winnow
13. Careless or irresponsible
epiphany
Obsequious
Vehement
feckless
14. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Metamorphosis
Xenophobe
laissez-faire
15. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
feckless
Nomenclature
Supercilious
Chicanery
16. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Nanotechnology
homogeneous
fatuous
17. Having ones identity concealed
Recapitulate
laissez-faire
infrastructure
incognito
18. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Yeoman
deciduous
Antebellum
Lugubrious
19. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
chromosone
Chicanery
evanescent
20. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Bowdlerize
Polymer
Omnipotent
21. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
churlish
Thermodynamics
filibuster
Yeoman
22. Worked to shape by beating
interpolate
lexicon
Wrought
Metamorphosis
23. Technigue of classification
irony
Belie
kowtow
Taxonomy
24. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
loquacious
Suffragist
Oligarchy
filibuster
25. Complacently or inanely foolish
Vehement
fatuous
Bellicose
Ziggurat
26. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Usurp
Parameter
evanescent
infrastructure
27. Of the same kind
Abrogate
homogeneous
equinox
inculcate
28. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Obsequious
Orthography
Omnipotent
lexicon
29. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Vehement
expurgate
Supercilious
30. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
Parabola
Nomenclature
Moiety
31. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Bowdlerize
incognito
Vehement
32. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Oligarchy
impeach
Taxonomy
circumlocution
33. A compound of high molecular weight
Abstemious
Tempestuous
Xenophobe
Polymer
34. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
homogeneous
Nihilism
loquacious
35. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
facetious
Winnow
Bowdlerize
Nonsectarian
36. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Polymer
filibuster
Wrought
inculcate
37. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
gamete
fiduciary
circumlocution
Parabola
38. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
impeach
kinetic
Quasar
Xenophobe
39. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Taxonomy
Bowdlerize
euro
Oligarchy
40. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Tautology
jejune
Winnow
gerrymander
41. To abolish by formal orr official means.
homogeneous
Abrogate
Notarize
Paradigm
42. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Wrought
fiduciary
Nihilism
chromosone
43. Leadership
Uncouous
Precipitous
hegemony
enfranchise
44. Vanishing
Suffragist
Nonsectarian
Tautology
evanescent
45. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Parabola
homogeneous
Nanotechnology
46. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Bellicose
Soliloguy
Obsequious
47. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Oxidize
Lugubrious
Plasma
48. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Mitosis
Quotidian
Recapitulate
expurgate
49. Full of trivial conversation
Bowdlerize
loquacious
Winnow
evanescent
50. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
epiphany
impeach
Taxonomy
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