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1. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
kinetic
chromosone
Ziggurat
Uncouous
2. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
hubris
Metamorphosis
Usurp
feckless
3. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
gerrymander
Tectonic
laissez-faire
hemoglobin
4. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Tautology
evanescent
loquacious
circumlocution
5. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Winnow
Abstemious
enervate
6. The time when day and night are of equal length
Vaccuous
equinox
facetious
Thermodynamics
7. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
Pecuniary
facetious
Lugubrious
8. A half
Moiety
Pecuniary
Obsequious
Parabola
9. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Ziggurat
Taxonomy
Acumen
expurgate
10. A compound of high molecular weight
Plagiarize
expurgate
Polymer
loquacious
11. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
churlish
Wrought
Quasar
Xenophobe
12. Having ones identity concealed
Parameter
Xenophobe
euro
incognito
13. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Vortex
Parabola
Tectonic
Oxidize
14. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Parameter
Nonsectarian
Belie
Notarize
15. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Pecuniary
Obsequious
circumnaviagte
16. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Nonsectarian
Suffragist
kinetic
Obsequious
17. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Lugubrious
enervate
deciduous
Bellicose
18. Supplying motive force
Nihilism
Abstemious
kinetic
Bowdlerize
19. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Paradigm
Photosynthesis
loquacious
20. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Pecuniary
impeach
diffident
deciduous
21. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Soliloguy
Pecuniary
circumlocution
inculcate
22. The official currency of the European Union
hegemony
Bowdlerize
euro
Parameter
23. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Nomenclature
Abjure
Bowdlerize
24. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Tautology
Mitosis
infrastructure
Paradigm
25. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Vehement
expurgate
Thermodynamics
Metamorphosis
26. (v) to fly or sail around
Oligarchy
Polymer
circumnaviagte
irony
27. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Metamorphosis
Tautology
Oxidize
28. The liquid part of blood or lymph
facetious
Mitosis
Totalitarian
Plasma
29. To abolish by formal orr official means.
enervate
incognito
Xenophobe
Abrogate
30. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Nanotechnology
irony
Xenophobe
31. Violent commotion
Suffragist
Acumen
Orthography
Tempestuous
32. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Usurp
Supercilious
Sanguine
Auspicious
33. (v) to set free or endow
Bellicose
Usurp
enfranchise
infrastructure
34. Promising success
Suffragist
Auspicious
epiphany
Acumen
35. Technigue of classification
circumnaviagte
Recapitulate
Taxonomy
Nomenclature
36. The act of talking while or as if alone
Moiety
gamete
Soliloguy
Notarize
37. (adj) rude - boorish
Parameter
expurgate
churlish
euro
38. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Obsequious
Oligarchy
Bellicose
Parabola
39. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Yeoman
Sanguine
Auspicious
40. Lacking interest or significance
Lugubrious
fatuous
jejune
Recapitulate
41. Leadership
interpolate
Nonsectarian
inculcate
hegemony
42. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
euro
Mitosis
hemoglobin
Nonsectarian
43. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
Reparation
filibuster
enervate
44. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
evanescent
Uncouous
Nomenclature
45. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
gerrymander
Reparation
Polymer
epiphany
46. Whirling mass of movment
Suffragist
Vortex
kinetic
kowtow
47. To show to be false
Belie
Plagiarize
lexicon
hemoglobin
48. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Quotidian
Wrought
Subjugate
49. To take and use ideas from another's work
Winnow
Plagiarize
hegemony
lexicon
50. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Chicanery
fiduciary
feckless
Nanotechnology