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1. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Photosynthesis
fiduciary
Chicanery
2. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Bowdlerize
laissez-faire
kowtow
Nonsectarian
3. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
deciduous
gauche
Recapitulate
Notarize
4. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Tempestuous
interpolate
Chicanery
Abstemious
5. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Orthography
Plasma
Reparation
Tectonic
6. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
gauche
incontrovertible
Usurp
Ziggurat
7. To bring under complete control
Abstemious
Subjugate
Totalitarian
feckless
8. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
feckless
Omnipotent
impeach
hemoglobin
9. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Tectonic
Polymer
gamete
Respiration
10. Of or pertaining to money
circumlocution
Pecuniary
hegemony
Winnow
11. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Abrogate
Supercilious
incognito
laissez-faire
12. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
enfranchise
Parameter
diffident
Paradigm
13. A half
kowtow
homogeneous
Obsequious
Moiety
14. (adj) harmful [to health]
epiphany
Antebellum
deleterious
Supercilious
15. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Vaccuous
Obsequious
Winnow
Yeoman
16. Inclined or eager to fight.
infrastructure
Bellicose
Xenophobe
Metamorphosis
17. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Winnow
Respiration
Tautology
18. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Wrought
gerrymander
Vaccuous
Orthography
19. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Respiration
Quotidian
Taxonomy
20. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Winnow
Lugubrious
Taxonomy
Thermodynamics
21. Before or exisiting before a war.
Bowdlerize
Quotidian
gerrymander
Antebellum
22. The liquid part of blood or lymph
hemoglobin
feckless
Plasma
Metamorphosis
23. To show to be false
Suffragist
Belie
Tautology
hegemony
24. Leadership
Plagiarize
hegemony
evanescent
incontrovertible
25. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
fatuous
kowtow
Soliloguy
gauche
26. A compound of high molecular weight
Abrogate
Polymer
Suffragist
Paradigm
27. To seperate
Winnow
Photosynthesis
Sanguine
Precipitous
28. Whirling mass of movment
Vaccuous
inculcate
facetious
Vortex
29. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
hegemony
Lugubrious
homogeneous
30. Violent commotion
Nanotechnology
Bellicose
gauche
Tempestuous
31. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
fatuous
Photosynthesis
Thermodynamics
diffident
32. 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
Moiety
diffident
Paradigm
33. (v) to fly or sail around
fatuous
Photosynthesis
circumnaviagte
Precipitous
34. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Oxidize
Auspicious
Parameter
euro
35. Technigue of classification
Uncouous
evanescent
Taxonomy
Tautology
36. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Oligarchy
Plasma
feckless
37. Humorous - not meant seriously
Acumen
facetious
Bowdlerize
Nomenclature
38. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Tectonic
Nonsectarian
Abstemious
Suffragist
39. Showing strong feeling
homogeneous
Vehement
feckless
Polymer
40. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Moiety
equinox
Abrogate
41. Keen - insight - shrewdness
hypotenuse
Acumen
Usurp
Bowdlerize
42. Vanishing
evanescent
Ziggurat
Reparation
Uncouous
43. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Sanguine
churlish
Chicanery
Oxidize
44. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
hegemony
filibuster
Tautology
hemoglobin
45. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Antebellum
gauche
Reparation
46. Not open to question or dispute
Vortex
incontrovertible
evanescent
Lugubrious
47. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
facetious
epiphany
Xenophobe
infrastructure
48. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
kowtow
Abrogate
Auspicious
49. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Subjugate
Nonsectarian
diffident
Vaccuous
50. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Omnipotent
Moiety
Auspicious