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1. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Nonsectarian
circumnaviagte
facetious
irony
2. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
hemoglobin
inculcate
incontrovertible
Metamorphosis
3. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Tectonic
Abstemious
Xenophobe
filibuster
4. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
hemoglobin
Metamorphosis
Nihilism
deleterious
5. Vanishing
Plasma
Nomenclature
evanescent
Soliloguy
6. (adj) harmful [to health]
incontrovertible
filibuster
Tautology
deleterious
7. Needless repetion of an idea
kinetic
Paradigm
hypotenuse
Tautology
8. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Antebellum
Wrought
Tectonic
9. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Bowdlerize
Subjugate
Usurp
10. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Chicanery
Supercilious
Auspicious
expurgate
11. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Notarize
Nihilism
enervate
12. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
fiduciary
Abstemious
hemoglobin
Yeoman
13. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Plagiarize
interpolate
Reparation
Plasma
14. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Supercilious
Paradigm
Uncouous
enervate
15. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Suffragist
Precipitous
Acumen
16. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Nanotechnology
churlish
Quotidian
17. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Quasar
Obsequious
Abrogate
impeach
18. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Wrought
Usurp
Antebellum
Omnipotent
19. Sythesis of complex organic materials
kinetic
Photosynthesis
homogeneous
circumlocution
20. Of the same kind
facetious
homogeneous
Reparation
Plagiarize
21. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Photosynthesis
fatuous
Tectonic
22. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
hubris
fiduciary
Obsequious
deleterious
23. Humorous - not meant seriously
Taxonomy
expurgate
Orthography
facetious
24. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
deleterious
hypotenuse
Precipitous
Belie
25. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Subjugate
feckless
diffident
infrastructure
26. Keen - insight - shrewdness
infrastructure
Winnow
Omnipotent
Acumen
27. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
fatuous
inculcate
hemoglobin
Bowdlerize
28. Showing a lack of intelligence
Suffragist
Vaccuous
homogeneous
Ziggurat
29. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Winnow
chromosone
Moiety
30. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Thermodynamics
Paradigm
lexicon
Acumen
31. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
fatuous
Taxonomy
Nihilism
32. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Xenophobe
Tectonic
Wrought
Winnow
33. (adj) rude - boorish
Precipitous
churlish
Omnipotent
Orthography
34. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Respiration
epiphany
Parabola
deciduous
35. 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
hegemony
euro
Nonsectarian
Nanotechnology
36. 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
fiduciary
Mitosis
Totalitarian
churlish
37. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Oxidize
gauche
chromosone
laissez-faire
38. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Vaccuous
filibuster
Bowdlerize
gamete
39. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Tempestuous
evanescent
gauche
Reparation
40. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
facetious
Sanguine
interpolate
hegemony
41. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
circumnaviagte
enervate
gerrymander
gamete
42. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
feckless
Nihilism
Wrought
43. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
Abstemious
Suffragist
Oxidize
44. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
incontrovertible
Oxidize
Notarize
Orthography
45. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
lexicon
Notarize
fiduciary
Tectonic
46. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Pecuniary
evanescent
incontrovertible
gamete
47. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
jejune
Oligarchy
Wrought
Usurp
48. Having ones identity concealed
Oxidize
incognito
Obsequious
Winnow
49. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
hemoglobin
Paradigm
euro
50. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
impeach
Moiety
Supercilious
Suffragist