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1. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
gamete
Yeoman
Abjure
2. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Oxidize
Sanguine
Winnow
Precipitous
3. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Sanguine
Quasar
Quotidian
Subjugate
4. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Nomenclature
feckless
Vortex
5. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Tectonic
diffident
laissez-faire
6. To abolish by formal orr official means.
infrastructure
expurgate
Acumen
Abrogate
7. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Nonsectarian
Orthography
Abjure
filibuster
8. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Parabola
Wrought
Totalitarian
9. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
kowtow
epiphany
Subjugate
Usurp
10. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
infrastructure
gerrymander
Plasma
11. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Mitosis
Omnipotent
Nonsectarian
Vaccuous
12. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
hegemony
Abjure
Nonsectarian
Sanguine
13. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Mitosis
evanescent
Nanotechnology
14. Before or exisiting before a war.
loquacious
Mitosis
enervate
Antebellum
15. 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
Usurp
Mitosis
hemoglobin
Supercilious
16. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Parabola
Respiration
facetious
Bowdlerize
17. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Plagiarize
kowtow
Auspicious
18. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
kowtow
filibuster
Nihilism
19. Lacking interest or significance
Ziggurat
jejune
evanescent
hegemony
20. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Subjugate
Nanotechnology
Supercilious
Wrought
21. The official currency of the European Union
Paradigm
euro
Lugubrious
Taxonomy
22. Careless or irresponsible
infrastructure
feckless
Subjugate
incognito
23. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
hypotenuse
infrastructure
Belie
Chicanery
24. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Omnipotent
lexicon
fiduciary
25. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Paradigm
equinox
Lugubrious
26. Technigue of classification
circumlocution
Taxonomy
Thermodynamics
Winnow
27. (adj) rude - boorish
Sanguine
Nihilism
churlish
Parabola
28. Full of trivial conversation
hemoglobin
Soliloguy
Bellicose
loquacious
29. Showing strong feeling
Taxonomy
hypotenuse
Supercilious
Vehement
30. A compound of high molecular weight
Bellicose
Abstemious
Obsequious
Polymer
31. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Abrogate
euro
fiduciary
Pecuniary
32. Sythesis of complex organic materials
fatuous
Winnow
Photosynthesis
chromosone
33. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Oligarchy
Wrought
Acumen
Soliloguy
34. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Omnipotent
Plagiarize
interpolate
35. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
gamete
Nanotechnology
Bellicose
36. Excessively flattering
Paradigm
feckless
Vaccuous
Uncouous
37. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
enervate
Suffragist
Xenophobe
homogeneous
38. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Antebellum
Pecuniary
Precipitous
hemoglobin
39. (adj) shedding leaves annually
lexicon
deciduous
Quasar
Metamorphosis
40. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Moiety
infrastructure
hemoglobin
41. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
facetious
gauche
equinox
42. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
deleterious
Parameter
incognito
gerrymander
43. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
Polymer
Obsequious
circumnaviagte
44. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Oligarchy
chromosone
Notarize
deciduous
45. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Parabola
irony
Omnipotent
incognito
46. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
gauche
Omnipotent
Abjure
hegemony
47. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Oligarchy
Nonsectarian
euro
Nomenclature
48. Violent commotion
incontrovertible
Tempestuous
kowtow
Moiety
49. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Precipitous
Quasar
Totalitarian
Moiety
50. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Winnow
Respiration
Abrogate