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1. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Parameter
Lugubrious
incontrovertible
2. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Auspicious
Orthography
Polymer
Plasma
3. Lacking interest or significance
interpolate
jejune
expurgate
Totalitarian
4. The time when day and night are of equal length
Abjure
hubris
enfranchise
equinox
5. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
Winnow
Nonsectarian
infrastructure
6. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
incontrovertible
equinox
Obsequious
Recapitulate
7. A half
Moiety
interpolate
chromosone
Acumen
8. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Photosynthesis
Lugubrious
Suffragist
9. Whirling mass of movment
Mitosis
hemoglobin
Vortex
facetious
10. (v) to deprive of force or strength
hypotenuse
enervate
Auspicious
Lugubrious
11. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Parameter
gauche
circumlocution
Supercilious
12. Showing strong feeling
laissez-faire
chromosone
Chicanery
Vehement
13. To seperate
Winnow
Yeoman
Pecuniary
Nanotechnology
14. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Plagiarize
Notarize
filibuster
Vaccuous
15. The act of talking while or as if alone
Lugubrious
Sanguine
Soliloguy
Subjugate
16. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
kowtow
interpolate
Vortex
Nonsectarian
17. (adj) harmful [to health]
Supercilious
Wrought
deleterious
inculcate
18. 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
interpolate
enfranchise
Ziggurat
Nanotechnology
19. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Totalitarian
Belie
Recapitulate
20. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Plasma
diffident
hypotenuse
Chicanery
21. Before or exisiting before a war.
Chicanery
Ziggurat
Antebellum
epiphany
22. Promising success
Auspicious
Sanguine
Respiration
Abrogate
23. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Nonsectarian
impeach
Totalitarian
24. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
hemoglobin
Supercilious
euro
Totalitarian
25. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Sanguine
gerrymander
Oligarchy
26. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
enervate
Bowdlerize
Uncouous
Paradigm
27. Inclined or eager to fight.
gerrymander
Bellicose
Vaccuous
Uncouous
28. Of the same kind
gamete
Nihilism
facetious
homogeneous
29. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Paradigm
Abjure
Metamorphosis
filibuster
30. Not open to question or dispute
Thermodynamics
gauche
Reparation
incontrovertible
31. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Plasma
interpolate
hegemony
inculcate
32. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
circumlocution
Parabola
Quotidian
feckless
33. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Abrogate
expurgate
Lugubrious
34. A language user's knowledge of words
deleterious
lexicon
Moiety
Mitosis
35. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Nonsectarian
filibuster
Notarize
feckless
36. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
hypotenuse
Parabola
Abstemious
37. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
Respiration
chromosone
Orthography
38. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
Nanotechnology
Oxidize
Obsequious
39. To show to be false
irony
Belie
Oxidize
Oligarchy
40. To take and use ideas from another's work
Mitosis
equinox
Plagiarize
chromosone
41. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Yeoman
circumlocution
Plagiarize
epiphany
42. 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
incontrovertible
Vehement
Respiration
43. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
Nanotechnology
Paradigm
Nihilism
44. Careless or irresponsible
Quotidian
feckless
Winnow
Nomenclature
45. Supplying motive force
kinetic
equinox
hegemony
euro
46. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Parameter
Orthography
Abstemious
47. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
hypotenuse
impeach
Subjugate
enfranchise
48. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
impeach
enervate
gerrymander
Winnow
49. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
Taxonomy
Vehement
Photosynthesis
50. Technigue of classification
Taxonomy
Subjugate
enfranchise
Usurp