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english
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1. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Suffragist
Lugubrious
Chicanery
2. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Suffragist
Vehement
Omnipotent
Abrogate
3. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
filibuster
hemoglobin
Supercilious
deciduous
4. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
Uncouous
Totalitarian
impeach
5. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Omnipotent
Metamorphosis
Taxonomy
6. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Bellicose
Winnow
diffident
laissez-faire
7. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
filibuster
Chicanery
hypotenuse
Precipitous
8. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
infrastructure
Supercilious
deleterious
9. Not open to question or dispute
Winnow
circumnaviagte
fiduciary
incontrovertible
10. The time when day and night are of equal length
Taxonomy
equinox
inculcate
Vortex
11. Excessively flattering
diffident
Uncouous
Plagiarize
Recapitulate
12. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
hypotenuse
evanescent
Acumen
irony
13. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
jejune
Wrought
infrastructure
14. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
jejune
fiduciary
laissez-faire
gauche
15. Supplying motive force
Nanotechnology
kinetic
Abjure
circumlocution
16. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Taxonomy
lexicon
hypotenuse
enfranchise
17. Full of trivial conversation
Tectonic
Bowdlerize
loquacious
chromosone
18. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
loquacious
evanescent
enervate
Abstemious
19. Technigue of classification
Abrogate
Nanotechnology
Taxonomy
Sanguine
20. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Chicanery
inculcate
Plagiarize
deciduous
21. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Totalitarian
diffident
expurgate
22. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Vortex
Auspicious
hemoglobin
23. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Winnow
Thermodynamics
impeach
Tectonic
24. A language user's knowledge of words
hegemony
fiduciary
lexicon
Obsequious
25. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Abstemious
incognito
hegemony
Totalitarian
26. To take and use ideas from another's work
facetious
gauche
incontrovertible
Plagiarize
27. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Pecuniary
Mitosis
Totalitarian
28. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
infrastructure
Parabola
Obsequious
Nonsectarian
29. Of or pertaining to money
hypotenuse
Pecuniary
Tectonic
Abrogate
30. A compound of high molecular weight
Abrogate
Polymer
incognito
Plasma
31. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
infrastructure
Nihilism
Soliloguy
Uncouous
32. To show to be false
filibuster
Belie
Lugubrious
Respiration
33. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
homogeneous
Notarize
Quotidian
34. A half
Pecuniary
Mitosis
deleterious
Moiety
35. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
fiduciary
Vortex
enfranchise
diffident
36. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
gerrymander
diffident
Polymer
Yeoman
37. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
euro
Reparation
Supercilious
deleterious
38. 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
Notarize
Respiration
gauche
Mitosis
39. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Suffragist
incognito
fatuous
40. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Reparation
Xenophobe
inculcate
41. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Soliloguy
incognito
Moiety
Lugubrious
42. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Pecuniary
hubris
hypotenuse
gamete
43. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Oligarchy
Photosynthesis
Belie
Ziggurat
44. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Omnipotent
Uncouous
hemoglobin
45. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Plasma
enfranchise
Quasar
Parabola
46. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Respiration
Oligarchy
Vaccuous
Tautology
47. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Uncouous
circumlocution
Abjure
Thermodynamics
48. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
hegemony
Metamorphosis
diffident
infrastructure
49. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Precipitous
Paradigm
circumlocution
expurgate
50. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Orthography
inculcate
epiphany
feckless