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1. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Nanotechnology
irony
diffident
loquacious
2. Showing strong feeling
Photosynthesis
Plasma
Taxonomy
Vehement
3. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Pecuniary
Recapitulate
churlish
Photosynthesis
4. To bring under complete control
Recapitulate
Subjugate
expurgate
equinox
5. Not open to question or dispute
Abrogate
Vortex
Parameter
incontrovertible
6. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
circumnaviagte
enfranchise
hegemony
Sanguine
7. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Taxonomy
Vaccuous
gamete
8. Excessively flattering
facetious
enfranchise
Uncouous
Obsequious
9. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Parameter
circumnaviagte
Abrogate
Sanguine
10. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
euro
Reparation
Vortex
Obsequious
11. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Tautology
incognito
enfranchise
12. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
fiduciary
Tectonic
Obsequious
13. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
Nihilism
Antebellum
Plasma
14. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Wrought
Uncouous
Vortex
15. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Suffragist
Totalitarian
infrastructure
Oxidize
16. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Abrogate
epiphany
Nihilism
deciduous
17. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Winnow
inculcate
infrastructure
circumnaviagte
18. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Wrought
chromosone
Mitosis
hypotenuse
19. A language user's knowledge of words
homogeneous
lexicon
Totalitarian
Chicanery
20. Violent commotion
Pecuniary
gerrymander
Respiration
Tempestuous
21. Showing a lack of intelligence
gauche
Vaccuous
Obsequious
Vortex
22. 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
Nomenclature
feckless
Tautology
Mitosis
23. A half
circumnaviagte
Moiety
interpolate
feckless
24. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
infrastructure
expurgate
Xenophobe
Reparation
25. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Abstemious
Respiration
Lugubrious
Polymer
26. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Wrought
Reparation
inculcate
fatuous
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Suffragist
hemoglobin
Vaccuous
diffident
28. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Photosynthesis
Chicanery
Bellicose
deciduous
29. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
chromosone
circumlocution
Nihilism
Parameter
30. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
circumlocution
Soliloguy
Orthography
Lugubrious
31. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Recapitulate
Photosynthesis
Precipitous
Winnow
32. Leadership
hegemony
enfranchise
hubris
enervate
33. Excessive pride or self confidence
Chicanery
Antebellum
hubris
gerrymander
34. Having ones identity concealed
Tautology
Winnow
incognito
Nonsectarian
35. (adj) shedding leaves annually
loquacious
kowtow
deciduous
deleterious
36. Vanishing
Obsequious
evanescent
Tempestuous
Abrogate
37. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Subjugate
Omnipotent
Nihilism
38. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
circumnaviagte
incognito
hypotenuse
Moiety
39. Before or exisiting before a war.
irony
Wrought
expurgate
Antebellum
40. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Vortex
Abstemious
Acumen
Yeoman
41. Humorous - not meant seriously
hypotenuse
epiphany
Quasar
facetious
42. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
kinetic
gamete
Quasar
Tectonic
43. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
churlish
Precipitous
Supercilious
44. Of the same kind
Precipitous
enervate
homogeneous
Moiety
45. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
interpolate
fiduciary
Thermodynamics
Acumen
46. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Nomenclature
Notarize
Paradigm
Ziggurat
47. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Lugubrious
Acumen
Nomenclature
Nonsectarian
48. (v) to fly or sail around
epiphany
kinetic
Auspicious
circumnaviagte
49. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Lugubrious
Parameter
Xenophobe
Paradigm
50. The act of talking while or as if alone
gamete
Respiration
Lugubrious
Soliloguy