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1. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
fatuous
infrastructure
Orthography
2. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Tautology
chromosone
Notarize
3. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Paradigm
Ziggurat
Oligarchy
fiduciary
4. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
interpolate
Metamorphosis
Photosynthesis
Omnipotent
5. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Yeoman
jejune
Tautology
6. Promising success
Oxidize
jejune
Auspicious
feckless
7. A half
Moiety
gauche
Usurp
Lugubrious
8. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Chicanery
Abjure
Abrogate
enfranchise
9. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
interpolate
equinox
Paradigm
Xenophobe
10. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Suffragist
expurgate
Orthography
hegemony
11. To bring under complete control
Parameter
euro
Nanotechnology
Subjugate
12. (adj) rude - boorish
kinetic
Wrought
loquacious
churlish
13. The time when day and night are of equal length
Oligarchy
feckless
deciduous
equinox
14. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Auspicious
epiphany
Thermodynamics
15. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Vortex
Totalitarian
Subjugate
16. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Ziggurat
Paradigm
Yeoman
Thermodynamics
17. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Usurp
infrastructure
Abstemious
Nomenclature
18. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Nomenclature
Subjugate
gamete
Abjure
19. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
loquacious
Sanguine
Supercilious
circumnaviagte
20. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Reparation
Sanguine
Abrogate
Precipitous
21. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
fatuous
Plagiarize
Usurp
Recapitulate
22. To take and use ideas from another's work
Yeoman
loquacious
gerrymander
Plagiarize
23. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Totalitarian
epiphany
Quasar
Auspicious
24. Inclined or eager to fight.
diffident
Acumen
homogeneous
Bellicose
25. To seperate
Recapitulate
Oxidize
Winnow
Nihilism
26. To show to be false
inculcate
feckless
Nihilism
Belie
27. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Yeoman
Totalitarian
loquacious
impeach
28. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Totalitarian
Moiety
Quasar
gauche
29. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
enervate
Metamorphosis
Oligarchy
equinox
30. Vanishing
enfranchise
evanescent
Usurp
Auspicious
31. Leadership
Nomenclature
filibuster
Thermodynamics
hegemony
32. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Abjure
Pecuniary
Parameter
Bowdlerize
33. Showing a lack of intelligence
Oligarchy
Quotidian
Vaccuous
Precipitous
34. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Precipitous
Recapitulate
chromosone
loquacious
35. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
hemoglobin
Soliloguy
Paradigm
chromosone
36. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
equinox
Moiety
Antebellum
gerrymander
37. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Precipitous
enfranchise
lexicon
38. (adj) shedding leaves annually
epiphany
jejune
churlish
deciduous
39. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Belie
lexicon
Pecuniary
impeach
40. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
incognito
inculcate
Obsequious
homogeneous
41. Complacently or inanely foolish
Vehement
hegemony
fatuous
Quotidian
42. Not open to question or dispute
hegemony
Totalitarian
Oxidize
incontrovertible
43. Of or pertaining to money
Moiety
Omnipotent
enervate
Pecuniary
44. Careless or irresponsible
Oxidize
Abrogate
feckless
Nihilism
45. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Abrogate
Quotidian
Recapitulate
46. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Bowdlerize
Recapitulate
filibuster
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Tempestuous
Plagiarize
Obsequious
hemoglobin
48. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
feckless
Thermodynamics
Antebellum
gauche
49. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
epiphany
Wrought
Mitosis
50. Lacking interest or significance
incognito
Oligarchy
Winnow
jejune