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1. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
infrastructure
gamete
Metamorphosis
2. Violent commotion
interpolate
Tempestuous
Soliloguy
enfranchise
3. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Usurp
irony
diffident
4. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Pecuniary
hemoglobin
hubris
5. Of the same kind
euro
laissez-faire
homogeneous
fiduciary
6. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Photosynthesis
Oxidize
Chicanery
Bowdlerize
7. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
loquacious
Abstemious
kinetic
Orthography
8. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
Notarize
hubris
Moiety
9. The act of talking while or as if alone
Ziggurat
evanescent
Yeoman
Soliloguy
10. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Thermodynamics
Parabola
Abjure
Quotidian
11. To seperate
Sanguine
Supercilious
Winnow
Yeoman
12. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Lugubrious
Precipitous
Oxidize
13. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Abjure
Plagiarize
Paradigm
Lugubrious
14. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Mitosis
Recapitulate
Omnipotent
fatuous
15. Lacking interest or significance
fatuous
jejune
evanescent
loquacious
16. (v) to deprive of force or strength
fiduciary
lexicon
interpolate
enervate
17. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Plasma
Suffragist
Vortex
Acumen
18. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Auspicious
feckless
diffident
19. Worked to shape by beating
Taxonomy
Bellicose
Wrought
Parameter
20. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
incognito
kowtow
churlish
Nomenclature
21. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Vortex
infrastructure
churlish
hemoglobin
22. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
kowtow
irony
Subjugate
facetious
23. Excessively flattering
kinetic
Nomenclature
Thermodynamics
Uncouous
24. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
incontrovertible
gamete
euro
lexicon
25. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
deciduous
Mitosis
Parameter
inculcate
26. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Antebellum
Nonsectarian
Moiety
Bowdlerize
27. Showing strong feeling
Uncouous
euro
Vehement
equinox
28. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Bowdlerize
Notarize
irony
Vortex
29. A half
Reparation
deleterious
Moiety
kinetic
30. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Vaccuous
Oligarchy
Supercilious
inculcate
31. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Antebellum
Nihilism
epiphany
interpolate
32. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Usurp
Obsequious
Acumen
Nihilism
33. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Abstemious
Parameter
Suffragist
Thermodynamics
34. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
kinetic
Abjure
Metamorphosis
Vaccuous
35. Before or exisiting before a war.
Bellicose
Antebellum
Paradigm
euro
36. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
hubris
Supercilious
Nonsectarian
jejune
37. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Nihilism
Yeoman
infrastructure
Tectonic
38. Showing a lack of intelligence
Sanguine
Vaccuous
Suffragist
Bowdlerize
39. Whirling mass of movment
Bellicose
Vortex
Belie
diffident
40. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
circumlocution
diffident
Pecuniary
41. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
jejune
Omnipotent
Chicanery
42. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
Quotidian
Winnow
Bellicose
43. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Belie
Recapitulate
Moiety
44. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Abjure
Omnipotent
Oxidize
Bowdlerize
45. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Obsequious
gauche
chromosone
Plasma
46. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Antebellum
gauche
Notarize
47. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Orthography
Sanguine
Antebellum
kowtow
48. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
impeach
Pecuniary
interpolate
49. (adj) rude - boorish
epiphany
kowtow
churlish
Bowdlerize
50. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Paradigm
deciduous
Vortex