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1. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Abstemious
Thermodynamics
fiduciary
2. Excessively flattering
infrastructure
Paradigm
Plasma
Uncouous
3. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Obsequious
Sanguine
circumnaviagte
facetious
4. The time when day and night are of equal length
Quotidian
equinox
Mitosis
Bellicose
5. Worked to shape by beating
Uncouous
hypotenuse
Wrought
Nanotechnology
6. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
homogeneous
Soliloguy
Bowdlerize
Abjure
7. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Nonsectarian
Recapitulate
diffident
hypotenuse
8. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
incontrovertible
Abrogate
Photosynthesis
Oligarchy
9. Complacently or inanely foolish
epiphany
fatuous
Supercilious
Bellicose
10. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
kowtow
Pecuniary
feckless
11. Whirling mass of movment
laissez-faire
Vortex
Quasar
jejune
12. (v) to set free or endow
expurgate
enfranchise
Quasar
Lugubrious
13. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Precipitous
Xenophobe
Nomenclature
Uncouous
14. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Nomenclature
lexicon
Orthography
15. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Orthography
enervate
Abstemious
Abjure
16. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
interpolate
jejune
fatuous
Reparation
17. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Tautology
gerrymander
Winnow
18. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
feckless
Metamorphosis
Parabola
Quasar
19. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Quotidian
fiduciary
interpolate
Obsequious
20. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nomenclature
laissez-faire
Nonsectarian
Mitosis
21. Violent commotion
Xenophobe
diffident
Tempestuous
Auspicious
22. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
infrastructure
hypotenuse
Moiety
Ziggurat
23. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Tectonic
filibuster
Oxidize
Metamorphosis
24. Vanishing
Omnipotent
fatuous
Plasma
evanescent
25. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Acumen
enervate
Nihilism
26. To show to be false
Auspicious
Antebellum
Chicanery
Belie
27. A language user's knowledge of words
filibuster
lexicon
Parameter
Mitosis
28. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
homogeneous
Xenophobe
circumnaviagte
Usurp
29. Promising success
Nomenclature
Auspicious
Bowdlerize
Orthography
30. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
churlish
Plasma
Polymer
31. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
filibuster
Pecuniary
Abjure
Metamorphosis
32. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Omnipotent
euro
irony
33. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
hegemony
Uncouous
Antebellum
Quotidian
34. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Vehement
Auspicious
Thermodynamics
35. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
deciduous
Parabola
impeach
36. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
fiduciary
Subjugate
epiphany
37. Having ones identity concealed
fiduciary
Oxidize
incognito
Suffragist
38. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Oxidize
incontrovertible
Parabola
39. Lacking interest or significance
Orthography
Totalitarian
jejune
Parameter
40. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Quotidian
Oligarchy
Subjugate
41. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
loquacious
jejune
Respiration
Chicanery
42. Before or exisiting before a war.
Parabola
Pecuniary
Wrought
Antebellum
43. The act of talking while or as if alone
Belie
kowtow
Polymer
Soliloguy
44. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
fiduciary
circumlocution
Quasar
45. Full of trivial conversation
Nanotechnology
Respiration
Tectonic
loquacious
46. Excessive pride or self confidence
Pecuniary
hubris
Parabola
inculcate
47. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Reparation
Oligarchy
Ziggurat
deciduous
48. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
irony
Winnow
interpolate
Nihilism
49. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Soliloguy
circumnaviagte
Tautology
50. Humorous - not meant seriously
Parameter
facetious
Nonsectarian
Abjure