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1. 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
Mitosis
Oligarchy
inculcate
Usurp
2. The act of talking while or as if alone
Oxidize
Paradigm
Antebellum
Soliloguy
3. Lacking interest or significance
Usurp
jejune
Supercilious
facetious
4. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
evanescent
Taxonomy
gamete
Thermodynamics
5. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Soliloguy
Totalitarian
Belie
Abrogate
6. (v) to set free or endow
Yeoman
enfranchise
Recapitulate
Vaccuous
7. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Paradigm
hypotenuse
Vehement
Thermodynamics
8. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
Lugubrious
Nomenclature
gamete
9. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Vortex
circumlocution
Totalitarian
gerrymander
10. A compound of high molecular weight
Paradigm
Soliloguy
Polymer
Nonsectarian
11. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Nonsectarian
hemoglobin
impeach
12. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Abjure
Polymer
inculcate
laissez-faire
13. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
equinox
Nihilism
Tempestuous
fatuous
14. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
impeach
Supercilious
enervate
15. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
hemoglobin
Parabola
Wrought
gauche
16. A half
fiduciary
Moiety
Abjure
Usurp
17. Whirling mass of movment
Thermodynamics
Vortex
Parameter
laissez-faire
18. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Nanotechnology
infrastructure
deciduous
Lugubrious
19. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Mitosis
Bowdlerize
Moiety
Tectonic
20. Full of trivial conversation
homogeneous
loquacious
gamete
Precipitous
21. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Auspicious
Nomenclature
Plagiarize
circumlocution
22. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
churlish
Plagiarize
Nanotechnology
23. Careless or irresponsible
Nonsectarian
feckless
Tautology
deciduous
24. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Quasar
Omnipotent
Nonsectarian
Abstemious
25. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
hypotenuse
Supercilious
deciduous
incognito
26. Showing strong feeling
Taxonomy
Belie
Vehement
gauche
27. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Totalitarian
evanescent
Plasma
circumnaviagte
28. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
diffident
filibuster
homogeneous
Moiety
29. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
lexicon
Quotidian
Photosynthesis
30. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Acumen
Winnow
Obsequious
Sanguine
31. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Sanguine
jejune
kowtow
Metamorphosis
32. Worked to shape by beating
Oligarchy
Wrought
epiphany
hemoglobin
33. A language user's knowledge of words
Abrogate
lexicon
Nonsectarian
loquacious
34. Vanishing
Abstemious
Oxidize
Precipitous
evanescent
35. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Reparation
Paradigm
Orthography
Acumen
36. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
kinetic
Vaccuous
Respiration
filibuster
37. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
interpolate
Reparation
Bellicose
38. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Supercilious
Oligarchy
loquacious
fiduciary
39. Leadership
hubris
equinox
hegemony
Abjure
40. (adj) harmful [to health]
Paradigm
Acumen
deleterious
Antebellum
41. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Notarize
equinox
Respiration
Chicanery
42. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
fiduciary
hemoglobin
circumlocution
43. The official currency of the European Union
Antebellum
Tautology
euro
homogeneous
44. (adj) rude - boorish
Yeoman
churlish
Recapitulate
Oxidize
45. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
fiduciary
Subjugate
deleterious
46. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Tautology
Abrogate
feckless
kowtow
47. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
fiduciary
Uncouous
Usurp
incognito
48. Before or exisiting before a war.
Belie
Taxonomy
Lugubrious
Antebellum
49. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
kowtow
equinox
Abjure
Sanguine
50. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Nomenclature
Tempestuous
Metamorphosis
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