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1. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Pecuniary
hypotenuse
Orthography
hegemony
2. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
jejune
Mitosis
Recapitulate
3. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
feckless
fiduciary
gamete
Usurp
4. Needless repetion of an idea
Abjure
hubris
Tautology
Uncouous
5. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
kowtow
Parameter
Nihilism
circumnaviagte
6. A technology executed on the scale of less than 100 nanometers - the goal of which is to control individual atoms and molecules - especially to create computer chips and other microscopic devices
Nomenclature
circumnaviagte
Taxonomy
Nanotechnology
7. Inclined or eager to fight.
Subjugate
Taxonomy
Quotidian
Bellicose
8. Of or pertaining to money
hemoglobin
Pecuniary
Thermodynamics
Plasma
9. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
churlish
infrastructure
gamete
Photosynthesis
10. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Subjugate
Abjure
Parameter
expurgate
11. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
fatuous
kinetic
circumnaviagte
Oligarchy
12. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Bellicose
Suffragist
Abjure
Parameter
13. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
kinetic
Polymer
Precipitous
14. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
Yeoman
Plagiarize
hegemony
15. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
interpolate
gerrymander
Xenophobe
Ziggurat
16. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Vortex
Photosynthesis
Metamorphosis
impeach
17. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Abjure
Parabola
gamete
Lugubrious
18. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Uncouous
Nihilism
Ziggurat
19. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Winnow
laissez-faire
Polymer
Parabola
20. Lacking interest or significance
expurgate
Wrought
jejune
impeach
21. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Moiety
Pecuniary
Parabola
22. Humorous - not meant seriously
Nonsectarian
Lugubrious
laissez-faire
facetious
23. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Usurp
filibuster
Tautology
Chicanery
24. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Belie
gerrymander
Acumen
25. To show to be false
Belie
Parameter
facetious
churlish
26. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
Antebellum
Parabola
Respiration
27. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Plagiarize
circumnaviagte
expurgate
28. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
epiphany
Oxidize
Lugubrious
irony
29. Violent commotion
gerrymander
Tempestuous
Photosynthesis
incognito
30. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Bellicose
Orthography
Totalitarian
diffident
31. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
deciduous
epiphany
Suffragist
Uncouous
32. A half
Oligarchy
Parameter
Moiety
gauche
33. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
enfranchise
laissez-faire
enervate
Photosynthesis
34. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Nanotechnology
fiduciary
Sanguine
Xenophobe
35. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
euro
Orthography
Tectonic
Suffragist
36. Vanishing
impeach
evanescent
churlish
Supercilious
37. Promising success
Abrogate
Auspicious
Quotidian
Sanguine
38. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Belie
hemoglobin
Nonsectarian
39. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
impeach
Thermodynamics
hubris
Photosynthesis
40. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Yeoman
Oxidize
Vaccuous
Nanotechnology
41. Showing a lack of intelligence
Quotidian
Vaccuous
facetious
deciduous
42. Showing strong feeling
Moiety
Subjugate
Polymer
Vehement
43. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
circumlocution
Yeoman
Auspicious
Plagiarize
44. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
enfranchise
Yeoman
Sanguine
gerrymander
45. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Thermodynamics
hypotenuse
Vehement
epiphany
46. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
kinetic
Vaccuous
Tautology
47. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
Wrought
filibuster
Mitosis
48. Worked to shape by beating
Nanotechnology
irony
Quasar
Wrought
49. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Plagiarize
inculcate
lexicon
50. Not open to question or dispute
Taxonomy
Mitosis
Soliloguy
incontrovertible