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1. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Bowdlerize
Respiration
Recapitulate
Oligarchy
2. Of or pertaining to money
facetious
Pecuniary
Bowdlerize
Quasar
3. A language user's knowledge of words
Plagiarize
Winnow
kowtow
lexicon
4. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Photosynthesis
Usurp
Oxidize
Yeoman
5. Inclined or eager to fight.
Orthography
Mitosis
Bellicose
Parameter
6. Of the same kind
homogeneous
enervate
Tectonic
circumlocution
7. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
expurgate
Vehement
filibuster
8. 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
Usurp
Nanotechnology
facetious
filibuster
9. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
filibuster
Polymer
diffident
Usurp
10. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
deciduous
Respiration
circumnaviagte
Reparation
11. Humorous - not meant seriously
Respiration
Paradigm
Soliloguy
facetious
12. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
euro
Thermodynamics
interpolate
13. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
kinetic
Yeoman
Subjugate
Lugubrious
14. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
epiphany
Winnow
Nihilism
hypotenuse
15. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
inculcate
Notarize
epiphany
Polymer
16. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
epiphany
Notarize
Obsequious
Bellicose
17. (adj) rude - boorish
Tautology
homogeneous
churlish
diffident
18. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Lugubrious
diffident
lexicon
Vortex
19. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Parabola
Wrought
chromosone
20. Whirling mass of movment
Moiety
Precipitous
Vortex
Oxidize
21. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Bellicose
Sanguine
expurgate
gauche
22. Technigue of classification
Taxonomy
epiphany
chromosone
hypotenuse
23. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Yeoman
Recapitulate
Tempestuous
incontrovertible
24. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Oligarchy
Wrought
Bowdlerize
enfranchise
25. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Ziggurat
Tautology
Winnow
26. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Sanguine
Precipitous
hubris
Plasma
27. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Metamorphosis
kowtow
circumlocution
hegemony
28. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Sanguine
Supercilious
Totalitarian
Vehement
29. Vanishing
Vaccuous
hubris
infrastructure
evanescent
30. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Parabola
Omnipotent
gamete
31. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Tautology
feckless
impeach
Xenophobe
32. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
epiphany
deleterious
Chicanery
Ziggurat
33. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Uncouous
hypotenuse
Vortex
34. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
euro
Nanotechnology
Paradigm
filibuster
35. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Vaccuous
Abrogate
Photosynthesis
36. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Auspicious
Metamorphosis
Photosynthesis
Quasar
37. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Acumen
Uncouous
epiphany
Parameter
38. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Nanotechnology
feckless
Bowdlerize
39. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
diffident
Nanotechnology
gauche
jejune
40. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Winnow
equinox
Quotidian
Paradigm
41. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
fatuous
deleterious
epiphany
42. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
euro
Thermodynamics
deciduous
43. To bring under complete control
Winnow
hubris
Uncouous
Subjugate
44. The act of talking while or as if alone
homogeneous
Chicanery
Soliloguy
interpolate
45. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Lugubrious
Precipitous
Tempestuous
Paradigm
46. A compound of high molecular weight
Tectonic
Nomenclature
Omnipotent
Polymer
47. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Subjugate
Thermodynamics
gerrymander
Parabola
48. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
Lugubrious
Nanotechnology
deleterious
49. The official currency of the European Union
Winnow
Acumen
euro
homogeneous
50. Showing strong feeling
Uncouous
churlish
Precipitous
Vehement