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1. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Lugubrious
Nanotechnology
gauche
kowtow
2. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Taxonomy
deciduous
filibuster
Oligarchy
3. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Orthography
euro
Pecuniary
4. To show to be false
kinetic
Recapitulate
Nihilism
Belie
5. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
gamete
Supercilious
impeach
jejune
6. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
fatuous
filibuster
circumnaviagte
Oxidize
7. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
hypotenuse
Abstemious
Xenophobe
equinox
8. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Vehement
Abrogate
Bowdlerize
Pecuniary
9. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Tempestuous
kinetic
Recapitulate
10. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Subjugate
Sanguine
Parabola
Yeoman
11. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Auspicious
filibuster
Plasma
Ziggurat
12. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
lexicon
enfranchise
Nihilism
Paradigm
13. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
hegemony
Totalitarian
impeach
Nomenclature
14. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
diffident
Parabola
Chicanery
Polymer
15. Showing strong feeling
Lugubrious
Vehement
gerrymander
Wrought
16. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Antebellum
Mitosis
churlish
laissez-faire
17. Violent commotion
Thermodynamics
homogeneous
lexicon
Tempestuous
18. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Belie
infrastructure
Chicanery
Metamorphosis
19. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Vehement
inculcate
kowtow
Lugubrious
20. Worked to shape by beating
Ziggurat
Wrought
laissez-faire
Chicanery
21. A half
interpolate
Lugubrious
Thermodynamics
Moiety
22. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Oxidize
Plasma
Acumen
deciduous
23. A compound of high molecular weight
Notarize
Vaccuous
Polymer
equinox
24. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Belie
Chicanery
hemoglobin
Polymer
25. The official currency of the European Union
enfranchise
Tectonic
Quotidian
euro
26. The act of talking while or as if alone
Suffragist
Soliloguy
Plasma
lexicon
27. Complacently or inanely foolish
Vehement
Thermodynamics
lexicon
fatuous
28. Whirling mass of movment
Tautology
Vortex
euro
Notarize
29. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
irony
Auspicious
laissez-faire
30. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Oligarchy
Acumen
Usurp
Yeoman
31. Not open to question or dispute
Abrogate
Auspicious
incontrovertible
Nomenclature
32. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
chromosone
Vaccuous
Usurp
Abjure
33. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
hemoglobin
Oxidize
Winnow
34. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
interpolate
Quasar
homogeneous
Vehement
35. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
feckless
fatuous
Polymer
36. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Taxonomy
circumlocution
Uncouous
epiphany
37. Of or pertaining to money
Quasar
Pecuniary
facetious
Nihilism
38. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Pecuniary
Metamorphosis
kowtow
chromosone
39. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Vehement
chromosone
Paradigm
Pecuniary
40. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
incontrovertible
Parabola
Vortex
41. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Plagiarize
Supercilious
Metamorphosis
deleterious
42. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
irony
Chicanery
Belie
43. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Nonsectarian
incognito
filibuster
44. 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
Yeoman
Photosynthesis
Uncouous
Mitosis
45. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
enfranchise
Supercilious
Tectonic
Quotidian
46. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Reparation
enervate
expurgate
facetious
47. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
hypotenuse
filibuster
Quasar
Respiration
48. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Photosynthesis
kinetic
diffident
Paradigm
49. The time when day and night are of equal length
diffident
enfranchise
equinox
Auspicious
50. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
hubris
incognito
expurgate
Nomenclature