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1. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
gauche
Omnipotent
Paradigm
2. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Omnipotent
Photosynthesis
kowtow
churlish
3. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
filibuster
Plagiarize
Vortex
4. Whirling mass of movment
enfranchise
Vortex
Oligarchy
Recapitulate
5. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
euro
filibuster
Yeoman
6. Having ones identity concealed
Plagiarize
incognito
laissez-faire
Usurp
7. Complacently or inanely foolish
Paradigm
Wrought
fatuous
Vaccuous
8. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
gamete
infrastructure
Nanotechnology
circumnaviagte
9. The official currency of the European Union
homogeneous
Yeoman
euro
impeach
10. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
fiduciary
gamete
Tectonic
11. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
Antebellum
kowtow
circumnaviagte
12. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Moiety
Nomenclature
Obsequious
13. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Tempestuous
fiduciary
hypotenuse
Omnipotent
14. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Paradigm
gauche
Sanguine
Suffragist
15. A compound of high molecular weight
Precipitous
Recapitulate
Polymer
Tautology
16. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
hypotenuse
Pecuniary
interpolate
Nihilism
17. 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
gerrymander
Plagiarize
Mitosis
fiduciary
18. (v) to set free or endow
loquacious
gauche
Quasar
enfranchise
19. To seperate
Omnipotent
Winnow
Vehement
impeach
20. The act of talking while or as if alone
Abstemious
jejune
Usurp
Soliloguy
21. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
Suffragist
hemoglobin
impeach
22. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Totalitarian
Metamorphosis
hegemony
Tautology
23. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
incontrovertible
homogeneous
Yeoman
24. To show to be false
Belie
laissez-faire
evanescent
Quasar
25. A half
interpolate
homogeneous
Moiety
filibuster
26. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
circumnaviagte
equinox
Parabola
kowtow
27. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Oligarchy
diffident
Nihilism
Ziggurat
28. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
epiphany
evanescent
Pecuniary
fiduciary
29. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Acumen
Oligarchy
Polymer
Nanotechnology
30. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Moiety
Obsequious
impeach
circumnaviagte
31. Inclined or eager to fight.
Vehement
Bellicose
Auspicious
Chicanery
32. Needless repetion of an idea
kowtow
Vortex
Tautology
Precipitous
33. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Acumen
Paradigm
churlish
34. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
irony
fiduciary
kowtow
35. Of the same kind
homogeneous
gauche
Subjugate
Abrogate
36. Technigue of classification
hegemony
Taxonomy
Moiety
Precipitous
37. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
euro
hemoglobin
Parabola
inculcate
38. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Bellicose
Plagiarize
evanescent
Paradigm
39. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Vehement
Uncouous
Sanguine
40. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Polymer
Quotidian
Belie
chromosone
41. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Sanguine
churlish
Plasma
Polymer
42. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Pecuniary
enervate
Nihilism
facetious
43. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Orthography
Tautology
gamete
Vehement
44. Showing a lack of intelligence
Orthography
Vaccuous
deleterious
Uncouous
45. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Oxidize
hubris
Abjure
Auspicious
46. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Vaccuous
Nomenclature
Orthography
homogeneous
47. Leadership
hegemony
Quasar
Acumen
Mitosis
48. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Polymer
Plagiarize
Reparation
Obsequious
49. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Respiration
Belie
Notarize
Nonsectarian
50. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Oligarchy
Paradigm
kinetic