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1. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
laissez-faire
Abjure
Tautology
2. To show to be false
gamete
Quasar
Subjugate
Belie
3. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Recapitulate
Usurp
Taxonomy
Vortex
4. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Reparation
Wrought
irony
Soliloguy
5. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Omnipotent
Bellicose
inculcate
Chicanery
6. Excessively flattering
Tempestuous
Lugubrious
Antebellum
Uncouous
7. Showing a lack of intelligence
Nanotechnology
expurgate
Tempestuous
Vaccuous
8. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
equinox
facetious
Respiration
9. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Photosynthesis
Abstemious
Precipitous
10. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
hubris
Usurp
circumnaviagte
11. Vanishing
Parabola
evanescent
Pecuniary
Polymer
12. Technigue of classification
Tautology
Reparation
Taxonomy
interpolate
13. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
feckless
Metamorphosis
diffident
chromosone
14. Showing strong feeling
enfranchise
hubris
Vehement
Oxidize
15. Promising success
impeach
Auspicious
Abstemious
Paradigm
16. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
Acumen
lexicon
gamete
17. Having ones identity concealed
Notarize
Suffragist
equinox
incognito
18. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
Chicanery
Quasar
filibuster
19. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Xenophobe
Nihilism
Orthography
hypotenuse
20. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
hubris
Lugubrious
Pecuniary
Yeoman
21. The liquid part of blood or lymph
hypotenuse
facetious
Plasma
Photosynthesis
22. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Nanotechnology
Acumen
Abjure
Xenophobe
23. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Respiration
fiduciary
Reparation
Precipitous
24. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Usurp
Orthography
Supercilious
Lugubrious
25. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
enervate
hubris
fatuous
26. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Quasar
Suffragist
deciduous
Oxidize
27. Not open to question or dispute
laissez-faire
Auspicious
incontrovertible
Abrogate
28. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Reparation
Notarize
diffident
29. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Acumen
evanescent
Oligarchy
fatuous
30. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
hemoglobin
lexicon
enfranchise
31. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Nihilism
Abjure
Usurp
32. To bring under complete control
diffident
Subjugate
Abjure
fatuous
33. (v) to fly or sail around
Yeoman
Uncouous
circumnaviagte
equinox
34. A half
Nanotechnology
hegemony
Moiety
Tempestuous
35. Needless repetion of an idea
feckless
Mitosis
Xenophobe
Tautology
36. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Photosynthesis
fiduciary
kowtow
Obsequious
37. (adj) harmful [to health]
impeach
deleterious
Parabola
Winnow
38. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
enervate
Parameter
Nomenclature
Nihilism
39. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Nomenclature
Vaccuous
Subjugate
40. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Recapitulate
Polymer
epiphany
Abstemious
41. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Reparation
deciduous
Soliloguy
42. (adj) rude - boorish
Reparation
churlish
loquacious
filibuster
43. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Winnow
loquacious
Orthography
gauche
44. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Thermodynamics
Vehement
Obsequious
kowtow
45. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
fatuous
Recapitulate
Quasar
Tectonic
46. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Suffragist
kowtow
expurgate
47. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
kowtow
Omnipotent
lexicon
Totalitarian
48. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Thermodynamics
Parameter
Respiration
Sanguine
49. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Totalitarian
Sanguine
Oxidize
gamete
50. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Vaccuous
Thermodynamics
Polymer
Bowdlerize