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1. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Subjugate
Abrogate
lexicon
Parabola
2. Needless repetion of an idea
enervate
Tectonic
Tautology
Acumen
3. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
chromosone
Pecuniary
Nihilism
Polymer
4. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Metamorphosis
hegemony
Vortex
Parameter
5. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
equinox
Abstemious
kowtow
Obsequious
6. Leadership
Bowdlerize
hegemony
Winnow
Supercilious
7. Careless or irresponsible
Taxonomy
enervate
feckless
gamete
8. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
irony
lexicon
Totalitarian
9. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Orthography
gauche
Paradigm
Nonsectarian
10. Supplying motive force
circumnaviagte
Suffragist
kinetic
Reparation
11. Technigue of classification
hubris
Taxonomy
Polymer
Vaccuous
12. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
euro
laissez-faire
filibuster
Plagiarize
13. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Reparation
evanescent
Thermodynamics
infrastructure
14. Complacently or inanely foolish
kinetic
fatuous
Oligarchy
deleterious
15. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Metamorphosis
impeach
Reparation
interpolate
16. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Supercilious
Mitosis
euro
17. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Wrought
equinox
Nihilism
18. Humorous - not meant seriously
Nihilism
kowtow
facetious
Obsequious
19. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
Tectonic
Uncouous
interpolate
20. Before or exisiting before a war.
Moiety
Antebellum
homogeneous
Taxonomy
21. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
incognito
Tectonic
irony
hypotenuse
22. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Usurp
epiphany
kowtow
23. Excessive pride or self confidence
Nomenclature
Totalitarian
hubris
circumnaviagte
24. The official currency of the European Union
filibuster
Quasar
euro
Tempestuous
25. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
gamete
irony
Quotidian
26. Not open to question or dispute
Omnipotent
incontrovertible
enfranchise
gauche
27. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Bellicose
Abstemious
Nomenclature
28. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
impeach
Soliloguy
Oligarchy
Paradigm
29. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Plagiarize
lexicon
evanescent
30. A half
Soliloguy
Moiety
Winnow
Sanguine
31. Violent commotion
feckless
Nihilism
Tempestuous
Suffragist
32. Of the same kind
euro
homogeneous
Moiety
Orthography
33. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Bowdlerize
diffident
kinetic
34. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Quasar
incontrovertible
Notarize
Winnow
35. Showing a lack of intelligence
expurgate
Vaccuous
churlish
equinox
36. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Sanguine
impeach
Plasma
Belie
37. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Paradigm
Suffragist
deciduous
impeach
38. Vanishing
Recapitulate
hegemony
evanescent
Quotidian
39. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
hubris
Precipitous
deciduous
enervate
40. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Winnow
Acumen
Wrought
41. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Tautology
gamete
Photosynthesis
gerrymander
42. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Obsequious
Plasma
kinetic
Oxidize
43. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Bowdlerize
gamete
Abrogate
Quasar
44. To abolish by formal orr official means.
deleterious
interpolate
Subjugate
Abrogate
45. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Usurp
diffident
Quotidian
Totalitarian
46. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
inculcate
hypotenuse
fiduciary
Abjure
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Nonsectarian
Plagiarize
Abstemious
48. Promising success
Uncouous
hemoglobin
Auspicious
Vortex
49. Full of trivial conversation
Subjugate
loquacious
expurgate
Ziggurat
50. (adj) rude - boorish
Wrought
churlish
Precipitous
Vaccuous