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1. The liquid part of blood or lymph
epiphany
Wrought
Precipitous
Plasma
2. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
deleterious
Quotidian
expurgate
Pecuniary
3. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
chromosone
jejune
Obsequious
Mitosis
4. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Paradigm
gerrymander
churlish
Abstemious
5. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
enfranchise
Thermodynamics
Nomenclature
6. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Orthography
Uncouous
Yeoman
Paradigm
7. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
impeach
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
8. (adj) rude - boorish
feckless
churlish
chromosone
Vortex
9. Technigue of classification
Pecuniary
Orthography
Taxonomy
Yeoman
10. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
hemoglobin
feckless
Oligarchy
Respiration
11. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Belie
Nonsectarian
laissez-faire
Tectonic
12. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
diffident
Notarize
Chicanery
13. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
homogeneous
interpolate
Acumen
circumlocution
14. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
lexicon
Uncouous
fiduciary
15. Sythesis of complex organic materials
infrastructure
gauche
Taxonomy
Photosynthesis
16. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Supercilious
hubris
irony
gamete
17. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Nihilism
Acumen
Abstemious
18. A compound of high molecular weight
Vortex
Polymer
Ziggurat
impeach
19. Leadership
hegemony
kowtow
interpolate
Thermodynamics
20. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
irony
Nihilism
circumlocution
21. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
loquacious
Supercilious
deleterious
Mitosis
22. Showing strong feeling
inculcate
Vehement
Obsequious
homogeneous
23. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
hubris
Moiety
expurgate
24. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Plagiarize
Vaccuous
Precipitous
25. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Tectonic
kowtow
Thermodynamics
expurgate
26. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
incontrovertible
Nanotechnology
Antebellum
laissez-faire
27. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
hubris
infrastructure
deciduous
Omnipotent
28. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
laissez-faire
expurgate
hypotenuse
Plasma
29. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
fiduciary
Reparation
Bowdlerize
30. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Quasar
Notarize
Sanguine
deciduous
31. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
diffident
Suffragist
Photosynthesis
Uncouous
32. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
interpolate
kowtow
Recapitulate
gauche
33. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Belie
Quotidian
Photosynthesis
hemoglobin
34. A half
Notarize
Moiety
hypotenuse
Metamorphosis
35. Violent commotion
Thermodynamics
Auspicious
Tempestuous
Usurp
36. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Quasar
laissez-faire
Bowdlerize
Ziggurat
37. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
incognito
Orthography
impeach
Xenophobe
38. 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
Auspicious
Tempestuous
hegemony
Nanotechnology
39. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Nanotechnology
Subjugate
laissez-faire
40. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
incognito
Acumen
Respiration
diffident
41. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
gauche
Supercilious
facetious
Ziggurat
42. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Tempestuous
Nanotechnology
Pecuniary
Metamorphosis
43. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Respiration
fatuous
Lugubrious
Sanguine
44. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Vehement
Nonsectarian
deciduous
Quasar
45. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
gerrymander
expurgate
Yeoman
46. To bring under complete control
Photosynthesis
Subjugate
hegemony
incognito
47. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
evanescent
feckless
gamete
facetious
48. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
infrastructure
Suffragist
Paradigm
49. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Reparation
irony
Soliloguy
50. (adj) shedding leaves annually
fatuous
Vaccuous
euro
deciduous