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1. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Vortex
Lugubrious
Ziggurat
Parabola
2. Supplying motive force
circumlocution
Nonsectarian
kinetic
epiphany
3. To bring under complete control
Tautology
Nomenclature
Subjugate
interpolate
4. (adj) rude - boorish
equinox
Winnow
homogeneous
churlish
5. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Abstemious
homogeneous
incognito
enervate
6. Not open to question or dispute
Obsequious
incontrovertible
Chicanery
interpolate
7. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Ziggurat
Notarize
Photosynthesis
8. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
circumlocution
enervate
Thermodynamics
Xenophobe
9. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Usurp
Orthography
gerrymander
circumlocution
10. Full of trivial conversation
deleterious
Plagiarize
gamete
loquacious
11. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
gamete
feckless
Quasar
Winnow
12. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Soliloguy
Tautology
lexicon
Sanguine
13. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
expurgate
Respiration
Oligarchy
Nanotechnology
14. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
chromosone
Respiration
Chicanery
15. (v) to set free or endow
kowtow
enfranchise
Auspicious
Soliloguy
16. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
Antebellum
Precipitous
enfranchise
17. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Vaccuous
Polymer
Nomenclature
Tectonic
18. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hegemony
Tectonic
Soliloguy
deciduous
19. 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
Nanotechnology
chromosone
facetious
Paradigm
20. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Totalitarian
equinox
deleterious
inculcate
21. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Nonsectarian
gamete
gerrymander
impeach
22. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Plagiarize
Omnipotent
Respiration
Bellicose
23. Of the same kind
Quasar
Lugubrious
homogeneous
Subjugate
24. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
fiduciary
Thermodynamics
Lugubrious
Soliloguy
25. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
filibuster
Mitosis
Quotidian
Recapitulate
26. Promising success
Auspicious
Bellicose
Quasar
Reparation
27. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
gamete
Recapitulate
Photosynthesis
28. Whirling mass of movment
Sanguine
feckless
Suffragist
Vortex
29. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
lexicon
loquacious
homogeneous
Totalitarian
30. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
circumlocution
Nihilism
interpolate
Omnipotent
31. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
equinox
Acumen
Thermodynamics
32. Vanishing
Supercilious
Recapitulate
hegemony
evanescent
33. (adj) harmful [to health]
Tautology
fiduciary
Tempestuous
deleterious
34. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Antebellum
infrastructure
Chicanery
Yeoman
35. Leadership
Paradigm
hegemony
Metamorphosis
Chicanery
36. Showing a lack of intelligence
Tempestuous
Notarize
Vaccuous
kinetic
37. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Suffragist
gamete
Tectonic
Abjure
38. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Notarize
Usurp
Abstemious
Parabola
39. A half
diffident
gerrymander
circumnaviagte
Moiety
40. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Antebellum
Nomenclature
hubris
41. Showing strong feeling
infrastructure
Sanguine
Soliloguy
Vehement
42. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Nomenclature
irony
Vehement
Abjure
43. To abolish by formal orr official means.
homogeneous
Moiety
Abrogate
impeach
44. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Ziggurat
epiphany
Plagiarize
45. Lacking interest or significance
evanescent
Vortex
Oligarchy
jejune
46. To show to be false
hubris
jejune
Belie
kowtow
47. Needless repetion of an idea
Bowdlerize
gerrymander
incontrovertible
Tautology
48. The time when day and night are of equal length
Photosynthesis
equinox
Lugubrious
Sanguine
49. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Omnipotent
Abrogate
Ziggurat
Lugubrious
50. Careless or irresponsible
churlish
feckless
Usurp
Suffragist
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