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english
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1. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Parameter
Suffragist
kowtow
euro
2. A half
Moiety
Taxonomy
Xenophobe
gerrymander
3. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
fiduciary
impeach
homogeneous
Parameter
4. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
jejune
filibuster
Vortex
euro
5. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Taxonomy
Uncouous
deciduous
Nanotechnology
6. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
incontrovertible
Vaccuous
Reparation
chromosone
7. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
filibuster
hemoglobin
Xenophobe
enervate
8. A compound of high molecular weight
lexicon
chromosone
Polymer
Abjure
9. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Quasar
Uncouous
gerrymander
10. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Oligarchy
diffident
jejune
Nihilism
11. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
fiduciary
Taxonomy
Metamorphosis
hypotenuse
12. To take and use ideas from another's work
gerrymander
Plagiarize
Tempestuous
Suffragist
13. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
inculcate
fiduciary
Reparation
Mitosis
14. Technigue of classification
Taxonomy
lexicon
Nonsectarian
circumnaviagte
15. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Uncouous
impeach
Tempestuous
diffident
16. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
enfranchise
Abrogate
infrastructure
Usurp
17. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
infrastructure
Notarize
Recapitulate
Plagiarize
18. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Orthography
enfranchise
jejune
19. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Abjure
Bowdlerize
Metamorphosis
20. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Suffragist
Lugubrious
deleterious
21. Showing a lack of intelligence
kowtow
equinox
Photosynthesis
Vaccuous
22. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Notarize
incontrovertible
Supercilious
Precipitous
23. The act of talking while or as if alone
Bellicose
Thermodynamics
infrastructure
Soliloguy
24. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Respiration
Quasar
deleterious
25. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
lexicon
circumlocution
equinox
26. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
enervate
gauche
Winnow
Recapitulate
27. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Taxonomy
impeach
Totalitarian
28. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Sanguine
feckless
Soliloguy
29. Lacking interest or significance
circumnaviagte
epiphany
Plasma
jejune
30. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Totalitarian
Vortex
interpolate
31. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
hegemony
Chicanery
Bellicose
gamete
32. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
incontrovertible
Vehement
laissez-faire
gerrymander
33. Having ones identity concealed
Tautology
Bowdlerize
Nomenclature
incognito
34. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
facetious
evanescent
laissez-faire
35. Needless repetion of an idea
Abstemious
kinetic
Tautology
Moiety
36. Inclined or eager to fight.
Taxonomy
homogeneous
Bellicose
Oxidize
37. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Photosynthesis
Supercilious
Mitosis
fiduciary
38. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Obsequious
Abjure
circumnaviagte
Usurp
39. Full of trivial conversation
Taxonomy
Oligarchy
lexicon
loquacious
40. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
fiduciary
Metamorphosis
fatuous
Vehement
41. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
hypotenuse
Nonsectarian
impeach
enervate
42. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Totalitarian
feckless
Xenophobe
Bowdlerize
43. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Precipitous
facetious
Plagiarize
Yeoman
44. Vanishing
Obsequious
fatuous
evanescent
kowtow
45. 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
Lugubrious
Wrought
evanescent
Mitosis
46. Complacently or inanely foolish
Nanotechnology
fatuous
Abrogate
Plasma
47. Violent commotion
deciduous
Bellicose
laissez-faire
Tempestuous
48. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
laissez-faire
Mitosis
churlish
Oligarchy
49. Of or pertaining to money
Ziggurat
epiphany
Metamorphosis
Pecuniary
50. Promising success
Auspicious
Nihilism
Notarize
Tautology