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english
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1. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
circumnaviagte
gamete
Parabola
Photosynthesis
2. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Chicanery
Bellicose
Supercilious
Winnow
3. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
filibuster
Suffragist
Polymer
4. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
Taxonomy
Bellicose
Antebellum
5. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Mitosis
Moiety
epiphany
Obsequious
6. (adj) harmful [to health]
epiphany
deleterious
Precipitous
hubris
7. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
lexicon
Recapitulate
gerrymander
facetious
8. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
jejune
facetious
Abstemious
9. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
fiduciary
Polymer
Usurp
hypotenuse
10. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Polymer
lexicon
incontrovertible
11. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Orthography
Recapitulate
Abjure
Parabola
12. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Plagiarize
Tectonic
Yeoman
13. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
evanescent
Belie
gauche
Tempestuous
14. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Suffragist
deciduous
Quotidian
15. Whirling mass of movment
Uncouous
deleterious
Vortex
Subjugate
16. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
gamete
hubris
Precipitous
17. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Suffragist
Sanguine
fiduciary
enervate
18. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
gerrymander
Quasar
Nihilism
Parameter
19. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
facetious
Mitosis
Antebellum
20. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Vortex
evanescent
Vehement
Parameter
21. Inclined or eager to fight.
Chicanery
enfranchise
Bellicose
diffident
22. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
euro
Ziggurat
circumlocution
23. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Tectonic
Vortex
facetious
kowtow
24. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
euro
Bowdlerize
Winnow
25. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
equinox
Lugubrious
hegemony
inculcate
26. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Metamorphosis
Soliloguy
Parabola
Tautology
27. To take and use ideas from another's work
Thermodynamics
Plagiarize
Parabola
Notarize
28. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
irony
infrastructure
enervate
Lugubrious
29. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Chicanery
fatuous
expurgate
Vehement
30. Complacently or inanely foolish
Oxidize
Bowdlerize
incontrovertible
fatuous
31. Having ones identity concealed
epiphany
Omnipotent
Recapitulate
incognito
32. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Acumen
Plasma
Nonsectarian
Wrought
33. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
enervate
circumnaviagte
Yeoman
34. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Oligarchy
incontrovertible
Nomenclature
Yeoman
35. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
euro
Precipitous
Bowdlerize
Usurp
36. Worked to shape by beating
Polymer
Wrought
gauche
Metamorphosis
37. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Xenophobe
Yeoman
epiphany
incontrovertible
38. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
enervate
Notarize
Pecuniary
Quasar
39. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Recapitulate
Pecuniary
Totalitarian
40. Careless or irresponsible
Yeoman
Chicanery
interpolate
feckless
41. (v) to fly or sail around
interpolate
jejune
circumnaviagte
Nomenclature
42. Of or pertaining to money
Ziggurat
circumlocution
Metamorphosis
Pecuniary
43. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Thermodynamics
Reparation
Antebellum
44. (adj) rude - boorish
loquacious
churlish
Precipitous
interpolate
45. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Respiration
Ziggurat
gamete
circumlocution
46. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
laissez-faire
Polymer
Oligarchy
Tautology
47. Full of trivial conversation
euro
laissez-faire
loquacious
gamete
48. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Abjure
deciduous
Respiration
irony
49. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Vehement
enervate
Bellicose
incognito
50. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Precipitous
Plasma
hubris