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1. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
hubris
Plasma
Oxidize
chromosone
2. (v) to fly or sail around
Precipitous
Reparation
Taxonomy
circumnaviagte
3. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Abjure
kowtow
feckless
Usurp
4. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Auspicious
Bowdlerize
Photosynthesis
Totalitarian
5. Technigue of classification
Abrogate
Winnow
Taxonomy
laissez-faire
6. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
hubris
irony
Parameter
loquacious
7. (adj) shedding leaves annually
hubris
infrastructure
Plagiarize
deciduous
8. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
gamete
Orthography
Acumen
9. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Tectonic
Ziggurat
chromosone
10. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
Auspicious
Oligarchy
jejune
11. (adj) rude - boorish
enervate
Plagiarize
Antebellum
churlish
12. Not open to question or dispute
Quasar
interpolate
incontrovertible
feckless
13. Complacently or inanely foolish
Parameter
inculcate
fatuous
Subjugate
14. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Omnipotent
Orthography
jejune
Thermodynamics
15. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Pecuniary
chromosone
Xenophobe
Vortex
16. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Pecuniary
Yeoman
churlish
kowtow
17. Showing strong feeling
Parabola
Mitosis
Vehement
chromosone
18. A half
circumlocution
circumnaviagte
Omnipotent
Moiety
19. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
homogeneous
enfranchise
Obsequious
20. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Supercilious
Polymer
epiphany
chromosone
21. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Chicanery
laissez-faire
Notarize
Acumen
22. Before or exisiting before a war.
Orthography
Mitosis
lexicon
Antebellum
23. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
infrastructure
expurgate
Lugubrious
24. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
Usurp
Auspicious
epiphany
25. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
homogeneous
infrastructure
laissez-faire
Uncouous
26. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
deciduous
hemoglobin
Parameter
27. To show to be false
Taxonomy
homogeneous
interpolate
Belie
28. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Tautology
fiduciary
gamete
chromosone
29. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Tempestuous
chromosone
Totalitarian
lexicon
30. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Usurp
Totalitarian
gerrymander
enfranchise
31. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Wrought
Supercilious
impeach
Belie
32. Lacking interest or significance
circumnaviagte
Photosynthesis
jejune
lexicon
33. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Belie
equinox
Taxonomy
interpolate
34. Promising success
hemoglobin
Auspicious
Nomenclature
Chicanery
35. (adj) harmful [to health]
Supercilious
infrastructure
deleterious
Vaccuous
36. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Subjugate
euro
Nomenclature
Quasar
37. The official currency of the European Union
Usurp
euro
Bowdlerize
Mitosis
38. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
jejune
Abrogate
Nonsectarian
Quotidian
39. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
deciduous
Oxidize
Subjugate
40. Full of trivial conversation
inculcate
loquacious
Antebellum
incontrovertible
41. Supplying motive force
Tectonic
kinetic
Belie
Respiration
42. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Parabola
circumlocution
Moiety
43. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Vehement
kowtow
gamete
evanescent
44. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Obsequious
Abjure
hegemony
Sanguine
45. To abolish by formal orr official means.
enfranchise
expurgate
Abrogate
filibuster
46. The time when day and night are of equal length
Parabola
diffident
equinox
Mitosis
47. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Nomenclature
gerrymander
Precipitous
laissez-faire
48. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Nonsectarian
Chicanery
Abjure
Yeoman
49. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Usurp
irony
Vehement
laissez-faire
50. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Pecuniary
incognito
Belie