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1. (adj) harmful [to health]
interpolate
deleterious
hegemony
Abjure
2. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Quasar
fiduciary
circumnaviagte
3. Technigue of classification
Xenophobe
facetious
Taxonomy
Yeoman
4. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Reparation
hubris
Plasma
Quotidian
5. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
hubris
Chicanery
Tempestuous
6. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Oligarchy
Photosynthesis
circumlocution
Bellicose
7. Worked to shape by beating
jejune
Usurp
Wrought
lexicon
8. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
churlish
fiduciary
Recapitulate
enfranchise
9. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Thermodynamics
Lugubrious
Reparation
Sanguine
10. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Tectonic
Xenophobe
Supercilious
equinox
11. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Quotidian
Bowdlerize
Polymer
12. Excessively flattering
Metamorphosis
homogeneous
Uncouous
fiduciary
13. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Auspicious
Respiration
Ziggurat
Bellicose
14. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
facetious
Totalitarian
Wrought
Paradigm
15. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Quotidian
Thermodynamics
homogeneous
Moiety
16. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
circumlocution
Belie
Quotidian
17. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Belie
Soliloguy
deleterious
Orthography
18. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
enervate
homogeneous
Respiration
19. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
Usurp
Ziggurat
Soliloguy
20. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Sanguine
Nonsectarian
infrastructure
Nihilism
21. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
euro
Metamorphosis
hemoglobin
inculcate
22. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Wrought
Polymer
Vortex
23. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Tempestuous
Parabola
Respiration
circumlocution
24. To take and use ideas from another's work
Mitosis
Plagiarize
Auspicious
Taxonomy
25. 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
fiduciary
Mitosis
expurgate
epiphany
26. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Uncouous
Oxidize
jejune
27. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Suffragist
Yeoman
infrastructure
diffident
28. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Chicanery
Metamorphosis
impeach
filibuster
29. The official currency of the European Union
euro
fatuous
loquacious
Paradigm
30. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Bowdlerize
Usurp
enervate
31. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Winnow
Polymer
Chicanery
gamete
32. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Yeoman
Xenophobe
Photosynthesis
gauche
33. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
incontrovertible
Nomenclature
Quasar
Abjure
34. A compound of high molecular weight
infrastructure
Polymer
kowtow
hegemony
35. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Obsequious
kowtow
Notarize
36. To bring under complete control
interpolate
Chicanery
Subjugate
diffident
37. 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
Abrogate
Soliloguy
Quasar
38. Violent commotion
hubris
Lugubrious
Belie
Tempestuous
39. Keen - insight - shrewdness
fiduciary
Suffragist
Oxidize
Acumen
40. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
equinox
Sanguine
Pecuniary
gerrymander
41. Needless repetion of an idea
Paradigm
Abrogate
Tautology
Soliloguy
42. Promising success
Omnipotent
gauche
Bowdlerize
Auspicious
43. Excessive pride or self confidence
Soliloguy
hubris
Wrought
Winnow
44. Of the same kind
homogeneous
Abrogate
infrastructure
deleterious
45. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Abjure
gerrymander
homogeneous
Winnow
46. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Subjugate
epiphany
inculcate
47. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Thermodynamics
inculcate
kowtow
Recapitulate
48. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
hypotenuse
lexicon
Xenophobe
gerrymander
49. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Auspicious
impeach
Mitosis
50. Having ones identity concealed
Wrought
incontrovertible
incognito
Abrogate