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1. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Plagiarize
Quasar
hubris
laissez-faire
2. To bring under complete control
Plagiarize
Subjugate
Quotidian
deleterious
3. (v) to fly or sail around
impeach
circumnaviagte
Quasar
Uncouous
4. (v) to set free or endow
Thermodynamics
diffident
homogeneous
enfranchise
5. Not open to question or dispute
Lugubrious
Belie
incontrovertible
Nomenclature
6. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
deciduous
lexicon
Nihilism
7. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
gamete
deleterious
Auspicious
irony
8. Vanishing
Polymer
homogeneous
feckless
evanescent
9. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
hemoglobin
Uncouous
Respiration
10. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Ziggurat
irony
Sanguine
Bowdlerize
11. To abolish by formal orr official means.
hegemony
Abrogate
Nanotechnology
kinetic
12. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Vehement
Tautology
filibuster
13. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Recapitulate
Tectonic
Parabola
enervate
14. A compound of high molecular weight
Soliloguy
Polymer
Obsequious
loquacious
15. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Plagiarize
Sanguine
Omnipotent
deciduous
16. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Supercilious
inculcate
homogeneous
Obsequious
17. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Supercilious
Vehement
hegemony
Lugubrious
18. The official currency of the European Union
Sanguine
equinox
euro
Taxonomy
19. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
hypotenuse
filibuster
Uncouous
Usurp
20. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Notarize
Nonsectarian
Vortex
deleterious
21. To seperate
Winnow
Oligarchy
kinetic
Metamorphosis
22. Worked to shape by beating
kowtow
Reparation
Wrought
fiduciary
23. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
kowtow
Ziggurat
hypotenuse
infrastructure
24. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Bellicose
chromosone
Moiety
Chicanery
25. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Nomenclature
Metamorphosis
inculcate
Totalitarian
26. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
evanescent
Ziggurat
gamete
infrastructure
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
hubris
Paradigm
hegemony
28. 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
Subjugate
Mitosis
Sanguine
Thermodynamics
29. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Metamorphosis
Parameter
Tempestuous
jejune
30. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
kowtow
Tectonic
Sanguine
31. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
loquacious
Nihilism
equinox
Abjure
32. Promising success
incognito
kinetic
Auspicious
infrastructure
33. Showing strong feeling
jejune
Vehement
Nomenclature
epiphany
34. Of or pertaining to money
Moiety
Pecuniary
evanescent
Metamorphosis
35. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Abrogate
Recapitulate
Nomenclature
36. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
impeach
fatuous
Abrogate
37. A half
Moiety
circumlocution
Bowdlerize
deciduous
38. Inclined or eager to fight.
Paradigm
Bellicose
jejune
fiduciary
39. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Lugubrious
Nihilism
gamete
Metamorphosis
40. Before or exisiting before a war.
homogeneous
Antebellum
evanescent
Xenophobe
41. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Respiration
Plasma
homogeneous
gauche
42. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Nihilism
Respiration
irony
Photosynthesis
43. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
jejune
homogeneous
Subjugate
44. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Vehement
Abstemious
Lugubrious
45. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Acumen
Obsequious
inculcate
evanescent
46. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
churlish
Yeoman
diffident
47. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nihilism
facetious
Precipitous
Nomenclature
48. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Sanguine
infrastructure
homogeneous
Oxidize
49. To show to be false
Photosynthesis
impeach
Belie
Obsequious
50. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Recapitulate
Bowdlerize
Parameter
feckless