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1. A compound of high molecular weight
Metamorphosis
Nihilism
Polymer
Xenophobe
2. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
homogeneous
Quotidian
Tectonic
epiphany
3. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Oligarchy
jejune
Obsequious
deleterious
4. The time when day and night are of equal length
fiduciary
kowtow
impeach
equinox
5. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Supercilious
Omnipotent
Quotidian
6. Before or exisiting before a war.
Ziggurat
Antebellum
diffident
Taxonomy
7. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
gerrymander
hubris
loquacious
8. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Recapitulate
evanescent
Antebellum
9. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
loquacious
jejune
Quotidian
10. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Abstemious
hypotenuse
Vehement
11. The official currency of the European Union
Omnipotent
gerrymander
fatuous
euro
12. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Quasar
Soliloguy
circumnaviagte
13. Whirling mass of movment
Uncouous
Vaccuous
Vortex
Abstemious
14. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
circumlocution
Obsequious
Taxonomy
15. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Xenophobe
hubris
Recapitulate
16. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Antebellum
Thermodynamics
Parameter
deciduous
17. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Soliloguy
Parameter
Quasar
Precipitous
18. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Notarize
filibuster
incontrovertible
Tautology
19. A half
Pecuniary
Moiety
kowtow
Soliloguy
20. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Abstemious
Totalitarian
irony
Plasma
21. Supplying motive force
impeach
kinetic
Plasma
Recapitulate
22. A language user's knowledge of words
Abstemious
deleterious
lexicon
Nonsectarian
23. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Quasar
Xenophobe
Oxidize
Lugubrious
24. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
impeach
Xenophobe
Obsequious
25. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Yeoman
hypotenuse
Soliloguy
Usurp
26. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Mitosis
Paradigm
kowtow
Totalitarian
27. Vanishing
impeach
evanescent
hypotenuse
Mitosis
28. Having ones identity concealed
hubris
incognito
Quotidian
Quasar
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
deciduous
incognito
Reparation
Acumen
30. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
equinox
Supercilious
circumnaviagte
kowtow
31. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Recapitulate
Notarize
churlish
gerrymander
32. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Oligarchy
Xenophobe
Photosynthesis
deleterious
33. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Auspicious
homogeneous
Tectonic
Tempestuous
34. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Nonsectarian
diffident
hubris
Quotidian
35. The liquid part of blood or lymph
kinetic
circumlocution
circumnaviagte
Plasma
36. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Moiety
kowtow
Totalitarian
kinetic
37. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Moiety
evanescent
incontrovertible
Nihilism
38. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
circumnaviagte
Nomenclature
Pecuniary
39. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Taxonomy
Ziggurat
circumnaviagte
kinetic
40. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
inculcate
Belie
Nomenclature
Paradigm
41. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Abstemious
irony
Suffragist
42. Promising success
Tautology
Auspicious
filibuster
hegemony
43. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Precipitous
kinetic
Supercilious
44. Of the same kind
Lugubrious
homogeneous
Winnow
Oxidize
45. Worked to shape by beating
hypotenuse
Tectonic
evanescent
Wrought
46. Not open to question or dispute
Tempestuous
incontrovertible
Vortex
Tectonic
47. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
circumlocution
Abjure
Winnow
lexicon
48. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Abrogate
Oligarchy
gauche
Nihilism
49. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
epiphany
Respiration
churlish
50. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Precipitous
Abstemious
infrastructure
jejune