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1. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Recapitulate
epiphany
Nomenclature
Chicanery
2. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Tectonic
Lugubrious
Winnow
3. Before or exisiting before a war.
Parabola
Antebellum
facetious
Supercilious
4. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Obsequious
Chicanery
Bowdlerize
Acumen
5. Supplying motive force
Oxidize
kowtow
kinetic
Orthography
6. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Reparation
Thermodynamics
Nomenclature
Yeoman
7. The time when day and night are of equal length
hypotenuse
Xenophobe
Nomenclature
equinox
8. (adj) rude - boorish
Yeoman
Usurp
Quotidian
churlish
9. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Vehement
circumlocution
Chicanery
Quasar
10. To take and use ideas from another's work
Metamorphosis
Plagiarize
diffident
Notarize
11. Showing strong feeling
Tempestuous
Thermodynamics
Vehement
Usurp
12. Of the same kind
gerrymander
impeach
homogeneous
Subjugate
13. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Quasar
Antebellum
Mitosis
14. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
gamete
Totalitarian
Mitosis
15. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Nonsectarian
jejune
enervate
Plagiarize
16. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Recapitulate
Reparation
Lugubrious
Totalitarian
17. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Chicanery
Uncouous
hemoglobin
Parameter
18. The act of talking while or as if alone
Mitosis
enervate
Soliloguy
Paradigm
19. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Vaccuous
euro
Tectonic
Pecuniary
20. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Usurp
Recapitulate
Plasma
Oxidize
21. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Mitosis
Notarize
equinox
Auspicious
22. Worked to shape by beating
Quasar
Orthography
Wrought
kinetic
23. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Notarize
kinetic
Oxidize
24. Complacently or inanely foolish
Metamorphosis
Parameter
fatuous
churlish
25. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
hemoglobin
lexicon
Tautology
Xenophobe
26. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Tempestuous
Orthography
Recapitulate
27. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
epiphany
diffident
Totalitarian
Respiration
28. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
chromosone
loquacious
hemoglobin
29. Leadership
Omnipotent
deciduous
Abstemious
hegemony
30. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
kowtow
Photosynthesis
Reparation
31. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Nonsectarian
Abjure
gauche
incognito
32. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Reparation
circumlocution
expurgate
Precipitous
33. To seperate
kowtow
gamete
Winnow
enfranchise
34. Showing a lack of intelligence
Chicanery
Precipitous
Totalitarian
Vaccuous
35. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
lexicon
interpolate
Quotidian
Belie
36. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Belie
Vaccuous
Auspicious
37. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Tempestuous
Photosynthesis
Nomenclature
38. (v) to set free or endow
fiduciary
Quotidian
Thermodynamics
enfranchise
39. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Sanguine
Vehement
kinetic
40. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Xenophobe
Antebellum
facetious
41. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
kowtow
Oxidize
Acumen
42. The liquid part of blood or lymph
kinetic
Photosynthesis
Chicanery
Plasma
43. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
interpolate
Mitosis
Metamorphosis
Sanguine
44. Lacking interest or significance
Bowdlerize
jejune
Photosynthesis
Tectonic
45. Having ones identity concealed
facetious
incognito
Precipitous
Bellicose
46. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Ziggurat
irony
Vehement
deciduous
47. Whirling mass of movment
jejune
Recapitulate
Tautology
Vortex
48. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Acumen
evanescent
expurgate
49. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
loquacious
Orthography
Reparation
Plasma
50. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Parameter
Plasma
Notarize