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1. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Plagiarize
circumlocution
Thermodynamics
chromosone
2. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Auspicious
Xenophobe
Nihilism
3. The official currency of the European Union
hypotenuse
euro
Obsequious
Tautology
4. Having ones identity concealed
Suffragist
Plagiarize
Yeoman
incognito
5. A compound of high molecular weight
hubris
Antebellum
Polymer
Nomenclature
6. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
churlish
Orthography
Abstemious
7. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
deleterious
incognito
Taxonomy
8. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Oxidize
Polymer
inculcate
9. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Metamorphosis
Tautology
euro
10. A half
loquacious
Belie
Omnipotent
Moiety
11. To seperate
equinox
deciduous
Respiration
Winnow
12. Careless or irresponsible
Ziggurat
Abjure
chromosone
feckless
13. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
Notarize
Vortex
Belie
14. Technigue of classification
epiphany
Taxonomy
Nihilism
Yeoman
15. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Winnow
Abjure
Vaccuous
kowtow
16. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Plagiarize
lexicon
hegemony
fiduciary
17. Full of trivial conversation
hegemony
expurgate
loquacious
Supercilious
18. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Orthography
evanescent
irony
Suffragist
19. To take and use ideas from another's work
Tautology
Yeoman
Totalitarian
Plagiarize
20. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
interpolate
Belie
Obsequious
Vehement
21. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
Paradigm
Antebellum
Respiration
22. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
euro
enfranchise
hypotenuse
23. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Bowdlerize
chromosone
Suffragist
Reparation
24. Whirling mass of movment
Omnipotent
Polymer
Vortex
Photosynthesis
25. Needless repetion of an idea
hemoglobin
Soliloguy
Tautology
circumnaviagte
26. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Obsequious
inculcate
Totalitarian
Parameter
27. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
deleterious
Winnow
Sanguine
Xenophobe
28. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Paradigm
Plasma
hegemony
Belie
29. Sythesis of complex organic materials
circumnaviagte
Photosynthesis
Lugubrious
Nomenclature
30. Not open to question or dispute
Quasar
Nihilism
Xenophobe
incontrovertible
31. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Vehement
gauche
Abstemious
Totalitarian
32. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Abstemious
Xenophobe
Lugubrious
hemoglobin
33. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
hubris
Supercilious
Acumen
filibuster
34. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Nanotechnology
hegemony
Winnow
35. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
enervate
infrastructure
Omnipotent
deleterious
36. Promising success
irony
Auspicious
Mitosis
hegemony
37. (adj) rude - boorish
fatuous
churlish
Respiration
Uncouous
38. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Suffragist
Ziggurat
feckless
Totalitarian
39. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enfranchise
enervate
kowtow
diffident
40. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Metamorphosis
Ziggurat
Quasar
Quotidian
41. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Quotidian
equinox
laissez-faire
Sanguine
42. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Abjure
Suffragist
irony
43. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Belie
homogeneous
Bellicose
44. Supplying motive force
Parameter
kinetic
evanescent
Vehement
45. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
laissez-faire
loquacious
Usurp
filibuster
46. Complacently or inanely foolish
lexicon
gauche
fatuous
diffident
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Acumen
Nonsectarian
Supercilious
hemoglobin
48. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
churlish
Pecuniary
Quotidian
49. Vanishing
Vehement
evanescent
Usurp
circumnaviagte
50. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
Parameter
evanescent
Orthography