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1. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
circumlocution
Vehement
epiphany
Belie
2. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Acumen
feckless
Quotidian
3. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Oligarchy
gamete
kinetic
Supercilious
4. Excessively flattering
Orthography
Uncouous
Vehement
hegemony
5. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Nihilism
lexicon
infrastructure
Yeoman
6. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
fiduciary
kinetic
incognito
7. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Winnow
Vortex
diffident
Moiety
8. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Paradigm
Plasma
lexicon
Suffragist
9. To abolish by formal orr official means.
euro
gauche
Moiety
Abrogate
10. Worked to shape by beating
hypotenuse
circumlocution
Wrought
Plagiarize
11. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Vortex
laissez-faire
expurgate
Ziggurat
12. Not open to question or dispute
enervate
circumlocution
deciduous
incontrovertible
13. Of or pertaining to money
diffident
infrastructure
Pecuniary
Chicanery
14. Inclined or eager to fight.
Quotidian
Bellicose
Usurp
impeach
15. The liquid part of blood or lymph
feckless
Plasma
Bellicose
Nonsectarian
16. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
interpolate
circumnaviagte
Totalitarian
fiduciary
17. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
interpolate
fiduciary
circumnaviagte
18. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
feckless
Metamorphosis
gerrymander
Bowdlerize
19. Before or exisiting before a war.
Bellicose
Antebellum
evanescent
Paradigm
20. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
deciduous
Antebellum
Uncouous
21. Supplying motive force
kinetic
gamete
Obsequious
Plasma
22. Showing strong feeling
Suffragist
Tautology
Vehement
fiduciary
23. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
circumlocution
Nonsectarian
Bowdlerize
24. 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
Obsequious
Nanotechnology
Tectonic
interpolate
25. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
inculcate
Recapitulate
Respiration
enervate
26. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Quotidian
hemoglobin
Metamorphosis
loquacious
27. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Yeoman
fiduciary
Xenophobe
Nomenclature
28. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Oxidize
Xenophobe
infrastructure
29. Technigue of classification
Taxonomy
Precipitous
Usurp
deleterious
30. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Paradigm
Thermodynamics
Nonsectarian
Photosynthesis
31. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
enervate
Reparation
Bellicose
32. To seperate
Plasma
Auspicious
Winnow
circumnaviagte
33. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
deciduous
Parameter
Oligarchy
Abrogate
34. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
gamete
Ziggurat
enfranchise
impeach
35. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Bowdlerize
Recapitulate
equinox
Usurp
36. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
Moiety
equinox
feckless
37. Full of trivial conversation
Orthography
incognito
Auspicious
loquacious
38. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Orthography
gerrymander
Abrogate
Chicanery
39. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
circumnaviagte
Parameter
Orthography
40. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
Tectonic
Vortex
Subjugate
41. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Mitosis
Nonsectarian
hemoglobin
42. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Winnow
Auspicious
deciduous
Sanguine
43. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
circumlocution
Pecuniary
Ziggurat
44. Needless repetion of an idea
Acumen
Oligarchy
Tautology
diffident
45. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
hegemony
Soliloguy
Sanguine
46. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Wrought
gauche
Sanguine
47. Violent commotion
kinetic
circumnaviagte
Tempestuous
Mitosis
48. Of the same kind
Plagiarize
Nihilism
homogeneous
Sanguine
49. Keen - insight - shrewdness
facetious
Tautology
Acumen
hypotenuse
50. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Moiety
Supercilious
deleterious
Quasar