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1. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Oligarchy
deciduous
Photosynthesis
2. Whirling mass of movment
Soliloguy
Totalitarian
diffident
Vortex
3. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
hegemony
impeach
Bowdlerize
Orthography
4. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Bellicose
Chicanery
irony
loquacious
5. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Antebellum
enfranchise
Photosynthesis
6. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Notarize
Plagiarize
laissez-faire
7. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
kowtow
chromosone
laissez-faire
Totalitarian
8. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
churlish
Notarize
Obsequious
Bowdlerize
9. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
feckless
Notarize
Sanguine
hypotenuse
10. To abolish by formal orr official means.
enfranchise
Abrogate
Taxonomy
Bellicose
11. Full of trivial conversation
enervate
loquacious
facetious
incognito
12. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
deciduous
Abstemious
hypotenuse
Oligarchy
13. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Supercilious
Nomenclature
Thermodynamics
gauche
14. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Oxidize
epiphany
Sanguine
Moiety
15. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Lugubrious
epiphany
irony
filibuster
16. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Abrogate
Suffragist
Obsequious
deleterious
17. Supplying motive force
kinetic
diffident
Tautology
Nihilism
18. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Antebellum
Vortex
feckless
Lugubrious
19. Leadership
laissez-faire
chromosone
hegemony
epiphany
20. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
evanescent
inculcate
expurgate
Moiety
21. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
jejune
irony
Parameter
Yeoman
22. The liquid part of blood or lymph
gauche
facetious
homogeneous
Plasma
23. Excessively flattering
Taxonomy
Uncouous
Winnow
Bellicose
24. Lacking interest or significance
laissez-faire
impeach
jejune
circumnaviagte
25. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Oxidize
Bowdlerize
Chicanery
Uncouous
26. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Vortex
hemoglobin
jejune
27. Violent commotion
gamete
Nihilism
Supercilious
Tempestuous
28. Of or pertaining to money
laissez-faire
deciduous
Taxonomy
Pecuniary
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Vehement
jejune
fatuous
30. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
equinox
gerrymander
Polymer
Abjure
31. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Nihilism
hubris
Abstemious
Nanotechnology
32. The time when day and night are of equal length
Oligarchy
Tectonic
equinox
Bellicose
33. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
Tectonic
deciduous
incognito
34. Of the same kind
Winnow
laissez-faire
Uncouous
homogeneous
35. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
incontrovertible
Xenophobe
inculcate
hubris
36. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Xenophobe
Quasar
evanescent
lexicon
37. A language user's knowledge of words
Usurp
lexicon
deleterious
Chicanery
38. Needless repetion of an idea
loquacious
Recapitulate
Tautology
Orthography
39. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Vortex
Thermodynamics
lexicon
Quotidian
40. 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
Quasar
inculcate
Nanotechnology
Xenophobe
41. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Plasma
hegemony
Bowdlerize
42. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nanotechnology
hypotenuse
Tectonic
Nonsectarian
43. The act of talking while or as if alone
homogeneous
Soliloguy
interpolate
Nomenclature
44. Vanishing
laissez-faire
evanescent
Precipitous
Xenophobe
45. (v) to fly or sail around
Mitosis
circumnaviagte
Orthography
Auspicious
46. Inclined or eager to fight.
deleterious
laissez-faire
Bellicose
Belie
47. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Vaccuous
Notarize
hypotenuse
Nomenclature
48. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Soliloguy
infrastructure
Tectonic
Metamorphosis
49. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
fatuous
Oligarchy
gamete
Vehement
50. (v) to set free or endow
homogeneous
feckless
enfranchise
laissez-faire