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1. To abolish by formal orr official means.
chromosone
Bowdlerize
Abrogate
Tautology
2. Before or exisiting before a war.
circumlocution
Quotidian
Notarize
Antebellum
3. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Reparation
gauche
Abjure
4. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
deciduous
expurgate
inculcate
5. Excessively flattering
Vehement
Uncouous
impeach
hubris
6. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Tectonic
Notarize
Totalitarian
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Chicanery
laissez-faire
Reparation
Wrought
8. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Nihilism
deciduous
Acumen
Subjugate
9. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Moiety
Obsequious
Uncouous
epiphany
10. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Vortex
Polymer
gauche
Uncouous
11. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
incontrovertible
equinox
Polymer
12. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Pecuniary
homogeneous
Bowdlerize
13. The official currency of the European Union
euro
inculcate
Supercilious
Oligarchy
14. Violent commotion
Abstemious
incontrovertible
diffident
Tempestuous
15. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
equinox
Oligarchy
deciduous
Wrought
16. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
enervate
circumnaviagte
epiphany
17. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Ziggurat
Vehement
gerrymander
impeach
18. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Wrought
Ziggurat
gerrymander
19. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
chromosone
Abrogate
interpolate
Bowdlerize
20. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
fatuous
kinetic
Quasar
Oligarchy
21. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Xenophobe
chromosone
Abstemious
enervate
22. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
hemoglobin
filibuster
chromosone
23. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
gamete
Parabola
expurgate
Bowdlerize
24. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Parabola
Mitosis
Tectonic
filibuster
25. The time when day and night are of equal length
Plagiarize
equinox
diffident
fatuous
26. Excessive pride or self confidence
loquacious
enervate
Obsequious
hubris
27. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
enfranchise
epiphany
gamete
irony
28. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Mitosis
Abstemious
Bowdlerize
29. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
deciduous
circumlocution
Auspicious
30. A half
enervate
Lugubrious
Nihilism
Moiety
31. The act of talking while or as if alone
Precipitous
Orthography
Soliloguy
Bellicose
32. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Taxonomy
Abstemious
Bellicose
Parabola
33. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
equinox
Respiration
Suffragist
34. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Vehement
epiphany
Plasma
Xenophobe
35. 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
Supercilious
Photosynthesis
Antebellum
Nanotechnology
36. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Paradigm
laissez-faire
Plasma
Quotidian
37. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Taxonomy
Xenophobe
inculcate
euro
38. The usual method of cell division - characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form - which condenses into chromosomes - each of which separates longitudinally into two parts - one part of each chromoso
Mitosis
Belie
Metamorphosis
Parabola
39. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Ziggurat
Nomenclature
Parameter
Nonsectarian
40. Having ones identity concealed
fatuous
laissez-faire
incognito
deciduous
41. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
enervate
Recapitulate
hubris
42. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Oxidize
evanescent
gamete
43. Careless or irresponsible
Soliloguy
Usurp
lexicon
feckless
44. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
Thermodynamics
Bellicose
Parameter
45. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
facetious
Xenophobe
enfranchise
46. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
homogeneous
Plasma
Polymer
47. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
gamete
incontrovertible
Soliloguy
Metamorphosis
48. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
expurgate
Supercilious
Plasma
hypotenuse
49. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
inculcate
Ziggurat
jejune
50. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
deleterious
Uncouous
gamete
Notarize