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1. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Tectonic
Abrogate
Lugubrious
Yeoman
2. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
kowtow
Taxonomy
Mitosis
Quotidian
3. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Suffragist
filibuster
Metamorphosis
Omnipotent
4. Not open to question or dispute
Quotidian
incontrovertible
Usurp
impeach
5. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
Sanguine
Parabola
enfranchise
6. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
infrastructure
Metamorphosis
diffident
Acumen
7. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
incontrovertible
Precipitous
Tautology
Vaccuous
8. Promising success
Abrogate
facetious
laissez-faire
Auspicious
9. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Yeoman
Suffragist
irony
Sanguine
10. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
circumnaviagte
Abstemious
deleterious
jejune
11. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parabola
Parameter
Precipitous
facetious
12. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Lugubrious
Soliloguy
Abjure
gamete
13. Leadership
jejune
Ziggurat
Usurp
hegemony
14. Excessive pride or self confidence
Plagiarize
Vortex
hubris
Photosynthesis
15. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Nanotechnology
Photosynthesis
loquacious
diffident
16. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
expurgate
Wrought
Vortex
17. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
expurgate
gamete
Paradigm
Vehement
18. Before or exisiting before a war.
Sanguine
infrastructure
Tautology
Antebellum
19. Needless repetion of an idea
Tectonic
Tautology
Sanguine
evanescent
20. The time when day and night are of equal length
Respiration
equinox
fiduciary
Moiety
21. 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
interpolate
Abrogate
Oligarchy
Mitosis
22. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Parameter
Vaccuous
kowtow
Quasar
23. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Abrogate
Nanotechnology
expurgate
Nomenclature
24. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Belie
Respiration
kowtow
Usurp
25. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
feckless
facetious
Belie
Thermodynamics
26. Whirling mass of movment
enervate
hegemony
Vortex
Uncouous
27. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Tautology
Acumen
Vaccuous
facetious
28. To bring under complete control
Tempestuous
circumnaviagte
Subjugate
gauche
29. Of or pertaining to money
expurgate
epiphany
fiduciary
Pecuniary
30. Careless or irresponsible
Obsequious
feckless
Totalitarian
equinox
31. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Photosynthesis
Pecuniary
Reparation
32. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
euro
Antebellum
Notarize
33. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Taxonomy
Sanguine
Nonsectarian
epiphany
34. A compound of high molecular weight
Notarize
Vaccuous
Polymer
lexicon
35. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
Mitosis
Abstemious
irony
36. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Omnipotent
Usurp
inculcate
laissez-faire
37. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Vaccuous
Antebellum
Orthography
Recapitulate
38. Of the same kind
Recapitulate
homogeneous
Notarize
interpolate
39. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Omnipotent
interpolate
homogeneous
Ziggurat
40. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Sanguine
fatuous
Abrogate
41. Having ones identity concealed
Recapitulate
Antebellum
kinetic
incognito
42. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Respiration
feckless
diffident
43. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Vehement
Parameter
Bellicose
44. Technigue of classification
deciduous
Taxonomy
Thermodynamics
Omnipotent
45. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Supercilious
gamete
enervate
Bellicose
46. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Lugubrious
hypotenuse
Nihilism
47. (v) to fly or sail around
hegemony
Wrought
interpolate
circumnaviagte
48. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
kowtow
facetious
jejune
49. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
incognito
Totalitarian
irony
laissez-faire
50. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
expurgate
gamete
fiduciary
filibuster