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english
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1. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
gamete
Abstemious
Parameter
2. The official currency of the European Union
euro
equinox
epiphany
Taxonomy
3. Full of trivial conversation
circumlocution
loquacious
Antebellum
Ziggurat
4. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
jejune
Chicanery
Respiration
diffident
5. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Totalitarian
circumnaviagte
Taxonomy
6. (adj) rude - boorish
Supercilious
Plasma
Sanguine
churlish
7. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
deleterious
Thermodynamics
Ziggurat
8. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
hubris
Orthography
circumnaviagte
gerrymander
9. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Reparation
filibuster
Notarize
10. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
evanescent
Nomenclature
Usurp
hemoglobin
11. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Moiety
Abjure
deciduous
Precipitous
12. 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
Vaccuous
Subjugate
circumnaviagte
Nanotechnology
13. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
euro
Auspicious
Xenophobe
14. Showing strong feeling
Photosynthesis
Vehement
Nihilism
Lugubrious
15. Showing a lack of intelligence
Precipitous
hegemony
Vaccuous
inculcate
16. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
fiduciary
circumlocution
Vortex
Abstemious
17. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Recapitulate
evanescent
Mitosis
Respiration
18. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
Plasma
lexicon
expurgate
19. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
gauche
Totalitarian
epiphany
filibuster
20. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
laissez-faire
Nonsectarian
Orthography
21. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Precipitous
kowtow
enervate
Vaccuous
22. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
hypotenuse
Tautology
Notarize
23. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
deciduous
inculcate
fatuous
24. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
gerrymander
Quotidian
laissez-faire
25. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
enervate
Soliloguy
Winnow
Usurp
26. Worked to shape by beating
gerrymander
Wrought
lexicon
Antebellum
27. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Nomenclature
Totalitarian
laissez-faire
Abstemious
28. The act of talking while or as if alone
gauche
homogeneous
Soliloguy
Vortex
29. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Abjure
deciduous
Oligarchy
diffident
30. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Omnipotent
homogeneous
Acumen
Lugubrious
31. Whirling mass of movment
interpolate
Yeoman
Vortex
equinox
32. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Precipitous
Uncouous
Soliloguy
Thermodynamics
33. Having ones identity concealed
Bellicose
fatuous
Tempestuous
incognito
34. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Chicanery
infrastructure
Acumen
laissez-faire
35. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Belie
Moiety
Uncouous
36. Before or exisiting before a war.
fiduciary
Nomenclature
expurgate
Antebellum
37. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
hubris
Plagiarize
Nonsectarian
Tautology
38. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Bellicose
Plasma
Notarize
Polymer
39. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
circumnaviagte
Plasma
Orthography
facetious
40. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
lexicon
Photosynthesis
Reparation
Mitosis
41. Excessive pride or self confidence
gerrymander
Abstemious
Auspicious
hubris
42. A language user's knowledge of words
deciduous
lexicon
deleterious
Recapitulate
43. Vanishing
evanescent
hegemony
Omnipotent
facetious
44. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Reparation
Orthography
hypotenuse
chromosone
45. Supplying motive force
Uncouous
deciduous
gerrymander
kinetic
46. Inclined or eager to fight.
Ziggurat
incontrovertible
Bellicose
lexicon
47. Not open to question or dispute
Abstemious
incontrovertible
Vortex
Bellicose
48. To show to be false
Polymer
Belie
equinox
hegemony
49. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
Parameter
kinetic
Photosynthesis
50. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Antebellum
hubris
Respiration