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1. A language user's knowledge of words
Pecuniary
Parabola
hubris
lexicon
2. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Subjugate
Parabola
Nomenclature
3. To seperate
Winnow
Auspicious
lexicon
Soliloguy
4. The act of talking while or as if alone
impeach
Soliloguy
gamete
interpolate
5. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
circumnaviagte
infrastructure
gerrymander
Nihilism
6. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
filibuster
Tempestuous
Yeoman
deleterious
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
incontrovertible
hemoglobin
Tautology
infrastructure
8. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
enervate
Supercilious
Notarize
feckless
9. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
irony
interpolate
diffident
10. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Orthography
Respiration
homogeneous
11. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
irony
facetious
Tectonic
deciduous
12. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
impeach
Obsequious
gauche
Winnow
13. (v) to fly or sail around
Uncouous
circumnaviagte
Oligarchy
Parameter
14. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
hypotenuse
kowtow
chromosone
euro
15. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Supercilious
filibuster
gamete
Acumen
16. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Tautology
Winnow
inculcate
laissez-faire
17. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Vehement
enfranchise
Xenophobe
expurgate
18. Showing strong feeling
Antebellum
Vehement
feckless
enfranchise
19. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
hemoglobin
deleterious
Sanguine
Auspicious
20. A half
Bowdlerize
Moiety
Tempestuous
expurgate
21. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
epiphany
Sanguine
kowtow
Thermodynamics
22. Worked to shape by beating
Abrogate
Chicanery
Wrought
Vortex
23. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
deleterious
Acumen
Antebellum
24. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Nonsectarian
Yeoman
Recapitulate
circumlocution
25. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Recapitulate
gamete
chromosone
Paradigm
26. Whirling mass of movment
Soliloguy
circumlocution
Vortex
Recapitulate
27. Excessively flattering
chromosone
Yeoman
Supercilious
Uncouous
28. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Usurp
Taxonomy
Abrogate
feckless
29. Supplying motive force
Totalitarian
Nanotechnology
Vaccuous
kinetic
30. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Oligarchy
Taxonomy
kinetic
Parabola
31. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Tempestuous
hegemony
Abstemious
Bowdlerize
32. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Tautology
laissez-faire
Metamorphosis
Suffragist
33. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Respiration
Antebellum
incognito
Paradigm
34. To bring under complete control
hypotenuse
expurgate
deleterious
Subjugate
35. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Oligarchy
Usurp
Parabola
Belie
36. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
Bowdlerize
Subjugate
Oxidize
37. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Bowdlerize
Mitosis
Lugubrious
38. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Pecuniary
Nonsectarian
Vaccuous
39. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Moiety
chromosone
interpolate
churlish
40. The liquid part of blood or lymph
lexicon
impeach
Ziggurat
Plasma
41. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Abrogate
Recapitulate
Polymer
42. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
hemoglobin
gamete
Parabola
Oligarchy
43. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Suffragist
hypotenuse
Polymer
Parameter
44. Vanishing
evanescent
Nonsectarian
fatuous
Parabola
45. Having ones identity concealed
diffident
gerrymander
impeach
incognito
46. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Parameter
homogeneous
Abstemious
47. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
facetious
laissez-faire
Tectonic
48. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
circumnaviagte
feckless
facetious
Totalitarian
49. 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
epiphany
Parabola
gamete
Nanotechnology
50. The time when day and night are of equal length
filibuster
equinox
Winnow
chromosone