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english
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1. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
irony
enervate
hypotenuse
Sanguine
2. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
gauche
Paradigm
Antebellum
3. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abstemious
Abjure
Tautology
facetious
4. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Moiety
Tempestuous
Mitosis
Usurp
5. Supplying motive force
Xenophobe
kinetic
Parabola
Vehement
6. Violent commotion
Usurp
Tempestuous
Abjure
infrastructure
7. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Winnow
Oligarchy
filibuster
circumlocution
8. Excessively flattering
Soliloguy
equinox
Nanotechnology
Uncouous
9. A compound of high molecular weight
enfranchise
Polymer
Precipitous
Abstemious
10. (adj) harmful [to health]
Soliloguy
deleterious
circumlocution
Nomenclature
11. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
hypotenuse
Vortex
incontrovertible
12. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Oligarchy
Sanguine
Supercilious
Tempestuous
13. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Supercilious
evanescent
Parameter
Tautology
14. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
loquacious
kowtow
Mitosis
15. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Thermodynamics
inculcate
Acumen
Xenophobe
16. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
hemoglobin
Polymer
Nihilism
fiduciary
17. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Omnipotent
irony
deleterious
chromosone
18. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Winnow
Respiration
Usurp
Bowdlerize
19. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
enfranchise
equinox
Moiety
20. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Auspicious
Obsequious
Recapitulate
Quasar
21. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Winnow
Obsequious
kowtow
equinox
22. Vanishing
kinetic
evanescent
Nihilism
Recapitulate
23. Having ones identity concealed
inculcate
gamete
incognito
facetious
24. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Belie
Subjugate
Tectonic
fiduciary
25. The official currency of the European Union
gamete
euro
Reparation
Oligarchy
26. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Thermodynamics
Pecuniary
gauche
hubris
27. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Quotidian
Supercilious
Bowdlerize
Acumen
28. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
inculcate
Orthography
Totalitarian
Parameter
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Antebellum
Acumen
Abjure
gerrymander
30. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Polymer
lexicon
expurgate
Bellicose
31. Technigue of classification
Oligarchy
Belie
Subjugate
Taxonomy
32. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
deleterious
Bowdlerize
Ziggurat
laissez-faire
33. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
inculcate
Vaccuous
hubris
34. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Lugubrious
Suffragist
Reparation
Plagiarize
35. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Wrought
Nomenclature
Belie
circumnaviagte
36. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Plagiarize
diffident
Tectonic
irony
37. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Taxonomy
impeach
Xenophobe
Metamorphosis
38. Promising success
Yeoman
hemoglobin
Reparation
Auspicious
39. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Recapitulate
Nonsectarian
Taxonomy
gauche
40. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Suffragist
gauche
hemoglobin
Moiety
41. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
circumnaviagte
interpolate
Mitosis
42. (v) to set free or endow
Acumen
enfranchise
euro
Omnipotent
43. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
enfranchise
Omnipotent
Xenophobe
diffident
44. Lacking interest or significance
kinetic
jejune
gauche
Omnipotent
45. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
incontrovertible
Chicanery
Vortex
Parameter
46. (v) to deprive of force or strength
fiduciary
hemoglobin
enervate
irony
47. A half
Tautology
laissez-faire
Moiety
Xenophobe
48. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Respiration
Recapitulate
Orthography
euro
49. Needless repetion of an idea
facetious
Tautology
gauche
enervate
50. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
diffident
Usurp
Winnow
gerrymander