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1. Inclined or eager to fight.
Chicanery
Nihilism
gamete
Bellicose
2. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
euro
Reparation
Supercilious
Pecuniary
3. Supplying motive force
Obsequious
Vortex
epiphany
kinetic
4. Of the same kind
lexicon
Oxidize
homogeneous
Taxonomy
5. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Chicanery
equinox
Reparation
Ziggurat
6. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
gerrymander
Precipitous
Quasar
Obsequious
7. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Xenophobe
Orthography
Winnow
8. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
deleterious
kinetic
jejune
9. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
enervate
Nonsectarian
homogeneous
Tempestuous
10. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Reparation
Obsequious
Oxidize
11. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Plagiarize
Abjure
Plasma
fatuous
12. Showing strong feeling
Abstemious
Winnow
Totalitarian
Vehement
13. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Bellicose
Ziggurat
gerrymander
deleterious
14. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Bowdlerize
filibuster
Taxonomy
Usurp
15. Vanishing
evanescent
Tectonic
inculcate
impeach
16. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Supercilious
kowtow
Uncouous
facetious
17. A half
Xenophobe
Moiety
Oligarchy
Omnipotent
18. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
circumnaviagte
hubris
Usurp
19. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
churlish
Polymer
Wrought
20. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
circumnaviagte
Orthography
Belie
Nomenclature
21. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Tautology
Notarize
Sanguine
Quasar
22. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Reparation
Oxidize
Xenophobe
Quotidian
23. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Supercilious
Tempestuous
Reparation
24. To take and use ideas from another's work
Plagiarize
Reparation
hubris
kinetic
25. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Nonsectarian
Taxonomy
Yeoman
26. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
euro
Lugubrious
Parabola
inculcate
27. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nomenclature
Parabola
Nihilism
Soliloguy
28. (adj) rude - boorish
incognito
filibuster
churlish
Wrought
29. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
lexicon
impeach
evanescent
circumlocution
30. 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
incognito
Recapitulate
impeach
31. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
Moiety
Obsequious
Quotidian
32. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Sanguine
Polymer
Parameter
33. Having ones identity concealed
Totalitarian
Paradigm
Pecuniary
incognito
34. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Quasar
deleterious
Thermodynamics
35. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Mitosis
irony
Usurp
Uncouous
36. Before or exisiting before a war.
Paradigm
Antebellum
Metamorphosis
Orthography
37. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Respiration
Belie
jejune
irony
38. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
irony
Oligarchy
Antebellum
39. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Abstemious
Totalitarian
Chicanery
40. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Orthography
Suffragist
Moiety
41. (v) to set free or endow
irony
Mitosis
interpolate
enfranchise
42. To seperate
epiphany
Nihilism
circumnaviagte
Winnow
43. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
hemoglobin
Subjugate
Respiration
Parabola
44. Needless repetion of an idea
deciduous
Tautology
Oxidize
enfranchise
45. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Suffragist
euro
hubris
46. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Winnow
homogeneous
Vortex
interpolate
47. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
chromosone
Suffragist
Parabola
Abstemious
48. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
homogeneous
Soliloguy
Quotidian
circumlocution
49. Full of trivial conversation
gauche
Tempestuous
loquacious
Winnow
50. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Parameter
homogeneous
enervate
Thermodynamics