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1. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Photosynthesis
Antebellum
infrastructure
2. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Lugubrious
equinox
Obsequious
Vaccuous
3. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Recapitulate
Totalitarian
Parameter
Xenophobe
4. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
filibuster
Lugubrious
Totalitarian
Oligarchy
5. (v) to fly or sail around
Recapitulate
equinox
Ziggurat
circumnaviagte
6. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Reparation
Subjugate
Tempestuous
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
fiduciary
Wrought
laissez-faire
hegemony
8. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
incontrovertible
Ziggurat
diffident
Sanguine
9. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
Quotidian
Nanotechnology
Precipitous
10. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Photosynthesis
Subjugate
Sanguine
11. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
diffident
irony
Parameter
12. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Abstemious
circumlocution
infrastructure
enervate
13. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Usurp
incognito
Vortex
Abjure
14. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Yeoman
homogeneous
filibuster
Plasma
15. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Omnipotent
Tempestuous
deleterious
16. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
deciduous
epiphany
Vortex
Paradigm
17. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Xenophobe
deciduous
Photosynthesis
Moiety
18. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
equinox
impeach
circumlocution
19. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
Lugubrious
Chicanery
Subjugate
20. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Ziggurat
Reparation
gamete
Totalitarian
21. Careless or irresponsible
facetious
Subjugate
Lugubrious
feckless
22. The time when day and night are of equal length
filibuster
euro
equinox
Ziggurat
23. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
laissez-faire
Auspicious
circumnaviagte
24. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Nanotechnology
Taxonomy
impeach
25. Whirling mass of movment
Antebellum
impeach
Orthography
Vortex
26. Of or pertaining to money
kowtow
Pecuniary
Chicanery
Abjure
27. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Nomenclature
irony
hegemony
filibuster
28. The act of talking while or as if alone
Totalitarian
filibuster
Tautology
Soliloguy
29. A half
hegemony
Uncouous
Tempestuous
Moiety
30. A language user's knowledge of words
epiphany
diffident
irony
lexicon
31. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
deciduous
Suffragist
Thermodynamics
kowtow
32. Technigue of classification
gamete
Bowdlerize
Taxonomy
diffident
33. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
inculcate
Bellicose
Omnipotent
Uncouous
34. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Antebellum
Nomenclature
Paradigm
Chicanery
35. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Acumen
homogeneous
Bowdlerize
laissez-faire
36. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Plasma
chromosone
Taxonomy
Abstemious
37. (adj) harmful [to health]
Nihilism
circumlocution
deleterious
loquacious
38. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
lexicon
Obsequious
Usurp
Tectonic
39. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
infrastructure
Vortex
Vehement
40. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
enervate
filibuster
incontrovertible
Paradigm
41. Humorous - not meant seriously
fiduciary
facetious
Parameter
Uncouous
42. To seperate
Winnow
enervate
Reparation
Yeoman
43. Excessively flattering
churlish
Obsequious
Wrought
Uncouous
44. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Acumen
Orthography
Polymer
Obsequious
45. Violent commotion
Reparation
Sanguine
Tempestuous
interpolate
46. 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
Subjugate
loquacious
Mitosis
Bowdlerize
47. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
infrastructure
Orthography
Obsequious
circumlocution
48. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
irony
Xenophobe
expurgate
Vaccuous
49. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Bowdlerize
kinetic
Tectonic
Precipitous
50. Complacently or inanely foolish
Obsequious
homogeneous
interpolate
fatuous