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1. (adj) rude - boorish
filibuster
churlish
Soliloguy
Tautology
2. Promising success
Bowdlerize
interpolate
Thermodynamics
Auspicious
3. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Reparation
enfranchise
Notarize
Suffragist
4. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Totalitarian
Obsequious
impeach
feckless
5. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Totalitarian
kowtow
equinox
Vortex
6. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
chromosone
Ziggurat
Abrogate
gauche
7. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
filibuster
Tautology
Nihilism
evanescent
8. Before or exisiting before a war.
Paradigm
Antebellum
Sanguine
circumlocution
9. The official currency of the European Union
chromosone
euro
Plagiarize
Ziggurat
10. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
Bowdlerize
Parameter
11. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Oxidize
churlish
Xenophobe
infrastructure
12. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Pecuniary
gamete
euro
epiphany
13. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Lugubrious
deleterious
chromosone
14. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Sanguine
facetious
Abrogate
gauche
15. Excessive pride or self confidence
Respiration
hypotenuse
Totalitarian
hubris
16. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Nomenclature
enervate
Sanguine
Suffragist
17. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Quasar
deciduous
interpolate
Mitosis
18. Needless repetion of an idea
feckless
loquacious
Tautology
Subjugate
19. A language user's knowledge of words
Belie
Antebellum
lexicon
Taxonomy
20. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Oligarchy
fiduciary
impeach
21. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
loquacious
Paradigm
Chicanery
Thermodynamics
22. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Ziggurat
gerrymander
Thermodynamics
Vehement
23. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Pecuniary
Abjure
Paradigm
24. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Photosynthesis
euro
Chicanery
Totalitarian
25. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
enervate
inculcate
Belie
Paradigm
26. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
hubris
fiduciary
loquacious
Quasar
27. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Chicanery
Nonsectarian
feckless
Abstemious
28. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Photosynthesis
loquacious
Plasma
chromosone
29. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Supercilious
expurgate
Pecuniary
interpolate
30. Leadership
hegemony
Abrogate
laissez-faire
Abstemious
31. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Winnow
Nanotechnology
Vaccuous
32. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Metamorphosis
fiduciary
Soliloguy
Chicanery
33. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Usurp
Mitosis
Omnipotent
enervate
34. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Sanguine
Nanotechnology
Tectonic
irony
35. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Thermodynamics
Vehement
Metamorphosis
36. Having ones identity concealed
evanescent
loquacious
incognito
fiduciary
37. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Plagiarize
feckless
Reparation
Mitosis
38. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Plasma
Xenophobe
Nanotechnology
laissez-faire
39. Careless or irresponsible
Subjugate
feckless
diffident
Wrought
40. Keen - insight - shrewdness
loquacious
Acumen
Omnipotent
Obsequious
41. A half
Moiety
Vehement
evanescent
Precipitous
42. To bring under complete control
Bellicose
Subjugate
Xenophobe
circumnaviagte
43. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Bowdlerize
chromosone
Subjugate
Respiration
44. 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
Nanotechnology
deleterious
Vortex
gerrymander
45. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
laissez-faire
deciduous
Metamorphosis
Oxidize
46. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
kinetic
inculcate
Sanguine
47. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Respiration
Polymer
enfranchise
Photosynthesis
48. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
fiduciary
Ziggurat
Abstemious
Parameter
49. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
filibuster
hypotenuse
Mitosis
Acumen
50. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Soliloguy
Reparation
Usurp
enfranchise