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1. Showing a lack of intelligence
Bowdlerize
Nanotechnology
Vaccuous
evanescent
2. Of or pertaining to money
Metamorphosis
expurgate
incognito
Pecuniary
3. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Abstemious
Bowdlerize
lexicon
Usurp
4. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
euro
hubris
Totalitarian
Oligarchy
5. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Abjure
filibuster
hemoglobin
infrastructure
6. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
diffident
Polymer
kowtow
Ziggurat
7. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
lexicon
Paradigm
interpolate
Usurp
8. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Omnipotent
Nomenclature
Plagiarize
9. The official currency of the European Union
Bellicose
Lugubrious
euro
fiduciary
10. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
Ziggurat
Lugubrious
Subjugate
11. Promising success
incognito
Subjugate
Auspicious
Precipitous
12. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
gauche
Notarize
Taxonomy
expurgate
13. To show to be false
Belie
Ziggurat
evanescent
expurgate
14. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Xenophobe
kowtow
loquacious
laissez-faire
15. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Vortex
Sanguine
fiduciary
hubris
16. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Sanguine
Totalitarian
deciduous
inculcate
17. Before or exisiting before a war.
Auspicious
Nomenclature
Antebellum
expurgate
18. (v) to deprive of force or strength
fiduciary
enervate
hemoglobin
inculcate
19. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
kinetic
Abjure
Yeoman
Metamorphosis
20. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Ziggurat
Totalitarian
kowtow
21. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
Notarize
Recapitulate
Antebellum
22. (v) to set free or endow
irony
Quotidian
Chicanery
enfranchise
23. 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
Mitosis
loquacious
deleterious
24. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Moiety
kinetic
Orthography
Vortex
25. Having ones identity concealed
Mitosis
incognito
enervate
Yeoman
26. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Winnow
Omnipotent
deleterious
Soliloguy
27. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Quotidian
Plasma
jejune
Nihilism
28. Supplying motive force
Recapitulate
interpolate
kinetic
Respiration
29. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Tautology
Abjure
gauche
gerrymander
30. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
Oxidize
inculcate
31. Keen - insight - shrewdness
deleterious
Oxidize
Acumen
Thermodynamics
32. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Bellicose
diffident
expurgate
filibuster
33. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Wrought
Orthography
expurgate
Supercilious
34. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Uncouous
Suffragist
gerrymander
Bowdlerize
35. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
chromosone
Auspicious
Uncouous
36. Leadership
hegemony
Precipitous
homogeneous
diffident
37. Complacently or inanely foolish
circumlocution
Recapitulate
fatuous
Usurp
38. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Moiety
Reparation
Notarize
fiduciary
39. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Vaccuous
Tectonic
deleterious
Suffragist
40. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Mitosis
Abrogate
Plagiarize
evanescent
41. Humorous - not meant seriously
Nomenclature
Xenophobe
facetious
jejune
42. Inclined or eager to fight.
Quasar
incontrovertible
Tectonic
Bellicose
43. The act of talking while or as if alone
Taxonomy
homogeneous
Antebellum
Soliloguy
44. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
euro
hegemony
Parameter
kinetic
45. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
expurgate
inculcate
Nonsectarian
Winnow
46. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
impeach
Quasar
irony
Photosynthesis
47. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Parameter
circumnaviagte
Oxidize
Xenophobe
48. Vanishing
evanescent
expurgate
kowtow
Notarize
49. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Belie
Soliloguy
Sanguine
Obsequious
50. To take and use ideas from another's work
fiduciary
epiphany
Mitosis
Plagiarize
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