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1. The time when day and night are of equal length
laissez-faire
Respiration
equinox
Totalitarian
2. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
Lugubrious
inculcate
Parameter
3. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Orthography
hemoglobin
churlish
filibuster
4. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
diffident
circumnaviagte
fiduciary
Recapitulate
5. To show to be false
Parameter
Photosynthesis
Belie
incognito
6. Excessive pride or self confidence
Subjugate
hubris
homogeneous
Supercilious
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Bowdlerize
Lugubrious
Taxonomy
8. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Belie
diffident
Lugubrious
9. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Sanguine
kowtow
Plasma
gamete
10. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Winnow
enervate
Acumen
Bowdlerize
11. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
facetious
incognito
laissez-faire
hemoglobin
12. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Ziggurat
Mitosis
Abstemious
deciduous
13. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Auspicious
impeach
Acumen
epiphany
14. Before or exisiting before a war.
facetious
Antebellum
incontrovertible
equinox
15. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Abrogate
laissez-faire
Pecuniary
Soliloguy
16. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Totalitarian
Usurp
Respiration
feckless
17. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
equinox
Belie
laissez-faire
Obsequious
18. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Polymer
Metamorphosis
Notarize
19. To take and use ideas from another's work
Notarize
Photosynthesis
Plagiarize
enfranchise
20. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Nonsectarian
Vaccuous
Quasar
Oligarchy
21. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
Taxonomy
hegemony
Pecuniary
22. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Wrought
Nihilism
Polymer
Yeoman
23. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Reparation
chromosone
Winnow
Taxonomy
24. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Bowdlerize
gauche
Notarize
enervate
25. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Nomenclature
Supercilious
diffident
Abjure
26. (v) to deprive of force or strength
epiphany
diffident
enervate
Precipitous
27. Not open to question or dispute
Sanguine
Tautology
incontrovertible
irony
28. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
enfranchise
Oxidize
gauche
29. Promising success
Reparation
incognito
Orthography
Auspicious
30. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
epiphany
homogeneous
Sanguine
feckless
31. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
laissez-faire
lexicon
Acumen
32. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
hubris
impeach
Abstemious
33. A language user's knowledge of words
interpolate
impeach
chromosone
lexicon
34. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Suffragist
Subjugate
Paradigm
Taxonomy
35. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
filibuster
Recapitulate
Usurp
36. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
churlish
hegemony
Belie
Nonsectarian
37. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
incontrovertible
kowtow
laissez-faire
gerrymander
38. Showing a lack of intelligence
Tectonic
Polymer
Abjure
Vaccuous
39. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
equinox
Taxonomy
Acumen
40. Technigue of classification
Taxonomy
circumlocution
loquacious
Yeoman
41. Inclined or eager to fight.
feckless
Bellicose
Supercilious
Tectonic
42. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Nonsectarian
Usurp
Polymer
43. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Suffragist
Mitosis
Supercilious
Omnipotent
44. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
filibuster
Moiety
Respiration
loquacious
45. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
laissez-faire
Chicanery
feckless
46. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
epiphany
infrastructure
loquacious
Thermodynamics
47. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Omnipotent
Parabola
filibuster
Abjure
48. Vanishing
Xenophobe
evanescent
Oligarchy
Omnipotent
49. Having ones identity concealed
Omnipotent
incognito
evanescent
Paradigm
50. Complacently or inanely foolish
hubris
chromosone
epiphany
fatuous