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english
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1. Worked to shape by beating
Suffragist
epiphany
Wrought
inculcate
2. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
chromosone
Abjure
diffident
gauche
3. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Belie
Quasar
Moiety
Xenophobe
4. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
gerrymander
churlish
gamete
5. Of or pertaining to money
Nihilism
Oxidize
Tectonic
Pecuniary
6. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Suffragist
laissez-faire
Parameter
Plasma
7. To show to be false
hubris
laissez-faire
Belie
Wrought
8. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Moiety
Plasma
Nihilism
hypotenuse
9. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
loquacious
gerrymander
Photosynthesis
Mitosis
10. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Chicanery
Yeoman
hubris
Plasma
11. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Usurp
Notarize
Nomenclature
feckless
12. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Vortex
incognito
epiphany
13. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
Suffragist
Auspicious
gamete
14. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Quasar
Respiration
circumnaviagte
Paradigm
15. (v) to set free or endow
Polymer
hegemony
irony
enfranchise
16. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Vehement
enfranchise
Bowdlerize
Quasar
17. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Omnipotent
Mitosis
chromosone
laissez-faire
18. Vanishing
Paradigm
Orthography
Lugubrious
evanescent
19. (adj) harmful [to health]
Soliloguy
deleterious
Reparation
epiphany
20. The official currency of the European Union
Tempestuous
euro
chromosone
Mitosis
21. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Taxonomy
Tautology
diffident
hemoglobin
22. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
laissez-faire
Nonsectarian
Polymer
Metamorphosis
23. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
kowtow
Winnow
filibuster
diffident
24. To abolish by formal orr official means.
circumlocution
Notarize
Abrogate
Uncouous
25. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
epiphany
loquacious
circumlocution
Parameter
26. The time when day and night are of equal length
Plagiarize
equinox
Respiration
Bowdlerize
27. To bring under complete control
enfranchise
Antebellum
Usurp
Subjugate
28. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Moiety
Reparation
interpolate
expurgate
29. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Uncouous
Acumen
Parameter
Oxidize
30. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
hypotenuse
deleterious
Suffragist
Oligarchy
31. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Thermodynamics
lexicon
Tempestuous
32. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Reparation
filibuster
interpolate
33. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
hegemony
Quasar
Photosynthesis
impeach
34. Whirling mass of movment
Abjure
Vortex
lexicon
Precipitous
35. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Nonsectarian
Precipitous
Totalitarian
incontrovertible
36. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Quotidian
Paradigm
Nonsectarian
kowtow
37. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
filibuster
Recapitulate
hemoglobin
Ziggurat
38. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Pecuniary
fatuous
hemoglobin
enfranchise
39. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
gamete
Recapitulate
filibuster
Pecuniary
40. Leadership
Subjugate
hegemony
loquacious
enervate
41. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Pecuniary
Acumen
inculcate
Parabola
42. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Supercilious
gerrymander
enervate
gamete
43. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
incognito
Quotidian
Omnipotent
Xenophobe
44. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
jejune
Notarize
Uncouous
Obsequious
45. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
inculcate
Moiety
gerrymander
Oxidize
46. To seperate
interpolate
churlish
Parabola
Winnow
47. (adj) rude - boorish
Plagiarize
Nonsectarian
deleterious
churlish
48. Violent commotion
feckless
Tempestuous
Omnipotent
Obsequious
49. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Vaccuous
interpolate
Sanguine
Tectonic
50. Supplying motive force
inculcate
Nomenclature
Quasar
kinetic