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1. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Bellicose
Supercilious
Thermodynamics
fatuous
2. To show to be false
Obsequious
Moiety
Respiration
Belie
3. (v) to deprive of force or strength
irony
incontrovertible
enervate
Uncouous
4. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Bowdlerize
Orthography
Soliloguy
Metamorphosis
5. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
hegemony
loquacious
inculcate
Winnow
6. Vanishing
epiphany
Mitosis
evanescent
Nonsectarian
7. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Totalitarian
Abstemious
Orthography
8. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Pecuniary
gamete
irony
9. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
incognito
Recapitulate
infrastructure
Reparation
10. Complacently or inanely foolish
Abjure
fiduciary
fatuous
hemoglobin
11. 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
inculcate
gerrymander
Mitosis
Usurp
12. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Suffragist
hegemony
Recapitulate
Totalitarian
13. The time when day and night are of equal length
jejune
Tautology
equinox
filibuster
14. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Subjugate
Vaccuous
Pecuniary
15. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Winnow
kowtow
Obsequious
Quasar
16. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
jejune
Quasar
impeach
equinox
17. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
deciduous
gauche
Metamorphosis
Xenophobe
18. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Pecuniary
Oligarchy
gamete
Totalitarian
19. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
gerrymander
epiphany
hemoglobin
churlish
20. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Usurp
fiduciary
epiphany
chromosone
21. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
laissez-faire
gauche
interpolate
22. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
fatuous
Uncouous
Auspicious
23. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
euro
Vehement
Abstemious
24. (adj) harmful [to health]
Photosynthesis
filibuster
Reparation
deleterious
25. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Subjugate
kinetic
fatuous
26. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Metamorphosis
Subjugate
Polymer
27. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Winnow
Yeoman
Belie
fiduciary
28. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Subjugate
Xenophobe
Chicanery
impeach
29. To seperate
Winnow
Nihilism
Pecuniary
gamete
30. Whirling mass of movment
Mitosis
kinetic
Vortex
expurgate
31. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Xenophobe
incognito
kowtow
32. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
enervate
Paradigm
Totalitarian
Yeoman
33. Full of trivial conversation
Paradigm
Bellicose
Polymer
loquacious
34. Technigue of classification
Soliloguy
Abstemious
Taxonomy
hegemony
35. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
enfranchise
Parabola
Orthography
Oxidize
36. A half
Belie
Moiety
gerrymander
Sanguine
37. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
inculcate
interpolate
diffident
Uncouous
38. Before or exisiting before a war.
Antebellum
laissez-faire
Xenophobe
enervate
39. A compound of high molecular weight
Paradigm
Polymer
Nomenclature
Bellicose
40. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
feckless
Tautology
Notarize
41. (v) to set free or endow
jejune
enfranchise
Lugubrious
Thermodynamics
42. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Sanguine
irony
expurgate
Quotidian
43. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Thermodynamics
Photosynthesis
deleterious
loquacious
44. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
Sanguine
Taxonomy
Bellicose
45. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Nonsectarian
Xenophobe
Abstemious
Soliloguy
46. To bring under complete control
Sanguine
Subjugate
Yeoman
deciduous
47. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Omnipotent
Thermodynamics
Respiration
Supercilious
48. Of or pertaining to money
Notarize
Vehement
Pecuniary
enfranchise
49. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
gamete
Metamorphosis
Totalitarian
50. The official currency of the European Union
evanescent
euro
Abrogate
hemoglobin