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1. A half
Oxidize
Abstemious
Moiety
Vortex
2. Humorous - not meant seriously
chromosone
Orthography
facetious
Paradigm
3. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
filibuster
hypotenuse
Oligarchy
4. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
euro
hemoglobin
Xenophobe
5. 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
Photosynthesis
Mitosis
Parameter
Abjure
6. Not open to question or dispute
Oxidize
deleterious
Supercilious
incontrovertible
7. (adj) shedding leaves annually
feckless
gamete
deciduous
Nomenclature
8. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Notarize
Mitosis
incontrovertible
Orthography
9. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
Precipitous
enervate
Acumen
10. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
circumlocution
equinox
loquacious
11. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Moiety
laissez-faire
Recapitulate
12. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
enervate
Auspicious
Yeoman
Sanguine
13. Excessive pride or self confidence
feckless
Respiration
hubris
enervate
14. Lacking interest or significance
Bowdlerize
Uncouous
jejune
hypotenuse
15. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
facetious
circumlocution
Vaccuous
impeach
16. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Sanguine
interpolate
enervate
17. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Supercilious
diffident
Abjure
enervate
18. A language user's knowledge of words
Belie
Sanguine
hemoglobin
lexicon
19. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Subjugate
deleterious
Respiration
20. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
chromosone
feckless
deleterious
gerrymander
21. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
hemoglobin
incontrovertible
Omnipotent
Notarize
22. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Auspicious
laissez-faire
jejune
Belie
23. Vanishing
Abstemious
evanescent
Parabola
Abjure
24. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Nihilism
Nanotechnology
Quotidian
irony
25. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Auspicious
Uncouous
Quasar
facetious
26. Leadership
Chicanery
Abrogate
Tempestuous
hegemony
27. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
interpolate
Sanguine
filibuster
28. Full of trivial conversation
Nanotechnology
inculcate
loquacious
Yeoman
29. Careless or irresponsible
laissez-faire
feckless
incontrovertible
enfranchise
30. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Notarize
incontrovertible
Plagiarize
31. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Respiration
Thermodynamics
kowtow
euro
32. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
Subjugate
facetious
Quasar
33. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
feckless
Auspicious
Belie
filibuster
34. The time when day and night are of equal length
fiduciary
Obsequious
gerrymander
equinox
35. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
gamete
hemoglobin
Suffragist
Chicanery
36. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
epiphany
Reparation
Moiety
Pecuniary
37. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Tempestuous
Belie
lexicon
Sanguine
38. Excessively flattering
Obsequious
Uncouous
Reparation
Nomenclature
39. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Notarize
euro
Bellicose
Totalitarian
40. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
Plasma
Nanotechnology
hypotenuse
41. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Abjure
euro
infrastructure
Parabola
42. Worked to shape by beating
Tectonic
gerrymander
Abjure
Wrought
43. To take and use ideas from another's work
Suffragist
Nonsectarian
Chicanery
Plagiarize
44. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Precipitous
Tempestuous
Suffragist
Notarize
45. Of the same kind
impeach
Reparation
Bowdlerize
homogeneous
46. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Nonsectarian
circumlocution
feckless
Recapitulate
47. To show to be false
Belie
Paradigm
Xenophobe
Precipitous
48. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Nanotechnology
infrastructure
circumlocution
Tectonic
49. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Taxonomy
Recapitulate
hemoglobin
50. The official currency of the European Union
euro
Polymer
fatuous
Acumen