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1. To take and use ideas from another's work
Nonsectarian
Ziggurat
Abstemious
Plagiarize
2. Worked to shape by beating
diffident
Nanotechnology
Wrought
Sanguine
3. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Tempestuous
enfranchise
Soliloguy
fiduciary
4. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
epiphany
deciduous
hubris
5. Not open to question or dispute
incontrovertible
Vaccuous
Pecuniary
inculcate
6. Inclined or eager to fight.
impeach
Moiety
enfranchise
Bellicose
7. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
diffident
laissez-faire
gamete
Vehement
8. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
hypotenuse
Vortex
inculcate
9. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Oligarchy
Moiety
Soliloguy
Acumen
10. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
feckless
Bellicose
enervate
11. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Recapitulate
Soliloguy
Ziggurat
lexicon
12. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
hegemony
gauche
Nomenclature
deleterious
13. Supplying motive force
jejune
Auspicious
Reparation
kinetic
14. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Vortex
Nonsectarian
Nihilism
Wrought
15. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
circumnaviagte
gamete
Bellicose
16. Showing a lack of intelligence
Quasar
Subjugate
Vaccuous
loquacious
17. Of or pertaining to money
Tectonic
Pecuniary
Abstemious
Parabola
18. Whirling mass of movment
Winnow
hemoglobin
Vortex
euro
19. Full of trivial conversation
Vaccuous
loquacious
enervate
gamete
20. Technigue of classification
Xenophobe
Abjure
Taxonomy
epiphany
21. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
Abrogate
Mitosis
Parabola
22. Careless or irresponsible
Plasma
Abrogate
Nomenclature
feckless
23. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
chromosone
Uncouous
Respiration
Nomenclature
24. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
chromosone
Polymer
Usurp
Belie
25. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Photosynthesis
epiphany
facetious
Parameter
26. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
inculcate
Vaccuous
chromosone
Tempestuous
27. Vanishing
Abjure
Usurp
evanescent
circumnaviagte
28. Leadership
expurgate
Totalitarian
Recapitulate
hegemony
29. Lacking interest or significance
Totalitarian
Taxonomy
Bowdlerize
jejune
30. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
incontrovertible
expurgate
Bowdlerize
inculcate
31. The time when day and night are of equal length
Xenophobe
equinox
Oligarchy
Wrought
32. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
incontrovertible
Lugubrious
Chicanery
Bowdlerize
33. Humorous - not meant seriously
gauche
facetious
Nihilism
Bellicose
34. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Quotidian
enfranchise
interpolate
Oxidize
35. (v) to set free or endow
euro
facetious
enfranchise
interpolate
36. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Vortex
impeach
Vehement
Tectonic
37. A half
Omnipotent
Moiety
interpolate
Yeoman
38. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
Recapitulate
Acumen
Orthography
39. The official currency of the European Union
Respiration
Auspicious
euro
Abstemious
40. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
incontrovertible
gauche
kowtow
Totalitarian
41. To seperate
churlish
Plagiarize
Acumen
Winnow
42. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Nihilism
infrastructure
impeach
Supercilious
43. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Reparation
Acumen
fiduciary
Recapitulate
44. A technology executed on the scale of less than 100 nanometers - the goal of which is to control individual atoms and molecules - especially to create computer chips and other microscopic devices
fatuous
hubris
Nanotechnology
Obsequious
45. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Tectonic
incontrovertible
Lugubrious
Bowdlerize
46. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Suffragist
Nanotechnology
Oligarchy
47. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Taxonomy
Subjugate
Recapitulate
48. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Plagiarize
circumnaviagte
Parabola
Nonsectarian
49. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Plasma
Plagiarize
Winnow
50. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
interpolate
deciduous
epiphany
Auspicious