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1. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
circumnaviagte
Ziggurat
Orthography
gamete
2. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Precipitous
evanescent
diffident
3. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Respiration
expurgate
Paradigm
Xenophobe
4. (adj) rude - boorish
Polymer
diffident
churlish
Paradigm
5. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Respiration
Metamorphosis
Bowdlerize
Thermodynamics
6. Technigue of classification
Parabola
gamete
Obsequious
Taxonomy
7. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Recapitulate
Wrought
diffident
Vortex
8. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
lexicon
Quotidian
Plagiarize
Notarize
9. The act of talking while or as if alone
Belie
jejune
Soliloguy
Obsequious
10. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
gamete
Obsequious
Winnow
kowtow
11. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
gauche
Sanguine
Bowdlerize
hegemony
12. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Chicanery
Sanguine
Pecuniary
13. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
euro
kinetic
enfranchise
14. Not open to question or dispute
Quasar
enervate
hegemony
incontrovertible
15. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
kowtow
Taxonomy
Usurp
diffident
16. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
impeach
inculcate
infrastructure
deciduous
17. Vanishing
Abstemious
Orthography
Parameter
evanescent
18. 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
Bellicose
Nanotechnology
diffident
hemoglobin
19. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
interpolate
Taxonomy
fatuous
20. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Oxidize
Lugubrious
Nomenclature
Metamorphosis
21. To take and use ideas from another's work
Abrogate
Ziggurat
Plagiarize
enervate
22. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
deciduous
fiduciary
Tectonic
Suffragist
23. Excessive pride or self confidence
Respiration
deleterious
hubris
fiduciary
24. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Ziggurat
circumlocution
Recapitulate
enervate
25. (adj) harmful [to health]
Photosynthesis
Thermodynamics
deleterious
laissez-faire
26. The official currency of the European Union
Vortex
Polymer
Parabola
euro
27. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Ziggurat
Usurp
Precipitous
28. Needless repetion of an idea
Oxidize
euro
Omnipotent
Tautology
29. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Metamorphosis
Parameter
Usurp
laissez-faire
30. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
homogeneous
kowtow
Obsequious
Polymer
31. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Pecuniary
Auspicious
Parabola
Uncouous
32. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Metamorphosis
Oligarchy
infrastructure
Nomenclature
33. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
infrastructure
Tectonic
Abstemious
Photosynthesis
34. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Belie
Omnipotent
Abrogate
Uncouous
35. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
fatuous
Recapitulate
Bowdlerize
36. Supplying motive force
Bellicose
kinetic
deleterious
Xenophobe
37. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Yeoman
Ziggurat
hypotenuse
Abrogate
38. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
hypotenuse
facetious
Supercilious
Wrought
39. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Bowdlerize
equinox
Quotidian
Omnipotent
40. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
jejune
Lugubrious
infrastructure
impeach
41. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
hegemony
Wrought
Mitosis
42. Humorous - not meant seriously
equinox
Nonsectarian
Obsequious
facetious
43. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Uncouous
Parabola
Tautology
44. To seperate
Totalitarian
euro
Winnow
Precipitous
45. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
gerrymander
Polymer
Vehement
infrastructure
46. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
Pecuniary
circumlocution
Reparation
47. To bring under complete control
jejune
Subjugate
Xenophobe
Recapitulate
48. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Belie
infrastructure
Nonsectarian
Omnipotent
49. A half
diffident
Moiety
Sanguine
Chicanery
50. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
Polymer
Taxonomy
Precipitous