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1. (adj) harmful [to health]
hypotenuse
Obsequious
euro
deleterious
2. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
incognito
homogeneous
hubris
3. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Vaccuous
Nonsectarian
diffident
4. To show to be false
evanescent
Precipitous
Nonsectarian
Belie
5. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
lexicon
facetious
diffident
6. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
hemoglobin
deleterious
Vortex
7. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Pecuniary
enervate
circumlocution
Nanotechnology
8. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Auspicious
Nihilism
Vortex
Supercilious
9. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Belie
Recapitulate
Lugubrious
expurgate
10. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Auspicious
epiphany
Tectonic
Vortex
11. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
equinox
Pecuniary
Reparation
Yeoman
12. To seperate
impeach
interpolate
expurgate
Winnow
13. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
incontrovertible
Ziggurat
Tautology
Taxonomy
14. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Parameter
laissez-faire
Orthography
Reparation
15. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
inculcate
incognito
diffident
16. Keen - insight - shrewdness
hubris
Yeoman
Quotidian
Acumen
17. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Recapitulate
hubris
Quotidian
inculcate
18. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Vaccuous
interpolate
deleterious
impeach
19. Vanishing
Subjugate
homogeneous
Lugubrious
evanescent
20. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
kinetic
evanescent
Precipitous
hemoglobin
21. A half
Moiety
Tempestuous
euro
Abjure
22. Excessive pride or self confidence
circumnaviagte
gamete
hubris
infrastructure
23. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Auspicious
Bowdlerize
kowtow
epiphany
24. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Vortex
impeach
hypotenuse
diffident
25. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
infrastructure
Abjure
hemoglobin
interpolate
26. (v) to fly or sail around
circumnaviagte
Oxidize
Nihilism
incognito
27. A language user's knowledge of words
Soliloguy
Metamorphosis
Precipitous
lexicon
28. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
churlish
Subjugate
gauche
incognito
29. The liquid part of blood or lymph
hubris
fiduciary
Suffragist
Plasma
30. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Respiration
loquacious
gerrymander
Yeoman
31. To take and use ideas from another's work
deciduous
Ziggurat
chromosone
Plagiarize
32. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Quasar
Nihilism
diffident
interpolate
33. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Suffragist
enfranchise
irony
Nihilism
34. Not open to question or dispute
Nihilism
Tempestuous
incontrovertible
circumnaviagte
35. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Respiration
Wrought
enervate
36. The act of talking while or as if alone
Usurp
inculcate
Soliloguy
Yeoman
37. To abolish by formal orr official means.
hegemony
loquacious
Supercilious
Abrogate
38. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Oxidize
Nomenclature
epiphany
39. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
circumnaviagte
hypotenuse
hubris
gerrymander
40. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Supercilious
Obsequious
Xenophobe
41. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
hemoglobin
Nomenclature
hegemony
42. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Abstemious
circumnaviagte
Omnipotent
laissez-faire
43. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Xenophobe
Parameter
Suffragist
Metamorphosis
44. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
gamete
Plagiarize
Metamorphosis
Ziggurat
45. Needless repetion of an idea
irony
impeach
Tautology
circumnaviagte
46. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Quotidian
fatuous
enfranchise
47. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Polymer
Tempestuous
Sanguine
Winnow
48. Showing strong feeling
infrastructure
hypotenuse
Vehement
Soliloguy
49. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Xenophobe
Suffragist
deciduous
Obsequious
50. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Plagiarize
Notarize
Antebellum
Nomenclature