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1. Showing strong feeling
Parabola
lexicon
Tautology
Vehement
2. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Plasma
Vehement
Metamorphosis
Vortex
3. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Sanguine
gauche
Oligarchy
Soliloguy
4. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Metamorphosis
Sanguine
Obsequious
5. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Abrogate
infrastructure
Lugubrious
Ziggurat
6. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Abjure
Orthography
Photosynthesis
Suffragist
7. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
incognito
Ziggurat
laissez-faire
8. Lacking interest or significance
jejune
infrastructure
Pecuniary
Quasar
9. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Oligarchy
Auspicious
Obsequious
interpolate
10. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
gerrymander
Metamorphosis
interpolate
Chicanery
11. A compound of high molecular weight
Sanguine
Pecuniary
Polymer
gauche
12. (v) to set free or endow
Winnow
enfranchise
gamete
Antebellum
13. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Plagiarize
Sanguine
feckless
Lugubrious
14. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Notarize
Metamorphosis
infrastructure
Orthography
15. 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
Tectonic
Nanotechnology
Polymer
Obsequious
16. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Abstemious
Parabola
Plagiarize
Precipitous
17. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Plasma
Usurp
Reparation
loquacious
18. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Mitosis
Xenophobe
Nomenclature
Tectonic
19. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
gerrymander
Xenophobe
feckless
Thermodynamics
20. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
incognito
euro
evanescent
21. Whirling mass of movment
Abjure
Mitosis
Winnow
Vortex
22. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Acumen
Oxidize
enervate
Taxonomy
23. Leadership
Pecuniary
loquacious
lexicon
hegemony
24. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
Plasma
Tautology
Wrought
25. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Nihilism
Abstemious
Parabola
26. Not open to question or dispute
Totalitarian
incontrovertible
Plagiarize
equinox
27. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
enervate
Tautology
Oligarchy
Oxidize
28. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Parameter
deciduous
Suffragist
Parabola
29. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
deciduous
Quotidian
Sanguine
30. Showing a lack of intelligence
Plagiarize
Vaccuous
Vortex
Tectonic
31. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
chromosone
facetious
Nihilism
32. Supplying motive force
incontrovertible
Winnow
kinetic
enervate
33. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Precipitous
Soliloguy
filibuster
Mitosis
34. 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
Mitosis
Sanguine
Obsequious
expurgate
35. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Subjugate
Respiration
Precipitous
Ziggurat
36. Full of trivial conversation
epiphany
Metamorphosis
Obsequious
loquacious
37. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
fiduciary
irony
filibuster
Vortex
38. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
epiphany
enervate
Parameter
Plagiarize
39. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Quotidian
Precipitous
Recapitulate
Obsequious
40. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Acumen
Lugubrious
kowtow
Uncouous
41. Of the same kind
incontrovertible
homogeneous
gamete
Mitosis
42. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Oxidize
Reparation
Antebellum
hemoglobin
43. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Vortex
interpolate
Lugubrious
44. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Precipitous
impeach
Abjure
Notarize
45. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Recapitulate
lexicon
churlish
impeach
46. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
Polymer
circumnaviagte
Nonsectarian
47. Violent commotion
Recapitulate
Nihilism
Tempestuous
Subjugate
48. To bring under complete control
Suffragist
Subjugate
Thermodynamics
Antebellum
49. Technigue of classification
Nomenclature
Taxonomy
Winnow
Mitosis
50. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
hegemony
evanescent
Respiration
Parabola