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1. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
epiphany
Thermodynamics
Precipitous
jejune
2. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
facetious
Sanguine
Auspicious
3. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
deleterious
laissez-faire
Belie
4. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
Moiety
Antebellum
chromosone
5. Violent commotion
churlish
Chicanery
hubris
Tempestuous
6. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Lugubrious
Abjure
Oxidize
fiduciary
7. A half
Bowdlerize
Abstemious
Moiety
Belie
8. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Ziggurat
Bellicose
interpolate
equinox
9. Lacking interest or significance
euro
jejune
Respiration
epiphany
10. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
diffident
evanescent
Recapitulate
Reparation
11. Leadership
Bowdlerize
hegemony
Quotidian
infrastructure
12. The time when day and night are of equal length
Nomenclature
Auspicious
Abstemious
equinox
13. Showing strong feeling
Vehement
kinetic
Pecuniary
euro
14. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Obsequious
expurgate
Antebellum
Oligarchy
15. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Thermodynamics
Winnow
euro
Subjugate
16. Humorous - not meant seriously
Tectonic
facetious
Abrogate
loquacious
17. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Uncouous
Chicanery
circumlocution
Metamorphosis
18. To take and use ideas from another's work
Antebellum
Bellicose
Plagiarize
Winnow
19. A compound of high molecular weight
incontrovertible
Polymer
loquacious
Photosynthesis
20. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Subjugate
evanescent
Totalitarian
expurgate
21. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Bowdlerize
deciduous
equinox
Uncouous
22. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Antebellum
Nanotechnology
Vortex
Nomenclature
23. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
euro
Soliloguy
hemoglobin
churlish
24. 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
Nanotechnology
Oxidize
hypotenuse
diffident
25. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
kowtow
circumnaviagte
Soliloguy
26. Vanishing
evanescent
deciduous
gamete
Polymer
27. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Plasma
Reparation
Nihilism
28. To show to be false
Nomenclature
Recapitulate
Moiety
Belie
29. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumnaviagte
circumlocution
Reparation
Oxidize
30. Excessive pride or self confidence
Paradigm
Abstemious
hubris
lexicon
31. Complacently or inanely foolish
Totalitarian
fatuous
Orthography
Notarize
32. Not open to question or dispute
Quotidian
Oligarchy
Omnipotent
incontrovertible
33. (adj) rude - boorish
Xenophobe
churlish
filibuster
Mitosis
34. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Tectonic
enervate
impeach
Antebellum
35. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
incognito
hypotenuse
Chicanery
Orthography
36. The official currency of the European Union
Pecuniary
hegemony
euro
Usurp
37. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Yeoman
fiduciary
epiphany
Parameter
38. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Notarize
Parameter
Abrogate
Vortex
39. (v) to fly or sail around
circumlocution
circumnaviagte
Abjure
deleterious
40. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
enfranchise
Notarize
Chicanery
Vehement
41. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Auspicious
Tautology
kinetic
42. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
hegemony
fatuous
kinetic
Parabola
43. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Polymer
Chicanery
Ziggurat
Subjugate
44. Promising success
impeach
inculcate
Omnipotent
Auspicious
45. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
diffident
inculcate
Subjugate
Reparation
46. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
facetious
Usurp
fatuous
47. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
jejune
kinetic
Nomenclature
48. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Sanguine
Ziggurat
Acumen
fatuous
49. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Nihilism
Obsequious
Paradigm
Chicanery
50. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Obsequious
gauche
Abstemious
Tautology