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1. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
hubris
Quotidian
kinetic
Respiration
2. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Quasar
Acumen
Paradigm
Polymer
3. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
gerrymander
Lugubrious
Photosynthesis
4. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Nomenclature
Nanotechnology
incognito
5. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
equinox
Nanotechnology
deciduous
6. The time when day and night are of equal length
equinox
gauche
Antebellum
hemoglobin
7. Full of trivial conversation
Recapitulate
laissez-faire
loquacious
Vehement
8. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Parabola
Obsequious
irony
deleterious
9. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Xenophobe
hemoglobin
Nomenclature
Pecuniary
10. To bring under complete control
Subjugate
feckless
Notarize
fiduciary
11. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Bellicose
feckless
Wrought
Sanguine
12. Of the same kind
Tautology
Taxonomy
homogeneous
Bowdlerize
13. Violent commotion
Auspicious
enfranchise
Tempestuous
Supercilious
14. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
chromosone
Photosynthesis
Tempestuous
filibuster
15. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
deleterious
gerrymander
Vaccuous
16. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
homogeneous
Subjugate
Parameter
gamete
17. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Bellicose
Nonsectarian
Lugubrious
Reparation
18. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
filibuster
Orthography
diffident
19. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Suffragist
homogeneous
Orthography
Reparation
20. To take and use ideas from another's work
filibuster
circumnaviagte
Vortex
Plagiarize
21. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
feckless
facetious
diffident
deleterious
22. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
Plagiarize
Vortex
facetious
23. Showing strong feeling
Tempestuous
Vehement
fiduciary
Winnow
24. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Notarize
Winnow
gauche
hemoglobin
25. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Abjure
Tempestuous
impeach
Acumen
26. 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
Totalitarian
Supercilious
Mitosis
hegemony
27. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
fiduciary
Chicanery
filibuster
28. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Acumen
Ziggurat
hypotenuse
29. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Obsequious
Paradigm
facetious
Yeoman
30. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
incognito
Quotidian
enervate
Usurp
31. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Obsequious
Abstemious
Bowdlerize
32. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Orthography
Taxonomy
Tempestuous
33. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Winnow
loquacious
Chicanery
Moiety
34. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Oxidize
Auspicious
Omnipotent
35. Before or exisiting before a war.
Taxonomy
Antebellum
laissez-faire
Acumen
36. A language user's knowledge of words
circumnaviagte
equinox
Totalitarian
lexicon
37. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Uncouous
Mitosis
Abrogate
Nonsectarian
38. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Vaccuous
fiduciary
Reparation
churlish
39. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Acumen
Nonsectarian
hemoglobin
chromosone
40. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
filibuster
feckless
Nanotechnology
41. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Abrogate
Sanguine
impeach
42. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Quotidian
expurgate
Xenophobe
Polymer
43. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
impeach
Plagiarize
circumlocution
Wrought
44. To show to be false
Plagiarize
Auspicious
Belie
Winnow
45. Humorous - not meant seriously
inculcate
jejune
facetious
Quasar
46. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
euro
fiduciary
Respiration
Recapitulate
47. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
kinetic
Respiration
Nomenclature
48. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
epiphany
Recapitulate
kinetic
lexicon
49. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Precipitous
Thermodynamics
Oxidize
hypotenuse
50. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nomenclature
hemoglobin
Nihilism
feckless