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1. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Acumen
Parabola
Abstemious
gamete
2. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Abstemious
Bowdlerize
Parameter
Tectonic
3. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Moiety
Parameter
expurgate
hubris
4. 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
kinetic
Omnipotent
homogeneous
5. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Oligarchy
enfranchise
Abjure
6. Complacently or inanely foolish
Nonsectarian
euro
loquacious
fatuous
7. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
churlish
Thermodynamics
Orthography
8. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
deciduous
hypotenuse
jejune
9. (adj) harmful [to health]
laissez-faire
Thermodynamics
deleterious
Metamorphosis
10. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
hegemony
enervate
homogeneous
gauche
11. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
enfranchise
Precipitous
Parameter
Acumen
12. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Precipitous
Polymer
Abrogate
Metamorphosis
13. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
Suffragist
impeach
hypotenuse
14. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Nonsectarian
feckless
fiduciary
Suffragist
15. Showing a lack of intelligence
churlish
Tautology
deleterious
Vaccuous
16. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
lexicon
Supercilious
Precipitous
17. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Tempestuous
Chicanery
laissez-faire
homogeneous
18. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Tautology
gerrymander
Notarize
Plagiarize
19. The time when day and night are of equal length
Plasma
equinox
Bellicose
Subjugate
20. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Parameter
Soliloguy
Oxidize
Bowdlerize
21. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
gauche
Oligarchy
Respiration
Pecuniary
22. To show to be false
impeach
Respiration
lexicon
Belie
23. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
circumnaviagte
inculcate
Recapitulate
Nonsectarian
24. Of the same kind
Yeoman
loquacious
Supercilious
homogeneous
25. Before or exisiting before a war.
expurgate
Antebellum
Mitosis
Tautology
26. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Auspicious
laissez-faire
Vortex
impeach
27. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Oxidize
Oligarchy
circumnaviagte
homogeneous
28. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Nomenclature
Vaccuous
circumlocution
Taxonomy
29. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Pecuniary
hubris
Vortex
deciduous
30. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Abrogate
Soliloguy
Bowdlerize
31. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Soliloguy
infrastructure
Parabola
Xenophobe
32. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Paradigm
Thermodynamics
expurgate
Nonsectarian
33. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
loquacious
diffident
Obsequious
Notarize
34. Whirling mass of movment
irony
Vortex
incognito
Precipitous
35. Not open to question or dispute
circumnaviagte
incontrovertible
impeach
Lugubrious
36. Worked to shape by beating
Reparation
Wrought
Taxonomy
Paradigm
37. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
deciduous
Recapitulate
epiphany
Parabola
38. The official currency of the European Union
churlish
euro
Polymer
Chicanery
39. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Usurp
Oxidize
Plasma
hubris
40. Vanishing
incognito
evanescent
Thermodynamics
Usurp
41. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Soliloguy
Usurp
epiphany
chromosone
42. Needless repetion of an idea
incognito
Tautology
Vortex
deciduous
43. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Respiration
deciduous
Bellicose
44. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
Moiety
Orthography
gerrymander
45. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
enervate
Tectonic
chromosone
Wrought
46. To seperate
Soliloguy
Belie
Winnow
Bowdlerize
47. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
gamete
irony
loquacious
Nanotechnology
48. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
loquacious
Usurp
Suffragist
49. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Photosynthesis
Wrought
Acumen
Nomenclature
50. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Suffragist
Auspicious
Lugubrious