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1. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Pecuniary
Antebellum
deleterious
2. To bring under complete control
circumnaviagte
Subjugate
feckless
hegemony
3. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Ziggurat
Taxonomy
Metamorphosis
lexicon
4. To show to be false
Quotidian
Belie
Orthography
Recapitulate
5. (adj) shedding leaves annually
epiphany
deciduous
Nomenclature
Pecuniary
6. Complacently or inanely foolish
Nanotechnology
Tautology
euro
fatuous
7. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Taxonomy
diffident
filibuster
Quasar
8. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
fiduciary
Auspicious
irony
Suffragist
9. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Oxidize
Nomenclature
fatuous
incognito
10. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Metamorphosis
Precipitous
Plasma
Polymer
11. Humorous - not meant seriously
Quotidian
Abrogate
lexicon
facetious
12. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
irony
Obsequious
Abstemious
Photosynthesis
13. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Acumen
Yeoman
fatuous
Parabola
14. The official currency of the European Union
Nihilism
euro
irony
chromosone
15. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Tautology
gauche
Oxidize
circumlocution
16. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
circumnaviagte
Ziggurat
feckless
enervate
17. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
chromosone
circumlocution
diffident
Pecuniary
18. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
enervate
jejune
Polymer
laissez-faire
19. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
hubris
Recapitulate
Obsequious
Polymer
20. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
expurgate
irony
Recapitulate
21. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Supercilious
Usurp
enervate
expurgate
22. To seperate
Soliloguy
Winnow
Abrogate
impeach
23. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Acumen
epiphany
Thermodynamics
equinox
24. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
deleterious
expurgate
Oxidize
Omnipotent
25. Of the same kind
Totalitarian
Lugubrious
Obsequious
homogeneous
26. Showing a lack of intelligence
deleterious
gamete
Orthography
Vaccuous
27. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Paradigm
Nonsectarian
Supercilious
Photosynthesis
28. Leadership
Auspicious
Soliloguy
Abjure
hegemony
29. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
churlish
Abstemious
Abrogate
30. Technigue of classification
Vehement
Taxonomy
circumlocution
Abrogate
31. Before or exisiting before a war.
Tautology
Belie
Antebellum
infrastructure
32. To take and use ideas from another's work
Abjure
Plagiarize
enfranchise
Sanguine
33. Lacking interest or significance
kowtow
Nonsectarian
jejune
Notarize
34. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
equinox
filibuster
Abrogate
35. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
Acumen
impeach
gamete
Notarize
36. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
hypotenuse
Precipitous
kinetic
irony
37. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
hemoglobin
Nanotechnology
Reparation
Paradigm
38. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Uncouous
Respiration
Wrought
fiduciary
39. Excessively flattering
Sanguine
circumnaviagte
Uncouous
Plasma
40. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Bellicose
inculcate
enervate
infrastructure
41. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Winnow
equinox
hemoglobin
Photosynthesis
42. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Parabola
Nanotechnology
Moiety
Oligarchy
43. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Wrought
deciduous
Lugubrious
Parameter
44. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
lexicon
Obsequious
Bowdlerize
Yeoman
45. Sythesis of complex organic materials
impeach
Respiration
Antebellum
Photosynthesis
46. To abolish by formal orr official means.
irony
Abrogate
Parameter
circumlocution
47. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
gerrymander
Plagiarize
circumlocution
48. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Supercilious
Abstemious
Nihilism
Omnipotent
49. (v) to set free or endow
deciduous
enfranchise
gerrymander
Thermodynamics
50. Violent commotion
Metamorphosis
impeach
Yeoman
Tempestuous