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1. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Bellicose
Obsequious
Nomenclature
Quasar
2. Whirling mass of movment
Vortex
hegemony
hypotenuse
enervate
3. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
Tautology
deleterious
churlish
4. To seperate
Wrought
Ziggurat
Respiration
Winnow
5. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Parabola
feckless
Tectonic
6. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Parameter
Reparation
evanescent
circumlocution
7. Careless or irresponsible
Soliloguy
Bowdlerize
Plasma
feckless
8. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
filibuster
Nihilism
Oligarchy
Notarize
9. (adj) shedding leaves annually
churlish
Tautology
hypotenuse
deciduous
10. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Abrogate
evanescent
infrastructure
Recapitulate
11. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Usurp
Polymer
incontrovertible
12. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
filibuster
Plagiarize
Paradigm
13. Vanishing
Subjugate
Omnipotent
evanescent
facetious
14. Before or exisiting before a war.
jejune
Suffragist
Antebellum
Abstemious
15. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
irony
Recapitulate
Abjure
jejune
16. Promising success
Thermodynamics
Auspicious
Abrogate
impeach
17. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Bellicose
Abstemious
Lugubrious
Mitosis
18. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Moiety
Acumen
irony
Tempestuous
19. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
irony
kowtow
incontrovertible
Oxidize
20. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
euro
facetious
gamete
kinetic
21. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Tautology
Reparation
Nonsectarian
circumlocution
22. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
gamete
kinetic
hypotenuse
filibuster
23. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
enfranchise
Plagiarize
Parameter
circumlocution
24. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
Nihilism
diffident
lexicon
25. 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
Abrogate
Notarize
fatuous
26. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
equinox
Sanguine
jejune
27. Technigue of classification
Xenophobe
Abjure
Nanotechnology
Taxonomy
28. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
fiduciary
Winnow
Suffragist
incontrovertible
29. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Parabola
Totalitarian
gauche
churlish
30. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Tempestuous
churlish
Belie
Abstemious
31. (v) to fly or sail around
Parameter
circumnaviagte
kowtow
Sanguine
32. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
laissez-faire
circumlocution
impeach
circumnaviagte
33. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
impeach
circumlocution
Oxidize
fiduciary
34. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
infrastructure
Obsequious
inculcate
Winnow
35. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
hemoglobin
Xenophobe
Vehement
36. Complacently or inanely foolish
hemoglobin
fatuous
equinox
Winnow
37. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
Lugubrious
lexicon
deciduous
diffident
38. To abolish by formal orr official means.
evanescent
churlish
Polymer
Abrogate
39. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
Soliloguy
facetious
Photosynthesis
40. A compound of high molecular weight
Vaccuous
Polymer
Quasar
feckless
41. The time when day and night are of equal length
homogeneous
laissez-faire
equinox
Supercilious
42. To show to be false
Tempestuous
Belie
deleterious
circumnaviagte
43. Supplying motive force
kinetic
Oligarchy
Tectonic
impeach
44. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
fiduciary
Bowdlerize
diffident
circumlocution
45. Needless repetion of an idea
Obsequious
Tautology
jejune
Precipitous
46. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Paradigm
Plasma
gauche
Nanotechnology
47. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Vortex
interpolate
Xenophobe
Oxidize
48. (v) to set free or endow
enfranchise
feckless
gamete
hubris
49. Not open to question or dispute
lexicon
deciduous
Uncouous
incontrovertible
50. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Oxidize
Wrought
hypotenuse