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1. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Vehement
Acumen
Paradigm
Recapitulate
2. Full of trivial conversation
Obsequious
equinox
fatuous
loquacious
3. Showing a lack of intelligence
Winnow
Supercilious
Vaccuous
Oligarchy
4. A half
Winnow
Moiety
enfranchise
Subjugate
5. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Metamorphosis
gamete
Quasar
Bellicose
6. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Nonsectarian
circumnaviagte
Ziggurat
facetious
7. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Mitosis
Omnipotent
Chicanery
churlish
8. To seperate
Xenophobe
Winnow
evanescent
Parabola
9. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
lexicon
Paradigm
Auspicious
Tautology
10. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
equinox
Oligarchy
hegemony
11. Promising success
Oxidize
Reparation
Auspicious
Sanguine
12. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
incontrovertible
laissez-faire
filibuster
Soliloguy
13. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
feckless
Plagiarize
Wrought
14. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Polymer
Tectonic
enervate
Belie
15. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Acumen
Yeoman
Xenophobe
evanescent
16. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Oligarchy
enfranchise
Parabola
Chicanery
17. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
laissez-faire
filibuster
Recapitulate
18. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Supercilious
filibuster
impeach
Suffragist
19. Leadership
Obsequious
Nonsectarian
hegemony
Notarize
20. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Precipitous
interpolate
Soliloguy
euro
21. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
Usurp
Chicanery
Photosynthesis
22. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
kowtow
Sanguine
infrastructure
Winnow
23. Humorous - not meant seriously
diffident
Parabola
facetious
laissez-faire
24. Violent commotion
chromosone
Tempestuous
facetious
Metamorphosis
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
feckless
Xenophobe
Acumen
Mitosis
26. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Reparation
Paradigm
churlish
Supercilious
27. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Paradigm
Soliloguy
facetious
kowtow
28. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Suffragist
hemoglobin
Ziggurat
Usurp
29. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Nomenclature
Reparation
Plagiarize
30. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
feckless
Orthography
Quasar
Quotidian
31. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Tautology
fiduciary
Vaccuous
hubris
32. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Mitosis
Abjure
expurgate
loquacious
33. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Abrogate
Metamorphosis
Supercilious
34. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Belie
Abjure
Suffragist
inculcate
35. Needless repetion of an idea
Totalitarian
Tautology
hypotenuse
Orthography
36. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
Bowdlerize
Yeoman
Belie
37. Showing strong feeling
gamete
facetious
Vehement
euro
38. (adj) harmful [to health]
Thermodynamics
Taxonomy
Orthography
deleterious
39. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Chicanery
chromosone
Usurp
Antebellum
40. Before or exisiting before a war.
Xenophobe
Antebellum
hypotenuse
Pecuniary
41. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
enervate
Vortex
inculcate
deciduous
42. The time when day and night are of equal length
inculcate
Nonsectarian
equinox
deleterious
43. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
fiduciary
Tectonic
Abjure
Bowdlerize
44. 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
Mitosis
interpolate
Recapitulate
Nanotechnology
45. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
Plasma
Paradigm
equinox
46. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Mitosis
Plasma
equinox
Oxidize
47. Careless or irresponsible
Vehement
feckless
Taxonomy
Belie
48. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
Plasma
interpolate
infrastructure
Totalitarian
49. Supplying motive force
gamete
kinetic
Vehement
interpolate
50. (v) to fly or sail around
Usurp
diffident
gamete
circumnaviagte