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1. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Recapitulate
hegemony
Parabola
Mitosis
2. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
chromosone
kinetic
Abstemious
Reparation
3. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Abrogate
Quotidian
Reparation
Obsequious
4. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Taxonomy
Belie
Nanotechnology
5. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
interpolate
Quasar
churlish
6. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Photosynthesis
Vortex
epiphany
Paradigm
7. The act of talking while or as if alone
equinox
Supercilious
feckless
Soliloguy
8. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
evanescent
Sanguine
hubris
gerrymander
9. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
hypotenuse
expurgate
Supercilious
hemoglobin
10. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
equinox
Xenophobe
Suffragist
Abstemious
11. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
diffident
Lugubrious
Photosynthesis
12. (v) to deprive of force or strength
filibuster
feckless
Auspicious
enervate
13. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Antebellum
laissez-faire
homogeneous
incontrovertible
14. The official currency of the European Union
Nihilism
euro
Abrogate
feckless
15. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
lexicon
Vehement
expurgate
irony
16. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
infrastructure
churlish
Respiration
enervate
17. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
Thermodynamics
Notarize
gauche
18. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Plasma
enervate
Recapitulate
gerrymander
19. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Abstemious
Mitosis
Notarize
Nomenclature
20. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
kowtow
feckless
diffident
21. Whirling mass of movment
fiduciary
filibuster
Vortex
expurgate
22. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
deciduous
kowtow
euro
churlish
23. Keen - insight - shrewdness
evanescent
gauche
feckless
Acumen
24. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
hemoglobin
impeach
Tempestuous
Lugubrious
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
Tectonic
Ziggurat
Acumen
26. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Paradigm
Winnow
incognito
circumlocution
27. Supplying motive force
chromosone
kinetic
lexicon
euro
28. To certify (a document - contract - etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public
circumnaviagte
Nomenclature
jejune
Notarize
29. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Subjugate
Paradigm
gauche
Pecuniary
30. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
impeach
Pecuniary
Sanguine
Lugubrious
31. The liquid part of blood or lymph
churlish
feckless
Oligarchy
Plasma
32. Vanishing
circumnaviagte
facetious
fatuous
evanescent
33. Full of trivial conversation
Plasma
Belie
Abjure
loquacious
34. (adj) harmful [to health]
deleterious
euro
Reparation
Auspicious
35. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
irony
Pecuniary
Ziggurat
Winnow
36. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
kinetic
deleterious
Belie
Totalitarian
37. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Nonsectarian
hegemony
Antebellum
Polymer
38. Technigue of classification
incognito
Taxonomy
diffident
Supercilious
39. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
Subjugate
churlish
hegemony
40. To abolish by formal orr official means.
circumlocution
Abrogate
Abstemious
diffident
41. To show to be false
jejune
Photosynthesis
Belie
Wrought
42. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Quasar
laissez-faire
enervate
Tautology
43. A compound of high molecular weight
Nanotechnology
chromosone
Polymer
Orthography
44. Of the same kind
hemoglobin
homogeneous
Mitosis
Chicanery
45. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Paradigm
Nanotechnology
inculcate
homogeneous
46. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Metamorphosis
deciduous
loquacious
47. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Auspicious
Oligarchy
Quotidian
Sanguine
48. Promising success
Notarize
Auspicious
Oxidize
Mitosis
49. The time when day and night are of equal length
loquacious
Subjugate
equinox
Respiration
50. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
diffident
filibuster
irony
circumnaviagte