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1. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Tectonic
Subjugate
Chicanery
incontrovertible
2. Showing strong feeling
Nanotechnology
Lugubrious
interpolate
Vehement
3. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Tectonic
Acumen
expurgate
enervate
4. (adj) shedding leaves annually
deciduous
Orthography
Ziggurat
Reparation
5. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Notarize
Bowdlerize
hypotenuse
epiphany
6. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Plasma
Metamorphosis
Tectonic
Acumen
7. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Photosynthesis
Parameter
Totalitarian
Omnipotent
8. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
fatuous
Subjugate
Quotidian
9. Whirling mass of movment
Reparation
Sanguine
Vortex
Abrogate
10. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Antebellum
lexicon
Abrogate
11. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Vehement
filibuster
irony
Respiration
12. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
incontrovertible
Tectonic
Antebellum
13. To abolish by formal orr official means.
Oligarchy
Abrogate
expurgate
loquacious
14. (v) to set free or endow
Vehement
Auspicious
Parabola
enfranchise
15. Worked to shape by beating
Wrought
diffident
Pecuniary
hegemony
16. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Supercilious
Parabola
Metamorphosis
Abjure
17. A language user's knowledge of words
hemoglobin
lexicon
Vaccuous
gerrymander
18. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Notarize
circumnaviagte
irony
19. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Auspicious
Vehement
gerrymander
20. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
evanescent
Paradigm
lexicon
hubris
21. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
inculcate
Photosynthesis
Oxidize
Subjugate
22. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
gauche
Reparation
Chicanery
circumlocution
23. Showing a lack of intelligence
equinox
Vaccuous
Plasma
interpolate
24. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Abstemious
Nomenclature
Lugubrious
hemoglobin
25. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Nihilism
diffident
Respiration
Taxonomy
26. Complacently or inanely foolish
Orthography
fatuous
Chicanery
jejune
27. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
kinetic
Thermodynamics
deleterious
interpolate
28. 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
feckless
Nonsectarian
Moiety
29. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
chromosone
Bellicose
Abstemious
Nonsectarian
30. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
diffident
Precipitous
Xenophobe
hemoglobin
31. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
deciduous
Auspicious
Quasar
inculcate
32. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Yeoman
jejune
hemoglobin
33. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Polymer
Vortex
inculcate
Yeoman
34. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
deleterious
circumnaviagte
hypotenuse
laissez-faire
35. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Abrogate
gerrymander
Obsequious
Taxonomy
36. Supplying motive force
equinox
kinetic
circumnaviagte
Parabola
37. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
hubris
Chicanery
Nomenclature
38. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
kowtow
Thermodynamics
Subjugate
Bowdlerize
39. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Parabola
Abjure
gauche
Abstemious
40. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Uncouous
gamete
Chicanery
41. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
circumlocution
Precipitous
jejune
42. To bring under complete control
Reparation
Abjure
irony
Subjugate
43. (adj) harmful [to health]
Recapitulate
incontrovertible
deleterious
Thermodynamics
44. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
infrastructure
Oligarchy
enfranchise
evanescent
45. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Wrought
homogeneous
Reparation
Abjure
46. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Lugubrious
Oligarchy
Vortex
Vehement
47. To show to be false
expurgate
Soliloguy
Moiety
Belie
48. Having ones identity concealed
Orthography
Thermodynamics
circumlocution
incognito
49. Of or pertaining to money
Plagiarize
Abstemious
Pecuniary
Bowdlerize
50. Excessive pride or self confidence
hubris
Thermodynamics
diffident
Vortex