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1. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
Wrought
expurgate
circumnaviagte
Orthography
2. (adj) rude - boorish
enervate
Photosynthesis
Usurp
churlish
3. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Suffragist
fatuous
Plasma
Totalitarian
4. Structure of the earth's crust (movements)
Uncouous
Tectonic
equinox
Bellicose
5. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Abstemious
Wrought
equinox
6. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Tempestuous
Subjugate
Bowdlerize
Nihilism
7. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Abstemious
Auspicious
hypotenuse
circumnaviagte
8. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
jejune
Vortex
fatuous
impeach
9. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Xenophobe
expurgate
Supercilious
fatuous
10. Lacking interest or significance
gamete
Vehement
jejune
euro
11. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Wrought
Soliloguy
Thermodynamics
Notarize
12. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
kinetic
hypotenuse
Nanotechnology
Parameter
13. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
Usurp
interpolate
enfranchise
14. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Vortex
Mitosis
inculcate
Plasma
15. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Thermodynamics
Obsequious
Acumen
Bowdlerize
16. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Chicanery
Abrogate
feckless
Precipitous
17. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
Wrought
Pecuniary
Vehement
18. Having ones identity concealed
incognito
feckless
Xenophobe
gerrymander
19. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez-faire
Parameter
euro
churlish
20. To seperate
Vehement
Winnow
churlish
homogeneous
21. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
incontrovertible
Metamorphosis
circumlocution
epiphany
22. Of or pertaining to money
Pecuniary
Sanguine
gamete
Subjugate
23. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
deciduous
filibuster
diffident
Acumen
24. To abolish by formal orr official means.
incontrovertible
infrastructure
Abrogate
deleterious
25. Violent commotion
Tempestuous
Taxonomy
hypotenuse
hegemony
26. Excessively flattering
Bowdlerize
Plasma
hegemony
Uncouous
27. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Antebellum
Obsequious
enfranchise
Tectonic
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
homogeneous
infrastructure
deciduous
Nanotechnology
29. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
irony
Abjure
hemoglobin
30. The act of talking while or as if alone
Soliloguy
Lugubrious
Totalitarian
Orthography
31. Technigue of classification
Bowdlerize
filibuster
Taxonomy
gamete
32. Of the same kind
Polymer
Subjugate
Vaccuous
homogeneous
33. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Chicanery
Vortex
Abrogate
34. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
Photosynthesis
lexicon
hemoglobin
Xenophobe
35. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
hemoglobin
Moiety
Reparation
chromosone
36. Promising success
Nomenclature
Auspicious
deciduous
circumnaviagte
37. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Paradigm
kinetic
Supercilious
38. 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
irony
Ziggurat
Orthography
Mitosis
39. Worked to shape by beating
Quasar
enervate
Omnipotent
Wrought
40. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
infrastructure
Pecuniary
Vortex
41. Showing strong feeling
circumlocution
Vehement
Quasar
Vortex
42. Excessive pride or self confidence
Sanguine
circumlocution
hubris
Ziggurat
43. Humorous - not meant seriously
enervate
kowtow
homogeneous
facetious
44. A half
Abjure
Totalitarian
Tempestuous
Moiety
45. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
Orthography
infrastructure
Recapitulate
46. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
deciduous
gauche
euro
Xenophobe
47. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Usurp
churlish
feckless
48. A language user's knowledge of words
Plagiarize
Polymer
lexicon
Tautology
49. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
hubris
Soliloguy
kowtow
50. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
facetious
Mitosis
Nonsectarian
Vortex