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1. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
circumlocution
filibuster
Winnow
impeach
2. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Thermodynamics
circumnaviagte
Usurp
3. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Pecuniary
Quasar
gerrymander
epiphany
4. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
homogeneous
Winnow
churlish
Suffragist
5. (v) to deprive of force or strength
hegemony
enervate
diffident
Supercilious
6. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Nomenclature
Vehement
circumlocution
fiduciary
7. Leadership
hegemony
kinetic
Nomenclature
Quasar
8. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Omnipotent
loquacious
kowtow
Nomenclature
9. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
circumnaviagte
Thermodynamics
Lugubrious
Totalitarian
10. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
deleterious
Respiration
Orthography
Recapitulate
11. 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
Thermodynamics
Nanotechnology
Plagiarize
Supercilious
12. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Notarize
hypotenuse
Sanguine
gauche
13. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
circumlocution
Plasma
expurgate
Notarize
14. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Abrogate
Thermodynamics
Ziggurat
hubris
15. Of the same kind
Soliloguy
Subjugate
Nonsectarian
homogeneous
16. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Omnipotent
deleterious
Chicanery
Nihilism
17. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Wrought
Acumen
inculcate
homogeneous
18. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
kowtow
circumlocution
Nonsectarian
Quasar
19. Vanishing
Tautology
Chicanery
evanescent
Nanotechnology
20. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
Auspicious
Metamorphosis
inculcate
Respiration
21. To seperate
euro
Reparation
Uncouous
Winnow
22. Worked to shape by beating
fatuous
Chicanery
Wrought
feckless
23. Inclined or eager to fight.
Bellicose
Precipitous
laissez-faire
Reparation
24. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Usurp
kinetic
Nanotechnology
kowtow
25. To convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen
Pecuniary
homogeneous
Paradigm
Oxidize
26. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
hemoglobin
homogeneous
Yeoman
Mitosis
27. A half
Moiety
circumlocution
Quasar
Wrought
28. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
jejune
Abjure
Moiety
incontrovertible
29. Humorous - not meant seriously
facetious
Polymer
Soliloguy
fatuous
30. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
epiphany
Ziggurat
Plagiarize
diffident
31. (v) to set free or endow
Notarize
enfranchise
facetious
loquacious
32. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
diffident
Bellicose
hubris
Respiration
33. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
kinetic
incontrovertible
interpolate
Vaccuous
34. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Lugubrious
gerrymander
hemoglobin
loquacious
35. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
Nanotechnology
Parameter
Paradigm
Auspicious
36. (adj) rude - boorish
Subjugate
incontrovertible
deciduous
churlish
37. (v) to fly or sail around
Subjugate
enervate
churlish
circumnaviagte
38. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
inculcate
jejune
gerrymander
39. Control over freedom of others - pretaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate opinion
Totalitarian
Nonsectarian
Abjure
loquacious
40. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Nihilism
irony
kinetic
epiphany
41. Violent commotion
Yeoman
feckless
Tempestuous
lexicon
42. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Auspicious
gamete
Respiration
Pecuniary
43. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Totalitarian
Photosynthesis
Subjugate
Thermodynamics
44. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
hubris
epiphany
Winnow
Supercilious
45. Of or pertaining to money
deciduous
Sanguine
Pecuniary
Metamorphosis
46. Before or exisiting before a war.
Belie
diffident
Antebellum
hemoglobin
47. Showing a lack of intelligence
hypotenuse
Parabola
Respiration
Vaccuous
48. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Notarize
Obsequious
Oligarchy
kowtow
49. Full of trivial conversation
Wrought
loquacious
inculcate
Polymer
50. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
evanescent
loquacious
Antebellum