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1. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
expurgate
equinox
Supercilious
Usurp
2. Leadership
Pecuniary
Oligarchy
Metamorphosis
hegemony
3. (v) to deprive of force or strength
inculcate
enervate
kinetic
deciduous
4. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Wrought
deciduous
laissez-faire
infrastructure
5. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Bowdlerize
Usurp
fatuous
Parameter
6. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
circumnaviagte
kowtow
Parabola
laissez-faire
7. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gerrymander
gamete
Notarize
Nomenclature
8. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Parabola
Totalitarian
Precipitous
Supercilious
9. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
equinox
Abrogate
gamete
10. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Ziggurat
fiduciary
Plasma
lexicon
11. Humorous - not meant seriously
Nonsectarian
facetious
kowtow
Nomenclature
12. Any complete change in appearance - character - circumstances - etc
enfranchise
incontrovertible
Xenophobe
Metamorphosis
13. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Supercilious
irony
Respiration
Quasar
14. Worked to shape by beating
Recapitulate
Wrought
interpolate
chromosone
15. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Parameter
hegemony
Yeoman
16. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Parameter
Nihilism
Abstemious
Polymer
17. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
churlish
Abrogate
Subjugate
expurgate
18. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Yeoman
Parameter
equinox
churlish
19. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Vaccuous
Nihilism
lexicon
Nanotechnology
20. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Parabola
Acumen
evanescent
Bowdlerize
21. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Recapitulate
irony
Bellicose
loquacious
22. Whirling mass of movment
Supercilious
circumnaviagte
Vortex
kowtow
23. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
gerrymander
Wrought
Chicanery
gamete
24. Keen - insight - shrewdness
Auspicious
Acumen
lexicon
Taxonomy
25. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Quasar
Respiration
fatuous
Omnipotent
26. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Sanguine
Photosynthesis
Belie
lexicon
27. Excessively flattering
Uncouous
Oxidize
Abstemious
Oligarchy
28. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
enfranchise
Tempestuous
Chicanery
Nonsectarian
29. Of the same kind
Quasar
expurgate
homogeneous
incontrovertible
30. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
circumlocution
Reparation
Acumen
Quotidian
31. Not open to question or dispute
Abrogate
Nonsectarian
filibuster
incontrovertible
32. To show to be false
Belie
enfranchise
circumnaviagte
Nihilism
33. Vanishing
fiduciary
Thermodynamics
Chicanery
evanescent
34. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
homogeneous
Vortex
Paradigm
Sanguine
35. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
epiphany
chromosone
loquacious
Plagiarize
36. To seperate
Winnow
churlish
evanescent
Plasma
37. To bring under complete control
Soliloguy
Subjugate
Tautology
Taxonomy
38. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Abstemious
Precipitous
deleterious
deciduous
39. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Recapitulate
Plasma
expurgate
Bowdlerize
40. To take and use ideas from another's work
euro
Notarize
Plagiarize
Chicanery
41. 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
Tempestuous
deciduous
Taxonomy
Mitosis
42. A display in fixed arrangement of a set (boy - boy's - boys - boys'): an example serving as a model
filibuster
Usurp
Thermodynamics
Paradigm
43. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Precipitous
Totalitarian
Oligarchy
interpolate
44. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Obsequious
Suffragist
Moiety
Supercilious
45. A compound of high molecular weight
Polymer
equinox
circumnaviagte
Supercilious
46. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Mitosis
loquacious
Supercilious
47. Lacking interest or significance
euro
fiduciary
jejune
Thermodynamics
48. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Xenophobe
Belie
loquacious
hemoglobin
49. 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
Chicanery
Photosynthesis
Nanotechnology
hypotenuse
50. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Soliloguy
impeach
Lugubrious
Ziggurat