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1. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Taxonomy
Sanguine
Ziggurat
Acumen
2. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
circumlocution
Metamorphosis
Reparation
expurgate
3. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Sanguine
Nihilism
circumnaviagte
Omnipotent
4. The liquid part of blood or lymph
Parabola
Auspicious
Plasma
Mitosis
5. Inclined or eager to fight.
hemoglobin
Lugubrious
Bellicose
filibuster
6. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
Supercilious
Plagiarize
incontrovertible
Plasma
7. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
chromosone
Reparation
Metamorphosis
diffident
8. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Abrogate
Subjugate
gerrymander
hubris
9. Promising success
enervate
euro
Auspicious
deciduous
10. Leadership
Bellicose
hegemony
euro
circumnaviagte
11. Technigue of classification
Vaccuous
Reparation
Taxonomy
Plagiarize
12. To take and use ideas from another's work
inculcate
Ziggurat
Plagiarize
gauche
13. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
laissez-faire
epiphany
Usurp
impeach
14. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
Soliloguy
lexicon
filibuster
gauche
15. Form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
Uncouous
Chicanery
Metamorphosis
Oligarchy
16. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
gauche
enervate
Recapitulate
filibuster
17. Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
Obsequious
Recapitulate
incognito
hemoglobin
18. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
Taxonomy
Usurp
Vortex
19. (n) roundabout way of speaking - using more words than necessary
Vehement
Vaccuous
circumlocution
Nanotechnology
20. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
Bellicose
hemoglobin
Totalitarian
churlish
21. A language user's knowledge of words
lexicon
equinox
jejune
enervate
22. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Recapitulate
Precipitous
Abrogate
Omnipotent
23. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Subjugate
inculcate
Precipitous
churlish
24. Lacking interest or significance
Uncouous
hypotenuse
jejune
laissez-faire
25. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
Metamorphosis
Reparation
epiphany
hubris
26. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry.
Notarize
Bowdlerize
Vaccuous
Chicanery
27. Supplying motive force
feckless
kinetic
incontrovertible
euro
28. Having ones identity concealed
evanescent
incognito
Nihilism
Uncouous
29. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
enervate
Recapitulate
incontrovertible
30. The time when day and night are of equal length
lexicon
Orthography
equinox
facetious
31. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
filibuster
chromosone
Abstemious
Tautology
32. Keen - insight - shrewdness
infrastructure
Subjugate
Plagiarize
Acumen
33. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Taxonomy
Quotidian
epiphany
34. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Abstemious
Bellicose
equinox
Bowdlerize
35. Full of trivial conversation
Auspicious
loquacious
Quasar
Bowdlerize
36. 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
expurgate
Vortex
Acumen
Nanotechnology
37. Someone who hates or fears foreigners
hypotenuse
Pecuniary
Lugubrious
Xenophobe
38. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
churlish
hubris
Nomenclature
Thermodynamics
39. Of or pertaining to money
Sanguine
Quotidian
hegemony
Pecuniary
40. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Subjugate
Quotidian
facetious
Reparation
41. Not affiliated with or limited to a specific religious denomination
Usurp
feckless
Nonsectarian
Nanotechnology
42. Excessively flattering
loquacious
Bellicose
Uncouous
Parabola
43. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
kowtow
Abstemious
Metamorphosis
Quasar
44. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Reparation
hypotenuse
Abrogate
homogeneous
45. (v) to deprive of force or strength
Respiration
Obsequious
kowtow
enervate
46. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Vehement
expurgate
kowtow
Photosynthesis
47. Vanishing
Winnow
evanescent
Orthography
Nanotechnology
48. Showing strong feeling
gerrymander
Orthography
Quasar
Vehement
49. Complacently or inanely foolish
fatuous
lexicon
Tempestuous
Obsequious
50. Careless or irresponsible
Plasma
Reparation
inculcate
feckless