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1. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Omnipotent
incognito
Thermodynamics
Moiety
2. Technigue of classification
Plasma
Respiration
Taxonomy
facetious
3. The time when day and night are of equal length
Plasma
Xenophobe
equinox
Ziggurat
4. (n) sudden - intuitive insight into reality or the meaning of something
epiphany
Plagiarize
churlish
Vaccuous
5. Full of trivial conversation
loquacious
Recapitulate
Uncouous
Taxonomy
6. Total rejection of established laws and institutions
Nihilism
expurgate
gauche
Notarize
7. Having ones identity concealed
Moiety
Vaccuous
incognito
loquacious
8. Almighty or infinite in power - as God
Thermodynamics
Omnipotent
Uncouous
Totalitarian
9. Before or exisiting before a war.
Tautology
Antebellum
Parameter
Auspicious
10. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Nihilism
Winnow
Polymer
Quotidian
11. The liquid part of blood or lymph
diffident
Belie
Plasma
facetious
12. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
epiphany
Winnow
irony
incontrovertible
13. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
fiduciary
Chicanery
evanescent
deciduous
14. Promising success
impeach
Auspicious
Tempestuous
circumnaviagte
15. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
gerrymander
evanescent
Respiration
Paradigm
16. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
incognito
expurgate
Supercilious
filibuster
17. (v) to fly or sail around
Taxonomy
hegemony
circumnaviagte
homogeneous
18. Needless repetion of an idea
kinetic
feckless
Tautology
hypotenuse
19. The basic structure or features of a system or organization
Suffragist
infrastructure
hegemony
Vortex
20. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
Bellicose
infrastructure
Abjure
gauche
21. Violent commotion
diffident
hubris
Tempestuous
evanescent
22. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
epiphany
equinox
Winnow
hemoglobin
23. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
euro
Orthography
Vehement
Yeoman
24. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
irony
Moiety
filibuster
impeach
25. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
churlish
Tectonic
Abjure
laissez-faire
26. Whirling mass of movment
Precipitous
Paradigm
Mitosis
Vortex
27. 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
kowtow
Nihilism
Metamorphosis
Mitosis
28. Sythesis of complex organic materials
Tempestuous
hypotenuse
Photosynthesis
Recapitulate
29. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
homogeneous
Nonsectarian
fatuous
Precipitous
30. To expurgate by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
Bowdlerize
Thermodynamics
Nomenclature
Reparation
31. A half
gerrymander
Moiety
Abjure
homogeneous
32. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Xenophobe
Ziggurat
chromosone
Chicanery
33. Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
deleterious
hypotenuse
Parameter
Supercilious
34. Humorous - not meant seriously
Tempestuous
Polymer
Vehement
facetious
35. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
diffident
Reparation
circumnaviagte
Abstemious
36. (adj) harmful [to health]
Tautology
deleterious
epiphany
Quasar
37. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vaccuous
Winnow
Pecuniary
Nomenclature
38. A compound of high molecular weight
laissez-faire
Belie
Polymer
Thermodynamics
39. (adj) rude - boorish
churlish
incognito
Quotidian
Obsequious
40. The official currency of the European Union
Bowdlerize
euro
Reparation
lexicon
41. To seperate
Abstemious
hypotenuse
Winnow
Taxonomy
42. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse - purify
expurgate
Wrought
deciduous
Notarize
43. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
gamete
deciduous
chromosone
Thermodynamics
44. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Nomenclature
Thermodynamics
Parameter
Moiety
45. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Reparation
Omnipotent
Yeoman
deciduous
46. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Photosynthesis
gamete
hypotenuse
Chicanery
47. Mournful or gloomy especially to a ludicrous degree
Obsequious
Oligarchy
Suffragist
Lugubrious
48. To show to be false
euro
Usurp
Taxonomy
Belie
49. One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects - Starlike in apperance - Having spectra with characteristically large red shifts
Precipitous
Quotidian
Quasar
circumlocution
50. To review by brief summary - as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize
Ziggurat
gauche
Recapitulate
incontrovertible