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1. Science concerned with relations between heat and mecanial energy
Xenophobe
equinox
Recapitulate
Thermodynamics
2. The making of amends for wrong or injurydone: reparation for an injustice
Reparation
irony
Respiration
incontrovertible
3. (v) to fly or sail around
lexicon
circumnaviagte
Bowdlerize
deciduous
4. Excessively flattering
irony
Nonsectarian
Uncouous
gamete
5. Careless or irresponsible
feckless
Photosynthesis
Taxonomy
Abrogate
6. Showing a lack of intelligence
Vortex
Vaccuous
hypotenuse
Winnow
7. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking.
Recapitulate
Winnow
Pecuniary
Abstemious
8. The act of respiring inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing
Respiration
Antebellum
kowtow
feckless
9. (adj) shedding leaves annually
Wrought
deciduous
Antebellum
Tectonic
10. 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
Mitosis
Bellicose
incognito
expurgate
11. The act of talking while or as if alone
Respiration
Soliloguy
facetious
Abrogate
12. To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
Yeoman
Usurp
Nihilism
impeach
13. Art of writing words with the proper letters; correct spelling
Orthography
filibuster
Ziggurat
gerrymander
14. (n) microscopic - rod-shaped - in nucleus of cell - responsible for transmission of hereditary characteristics
Uncouous
chromosone
kinetic
Metamorphosis
15. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
lexicon
facetious
Yeoman
Omnipotent
16. A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
Bowdlerize
facetious
fiduciary
Wrought
17. To renouce - repudiate - or react.
laissez-faire
kowtow
Abjure
Lugubrious
18. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
Ziggurat
Respiration
lexicon
fatuous
19. Leadership
Parameter
hegemony
epiphany
Oligarchy
20. (v) to deprive of force or strength
enervate
expurgate
lexicon
euro
21. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle
Vaccuous
Abrogate
loquacious
hypotenuse
22. A mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
Acumen
gamete
circumnaviagte
Parabola
23. A compound of high molecular weight
equinox
expurgate
kowtow
Polymer
24. Needless repetion of an idea
Tautology
Abjure
hubris
gamete
25. 1.) Daily: A quotidian report 2.) Usual or customary; everyday
Quotidian
fatuous
feckless
Uncouous
26. The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Supercilious
laissez-faire
Vehement
Yeoman
27. An advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage
Obsequious
Moiety
Suffragist
Tectonic
28. A set or system of names or terms - as those used in a particular science or art - by an individual or community - etc
Nomenclature
hegemony
loquacious
gerrymander
29. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
kinetic
irony
homogeneous
fatuous
30. (adj) harmful [to health]
Photosynthesis
Respiration
deleterious
kowtow
31. Of the nature of or characterized by precipies
Bowdlerize
facetious
Orthography
Precipitous
32. To seperate
Precipitous
Winnow
hypotenuse
Acumen
33. Lacking interest or significance
circumlocution
jejune
Vehement
Wrought
34. Before or exisiting before a war.
kinetic
Antebellum
Nonsectarian
Metamorphosis
35. Promising success
Auspicious
Notarize
lexicon
Usurp
36. Excessive pride or self confidence
jejune
circumlocution
gamete
hubris
37. Awkward - lacking in social graces - tactless - clumsy
gauche
gamete
loquacious
churlish
38. Cheerfully optimistic - hopeful or confident: a sanguine disposition
Sanguine
Precipitous
Bowdlerize
diffident
39. Whirling mass of movment
infrastructure
interpolate
deciduous
Vortex
40. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
Nomenclature
interpolate
diffident
Usurp
41. Insert words into texts - often falsifying it thereby
interpolate
hegemony
Reparation
Tautology
42. Of or pertaining to money
circumnaviagte
Winnow
Abstemious
Pecuniary
43. Plane curve formed by the intersection of right circular cone with plane parallel to a generator of the cone
Parabola
hypotenuse
gauche
Suffragist
44. (adj) lacking confidence - shy or timid
diffident
Plasma
fiduciary
Acumen
45. Math: limits or boundaries: guidelines
Supercilious
Parameter
Yeoman
Bellicose
46. To impress on the mind by repetition - teach persistently and earnestly
Sanguine
Notarize
Reparation
inculcate
47. The time when day and night are of equal length
hypotenuse
kinetic
equinox
Suffragist
48. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Abjure
Xenophobe
gerrymander
Plasma
49. Keen - insight - shrewdness
enfranchise
facetious
Acumen
Pecuniary
50. Worked to shape by beating
Tautology
Abjure
Wrought
Vaccuous
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