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• anthropocentric adjective centering one’s view of everything entirely around humans
• anthropomorphism noun the attributing of human characteristics to gods, objects and animals
• antidisestablishmentarianism noun
  - opposition to the disestablishment of the Church or England (Oxford English Dictionary)
  - a rare British term meaning “opposition to removing the tie between the Church of England and the state” (www.yourDictionary.com)

• antivivisectionist noun one against vivisection
• archiepiscopal adjective of or related to an archbishop
• atherosclerosis noun characterized by atheromatous (fatty deposits) deposits in and fibrosis of the inner layer of the arteries (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary)
• authoritarianism noun authoritarian - believing in or characterized by absolute obedience to authority (Webster’s New World Dictionary™, 1989)
• cinematography noun the art and science of photography in film-making
• circumlocution noun a roundabout or indirect way of saying or writing something
• circumnavigate verb 1 to go round  2 to sail or fly around the earth
• circumscription noun 1 to draw a line around; encircle  2 to restrict; limit
• claustrophobia  noun fear of enclosed places
• contemporaneous adjective if two events, situations, etc are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time (Collins Cobulid Dictionary, 1987)

• counterproductive adjective results that are contrary to what is expected or intended
• counterrevolution noun a political movement opposing a government set up by a previous revolution
• decolonization noun to free from colonial status
• electroencephalogram noun a graphical tracing of the variations in electric activity in the brain
• electroencephalograph noun an instrument that makes electroencephalograms
• endarterectomy noun surgical removal of the inner layer of an artery when thickened and atheromatous or occluded (as by intimal plaques) (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary)
• ethnocentricity noun the belief that one’s own ethnic group is superior than others
• epidemiological noun epidemiology - the branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary)
• eschatological adjective pertaining to the last or final things (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary)
• floccinaucinihilipilification noun the action or habit of estimating something as worthless - invented by William Shenstone in 1741 (Oxford English Dictionary)
• hermaphroditic adjective a person, animal or plant with sexual organs of both the male and the female
• hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia noun fear of long words
• honorificabilitudinitatibus adjective with honor - used in Willam Shakespeare’s play ‘Love’s Labour Lost’
• hyperventilation noun very rapid or deep breathing that can cause dizziness and faintness
• incomprehensible adjective difficult or impossible to comprehend or understand
• indistinguishable adjective difficult or impossible to distingish or differentiate
• interdisciplinary adjective involving two or more academic disciplines
• interscholastic adjective between schools
• megalomaniacal adjective obsessed with great or grandiose things or actions
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  phenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyl
  lysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenyl
  alanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyl
  isoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucyl
  aspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycyl
  alanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycyl
  isoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucyl
  alanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucyl
  glutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginyl
  alanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonyl
  prolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamyl
  methionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyl
  lysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycy
  lleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginy
  lleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucyl
  aspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminyl
  cysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartyl
  serylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalyl
  glutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanyl
  arginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidyl
  asparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanyl
  isoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanyl
  aspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminyl
  isoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosyl
  threonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycyl
  valylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyl
  alanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidy
  lleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosyl
  asparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminyl
  glycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolyl
  aspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucyl
  aspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanyl
  isoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysyl
  isoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginy
  lisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucyl
  alanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalyl
  glutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonyl
  arginylserine
  noun a 1,913-letter chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme consisting 267 amino acids (Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, 1994)

• monounsaturated adjective refers to fats that stay as liquid at room temperature. These types of fats are the non-harmful and healthy ones.
• neurotransmitter noun a biochemical substance that transmits, or inhibits, nerve impulses at a synapse
• ominivorousness noun omnivorous - 1 eating both animal and vegetable foods  2 taking in everything
• parthenogenesis noun reproduction from an unfertilized ovum, seed, or spore (Webster’s New World Dictionary™, 1989)
• phantasmagoria noun rapid changing of images as in a dream
• phenolphthalein noun a white to pale-yellow, crystalline powder, used as a laxative, as an acid-base indicator in chemical analysis, etc. (Webster’s New World Dictionary™, 1989)
• phlegmatically adverb phlegmatic - sluggish, unemotional or unexcited

• plenipotentiary adjective having or conferring full authority or power
• phosphorescence noun 1 the property of giving off a lingering emission of light after exposure to radiant energy, as light andnbsp;2 a continuing luminescence without noticeable heat, as from oxidizing phosphorus (Webster’s New World Dictionary™, 1989)
• pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis noun
  - a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust’ but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word. (Oxford English Dictionary)
  - the word can be broken down into : pneumono - lungs, ultra - extremely, microscopic - small, silico - silicon, volcano - mineral substances of a volcano, coni - dust (derivative of the Greek word konis which means dust) and osis - affected with

• polyunsaturated  adjective of or relating to long-chain carbon compounds, especially fatty acids, having two or more double bonds between the carbon atoms. Foods containing polyunsaturated fatty acids help reduce blood cholesterol levels and include sunflower, soybean, sesame seed and corn oils and cold-water fish such as salmon (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)
• prestidigitation noun sleight of hand (Webster’s New World Dictionary™, 1989)
• pseudepigraphical adjective any of various pseudonymous or anonymous Jewish religious writings written between 200 B.C. to A.D. 200 (e.g. the Psalms of Solomon) which are not included in the Bible.
• quintessential adjective means seeming to represent the central nature of something in a pure, concentrated form (Collins Cobulid Dictionary, 1987)
• rambunctiousness noun
  rambunctious - boisterous, disorderly, unruly

• rhinotillexomania noun obsession with nose-pricking
• septuagenarian noun a person in his or her seventies.
• sesquicentennial noun 150th anniversary
• stratification noun a division, as in a society, into different classes or layers (Collins Cobulid Dictionary, 1987)
• supercalifragilisticexpialidocious adjective
  - used as a nonsense word by children to express approval (www.infoplease.com)
  - a song from the musical Mary Poppins

• supralapsarianism noun the doctrine that the decree of election preceded human creation and the Fall (opposed to infralapsarianism) (www.infoplease.com)
• tercentenaries noun tercentenary - a day or year that is exactly three hundred years after an important event such as the birth of a famous person
• thermodynamics  noun the branch of physics concerned with the transformation of heat to other forms of energy
• tonsillectomies noun tonsilectomy - the surgical removal of the tonsils
• totalitarianism noun the ideas, principles, and practices of totalitarian political system; used showing disapproval (Collins Cobulid Dictionary, 1987)
• transcendentalism noun a philosophy based on a search for reality through spiritual intuition (Webster’s New World Dictionary™, 1989)
• transubstantiation noun 1 the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist andnbsp;2 an act that changes the form or character or substance of something (WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University)
• zenzizenzizenzic adjective, noun the eighth power of a number
• zoroastrianism noun the religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary)

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