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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
8. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
12. Characteristic of false pride.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. A slender double-reed instrument.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
20. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
22. Make a logical or causal connection.
24. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
25. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
26. A benign tumor of connective tissue containing jellylike material.
28. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
30. Of or relating to or formed by trees.
32. Large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics.
36. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
37. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
38. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
40. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
42. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
45. Of a pale purple color.
48. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
50. A midwestern state in north central United States.
51. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
55. A shape that sags.
59. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
61. Posing no difficulty.
62. Lacking vigor or energy.
63. Declare invalid.
66. A quantity of no importance.
69. A vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension.
70. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
71. Offering fun and gaiety.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. Informal terms for money.
83. Affectedly trendy.
85. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
87. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
88. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
89. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
91. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
94. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
95. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
96. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
97. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. By bad luck.
2. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
3. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
4. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
7. Suggestive of the supernatural.
8. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
9. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. An official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector.
13. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
14. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
15. A woman who is the custodian of children.
21. South African mongoose-like viverrine having a face like a lemur and only four toes.
23. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
27. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
29. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
31. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
33. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
34. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
35. The wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right.
39. The complete duration of something.
41. Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress.
43. Carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time.
44. Harvest flies.
46. An atom or molecule or radical or ion that forms a complex around a central atom.
47. Being one more than one hundred.
49. A city in northern India.
53. A genus of Malayan tree.
54. Formed of two different metals or alloys.
56. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
57. A city in east central Texas.
58. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
60. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
64. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
65. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
67. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
68. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. The sacred city of Lamaism.
74. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
76. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
77. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
79. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
81. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
82. A city of central China.
84. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
86. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
90. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
92. A public promotion of some product or service.
93. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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