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1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Large American feline resembling a lion.
12. Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
18. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
19. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
23. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
24. By bad luck.
26. An acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds.
28. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
30. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
32. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. A French abbot.
39. Oil palms.
43. The basic unit of money in China.
44. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
50. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
55. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
57. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
59. Obvious and dull.
60. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
62. More of the same adv.
64. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
66. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
69. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
70. 1/10 gram.
71. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
73. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
75. Marked by skill in deception.
78. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
79. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
82. Enthusiastic approval.
85. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
89. Common Indian weaverbird.
92. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
94. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
96. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
97. The goddess of the moon.
98. Informal terms for a mother.
99. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. A thrusting blow with a knife.
102. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
2. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
3. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
4. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
5. Deserving or inciting pity.
6. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
7. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
8. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
9. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
10. A woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. The English physicist nd chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867).
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Stalk of a moss capsule.
15. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
25. Edit and correct (written or printed material).
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. An informal term for a father.
33. Or family Polypodiaceae.
36. Occurs in natural gas.
37. The status of being born to parents who were not married.
38. Fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo.
40. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
41. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
42. Tie again or anew.
46. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
48. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
51. A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel).
52. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
53. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
54. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
56. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
61. A New England state.
63. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
65. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
66. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
67. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
68. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
72. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
74. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
76. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. God of death.
81. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
83. A bachelor's degree in library science.
84. Pulled or drawn tight.
86. God of love and erotic desire.
87. Very dark black.
88. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
90. A light touch or stroke.
91. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
93. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
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