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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
9. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
18. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
22. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
24. A date.
26. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
28. (medieval legends) The bride of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
29. The act of relaying something.
30. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. Add ions to.
34. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
37. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
40. Too numerous to be counted.
43. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
44. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. God of fire.
49. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
51. Any handsome young man.
54. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
57. 1/10 gram.
58. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
59. Sound of something in rapid motion.
61. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
65. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
67. An elaborate song for solo voice.
69. An associate degree in nursing.
70. A broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle.
72. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
75. Relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening.
77. A native-born Israeli.
79. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
81. (British) Informal term for information.
82. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
88. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
92. Socially incorrect in behavior.
93. Shining intensely.
95. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
97. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
99. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
100. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
101. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
102. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
103. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
4. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
5. Noisy talk.
6. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
7. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
8. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
9. A three-tone Chadic language.
10. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
11. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
12. Away from the right path or direction.
13. English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon.
14. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
15. Showily imitative of art or artists.
21. The convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place.
23. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
25. To go back over again, as of a route or steps.
27. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
33. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
35. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
36. An Anatolian language.
38. Highly excited.
39. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
41. Thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
42. At an angle.
45. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
47. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
50. Climbing vine native to China.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
53. A Russian river.
60. A disreputable vagrant.
62. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
63. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
64. Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg.
66. A special loved one.
68. Wild geese.
71. A festival featuring African-American culture.
73. A port city in southwestern Iran.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
76. A state in New England.
78. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
79. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
80. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
83. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
84. Take by theft.
85. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
86. An unforeseen obstacle.
87. An Eskimo hut.
89. In bed.
90. Knock unconscious or senseless.
91. On or toward the lee.
94. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
96. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
98. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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