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1. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
4. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
12. Praise, glorify, or honor.
16. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
17. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
18. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
19. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. (Greek mythology) The ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades.
24. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
25. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
26. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
30. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
31. Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926).
32. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
34. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
36. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
38. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
41. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
45. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
46. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. A state in New England.
48. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
50. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
53. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
55. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
58. Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight.
61. Being one more than one.
62. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
63. An arthropod family including.
64. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
66. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
67. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
68. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
71. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
73. European annual grown for forage.
76. In bed.
79. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
83. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
86. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
88. The front limb of a quadruped.
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
90. A desert in southern Israel.
93. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
94. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
95. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
96. (informal) Exceptionally good.
98. God of the earth.
99. The beginning of anything.
100. (Roman mythology) A princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A disreputable vagrant.
2. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
3. A state in southeastern United States.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
6. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
8. Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain.
9. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
10. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
13. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
14. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
15. A couple who both have careers and no children.
21. Capital and largest city of Lebanon.
23. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
27. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
28. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
29. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
33. Dilatation or distension of a hollow organ.
35. Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
40. A cross with diagonal bars of equal length.
42. Long-tailed black-and-white bird that utters a chattering call.
43. Make amendments to.
49. Offering little or no hope.
51. The act of swimming.
52. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
54. Highly concentrated or intense.
56. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
57. Rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle.
59. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
60. (Irish) The sea personified.
65. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
69. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
70. Chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching.
71. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
72. A Mid-Atlantic state.
74. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
75. Away from the mouth or oral region.
77. English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820).
78. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
80. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
84. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
85. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
87. Perceive sound.
91. Take in solid food.
92. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
97. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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