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1. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
4. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
8. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
12. The content of cognition.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. Largest known toad species.
19. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
22. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
25. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
26. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
27. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
29. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
33. Being nine more than ninety.
34. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
40. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed.
45. A sign of something about to happen.
49. Something hard to endure.
50. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
51. Being of use or service.
54. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
55. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
58. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
59. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
61. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
62. A song that was formerly popular.
64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. Watery fluid of the blood that resembles plasma but contains fibrinogen.
67. A bachelor's degree in science.
68. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
69. Lower in esteem.
72. One thousand periods per second.
74. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
76. A category in some early taxonomies.
80. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
82. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
83. Squatting close to the ground.
86. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
89. A decree that prohibits something.
91. Formed like a bacillus.
93. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
94. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
95. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
96. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
97. Remaining after all deductions.
98. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
100. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
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1. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
2. The capital of Morocco.
3. Hanging cloth used as a blind.
4. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827).
5. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
6. The sound made by a gentle blow.
7. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
10. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
11. The cry made by sheep.
12. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
13. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
14. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
15. A Loloish language.
21. Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
23. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
30. Characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions.
35. A French abbot.
37. A motley assortment of things.
38. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
39. Hardy breed from Ayr Scotland.
41. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
42. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
46. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
47. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
48. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
52. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
53. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
56. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
57. The state of being disregarded or forgotten.
60. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
63. A kind of person.
66. A dealer in seeds.
70. Towards the shore from the water.
71. True lizards.
72. The money risked on a gamble.
73. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
75. (of eggs) No longer edible.
77. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
78. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834).
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. Russian country house.
84. 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.
85. Fallow deer.
87. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
88. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
90. A small lump or protuberance.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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