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1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
5. The act of scanning.
9. Distant in either space or time.
13. A federally chartered savings bank.
16. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.
17. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
18. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
19. (Irish) The sea personified.
20. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
21. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
22. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
23. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
24. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
26. The father of your father or mother.
29. Read anew.
31. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
33. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
35. An ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria.
39. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
46. German hero.
47. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
49. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
51. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.
52. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
53. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
54. Lacking in liveliness or animation.
57. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
62. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
63. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
67. Type genus of the Ranidae.
69. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
70. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
71. By bad luck.
72. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
76. Not easy.
77. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
78. Being nine more than ninety.
80. An accountant certified by the state.
82. God of fire.
88. Of or relating to or involving an area.
92. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
94. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
95. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
96. Any high mountain.
97. An iconic mental representation.
99. Any competition.
101. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
102. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
103. To fix or set securely or deeply.
104. Belonging to some prior time.
105. A master's degree in education.
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1. Someone who asks a question.
2. Steal goods.
3. A river of central Italy.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
6. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
7. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
8. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).
9. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
10. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
11. The academic world.
12. A yearning for something or to do something.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
27. A state in southeastern United States.
28. Everything that exists anywhere.
30. An honorary degree in science.
32. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
34. Freetail bats.
36. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
37. Remove the soldering from.
38. Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter.
40. Of or relating to a creed.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
48. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
50. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
55. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect).
60. An informal term for a father.
64. A deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged.
65. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
66. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
68. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
73. The basic unit of money on Malta.
75. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
81. A person to whom money is paid.
83. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
84. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
85. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
86. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
87. A city of central China.
89. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
90. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
91. Set down according to a plan.
93. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
98. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
100. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
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