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1. The act of catching an object with the hands.
5. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
9. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
16. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
17. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
18. Very dark black.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Extremely robust.
22. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
23. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
26. Talk pompously.
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
33. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
35. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
36. Your parents.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
44. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
46. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
47. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
49. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
51. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
53. Causing fear or dread or terror.
55. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
57. A noisy riotous fight.
59. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
62. A bachelor's degree in theology.
63. A long lace for fastening boots.
66. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
68. Characteristic of rural life.
69. A cruel and brutal fellow.
72. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
73. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
74. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
76. Marked by the reception of pay.
77. In or of the present month.
78. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
81. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
85. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
86. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. A person who hopes.
95. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
96. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
97. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
98. A genus of Strigidae.
99. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
100. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
101. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
102. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
103. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
2. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
3. A port city in southwestern Iran.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
8. Of or relating to apnea.
9. Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes.
10. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
11. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
13. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A female domestic.
25. Lacking in light.
27. A building having a circular plan and a dome.
28. Be expected to.
30. Lower in esteem.
32. A radioactive transuranic element.
34. Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
37. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
38. Having a short growth of beard.
40. A doctor's degree in education.
41. Being deficient in moisture.
42. A master's degree in fine arts.
45. A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.
48. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
50. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
52. Established or decided beyond dispute or doubt.
54. Before noon.
58. English essayist (1775-1834).
60. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
61. A Mid-Atlantic state.
64. A sharp and bitter manner.
65. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
67. Greek mythology.
70. Draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight.
71. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
75. A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.
79. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
80. The sacred city of Lamaism.
82. A slender double-reed instrument.
83. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
84. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
85. A public promotion of some product or service.
87. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
88. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
89. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
92. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
93. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
94. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
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