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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
11. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
15. Give a nickname to.
16. The line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part.
17. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
18. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
21. Engage or hire for work.
22. A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit.
24. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
26. A cgs unit of work or energy.
27. Find repugnant.
28. A female tiger.
34. Tree frogs.
35. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
36. People having the same social or economic status.
40. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
41. Informal terms for clothing.
43. A city in the European part of Russia.
45. The basic unit of money in Romania.
46. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
48. European plant naturalized in North America.
50. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
51. A French abbot.
53. An onerous or difficult concern.
54. An act or expression of criticism and censure.
57. In a smug manner.
59. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.
62. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
65. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
69. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
73. A republic in eastern Africa.
74. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
75. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
77. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
79. A great raja.
80. Water frozen in the solid state.
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1. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
2. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
3. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
6. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
7. Relating to or near the ulna.
8. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
9. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
10. The selling of something purchased.
11. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
12. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
13. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
14. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
19. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
23. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
25. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
29. The eighth month of the civil year.
30. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
31. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
32. (Old Testament) The first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines).
33. Short and fat.
37. With a forward motion.
38. The capital and largest city of South Korea.
39. Covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being agitated by beating or heating.
42. Building material used as siding or roofing.
44. Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.
47. Of or relating to or containing barium.
49. The basic unit of money in Haiti.
52. Spread or daub over.
55. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
56. Small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems.
58. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
60. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
61. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
63. A genus of Pyralidae.
66. The basic unit of money in Peru.
67. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
68. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
70. An advanced law degree.
71. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
72. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
76. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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