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1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. Moving quickly and lightly.
15. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
16. The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection).
17. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
18. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
20. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
21. The highest level or degree attainable.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
24. Cosmopolitan genus of ferns.
26. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
28. Prepared by cutting.
29. A state in north central United States.
31. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
33. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
37. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
39. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. Eliminate from the body.
45. Shout loudly and without restraint.
47. A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.
49. A three-year law degree.
50. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
52. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
53. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
56. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
57. A city in northern India.
60. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
62. Meat from a calf.
64. (Old Testament) An ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants.
68. Placed crosswise.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. God of wisdom or prophesy.
76. Range of what one can know or understand.
77. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
78. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
79. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
80. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
81. Being such as to cause things to slip or slide.
82. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
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1. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
2. An inlaid furniture decoration.
3. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
5. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
6. A Spanish river.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
9. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. God of war.
12. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
13. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
14. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
19. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
23. A telephone connection.
25. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.
35. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
36. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
38. Bar temporarily.
40. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. A Hindu religious teacher.
44. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
46. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
48. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
51. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
54. Knock unconscious or senseless.
55. Dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany.
58. The state of being under the control of another person.
59. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
61. (Greek mythology) A giant with 100 eyes.
63. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
65. A slender double-reed instrument.
66. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
67. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
69. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
70. Cause to go somewhere.
71. The act of catching an object with the hands.
74. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
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