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1. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
4. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
16. Relating to or resulting from arbitration.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
20. Largest crested screamer.
21. A period of time spent sleeping.
22. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
23. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
25. A state in New England.
26. A word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing.
28. Serving as or forming a base.
30. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
34. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
37. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
40. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
43. Explorer and United States naval officer.
45. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
47. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
49. (astronomy) The point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited.
52. The molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall).
54. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
56. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
59. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
64. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
69. The willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person.
72. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
73. A French abbot.
74. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
75. The month following March and preceding May.
79. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
80. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
81. In an alarming manner.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
2. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
3. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
4. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
5. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
6. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
8. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
9. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. An inhabitant of Lappland.
19. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
24. In a state of sleep.
27. A female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions.
29. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
31. A genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds.
33. A radioactive transuranic element.
35. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
36. A bottomless gulf or pit.
38. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
39. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. An informal term for a father.
46. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
51. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
53. Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria) (1878-1965).
57. A slight convexity (as of the surface of a road).
58. United States space station.
60. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
65. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
66. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
67. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
68. A beautiful and graceful girl.
70. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
71. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
76. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
78. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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