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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
5. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
12. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. Genus of North American and east Asian perennial herbs.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
20. Humble request for help.
21. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
25. An edict of the Russian tsar.
28. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
35. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
39. Disposed or willing to comply.
41. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
43. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
47. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
50. Report or maintain.
52. Half the width of an em.
53. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
54. A noisy riotous fight.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
74. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
75. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants.
76. Aroused to action.
77. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
78. On or toward the lee.
79. Converted totally or partly into ions.
80. Noisy talk.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A Russian river.
4. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
5. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
6. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
7. A Russian river.
8. 1 species.
9. Not in good physical or mental health.
10. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
11. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. By bad luck.
14. Especially one side of a leaf.
19. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
24. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
26. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
27. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
29. Not divisible by two.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
34. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
36. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
37. One of two (approximately) equal parts.
38. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
40. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
46. How long something has existed.
48. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
55. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
56. With eagerness.
58. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
59. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
60. Lower in esteem.
62. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
64. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
65. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
66. Extremely robust.
67. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
69. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
70. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
72. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
73. A doctor's degree in education.
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