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1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
5. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
16. A short aria.
17. Having leadership guidance.
18. English poet and literary critic (1822-1888).
19. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
22. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. Having development checked or reversed.
26. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
28. Inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
33. An obsolete name for nitrogen.
34. Opinion or judgment.
38. Pasta shaped like pearls of barley.
41. Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.
43. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
45. With rapid movements.
46. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Obvious and dull.
52. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
54. Refuse to go along with.
56. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
57. Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates.
59. A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.
61. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
62. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
63. A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law.
65. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
68. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
70. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers.
73. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
75. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
81. Relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus.
83. The basic unit of money in Iran.
84. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
85. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
2. Hoop that covers a wheel.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
5. An informal term for a father.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. The site of an archeological exploration.
8. An apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage).
9. To say or state again.
10. Marked with an asterisk.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
12. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
13. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
27. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
29. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
31. Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas.
35. The basic unit of money in China.
36. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
37. Hold back to a later time.
39. United States comedian.
40. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. An adult's imitation of the speech of a young child.
44. An active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes.
48. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
49. Any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny.
50. A building where animals are butchered.
53. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
55. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
58. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
60. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
64. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
66. Toward the mouth or oral region.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
74. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
76. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
77. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
82. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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