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1. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
5. Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth.
11. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
15. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
16. The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites.
17. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
21. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
23. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
24. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
25. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
27. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. Pleated or tucked in lines radiating from a circular edge.
37. Obvious and dull.
41. Having been flattened.
42. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
45. Slightly open.
46. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. Capable of being scaled.
56. Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919).
59. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
61. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
67. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
70. A branch of the Tai languages.
71. Strike with a flat object.
74. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
76. A master's degree in business.
77. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
78. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
80. Tag the base runner to get him out.
81. A doctor's degree in education.
82. A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The act of losing.
2. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
3. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales.
4. Relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs.
5. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
6. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
7. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
8. The brightest star in the sky.
9. The act of accelerating.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
14. (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.
20. Jordan's port.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
29. The goddess of the moon.
31. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
34. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
36. The third canonical hour.
38. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
39. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
40. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
43. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
44. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
47. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
48. A broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle.
49. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
52. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
54. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
55. By bad luck.
57. (used informally) Completely unclothed.
58. A joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones.
60. Informal terms for a mother.
62. A genus of Lamnidae.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
68. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
69. English essayist (1775-1834).
72. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
73. (British informal) Not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1.
75. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
79. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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