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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan).
11. God of love and erotic desire.
15. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
16. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
17. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
18. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
20. A large quantity of written matter.
21. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
22. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
25. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
27. A ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton.
30. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
31. Russian abstract painter (1878-1935).
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
38. A master's degree in business.
40. An artifact designed to be played with.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
48. The removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing.
50. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
51. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
52. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
53. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
54. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
55. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
58. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
60. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
61. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
62. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
77. False sabertoothed tigers.
78. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
79. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
80. Absence of light or illumination.
81. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
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1. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
2. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
3. Arm again.
4. A building used to house military personnel v 1.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
7. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
8. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
9. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
10. A state in New England.
11. The third month of the civil year.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
13. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
14. (Roman mythology) God of love.
19. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
23. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
24. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
26. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
28. A large strong and aggressive woman.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
32. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
33. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
34. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
36. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
37. A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
43. An associate degree in nursing.
45. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
46. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
47. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
56. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
57. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
59. Devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence.
63. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
64. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
65. The act of scanning.
66. A small inlet.
67. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
68. Very dark black.
69. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
70. A university in Connecticut.
73. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
74. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
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