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1. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
4. Receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart.
11. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
15. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
16. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
17. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
18. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
19. A medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase.
20. Deciduous shrub of North America.
21. By bad luck.
23. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
25. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
26. Be in accord.
27. A port and resort city on the French Riviera.
29. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
33. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
37. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
39. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
40. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
41. Speaking a Slavic language.
43. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.
45. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
47. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
49. Disabled in the feet or legs.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. A building where prostitutes are available.
59. An active volcano in southwestern Mexico.
60. Lacking gonads.
62. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
66. Someone new to a field or activity.
67. Any plant of the genus Inula.
70. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
71. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
72. Any orchid of the genus Aerides.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
75. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
76. A festival featuring African-American culture.
77. A relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
3. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
4. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
5. The rotating armature of a motor or generator.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
8. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
9. Someone who sells wine.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
22. (Greek mythology) A sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait.
24. Make attractive or lovable.
28. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
30. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
31. An ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice.
32. French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980).
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
36. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
38. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
42. Left-hand page.
44. A genus of Paridae.
46. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. Yellowwood trees or shrubs.
52. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
53. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
54. An island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska.
55. Being one more than one hundred.
57. Moving quickly and lightly.
58. Small goat antelope with small conical horns.
61. Again but in a new or different way.
63. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
64. Not present.
65. A town in north central Oklahoma.
68. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
69. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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