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1. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
4. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
11. The highest level or degree attainable.
15. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
16. Fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
17. A human female who does housework.
18. Largest known toad species.
20. Make uniform.
21. Affected manners intended to impress others.
22. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
25. Illuminated by means of floodlights.
27. A conversation between two persons.
28. Physically weak.
29. A midwestern state in north central United States.
31. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
35. The sign language used in the United States.
40. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. Make amends for.
52. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
53. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
56. Spanish Jesuit missionary who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552).
58. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
61. The second largest continent.
63. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
64. A person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses.
68. Involving two dimensions.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
73. The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood.
75. Take in solid food.
76. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
77. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
78. How long something has existed.
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1. A boy or man.
2. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
3. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
4. A state in New England.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. The basic unit of money in Albania.
7. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
8. A professional cook.
9. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
10. A small republic in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France.
11. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
12. Uncomfortably cool.
13. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
14. At a previous time.
19. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
23. Ground snakes.
24. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
26. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
30. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
32. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
33. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.
34. The part of the stamen that contains pollen.
36. The basic unit of money on Malta.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. Conforming to truth.
43. Of the same period.
46. A shaped mass of baked bread.
47. A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border.
49. A bowl-shaped vessel.
51. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
54. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
55. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
57. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
59. Be in contradiction with.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. The rotating armature of a motor or generator.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
67. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
69. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
70. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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