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1. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
5. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
12. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
15. Made of or resembling lace.
16. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
17. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
18. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
19. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. The capital of Nationalist China.
23. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
26. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
28. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
29. A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. (informal) Of the highest quality.
36. A deliberately false or improbable account.
40. The capital of Western Samoa.
42. Being nine more than ninety.
45. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
46. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
47. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. A flexible container with a single opening.
53. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
55. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
58. Release from a clasp.
61. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
62. A wind from the north.
64. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
66. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
68. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
72. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
75. Noisy talk.
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
80. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
81. A long slender cigar.
82. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
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1. A thin strip (wood or metal).
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. One celestial body obscures another v 1.
4. (ophthalmology) Eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability.
5. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
6. A negative.
7. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. Not present.
9. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
10. Jordan's port.
11. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
12. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
13. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
27. An awkward stupid person.
30. Come to pass.
31. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
33. Infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves.
34. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
39. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. A painter or drawer of portraits.
44. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
48. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
51. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. Place restrictions on.
57. (British) A form of football played with an oval ball.
59. Ground snakes.
60. An ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice.
63. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
65. A French river.
67. A branch of the Tai languages.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Worthless people.
71. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
73. Of southern Europe.
74. An accountant certified by the state.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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