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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
10. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
14. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Tall hat.
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
22. Excessively fat.
24. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
26. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
37. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
41. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
50. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
51. A master's degree in business.
53. Advanced in years.
54. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
56. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
63. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
64. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
65. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. An abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped.
4. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
7. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A forbidding stronghold.
10. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
11. By bad luck.
12. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
17. The Mon-Khmer language spoken in Cambodia.
21. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
23. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
31. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793).
39. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
40. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
42. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
45. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
46. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
47. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
55. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Before noon.
62. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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