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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. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
10. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
18. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
19. One million periods per second.
20. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
22. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. Leafless East Indian vine.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
34. A mettlesome or fiery horse.
36. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
37. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
42. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
43. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. The father of your father or mother.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
56. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
59. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
60. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
63. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
64. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
65. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
67. A light touch or stroke.
68. A young woman making her debut into society.
69. Hot or warm and humid.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
2. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
3. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
4. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
5. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
6. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
7. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
8. The airforce of Great Britain.
9. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
10. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
11. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
12. A person afflicted with leprosy.
17. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
21. The front limb of a quadruped.
23. A French abbot.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
30. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
33. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
35. A warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps.
37. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
38. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
40. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
46. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
50. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
54. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
61. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
62. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
66. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
67. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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