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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Follower of Rastafarianism.
9. The act of catching an object with the hands.
13. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
14. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
15. The head of the Roman Catholic Church.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
18. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
19. Covered with paving material.
21. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
34. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
35. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
37. (informal) Of the highest quality.
38. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
40. Noisy talk.
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
49. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
53. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
61. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
62. Term of address for a man.
63. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.
64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
66. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful.
67. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
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1. An informal conversation.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. The act of rising upward into the air.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
6. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
7. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
8. Capable of being added or added to.
9. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
10. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
11. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
12. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
20. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
27. A French abbot.
28. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
36. A state in midwestern United States.
39. A light touch or stroke.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
45. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
46. Make less active or intense.
48. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
50. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
51. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
52. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
54. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
55. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
56. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
59. A human limb.
60. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
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