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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. The general activity of selling.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
12. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The sign language used in the United States.
15. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
19. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
21. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
24. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. A doctor's degree in education.
50. Divulge information or secrets.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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1. Largest crested screamer.
2. Of or in or relating to the nose.
3. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
7. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
8. By bad luck.
9. A narrow way or road.
10. The act of scanning.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
20. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
22. An indistinct shapeless form.
25. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
26. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
27. Being nine more than ninety.
29. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
30. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. Seed of a pea plant.
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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