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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
11. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
16. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. A doctor's degree in religion.
19. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
21. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
25. Jordan's port.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A decree that prohibits something.
35. Before noon.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others.
43. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
47. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
48. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
51. A negative.
52. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
53. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
2. A fraudulent business scheme.
3. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
4. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Something causes misery or death.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. Being one more than ten.
9. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
10. Filled with a great quantity.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
17. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. Unknown god.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. By bad luck.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
33. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
36. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. A person forced to flee from home or country.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
44. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
49. Being nine more than ninety.
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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