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1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
5. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
8. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
11. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. Type genus of the Amiidae.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
16. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
17. A light touch or stroke.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
21. Sour or bitter in taste.
23. In bed.
25. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. An affirmative.
45. A decree that prohibits something.
46. A city of central China.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Avatar of Vishnu.
3. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
4. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
5. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
8. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
9. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. A genus of Pyralidae.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
32. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
33. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
34. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
39. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
40. Being one more than two.
41. How long something has existed.
43. The second largest state.
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