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1. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
4. A Loloish language.
8. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
11. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
12. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
15. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
29. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. An ancient Iranian language.
48. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
49. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
50. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
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1. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
2. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
3. A battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
9. Not only so, but.
10. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
21. European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
23. Top part of an apron.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Affect with wonder.
33. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
34. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
38. A Loloish language.
39. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
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