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1. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
4. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
8. A master's degree in business.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. At or constituting a border or edge.
13. Having much flesh (especially fat).
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
18. A state in midwestern United States.
19. The Dravidian language spoken by the Kolam people in central India.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. Slightly open.
23. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
33. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
39. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. The sign language used in the United States.
47. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
2. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
3. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
5. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
6. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
7. A large quantity of written matter.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
26. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
30. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
31. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
32. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A light touch or stroke.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. Before noon.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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