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1. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
4. Offering fun and gaiety.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. An audiotape recording of sound.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
17. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
18. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
27. A light touch or stroke.
28. In bed.
32. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
43. God of fire.
48. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
3. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. 1 species.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
10. A state in the western United States.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
23. Denuded of leaves.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. The cry made by sheep.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
34. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
37. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
45. A state of southwestern India.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Call upon in supplication.
48. A state in the eastern United States.
49. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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