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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
13. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
16. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
18. Not only so, but.
20. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
22. A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
25. Food for domestic livestock.
26. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. A state in north central United States.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
39. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
42. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
51. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
52. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
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1. Causing a dull and steady pain.
2. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
3. A public promotion of some product or service.
4. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
5. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
6. Singing jazz.
7. A Mid-Atlantic state.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
10. A city in central New York.
15. Mostly black African weaverbird.
17. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
19. In bed.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
27. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
33. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
41. One who works hard at boring tasks.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. The cry made by sheep.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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