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1. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. Marked by skill in deception.
12. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
14. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
15. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
16. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
39. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
46. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
47. Late time of life.
48. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
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1. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
2. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
3. Relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
7. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
8. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
9. Jordan's port.
10. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
19. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
22. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
23. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
24. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
28. (trademark) An antacid.
30. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
35. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
40. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
41. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
42. Towards the side away from the wind.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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