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tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits


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an atomic clock based on the energy difference between two states of the caesium nucleus in a magnetic field


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casting (artificial) bait far out into the ocean (up to 200 yards) with the waves breaking around you


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inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)


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symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort


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the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country


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a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story


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the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage


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a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture


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a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River


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the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant


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attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant


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a hearing that takes place outside the judicial process before hearing examiners who have been granted judicial authority specifically for the purpose of conducting such hearings


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a plastic card containing a microprocessor that enables the holder to perform operations requiring data that is stored in the microprocessor


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more than 100 have been developed and each requires a prescription to be used legally in the United States


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a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)


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an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)


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a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955


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a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown


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the followers of one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners


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a stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body


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Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992)


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Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637)


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open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)


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electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition


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in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood


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a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business


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the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced


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Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)


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Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987)


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an annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace


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an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism


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supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap


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the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)


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a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation


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pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions


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of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament


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a strong tissue paper that burns evenly and is sufficiently porous to control the burning of the tobacco in a cigarette


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Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill


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a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure


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a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch


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a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose


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a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds)


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electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit


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a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties


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branch of the brachial artery beginning below the elbow and extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm


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the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem


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information about the armed forces of another country that is useful in planning and conducting military policy or military operations


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a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love


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a city in western California located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay to the south of San Francisco


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a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix


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an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants


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a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit


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United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River


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the logical fallacy of supposing that an argument proving an irrelevant point has proved the point at issue


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a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public


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the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria


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one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions


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a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory


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the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)


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the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber


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swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils


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an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance


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a metal pipe filled with explosive, used to detonate land mines or to clear a path through barbed wire


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light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors


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United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995)


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hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium


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reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance


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worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes


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European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers


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initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state


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any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium


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a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force


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the energy of electromagnetic waves is contained in indivisible quanta that have to be radiated or absorbed as a whole


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the magnitude is proportional to frequency where the constant of proportionality is given by Planck's constant


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a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring


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a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence


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process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature


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the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures


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a group of minerals with similar crystal structures containing a silicate chain and combinations of chiefly sodium and calcium and magnesium and iron and aluminum


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an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface


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a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator precedes its operands


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oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue


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one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620


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removal by centesis of fluid from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes


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a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes


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carries no claim to ownership and pays no dividends but payments to bondholders have priority over payments to stockholders


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United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986)


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a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center


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United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)


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alkalosis resulting from increased gas exchange in the lungs (as in hyperventilation associated with extreme anxiety or aspirin intoxication or metabolic acidosis)


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the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)


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usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood


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in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines


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a militant offshoot of al-Fatah that is the newest and strongest and best equipped faction active in the West Bank


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the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality


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a unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt


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free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds


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a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves


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light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit


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utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage


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the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal


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any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium


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a period during a parliamentary session when members of British Parliament may ask questions of the ministers


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originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc


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small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers


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a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy


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must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution


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one of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing


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United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)


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the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments


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prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization


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the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives


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any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues


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any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone


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absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution


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a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)


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an ancient Roman unit of length (4.85 English feet) measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground


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a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred


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the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination


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an interpretation of the U.S. constitution holding that the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation can legitimately influence judicial decisions (particularly decisions of the Supreme Court)


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in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction


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a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River)


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a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment


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a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York


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the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity


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a multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban


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the agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors


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French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842)


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a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing


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the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky


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deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers


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the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen)


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any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact


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a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)


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natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation


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literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption


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a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten)


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a chemical reactor for converting oils with high boiling points into fuels with lower boiling points in the presence of a catalyst


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brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted


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Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)


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he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)


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comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae


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the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard


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an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted


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rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction


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a defense organized before contact is made with the enemy and while time for organization is available


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insurance that is purchased by a group (such as the employees of a company) usually at a reduced rate to individual members of the group


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a science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future


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a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration


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exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities


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any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing


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Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)


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a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth


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can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.


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one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains


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separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes


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a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device


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ringworm infection of the hair follicles of the scalp and beard that usually results in a swelling that is covered with pustules and oozes fluid


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a malignant disorder in which there is progressive (but painless) enlargement of lymph tissue followed by enlargement of the spleen and liver


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electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid target


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meat or fish stir-fried with vegetables (e.g., celery, onions, peppers or bean sprouts) seasoned with ginger and garlic and soy sauce


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the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones


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any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis


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United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)


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Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936)


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an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia


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declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic


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his proposals for reforms that involved abolishing feudal privileges made him unpopular with the aristocracy and in 1776 he was dismissed (1727-1781)


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a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it


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a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')


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もともと隠喩であったものが、頻繁に用いられているうちに、その表現の新しい意味を持つようになっているもの（例えば「彼はヘビである」という隠喩が長い年月の使用を経て、その隠喩がなくなり、「ヘビ」の新しい意味となるなど）


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beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced


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a knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle)


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a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them


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French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)


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compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images


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a vein that goes through the foramina of the cervical vertebrae and forms a plexus around the vertebral artery


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the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)


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a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers


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small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)


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the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation


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an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration


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a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)


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a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making


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any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc


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an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies


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traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living


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generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature


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the principle that equal volumes of all gases (given the same temperature and pressure) contain equal numbers of molecules


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garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century


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compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)


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a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations


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small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries


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protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior


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Australasian evergreen conifer having a graceful head of foliage resembling celery that is composed of phyllodes borne in the axils of scalelike leaves


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a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks


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the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)


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payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military


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an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)


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a cystic tumor (usually benign) with a wall lined with epithelium and a cavity containing other material


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Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926)


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an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)


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United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979)


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either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881)


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a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service


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United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904)


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political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema


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similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds


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relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen


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the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)


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phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed


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C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that the number of subordinates in an organization will increase linearly regardless of the amount of work to be done


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a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards


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any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho


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one of four or five pairs of arteries that originate in the abdominal aorta and supply the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles and abdominal wall


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instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim


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fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry


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French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)


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an abnormal condition in which a normal opening or tube in the body (as the urethra) is closed or absent


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similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds


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a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs


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(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness


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a device that transfers power from an engine (as in a tractor or other motor vehicle) to another piece of equipment (as to a pump or jackhammer)


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territorial waters included within a distance of 12 nautical miles of the coasts of the United States and its territories


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an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production


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United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (1906-2005)


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any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisylike flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage


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the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms


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genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins


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regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting


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any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers


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a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906


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contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)


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a member of the Algonquian people related to the Malecite and living in northeastern Maine and New Brunswick


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an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.)


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the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty


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associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood


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an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin)


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German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)


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a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page


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a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins


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official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside)


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the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body


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treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood


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any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels


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family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface


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a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information


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a mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it


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of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language


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an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew scriptures that is based on Jewish methods of interpretation and attached to the biblical text


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grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505)


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blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen


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European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up


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bandage consisting of a strip of sterile fabric (of variable width) rolled into a cylinder to facilitate application


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sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative


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excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine


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enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act


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trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers


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spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure


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metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes


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any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles


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the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism


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pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information)


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a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn


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a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position


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when it is eliminated by stabilizing the image on the retina, visual perception fades rapidly from fatigue of the retinal receptors


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a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)


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in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot


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the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes


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the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning


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matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary


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small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi


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medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group


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a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine


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an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys


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possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances


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any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral


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an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court


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a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening


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her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation


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any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches


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make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts


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(of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment


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British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)


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any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads


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a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth


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small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth


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one of 11 regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region


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a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks


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a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus


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radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland


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United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911)


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(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities


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thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground


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the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws


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the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union


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United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court


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any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward


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any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive


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Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977)


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the innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel)


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the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880


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a Romanesque style first appearing in Normandy around 950 AD and used in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the 12th century


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an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum


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a stunt in which you spin the cylinder of a revolver that is loaded with only one bullet and then point the muzzle at your head and pull the trigger


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a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad


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recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall


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the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens


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an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus


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subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones


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a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)


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United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck


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any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets


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comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)


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(of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material


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a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces


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a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival


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any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers


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a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)


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of or relating to a preparation that gradually releases an active substance (especially a drug) over a period of time


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Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient


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pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively


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firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise


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United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)


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reflex consisting of head-turning and sucking movements elicited in a normal infant by gently stroking the side of the mouth or cheek


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short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers


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any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks


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any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses


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the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)


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process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended


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transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication


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a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health


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the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus


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son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)


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Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy


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perennial Eurasian cress growing chiefly in springs or running water having fleshy pungent leaves used in salads or as a potherb or garnish


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the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity


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Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries


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a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium


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acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel


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reclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960)


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an Old Testament book containing Ezekiel's prophecies of the downfall of Jerusalem and Judah and their subsequent restoration


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the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen


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the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below


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United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)


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English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)


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the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe


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made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses


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perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes


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cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope


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Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)


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breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium


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distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one's role in society


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hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside


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characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control


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the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)


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disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores


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a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud


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English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)


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an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zechariah which are concerned mainly with the renewal of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity


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United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)


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embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away


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genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers


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in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)


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the form of Hinduism that revolves primarily around the mythic version and ritual ideologies in the Vedas


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a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay


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Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters


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oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines


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poker in which each player gets 5 cards face down and bets are made without drawing any further cards


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a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula


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a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)


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plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals


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he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)


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the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service


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the minimal IQ required for someone to function normally and independently in the world (without some form of institutional assistance)


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according to the Old Testament he was warned of his doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC)


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the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear


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(of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses


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a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues


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a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves


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United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)


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a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States


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defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established


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British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)


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either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine


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an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito


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United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)


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money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information)


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the federal agency in the Treasury Department that manages the government's disbursement and collection systems and provides central accounting and financial reporting


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a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland


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care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)


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the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)


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a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it


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the branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservation


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a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic


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an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop)


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convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate


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Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)


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either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical


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a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa


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implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion


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receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart


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plant of southeastern Europe having yellow flowers like those of mustard and pods with open valves resembling bucklers


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the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain


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United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812


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American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)


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large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies


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United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier &amp; Ives' (1813-1888)


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heating pads or hot compresses or hot-water bottles are used to promote circulation in peripheral vascular disease or to relax tense muscles


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a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends


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small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering


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the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air


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a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities


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lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)


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toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin


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United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)


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tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil in central North America that can cause contact dermatitis


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relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts


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developed in the area between Scotland and England usually having a black coat with white on the head and tip of tail used for herding both sheep and cattle


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male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics


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dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads


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an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Orinase) used in the treatment of adult-onset diabetes mellitus


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inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold


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a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin)


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any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process


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the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature)


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mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents


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any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup


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sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain


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son of Ptolemy I and king of Egypt who was said to be responsible for the Septuagint (circa 309-247 BC)


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a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond


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a junction transistor having an n-type semiconductor between a p-type semiconductor that serves as an emitter and a p-type semiconductor that serves as a collector


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a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business


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the deliberate insertion of electromagnetic energy into transmission paths with the objective of confusing or deceiving operators


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a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings


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the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite


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mercury vapor in the tube emits ultraviolet radiation that is converted to visible radiation by the fluorescent material


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a national park in Utah including mountains and the Colorado River gorge and huge rock formations caused by erosion


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any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves


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in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter


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any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs


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a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)


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drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas


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law stating that the entropy of a substance approaches zero as its temperature approaches absolute zero


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a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons


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is involved in metabolic disturbances associated with Parkinson's disease and with Huntington's disease


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twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates


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turbine consisting of a large and efficient version of a water wheel used to drive an electric generator


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motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same


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an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations


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Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595)


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studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)


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an eruption of shiny flat-topped purplish (usually itchy) papules on the wrist and forearms and thighs


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English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)


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the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River


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behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated


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the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems


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compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight


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a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure


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a red area appearing 1-3 days later signifies an exposure (past or present) to tubercle bacilli and the need for further testing


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selective amnesia after being in a hypnotic state of events occurring during hypnosis or of information designated by the hypnotist


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(of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation


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coffee made by passing boiling water through a perforated container packed with finely ground coffee


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American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)


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the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States


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a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting


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one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees


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low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers


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a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center


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the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions


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a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them


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a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston


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any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs


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a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered


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(of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens


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a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)


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pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)


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the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus


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German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)


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British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)


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a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure


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United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)


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a small constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cygnus and Aquila and crossed by the Milky Way


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United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)


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a very serious form of leprosy characterized by lesions that spread over much of the body and affecting many systems of the body


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a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him


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one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted: includes Aletris


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the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow)


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steel that has enough nickel and chromium or manganese to retain austenite at atmospheric temperatures


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a stress test in which the patient walks on a moving treadmill while the heart and breathing rates are monitored


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a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set


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German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)


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establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching


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front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere


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a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)


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leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy


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intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system


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any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells


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a yellow to white crystalline fluorescent compound that occurs naturally as sphalerite or wurtzite and is used as a luminous pigment


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yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood


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of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth)


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a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)


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minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves


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elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers


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antibacterial (trade name Dynapen) used to treat staphylococcal infections that are resistant to penicillin


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sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching)


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the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris


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after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground


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something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another)


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struggle for the English throne (1455-1485 ) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII


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a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things


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the first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor


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substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured


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the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island


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Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)


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a white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect


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the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail


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the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)


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any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)


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the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells


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pertaining to or characteristic of an ammine (an inorganic coordination compound of ammonia and a metallic salt)


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it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460


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the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus


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the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return


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the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas


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having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it


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French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)


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a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress


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an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar


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they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments


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an ACE inhibiting drug (trade name Mavik) used in some patients after a heart attack or to treat hypertension


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old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large


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any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material


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device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone


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wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump


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a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera


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widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood


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caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust


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arising in the heel and running up the back of the leg to join the posterior tibial veins of the popliteal vein


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United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)


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a financial institution that collects regular contributions from employers to provide retirement income for employees


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the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law


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a small explosive device (resembling a firecracker) that is used underwater in order to frighten mammals away from fishing grounds


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a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells


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failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances


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the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change


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a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive


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of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions


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serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes


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Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871


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an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study


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any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses


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the resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray


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in Greek mythology, a fleece of gold owned by the king of Colchis and guarded in a sacred grove by a dragon


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a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland


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organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring


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a strait between northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea


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recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric


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used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae


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one the four wars between Macedonia and Rome in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, which ended in the defeat of Macedonia and its annexation as a Roman province


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genus of rhizomatous perennial or biennial herbs with numerous sometimes fragrant flowers in long cylindrical racemes


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Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)


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nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs


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a constellation in the equatorial region of the northern hemisphere near Ophiuchus and Corona Borealis


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radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution


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a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk


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electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark


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a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof


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United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)


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a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad


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a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink


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divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive)


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as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I


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when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)


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aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding


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protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side


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he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)


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used in some classification systems: a group of extinct fossil gymnosperms coextensive with the order Cycadofilicales


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timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial


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British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792)


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software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming


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absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level


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chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles


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relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels


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a group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad


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the islands in the West Indies that were formerly under British control, including the Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad


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a laboratory apparatus for producing a gas (usually hydrogen sulfide) by the action of a liquid on a solid without heating


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introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)


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excess carbon dioxide combines with water to form carbonic acid which increases the acidity of the blood


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the ancient Panhellenic games held biennially at Nemea in the second and fourth years of each Olympiad


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rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes


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combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it


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a structure resembling a cord that suspends the testis within the scrotum and contains the vas deferens and other vessels and nerves


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this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics


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antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil)


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an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s)


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based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals


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convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil


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coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit


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plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless


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a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River


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the clandestine military wing of the Jewish leadership during the British rule over the mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948


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a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders


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an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it


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the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation


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French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764)


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viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves


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United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898)


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recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall


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touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements


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the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years


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neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia


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German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944)


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sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with


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a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East


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one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe


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the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state


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large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers


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freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation


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Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations


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accusations exchanged among people who refuse to accept sole responsibility for some undesirable event


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small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface


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South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932)


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an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar


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Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)


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he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)


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a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet


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gas burner consisting of a circular metal pipe with several small holes through which gas can escape to be burned


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the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation


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chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves


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dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC)


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Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)


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the Court ruled in 1978 that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy


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the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers


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a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia


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the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory


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heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired


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a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards


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a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation


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a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop


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sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Jurassic period to the Cretaceous period having a keeled breastbone and vestigial tail


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a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)


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action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service


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English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)


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a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations


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a kind of opalescent colored glass that was used in the early 1900s for stained-glass windows and lamps


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ultraviolet lamp that emits a strong bluish light (rich in ultraviolet radiation) as electric current passes through mercury vapor


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breed of medium-sized terriers bred in Tibet resembling Old English sheepdogs with fluffy curled tails


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Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948)


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French landscape gardener who designed many formal gardens including the parks of Versailles (1613-1700)


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chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)


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his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)


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the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals


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a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery


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fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males)


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strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam


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United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752)


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having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components


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the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse


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a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response


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injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over


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stock that has not been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cannot be sold to the general public


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United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)


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the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it


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a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube


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either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings


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one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame


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medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive


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a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities


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a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma


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bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south


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the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare


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an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed


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small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies


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the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition


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negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons


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United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)


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antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections


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highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs


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the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas


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strings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet


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the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court


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radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)


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typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen


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traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste


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acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction


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United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)


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the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight


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a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable


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a protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud


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the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group


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an honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War


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the theological doctrine that venerates the rose and the cross as symbols of Christ's Resurrection and redemption


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a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint


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hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent


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Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943


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the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer


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SCID in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on the surface of T cells that allows them to develop a growth factor receptor


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heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine


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a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second


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a partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge


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separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone


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Elector of Hanover and the first Hanoverian King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 (1660-1727)


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the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business


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recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline


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a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons


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English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)


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a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative


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the center in the medulla oblongata and pons that integrates sensory information about the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and determines the signals to be sent to the respiratory muscles


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the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved


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seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges


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an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year


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when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)


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a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount


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this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow


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a river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang


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a life preserver consisting of a connected pair of inflatable bags that fit under a person's arms and provide buoyancy


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a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples


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electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum


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a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends


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a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil


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the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods


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an induction coil that converts current from a battery into the high-voltage current required by spark plugs


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a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II


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an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)


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an iodine containing protein that is obtained from the thyroid gland and exhibits the general properties of the globulins


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any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers


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Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963)


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measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma)


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estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy


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bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma


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granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support


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bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley


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Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848)


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the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized light


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an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube


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an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition


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a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries


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lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking


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a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines


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large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers


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someone who offers advice about betting on horses (either to influence the odds or in the hope of sharing some of the winnings)


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used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style


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the conditions under which an insurance company will refuse to issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company)


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a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches


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Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)


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(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult


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an act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents


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the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun


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a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)


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of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla)


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a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in


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an extension of statistical mechanics based on quantum theory (especially the Pauli exclusion principle)


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a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)


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a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary


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the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected)


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a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen)


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America


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a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)


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repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)


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the branch of dentistry dealing with the replacement of teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by artificial devices


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a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector


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a dispute over control of the waterway between Iraq and Iran broke out into open fighting in 1980 and continued until 1988, when they accepted a UN cease-fire resolution


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an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it


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English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications


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in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)


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relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients


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a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another


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Mogul emperor of India during whose reign the finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built (including the Taj Mahal at Agra) (1592-1666)


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perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers


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a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope


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a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal


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a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)


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the layer of epidermis just under the stratum corneum or (on the palms and soles) just under the stratum lucidum


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characterized by discomfort and weakness in the hands and fingers and by sensations of tingling, burning or numbness


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a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin


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an area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma


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an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century


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time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)


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an Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland


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a cord (usually of goat's hair) that Arabs (especially Bedouins) wind around their heads to hold down the kaffiyeh


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a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with


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the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)


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a substance produced by the mucosa of the stomach and intestines that is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12


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a city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River


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a regulated investment company consisting of professional managers who issue redeemable securities representing a portfolio of many different securities


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the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole


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one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on the nature of reality and the release from bondage to karma


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French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)


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provides financial support for the Taliban and al-Qaeda and Jaish-i-Mohammed and assists Muslim militants around the world


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game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks


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in former classifications considered a suborder of Rodentia coextensive with the order Lagomorpha: gnawing animals


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occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure


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any of several congenital disorders marked by degeneration of the cerebellum and spinal cord resulting in spasticity and ataxia


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a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut


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if carbohydrates are present a violet ring is formed by reaction with alpha-naphthol in the presence of sulfuric acid


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of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression


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English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)


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the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest


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United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982)


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bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit


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severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute


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day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives


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an amphibious operation conducted for the purpose of deceiving the enemy and leading him into a course of action unfavorable to him


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the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit


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has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills


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the centennial rites and games of ancient Rome that marked the commencement of a new generation (100 years representing the longest life in a generation)


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accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux


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a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body that is globose and has a pale yellow spore case


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United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)


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blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding)


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edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions


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German statesman who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992)


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usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party


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a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1


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the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran


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a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution


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during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst


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a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation


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lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant


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medical instrument that uses an infrared camera to reveal temperature variations on the surface of the body


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small drink served after dinner (especially several liqueurs poured carefully so as to remain in separate layers)


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of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud


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the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate


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United States horticulturist who developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables and flowers (1849-1926)


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distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity


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a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica


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the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage


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characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids


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the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area


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a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind


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a former photographic method that used a glass plate coated with a light-sensitive gelatinous emulsion


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the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas


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an account used temporarily to carry doubtful receipts and disbursements or discrepancies pending their analysis and permanent classification


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an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States


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the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves


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a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings


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an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy


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infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas


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United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)


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a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control


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English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape


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minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence


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the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine)


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son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37)


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when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo


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a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry


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in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat


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air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure


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Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872)


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the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)


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a civilian reserve component of the United States Air Force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies


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a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere


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urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining


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phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential


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a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease


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American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792)


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two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together


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an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds


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United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951)


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the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type


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German pope from 1049 to 1054 whose papacy was the beginning of papal reforms in the 11th century (1002-1054)


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the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals


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relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population


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originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century


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either of two arteries branching from the external carotid artery and supplying structure of the face


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a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles


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a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness


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the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)


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a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight


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pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones


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a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army


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a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection


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English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)


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the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions


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a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor


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moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze


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showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers


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the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries


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a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel


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any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers


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any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets


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a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained


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blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel


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any of various antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases


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either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx


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Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)


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a branch of the femoral nerve that supplies cutaneous branches to the inner aspect of the leg and foot


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a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium


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a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms


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the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell


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Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC)


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a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature


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a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa


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processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs


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abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities


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a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion


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nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers


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any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter


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related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope)


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an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast


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a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases


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a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks


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the act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight


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terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids


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the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value


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multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove


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enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts


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the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)


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William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts


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an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn


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the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies)


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pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758)


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German field marshal in World War II who directed the conquest of Poland and led the Ardennes counteroffensive (1875-1953)


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any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico


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large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus


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genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers


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the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base


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American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)


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any of a group of genetic disorders involving a defect in the metabolism of mucopolysaccharides resulting in greater than normal levels of mucopolysaccharides in tissues


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selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature)


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an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)


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a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security


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large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds


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a chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures


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a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure


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the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements


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a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence


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one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field


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United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914)


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any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem


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perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest


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a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials


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any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs


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a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)


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the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge)


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a musical notation of two flats in front of a note indicating that it is to be lowered by two semitones


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partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food


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any of various orchids of the genus Miltonia having solitary or loosely racemose showy broadly spreading flowers


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United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)


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Muslims abstain from food and drink and gambling and all sensuous pleasures from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan


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Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)


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(of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers


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large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity


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armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target


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of or relating to the bore of a gun (or its ammunition) that measures twenty-two hundredths of an inch in diameter


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the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment


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especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner


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a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Republic


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a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended


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the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.


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simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi


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characterized by severe deficiency of beta-lipoproteins and abnormal red blood cells (acanthocytes) and abnormally low cholesterol levels


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the wrongful intrusion by individuals or the government into private affairs with which the public has no concern


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the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings


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soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract


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the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents)


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the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction)


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relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case


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congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis


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a digital computer that provides workstations on a network with controlled access to shared resources


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an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations


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in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants


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paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company


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scientific instrument consisting of an electronic circuit that permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass


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the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana


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a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus (especially killing the monster Chimera)


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the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb


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a vein on each side that drains the lateral part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein


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a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables


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an antibiotic (trade name Achromycin) derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections


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law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture


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the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature


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banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer)


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of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)


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the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)


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principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784)


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United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968)


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used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing


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biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb


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a clause in an insurance policy that provides for double the face value of the policy in the case of accidental death


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a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma


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a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it


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an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs


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one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time


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United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II


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a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change


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of or relating to the philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life


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a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)


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increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)


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English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)


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predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body


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a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal


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genus of monocotyledonous plants with curious woolly flowers on sturdy stems above a fan of sword-shaped leaves


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change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation


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a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens


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a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors


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of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information


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emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness


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small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads


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a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily


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plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks


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under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service


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memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind


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the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region


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United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)


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an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer


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in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)


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one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae


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United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)


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the target company defends itself by acquiring a company so onerously regulated that it makes the target less attractive


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the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


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any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months


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the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno


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French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air


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the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage


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a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition


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a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders


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a relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons


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a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE


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a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages


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any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein


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especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office


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any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves


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American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793)


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nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)


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located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River


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advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)


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a chronic skin disease associated with seborrhea and greasy scales on the scalp or eyelids or other parts of the skin


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a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance


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a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)


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producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis


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United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)


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United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969)


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the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it


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mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried


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the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity


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the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration


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Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)


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any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons


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a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to the strength and direction of the earth's gravitational field


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any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus


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grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers


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subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body


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English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)


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an answer of `no contest' by a defendant who does not admit guilt but that subjects him to conviction


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based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards


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a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light


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one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context


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stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen


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a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons


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the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed


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someone who demands physical evidence in order to be convinced (especially when this demand is out of place)


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written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory


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the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population


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the ratio of the amount of water in the air at a give temperature to the maximum amount it could hold at that temperature


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client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them


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a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere


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excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus


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clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures


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group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination


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epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking


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the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I


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luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube


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infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products


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a battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC)


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the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide expired to the volume of oxygen consumed by an organism or cell in a given period of time


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any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes


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any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects


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order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons


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one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete


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the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management


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an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh


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an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it


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a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth


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the ancient Panhellenic celebration at Delphi held every four years in the third year of the Olympiad in honor of Apollo


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a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management


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a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea


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the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer


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the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today


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a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)


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an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')


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the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing


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a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages


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a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain


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a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region


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a close friend and general of Alexander the Great who took charge of Egypt after Alexander died (circa 367-285 BC)


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a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)


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grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male


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state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts


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the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden


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toiletry consisting of a preparation of soap and fatty acids that forms a rich lather for softening the beard before shaving


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French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)


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a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of Tishri to celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of readings of the Torah


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a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law)


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an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation


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on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere


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Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797)


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a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River


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any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer


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a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school


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the recording (column or paper strip) on which the constituents of a mixture are adsorbed in chromatography


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any of numerous small tufted orchids of the genus Pleurothallis having leathery to fleshy leaves and racemes of 1 to many small flowers


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a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it


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low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die


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the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA


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money that the government declares to be legal tender although it cannot be converted into standard specie


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in Vedism, god of the night sky who with his thousand eyes watches over human conduct and judges good and evil and punishes evildoers


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often considered king of the Hindu gods and frequently paired with Mitra as an upholder of the world


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English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984)


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originates from the upper part of the aorta that supplies the small intestines and the cecum and the colon


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trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground


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English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)


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sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner)


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United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922)


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the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution


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a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders


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either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms


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any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees


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an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel


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surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles


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German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)


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any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves


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emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence


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a desktop digital computer that is conventionally considered to be more powerful than a microcomputer


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a television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail


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English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954)


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something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)


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an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids


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minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming


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important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms


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large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk


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armed forces censorship performed by personnel of a military unit on the personal communications of persons assigned to that unit


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concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another


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the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall


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the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body


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small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise


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an abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly)


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orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base


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an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery


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one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached


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barbiturate that is a hygroscopic powder (trade name Pentothal) that is a strong barbiturate that acts rapidly


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the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children)


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German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who emphasized cellular abnormalities in disease (1821-1902)


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an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)


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a massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies


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flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound


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terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words


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the body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government


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common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips


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a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital


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demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor


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an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European


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an obsolete name for the Old Testament books of I Chronicles and II Chronicles which were regarded as supplementary to Kings


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any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins


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a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)


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the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy


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a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism


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T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B cells and killer T cells


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a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power


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Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility that is achieved through the three paths of actions and knowledge and devotion


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a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift


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care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams


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any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain


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press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures)


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pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle)


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comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids


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a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line


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the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church


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the irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet


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a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation


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a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation


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an interface (commonly used for modems and mice and some printers) that transmits data a bit at a time


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creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers


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a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract


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a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang


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located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean


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a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea


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American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799)


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a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900


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one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot


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game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.


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machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically


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contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse


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a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy


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pregnancy in which the placenta is implanted in the lower part of the uterus (instead of the upper part)


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they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals


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a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you


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a measuring instrument that uses a grid for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds


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any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)


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French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)


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a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal


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any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally


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United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)


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the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters


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a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells


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subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays


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a tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas


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a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox


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a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster


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one of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery


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a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army


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the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver


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measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects


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a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)


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an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts


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the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object


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a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer


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English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)


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when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages


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United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)


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the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices


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a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores


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three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)


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fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it


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a colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic


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a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)


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the electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine


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a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity


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leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)


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any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones


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characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination


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a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number


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a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable


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an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south


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tomatoes and onions and peppers (sweet or hot) simmered with vinegar and sugar and various seasonings


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in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages


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the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed


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the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration


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an honorary academy in London (founded in 1768) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain


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a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin) used to treat bacterial infections


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the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War


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the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved for the knight who would find the Holy Grail


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an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)


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individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell


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United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991)


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line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight


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melodies can be played by moving the right hand between two rods that serve as antennas to control pitch


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the co-option of another person's personal information (e.g., name, Social Security number, credit card number, passport) without that person's knowledge and the fraudulent use of such knowledge


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a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations


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the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction


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a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)


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14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible


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the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status


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Russian composer (born in Armenia) whose works are romantic and reflect his interest in folk music (1903-1978)


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Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC)


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bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal


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an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)


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the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)


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the ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel


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United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)


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relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature


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deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries


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Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154)


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one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline


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deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves


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resonance of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei to radiation frequencies as a result of space quantization in a magnetic field


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recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds


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German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882)


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an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce


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acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound


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thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity


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in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies


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a river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea


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a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation


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Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures


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a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities


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a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database


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a drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness


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state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options


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a breed of short-haired rat terrier with a black-and-tan coat that was developed in Manchester, England


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capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (`psychopathic personality' was once widely used but was superseded by `sociopathic personality' to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now `antisocial personality disorder' is the preferred term)


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large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning


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antitoxin given for short-term immunization against tetanus in cases of possible exposure to the tetanus bacillus


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a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)


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thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)


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United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922)


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dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc


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the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal


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a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy


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the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled


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the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts


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anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Plaquenil) used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and malaria and lupus erythematosus


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hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures


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the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin


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a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth


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a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis


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a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms


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containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism


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an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)


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either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator


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a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film


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Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European


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a heat engine in which ignition occurs outside the chamber (cylinder or turbine) in which heat is converted to mechanical energy


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regional anesthesia resulting from the use of a local anesthetic to deaden the pudendal nerves in the region of the vulva and labia majora


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a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law


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(especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law


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exercise in which opposing muscles contract and there is controlled movement (tension is constant while the lengths of the muscles change)


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of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750


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perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects


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a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms


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the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects


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the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape


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an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime


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make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark


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a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party


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a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs


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genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism


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a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances


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the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at the same time


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a drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation


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a South African plant of the genus Othonna having smooth often fleshy leaves and heads of yellow flowers


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abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)


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the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis)


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in some states of the United States: a legal holiday commemorating the day the state was admitted to the Union


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies


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someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)


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mythical German warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied who takes possession of the accursed treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards it and awakens Brynhild and is eventually killed


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a session (as of executives or advisors) to discuss policy or strategy or to solve problems or exchange ideas


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any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936


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independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939)


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a skin condition characterized by circumscribed wartlike lesions that can be itchy and covered with a greasy crust


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can cause infections of the endocardium and blood and wounds and urinary tract and respiratory tract


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a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user


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bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes


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United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing's syndrome (1869-1939)


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a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds


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a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward


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the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent


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squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti


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United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)


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occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus


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a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts


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Phintias (according to legend) was condemned to death by Dionysius the Elder and asked a respite to put his affairs in order


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a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections


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the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders


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nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly


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childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus


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family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination


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half mayonnaise and half vinaigrette seasoned with minced garlic and mashed anchovies and grated Parmesan cheese


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any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast


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an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century


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the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone


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an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions


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a form of Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible


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a bandage of cloth impregnated with a substance (e.g., plaster of Paris) that hardens soon after it is applied


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(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)


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the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth


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place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)


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generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power


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the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701


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a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska


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a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied


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a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness


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a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies


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17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty


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a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)


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an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete


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having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel


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the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions


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an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered


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the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)


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tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration


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trade names of a narcotic analgesic that can be inhaled and that acts on the central nervous system and may become addictive


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a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation


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a certificate of deposit from which withdrawals can be made only after advance notice or at a specified future date


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a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas


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a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring


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equipment in a motor vehicle that provides electricity to start the engine and ignite the fuel and operate the lights and windshield wiper and heater and air conditioner and radio


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a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two)


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title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)


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a narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine)


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the corpus luteum secretes progesterone which prepares the endometrium for the implantation of an embryo


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shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed


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tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections


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an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition


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United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)


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maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves


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an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age


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in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony


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a localized dilation or protrusion on the wall of the left ventricle of the heart (occurring after a myocardial infarction)


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a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast)


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a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables


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a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted


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nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate


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extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming


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a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France


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a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous


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the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood


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an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation


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a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward


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an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed


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web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks


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a congenital progressive disorder of lipid metabolism having an onset at age 5 and characterized by blindness and dementia and early death


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a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else


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march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation


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a Crusade from 1145 to 1147 that failed because of internal disagreements among the crusaders and led to the loss of Jerusalem in 1187


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a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial


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puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye


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a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war


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a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect


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a form of foot torture used by the Chinese in which the victim's foot was placed between three pieces of bamboo and systematically squeezed


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a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments


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a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes


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a blood test that measures levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen that is manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland


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Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions


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Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918)


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originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing


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a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism


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plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers


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absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages)


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a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition


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an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants)


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the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)


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biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's signature and matching it electronically against a library of known signatures


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any of three compounds (acetoacetic acid, acetone, and/or beta-hydroxybutyric acid) found in excess in blood and urine of persons with metabolic disorders


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phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes


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a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers


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not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth


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a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices


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French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie)


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excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves


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an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome


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shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits


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a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food


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the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science


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continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature


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a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness


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a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland


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a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color


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a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery


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a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil


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a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)


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a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response


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female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus


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United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)


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ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center


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a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground


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any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails


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the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived


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a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)


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French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)


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the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity


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a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street


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the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day


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intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data


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an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb


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any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites


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a medical instrument that records the electrical waves associated with the activity of skeletal muscles


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an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes


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a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates the cells in male mammals that form sperm


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a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class


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an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania who clashed repeatedly with the early Romans


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a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment


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the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language


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speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community


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players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them


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the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies


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a Semitic language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French


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large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel


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transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location


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optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece


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one the Shinto deities (including mythological beings, spirits of distinguished men, forces of nature)


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chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia


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radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures


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formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government


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United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)


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marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects


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the law that if two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with a third body then the first two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with each other


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Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981)


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especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species


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United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979)


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surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments


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advocating full legal protection of embryos and fetuses (especially opposing the legalization of induced abortions)


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king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180)


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Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)


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remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)


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case consisting of an oblong container (usually having a lock) for carrying dispatches or other valuables


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relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing


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fashion designer born in Italy who was noted for her use of synthetic materials and brilliant colors (1896-1973)


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belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language


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United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)


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the revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba


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United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)


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heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings


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living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed


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formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy


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United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987)


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the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject


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United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924)


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epilepsy characterized by clonus of muscle groups and progressive mental deterioration and genetic origin


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an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)


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Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)


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a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum


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a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh


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the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War


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traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems


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fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent


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marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another


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recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat


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the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe


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currency of the major financial and industrial countries held in those countries for the purpose of lending and borrowing


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when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)


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a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound


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misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)


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succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds


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ubiquitous European annual weed with white flowers and finely divided leaves naturalized and sometimes cultivated in eastern North America


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an option to buy the crown jewels offered to a white knight in order to forestall a hostile takeover


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a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives


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Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93)


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the Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human


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United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)


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the head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency


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a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas


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surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis


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United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium


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English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)


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flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington)


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a little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah


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a set of points such that for every pair of points there is a nonnegative real number called their distance that is symmetric and satisfies the triangle inequality


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electrons orbiting a nucleus can only be in certain stationary energy states and light is emitted when electrons jump from one energy state to another


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chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors


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Israeli statesman who persuaded the United States to recognize the new state of Israel and became its first president (1874-1952)


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the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel


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a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A


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a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures


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any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements


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one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind


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a dwarf whose condition is caused by a deficiency of growth hormones, rather than by genetic factors (as in the case of the achondroplastic dwarf)


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any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day


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the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')


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sexual intercourse with a person (girl or boy) who has not reached the age of consent (even if both parties participate willingly)


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Christian martyr and patron of those who suffer from epilepsy and Sydenham's chorea (died around 300)


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second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC


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a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members


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antihypertensive drug (trade names Trandate and Normodyne) that blocks alpha and beta-adrenergic receptors of the sympathetic nervous system (leading to a decrease in blood pressure)


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an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court


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relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)


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of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley


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in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)


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an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell


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a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes


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an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000


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a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells


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control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce


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a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality


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central nervous system stimulant (trade name Ritalin) used in the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and attention deficit disorder in children


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can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body


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large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail


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used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son


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the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials


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the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services


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the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music


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a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter


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a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha


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equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)


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a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle


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of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago


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American financier and American Revolutionary War patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785)


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amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit


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a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers


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the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s


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Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)


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lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes


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an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream


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inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating


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receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasodilation and increased heart beat)


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erect shrub having large trifoliate leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers followed by poisonous seeds


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lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency


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the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone


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a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century


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a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries)


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the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)


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a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling)


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a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support


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the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945


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religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law


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any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.


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plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings


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extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds


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psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)


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a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true


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specialized programs that reside permanently in the computer's main memory and control the processing of user's programs


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a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage


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United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959)


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a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced


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a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries)


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French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)


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an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor


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a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)


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an auditor who is an employee of the company whose records are audited and who provides information to the management and board of directors


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the right of married persons to the enjoyment of association and sympathy and confidence and domestic happiness and the comfort of living together and eating meals at the same table and profiting from joint property right and the intimacies of domestic relations


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an antibody produced by one individual that causes agglutination of red blood cells in other individuals of the same species


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hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance


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the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people


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the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand


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law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions


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a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state


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the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China


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of or pertaining to the ancient Ionians who lived in Attica and related territories, to their Ionic dialect of Greek, or to their culture


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an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state


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the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud


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a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations


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large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous


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the absence of ovulation due to immaturity or post-maturity or pregnancy or oral contraceptive pills or dysfunction of the ovary


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any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar


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a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland


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a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation


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Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)


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one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively


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any of the various theories or doctrines or philosophical systems that attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of some immanent force or energy


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extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities


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a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver


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someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss


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a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer


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optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece


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characterized by changes in the myocardium or scarring of the heart valves that reduce the power of the heart to pump blood


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a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass


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spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer


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an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections


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rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow


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a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s


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one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone


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one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness


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his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)


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the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision


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a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered


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a combat zone where military operations are coordinated (especially a designated area in international waters where the rights of neutrals are not respected by nations at war)


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the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain


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they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)


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a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work)


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a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle


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brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak


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acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component


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a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper


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the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine


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the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease


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an antibody in blood serum that attaches to invading microorganisms and other antigens to make them more susceptible to the action of phagocytes


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eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms


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oil from seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus especially Hydnocarpus wightiana (Hydnocarpus laurifolia)


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elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862)


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renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract


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a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game


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consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it


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a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles


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a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.


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one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)


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a New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Ephesians which explains the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ


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the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma


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rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center


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any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle


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the Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC


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United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)


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a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania


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urinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine


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the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements


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American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)


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shunt that is created surgically between the portal vein and the inferior vena cava so that blood from the abdominal organs can bypass the liver


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characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints


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United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)


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voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote


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primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva


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now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)


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connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face


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king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC)


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used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system


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hybrid fibrous-rooted begonia having broad-ovate green to bronze-red leaves and small clusters of white or pink or red flowers


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United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957)


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electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices


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the principle that the total linear momentum in a closed system is constant and is not affected by processes occurring inside the system


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having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer


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the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines)


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examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease


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an autosomal dominant disease characterized by elongated bones (especially of limbs and digits) and abnormalities of the eyes and circulatory system


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the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states


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pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values


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hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella


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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)


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abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light


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the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses


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a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex


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any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts


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a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism


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the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium


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United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)


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parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles


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the pregnant woman (in classes and at home) practices (usually with the help of a coach) and learns about the physiology of childbirth and techniques of relaxation, concentration, and breathing


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the use of a nuclear reactor either to produce electricity to power an engine (as in a nuclear submarine) or to directly heat a propellant (as in nuclear rockets)


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a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955


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natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus


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an androgen (trade names Durabolin or Kabolin) that is used to treat testosterone deficiency or breast cancer or osteoporosis


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when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)


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religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct


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a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something


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a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)


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deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia


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in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government


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cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field


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syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions)


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a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation


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having the property of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled


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can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet


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any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage


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a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)


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set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government


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repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor)


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commonly cultivated larkspur of southern Europe having unbranched spikelike racemes of blue or sometimes purplish or pinkish flowers


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computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent


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any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits


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either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration


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any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)


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a water-insoluble dye that is applied by reducing the dye to an alkaline form, applying the dye, then regenerating the insoluble dye by oxidation in the material


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French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)


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a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language


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an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology


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United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)


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the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field


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a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam


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a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies


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intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism


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an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.


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the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium


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the first Qin emperor who unified China, built much of the Great Wall, standardized weights and measures, and created a common currency and legal system (died 210 BC)


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collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils


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an angiogram of the lymph nodes and lymph vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance


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either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement


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usually cooked in a skillet over an open fire: especially cornbread with ham bits and sometimes Irish soda bread


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selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons


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a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan


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induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)


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an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism


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an acute but benign form of viral hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by ingesting food or drink that is contaminated with fecal matter


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any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white


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a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species


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perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds


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52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures


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a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America


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enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events


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a people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand


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plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips


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the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe


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any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church


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dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees


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British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)


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a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it


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a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels


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English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852)


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a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them


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purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh


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one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church


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consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved


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a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s


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wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution


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of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia


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an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects


