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any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior


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favored a strict interpretation of the constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government


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(of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing


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any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes


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Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)


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Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)


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hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat


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a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose


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an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal


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a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea


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electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats


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the state of equilibrium in which centrifugal forces due to a rotating mass (e.g., a propeller) do not produce force in the shaft and so vibration is reduced


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a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest


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the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees


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a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence


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an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC


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Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese


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the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails


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a member of the Wakashan people living around Queen Charlotte Sound and on northern Vancouver Island


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an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia


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an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner


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equal to the number of protons in the nucleus or electrons in the neutral state of an atom of an element


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where ovules develop on the wall or slight outgrowths of the wall forming broken partitions within a compound ovary


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an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys


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a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific


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a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)


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any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens


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orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown


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Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910)


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a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable


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of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye


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a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained


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a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains


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the cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart


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the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy


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a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply


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any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers


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the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality


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a decorative arrangement of pieces of metal or glass or pottery that hang together loosely so the wind can cause them to tinkle


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fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference


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a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence


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a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust


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an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)


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calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched


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stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights


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family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms


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an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures


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relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair


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an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)


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common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers


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husband of Georgiana Emma Barrymore and father of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1847-1905)


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unsweetened yeast-raised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends


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a diuretic (trade names Hygroton and Thalidone) used to control hypertension and conditions that cause edema


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can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body


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a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams


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opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)


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the ratio of concentrations when equilibrium is reached in a reversible reaction (when the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction)


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a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science


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of or relating to a commercial treaty where two nations agree to accord each other the same favorable terms that would be offered in treaties with any other nation


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United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)


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the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself


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structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired


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the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed


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a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on white paper) where the names of people are listed alphabetically along with their telephone numbers


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an equation that expresses the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of an ideal black body


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an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room


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a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond six carbons from the beginning


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a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases


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the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments


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the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)


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an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries)


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Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico


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farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)


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English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)


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an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.


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the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor


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the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition


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fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed


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a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)


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United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993)


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Brazilian shrub having twice-pinnate leaves and small spicate flowers followed by flat or irregularly torulose pods


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a stock or bond that is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cannot be sold in the public market


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a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)


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a major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase that occurs in the classic form of bipolar disorder


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God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction


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vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation


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an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control


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a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas


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Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural supremacy in Greece


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a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen


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a blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present


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the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources


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the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart


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English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)


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several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)


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game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games


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the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)


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United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961)


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an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance


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Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978)


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any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits


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someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication


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any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center


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someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person


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chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river


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a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes


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an advisor employed by the government to assist people in rural areas with methods of farming and home economics


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a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo


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いくつかの国で使われる少額の通貨単位：フランス、アルジェリア、ベルギー、ブルンジ、カメルーン、チャド、コンゴ、ガボン、ハイチ、コートジボアール、ルクセンブルグ、マリ、モロッコ、ニジェール、ルワンダ、セネガル、スイス、トーゴ


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something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint


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a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves


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a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government


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the part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)


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the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)


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an eastern Christian in Egypt or Syria who adheres to the Orthodox faith as defined by the council of Chalcedon in 451 and as accepted by the Byzantine emperor


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the northern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Brazil and the southern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Uruguay


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the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear


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an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo


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a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter


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it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states


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the measurement of intraocular pressure by determining the amount of force needed to make a slight indentation in the cornea


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gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food


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located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Ranier visible to the south and east


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a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen


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the adjustment of a gunsight for elevation and windage on a particular range under favorable light conditions


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large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail


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United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)


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Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)


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a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology


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a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519


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a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915


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the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution


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tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species


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the theological doctrine taught by Athanasius that Christ the Son is of the same substance as God the Father


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a colorless crystalline salt of sodium (NaF) used in fluoridation of water and to prevent tooth decay


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a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx)


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any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff


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an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the property


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a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person


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a contract in which you promise to deliver your entire output to the other party who promises to accept it


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a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)


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the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)


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a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)


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a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions


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a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis


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a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital


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powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital


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surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)


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a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset


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tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail


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she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)


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a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used


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attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport


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an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire


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a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with


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French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906)


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combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force


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one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury


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flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height


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United States frontier missionary who established a post in Oregon where Christianity and schooling and medicine were available to Native Americans (1802-1847)


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the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles


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the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)


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a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession


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any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)


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United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)


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designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another


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a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body with a thin gelatinous spore case and elliptical spores


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an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells


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a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)


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the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)


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Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin


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son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil


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a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)


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United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)


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flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching


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a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top


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English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782)


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typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking


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United States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered videocassette recording (1906-1977)


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United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)


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characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle


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needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle


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river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River


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small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete


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United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)


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opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance)


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United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)


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United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)


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French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)


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Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981)


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cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing


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computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol


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king of Persia who expanded the Persian Empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the battle of Marathon (550-486 BC)


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the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917


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airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin


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English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956)


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his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)


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large genus of annual or perennial herbs some grown for their flowers and some for their attractive evergreen leaves


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United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)


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an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999


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the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)


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tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute


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United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946)


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transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs


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the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)


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two wars (1912-1913 ) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe


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the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students)


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materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed


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the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity


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widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins


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aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers


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the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms


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a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible)


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cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense


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the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image


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derogatory term for environmentalists who support restrictions on the logging industry and the preservation of forests


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grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1710-1774)


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large genus of tropical American mostly epiphytic orchids whose flowers have sepals fused at the base forming a tube


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any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins


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an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia


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French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)


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his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)


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the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)


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if an Rh-negative person receives a blood transfusion from an Rh-positive person it can result in hemolysis and anemia


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diminutive epiphytic or lithophytic orchids with clumped short-stemmed foliage and arching racemes of colorful flowers


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the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium


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military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum


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the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)


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the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods


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United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)


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surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures


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common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers


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the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus


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capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent


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any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers


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tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber


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a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete


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someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception


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in some classification systems Spermatophyta is coordinate with Pteridophyta (spore producing plants having vascular tissue and roots) and Bryophyta (spore producing plants lacking vascular tissue and roots)


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severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys


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the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite


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a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated


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a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila


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in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality


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snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail


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German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)


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in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere)


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in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims


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the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)


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Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)


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an extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen (especially in the 18th century) as part of their education


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German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945)


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involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes)


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a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds


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passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores


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the naval battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian's fleet under Agrippa in 31 BC


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the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia


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any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity


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an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide


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(of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights


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a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before


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a resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks


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decreases force and rate of heart contractions by blocking beta-adrenergic receptors of the autonomic nervous system


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a commissioned officer (especially one in the Royal Air Force) equivalent in rank to a colonel in the army


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a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults


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important information about the plans or condition of a corporation that has not been released to the public


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United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937)


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a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something


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rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a single-rotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air


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when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death


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a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior


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the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain


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United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)


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reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed


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a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco


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congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics


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an agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government


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a fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births


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United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)


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of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity


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family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins


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a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general


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being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado


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含んでいるか、または一般に、米国の領域が上側のミシシッピー谷と大湖地域がカンザスとミズーリのオハイオリバーと南境界の北とペンシルバニア西部境界とモンタナ、ワイオミング、およびコロラドの東境界の間に位置する州を含むのがあります


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a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court


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Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)


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a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is very effective in combination with zidovudine in treating AIDS and HIV


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the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone


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any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin


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the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti


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the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)


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a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches


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regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine


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the highest level of alert when an attack by the enemy seems imminent (or more generally a state of alert resulting from imminent danger)


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English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)


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United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927)


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small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut


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a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries


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used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc or especially to emphasize a negative statement


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a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)


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British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999)


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the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches


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United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)


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unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects


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Israeli statesman (born in Poland) and active Zionist who organized resistance against the British after World War II


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a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics


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it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens


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an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy


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used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries


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any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing


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general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)


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a muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures


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a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt


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relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area


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a medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream


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a ceiling based on attitudinal or organizational bias in the work force that prevents minorities and women from advancing to leadership positions


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an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment


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erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles


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Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales


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a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit


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relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury


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a member of an Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois


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an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts


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the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future


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the second council of the Western Church in 1139 which put an end to the dogmatic errors of Arnold of Brescia


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large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle


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a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass


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the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)


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a measure of the quantity of electricity (determined by the amount of an electric current and the time for which it flows)


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changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged


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United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844)


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king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered


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any of several large worms having a broad flattened body with a mat of coarse hairs covering the back


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a British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs (especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries (1718-1779)


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an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement


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search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets


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characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization)


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any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone


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the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism


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a common condition causing obstruction of the nasal passages and difficulty in breathing and recurrent nosebleeds


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(of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds


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a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light


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two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time


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according to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC)


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large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers


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a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood


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any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body


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a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user


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United States general who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II (1893-1981)


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a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically


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small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins


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a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders


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any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips


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two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals


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a committee of university officers who have general supervision over the welfare and conduct of students


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a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface


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an abrupt transition of an electron or atom or molecule from one quantum state to another with the emission or absorption of a quantum


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any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers


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the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution


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any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)


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a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills


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a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune


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a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)


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specification of design principles (including data formats and procedures) for creating a network configuration of data processors


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formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia


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plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load


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any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears


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a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome


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delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal


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since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries


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place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue


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the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject


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in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies


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a center in the Department of that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies


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American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796)


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a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind


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the branch of anatomy that studies structural changes of an individual from fertilization to maturity


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the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with


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a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC


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any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers


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an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves)


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an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions


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a stand-alone piece of electronic equipment that either has its own display or attaches to a television set


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an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve


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a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution


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a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable


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any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA)


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a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope


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a waterway used by small boats to travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee Canal and the Caloosahatchee River


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now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government


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the ratio of the electromotive force produced in a circuit by self-induction to the rate of change of current producing it, expressed in henries


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a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice


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the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result


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the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects


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an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another


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set of standards established and enforced by government for fire prevention and safety in case of fire as in fire escapes etc


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German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)


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the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)


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a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)


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any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries


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a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership


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the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them


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massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss


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any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones


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recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)


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determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA


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elected vice president and became the 13th President of the United States when Zachary Taylor died in office (1800-1874)


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of or pertaining to or characteristic of an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation


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befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior


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a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode and a cathode of mercury oxide and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide


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an observant Muslim woman who covers her face and hands when in public or in the presence of any man outside her immediate family


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a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism


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(of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials


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small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears


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the rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer)


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あなたが言うことが証拠として使用されるかもしれないとあなたに警告して、警察（逮捕の後にあなたについて査問するとき）があなたの黙秘権（弁護士への権利と弁護士によってアドバイスされるまで静かなままで残る権利）をあなたに読み込むのが強いられるという規則


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any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific


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a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine


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scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers


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a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)


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greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers


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small genus of large deciduous shrubs having large clusters of winged seeds that turn red as they mature


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an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n


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in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the epithelium


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any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope


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United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975)


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Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)


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provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic)


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the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form


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a great collection of poetry worked into and around a central heroic narrative (eight times as large as the Iliad and Odyssey combined)


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a job action in which workers cause a slowdown by doing only the minimum amount required by the rules of the workplace


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accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) often resulting from disease of the heart or kidneys


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a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes


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French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)


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Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)


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also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides


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built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century


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French astrologer who wrote cryptic predictions whose interpretations are still being debated (1503-1566)


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two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day)


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United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)


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a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success


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United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)


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control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit


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fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds


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transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth


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involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water


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Italian pope from 1534 to 1549 who excommunicated Henry VIII of England in 1538 and initiated the Council of Trent in 1545


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was active in the Counter Reformation and promoted the Society of Jesus for this purpose (1468-1549)


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deposed the Libyan monarchy and imposed socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country (born in 1942)


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the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech


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geological dating that relies on the proportions of radioactive potassium in a rock sample and its decay product, argon


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widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound


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metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated


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said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training)


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French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)


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an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre


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relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person


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signboard consisting of two hinged boards that hang front and back from the shoulders of a walker and are used to display advertisements


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an interaction between elementary particles involving neutrinos or antineutrinos that is responsible for certain kinds of radioactive decay


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British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941)


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hoist so arranged that a rope unwinding from a wheel is wound onto a cylindrical drum or shaft coaxial with the wheel


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measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water


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an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah


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material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)


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United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812


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the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United States requires that just compensation be made


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a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times


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aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century


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neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front


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lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building


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tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts


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a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid


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a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members


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fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century


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growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate


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a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)


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a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract


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friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere


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consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.


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South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923)


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the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity


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a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs


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United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)


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responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies


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dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium


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a senior noncommissioned officer in the Air Force with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army


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showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another


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chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh


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someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)


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the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta


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characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis


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laparotomy performed with a laparoscope that makes a small incision to examine the abdominal cavity (especially the ovaries and Fallopian tubes)


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a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice


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joined his brother Hannibal in Italy and was killed by the Romans at the battle of Metaurus River (died 207 BC)


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a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States


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the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825)


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social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor


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the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English


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a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing


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tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes


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as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934)


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berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper


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he was challenged for the throne by supporters of his half-brother Ethelred II who eventually murdered him (963-978)


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British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907)


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Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952)


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a course of some impermeable material laid in the foundation walls of building near the ground to prevent dampness from rising into the building


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the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II


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weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine


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representation consisting of a copy (as of an engraving) made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal


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mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings


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United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961)


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of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)


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the ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints


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a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field


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Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)


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the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics


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unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure


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an acquisition based on analysis of the benefits of consolidation in anticipation of increased earning power


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T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it


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make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink


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monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience


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the use of infrared radiation (as by infrared lamps or heating pads or hot water bottles) to relieve pain and increase circulation to a particular area of the body


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the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management


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highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite


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in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins


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where ovules develop on a central column in a compound ovary lacking septa or with septa at base only


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a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals


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a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice)


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a vacuum tube containing a metal target onto which a beam of electrons is directed at high energy for the generation of X rays


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measuring instrument consisting of a right-angled tube with an open end that is directed in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to measure the velocity of fluid flow


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a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye


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a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship


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rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate


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questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination


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United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966)


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a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth by providing education and exercises and nutrition and techniques of breathing and relaxation (with the assistance of the father)


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twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems


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an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines


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statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply)


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part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured


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according to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC)


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any of several dwarf creeping orchids with small bizarre insect-like hairy flowers on slender stalks


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dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down


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United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets or padlocked containers (1874-1926)


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any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells


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a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia


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an ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation


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sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure


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marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing


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in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)


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the responsibility of an executor (or administrator) of an estate to act in the best interests of the heir


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Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944)


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Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published abroad (1890-1960)


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in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids)


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small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet


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any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned


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fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications


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United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997)


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an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation


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muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change)


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milk that has been exposed briefly to high temperatures to destroy microorganisms and prevent fermentation


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a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals


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refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself


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of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions)


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a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits


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the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world


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a fee (in addition to that marked on the brief) paid to counsel in a case that lasts more than one day


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characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position


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a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat


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honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'


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any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light


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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun


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viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction


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any of several closely related compounds that are produced by the thyroid gland and are active metabolically


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having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center


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that marriage was annulled in 1152 and she then married Henry II and became Queen of England (1122-1204)


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any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system


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a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape


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any of various macromolecules composed of nucleotide chains that are vital constituents of all living cells


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thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord


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rare chronic xanthoma of adults in which orange or brownish papules develop on many surfaces of the body


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a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip


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the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado


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English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)


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a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function


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his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)


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the principal sacred text of Sikhism contains hymns and poetry as well as the teachings of the first five gurus


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a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods


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a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound


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reddish-brown dried gummy exudation from any of several trees of the genus Eucalyptus especially Eucalyptus camaldulensis


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a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')


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the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)


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the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines


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a steel lever with one end formed into a ripping chisel and the other a gooseneck with a claw for pulling nails


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action consisting of a system of levers that move a felt hammer to strike the strings when a key is depressed


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an enzyme that regulates prostaglandins that are important for the health of the stomach lining and kidneys


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the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color


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a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping


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a card sent to a bereaved family that says the sender has arranged for a Mass to be said in memory of the deceased


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Italian pope from 1458 to 1464 who is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to lead a crusade against the Turks (1405-1464)


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a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen


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disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum


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parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts


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(of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line


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used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time


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a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it


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an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream


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microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor


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any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms


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United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)


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code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II


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the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes


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the several highly convoluted tubules that lead from the rete testis to the vas deferens and form the head of the epididymis


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a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine


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a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era


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denoting or relating to cells or tissues from individuals belonging to the same species but genetically dissimilar (and hence immunologically incompatible)


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electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception


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marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure


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any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America


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the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged


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American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)


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a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)


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one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing


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Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694)


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persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers


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smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries


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the cord is attached at one end to the aircraft and temporarily attached to the pack of a parachute at the other


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the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects


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fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers


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made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach


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a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary


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erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds


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protective garment consisting of a hard rounded pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders


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local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism


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according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily


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the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)


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letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language


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severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain


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United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959)


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any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug


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male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization


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cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information


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suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns


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Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941)


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large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods


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equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)


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a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)


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small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit


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in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)


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Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)


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an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions


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ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)


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a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)


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the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded


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Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules rescued him


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exemption from taxation or normal processes of law that is offered to diplomatic personnel in a foreign country


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a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets


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German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969)


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formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi


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perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information


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United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)


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an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite


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a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)


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any of several delicate Asiatic orchids grown especially for their velvety leaves with metallic white or gold veining


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a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas


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jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat


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an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia)


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United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)


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(of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel


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beta blocker (trade name Lopressor) used in treating hypertension and angina and arrhythmia and acute myocardial infarction


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common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa


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the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes


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Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia)


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American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)


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function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle


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a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts


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either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)


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United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933)


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the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth


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United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950)


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an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine


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provision of logistic (or administrative) support by one or more of the military services to one or more departments or agencies of the United States government


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small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts


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the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life


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the part of the Earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer or between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn


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a dividend paid to compensate shareholders for losses resulting from a change in the dividend schedule


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an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances


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scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object


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a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia


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a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached


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French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)


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a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida


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United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)


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a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates


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(of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair


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principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times'


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a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it


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characterized by rapid shallow breathing and cyanosis and the formation of a glassy hyaline membrane over the alveoli


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a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction


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the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)


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any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles


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an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies


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undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide


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work surface consisting of a wide lightweight board that can be placed across the lap and used for writing


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courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)


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autosomal dominant disorder of connective tissue characterized by brittle bones that fracture easily


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the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'


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a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)


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a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)


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Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645)


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Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)


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a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus)


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it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together


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a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge


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a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)


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a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)


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an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents


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concerning characteristics that are determined by genes carried on the sex chromosomes (on the X chromosome in particular)


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Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro


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heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions


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the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations


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an elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low


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electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity


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a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon


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the branch of architecture dealing with the selection and organization of furnishings for an architectural interior


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possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe


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single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission


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the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others


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any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores


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a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit


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structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure


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a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level


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a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever)


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a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated


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a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine


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a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data


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a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers


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any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs


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country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard


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immunity can be acquired by the development of antibodies after an attack of an infectious disease or by a pregnant mother passing antibodies through the placenta to a fetus or by vaccination


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a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die


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a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them


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any of various agents that decrease the level of glucose in the blood and are used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus


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the branch of astronomy concerned with the application of Newton's laws of motion to the motions of heavenly bodies


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a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution)


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originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account


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a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige


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glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers


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Germanic barbarian leader who ended the Western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493)


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the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that are found most often in tropical regions


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a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising


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Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)


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Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849)


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a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition


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a battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert


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a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)


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technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients


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formerly an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


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family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals


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a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim


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defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)


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a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay


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United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899)


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a rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened


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United States electrical engineer who made numerous automotive improvements (including the electric starter) (1876-1958)


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United States theatrical producer noted for a series of extravagant revues known as the Ziegfeld Follies (1869-1932)


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a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States


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a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions


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a former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II


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a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana


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conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)


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a free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line


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an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France


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the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons


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group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians


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favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority


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an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment


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a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve


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the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause


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eliminates such foods as wheat and rye and oats and beans and cabbage and turnips and cucumbers that are rich in gluten


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mechanical compression of the heart resulting from large amounts of fluid collecting in the pericardial space and limiting the heart's normal range of motion


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on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area


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energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders


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an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans


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players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')


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a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together


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British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)


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Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)


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large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry


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any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force


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that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head


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United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920)


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connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south


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a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity


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a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future


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a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere


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the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open


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a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word


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English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)


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英国の科学者で、弾性の法則を定式化し、光の波動説を提案し、惑星運動の理論を定式化し、重力の逆二乗の法則を提案し、コルクの細胞組織を発見し、『細胞』という用語を生物学に取り入れ、腕時計のひげぜんまいを発明した（1635年−1703年）


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footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material


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a graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall)


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a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property


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either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface


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the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings


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a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other


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a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Bextra) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract


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a deficiency caused by inadequate zinc in the diet or by liver disease or cystic fibrosis or other diseases


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a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'


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small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head


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actions to eliminate revealing telltale indicators that could be used by the enemy (or to convey misleading indicators)


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someone who gratifies physical appetites (especially for food and drink) with more than the usual freedom


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an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe


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the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries


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the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances


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a form of muscular dystrophy that usually begins between early adulthood and middle age and first affects muscles of the eyelid and throat


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any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena


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the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks


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American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836)


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synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics


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a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract


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United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959)


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Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)


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an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons


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acidosis and bicarbonate concentration in the body fluids resulting either from the accumulation of acids or the abnormal loss of bases from the body (as in diarrhea or renal disease)


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one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain


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tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage


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a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses


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spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack


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river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River


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a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system


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celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended


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the detection and identification and evaluation and location of foreign electromagnetic radiations (other than radioactive)


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(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability


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the branch of electronics that deals with beams of electrons and their focusing and deflection by magnetic fields


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naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion


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an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism


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leafy wildflower with lavender-pink flowers that open in the evening and remain through cool part of the next day


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one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong


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a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River


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either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands


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favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications)


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an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice


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a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner


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a system of functionally related neural structures in the brain that are involved in emotional behavior


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a lien on the property of a taxpayer that the tax collector can use upon default of payment of taxes


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adopted techniques used by terrorist organizations (small cells and sophisticated communications equipment and close ties with politicians etc.)


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a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries


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bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals


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prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517)


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defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify their effectiveness


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sauce made with a puree of tomatoes (or strained tomatoes) with savory vegetables and other seasonings


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leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil


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a common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk


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hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae


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a microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being tested


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a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California


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the branch of medicine concerned with the prompt diagnosis and treatment of injuries or trauma or sudden illness


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the political doctrine of Machiavelli: any means (however unscrupulous) can be used by a ruler in order to create and maintain his autocratic government


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influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values


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a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)


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having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government


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a public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale


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a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding


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a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty


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English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)


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large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood


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a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground


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pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality


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regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal


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Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)


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diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram)


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the branch of engineering that deals with the construction of buildings (as distinguished from architecture as a design art)


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Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)


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the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs


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a method of childbirth that avoids intrusive high-tech medicine in favor of more natural and homely settings


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white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda


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a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question


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antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA


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used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more)


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a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site


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of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times


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keratosis characterized by hard conical elevations in the openings of sebaceous glands (especially of arms and thighs)


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a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres


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agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)


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a publication containing the latest information or tips or predictions for a particular business or stock market information or horse racing results, etc.


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an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests


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deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand


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United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)


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a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them


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any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels


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a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur)


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used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)


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stock that has been bought back by the issuing corporation and is available for retirement or resale


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the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to educational institution that maintains suitable standards)


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the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)


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a carpet woven on a Jacquard loom with loops like a Brussels carpet but having the loops cut to form a close velvety pile


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a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents


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reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound


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of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of North America or their peoples


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a deformity in which there is an abnormal displacement of part of a limb away from the midline of the body


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a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted


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having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot


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the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics


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generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions


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a fatty acid that has been produced by hydrogenating an unsaturated fatty acid (and so changing its shape)


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found in processed foods such as margarine and fried foods and puddings and commercially baked goods and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils


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United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)


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the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes


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light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity)


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deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers


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enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease


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a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia


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(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject


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chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons


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a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft


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small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people


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his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)


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pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions


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painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces


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a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis


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a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins


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(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it


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software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space


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a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan


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the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them


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grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)


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the convolution of the frontal lobe that is bounded in back by the central sulcus and that contains the motor area


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fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment


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a supporter of the Orleans branch of the Bourbons that was descended from a younger brother of Louis XIV


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removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer


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the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude


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a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up


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American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands


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shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another


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military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments


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French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)


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an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders


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an international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species


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land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law


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a book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses


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interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers


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each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track


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his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)


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workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded


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play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults


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American psychologist (born in England) who developed a broad theory of human behavior based on multivariate research (1905-1998)


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strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison


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surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing


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Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers


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English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it


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United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)


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revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation


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a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites


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system of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing


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antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system


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United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier &amp; Ives' (1824-1895)


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breathing device consisting of a bent tube fitting into a swimmer's mouth and extending above the surface


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the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions


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lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length


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a building on a college campus dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body


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tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose


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concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents


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erect treelike shrub forming dense thickets and having drooping panicles of white or pink flowers and red berrylike drupes


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French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987)


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a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains


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any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water


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erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers


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a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores


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touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.


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United States actress (born in England) who married Alfred Lunt and performed with him in many plays (1887-1983)


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South African evergreen partly woody vine grown for its clusters of rosy purple flowers followed by edible pods like snap beans


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a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay


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all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity


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having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses


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of or relating to or characteristic of the island of Tahiti or its residents or their language and culture


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an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)


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tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae


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German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)


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condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point


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celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended


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application of biological principles to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems)


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an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling


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English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford movement (1800-1882)


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an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond


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a person who is employed to look after the affairs of businesses that are affected by legislation of the British Parliament


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tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes


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breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue)


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a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program)


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the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction


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son of Louis VII whose reign as king of France saw wars with the English that regained control of Normandy and Anjou and most of Poitou (1165-1223)


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large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end


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the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body


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the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery


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intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy


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the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac


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craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla


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an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it


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he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king's prospective brides (1497-1543)


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designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals


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tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar


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add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb


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judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts


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the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships


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planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork


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Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)


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a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments


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a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)


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magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it


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having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend


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machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected


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a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers)


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a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal


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German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)


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evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups


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the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history


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digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia


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a trust created by a court when it is judged that it was the intention of the parties to create a trust


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


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the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid


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an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease


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in particular, a finish of a race in which the contestants are so close together that the winner must be determined from a photograph taken at the instant of finishing


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United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)


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equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees)


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any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges


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a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100


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protective covering consisting of a wooden frame with a glass top in which small plants are protected from the cold


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the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession


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the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions


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a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)


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the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point


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one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh


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the comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and still taught by the Dominicans


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a still consisting of an apparatus for the fractional distillation of ethanol from fermentation on an industrial scale


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Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)


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endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina


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the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways


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a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties


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(of a lathe) equipped with gearing for reducing the speed of the spindle from that of the driving pulley


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small shrub of Apalachicola River area in southeastern United States having highly aromatic pinkish flowers


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the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships


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small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping


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a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system


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German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915)


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incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating


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of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language


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neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions


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light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes


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British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)


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any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants


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a hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure


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impeding those who seek justice in a court (as by trying to influence or intimidate any juror or witness or officer of the court)


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an emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States


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contraceptive device consisting of a piece of bent plastic or metal that is inserted through the vagina into the uterus


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imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy


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an opening that resembles a window between two rooms (especially a shelved opening between a kitchen and dining room that is used to pass dishes)


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someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation


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king of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839)


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the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other


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insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy


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the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography


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legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)


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a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade)


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grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment


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(of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions not separated into distinct leaflets


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of or denoting a person who assists physicians and nurses or is trained physicians and nurses in their activities


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an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later


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pope who in 1122 forced the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to sign a concordat that recognized the right of the church to choose its own leadership (died in 1124)


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drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait


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that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)


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caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain (as from a clot blocking a blood vessel)


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Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)


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large genus of Old World perennial herbs with erect or spreading or climbing stems and small scalelike leaves and inconspicuous flowers


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Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterrent punishments for serious crimes


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act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices


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electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit


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a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany


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prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix


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a loop consisting of a dive followed by inverted flight followed by a climb that returns to horizontal flight


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leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806)


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20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition


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a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses


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whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all


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branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions


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breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle


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Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information


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collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime


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painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective


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striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean


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any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants


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a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response


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security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces


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ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)


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an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea


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memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)


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swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing


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a law stating that mechanical work can be derived from a body only when that body interacts with another at a lower temperature


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a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense


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headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate


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material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds


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held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed


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the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do


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pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs


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characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures


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German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)


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key consisting of a lever that sends a telegraph signal when it is depressed and the circuit is closed


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perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do


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duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England


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he defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and introduced many Norman customs into England (1027-1087)


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smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill


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United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)


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thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)


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the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation


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a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination


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a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging


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birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees


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a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids


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the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time


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any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom


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a river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River


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one of two veins on each side that arise from the uterine plexus and empty into the internal iliac vein


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the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization


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glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)


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thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature


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propulsion that results from the ejection at high velocity of a mass of gas to which the vehicle reacts with an equal and opposite momentum


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United States economist (born in Russia) who developed a method for using a country's gross national product to estimate its economic growth (1901-1985)


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mail consisting of large numbers of identical items (circulars or advertisements) sent to individual addresses at less than 1st-class rates and paid for in one lot


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a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out


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furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term


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a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland


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acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of immature lymphoblast-like cells in bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and blood


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common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere


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mechanical device consisting of the stationary part of a motor or generator in or around which the rotor revolves


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decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)


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a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God


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the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture)


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(of physical systems) continuing in its present state of equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a more stable state of equilibrium


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the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet


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the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature


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formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978


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on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923


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law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation


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used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)


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a slender endoscope inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall in order to examine the abdominal organs or to perform minor surgery


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television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater


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art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer


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a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)


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a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform


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a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building


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a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate


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people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)


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make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed


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English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)


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any of various African plants of the genus Streptocarpus widely cultivated especially as houseplants for their showy blue or purple flowers


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those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other


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diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal


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a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically


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composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance


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United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)


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any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip


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a chronic disease of unknown cause marked by the formation of nodules in the lungs and liver and lymph glands and salivary glands


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the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map


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English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)


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a Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion


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plant having branching leafy stems each branch with an especially showy solitary flower head with many narrow pink or lavender or white rays


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Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)


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the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human


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pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit


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formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from price-cutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise


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promotes the excretion of salt and water by inhibiting the activity of the angiotensin converting enzyme


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restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people


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he would capture people and tie them to an iron bed, stretching them or hacking off their legs to make them fit


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two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension)


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Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)


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a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning


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infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork)


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an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west


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Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)


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any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs


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a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women


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English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)


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asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual


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a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Feldene) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions


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in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder


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a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic


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a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly inhabited the Black Hills of western South Dakota


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the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation


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SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species


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English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)


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a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff


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handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume


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English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)


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defensive structure consisting of a movable obstacle composed of barbed wire or spikes attached to a wooden frame


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small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources


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any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)


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Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)


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orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood


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a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule


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something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)


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the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon


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small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods


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an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria


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according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus


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a Roman order that combines the Corinthian acanthus leaves with the spiral scrolls of the Ionic order


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physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system


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editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display


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the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause


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any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)


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a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation


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a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions


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the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially)


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United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)


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any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico)


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one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers


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a food turner with a broad blade used for turning or serving fish or other food that is cooked in a frying pan


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any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way


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a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black


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a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover


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United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery


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psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior


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Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)


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the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)


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United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980)


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French psychotherapist who claimed that if one imagined one was getting better, one would get better (1857-1926)


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tickets are passed out at the entrance to a dance or party or other social function and a prize is awarded to the holder of the winning ticket


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a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect


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a large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud


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a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves


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in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)


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English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)


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written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient


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the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication


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trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets


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genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem


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any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal)


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court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated


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someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business


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gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)


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a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm


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an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities


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British labor leader and statesman who played an important role in diplomacy after World War II (1884-1951)


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a neurotoxin (trade name Botox) that is used clinically in small quantities to treat strabismus and facial spasms and other neurological disorders characterized by abnormal muscle contractions


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a port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production


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a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)


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a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course


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a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants)


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German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)


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a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions


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a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s


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first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness


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make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion


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electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance


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the political theory that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control


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son of Lorenzo de'Medici and pope from 1513 to 1521 who excommunicated Martin Luther and who in 1521 bestowed on Henry VIII the title of Defender of the Faith (1475-1521)


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in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face


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a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of silver


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a power of attorney document to transfer ownership of a registered security from the owner to another party


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the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet


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a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood


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it (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis and in heart surgery


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high levels are thought to be associated with decreased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis


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an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding


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stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart


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a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted


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possession changes hands when the Frisbee is intercepted or touches the ground or goes out of bounds


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an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings


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capitalism that invests in innovative enterprises (especially high technology) where the potential profits are large


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drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects


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Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)


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the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively


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discrimination (usually in employment) that excludes one sex (usually women) to the benefit of the other sex


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wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)


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Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)


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comprises about 19,000 species in 25 families of mostly terrestrial herbs especially of moist places including: Cyperaceae


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rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi)


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the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves and furniture


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one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)


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a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used


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any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers


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a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision


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a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy


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flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)


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one of the sebaceous glands on the areolae of the breast that lubricate the breast during breast-feeding


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serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat's unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership


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extends down the humerus to the lateral epicondyle where it divides into one branch that goes to the skin on the back of the hand and another that goes to the underlying extensor muscles


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an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict


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research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer


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any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning


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antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections


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a letter of credit issued by a bank or express company that is payable on presentation to any correspondent of the issuer


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Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)


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in some classifications many plants usually assigned to the genus Chrysanthemum have been divided among other genera: e.g. Argyranthemum


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a steel or beryllium sphere containing plutonium 239 that triggers nuclear fission when compressed by explosives


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the branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors


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omnidirectional antenna comprising the part of a radio receiver by means of which radio signals are received


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the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted)


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a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites


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a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876)


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Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command


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pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe


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a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans


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someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)


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the name continued to be used for the hilly northwestern region of England including the Lake District and the northern Pennines


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the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet


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widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome


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British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)


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Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year


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king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)


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examination of the nasal passages (either through the anterior nares or with a rhinoscope through the nasopharynx)


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electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons


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United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903)


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change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species


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according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land)


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conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response


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United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)


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novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end


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although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)


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the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems


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small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual


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a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire


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United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912)


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breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit


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immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies


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when the patent protection for a brand-name drug expires generic versions of the drug can be offered for sale if the FDA agrees


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minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion


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a national park in Oregon having the deepest lake in the United States in the crater of an extinct volcano


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the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx


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a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania


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meter for bulk mailings that imprints correct prepaid postage on pieces of mail and records the total charge


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French royal architect who built the Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570)


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epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities)


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Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)


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formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance


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floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space


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tropical shrub (especially of Americas) having yellow flowers and large leaves whose juice is used as a cure for ringworm and poisonous bites


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cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull


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loss of sensation confined to the skin or mucous surfaces (as when benzocaine or Lidocaine is applied to the surface)


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a historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country by the Transylvanian Alps


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electrostatic printer that focuses a laser beam to form images that are transferred to paper electrostatically


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large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots


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a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies


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a conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England


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respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration


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a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine


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difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate)


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tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings


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breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy


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a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex


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a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs


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Italian pope from 1676 to 1689 whose papacy was marked by the struggle with Louis XIV of France over papal authority over French Catholics


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British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)


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the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey


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an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade


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a turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's


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a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action


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a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region


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to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons


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a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals


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French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)


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a shallow lake in northwestern Netherlands created in 1932 by building a dam across the entrance to the Zuider Zee


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a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)


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the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein)


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site of many battles in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812


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a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms


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either of two distinct works in Old Icelandic dating from the late 13th century and consisting of 34 mythological and heroic ballads composed between 800 and 1200


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a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function


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any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches


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tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties


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measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time


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evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries


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the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane


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a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid


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nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant


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characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation


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pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303)


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(of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence


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rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers


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a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior


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a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning


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semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental


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Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721)


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often attributable to a blocked urethra (e.g., due to prostate enlargement) or weak bladder muscles or nerve damage


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a river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River


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the economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage rate for their type of labor is employed


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insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk


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allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time


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any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate


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Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government


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a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore


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white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp


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the branch of physics that makes theoretical predictions about the behavior of macroscopic systems on the basis of statistical laws governing its component particles


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a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email


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when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River 200,000 Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back


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a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces


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a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)


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a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne


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Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)


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coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)


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Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)


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French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862)


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a dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones (except at their extremities) and serving as an attachment for tendons and muscles


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crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way


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supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak


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an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived


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liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid


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trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning)


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edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food


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organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis


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British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission


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any plant of the genus Seseli having dense umbels of small white or pink flowers and finely divided foliage


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the four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located


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disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts)


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perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense


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Roman Emperor who when faced with military problems decided in 286 to divide the Roman Empire between himself in the east and Maximian in the west


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the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)


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a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints


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an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown


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United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)


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a graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eye


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perennial plant having clusters of one to four showy white bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems


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Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945)


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a unit of work equal to the work done by a one kilogram force operating through a distance of one meter


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English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue


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any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones


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a plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer


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a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum


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a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae


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一端は尖っており、もう一方の端には円錐状の窪みがあり，円錐状の窪みのところにはフラグモコーンと呼ばれる、内部に多数隔壁のある円錐状の構造があるが、壊れていることが多いが，過去に繁栄した頭足類ベレムナイト科の殻である円錐状の石灰質の化石


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the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered


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a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program


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hereditary pattern in which a recessive gene on the X chromosome results in the manifestation of characteristics in male offspring and a carrier state in female offspring


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a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)


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United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)


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any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs


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United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960)


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a member of an Indo-European people widely scattered throughout the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and consisting of Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs


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an exclusive informal network linking members of a social class or profession or organization in order to provide connections and information and favors (especially in business or politics)


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beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife


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each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)


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the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution


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thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed


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American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806)


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the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry


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the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are protected against it (as by insurance)


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holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible


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a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes


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a thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc.


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a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)


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sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)


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the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening


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a war (1812-1814 ) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France


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radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge


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a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan


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United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)


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English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)


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the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)


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a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game


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an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinival or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks


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a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent


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serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions)


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Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally


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assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from 16th to 18th centuries


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a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum


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the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks


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any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines


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integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system


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colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid


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a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer


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a colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins


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any of several erect perennial rhizomatous herbs of the genus Circaea having white flowers that open at dawn


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general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units


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he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)


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a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers


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a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America


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a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony


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a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg


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a small landlocked principality (constitutional monarchy) in central Europe located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland


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any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects


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Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty


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United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928)


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an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC


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a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board


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an unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene


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a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare


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a transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract


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a savings account deposited by someone who makes themselves the trustee for a beneficiary and who controls it during their lifetime


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United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977)


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a person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent)


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a theory that explains a physical phenomenon in terms of a field and the manner in which it interacts with matter or with other fields


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an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity


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any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers


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the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church


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an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine


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a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms


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established in 1949 from the zones of Germany occupied by the British and French and Americans after the German defeat


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king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)


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a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations


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most conifers: in some systems classified as a class (Pinopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Pinophytina)


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a suggestion that is made to a person who is hypnotized that specifies an action he will perform (usually in response to a cue) after he has awakened


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annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles


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the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power


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relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth


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any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point


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United States tennis player who donated the Davis Cup for international team tennis competition (1879-1945)


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he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of London (1421-1471)


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knitting stitch having alternate rows of knit stitches and purl stitches, producing a fabric as for stockings


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electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time


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with the support of England and France and Russia they won independence in 1828 at Navarino (although the country included only half its present size)


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either of two punctuation marks (`&lt;' or `&gt;') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material


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a course that teaches pregnant women to use breathing and concentration and exercise techniques to use during labor


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reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)


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a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches


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a court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses


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United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)


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the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points


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a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation


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the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.


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crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs


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an edible fungus with a broadly convex blackish brown cap and a pore surface that is yellow when young and darkens with age


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an agency in the Department of Defense that is responsible for making ballistic missile defense a reality


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United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)


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the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations


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counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood


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United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)


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protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network


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the branch of architecture dealing with the arrangement of land and buildings for human use and enjoyment


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United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)


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dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots


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a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland


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a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean


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French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)


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Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966)


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the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables


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a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)


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after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000


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a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter


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any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle


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a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus


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a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions


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found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds


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large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers


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the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date


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any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts


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thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone


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volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits


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profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it


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pope who maintained neutrality during World War II and was later criticized for not aiding the Jews who were persecuted by Hitler (1876-1958)


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a feat in which an acrobat arches the back from a prone position and bends the knees until the toes touch the head


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large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds


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the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines


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the subject is indicated by a three-digit numeral and further specification is given by numerals following a decimal point


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a battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists


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a sedative that depresses activity of the central nervous system and reduces anxiety and induces sleep


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either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin


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identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it


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a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.


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a Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem


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コルダイテス（石炭紀と二畳紀の）といった絶滅した目と同様、生き残った、球果植物目とイチイ目（イチイ）、そして時にイチョウ目を含む、マツ綱（マツ亜門）、イチョウ綱（イチョウ亜門）、イチイ綱（Taxophytina）を含む


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the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred


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a series of conflicts (1618-1648 ) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain


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Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)


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a fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases


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substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth


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international negotiations conducted by a mediator who frequently flies back and forth between the negotiating parties


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tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers


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hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel


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an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)


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a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command


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revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction


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agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy


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he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy


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he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)


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a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter)


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heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane)


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a school that is part of a cathedral or monastery where boys with singing ability can receive a general education


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skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread


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a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River


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eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae


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a rudimentary metacarpal or metatarsal bone on either side of the cannon bone in the leg of a horse or related animal


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an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain


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bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment


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one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation


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money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial


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English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)


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American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)


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a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts


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a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress


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wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae


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an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc.


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a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor


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dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes


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ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell


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a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China


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the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it


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a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)


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a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it


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United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982)


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a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes


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(of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity


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a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms


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a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug (trade name Ponstel) used to treat mild pain (especially menstrual cramps)


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persistent gastritis can be a symptom of a gastric ulcer or pernicious anemia or stomach cancer or other disorders


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a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)


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a test to determine allergic sensitivity by applying small pads soaked with allergen to the unbroken skin


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any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine


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Italian pope from 1471 to 1484 who consented to the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition and built the Sistine Chapel (1414-1484)


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a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes


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tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple


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data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)


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United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816)


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insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout


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New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)


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narrowing of the pyloric sphincter that blocks the passage of food from the stomach into the duodenum


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a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs


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topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography)


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Having or characterized by a usually flowing asymmetrical shape or outline (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/freeform)


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A spring roll dish with a filling of bean sprouts and other ingredients commonly found in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore


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A stringed instrument found in North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, and the Far East; usually consists of a small, usually rounded body, a long thin neck with one, two or three strings and a pegbox at the end


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(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc., is furnished (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/homeware)


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A person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/culture+vulture)


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An Indian dish containing meat, fish, or vegetables and rice flavored with saffron or turmeric (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/briyani)


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an area, as along a busy street or highway, lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments


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an art exhibit where the relation of the parts to the whole is important to the interpretation of the piece


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Indian dish, a meal consisting of several small meat or vegetable dishes accompanied by rice, bread, etc., and sometimes by a starter or a sweet (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thali)


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to compare two different things as though they are similar (lit: compare two things using equal lengths)


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persistent and resolved in the face of danger and uncertainty (lit: struggle with bitterness and difficulty)


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an important role of a subject in a issue, such that any small action will affect all involved (lit: moving light and heavy)


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a superb collection of beautiful things or talented people (lit: beautiful jade as far as the eyes can see)


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to work blindly, without regard or reference to facts of the world (lit: to build a chariot behind closed doors)


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rich in variety (lit: five flowers and eight doors (names of two military strategies involving many changes in appearance))


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an organization of dance performers and associated personnel who produce and perform dance shows to entertain


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a mythical monster in Chinese folklore which comes down from the mountain to hunt people. It was eventually killed by villagers, who frightened it with terrible noises and fire.


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a limited class of noun modifiers that convey a definiteness and specify distance (in space or time)


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demonstrative pronoun, person, singular, men's speech, informal; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, remote


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demonstrative pronoun, person, plural, men's speech, informal; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, proximal


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demonstrative pronoun, person, plural, men's speech, informal; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, remote


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demonstrative pronoun, person, plural, men's speech, informal; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, medial


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demonstrative pronoun, person, singular, men's speech, informal; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, proximal


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demonstrative pronoun, person, singular, men's speech, informal; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, medial


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politics conducted from the perspective of or through political parties, with their interests in mind instead of that of the public, and is often marked by rivalries between political parties.


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an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance


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a traditional blouse-dress combination originating from Indonesia and worn by women in Southeast Asia


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the Malay-speaking territories of Southeast Asia: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Southern Thailand


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a hot milk tea that is poured back and forth between two metal cups several times, giving it a frothy top


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def:
glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves and stuff with a variety of fillings like salted eggs or minced meat


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A national icon of Singapore that is a creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, well-known as a statue monument


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translate literally; translate by doing a word for word substitution, as opposed to paraphrasing the intended meaning


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a building that has a square tower that is part of its structure (eg, the highest tower in churches)


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an extended city or town made up of a central area and several sub-urban areas, as a continuous mass


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a plastic card issued by a bank, allowing clients access to various services such as the withdrawal of funds


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tablet or placard used by several East-Asian cultures used to designate a seat for a deity or ancestor, as a way to represent and venerate them


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a relation between two variables, where one increases if the other increases, and decreases if the other decreases


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the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service


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term used in Beijing opera, to signify the penultimate item in a show; however, nowadays it is used to refer to the finale instead


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an event organised by fashion designers to showcase their upcoming designs, which are donned by models walking on a catwalk or runway


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to describe something (usually good) which is encountered by accident or luck, rather than through deliberate effort


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farm chicken which are allowed to roam freely outdoors for at least some time daily, instead of being constantly cooped up


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a mixture of fish paste, coconut milk, chilli paste, and assorted spices, which is wrapped in a banana leaf and then steamed or grilled


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a widely cultivated plant with long and narrow leaves spread out like fans; commonly used in Southeast Asian cooking as flavouring


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a type of nuclear reactor which uses regular water (dihydrogen oxide) as its coolant and neutron moderator


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informally, to mean any real-world general-purpose computer or computer language can approximately simulate any other such language


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a fried dough ball which is covered with sesame seeds on the outside; typically filled with lotus paste, red bean paste, or black bean paste on the inside


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a low-rise building (usually two to three stories high) with shops at the ground floor and living quarters on the upper floors


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of concern to or concerning the affairs of both a particular nation (domestic) and other foreign nations (other than your own)


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In Southeast Asia, it refers to a detached house, frequently with more than one storey - as opposed to a terraced house


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a traditional Chinese pastry usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, typically filled with lotus seed paste or red bean paste


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(used to describe a location) having or providing many different goods and services at a single location


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a gesture where the palms are pressed together, with fingertips pointing up; it is commonly practiced in Asia; the Añjali Mudrā


synset: 80000328-n
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the eligibility or qualification of a sportsperson or competitor to take part in a competition (usually after going through several preliminary rounds)


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coconut flesh that has been air-dried and turned into shredded or powdery form; found often as stuffing in confectionary


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an area, usually of a parliamentary building, where non-participants and visitors are seated or gathered


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A writer who analyses foods or restaurants for the purpose of evaluating them and publishes a verdict either on print or online


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a general internetwork email routing program that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and delivery methods


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the component, of a mail handling software, that is responsible for delivering electronic mail messages received from a mail transfer agent to a local mailbox


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lang: eng
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a system of exercises designed by Joseph Pilates to strengthen the mind and body by executing controlled movements


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lang: eng
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a strong political relationship between three parties, usually a government body, an industry or interest group, and a bureaucracy


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lang: eng
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a working dog breed originating from Siberia, characterized by a thick double coat typically coloured black and white


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lang: eng
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the period in Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Showa Emperor, Emperor Hirohito, that lasted from December 25, 1926, to January 7, 1989


synset: 80000457-n
lang: eng
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a group of people who assemble in a public area to dance, usually with the aim to surprise the public and then disperse


synset: 80000466-n
lang: eng
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nonya/peranakan dessert made from glutinous rice flour and tapioca flour, and sprinkled with coconut shreds


synset: 80000471-n
lang: eng
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a Cantonese dish served as a snack or part of a light meal. It is made of rice noodles rolled up and stuffed with various ingredients (shrimp, pork, etc)


synset: 80000472-n
lang: eng
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a traditional Chinese dumpling stuffed with ground pork and shrimp (either chopped, small or whole), and wrapped with skin made of lye water dough


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a dish consisting of deep-fried chicken feet prepared with a sauce, and is popular as a snack in Chinese countries


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lang: eng
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a type of South Asian spice mix that is a combination of dried spices, or a paste made from a mixture of spices and other ingredients


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lang: eng
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of or relating to or characteristic of the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong or their peoples or languages or cultures


