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an agency (usually a bank) that is appointed by a corporation to keep records of its stock and bond owners and to resolve problems about certificates


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deliberate actions of calculated psychological manipulation intended to intimidate or confuse (usually for competitive advantage)


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a financial institution (often affiliated with a holding company or manufacturer) that makes loans to individuals or businesses


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a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals


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leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)


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a heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking


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the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)


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a follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times')


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an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst


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native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers


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the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia


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a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)


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a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes


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an instrument that uses the differential transmission and reflection of ultrasonic waves in order to provide an image of a bodily organ


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a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions


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supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply


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hereditary condition in which certain anesthetics (e.g., halothane) cause high body temperatures and muscle rigidity


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a woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement


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any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering


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United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)


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a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River


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any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance


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minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens


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a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality


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crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions


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medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups


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the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens


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a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal


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いくつかの国で使われる少額の通貨単位：エルサルバドル、サントーメ・プリンシペ、ブラジル、アルゼンチン、ボリビア、コロンビア、キューバ、ドミニカ共和国、エクアドル、エルサルバドル、ガテマラ、ボンジュラス、メキシコ、ニカラグア、ペルー、フィリピン、ポルトガル


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Asiatic deciduous woody vine having large drooping racemes of white or bluish or purple or pinkish flowers and velvety pods


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(of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall


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a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy


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disease of a wide range of plants (tomatoes, potatoes, peas) resulting from a mixed infection of potato and tomato mosaic


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heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds


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a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out


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an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring


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the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations


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United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)


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an election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any manner


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United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965)


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Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904)


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declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression


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derivative of nitrofuran used as an antibacterial medicine (trade name Macrodantin) effective against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria


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a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)


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brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems


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United States sexual physiologist whose hunch that progesterone could block ovulation led to the development of the oral contraceptive pill (1903-1967)


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a carpet with a strong linen warp and a heavy pile of colored woolen yarns drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern


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the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other


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a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified


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a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims


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United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)


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a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections


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a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French


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a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency


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DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells)


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elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933)


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a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other


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the council in 1512-1517 that published disciplinary decrees and planned (but did not carry out) a crusade against Turkey


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change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other


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computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)


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a river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea


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New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada


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of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures


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large tree native to eastern Europe and Asia Minor having leaves with white tomentum on the under side


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trade name for an antihypertensive drug consisting of a fixed combination of atenolol and a diuretic


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the computer-based telephone system of the United States National Library of Medicine that provides rapid linkage to MEDLARS


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law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together


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a radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state


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an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats


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assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution


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the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel


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United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992)


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when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price


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a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin


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a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis


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an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction


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tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit


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relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity


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any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe


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a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure


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the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia


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a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall


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United States harpsichordist (born in Poland) who helped to revive modern interest in the harpsichord (1879-1959)


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United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)


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of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes


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an exemption that precludes bringing a suit against the sovereign government without the government's consent


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a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy


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intelligence that is required for forming policy and military plans at national and international levels


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a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur


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produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy


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a function that takes the value 1 if a specified function of the arguments exceeds a given threshold and 0 otherwise


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category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes


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a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid


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sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works


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an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)


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United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania


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an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species


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therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles


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the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel)


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an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape


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the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)


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gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season


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massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand


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a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis


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an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language


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attaches to cell membranes causing the release of histamine and other substances responsible for the local inflammation characteristic of an allergy


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conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases


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North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights


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military censorship of communication to and from prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the armed forces


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one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947)


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a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus


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hemochromatosis resulting from repeated transfusions or from excessive intake of foods containing iron


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any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples


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Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Roman Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68)


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those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare


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a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast (with legs together) swings his legs in a circle while alternating hands on the pommels


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a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure


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an artery that originates from the maxillary artery and supplies structures below the orbit (from lower eyelid to upper lip)


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an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures


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genus of deciduous and evergreen east Asian trees and shrubs widely cultivated as ornamentals for their white flowers and red fruits


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the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound)


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evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers


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French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)


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diced lobster mixed with Mornay sauce placed back in the shell and sprinkled with grated cheese and browned


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Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually three-lobed leaves


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a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue


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creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots


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a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene


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a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers


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a catheter that is inserted into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to maintain an open air passage or to deliver oxygen or to permit the suctioning of mucus or to prevent aspiration of the stomach contents


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contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet


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a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court


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an accounting entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate items between accounting periods


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a river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River


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any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips


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chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants


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a vein on each side that drains the upper part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein


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the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others


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perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch


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opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside


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a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties


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in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi


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the theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous


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a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove


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shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers


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having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning


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a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy


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a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase


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autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities


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naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter


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a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)


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the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation


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treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions


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row headings are the scores on one variable and column headings are the scores on the second variables and a cell shows how many times the score on that row was associated with the score in that column


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extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs


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Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)


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capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution)


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a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value


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pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits


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an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation


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a national park in North Dakota that includes the site of former President Theodore Roosevelt's ranch


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a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead


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a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)


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Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts


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the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable


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the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions


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atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)


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any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc


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a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law


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United States bacteriologist (born in Japan) who discovered the cause of yellow fever and syphilis (1876-1928)


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a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal


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compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)


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the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability


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a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea


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inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government


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man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist


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freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell


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usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience


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a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea


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a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus)


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a short river flowing from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the border between the United States and Canada


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any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood


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the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility


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a minor fast day on Tevet 10 commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem and has also been proclaimed a memorial day for the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust


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United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)


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the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes)


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when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel'


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United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication


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a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur


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star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis


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acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death


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slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers


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a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States


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an Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age


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the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist


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it died out in India but survived in Sri Lanka and was taken from there to other regions of southwestern Asia


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United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River


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the son of Zeus who slew Medusa (with the help of Athena and Hermes) and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster


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a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction


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in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)


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no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers


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a security that has been accepted for trading by one of the organized and registered securities exchanges in the US


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a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde)


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a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm


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the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare


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when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in


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United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989)


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an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert


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a diuretic drug (trade name Microzide, Esidrix, and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension


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according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)


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low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground


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either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length


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the eyedrops reduce intraocular pressure by decreasing the production of aqueous humor and increasing its drainage through the uveoscleral pathway


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an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions


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valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves


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use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework


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a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites


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a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric


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Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962)


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United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)


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United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)


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the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant


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used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each


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a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure


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the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)


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condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it


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the first n^2 integers are arranged in the cells of the matrix in such a way that the sum of any row or column or diagonal is the same


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United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)


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the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively


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designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market


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rule of evidence that covers words that are so closely associated with an occurrence that the words are considered part of the occurrence and as such their report does not violate the hearsay rule


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a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness


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tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers


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category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts


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an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth


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the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation


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inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture


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herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute


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an arch consisting of a horizontal lintel supported at each end by corbels that project into the aperture


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perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange


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an eye operation that treats closed-angle glaucoma by surgical removal of part of the iris of the eye


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a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components


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a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers


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a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)


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bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins


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a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1


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a board of directors a portion of whose members are elected each year instead of all members being elected annually


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British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967)


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an abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete)


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a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others


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a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels


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a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918


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misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service


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pounded chicken cutlets rolled around butter (that has been seasoned with herbs) and then covered with crumbs and fried


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tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)


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deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales


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an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances


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a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place


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United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)


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a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh


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the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin


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an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face


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the responsibility of receiver or trustee in bankruptcy to act in the best interests of the creditor


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a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival


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a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment


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tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler


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a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans


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strong turbulence in an otherwise cloudless region that subjects aircraft to violent updrafts or downdrafts


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a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon


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the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam


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a genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF


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electronic equipment not in direct communication (or under the control of) the central processing unit


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a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground


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deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another


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the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction


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C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion


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`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War


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a microscopic and traceable identification particle used to trace explosives or other hazardous materials or to prevent counterfeiting


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an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair)


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any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground


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spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers


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transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending


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in Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years


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some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness


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English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)


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substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)


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a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')


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an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments


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mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it


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characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months


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sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)


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seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble


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a service provided (at a club or restaurant or airport etc.) whereby a patron leaves a car at the entrance and an attendant parks and retrieves it


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joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.


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analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives


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when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands


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concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)


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any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs


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in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.


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sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations


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an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility


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responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen


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a center for coal exports (giving rise to the expression `carry coals to Newcastle' meaning to do something unnecessary)


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muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye


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produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')


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a regulated investment company that pays a stated amount to certificate holders on a stated maturity date


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any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects


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deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits


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an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs


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a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state


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the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something


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either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics


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a symbiotic relation in which one organism protects the other in return for some kind of food product


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it can challenge the jurisdiction or claim disability of the defendant etc. (such defenses are usually raised in the defendant's answer)


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characterized by fatigue and headache and dizziness and nausea and rashes and joint pain and respiratory disorders


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the member of a party who is designated to refrain from alcohol and so is sober when it is time to drive home


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chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard


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has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets


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handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers


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especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)


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British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)


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British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)


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a mixture of substances (usually salt and ice) to obtain a temperature below the freezing point of water


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the membrane that forms around a fertilized ovum and prevents penetration by additional spermatozoon


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chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching


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a channel in southeastern Virginia through which the Elizabeth River and the James River flow into Chesapeake Bay


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Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)


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remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)


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surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide


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the branch of chemistry that studies processes occurring at interfaces between phases (especially those between liquid and gas)


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surveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis


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became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people


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blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side


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suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord


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a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent


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software that has not yet been released but has received an alpha test and still has more bugs than a regular release


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a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it


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used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel


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a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals


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nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body


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characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is


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valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior


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the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages


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the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do


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an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria


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the case officer designated to perform an act during a clandestine operation (especially in a hostile area)


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Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army


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a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma


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either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes


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United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979)


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brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips


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minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond


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a notation for forming mathematical expressions using parentheses and governed by rules of operator precedence


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a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead


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a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Naprosyn) used in the treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation and moderate pain


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British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)


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a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport


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visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye


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a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms


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a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round


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Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peacekeeping matters (1905-1961)


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Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes (1891-1941)


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a United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States


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it won brilliant victories over British frigates during the War of 1812 and is without doubt the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy


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King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)


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especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge


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during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984)


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the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects


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a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission


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a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum


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a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States


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the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal)


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a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent


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a cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin)


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the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina


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a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head)


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


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Greek philosopher who was a student of Aristotle and who succeeded Aristotle as the leader of the Peripatetics (371-287 BC)


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a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another


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a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women)


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the interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation


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a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates


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English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855)


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a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way


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an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity


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someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others


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a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD


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characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades


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of or relating to an older kind of automobile tire that had a flexible tread and relatively stiff sidewalls


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open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart


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United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)


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a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain


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set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings


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the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)


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a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe


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a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way


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an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines)


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saxifrage having loose clusters of white flowers on hairy stems growing from a cluster of basal leaves


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a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body


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a United States dollar deposited in a European bank and used as an international currency to finance trade


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any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills


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a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)


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United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)


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painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)


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a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation


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bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects


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the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity


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the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time


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based on the belief that there are reflex points on the feet, hands, and head that are connected to every part of the body


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a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram


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a correlation coefficient computed for two normally distributed variables that are both expressed as a dichotomy


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the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication


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was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916)


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the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences


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in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England


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a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)


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the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information


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either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes


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the fitting (pipes or valves or meters) that convey gas from the gas main to the gas fixtures of a building


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accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest)


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unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner


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Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937)


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the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions


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(of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell


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with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water


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portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill


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a Christian church (with some Buddhist elements) founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon and known for staging mass weddings and other communal activities


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avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against


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extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front


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erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds


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United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978)


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medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast


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Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922)


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rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay


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bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx


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became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948


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a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction


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medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath


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rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper


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United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)


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exposure to exotic infectious agents that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease and can be transmitted as an aerosol and for which there is no vaccine or therapy


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king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)


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feeding consisting of delivering liquid nutrients through a tube passing through the nose and into the stomach


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useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed


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one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through your own efforts


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a conservative form of Buddhism that adheres to Pali scriptures and the non-theistic ideal of self purification to nirvana


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one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system


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herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon


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the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one organism


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United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957)


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marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others


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public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points


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a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States


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the supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe


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technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb


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a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust


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reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion


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the coordinated universal time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body


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an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes


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a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly


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suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible


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a religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church


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German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)


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the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)


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an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines


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border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)


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United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)


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of or relating to Karl Gauss or his mathematical theories of magnetics or electricity or astronomy or probability


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surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina


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the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on the next line


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special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body


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a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes


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a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan


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a rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child


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small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits


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of or relating to the popular Chinese religious system based on the teachings of Lao-tzu but including a pantheon of gods along with divination and magic


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an ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC


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a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)


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an arrangement of data consisting of sets and subsets such that every subset of a set is of lower rank than the set


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an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms


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delivery occurs in a quiet dimly lit room and the infant's head is not pulled and immediate bonding between mother and child is encouraged


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someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens


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an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community


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Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)


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a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River


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used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis


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a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys


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a holy city for Shiite Muslims because it is the site of the tomb of Mohammed's grandson who was killed there in 680


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the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument


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English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)


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a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics


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a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services


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the organization in the Defense Logistics Agency that inventories and evaluates and sells reusable United States government surplus


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a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles)


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any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers


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a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates


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a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa


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a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside


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an occasion that lends itself to (or is deliberately arranged for) taking photographs that provide favorable publicity for those who are photographed


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of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases


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any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes


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his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country


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they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)


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a terrorist organization founded in 1999 to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia


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of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT


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an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant


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a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure


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Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938)


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a set of rules specifying the correct manner of dress while on the premises of the institution (or specifying what manner of dress is prohibited)


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data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities


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a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle


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a white crystalline peroxide used in bleaching (flour or oils or fats) and as a catalyst for free radical reactions


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a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh


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a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)


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a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students


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relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel


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any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition


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the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification


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a musical notation of two sharps in front of a note indicating that it is to be raised by two semitones


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voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims


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a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them


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an infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact


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marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area


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family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains


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any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors


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tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself


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any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall


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an inborn error of metabolism in which the lack of certain enzymes leads to an inability to metabolize the amino acid lysine


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a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest


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of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris, to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture


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a seizure of short duration characterized by momentary unconsciousness and local muscle spasms or twitching


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the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)


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any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers


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a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results


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an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object


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a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management


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a chart or mechanical device that indicates the days of the week corresponding to any given date over a long period of years


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United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851)


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initial symptoms (chill and cough and dyspnea and rapid pulse) are followed by extreme cardiovascular collapse


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a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC


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the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics


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a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system


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prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood


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a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air


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the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings


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United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998)


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a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States


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Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance


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hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies


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suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device


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relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles


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action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy)


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a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year


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English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)


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United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico


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prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms


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a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants


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the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm


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the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification


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mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes


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needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine


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an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices


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deciduous flat-growing shrub with a fanned herringbone pattern and having reddish flowers and orange-red berries


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the branch of medicine concerned with the kidney - its development and anatomy and physiology and disorders


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a circular saw mounted under a table or bench so that the blade of the saw projects up through a slot


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he captured Calcutta in 1756 and many of his prisoners suffocated in a crowded room that became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta


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he was defeated at the battle of Plassey by a group of Indian nobles in alliance with Robert Clive (1728-1757)


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Italian pope from 1769 to 1774 who lost whatever support remained of Catholic Europe, causing the church to fall into the hands of secular princes (1705-1774)


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a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source


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theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes


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negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff


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perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups


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popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic


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English breed of small short-legged terrier with a straight wiry red or grey or black-and-tan coat and erect ears


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the body of laws and rules of conduct administered by military courts for the discipline, trial, and punishment of military personnel


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a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle


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the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive


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receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices


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the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community


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the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide


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the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere


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the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)


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mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates


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a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska


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French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the New Look (1905-1957)


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any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings


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an international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism


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the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes


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a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style


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pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected


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British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881)


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Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')


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United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)


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a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal


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an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude


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sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig


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a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material


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the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system


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swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)


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


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the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)


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the drug (trade names Lithane or Lithonate or Eskalith) is used to treat some forms of depression and manic episodes of manic-depressive disorder


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English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)


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the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession


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computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons


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any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom


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a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion


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a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character


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an artificial international language using characters (as mathematical symbols) instead of words to express ideas


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wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets


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a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome


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the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)


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several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach


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one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers


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you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground


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Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire


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it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force


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the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasure


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any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts


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a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)


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a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing


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the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)


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relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations


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a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck)


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a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome


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an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974


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a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.


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a drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (aspirin and phenacetin and caffeine)


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grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes


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in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer)


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sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies


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fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud


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lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord


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the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning


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an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River


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an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border)


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the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)


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any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms


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an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election


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measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases


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bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle


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specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor


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United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)


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a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path


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the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers


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a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn


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one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming


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any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers


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a hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum)


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a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota


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a converter that uses a platinum-iridium catalyst to oxidize pollutants and carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and water


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an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission


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lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter


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the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations


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any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)


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an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation


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a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism


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its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable


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small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle


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a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States


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a metal or plastic part that is surgically implanted to replace a natural joint (possibly elbow or wrist but usually hip or knee)


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nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions


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Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970)


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a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products


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a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid


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psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis


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emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation


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represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute


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roentgenography of the spinal cord to detect possible lesions (usually after injection of a contrast medium into the subarachnoid space)


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a screwdriver with a ratchet (so the blade turns in only one direction) and a spiral in the handle (so the blade rotates) with downward pressure on the handle


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a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas


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the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation


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the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged


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the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory


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the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC


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the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70


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lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring


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remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation


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a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces


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any of several small shrubs or twining vines having entire or lobed leaves and racemes of yellow to orange-red flowers


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slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays


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a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy


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British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere


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a region in California to the south of San Francisco that is noted for its concentration of high-technology industries


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a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)


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usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest


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any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse)


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groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna


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a non-market economy in which government intervention is important in allocating goods and resources and determining prices


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United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953)


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a river in central California that rises in the Sierra Nevada and flows northwest to form a large delta with the Sacramento River


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the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim)


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Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)


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Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles


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a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes


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perennial with sharply toothed triangular leaves on leafy stems bearing a cluster of yellow flower heads


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in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use


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


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the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)


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electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa


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minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals


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cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars


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in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table


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United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)


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the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish


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a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again


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dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced


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a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century


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Roman grammarian whose textbook on Latin grammar was used throughout the Middle Ages (fourth century)


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a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet


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the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress


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insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant


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a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system


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United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)


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German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants


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spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts


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a sapphire that when cut shows a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure


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responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities


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seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments


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the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)


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one ski is raised to the vertical and pivoted backward to become parallel with the other ski but headed in the opposite direction and then the other ski is aligned with the first


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grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)


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rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road


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an instrument used to measure the angular separation of two stars that are too far apart to be included in the field of view of an ordinary telescope


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disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis


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usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone


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she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)


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tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites


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a garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling the face of a dragon


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herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head


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a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million)


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can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging


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especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units


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parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system


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United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (1904-2005)


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the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)


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the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus


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a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah


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any of various plants of the genus Thermopsis having trifoliate leaves and yellow or purple racemose flowers


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the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals


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an internal-combustion engine in which the crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down in cylinders


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a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)


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a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun


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a river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River


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one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)


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any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)


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a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine


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ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle


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President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology


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nuclear reactor in which nuclear fissions are caused by fast neutrons because little or no moderator is used


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the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him


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English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)


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the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating


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a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area


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a clandestine rescue operation to bring a defector or refugee or an operative and family out of danger


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a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types


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a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about


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United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888)


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the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred


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Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience


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he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)


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crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax


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a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule


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political contributions made in such a way as to avoid the United States regulations for federal election campaigns (as by contributions to a political action committee)


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(of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)


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ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles


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the sacred `song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic)


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contains a discussion between Krishna and the Indian hero Arjuna on human nature and the purpose of life


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a rule that provides that otherwise admissible evidence cannot be used in a criminal trial if it was the result of illegal police conduct


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a notation written on mail that is to be held at the post office until called for (not in the United States or Canada)


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tall European annual with downy grey-green foliage and dense heads of small white flowers followed by hairy pods


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elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century


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an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color


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an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders


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an organization of young women and girls founded in 1912 for character development and citizenship training


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harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail


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large powerful long-haired black-coated Swiss dog with deep tan or russet markings on legs and white blaze and feet and chest marking


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the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst


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someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train)


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congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes


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a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior


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an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling


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the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses


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perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots


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an agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems


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being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War


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the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of animals (especially domestic animals)


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the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals


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a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong


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any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)


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small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds


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a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control


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intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence


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a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River


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syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus


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a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration)


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a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs


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a progesterone derivative used in oral contraceptives and in the control of menstruation and the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding


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a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage


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of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')


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a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens


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a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence


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a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea


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the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself


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a long-distance express freight train between industrial centers and seaports with facilities for rapid loading and unloading of goods


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distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer


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a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south


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a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment)


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garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head


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United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)


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a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade names Prozac or Sarafem)


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a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people


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the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center


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any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers


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any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring


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any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed


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after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative


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a map drawn from observation (rather than from exact measurements) and representing the main features of an area


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a custodian who lives in and cares for a house while the regular occupant is away (usually without an exchange of money)


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a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play


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a tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain


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a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association


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a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information


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an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law


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a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains


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data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases


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fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships)


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United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)


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the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird


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British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)


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German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)


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a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety


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Greek Orthodox bishop and archbishop of Cyprus and the first president of independent Cyprus (1913-1977)


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measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths


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inducing the childbirth process artificially by administering oxytocin or by puncturing the amniotic sac


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Italian pope from 1523 to 1534 who broke with Henry VIII of England after Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn (1478-1534)


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Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism


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led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)


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the branch of economic geology that deals with the occurrence and exploitation of oil and gas fields


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enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin


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rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure of an organ (as in the spleen)


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trespass that is not transient or intermittent but continues as long as the offending object remains


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treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)


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seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran


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statesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC)


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a definition in which the term is used by embedding it in a larger expression containing its explanation


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in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image


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annual European plant with spikes of greenish flowers and leaves that are white and hairy on the underside


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the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth


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crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend Carthage and was defeated (247-182 BC)


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the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining


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each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random


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surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus


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United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876)


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organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells


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an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order


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formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross


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approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values


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immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced


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the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world


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seal consisting of a coating of a tar or rubberlike material on the underside of a motor vehicle to retard corrosion


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therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air


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large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls


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a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral


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his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)


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the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party


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pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem


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a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas)


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pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings


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a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia)


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the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')


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cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance


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the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922


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a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe


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one of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs


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thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions


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a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam


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condenser such that vapor over a boiling liquid is condensed and flows back into the vessel to prevent its contents from boiling dry


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English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)


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a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493


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the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions


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remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)


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sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove


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United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944)


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any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail


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a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth


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a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work


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the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world


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understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)


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a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee often used to secure an obligation such as a mortgage or promissory note


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a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language


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a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps


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Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)


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a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.


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anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies


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spicy southern specialty: chicken (or small game) with corn and tomatoes and lima beans and okra and onions and potatoes


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a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean


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a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad


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Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951)


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a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities


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any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers


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the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)


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(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position


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a disparaging term for a Jew who converted to Christianity in order to avoid persecution but continued to practice their religion secretly


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the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation


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the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of pathologies of the muscles or tendons or joints


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United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960)


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the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world


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a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon


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the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape


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an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points


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any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth


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a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers


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an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard)


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any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature


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a short tube inserted into a pipeline and used to measure the quantity of a liquid that is flowing in the pipeline


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any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves


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a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second


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the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal


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to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect


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the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction


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exposure to infectious agents that can cause disease in humans but whose potential for transmission is limited


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neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia


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Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)


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characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor


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a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)


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condition in which a person assumes the identity and permanently acts the part of the gender opposite to his or her biological sex


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any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas


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transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location


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British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)


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an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them


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a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices


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any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions


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freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction


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a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC)


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Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)


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a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.


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considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers


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fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel


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the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air


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any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement


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the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water


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or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule)


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has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language


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a lens implant containing a hinge that allows for both near and far vision (thus mimicking the natural lens of a young person)


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Irish breed of medium-sized terrier with an abundant coat any shade of wheat and very hairy head and muzzle


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a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Pamelor) used along with psychotherapy to treat dysthymic depression


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perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers


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contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world


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can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer)


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fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial


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personal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exerting official authority


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medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit


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an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis


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using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)


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was poisoned by his fourth wife Agrippina after her son Nero was named as Claudius' heir (10 BC to AD 54)


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a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity


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one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state


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new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process


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the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)


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a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances)


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philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events


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United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)


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the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps


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the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced


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a large pipe wrench with L-shaped adjustable jaws that tighten as pressure on the handle is increased


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perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves


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spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia


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a rule of law whereby any alleged matter of fact that is submitted for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disproved


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a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them


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includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi)


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shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity


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a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it


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perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head


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a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations


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vein that is a tributary of the subclavian vein or external jugular vein and accompanies the descending scapular artery


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small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib


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support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end


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any of the paired sinuses in the bones of the face adjacent to the nasal cavity that are lined with mucous membrane that is continuous with the lining of the nasal cavities


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a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic


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the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point


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a crystalline salt in organic synthesis and in making photographic emulsions and in iodized table salt


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an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits


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a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow


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a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake


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having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side


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any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females


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fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines


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of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone)


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a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945


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連合国軍（オーストリア、ベルギー、ボリビア、ブラジル、カナダ、中国、コロンビア、コスタリカ、キューバ、チェコスロバキア、ドミニカ共和国、エルサルバドル、エチオピア、フランス,ギリシア、ガテマラ、ハイチ、ホンジュラス、インド、イラン、イラク、ルクセンブルグ、メキシコ、オランダ、ニュージーランド、ニカラグア、ノルウエイ、パナマ、フィリピン、ポーランド、南アフリカ、英国、米国、ソビエト連邦、ユーゴスラビア）対枢軸国軍（アルバニア、ブルガリア、フィンランド、ドイツ、ハンガリー、イタリア、日本、ルーマニア、スロバキア、タイ）の1939年から1945年の戦い


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dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes


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United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)


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coneflower with flower heads resembling a Mexican hat with a tall red-brown disk and drooping yellow or yellow and red-brown rays


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a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics


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either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin)


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a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution


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while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned


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United States economist (born in Russia) who devised an input-output method of economic analysis (1906-1999)


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any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring


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a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services


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a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence


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book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another


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chocolate made from chocolate liquor with sugar and cocoa butter and powdered milk solids and vanilla and (usually) lecithin


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in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment complex in Dhahran killing 19 United States soldiers and wounding more than 300 people


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the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)


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an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree


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primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves


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a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa


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a mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone


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a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong


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a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands


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a gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende


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United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-)


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of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion


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an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities


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an ancient geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains that corresponded approximately to the present-day Georgia


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unofficial championship title for player who heads the league in batting average and home runs and runs batted in


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French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)


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a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service


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federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances


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a function obtained by expressing the dependent variable of one function as the independent variable of another


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a method of controlling the flight of a missile or spacecraft by reference to the positions of celestial bodies


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a system that provides information useful in determining the position and course of a ship or aircraft


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Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737)


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a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman


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the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth


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a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)


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a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity


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a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence


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birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery


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a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search


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small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath


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any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers


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especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows


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a river in northeastern England that flows generally southeastward to join the Trent River and form the Humber


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a witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party


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English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)


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a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air


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a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)


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one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue


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the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688)


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receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles)


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a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination


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in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay


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the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb


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any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads


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an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility


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any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling


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a hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants


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any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern


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a set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or `explode') if a particular condition is satisfied


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when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects


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a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)


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proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell


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a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine


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any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes)


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Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II


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a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge


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an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position


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people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)


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denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations


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a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters


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a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)


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someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society


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Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)


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acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976


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based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district


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Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989)


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one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals


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a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current


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a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission


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an agency in the Department of Defense that is a national center for research on all aspects of injury control and casualty care


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the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input


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a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner


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occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)


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sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background


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game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points


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in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced


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the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack


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a hearing to determine legal capacity (to determine whether the defendant can understand the charges and cooperate with a lawyer in preparing a defense)


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it marks the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice


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United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)


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an artificial lens that is implanted into the eye of someone to replace a damaged natural lens or someone who has had a cataract removed


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an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt


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an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water


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United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)


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French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)


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a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)


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any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries


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any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape


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a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC


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a crystalline compound that has the cool and minty taste and odor that occurs naturally in peppermint oil


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any one or more chlorofluorocarbons (or related compounds) that are used as an aerosol propellant, organic solvent, or refrigerant


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a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms


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an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort


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a wagon that carries water (as for troops or work gangs or to sprinkle down dusty dirt roads in the summertime)


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the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States


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an organization (usually with a commercial bank) that is engaged as a trustee or fiduciary or agent in handling trust funds or estates of custodial arrangements or stock transfers or related services


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the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves


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also used as an acid-base indicator in titrations involving weak acids and strong bases because it is brilliant red at high alkalinity and colorless below pH 8


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the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference


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a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army


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orchid with reddish linear leaves and panicle of purple-marked pale-yellow flowers with deep red or purple lip


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repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe


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a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one


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Jews who keep some of the requirements of the Mosaic law but allow for adaptation of other requirements (as some of the dietary laws) to fit modern circumstances


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a code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles


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United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983)


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the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date


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a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John's wort


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United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)


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control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures


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long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube


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graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle


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thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned


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German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)


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American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)


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characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema


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English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)


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small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies


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hereditary disorder in which ossification of the labyrinth of the inner ear causes tinnitus and eventual deafness


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club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare


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Italian antipope from 1080 to 1100 who was installed as pope by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who consistently opposed efforts at papal reform (died in 1100)


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a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago


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in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632)


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a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups


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a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination


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the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21


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omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)


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a small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon


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large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs


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a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States


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capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements


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a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard


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the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)


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an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel


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Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)


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pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)


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the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole


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talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion


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a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government


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an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator


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in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants


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one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers


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the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected


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a prolonged war (1954-1975 ) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States


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any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers


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priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her


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a crystalline penicillin similar in action to penicillin G but more resistant to the action of gastric acids


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the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity


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United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)


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lien of the United States on all property of a taxpayer who fails to pay the federal government the taxes for which he or she is liable


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German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)


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a method of reconnaissance in which fire is placed on a suspected enemy position in order to cause the enemy to disclose his presence by moving or returning fire


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any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group


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a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations


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urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles)


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extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere


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a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision)


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United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914)


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a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)


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a self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits


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the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)


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the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble


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tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori


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slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers


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a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals)


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a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin


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filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood


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Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets


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perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties


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the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance


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an acid that is known only by virtue of its salts (as ammonium carbamate) or its esters (as urethane)


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an offensive term for an offspring of parents of different races (especially of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)


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a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719)


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a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain


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executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained


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heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together


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a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings


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a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch


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an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)


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an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable


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a red-brown azo dye especially as a chemical pH indicator (congo red is red in basic and blue in acidic solutions)


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any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers


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any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted


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any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles


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migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)


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reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent


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United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)


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flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point


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a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock)


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reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller


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a condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes


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the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States


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a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts


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any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins


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the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries


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a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission


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interval between the moon's transit of a particular meridian and the next high tide at that meridian


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United States actress (born in England) who made many stage appearances, often with her husband Hume Cronyn (1909-1994)


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any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner


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a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system


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the large display board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports on stocks traded on the exchange


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Italian sociologist and economist whose theories influenced the development of fascism in Italy (1848-1923)


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large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds


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enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic


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these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected


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giving top executives lucrative benefits that must be paid by the acquirer if they are discharged after a takeover


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a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications


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a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed


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French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)


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a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment


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British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)


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the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners


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fresh ferny parsley-like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach


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Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship


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United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)


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improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.


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the branch of genetics that studies the genetically determined variations in responses to drugs in humans or laboratory organisms


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characterized by mental deficiency and some growth deficiency and elfin faces but an overly social personality and a remarkable gift for vocabulary


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the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)


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one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development


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Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)


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modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable


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when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)


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closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration


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Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976)


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French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)


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autosomal recessive defect in tyrosine metabolism resulting in liver and kidney disturbances and mental retardation


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a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection


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an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem


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a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations)


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one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals


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beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)


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surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex


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measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube


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position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)


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brand name for a slip of notepaper that has an adhesive that allows it to stick to a surface and be removed without damaging the surface


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intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background


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German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20th-century German literature (1875-1926)


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dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue


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a canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries)


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fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible


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Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root


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the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin


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concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles


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fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed


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evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries


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discussion of a subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel usually before an audience


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wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk


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located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections


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a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah


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microphone consisting of a capacitor with one plate fixed and the other forming the diaphragm moved by sound waves


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calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions


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United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)


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a set of enzymes believed to snip pieces off a longer protein producing fragments of amyloid protein that bunch up and create amyloid protein plaques in brain tissue (the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's)


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especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays


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United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)


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Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston


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pope who signed a treaty with Mussolini recognizing the Vatican City as an independent state (1857-1939)


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a river in eastern Texas that is formed near Dallas and flows generally southeastward to Galveston Bay


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characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line


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antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness


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the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)


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currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie


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a mountain range in northwestern Mexico that runs south from Arizona parallel to the Pacific coastline


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the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God


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belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire


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the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River


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any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes


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a metabolic process that breaks down ingested fats into fatty acids and glycerol and then into simpler compounds that can be used by cells of the body


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methylated spirit used in the practice of medicine (especially for cleansing the skin before injections or before surgery)


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a form of penicillin resistant to penicillinase and effective against penicillin-resistant staphylococci


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on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)


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a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information


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a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died


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a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes


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Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures


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small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange


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(of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells


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a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system


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a vast labyrinth built in Crete by Daedalus at the command of Minos in order to contain the Minotaur


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freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)


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a nebula that was once thought to be a star with its planets but is now thought to be a very hot star surrounded by an expanding envelope of ionized gases that emit a fluorescent glow because of intense radiation from the star


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a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.


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visual communication by a skillful combination of text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, books, etc.


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the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch


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in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)


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a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with


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diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening


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any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers


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Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)


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sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together)


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lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers


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the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus


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a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field


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two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus


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a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment


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any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers


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a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony


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a fee charged to a borrower (especially for a mortgage loan) to cover the costs of initiating the loan


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a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary


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a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces


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a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it


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site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers)


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an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal)


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a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him


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the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity


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leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte)


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any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord


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gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared)


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the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office)


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a serious chronic inflammatory disease of the large intestine and rectum characterized by recurrent episodes of abdominal pain and fever and chills and profuse diarrhea


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a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century


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a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor)


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pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle


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a numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course taken at a college or university multiplied by the number of credit hours awarded for the course


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a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter


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the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism


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formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power


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prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals


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scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure)


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brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786)


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Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)


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king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483)


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usually transmitted by parenteral means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure to blood or blood products)


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equipped with compound gearing consisting of 2 pinions and 2 wheels in mesh to increase the mechanical advantage


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used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane and carbon tetrachloride and as a solvent for rubber


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site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction


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German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)


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the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nations


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divides into two branches that serve (1) the thalamus and (2) parts of the frontal and parietal cortex


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South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall


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characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology


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a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates


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won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)


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mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers


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unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)


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perennial herb found on streams and riversides throughout Europe except extreme north and Mediterranean


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Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542)


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according to a Greek legend: when Pythias was sentenced to be executed Damon took his place to allow Pythias to get his affairs in order


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issued a creed against Albigensianism, published reformatory decrees, promulgated the doctrine of transubstantiation, and clarified church doctrine on the Trinity and Incarnation


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fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America


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English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)


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a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place


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English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)


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is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition


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a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I)


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shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers


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a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television


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a command of the United States Air Force that is responsible for defending the United States through its space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations


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physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity


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Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)


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the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information


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according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)


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the part of the conjunctiva covering the anterior face of the sclera and the surface epithelium of the cornea


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Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)


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Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China


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he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294)


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the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa


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British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)


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connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other


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a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance


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wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects


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Russian goldsmith noted for creating a series of jeweled and enameled Easter eggs for European royalty (1846-1920)


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a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers


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plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil


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a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal


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involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected


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United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981)


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peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany


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a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound


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for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them


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tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes


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an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance


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the branch of mathematics that studies algorithms for approximating solutions to problems in the infinitesimal calculus


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a chemical process in which solvent molecules and molecules or ions of the solute combine to form a compound


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trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient


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an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints


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a percentage of death benefits paid directly to policy holders having a short life expectancy (usually 6 months)


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United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821)


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a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis


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an instrument for measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (usually by the photochemical effect)


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United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958)


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any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain


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the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable


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the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound


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dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes)


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ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.)


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life insurance for a specified amount which is payable to the insured person at the expiration of a certain period of time or to a designated beneficiary immediately upon the death of the insured


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a cotter consisting of a split pin that is secured (after passing through a hole) by splitting the ends apart


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leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice


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generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature


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the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body


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the principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people


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mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame


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a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama)


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a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable


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the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern


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United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863)


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a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with statistical data from member nations


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software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing


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the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)


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one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate


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teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays


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an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)


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law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight


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a treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest


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any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts


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United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947)


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take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon


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and others (`et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people)


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the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems


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close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U.S. before 1800


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family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with population control


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bonds sold by a corporation or government agency at a particular time and identifiable by date of maturity


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created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils


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a North American Indian confederacy organized by the Muskogee that dominated the southeastern part of the United States before being removed to Oklahoma


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a walled section of Beijing that encloses the palace that was formerly the residence of the emperor of China


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based on Volapuk but with a vocabulary selected on the basis of the maximum internationality of the roots


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the chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk


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education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom


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a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals


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beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data


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the parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cord


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someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores


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tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays


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an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations


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27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930)


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tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute


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an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images


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law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)


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large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back


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believed to increase the flexibility of red blood cells so they can flow through the blood vessels to the legs and feet


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a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain


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rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China)


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a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright


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the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet


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tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers


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wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard


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a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts


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the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs


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phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force


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drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction


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change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact


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the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields


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a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders


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plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes


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a station where gasoline and oil are sold and facilities are available for repairing or maintaining automobiles


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the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands


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amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)


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a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised


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the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered


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a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it


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an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever)


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a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers


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a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family


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English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)


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United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868)


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United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992)


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a chain (usually with a handle at the end) that is pulled in order to operate some mechanism (e.g. to flush a toilet)


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greyish woolly leafy perennial with branched stems ending in leafless stalks bearing golden-yellow flower heads


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an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China


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any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal


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United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)


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a spectacular show organized in 1883 by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale


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French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793)


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a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany


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an artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands and ureters


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an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria


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a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards


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something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)


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a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc.


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seating that is arranged in sloping tiers so that spectators in the back can see over the heads of those in front


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someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)


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transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)


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a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada


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many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast


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an association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other


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any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally


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Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)


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English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)


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deciduous shrubby magnolia from Japan having fragrant white starlike flowers blooming before leaves unfold


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a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia


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a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through


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the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present


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a measure of the potential energy of a unit charge at a given point in a circuit relative to a reference point (ground)


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a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines


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a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled


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a short vein formed by the supraorbital vein and the supratrochlear vein and continuing as the facial vein


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a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers


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a unit of magnetomotive force equal to the magnetomotive force produced by the passage of 1 ampere through 1 complete turn of a coil


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especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun


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an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches


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anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region


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the branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation


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a hardy breed of saddle horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump


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an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism


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the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs


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recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people


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a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction


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in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg


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a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise


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fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)


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any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones


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king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)


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emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)


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primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates


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the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected


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a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)


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a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.


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the central part is placed under the chin to restrict motion of the mandible and the tails are tied over the top of the head


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a jet or rocket engine based on a form of aerodynamic propulsion in which the vehicle emits a high-speed stream


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a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla


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a river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela


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an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire


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a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders


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the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process)


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a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet


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secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War


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surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel


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benign slow-growing tumor of cartilaginous cells at the ends of tubular bones (especially in the hands and feet)


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a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface


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any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry


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arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps


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an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms


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someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession


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any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations


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an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason


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government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)


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a theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds


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the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more valuable money will be hoarded and the money of lower intrinsic value will circulate more freely until the intrinsically more valuable money is driven out of circulation


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本質的により有益なお金が流通で動かされるまで、同じ特定宗派の値がある2種類のお金が流通中であるときに、本質的により有益なお金が買い溜めされるという原則と下側の実態価値のお金は、より自由に循環するであろう


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surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization)


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the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions


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a transformation that is a combination of single transformations such as translation or rotation or reflection on an axis


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a written certificate that gives the holder the right to purchase shares of a stock for a specified price within a specified period of time


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United States pediatrician whose many books on child care influenced the upbringing of children around the world (1903-1998)


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any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise


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a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages)


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small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone


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a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures


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a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)


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small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals


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any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)


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any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine


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epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)


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restriction on maximum prices that is established and maintained by the government (as during periods of war or inflation)


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terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head


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a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field)


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thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system


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Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986)


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therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions


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optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision


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an association of nations to promote free trade within the union and set common tariffs for nations that are not members


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a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west


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he was appointed by George Washington and briefly served as chief justice but was ultimately rejected by the United States Senate (1739-1800)


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small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship


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a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium


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a viscous mucopolysaccharide found in the connective tissue space and the synovial fluid of movable joints and the humors of the eye


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powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster


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American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)


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agglutination of an agglutinogen of one individual by a serum from another individual of the same species


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of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language


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family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families


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tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds


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British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)


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a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting


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United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966)


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American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November 11


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the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse


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a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them


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the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks


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the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time


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withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat


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a rubber made at low temperatures (5 degrees Centigrade) which is tougher than conventional rubber and is often used in car tires


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an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection


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a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832


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a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level


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a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning


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works by preventing blood platelets from sticking together to form clots that would restrict blood flow


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hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells


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supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg


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a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)


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a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation


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tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews


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South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato in flavor


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reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it


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a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws


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focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves


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a monounsaturated fatty acid that has the same structure as oleic acid except that it is a trans fatty acid


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United States prizefighter who lost his world heavyweight championship to Cassius Clay in 1964 (1932-1970)


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a warship (at anchor or under way) required to maintain a higher degree of readiness than others in its squadron


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any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease


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any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits


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desert (a cause, a country or an army) , often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army


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a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)


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a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race


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the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures


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a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make


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any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls


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English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)


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any of several North American salamanders adapted for climbing with well-developed limbs and long somewhat squared-off toes


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a city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile that is a center for visitors to the ruins of and around Thebes


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syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found


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myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs


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the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century


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a test to determine allergic sensitivity to various substances by applying them to scratches in the skin


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small tree of the eastern Mediterranean having abundant purplish-red flowers growing on old wood directly from stems and appearing before the leaves: widely cultivated in mild regions


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a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law


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someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug)


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an extremely hard blue-black crystalline compound (SiC) used as an abrasive and a heat refractory material


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a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else


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consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky


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an interaction between charged elementary particles that is intermediate in strength between the strong and weak interactions


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a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back


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a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier


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a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans


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a trust created by a court (regardless of the intent of the parties) to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights


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a town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay


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thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce


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the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another


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one of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell


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any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)


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a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle


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the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart


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a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches


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an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC


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a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment


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expenses incurred by an employee in the performance of the job and usually reimbursed by the employer


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a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance


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antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')


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明らかに意図された単語以外を修飾する分詞（普通、文の先頭にある）：例えば、『flying across the country the Rockies came into view』の『flying across the country』


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occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)


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in some classifications considered the type genus of a subfamily Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae: goldfinches


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United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)


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occurs in persons with abnormally functioning immune systems (as AIDS patients or transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs)


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a shallow rectangular box with a transparent front used to protect and display small items (jewelry, coins, etc.)


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a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock


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a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent


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a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward


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any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail


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held that only those who led a blameless life belonged in the church or could administer the sacraments


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fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn


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common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes


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straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus


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the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases


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a contraceptive device consisting of a small thimble-shaped cup that is placed over the uterine cervix to prevent the entrance of spermatozoa


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the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)


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accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared


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the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth


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evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes


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American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)


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the agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state


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locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions


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King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)


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a now rare complication of vaccinia superimposed on atopic dermatitis with high fever and generalized vesicles and papulovesicles


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a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract


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abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation)


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intelligence on the identity and capability and intentions of hostile individuals or organizations that may be engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism


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a cadence (frequently ending church music) in which the chord of the subdominant precedes the chord of the tonic


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a flat muscle with transverse fibers that forms the anterior and lateral walls of the abdominal cavity


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a disturbance in which bone that is undergoing lysis is replaced by an abnormal proliferation of fibrous tissue resulting in bone lesions or skin lesions


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the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole


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a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system


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it depends both on the net worth of the corporation and on its net income attributable to activities within the state


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a judgment entered in favor of the defendant when the plaintiff has not continued his action (e.g., has not appeared in court)


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the document drawn up in 1555 to defend the catholicity of Lutheran doctrine and to justify innovations in Lutheran practice


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a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)


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a Crusade from 1228 to 1229 led by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II who fell ill and was excommunicated by the Pope


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a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt


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equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it


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any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf


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common form of pityriasis (usually in children or young adults) characterized by round patches of depigmentation


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a fund which, if borrowed or used, is intended to be replenished so it may be loaned or spent repeatedly


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English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)


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ligament attached to the uterus on either side in front of and below the opening of the Fallopian tube and passing through the inguinal canal to the labia majora


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a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board


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an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract


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a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points


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any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide


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sliced veal knuckle or shin bone cooked with olive oil and wine and tomatoes and served with rice or vegetables


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an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence


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the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)


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English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)


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a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations


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the branch of genetics concerned with the structure and activity of genetic material at the molecular level


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a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell


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a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone


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a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland


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an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students


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any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden-yellow flower heads that resemble asters


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a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway


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Canadian agency that gathers communications intelligence and assist law enforcement and security agencies


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a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high)


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any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers


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harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning


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a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services


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French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)


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initially separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage that eventually ossifies so the parts become fused


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a mission requiring one force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly the supported force's request for assistance


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the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal


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a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes


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supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)


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a syndrome characterized by edema and large amounts of protein in the urine and usually increased blood cholesterol


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is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite


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a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms


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the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it


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decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers


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grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings


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a basal ganglion shaped like a lens and including the outer reddish putamen and the inner pale yellow pallidum


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Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)


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queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589)


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United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)


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of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material


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become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence


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(especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases


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yellow carotenoid (isomeric with lutein and occurs widely with it) that is the main pigment in yellow Indian corn


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transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient


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coextensive with the family Ginkgoaceae: plants that first appeared in the Permian and now represented by a single surviving species


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medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning


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United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967)


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a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication


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thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit


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a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis


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the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal)


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a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers


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an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity


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a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River


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lotion consisting of a poisonous solution of isopropyl alcohol or denatured ethanol alcohol for external use


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King of England who succeeded Edward the Confessor in 1066 and was the last of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs


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(of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above


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one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints rooted in the Upanishads as opposed to Mimamsa which relies on the Vedas and Brahmanas


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timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage


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twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob


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dried by bringing a sprayed substance (e.g. milk or soap) into contact with hot air and recovering it in the form of a powder


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characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms


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an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center


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a reddish mineral consisting of hydrated cobalt arsenate in monoclinic crystalline form and used in coloring glass


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the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body


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the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance)


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perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers


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wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority)


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influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941)


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a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru


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an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money


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brown sauce with tomatoes and a caramelized mixture of minced carrots and onions and celery seasoned with Madeira


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the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious


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pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices


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breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues


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an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)


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in combat VX gas is deployed by detonating a container over the target area and can persist in the environment up to several weeks after release


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he was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890)


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an internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor


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extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube


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a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)


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whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head


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an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot


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a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee


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also used (in aqueous solutions) as a mild disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels


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one of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta


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the assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil bacteria and its release for plant use on the death of the bacteria


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an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)


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she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth


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injection of an anesthetic substance into the epidural space of the spinal cord in order to produce epidural anesthesia


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a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action


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strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')


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stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere


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the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic


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uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought


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a sale in which the buyer receives title to the property only upon the performance of some condition (usually the full payment of the purchase price)


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any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters


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a British or Irish monk who denied the doctrines of original sin and predestination and defended human goodness and free will


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emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species


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a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam


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the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation


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fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination


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combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites


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a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity


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a pattern of small boxes that is used for self-monitoring by patients who have age-related macular degeneration


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electron that is not attached to an atom or ion or molecule but is free to move under the influence of an electric field


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a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound)


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the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations


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branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery that supplies the dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa


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any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John


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the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment


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an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data


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support consisting of the movable part of a lathe that slides along the bed in alignment with the headstock and is locked into position to support the free end of the workpiece


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any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays


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the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation)


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yogic exercises (popular in the West) that combine difficult postures (which force the mind to withdraw from the outside world) with controlled breathing


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the historic period (1933-1940 ) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented


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a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan


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regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord


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a concave reflector used to produce a parallel beam when the source is placed at its focus or to focus an incoming parallel beam


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a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River


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any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers


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chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes


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an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved


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the endeavor of a Moslem scholar to derive a rule of divine law from the Koran and Hadith without relying on the views of other scholars


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by the end of the 10th century theologians decided that debate on such matters would be closed and Muslim theology and law were frozen


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thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)


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any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland


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a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing


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to manufacture sections of (a building) , especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings


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the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities


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the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others


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electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope


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the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks


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a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas


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thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries


