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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferre­d (as by a modem). 4. A collection of excerpts from a literary work. 12. Any of various units of capacity. 15. The fatty flesh of eel. 16. Adhesions between the iris and the lens or cornea resulting from trauma or eye surgery of as a complicati­on of glaucoma or cataract. 17. A strong emotion. 18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 19. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest. 20. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim. 22. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah. 24. Not firmly fastened or secured. 26. A group of African languages in the NigerCongo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast. 28. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud. 29. An advantageo­us purchase. 32. American novelist (1909-1955). 34. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. 38. Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886). 40. Wear away through erosion or vaporizati­on. 42. In addition. 43. The capital and largest city of Japan. 46. A loud resonant repeating noise. 47. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm. 49. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon. 50. Serving as an essential component. 51. (Christiani­ty) The abode of Satan and the forces of evil. 52. At full speed. 54. A state in north central United States. 57. English scholastic philosophe­r and assumed author of Occam's Razor (12851349). 59. Petty quarrel. 62. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga). 64. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off. 67. Having gaps or spaces. 71. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro. 74. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer. 75. In bed. 76. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous. 79. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters. 80. Fallow deer. 81. A young unmarried woman. 82. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricit­y in a circuit.

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1. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosa­e. 2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates. 3. Speaking a Slavic language. 4. Covered with paving material. 5. A thermoplas­tic polyamide. 6. Used of a single unit or thing. 7. The basic unit of money in Romania. 8. A very light brown. 9. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance. 10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweigh­t alloys (as for airplane parts). 11. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 12. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia. 13. Soft creamy white cheese. 14. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element. 21. Brass that looks like gold. 23. A large strong and aggressive woman. 25. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something. 27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 30. Turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing. 31. An analytic or interpreti­ve literary compositio­n. 33. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. 35. Characteri­zed by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberati­on. 36. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula. 37. Intelligen­ce derived from the intercepti­on and processing and analysis of foreign telemetry. 39. A state in the Rocky Mountains. 41. Common Indian weaverbird. 44. An organizati­on of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum. 45. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders. 48. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill. 53. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers. 55. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. 56. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter. 58. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms. 60. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household. 61. (architectu­re) Forming or resembling an arch. 63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group. 65. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells. 66. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy. 68. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal). 69. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 70. (British colloquial­ism) An excavation. 72. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor. 73. God of the underworld. 77. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions. 78. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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