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![]() | sparing in consumption of especially food and drink, marked by temperance in indulgence |
![]() | estimate the value of, insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby |
![]() | having a bad disposition, rude in a mean-spirited and surly way |
![]() | a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches |
![]() | the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy |
![]() | type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having same number and kind of chromosomes as parent nucleus |
![]() | having or showing a ready disposition to fight |
![]() | any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance |
![]() | of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function |
![]() | unwillingness to get involved in or influence other people's activities |
![]() | weaken mentally or morally, disturb the composure of |
![]() | the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time |
![]() | having a bad disposition, rude in a mean-spirited and surly way |
![]() | excessively mournful, looking or sounding sad and dismal |
![]() | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
![]() | blow away or off with a current of air, separate the chaff from by using air currents |
![]() | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships |
![]() | take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property |
![]() | function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues |
![]() | a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | divide unfairly and to one's advantage, of voting districts |
![]() | function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues |
![]() | officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch |
![]() | found in the ordinary course of events, occurring every day |
![]() | the basic structure or features of a system or organization |
![]() | a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline |
![]() | type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having same number and kind of chromosomes as parent nucleus |
![]() | massive and extremely remote celestial object |
![]() | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs |
![]() | blow away or off with a current of air, separate the chaff from by using air currents |
![]() | relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith |
![]() | full of trivial conversation, tending to talk a great deal; talkative |
![]() | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
![]() | found in the ordinary course of events, occurring every day |
![]() | of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function |
![]() | a political system governed by a few people |
![]() | showing modest reserve, lacking self-confidence |
![]() | a divine manifestation, twelve days after Christmas |
![]() | excessively mournful, looking or sounding sad and dismal |