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a. not giving the biuret reaction


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v. agree or express agreement


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n. sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell, someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity


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n. part of newspaper or magazine devoted to fiction


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n. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system, the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body


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a. absolutely necessary; vitally necessary, not to be dispensed with; essential


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n. member of North American people of NW Pacific coast; Wakashan language of Kwakiutl, now with few speakers


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n. using words that imitate the sound they denote


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n. large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits


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n. extinct flying reptile


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