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| Rate of ascent or descent |
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| having keen mental perception and understanding |
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| shrubs or small trees often armed |
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| the diagonal face at the end of the blade of a chisel, or the like, leading to the edge. |
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| any of a group of viruses that infect specific bacteria, usually causing their disintegration or dissolution. |
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| any invertebrate animal, as a hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, or coral, considered as belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, characterized by the specialized stinging structures in the tentacles surrounding the mouth; a coelenterate. |
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| Any salt or ester of oxalic acid |
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| A warm drink for the sick |
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| either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh), of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh), of the barberry family, both used medicinally. |
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| the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance |
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| the increase in the electrical conductivity of a substance, often nonmetallic, caused by the absorption of electromagnetic radiation |
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| a nonmotile, asexual spore formed within a cell, the wall of which is distinct from that of the parent cell |
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| electric resistance represented in ohms |
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