Chapter I

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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

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of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

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state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services

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an orange of low brightness and saturation

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a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

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showing who or what does the action

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a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

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plural of “cent” — a fractional monetary unit of several countries

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artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

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an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

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of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony

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an institution created to conduct business

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the child of your aunt or uncle

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provide with a covering or cause to be covered

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of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba

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serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose

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plural of “drawing” — an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

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every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

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a division of the United Kingdom

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a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)

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showing where something starts, or who sent it

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occupying an entire page in a book or paper

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a person of German nationality

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a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

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the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii

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past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of

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inside something, or within a place, period, or state

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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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people of Ireland or of Irish extraction

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a native or inhabitant of Italy

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a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second

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a native or inhabitant of Japan

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of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

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the month following May and preceding July

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a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)

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limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

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the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

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an indefinitely short time

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not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

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a native or inhabitant of Norway

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belonging to the speaker and others

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one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

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for each

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official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages

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plural of “plate” — (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

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port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

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exert pressure or force to or upon

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past form of “print” — put into print

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prepared and printed for distribution and sale

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a native or inhabitant of Russia

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1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

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a branch of the Tai languages

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the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

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the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland

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a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

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of or relating to or characteristic of Turkey or its people or language

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a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

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the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

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in the company of; together with

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