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1.

What does S.A.T. stand for?

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Answer: Scholastic Aptitude Test
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In Golf, if you "Bogey" a hole, what happened?

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Answer: Shot One Stroke Over Par
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Choose the best definition of lummox?

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Answer: A Stupid Clumsy Person
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What is a "satyr"?

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Answer: Half Man - Half Goat
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Which of these words means "ornamental glass"?

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Answer: Millefiori
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What does the abbreviation Ste. stand for in a mailing address?

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Answer: Suite
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What does NHL stand for?

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Answer: National Hockey League
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In the old days, what did the 3 R's stand for?

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Answer: Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic
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What is the abbreviation for Square in an address?

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Answer: Sq.
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What do the letters TB stand for?

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Answer: Tuberculosis
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What does the acronym "VFW" stand for?

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Answer: Veterans Of Foreign Wars
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What does the acronym "FDA" stand for?

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Answer: Food And Drug Administration
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In medical terms, what does "SOB" stand for?

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Answer: Shortness Of Breath
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In medical terms, what does "UTI" stand for?

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Answer: Urinary Tract Infection
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What does "NR" stand for on a prescription?

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Answer: No Refills
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What is a synonym for "tangible"?

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Answer: Palpable
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What does B.C. stand for?

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Answer: Before Christ
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What is a "saddletree"?

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Answer: The Wooden Frame Of A Saddle
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What does "masticate" mean?

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Answer: Chew
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What is a CDL?

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Answer: Commercial Driver's License
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What does "minuscule" mean?

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Answer: Very Small
22.

What is the definition of "flatulence"?

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Answer: Gas/Farting
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What is the meaning of "babushka"?

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Answer: Hat Or Grandmother
24.

What is "borscht"?

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Answer: Russian Soup
25.

What does a plagiarist do?

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Answer: Publishes Thoughts And Writings Of Another As Their Own
26.

What does AA stand for?

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Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous
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What word describes one who has unrestrained sexual actions?

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Answer: Licentious
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What does an epigraphist study?

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Answer: Deciphers And Interprets Inscriptions, Especially Ancient Ones
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What is a 5 letter word meaning "the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns"?

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Answer: Abbey
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What is a 5 letter word meaning "the superior of a community of monks"?

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Answer: Abbot
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen"?

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Answer: Abdominal
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What is a 4 letter word meaning "to aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense)"?

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Answer: Abet
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "an abiding"?

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Answer: Abidance
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "to renounce (a right or privilege)"?

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Answer: Abnegate
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "very hateful"?

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Answer: Abominable
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "the original of earliest known inhabitants of a country"?

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Answer: Aborigines
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "to wear away the surface or some part of by friction"?

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Answer: Abrade
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "that which is rubbed off"?

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Answer: Abrasion
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles"?

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Answer: Abridge
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "to abolish, repeal"?

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Answer: Abrogate
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation"?

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Answer: Abscission
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest"?

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Answer: Abscond
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "forgiveness, or passing over of offenses"?

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Answer: Absolution
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "to free from sin or its penalties"?

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Answer: Absolve
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "the act or process of absorbing"?

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Answer: Absorption
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "self denial"?

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Answer: Abstinence
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "plentiful"?

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Answer: Abundant
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "employing harsh words or ill treatment"?

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Answer: Abusive
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university"?

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Answer: Academic
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "a way of approach or entrance; passage"?

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Answer: Access
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "approachable"?

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Answer: Accessible
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "a person or thing that aids the principal agent"?

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Answer: Accessory
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What is a 13 letter word meaning "a subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part"?

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Answer: Accompaniment
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What is an 11 letter word meaning "one who or that which accompanies"?

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Answer: Accompanist
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "an associate in wrong-doing"?

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Answer: Accomplice
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "to bring to pass"?

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Answer: Accomplish
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "to speak to"?

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Answer: Accost
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "a record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions"?

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Answer: Account
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "to give credit or authority to"?

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Answer: Accredit
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "to become greater in quantity or number"?

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Answer: Accumulate
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "exactness"?

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Answer: Accuracy
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune"?

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Answer: Accursed
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "to charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error"?

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Answer: Accuse
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "sourness, with bitterness and astringency"?

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Answer: Acerbity
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "colorless"?

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Answer: Achromatic
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What is a 4 letter word meaning "a sour substance"?

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Answer: Acid
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "pertaining to the act or sense of hearing"?

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Answer: Acoustic
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "to get as one's own"?

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Answer: Acquire
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What is an 11 letter word meaning "full of bitterness"?

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Answer: Acrimonious
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What is an 11 letter word meaning "the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties"?

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Answer: Aerostatics
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "a member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions"?

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Answer: Alderman
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What is a 5 letter word meaning "one who owes allegiance to a foreign government"?

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Answer: Alien
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "to cause to turn away"?

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Answer: Alienate
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc"?

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Answer: Alkali
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What is a 5 letter word meaning "to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate"?

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Answer: Allay
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court"?

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Answer: Allege
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness"?

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Answer: Allegory
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "to make less burdensome or less hard to bear"?

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Answer: Alleviate
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "any combination or union for some common purpose"?

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Answer: Alliance
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it"?

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Answer: Allusion
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "flood"?

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Answer: Alluvion
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What is a 4 letter word meaning "a person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness"?

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Answer: Ally
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What is a 5 letter word meaning "any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned"?

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Answer: Altar
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other"?

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Answer: Alternate
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What is an 11 letter word meaning "something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else"?

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Answer: Alternative
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What is an eight-letter word meaning "one who advocates or practices altruism"?

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Answer: Altruist
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "an alloy or union of mercury with another metal"?

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Answer: Amalgam
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "to mix or blend together in a homogeneous body"?

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Answer: Amalgamate
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What is a 12 letter word meaning "having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease"?

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Answer: Ambidextrous
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "eagerly desirous and aspiring"?

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Answer: Ambitious
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "a vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded"?

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Answer: Ambulance
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "to walk about"?

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Answer: Ambulate
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What is a 6 letter word meaning "the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy"?

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Answer: Ambush
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "done in a friendly spirit"?

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Answer: Amicable
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What is a 7 letter word meaning "having a propensity for falling in love"?

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Answer: Amorous
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "without determinate shape"?

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Answer: Amorphous
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What is a 9 letter word meaning "the character &; and"?

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Answer: Ampersand
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What is a 10 letter word meaning "living both on land and in water"?

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Answer: Amphibious
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What is a 12 letter word meaning "an edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena"?

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Answer: Amphitheater
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What is an 8 letter word meaning "to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body"?

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Answer: Amputate
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