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<b><u>Western Schism</u></b> [accept Schism of <b><u>1378</u></b>; accept <b><u>Papal Schism</u></b>; accept Great <b><u>Occidental Schism</u></b>]
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<b><u><em>mēnin</em></u></b> [accept <b><u>rage</u></b>, <b><u>anger</u></b>, <b><u>wrath</u></b>, or synonyms]
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Matthew <b><u>Bourne</u></b> [or Matthew Christopher <b><u>Bourne</u></b>]
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<b><u>embroidery</b></u> [accept <b><u><em>opus anglicanum</b></u></em> until “opus” is read; accept <b><u><em>or nué</b></u></em> until “<em>or</em>” is read; prompt on <u>needlework</u> or <u>sewing</u> or <u>stitching</u>]
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José <b><u>Serebrier</u></b> (“SAIR-uh-bree-YAIR”)
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<b><u>harpsichord</b></u>
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<b><u>three</b></u> [or <b><u>third</b></u>; accept <b><u>third</b></u> inflow, segment <b><u>3</b></u>, or <b><u>third</b></u> spacing; accept portal <b><u>triad</b></u>]
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John <b><u>Wayne</b></u> [or Marion <b><u>Morrison</b></u> or Marion Robert <b><u>Morrison</b></u>; accept “the <b><u>Duke</b></u>”; accept <em>Jesus and John <b><u>Wayne</b></u></em>; accept John <b><u>Wayning</b></u>]
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Frances Power <b><u>Cobbe</b></u>
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<b><u>Turkey</u></b> [or <b><u>Türkiye</u></b>; or Republic of <b><u>Türkiye</u></b>; or <b><u>Türkiye</u></b> Cumhuriyeti]
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<b><u>Gwendolyn</u></b> [accept <b><u>Gwendolyn</u></b> Bennett; accept <b><u>Gwendolyn</u></b> Brooks or <b><u>Gwen</u></b> Brooks]
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Dmitri <b><u>Shostakovich</b></u> [or Dmitri Dmitriyevich <b><u>Shostakovich</b></u>] (The pieces in the first clue are his 24 Preludes, Op. 34. The piece in the second clue is the C major fugue from his Op. 87.)
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<b><u>restaurant</b></u>s [or <b><u>diner</b></u>s or <b><u>cafeteria</b></u>s or <b><u>automat</b></u>s or <b><u>eateries</b></u> or <b><u>café</b></u>s]
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<b><u>violence</b></u> [accept structural <b><u>violence</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>Violence</b></u></em> <em>and the Sacred</em> or <em>La <b><u>violence</b></u> et le sacré</em>; accept <em>Life and Words: <b><u>Violence</b></u> and the Descent into the Ordinary</em>]
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<b><u>Kraken</u></b> [accept <b><u>Krake</u></b> or <b><u>Kraxe</u></b> or <b><u>Krabben</u></b> or <b><u>Horven</u></b>; accept <b><u>poulpe</u></b>; accept <b><u>octopus</u></b> or giant <b><u>octopus</u></b>; accept <b><u>Architeuthis monachus</u></b>; accept <b><u>squid</u></b> or giant <b><u>squid</u></b> until “squid” is read; accept <b><u><em>hafgufa</em></u></b> until read; prompt on <u>cephalopod</u>s or <u>mollusk</u>s; prompt on sea <u>monster</u> until read]
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<b><u>sugar</u></b>s [or <b><u>saccharide</u></b>s]
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<b><u>Roman emperor</u></b>s [or <b><u>emperor</u></b>s of <b><u>Rome</u></b>; or <b><u>caesar</u></b>s until “Caesarea” is read; or <b><u>princep</u></b>s; prompt on <u>emperor</u>s or synonyms of <u>ruler</u>, but reject “kings” or “dictators”; prompt on <u>Roman</u>s or <u>gentile</u>s or <u>non-Jew</u>s; prompt on Roman <u>general</u>s] (In the Talmud, Onkelos is Titus’s nephew and Nero converted to Judaism. The Masoretes invented the Tiberian system of vocalization in the city of Tiberias.)
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Gustav <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b> [or Gustav Robert <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b>; accept <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b>’s diffraction formula or <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b>’s laws of spectroscopy]
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Gordon <b><u>Parks</u></b> [or Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan <b><u>Parks</u></b>] (The film is <em>Shaft</em>.)
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Czesław <b><u>Miłosz</u></b> (“CHESS-woff MEE-woash”)
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<b><u>autoionization</u></b> of water [or <b><u>self-ionization</u></b>; accept <b><u>autoprotolysis</u></b>, <b><u>self-dissociation</u></b>, <b><u>autodissociation</u></b>, <b><u>disproportionation</u></b> of water, or word forms; prompt on <u>ionization</u> or <u>protolysis</u> or <u>dissociation</u>; prompt on formation of <u>hydronium</u>, <u>H3O+</u>, <u>hydroxide</u>, or <u>OH−</u> until “hydronium” is read; prompt on <u>neutralization</u> of hydronium and hydroxide until “hydronium” is read by asking “what is the reverse reaction?”] (The rational value of pK<sub>w</sub> is 15.74; the log of 55 is 1.74.)
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<b><u>Java</u></b> [or <b><u>Jawa</u></b>]
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<b><u>Royal Navy</u></b> [or <b><u>British Navy</u></b>; accept <b><u>English Navy</u></b>; prompt on <u>navy</u> by asking “of what country?”; prompt on <u>Royal Society</u> by asking “what other institution was the Royal Society working with?”]
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<b><u>amorphous</u></b> solids [accept <b><u>glassy</u></b> or <b><u>glass</u></b>es or <b><u>vitreous</u></b> solids; prompt on <u>metastability</u> or <u>metastable</u>; prompt on <u>isotropic</u> until read; prompt on <u>non-crystalline</u> or <u>polycrystalline</u> until “crystals” is read; prompt on <u>disorde</u>red or <u>random</u>ly packing until “random” is read]
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<b><u>temperature</b></u> [accept absolute <b><u>temperature</b></u>; accept stellar <b><u>temperature</b></u>; accept (effective) CMB <b><u>temperature</b></u> or CMB <b><u>temperature</b></u> anisotropies/fluctuations or CMB <b><u>temperature</b></u> distribution; accept HI (“H-one”) excitation <b><u>temperature</b></u> or HI (“H-one”) spin <b><u>temperature</b></u>; prompt on <u><em>T</u></em>; or reject “spin”]
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<b><u>Tibetan</u></b> [or <b><u>bod</u></b>; accept <b><u>Tibetic</u></b> languages, <b><u>Bod</u></b>ish, <b><u>Dzongkha</u></b>, <b><u>Bhutanese</u></b>, <b><u>Dbus</u></b>-gtsang skad, <b><u>Ü</u></b>-tsang kä, <b><u>Khams</u></b>, <b><u>Khamké</u></b>, <b><u>A-mdo</u></b>’i skad, <b><u>Amdo</u></b>lese, <b><u>Balti</u></b>, <b><u>sbal ti</u></b>, <b><u>Chöke</u></b>, <b><u>Lha-sa</u></b>’i skad, <b><u>Lhaséké</u></b>, <b><u>Lasägä</u></b>, or Classical <b><u>Tibetan</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Tibetan</u></b> Book of the Dead</em> or <b><u><em>Tibetan</u></b> Book of Living and Dying</em>] (Tshe ring dbang rgyal wrote <em>The Tale of the Incomparable Prince</em>. The other biographies concern Ra Losatwa and Yeshe Tsogyal.)
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Maxim <b><u>Gorky</b></u> [or Alexei Maximovich <b><u>Peshkov</b></u>] (The novel in the first sentence is <em>The Artamonov Business</em>.)
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<b><u>Isfahan</u></b> [or <b><u>Esfahân</u></b>] (The Darb-e Islam is also called the Darb-e Imam.)
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<b><u>Leo</u></b> [or <b><u>Léōn</u></b>; accept <b><u>Leo</u></b> III the Isaurian, <b><u>Leo</u></b> III the Assyrian, <b><u>Leo</u></b> III the Syrian, or <b><u>Leo</u></b> VI the Wise] (Leo VI’s fourth wife was Zoe Karbonopsina.)
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f<b><u>MR</u></b>I [or functional <b><u>magnetic resonance</u></b> imaging; accept <b><u>MRI</u></b> by itself]
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<b><u>symphonies</b></u> by Franz Joseph <b><u>Haydn</b></u> [prompt on <u>symphonies</u> or <em>Paris</em> <u>symphonies</u> or <em>London</em> <u>symphonies</u> by asking “by what composer?”]
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<b><u>OSI</u></b> model [or <b><u>Open Systems Interconnection</u></b> model]
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<b><u>Monster</u></b> group [or Fischer–Griess <b><u>Monster</u></b>; accept <b><u>monstrous</u></b> moonshine]
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<b><u>Ireland</b></u> [or Republic of <b><u>Ireland</b></u>; or <b><u>Éire</b></u> (“AY-ruh”); or Poblacht na h<b><u>Éireann</b></u>; reject “Northern Ireland”]
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<b><u>carbon</b></u> AND <b><u>oxygen</b></u> [accept answers in either order; accept <b><u>C</b></u> in place of “carbon”; accept <b><u>O</b></u> in place of “oxygen”]
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<b><u><em>Water Margin</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Shuǐ Hǔ Zhuàn</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>Outlaws of the Marsh</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>Tale of the Marshes</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>All Men Are Brothers</b></u></em>]
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Kenneth <b><u>Arrow</u></b> [accept <b><u>Arrow</u></b>’s impossibility theorem]
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<b><u>Disneyland Paris</u></b> [or <b><u>Disneyland</u></b> Resort <b><u>Paris</u></b>; accept <b><u>Euro Disney</u></b>; prompt on <u>Marne-la-Vallée</u> by asking “What place in that urban area?”; prompt on <u>Disneyland</u>; reject “Walt Disney World”; reject “Paris”]
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<b><u>Doctors Without Borders</u></b> [or <b><u>MSF</u></b> or <b><u>Médecins Sans Frontières</u></b>]
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<b><u>Lopez</u></b> [or <em>Goss v. <b><u>Lopez</em></u></b>; or <em>United States v. <b><u>Lopez</em></u></b>]
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<b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>cluster</u></b>s [accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>partition</u></b>s; accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>table</u></b>s after “Chinese” is read; accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>centroid</u></b>s until “centroids” is read; accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>mean</u></b>s until “means” is read; accept descriptions of <b><u>how many</u></b> <b><u>cluster</u></b>s or <b><u>how many partition</u></b>s; prompt on <u><em>k</em></u> until read] (WCSS is the within-cluster sum of squares. Lloyd’s algorithm is improved upon by <em>k</em>-means++.)
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Alice <b><u>Munro</u></b> [or Alice Ann <b><u>Munro</u></b>; or Alice Ann <b><u>Laidlaw</u></b>]
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<b><u>Lense–Thirring</u></b> (“LEN-suh–TEER-ring”) effect [or <b><u>Lense–Thirring</u></b> precession; accept rotational<u> <b>frame-dragging</u></b>]
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Bernardo <b><u>O’Higgins</u></b> [or Bernardo <b><u>O’Higgins</u></b> Riquelme]
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<b><u>fly</u></b>ing [or <b><u>fly</u></b>ing back to Africa; accept <em>The People Could <b><u>Fly</em></u></b> or “Now Let Me <b><u>Fly</u></b>”; prompt on returning to <u>Africa</u> by asking “by what means?”]
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“The <b><u>Oval Portrait</u></b>”
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<b><u>Hōne Heke</u></b> [or <b><u>Heke Pōkai</u></b>; or Hōne Wiremu <b><u>Heke Pōkai</u></b>] (The MP was named Hōne Heke Ngāpua.)
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<b><u>Euripides</u></b> [the play in the first line is <em>The Acharnians</em>.]
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<b><u>oboe</u></b> [accept <b><u>oboe</u></b> da caccia]
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<b><u>Rājasthān</b></u>
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<b><u>Italian</u></b> [or <b><u>I</u><u>taliano</u></b>; or lingua <b><u>italiana</u></b>] (<em>Six Memos for the New Millennium</em> is by Italo Calvino.)
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<b><u>philosopher</u></b>s [accept <b><u>theologian</u></b>s, <b><u>scholastic</u></b>s, or <b><u>philosophe</u></b>s; accept <em>Dictes and Sayings of the <b><u>Philosopher</u></b>s</em> or <em>Liber <b><u>Philosophorum</em></u></b>; prompt on answers like <u>thinker</u>s, <u>scholar</u>s, <u>academic</u>s, <u>teacher</u>s, or <u>writer</u>s; prompt on <u>priest</u>s or <u>friar</u>s]
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Roland <b><u>Dyens</u></b> (“ro-LAWN dee-YAWNCE”) (<em>Skaï</em> or “artificial hide” refers to him not being Argentinian to write a bona fide tango.)
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<b><u>Qīng</u></b> Empire [or <b><u>Qīng</u></b> dynasty, Great <b><u>Qīng</u></b>, Dà <b><u>Qīng</u></b>, or <b><u>Dulimbai Gurun</u></b>; prompt on <u>China</u> or <u>Zhōngguó</u>; prompt on <u>Manchu</u>s, <u>Jurchen</u>s, <u>Mǎnzú</u>, <u>Man-tsu</u>, <u>manju</u>, <u>yí</u>rén, <u>yí</u>dí, <u>tulergi</u> aiman, or “<u>Outer Tribe</u>s” until “Manchus” is read] (Clues include “new Qīng history,” kǎozhèng and guócuì, Zéng Jìng and Lǚ Liúliáng, the Gēlǎohuì, Hàn settlement of Manchuria in the Chuǎng Guāndōng, and Wú Sānguì and the Battle of Shānhǎi Pass.)
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William <b><u>Empson</u></b> (The book is <em>Seven Types of Ambiguity</em>.)
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Marija <b><u>Gimbutas</u></b> (“mah-REE-yah GIM-boo-toss”)
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<b><u><em>Doktor Faustus</em></u></b> (by Thomas Mann)
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<b><u>shalom</b></u> [accept <b><u>sholom</b></u>, <b><u>sholem</b></u>, <b><u>sholoim</b></u>, or <b><u>shulem</b></u>; accept “<b><u>Shalom</b></u> Aleichem”; accept Oseh <b><u>shalom</b></u> bi-m’romav; accept sim <b><u>shalom</b></u>; accept <b><u>Shalom</b></u> Zachar; accept <b><u>Shalom</b></u> bayit; accept <b><u>Shalom</b></u> rav; accept “<b><u>Shalom</b></u> Leben Dodi”]
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<b><u>Earth</u></b> [or <b><u>Terra</u></b>; accept <b><u>Earth</u></b>seed; prompt on <u>Hain</u> by asking “what specific planet colonized by Hain?”]
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<b><u>organ of Zuckerkandl</b></u>
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<b><u>gabbro</u></b>s
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<b><u>Switzerland</u></b> [or <b><u>Swiss</u></b> Confederation; accept Confédération <b><u>Suisse</u></b>; accept <b><u>Schweizerische </u></b>Eidgenossenschaft; accept Confederazione <b><u>Svizzera</u></b>; accept Confederaziun <b><u>Svizra</u></b>; accept Confoederatio <b><u>Helvetica</u></b>]
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<b><u>assassin</u></b>s [accept <b><u><em>Assassin</u></b>s: A Film Concerning Rimbaud</em> or <em>The Time of the <b><u>Assassin</u></b>s</em>]
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<b><u>depersonalization</u></b> [or <b><u>depersonalization</u></b>-derealization disorder]
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<b><u>Delhi</b></u> Sultanate [or Saltanat-e <b><u>Dihlī</b></u> or <b><u>Dillī</b></u> Saltanat]
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<b><u>gulag</u></b>s [or <b><u>work camp</u></b>s; or <b><u>labor camp</u></b>s; or <b><u>prison camp</u></b>s; or <b><u>internment camp</u></b>s; accept <b><u>Soviet</u></b> or <b><u>Russian concentration camp</u></b>s or <b><u>concentration camp</u></b>s in the <b><u>USSR</u></b>; prompt on <u>camp</u>s or <u>concentration camp</u>s by asking “in what country?”; reject “death camps” or “extermination camps”]
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<b><u>Washington</u></b> Commanders [or Washington <b><u>Commanders</u></b>; accept <b><u>Washington Football Team</u></b>; accept Washington <b><u>Redskins</u></b>; prompt on <u>Football Team</u>]
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<b><u>Hawaii</u></b> [or <b><u>Hawai‘i</u></b>; or <b><u>Hawaii</u></b>an Islands; prompt on islands of Hawaii like <u>Oahu</u>, <u>Maui</u>, or <u>Big Island</u>]
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<b><u>Haiti</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Haiti</u></b>; or République d’<b><u>Haïti</u></b>; or Repiblik d <b><u>Ayiti</u></b>] (The play is <em>The Tragedy of King Christophe</em> by Aimé Césaire.)
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<b><u>traffic</u></b> [or <b><u>traffic</u></b> flow; prompt on <u>congestion</u>; prompt on <u>Traf-O-Data</u>]
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Nat King <b><u>Cole</u></b> [or Nathaniel Adams <b><u>Coles</u></b>]
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<b><u>Methodism</u></b> [or word forms like <b><u>Methodist</u></b> Church or <b><u>Methodist</u></b> revival; accept <b><u>Wesley</u></b>anism until “Wesley” is read; prompt on Christian <u>revival</u>ism; prompt on <u>evangelical</u> Christianity or word forms until “evangelical” is read]
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<b><u>oxidation</u></b> [accept Jones <b><u>oxidation</u></b>]
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<b><u>rigid</u></b>ity [accept <b><u>rigid</u></b> bodies; accept Born <b><u>rigid</u></b>ity; accept Hawking’s strong <b><u>rigid</u></b>ity theorem; accept geomagnetic cutoff <b><u>rigid</u></b>ity]
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<b><u>pǔ</u></b> [or <b><u>simplicity</u></b>; or word forms of being <b><u>simple</u></b>; accept Bào<b><u>pǔ</u></b>zǐ, <em>The Master Who Embraces <b><u>Simplicity</em></u></b>, or <em>The Tao of <b><u>Pooh</em></u></b>]
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Marquis de <b><u>Sade</u></b> (“sahd”) [or Donatien Alphonse <b><u>François</u></b> de Sade]
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<b><u>Mecca</u></b> [or <b><u>Makkah</u></b>]
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<b><u>Brazil</b></u> [or <b><u>Brasil</b></u>; or Federative Republic of <b><u>Brazil</b></u> or República Federativa do <b><u>Brasil</b></u>]
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<b><u>capacitor</u></b>s [accept parallel-plate <b><u>capacitor</u></b>s or gyrator-<b><u>capacitor</u></b> model]
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<b><u>madrigal</u></b> [or <b><u>madrigaux</u></b>; prompt on <u>song</u>]
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<b><u>risk</b></u> [accept <b><u>risk</b></u> aversion; accept systematic <b><u>risk</b></u>; accept <b><u>beta</b></u> until read]
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<b><u>Krishna</u></b> [accept <b><u>Krishna</u></b> Janmāshṭamī; accept <b><u>Govind</u></b>a or <b><u>Madhav</u></b>a or <b><u>Gopal</u></b>a; accept the International Society for <b><u>Krishna</u></b> Consciousness; prompt on <u>Vishnu</u> until read; prompt on <u>Hari</u>]
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<b><u>volatility</u></b> [or <b><u>volatile</u></b>; accept <b><u>volatile</u></b> organic compounds]
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<b><u>thymine dimer</u></b>s [or <b><u>thymidine dimer</u></b>s or <b><u>T dimer</u></b>s or <b><u>TT</u></b> photo<b><u>dimer</u></b>s; accept <b><u>pyrimidine dimer</u></b>s or cyclobutane <b><u>pyrimidine dimer</u></b>s or <b><u>CPD</u></b>s; accept <b><u>6–4 photoproduct</u></b>s; prompt on <u>dimer</u>s; prompt on <u>DNA damage</u> or <u>mutations</u>]
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<b><u>sea</u></b>scapes [or <b><u>ocean</u></b> or <b><u>water</u></b> paintings; accept paintings of <b><u>ship</u></b>s or <b><u>boat</u></b>s; accept <b><u>nautical</u></b> paintings; prompt on <u>landscape</u>s; prompt on <u>genre</u> scenes]
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<b><u>Minas Gerais</u></b> (“MEE-nuhz zhay-RICE”)
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<b><u>Madeira</u></b> (“muh-DEER-uh”) [accept Autonomous Region of <b><u>Madeira</u></b>]
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cosmic <b><u>inflation</b></u> [or cosmological <b><u>inflation</b></u>; accept <b><u>inflation</b></u>ary epoch; accept old <b><u>inflation</b></u> or new <b><u>inflation</b></u> or slow-roll <b><u>inflation</b></u>; accept Starobinsky <b><u>inflation</b></u>; prompt on <u>expansion</u> of the universe until read]
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<b><u><em>Fountain</em></u></b> (by Marcel Duchamp)
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<b><u>black</b></u> [or <b><u>crna</b></u> or <b><u>chernyy</b></u>]
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Nicolas <b><u>Poussin</u></b> AND Peter Paul <b><u>Rubens</u></b> [accept <b><u>Poussinist</u></b>s AND <b><u>Rubenist</u></b>s]
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<b><u>dinner</u></b> parties [or <b><u><em>cena</em></u></b>; or <b><u>banquet</u></b>s; or <b><u>feast</u></b>s; accept <b><u><em>epula</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>convivia</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>parties</u> or <u>meal</u>s]
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the <b><u>wave</u></b> [or <em>la <b><u>ola</em></u></b>; accept “My Life with the <b><u>Wave</u></b>” or “Mi vida con la <b><u>ola</u></b>”]
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the <b><u>Parthenon</b></u>
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<b><u>market</u></b> [accept “Saturday <b><u>Market</u></b>”; accept “Goblin <b><u>Market</u></b>”]
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<b><u>stain</u></b>ing [or word forms; accept acid-fast <b><u>staining</u></b> or Ziehl–Neelsen <b><u>staining</u></b>]
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<b><u>realism</u></b> [accept word forms such as <b><u>realist</u></b>; accept socialist <b><u>realism</u></b>; accept <b><u>xiànshí zhǔyì</u></b>]
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Alban <b><u>Berg</u></b> [or Alban Maria Johannes <b><u>Berg</u></b>]
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<b><u>Bronzeville</b></u>
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<b><u>deep</u></b> [accept <b><u>deep</u></b> state, <b><u>deep</u></b> politics, <b><u>deep</u></b> events, or <b><u>Deep</u></b>StateMap.Live; accept <b><u>derin</u></b> devlet until “derin” is read; accept security state until “politics” is read]
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