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IN THE SCIENCE DICTIONARY |
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The law works in mysterious ways in "Sparring Partners", a 2022 collection of novellas by this king of legal thrillers |
Grisham
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Norfolk, Virginia's airport once had the world's longest moving this, 337 feet--stand to the right, walk to the left! |
moving sidewalk
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The most important class of pigments involved in photosynthesis is this one whose name means "green leaf" |
chlorophyll
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This 2-letter symbol for a prescription comes from the Latin for "to take" |
RX
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The Öresund Link, a bridge & tunnel connecting Malmö, Sweden to this Danish capital, opened July 1, 2000 |
Copenhagen
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Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism |
(Alice) Walker
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On the PGA Champions Tour (formerly the Senior Tour), players may use this, though Darren Clarke is one of the few who do |
a golf cart
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This constellation's belt lies near the celestial equator |
Orion
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From the Latin for "backward", this prefix became a word meaning from an earlier time, but maybe in a hip way |
(rowan: What is [Does a shaka] [*]?)
retro
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This hypothetical creature represents a bridge between us & our evolutionary ancestors |
the missing link
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This Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead begins, "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no" |
[rowan does not include the leading article.]
The Underground Railroad
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Ramcharger 8 at Montana's Big Sky Resort is the USA's first 8-person one of these uphill transports |
a ski lift
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Neutrons consist of 3 of these: 2 down, one up |
quarks
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A statement with multiple possible meanings is this, from the Latin for "to drive both ways" |
ambiguous
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To zoom around the web, you can click on a hotlink or this, which also starts with "H" |
hyperlink
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Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir "Crying in" this Asian grocery chain |
H Mart
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Seems like 1960s world's fairs had to have one: Seattle, New York & Montreal, where the first half of the word was "Mini" |
(Sadie: What is Ferris wheel?) ... (Ken: They all had [*] although only Seattle's is still running.)
monorails
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Galileo was among the first to observe these dark solar areas that appear in 11-year cycles |
sunspots
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This word for an often volunteer museum guide is from the Latin for "teach" |
docent
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The name of this garland seen here can also refer to any link of components in a series |
a daisy chain
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A small-town girl becomes a Broadway star, not a nun, in this first novel by Theodore Dreiser |
Sister Carrie
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Olympic events include single, double & quadruple these, a word that originally meant oars & now also means the boats |
(rowan: What is... canoe?)
sculls
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This German physicist doesn't look too happy, even though he devised quantum theory, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1918 |
Planck
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This 9-letter word for the sacred writings of the Bible is from the Latin for "to write" |
scripture
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In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky |
Zelda
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