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RUSSIAN LITERATURE
BAD-JECTIVES
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A expensive, comfortable car with its own driver

a limousine

400

Head of the FBI after Robert Mueller:
J.C.

(James) Comey

400

The Asian tiger type of this insect found throughout the U.S. can transmit diseases like the Zika & West Nile viruses

the mosquito

400

As this Chekhov play ends, trees on the Ranevskaya estate are being cut down to build a housing development

The Cherry Orchard

400

This 5-letter word for anything bad also means to be infested with parasitic insects

lousy

800

Adjective for a body that's capable of moving or bending easily

limber

800

Following Fay Vincent as MLB commish:
B.S.

Bud Selig

800

Able to grow to more than 20 feet in length, the Burmese type of this snake is now widespread in Florida's wetlands

a python

800

He had some revolutionary ideas in his 1902 tract, "What Is To Be Done?"

Lenin

800

This 10-letter word for evil schemes means belonging to or involving the devil

diabolical

1200

Complex neural brain system that controls the basic emotions like fear & anger

the limbic system

1200

Soviet leader after Khruschchev:
L.B.

(Leonid) Brezhnev

1200

This variety of fruit fly invaded California in the 1980s & led to U.S. quarantine laws

the Mediterranean fruit fly

1200

His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead"

Dostoevsky

1200

This word for "hateful" is related to the present-day French word "haine", meaning "hatred"

heinous

1600

They're seen here in their usual positions on rocks

limpets

1600

Following Alan Greenspan at the Fed:
B.B.

Ben Bernanke

1600

This predator with a feline name has expanded from the Pacific to coastal areas of the Atlantic & Caribbean as well

the lionfish

1600

Just 10 days before he became a dead soul, this author burned sequels he had written for his "Dead Souls"

Nikolai Gogol

1600

If someone calls you this, it can mean you are inadequate (or you arouse compassion)

pitiful

2000

For much of its 1,100-mile length, it forms South Africa's border with Botswana & Zimbabwe

the Limpopo

2000

After Roman emperor Antoninus Pius:
M.A.

Marcus Aurelius

2000

Apis mellifera scutellata is best known by this scary name & came from Africa to Brazil to the United States

killer bees

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Not "were" but this 4-letter word for dreadful comes before the name of an extinct wolf

dire

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