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A _________ is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or water.
Curtain
_____________ is the change of the state of matter from the gas phase into the liquid phase, and is the reverse of vaporization.
Condensation
__________ is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
Camouflage
A _______ is an excavation or structure created on the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.
Well
A ________ is a variety of costume worn by members of an organization while usually participating in that organization's activity.
Uniform
_________ is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, and spread the weight of them evenly.
Mortar
A ________ is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the visual perception in only one eye.
Monocle
The English term _______ is derived from a Latin term meaning a spear or javelin employed by both infantry and cavalry, with English initially keeping these generic meanings. It developed later into a term for spear-like weapons specially designed and modified to be part of a "weapon system" for use couched under the arm during a charge.
Lance
________, first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the ________ plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
Cotton
In law, a _______ (also known as a _______ , _______ or _______ ) is a self-contained unit of accommodation – such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, recreational vehicle, or other "substantial" structure – used as a home by one or more households.
Dwelling, Residence, Abode, Domicile
A ______ ______ is a device for delivering electric current from an ignition system to the combustion chamber of a ______-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by an electric ______, while containing combustion pressure within the engine.
Spark plug
A _______ is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust. _______ are often star-forming regions, such as in the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle _______ . In these regions, the formations of gas, dust, and other materials "clump" together to form denser regions, which attract further matter and eventually become dense enough to form stars.
Nebula(e)
__________ is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.
Fresco
In sports, an _____ tournament, or _____ competition, indicates anyone may enter the tournament or competition, especially without regard to their professional or amateur status.
Open
In music, an _________ or perfect _________ is an interval between two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.
Octave
An __________ is a portion of a work (usually a film or music recording) that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work's final, publicly released version.
Outtake
_________ is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word _________ can also mean the products resulting from such efforts.
Technology
The _______, historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.
Osprey
________ _________ is the world's second-largest island, with an area of 785,753 km2. Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the 150-kilometre wide Torres Strait.
New Guinea / Papua