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_________ are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.
Butterflies
In common usage, ____________ is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information. A _______ sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination.
Randomness / Random
In biology, __________ has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly, it is a state reached by the population during that process. Thirdly, it is a phenotypic trait, with a functional role in each individual organism, that is maintained and has evolved through natural selection.
Adaptation
______, also commonly referred to as ______, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and ______ organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from ______ by restricting the former term specifically to displaced ______.
Soil / Earth
________, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a neighborhood and district in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it.
A ________ is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.
Fertilizer
_________ or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
Canals
A _________ _________ is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a ________ (generally by powerful sinister groups, often political in motivation), when other explanations are more probable.
Conspiracy Theory
The _______ is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino. The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, which was founded on its eastern banks.
Tiber
__________ VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh.
Cleopatra
A _______ is a type of small motorcycle, generally having a less stringent licensing requirement than full motorcycles or automobiles. Historically, the term exclusively meant a similar vehicle with both bicycle pedals and a motorcycle engine.
Moped
An ________ is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal (usually forged or cast steel), with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck.
Anvil
_________ is an umbrella term for a range of Indian religious and spiritual traditions (sampradayas) that are unified by adherence to the concept of dharma, a cosmic order maintained by its followers through rituals and righteous living, as first expounded in the Vedas.
Hinduism
_________ or _________ is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes, including beams and planks or boards.
Lumber / Timber
________ is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Collage
In radio engineering, an ________ (American English) or ________ (British English) is an electronic device that converts an alternating electric current into radio waves (transmitting), or radio waves into an electric current (receiving). It is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.
Antenna / Aerial
A material is _______ if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation. _______ materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of high strength. Breaking is often accompanied by a sharp snapping sound.
Brittle
___________ Animation LLC s an American animation studio owned by Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. The studio has produced a total of 50 feature films, including several of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, with Shrek 2 (2004) having been the highest at the time of its release.
DreamWorks
________ are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The English equivalent for the term ________ is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization.
Yakuza
A __________ (also called a ________) is a mechanical device which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or torque multiplication/reduction in a machine.
Transmission / Gearbox
______________ is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.
Excommunication
_______, officially the Republic of _______, is a country in Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west.
Croatia
__________ is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.
Aerobatics
A ______ is a solid or highly viscous liquid that can be converted into a polymer. ______s may be biological or synthetic in origin, but are typically harvested from plants. Well-known ______s include amber, hashish, frankincense, myrrh and the animal-derived ______ , shellac.
Resin
_____ is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz. _____ may occur as a soil (often mixed with sand or clay) or as sediment mixed in suspension with water. _____ usually has a floury feel when dry, and lacks plasticity when wet.
Silt