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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
3. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
4. anthropologize, v. View full entry 1939
...trans. To explain, treat, or study anthropologically....
5. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
6. bride, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A woman at her marriage; a woman just about to be married or very recently married....
7. broad, adj., n.1, and adv. View full entry 971
...Extended in the direction measured from side to side; wide. Opposed to narrow....
8. class, n. and adj. View full entry 1533
...Roman Hist. A group of Roman citizens who could meet a certain minimum wealth qualification; spec. each of the five groups into which property owners were divided for military...
9. culture, n. View full entry c1450
...The action or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage; = cultivation1. Now chiefly with of....
10. early, adj. and n. View full entry ?c1225
...With reference to the time of day....
11. edge, n. View full entry OE
...The thin sharpened side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon; opposed to the ‘back’ or blunt side; or to the ‘flat’ or broad surface of the blade. Often associated...
12. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
13. food, n. View full entry OE
...Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth; nourishment, provisions. ...
14. gender, n. View full entry c1390
...Grammar....
15. human, adj. and n. View full entry ?c1450
...Of the nature of the human race; that is a human, or consists of human beings; belonging to the species Homo sapiens or other (extinct) species of the genus ...
16. ideal, adj. and n. View full entry c1450
...Existing as an idea or archetype; relating to or consisting of ideas in the Platonic or theological sense: see idea1a....
17. middle, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating that member of a group or series, or that part of a whole, so situated as to have the same number of members or parts on each side of it: said...
18. Mongolian, adj. and n. View full entry 1706
...Relating to or characteristic of Mongolia, the Mongols, their languages, etc.; = Mongol1....
19. mother, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The female parent of a human being; a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth; (also, in extended use) a woman who undertakes the responsibilities...
20. Negro, n. and adj. View full entry 1555
...A member of a dark-skinned group of peoples originally native to sub-Saharan Africa; a person of black African origin or descent. In early use also applied to other dark-skinned peoples, esp. Moors....
