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2. Talk or rumor, especially about personal or private affairs of others.
5. A biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.
6. An agent that either kills or inhibits the growth of a microorganism.
8. An act of communication in which human beings intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship.
9. A soft bag.
12. Clothes worn under other clothes, often directly next to the skin.
14. A relatively long lasting emotional state.
15. Feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and is used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "sympathy" and "empathy".
16. Creation of a plan for the construction of an object or a system.
17. A lean body shape.

1. A solid material that is typically hard.
2. Writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a wall or other surface, often in a public place.
3. Hand-operated shearing instruments.
4. A group of antibiotics.
7. zone: A region that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.
8. A person who displays exceptional intellectual creativity, or originality.
10. A set of words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses
11. The human species.
13. Group of fish, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head.