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1. Italian 'carne' (meat) and Latin 'vale' (farewell) may be the roots of:
2. Femto-, a prefix denoting ten to the negative fifteenth power, comes from Danish or Norwegian 'femten', which means:
3. What group uses verbs, nouns, adjectives, and interjections rooted in the ethnic name of the group?
4. 'Gnat' is ultimately related to Old English 'gnagen', meaning what?
5. 'Algebra' comes from the Arabic 'al jabara', meaning:
6. The Nahuatl words 'ahuacatl' (avocado) and 'molli' (sauce) combine to form:
7. 'Robot' comes from Czech 'robota', meaning:
8. 'Cobalt' comes from German 'Kobalt', which is a dialectical variation of a word meaning:
9. 'Cochlea' is derived from Greek 'kochlos', meaning:
10. Which does not mean ten?
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