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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (44 Down) aquatic (NOUN) 1. A plant that lives in or on water. (ADJECTIVE) 1. Operating or living or growing in water. 2. Relating to or consisting of or being in water. Examples of usage: Fish are aquatic creatures; boats are aquatic vehicles; and wild celery is an aquatic plant. Aqua is the Latin word for water. Agua is the Spanish word for water. Aqua-, and aqui- are common prefixes used in English to indicate "water related" as in : aquaculture, aquanaut, aquaplane, aquarium, etc. An execption is aquiline,
which is defined as: curved or hooked, like an eagle's beak; as in an aquiline
nose.
Did You Know? (18 Down) Ella Fitzgerald, the "First Lady of Song", won 13 Grammy Awards in a career that spanned almost six decades. Most
critics would concede that she is the best scat singer of all time. Scat in
singing jazz is described as: the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the
words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument. Fitzgerald also
received the National Medal of Art presented by then president Ronald Reagan and
the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
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