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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (41 Down) twilight (NOUN) 1. The diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth, esp. in the evening. 2. A condition of decline following the waning of past glory. 3. The time of day immediately following sunset. Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloaming, nightfall. (Twilight as an adjective is defined as: Lighted by or as if by twilight. Synonyms: dusky, twilit.) Derives from Old English twa two plus LIGHT; used in the sense of "the light between the two", i.e. between day and night. Note: Twilight is also the name of a 2005 novel written by Stephenie Meyer that was adapted into a hit movie released in November 2008 in the US.
Did You Know? (6 Down) Blue whales are believed to be the largest creatures ever to have lived on Earth. But being large does not slow them down. A Blue Whale can swim up to speeds of 20 miles per hour. A newborn Blue Whale weighs on the average of three tons, or 6000 pounds! A baby Blue Whale, or calf, gains nine plus pounds per hour while feeding on its mother's milk. As an adult, a Blue Whale can weigh up to 200 tons. That's 400,000 pounds! Its heart can be be the size of a small car. Feeding mostly on the small shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans known as krill, a Blue Whale can consume up to 40 million krill in one day..
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