Anagrams of: KURUS

• a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned

• slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

• A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods.

• large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle

• North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776