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Liaison
Communication or cooperation that facilitates a good working relationship between people or organizations
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Convalesce
To recover one's strength over a period of time after an illness or operation
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Abysmal
Extremely bad ; appalling
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Acquiesce
To accept something reluctantly but without protest
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Ingenue
- An innocent or unsophisticated young woman
- A part of an ingenue in a play
- An actress who plays an ingenue
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Anomalous
Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected
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Ancillary
Providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system
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Apartheid
System of racial segregation in South America enforced by legislation by the National Party (NP), governing party for decades
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Ennui
A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement
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Armistice
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time ; a truce
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Asymptote
A line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance
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Asterisk
A symbol (*) used to mark printed or written text, typically as a reference to an annotation or to stand for omitted matter
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Asbestos
Refers to a set of six naturally occurring fibrous minerals: chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite.
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Auxiliary
Providing supplementary or additional help or support
A person or thing providing supplementary or additional help or support
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Bailiwick
- one's sphere of operations or particular area of interest
- the district or jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff
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Bivouac
Stay in a temporary area without cover
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Cataclysm
- A large-scale and violent event in the natural world
- A sudden violent upheaval, especially in a political or social context
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Chassis
- The base frame of a motor vehicle or other wheeled conveyance
- The outer structural framework of a piece of audio, radio, and or computer equipment
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Clerestory
- The upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to to the central parts of the building
- The windows of the clerestory of a church or similar windows in another building
- a raised section of roof running down the center of a railroad car, with small windows or ventilators
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Chronological
(of a record of events) Starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred
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Dichotomy
A division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different
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Diaspora
- Scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale.
- It is to also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland
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Derriere
Euphemistic term for a person's buttocks
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Desiccation
- State of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying
- Desiccants are hygroscopic substances that induces or sustains such a state to in its local vicinity in a moderate sealed container
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