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rupture (noun)

    A burst, split, or break.
    A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.

interstice (noun)

    A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal.
    An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
    By extension, a small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.

inclusion (noun)

    An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
        e.g.: The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.
    The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
        e.g.: The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.

annex (noun)

    An addition, an extension.
    An appendix.
    An addition or extension to a building.
    An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

appendix (noun)

    Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text

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paternal (adjective)

    Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
    Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
    Received or inherited from one's father.
    Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).

filicide (noun)

    A person who kills his or her own child.  
    The killing of one's own child.

relinquish (verb)

    To give up, abandon or retire from something.
    To let go (free, away), physically release.
    To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
    To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
        e.g.: The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction

rudimentary(adjective)

    of or relating to one or more rudiments
        e.g.: I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.
    Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
        e.g.: His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.

rudiment (noun)

    A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
        e.g.: We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
    Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
        e.g.: I have the rudiments of an escape plan.

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suffocate (verb)

    To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
        e.g.: Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
    To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
        e.g.: He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.

trite (adjective)

    Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).

hackneyed (adjective)

    Repeated too often.
        e.g.: The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

vicarious (adjective)

    Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another, such as through watching or reading.
        e.g.: People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
    Done on behalf of others
        e.g.: The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.

anticlimax (noun)

    A break in the final crescendo or climax of a narrative, producing a disappointing end.

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optimum (noun)

    The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.

vulgar (adjective)

    Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
    Having to do with ordinary, common people.

waive (verb)

    To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
        e.g.: If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court

of law.

anecdote (noun)

    A short account of an incident, often humorous.
    An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
    A previously untold secret account of an incident.

concede (verb)

    To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
        e.g.: He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.     
    To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
    To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
    To yield or make concession.