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Aid agency

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An office or organization that gives help or assistance

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Approach

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An act or instance of approaching

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Beneficiary

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One that receives benefits

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Discrimination

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Distintion made on th basis of a prejudice: difference

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Editor

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The person who supervises the preparation of a publication: the one who reviews or corrects as a manuscript

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Employee

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A person hired to work for another

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Growing demand

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A demand in process of expansion

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Illiterate

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An illiterate person

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Lack

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Deficiency or absence of thing missing or wanted

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Lift

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The act of lifting

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Majority

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A number larger than half of a total

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Opportunity

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An appropiate or favorable time or ocassion

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Poverty

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The state or condition of being poor

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Puppy

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Young dog

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Right

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Something to which a person is entitled, as by just claim or legal guarantee

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Service

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An act of helpful activity; the providing or a providee of maintennance or repair

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Therapist

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The person who provides treatment for disease or a disorder

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Whole

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The entire quantify, number,extent or duration

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Affordable

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Having enough money to buy

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Alternative

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Affording a choice; nontraditional or unconventional

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Developing

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Having relatively low living standards or industrial productivity

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Foreing

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Of or from another country or nation

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Graceful

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Full of elegance or beauty

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Male

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Of or characterisctic of a boy or man: masculine

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Playful

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Full of play or fun

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Reproductive

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Capable of reproducing again

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Adequately

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Sufficiently, suitably

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Allegedly

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Repirtedly

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Invariably

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Not changing

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Secondly

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In the second place

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Against

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In opposition to, contrary

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Condemn

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To censure; to disapprove

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Constitute

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To form, to compose, to make up

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Deny

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To contradict, to refute, to disaffirm

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Establish

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To institute, to found, to set up

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Focus

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To bring into focus, adjust.center

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Last

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To continue , to go on. To persist

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Offer

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To propose, to present,to place at one’s disposal

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Seek

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To try to find, to search for