Related Words for continental drift

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drift
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Noun
folding
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Noun
creep
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Noun
plate
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Noun
slide
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Noun
slippage
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Noun
accretion
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Noun
slab
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Noun
foreland
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Noun
transgression
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Noun
vergence
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Noun
cataclysm
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Noun
glacier
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Noun
rolling stone
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Phrase, Noun
crust
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Noun
erratic
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Adjective
warping
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Noun
entrainment
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Noun
graben
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Noun
earth tremor
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Phrase, Noun
continental shelf
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Name, Name
crag
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Noun
till
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Noun, Verb
rake
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Noun
cordillera
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Noun
transform
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Verb
subsidence
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Noun
fault
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Noun
uplift
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Noun
terrane
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Noun
mountain chain
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Phrase, Noun
continental divide
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Name, Name
fault line
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Phrase, Noun
rift valley
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Phrase, Noun
debris
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Noun
horizontal
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Adjective
superposition
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Noun
abstraction
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Noun
bedding
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Noun
accident
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Noun
fracture
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Noun
degradation
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Noun
land bridge
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Phrase, Noun
stage
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Noun
abrasion
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Noun
anticline
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Noun
geoid
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Noun
landmass
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Noun
sheet
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Noun
ice sheet
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Phrase, Noun
landslide
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Noun
group
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Noun
alluvium
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Noun
climate
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Noun
aberration
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Noun
abuse
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Noun, Verb
academicians
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Noun
acceleration
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Noun
adrift
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Adverb, Adjective
african
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Adjective, Name
alluvial
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Adjective, Noun
american
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Name, Adjective
anglo
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Name
ascent
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Noun
ashore
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Adverb
asian
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Adjective, Name
attrition
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Noun, Verb
away
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Adverb, Adjective, Verb
awl
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Noun, Adjective
balkan
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Name, Adjective
bearing
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Noun, Adjective
bentley
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Name
bias
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Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
blanketed
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Adjective
blow
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
blues
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Noun
boarding
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Noun
boat
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Noun, Verb
bog
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
brown
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Name, Adjective, Verb
bypass
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Noun, Verb
canadians
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Verb
capped
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Adjective
cast
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
cherokee
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Name
coaster
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Noun
cold
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
colonial
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Adjective, Noun
continent
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Noun, Adjective
decline
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Noun, Verb
deflection
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Noun
delinquency
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Noun
departure
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Noun
deposition
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Noun
depreciate
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Verb
derailment
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Noun
derivation
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Noun
derive
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Verb
derogation
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Noun
detour
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Noun, Verb
deviance
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Noun
deviation
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Noun
dispersal
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Noun
dispersion
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Noun
displacement
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Noun
distortion
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Noun
divergence
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Noun
diversion
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Noun
divert
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Verb
dope
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
downstream
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Adverb, Adjective, Verb
doze
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Verb, Noun
drag
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Verb, Noun
driftwood
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Noun
duchy
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Noun
earl
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Noun
electricians
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Noun
embezzlement
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Noun
enrichment
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Noun
erosion
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Noun
err
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Verb
european
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Adjective, Name
exodus
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Noun, Verb
explorers
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Verb
fig
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Name, Verb
float
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Noun, Verb
flow
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Noun, Verb
foreign
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Adjective, Name
french
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Adjective, Name, Verb
gad
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Name, Verb
gallery
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Noun, Verb
giants
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Verb
glacial
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Adjective, Noun
heading
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Noun
hell
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Noun, Adverb, Verb
hemispheric
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Adjective
hijacking
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Noun
hotel
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Noun
icbm
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Name
iceberg
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Noun
immobility
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Noun
imperial
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Adjective, Name
impetus
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Noun
inaction
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Noun
increases
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Noun, Verb
inland
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Adverb, Noun, Adjective
insular
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Adjective, Name
intercontinental
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Adjective
leakage
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Noun
leeway
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Noun
limousines
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Noun
lincoln
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Name
line
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Noun, Verb
lock
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Noun, Verb
lost
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Adjective
magdalen
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Name
mainland
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Noun
marine
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
maritime
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Adjective
masters
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Noun
mediterranean
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Name, Adjective
metropolitan
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Name, Adjective
misappropriation
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Noun
mockery
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Noun
move
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Verb, Noun
movement
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Noun
nod
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Noun, Verb
ocean
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Noun
oceanic
xx/x
Adjective
offence
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Noun
onshore
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Adjective, Adverb, Verb
operation
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Noun
outgrowth
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Noun
pan
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
peninsular
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Noun, Adjective
percolation
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Noun
plateau
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Noun, Verb
platform
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Noun, Verb
prints
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Verb
punch
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Noun, Verb
purport
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Verb, Noun
raft
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Noun, Verb
ramble
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Noun, Verb
range
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Noun, Verb
result
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Noun, Verb
rise
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Noun, Verb
roam
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Verb, Noun
rove
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Noun, Verb
sail
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Noun, Verb
scandinavian
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Adjective, Name
sea
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Noun
seaboard
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Noun
seepage
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Noun
separate
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
shelf
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Noun
shift
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Noun, Verb
shrinkage
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Noun
slip
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Noun, Verb
slow
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Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
snow
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Noun, Verb
sparsity
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Noun
stabilizer
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Noun
stem
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Noun, Verb
stray
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
stream
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Noun, Verb
subcontinent
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Noun
submergence
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Noun
swan
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Noun, Verb
sway
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Noun, Verb
swing
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Noun, Verb
tendency
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Noun
tenor
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Noun, Adjective
tide
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Noun, Verb
torpedo
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Noun, Verb
trackless
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Adjective
transcontinental
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Adjective, Noun
trawl
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Noun, Verb
tray
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Noun, Verb
trend
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Noun, Verb
trodden
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Adjective
vagabond
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
vagueness
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Noun
variance
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Noun