Detained in the Desert Glossary

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Detained in the Desert Glossary

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Hindrance

Complication, barrier, obstacle

Tenement

Flat, apartment

Delineate

Chart, describe, define

Usurpation

Illegal encroachment

Reprobate

Libertine, rogue, scoundrel

Indemnity

Protection, safeguard

Indubitably

Impossible to doubt

Propagate

Generate, cultivate

Plundered

Stripped, raided

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