What We All Long For Glossary

by Dionne Brand

What We All Long For Glossary

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Region

A geographical area or location

Genealogy

A person's line of ancestors; their family tree

Wilfully

Deliberately

Untraceable

Impossible to find

Jostling

Bumping into people in a large crowd

Hoarded

Collected many unneccesary items, without throwing posessions away

Inversion

Reversing something

Heterogeneous

Made up on many different, diverse elements or people

Relative

Something that changes, depending on what it is compared to

Sweatshop

A business that employs cheap labour and has horrible working conditions

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