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Oasis

A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.

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Parcel 76% connected

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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Shelter 76% connected

That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

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Tract 76% connected

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.

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Desert 70% connected

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Haven 92% connected

A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Area noun · 86% connection

a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Beryl noun · 78% connection

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fertile, green, spot, waste, desert.
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Blotch adjective · 78% connection

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fertile, green, spot, waste, desert.
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Charbon noun · 78% connection

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

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Chlorocruorin noun · 78% connection

A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.

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Chlorophyll noun · 78% connection

Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…

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Chlorosis noun · 78% connection

A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.

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Consume verb · 78% connection

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Copperas noun · 78% connection

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fertile, green, spot, waste, desert.
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Fertile adjective · 78% connection

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, f…

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Fertility noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile…

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Glaucous adjective · 78% connection

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fertile, green, spot, waste, desert.
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Green superl. · 78% connection

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fertile, green, spot, waste, desert.
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Greenfinch noun · 78% connection

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

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