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Addendum B

Order of the Wooden Tongue

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Positive discrimination

Operationalize

Totalizing

Anthropomorphize

Incentivizing

conversate

Orate

Facilitate

Mythologification

Food insecurity (euphemism for hunger)

Food intake (for eating)

Impacted

Ascertain

Therefore

Aforementioned

Pertain

Multifaceted

Utilizing

Thus

Stated

Multifarious

Team focussed

Actualizing