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Note this was the first month of the official WOTD - off to a shaky start.

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concatenation noun

A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession

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burgage noun

a medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding

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topography noun

a detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object; the features themselves (the terrain); the surveying of the features

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butterfly noun

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, usually having colorful/colourful wings (Entry including hundreds of translations)

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syzygy noun

An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as an eclipse

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