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HINTERLANDS

a region lying inland from a coast

The meaning of the word hinterlands is a region lying inland from a coast.

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ultimatuma final proposition, condition, or demand
intersticea space that intervenes between things
burnishto make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing
routa state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat
grandiosecharacterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration
hoaxto trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
centigraderelating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point
unctionthe act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
reprobationthe act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated