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  1. lavatory
    a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
    The pakeha kehuas they couldn’t do anything, it was only like having a sheet over your head and going woo-oo at someone in the lavatory...
  2. upholstery
    covering on a piece of furniture
    You could sit back and enjoy the old taxi smells of split upholstery and cigarette, and of something else that could have been the young fulla’s hair oil or his b.o.
  3. afield
    far away from home or one's usual surroundings
    Today he was going further afield, and there was a word no one knew he had.
  4. pension
    regular payment to allow a person to subsist without working
    Same old Post Office where you went to get your pension money, but he always sent Minnie down to get his because he couldn’t stand these old-age people.
  5. determination
    firmness of purpose
    Great-looking hills too and not an easy job cutting them away, it took pakeha determination to do that.
  6. hoe
    dig with a tool with a flat blade
    They had to stay home from school for the planting and picking, usually for the weeding and hoeing as well.
  7. cenotaph
    monument to honor those whose remains are interred elsewhere
    And up there past the cenotaph, that’s where they’d bulldozed all the bones and put in the new motorway.
  8. queue
    form a line or stand in line
    People. Queueing for tickets and hurrying towards the platforms, or coming this way and disappearing out through the double doors, or into the subway or the lavatory or the cafeteria.
  9. undertaking
    any piece of work that is attempted
    And even supposing Sir that subdivision were possible, which it isn’t, I wonder if you fully comprehend what would be involved in such an undertaking.
  10. adequate
    sufficient for the purpose
    Surveying, kerbing and channelling and formation of adequate access, adequate right of ways.
  11. commerce
    transactions supplying goods and services
    We have to plan for roading and commerce, we have to set aside areas for educational and recreational facilities.
  12. recreational
    of or relating to an activity that diverts or amuses
    We have to plan for roading and commerce, we have to set aside areas for educational and recreational facilities.
  13. aesthetic
    pleasing in beauty or good taste
    And the aesthetic aspects have been carefully considered...
  14. veneer
    coating consisting of a thin layer of wood
    He kicked the desk instead. Hard. And the veneer cracked and splintered.
  15. stoke
    (of a fire) stir up or tend
    And when he came out of the bathroom they were watching him, they were stoking up the fire and putting things on the table.
Created on Mon Mar 12 10:48:01 EDT 2018 (updated Fri Mar 23 15:40:45 EDT 2018)

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