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explicit
Adjective
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If something is explicit, it is clearly said or shown, not hidden or just suggested.
It is very important that the company write an explicit statement of workers' responsibilities.
Sometimes it helps to be more explicit when speaking to children.
The problem is made explicit in the letter sent last July.
selection
Noun
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A person makes a selection when a person chooses a smaller number of things from a larger group of things.
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A selection of things is different things that have been chosen or that you can choose from.
The window of the store shows a selection of the things you can buy in the store.
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Selection is a process where the best adapted life forms survive and the others die out.
Charles Darwin was a scientist who wrote about natural selection.
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In Australia, a selection was an area of land which a farmer could choose to buy.
The first thing he had to do was clear the trees of his selection.