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observation
Noun
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Observation is the act of carefully seeing things that happen.
To learn, you must be good at observation.
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An observation is something someone saw, heard etc.
In science, we record our observations so we can think about them later.
ward
Noun
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A ward is an area in a hospital that focused on one kind of medicine.
We visited them in the hospital's children's ward.
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A ward is an area of a city.
The lower ninth ward of New Orleans was destroyed by the flood.
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A ward is someone, usually a child, who is under the legal care of someone else.
ward
Verb
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If you ward off something bad, you do something to keep it away.