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• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

• a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

• a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• a person who travels through the water by swimming

• a person who takes a bath

• the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

• a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

• the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

• the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

• a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)