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If one’s powers or rights are circumscribed, they are limited or restricted.
To cloister someone is to remove and isolate them from the rest of the world.
Ecumenical activities and ideas encourage different religions or congregations to work and worship together in order to unite them in friendship.
An enclave is a small area within a larger area of a city or country in which people of a different nationality or culture live.
Something that is endemic to a place, such as a disease or life form, is very frequently found in and restricted to that area or region.
If you ensconce yourself somewhere, you put yourself into a comfortable place or safe position and have no intention of moving or leaving for quite some time.
A macrocosm is a large, complex, and organized system or structure that is made of many small parts that form one unit, such as a society or the universe.
A microcosm is a small group, place, or activity that has all the same qualities as a much larger one; therefore, it seems like a smaller version of it.
Someone has a parochial outlook when they are mostly concerned with narrow or limited issues that affect a small, local area or a very specific cause; they are also unconcerned with wider or more general issues.
When people or animals are quarantined, they are put in isolation so that they will not spread disease.
Sporadic occurrences happen from time to time but not at constant or regular intervals.
Noun
archipelago
ahr-kuh-PEL-uh-goh
Context
The Galapagos archipelago is one of the most famous groups of islands in the world. Charles Darwin traveled among the islands of this now renowned archipelago, which is where he first developed his theory of evolution. The Galapagos archipelago, a group of thirteen large islands and over one hundred small ones, is home to an amazing variety of wildlife. The rich biodiversity within the archipelago enabled Darwin to visualize and clarify his theory by examining life forms on its many islands.
Quiz:Try again!
Who would enjoy visiting an archipelago?
Someone who likes climbing mountains.
Someone who likes seeing unusual desert land forms.
Galapagos Archipelago March One can hardly forget the islands of the archipelago across which the giant Galapagos tortoises march.
Examples
The 'doomsday' seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
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Newsvine
Topside is part of Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s 'Pacific solution' — a plan to create a refugee archipelago of detention centers strung out across the South Pacific.
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Newsweek
Playing the role of Cinderella is Guadeloupe, a tiny Caribbean island — actually an archipelago consisting of five islands — with less than half a million people.
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Newsweek
From there they embarked on the all-night voyage to the Mentawais, an archipelago of jungle islands ringed by reefs that bend those Indian Ocean swells into some of the world’s best barrels.
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Sports Illustrated
The “principal sea” of the Greeks was the Aegean, in which many islands are scattered about, thus giving rise to the word archipelago.
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YouTube: Hawaiian islands The Hawaiian islands are an archipelago.
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