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dispute

an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two countries with a common border:

a bitter/long-running dispute

crocus

a small yellow, white, or purple spring flower

robust

(of a person or animal) strong and healthy:

He looks robust and healthy enough.

obscure

not known to many people:

an obscure island in the Pacific

tenuous

A tenuous connection, idea, or situation is weak and possibly does not exist:

The police have only found a tenuous connection between the two robberies.

putatively

generally thought or claimed to be a certain way, although it may not be:

Complaints will be reviewed by a putatively independent panel.

deploy

bring into effective action; utilize.

"they are not always able to deploy this skill"

pedigree

a list of the parents and other relations of an animal:

The breeder showed us the dog's pedigree.

He breeds pedigree poodles/cattle (= ones whose parents and other relations are all of the same breed).