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   pogrom

   /ˈpɒɡrəm/

   noun

   • 1. an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: "the pogroms of the 1880s drove many westwards to the USA"

   Word Origin late 19th century: Yiddish and Russian, literally ‘devastation’, from pogromit ‘destroy by the use of violence’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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