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Junta, jocund, jalopy: the provocation this week is the letter ‘J’. Let’s have some fun as we go on our weekly word hunting adventure.

This week, we discuss some words that are related to the moon and India’s mission to it – Chandrayaan 3. Apogee, mascon, mare: How many of these words do you know?

With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, coal mines became deeper and deeper to meet the growing demand of fuel for industrial machinery. However, deeper mines also brought with them innumerous dangers for the miners themselves. We explain how canaries became indispensable lifelines in the risky profession, eventually lending their name to a popular English idiom.

During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany committed untold atrocities on people it considered to be a threat to "racial purity'', especially Jews, killing at least six million Jewish men, women and children in concentration and extermination camps.

Do you know how the words apartheid, ghetto, and 'separate development' originated?