reconciliation vs tangle

reconciliation

noun
  • The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site. 

  • Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church. 

  • The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement. 

  • The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc. 

  • The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement. 

  • The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people. 

tangle

noun
  • Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. 

  • An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. 

  • A complicated or confused state or condition. 

  • A tangled twisted mass. 

  • A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease. 

  • Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person. 

  • A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times. 

  • An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. 

  • A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns. 

verb
  • To mix together or intertwine. 

  • To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. 

  • To catch and hold. 

  • To become mixed together or intertwined. 

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