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Abandon (verb) - to leave someone or something and never return to them.

Adopt (verb) - to legally make someone else's child your own son or daughter.

Adoption (noun) - when someone adopts a child.

Foster (verb) - to take care of someone else's child for a period of time, without becoming their legal parent.

Foster parent - people who foster someone else's child.

Foster children - children who are fostered.

Guardian (noun) - someone who is legally responsible for someone else's child.

Orphan (noun) - a child whose parents are dead.

Orphanage (noun) - a home for children whose parents are dead.

Orthodox Church - a body of Christians who constitute an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of Patriarch of Moscow (headed by Moscow Patriarchate), in communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Paralysis (noun) - when you cannot move part of your body, for example, because you have injured it.

Unfamiliar (adjective formal) - if someone or something is unfamiliar, you don't recognize them.

Violence (noun) - when people attack, hurt or kill other people.

Volunteer - an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life.