11 September 2001 Glossary

11 September 2001 Glossary

Ground Zero

the location of the North and South World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan where the primary terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 occurred

chaos

a state without order

behold

see, observe

office

a place of work

floor

the story of a building - the ground floor, second floor, etc.

defended

protected against some threat

squeegee

a device to push excess water from a surface; often used on tennis courts

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