Evacuation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means. Abolition; nullification.
Example sentence: I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
Elimination
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
Example sentence: Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.