OCCLUDE

At times, the University bureaucracy creates occlusions rather than mere obstacles.

DEF:
–verb (used with object)

1.	to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).

2.	to shut in, out, or off.

3.	Physical Chemistry. (of certain metals and other solids) to incorporate (gases and other foreign substances), as by absorption or adsorption.

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