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Answer:
The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European colonisers partitioned the – up to that point – largely unexplored African continent into protectorates, colonies and 'free-trade areas'.
Explanation:
The answer is <u>detached</u>.
Detached means something not connected to any other structure or building, separated from the rest or isolated. In streets dead-end, at the very end of it, it's common to find some type of detached building, like a house; and such isolation don't tend to bring anything interesting or exciting to people around it, but dullness.
