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DIY: Verifying an Alien Dictionary

Explore how to determine if a given list of words is sorted lexicographically based on a unique alien alphabet order. This lesson helps you implement a function to validate word sorting using a custom character sequence, enhancing your problem-solving skills for coding interviews.

Problem statement

In this coding exercise, you are given a list of words written in an alien language. Surprisingly, the aliens also use lowercase English letters, but possibly in a different order. The order of the alphabet is some permutation of lowercase letters of the English language.

Given a vector of words written in the alien ...