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DIY: Verifying an Alien Dictionary

Understand how to determine if a list of words is ordered according to a provided alien alphabet. Learn to implement a function that checks lexicographical sorting based on a custom character sequence, enhancing your ability to solve unique string sorting problems in 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 ...