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Word Search Puzzle

You are given a 2D grid of characters representing a word search puzzle and a list of words. Your task is to find all words from the list that can be formed by sequentially adjacent characters, where adjacent characters can be horizontally or vertically neighboring. Each letter can only be used once in the word. Print the words found in the grid. Input: - The first line contains two integers n and m (1 ≤ n, m ≤ 15), the dimensions of the grid. - The next n lines contain m uppercase letters (A-Z) representing the grid. - The last line contains an integer k (1 ≤ k ≤ 50), the number of words. - The next k lines each contain an uppercase word. Output: - Print each word found in the grid, one per line. Example: Input: 3 4 ABCD EFGH IJKL 3 ABCD EFG XYZ Output: ABCD EFG

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