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prentice

[pren-tis] / ˈprɛn tɪs /










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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to Falconer I was apparently no more than an unskilled and incompetent prentice, not fit to converse with or share a room with.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

So it was that I was permitted to stay on as a prentice with the company, and I was very grateful for it.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Bast made a show of offering up his stool to the injured man, then quietly took a seat as far from the smith’s prentice as possible.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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