prentice
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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
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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
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I could never finish my mission for Simon Bass, but neither could I go on being a prentice, once they had learned the truth about me.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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"So you feel you're ready to move from prentice to hired man. Are you quite certain you've learned everything you need to know?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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An old weatherworker of the Vale, seeking to win the boy as prentice, had taught him several charms.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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