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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Still clinging to the mercenary, Bast’s eyes grew wide with sudden panic as he saw the smith’s prentice approaching.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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The smith’s prentice laid a sympathetic hand on Carter’s shoulder.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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