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inheritance

noun as in possession gained through someone's death

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His widow wants to sue me for all of my grandmother’s inheritance.

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In his conclusion, he points out that a million-dollar inheritance doesn’t go as far as it used to, but he suggests it can still do quite a lot.

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In so doing, these nations didn’t merely betray their Western civilizational inheritance.

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In the end, rice casserole is less about nostalgia than about inheritance.

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The party has since expressed an interest in getting the very wealthy to pay more in inheritance tax, whilst attempting to lessen the impact of the levy on those inheriting modest amounts via family homes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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