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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

Vetch had been made sorcerer this fall and was a prentice no more, but that set no barrier between them.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Everyone called the smith’s prentice “boy” despite the fact that he was a hand taller than anyone there.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The smith’s prentice shifted his grip on the iron bar selfconsciously.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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