black hole

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chips / crisps / Saratoga potatoes

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What do grasshoppers, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and US Civil War battles have in common?

salient

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deepfake

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desi

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x-dimensional chess

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lavender

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Walter Scott’s Waverly novels are totally off the hook

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Etymologies are sometimes easy to guess; not this one

haggard

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stay in your lane

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