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Final Exam
English Vocab Final for LOSERS like me.
112
English
12th Grade
01/17/2008

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Amalgamate
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to blend or unite
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perfunctory
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habitual
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propinquity
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proximity
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edification
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education
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transient
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brief
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attenuate
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to weaken; to thin
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apotheosize
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to glorify
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efficacy
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effectiveness
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latent
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dormant, hidden
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upbraid
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to scold
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precept
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principle, rule
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sundry/myriad
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various variety
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apprise
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to inform
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sedulous
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diligent, detail oriented
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languid
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sluggish, slow
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intrepid
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brave; bold
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lucubration
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intense study/meditation
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fastidious
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demanding
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multifarious
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diverse
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invidious
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offensively discriminatory; hateful; to cause ill will
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assuage
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to soothe, to calm
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conjecture
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a hypothesis
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importune
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to beg, plead
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compunction
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a tinge of guiilt
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capricious
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fickle
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effusion
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an outpouring, gushing
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pellucid
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clear
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obstinate
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stubborn
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deciduous
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shedding; falling off; shortlived
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augury
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omen, prophesy
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base
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lacking values
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beguile
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to trick someone into doing something
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chary
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very cautious
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clemency
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leniency
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entreat
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to ask for a favor
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extol
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to praise
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forbearance
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patience
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germane
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relevant, appropriate, important
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heed
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to pay attention to
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peruse
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to look carefully
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expostulate
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to reason with
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potent/impotent
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powerful/powerless
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malefactions
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evil doings
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pestilent
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diseased or contagious
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wont
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a habit/habitual
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refactory
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resisting
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consonancy
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consistency
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diadem
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crown
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gratis
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free
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insipid
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dull, boring
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calumny
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slander
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lief
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gladly willingly
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abominable
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detestable
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insidious
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sly/seductive
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vouchesafe
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to condesciend; to give to
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extant
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in existence
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choleric
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angry
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whet
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to sharpen
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incorporal
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without a body
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cicatrice
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scar or scar tissue
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impetuous
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impulsive
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rioutous
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routy/funny
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ostentation
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outward show
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destitute
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lacking/impoverished
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pleurisy
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peneumonia
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abate
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to lessen in quantity or intensity
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gall
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bitterness/irritation or to irritate
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pendant
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overhanging or suspended
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indue
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to be capable of
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cudgel
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to beat with a club
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recognizance
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a bond/contract
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abhor
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to hate
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obsequies
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funeral rites
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churlish
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rude
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prate
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to babble
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pall
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grave covering/to depress
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debatement
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quarrell
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verity
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truth
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pallid
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pale
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callow
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immature
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abject
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sad
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florid
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red/blushing
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burgeon
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to bloom
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interminable
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without end
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postulate
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assume to be true
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deferential
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respectful
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genial
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kind/friendly
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excise
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to remove surgically
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abstemious
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sparing
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credulous
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gullible
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decorous
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properly behaved
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demure
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to object; to delay
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oblique
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misleading, unclear
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recapitulation
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a summary
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scrupulous
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having morals
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sententious
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arrogantly moralizing
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germinal
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in the beginning stages
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ingratiate
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to put oneself in the good graces of somebody else
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plangent
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sad tone; reverberating
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supine
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lying down
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squalid
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dirty or poor
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propitiate
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appease
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turpitude
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wickedness
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pullulation
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an increase, a multiplication at a rapid rate
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moribound
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near death
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fulmination
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explosion; protestation
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ebb
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to recede
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oscillate
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to swing; to sway
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vestige
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the last trace
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desolate
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deserted, bare
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brusque
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abrupt
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disconsolate
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unable to be consoled
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