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��Es. ESCE. Ess continued

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�redress

�prophetess

�possess digress

�repress

�repossess

�princess distress

�success

�sorceress

�profess duress

�suppress

�underdress

�progress express

�transgress

�adulteress

�recess excess

�unless

�ambassadress

�mayoress impress

�acquiesce

�proprietress

�overdress largess

�coalesce

�nevertheless

�poetess noblesse

�dispossess

� �prepossess obsess

�effervesce

� �prioress oppress

�giantess

� �Also any compounds ii

�i -less and -ne

�as in which On

�accent is not on the penult

�imate syllable.

�There are over

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� � �ESE (see EACE and EASE)

� � �Esn

� � �flesh mesh

�thresh

�refresh

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�afresh

� �ESK. ESQUE

� � �desk gro

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�picturesque

�burlesque ara

�besque

� �Ear

� � �best west

�distressed

�suggest

�blest wrest

�divest

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�breast yest

�expressed

�transgressed

�chest zest

�excessed

�unblest

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�coalesced

�guest arrest

�inquest

�dispossessed

�best assessed

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�jest attest

�molest

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�obsessed

�manifest

�messed bequest

�obtest

�overdressed

�neat caressed pest compressed

�oppressed possessed

�palimpsest prepossessed

�pressed confessed

�professed

�reinvest

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