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Words with variant spellings

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durance
suasion
versal
monish
complice

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PRONUNCIATION:

(KOM-plis)

MEANING:

noun: An associate; accomplice.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via French from Latin com- (with) + plicare (to fold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plek- (to plait), which is also the source of plait, pleat, pliant, ply, apply, deploy, display, exploit, replicate, and perplex. Earliest documented use: 1475.

USAGE:

"The Rhodesian army employed several methods to get information about the guerrillas and their complices."
Picture Coverage of the World; Transaction Publishers; 2011.

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