DESERTS

PRONUNCIATION: (di-ZUHRTS)

MEANING: noun: Something that is deserved.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin deservire (to serve zealously). Earliest documented use: 1297.
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DESESTS - defeats the incumbent in a Congressional election

DECERTS - these are the signatures we had to disqualify on the petition

DE-BERTS - removes the yellow Muppet from the Sesame Street show