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From Fuchsia to Baker-Miller Pink
'Quick' once had a very different meaning
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surrogate mother From TMZ to the dictionary.
zealot A fanatical partisan
stonewall to be uncooperative, obstructive, or evasive
scurrilous Containing obscenities, abuse, or slander
depose That word might not mean what you think it means.
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