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"text": "settle + -or → settlor",
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"text": "survive + -or → survivor",
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"text": "Resistors possess resistance and inductors possess inductance.",
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"(electrical science) Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed with -ance"
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"text": "err + -or → error",
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{
"word": "licensor"
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{
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{
"word": "sculptor"
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