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Expurgate V Clean Remove Offensive Parts Book Editors

Word expurgate
Part of Speech V.
Definition clean; remove offensive parts of a book.
Sentence The editors felt that certain passages in the book had to be expurgated before it could be used in the classroom.

Tags: psat

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