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Portly Adj Stout Corpulent Salesclerk Diplomatically Referred Overweight

Word portly
Part of Speech ADJ.
Definition stout; corpulent.
Sentence The salesclerk diplomatically referred to the overweight customer as not fat but portly.

Tags: psat

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