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as • pire vi., seek to achieve lofty goals. Many of this year’s college graduates aspire to professional careers as lawyers and doctors.

si • new n. tendon or nerve. The strenuous exercises stretched the sinews of Tara’s leg muscles.

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man • a • cle n., handcuff, shackle. Rusted manacles hung from hooks on the old prison’s walls.

hap • less adj. having no luck. One accident after another had befallen the hapless student.

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blight vt., destroy, prevent growth. Farmers worry that the locusts will blight their crops.