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Beetle To Traumatise Backward Scholar

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noun

• scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians

32%8 Shortage will traumatise the town
noun

• a small and inadequate amount

30%10 Writer in Old English to traumatise barbarian
noun

• Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)

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