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Prefers French Word In Prose Version

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99%8Exact Match!
verb

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

• be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

• change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent

30%8 A word or phrase that is used to differentiate an older version of something from a newer version
noun

• a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate

27%6 Sitcom with Charlotte Ritchie (UK version) and Rose McIver (US version)
noun

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

• a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

• the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

• a suggestion of some quality

verb

• move like a ghost

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• write for someone else

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