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Sweet Former Pupil Returned A Gong

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noun

• A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.

• (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.)

• An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

34%15Former pupil/present pupil
noun

• a student who continues studies after graduation

27%6Returned to a former state
adjective satellite

• no longer active or practicing

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