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Take The Gavel

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noun

• a seat for one person, with a support for the back

• the position of professor

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person

• a particular seat in an orchestra

verb

• act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

• preside over

32%5 One who uses a gavel to get attention
noun

• a person who weeps

• (formerly) an official who made public announcements

• a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

32%12Gavel used by a judge
adjective satellite

• shaped in the form of a hammer

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