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Can you work with the words? (I)



    1. sycophancy                                             a. murder of one’s father

    2. dilettantism                                           b. excessive patriotism

    3. chauvinism                                             c. murder of one’s ruler


    4. patrimony                                              d. inheritance from one’s father

    5. patricide                                              e. murder of one’s sister

    6. matricide                                              f. murder of one’s brother


    7. fratricide                                             g. murder of a person

    8. sororicide                                             h. toadying

    9. homicide                                               i. murder of one’s mother


  10. regicide                                                j. dabbling
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