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Verruca N Contagious Painful Wart Sole Foot Sadhu

Word verruca
Definition n. A contagious, painful wart on the sole of the foot.
Sentence [The sadhu] filled his days teaching my father palmistry and witching away my mother's verrucas.
Source Midnight's Children, p. 160

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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