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��Es. ESCE. Ess continued
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�redress
�prophetess
�possess digress
�repress
�repossess
�princess distress
�success
�sorceress
�profess duress
�suppress
�underdress
�progress express
�transgress
�adulteress
�recess excess
�unless
�ambassadress
�mayoress impress
�acquiesce
�proprietress
�overdress largess
�coalesce
�nevertheless
�poetess noblesse
�dispossess
� �prepossess obsess
�effervesce
� �prioress oppress
�giantess
� �Also any compounds ii
�i -less and -ne
�as in which On
�accent is not on the penult
�imate syllable.
�There are over
�a thousand of these
� � �ESE (see EACE and EASE)
� � �Esn
� � �flesh mesh
�thresh
�refresh
�fresh nesh
�afresh
� �ESK. ESQUE
� � �desk gro
�tesque
�picturesque
�burlesque ara
�besque
� �Ear
� � �best west
�distressed
�suggest
�blest wrest
�divest
�suppressed
�breast yest
�expressed
�transgressed
�chest zest
�excessed
�unblest
�crest abreast
�impressed
�unrest
�dressed addressed
�incest
�acquiesced
�guessed aggressed
�infest
�coalesced
�guest arrest
�inquest
�dispossessed
�best assessed
�invest
�effervesced
�jest attest
�molest
�interest
�lest behest
�obsessed
�manifest
�messed bequest
�obtest
�overdressed
�neat caressed pest compressed
�oppressed possessed
�palimpsest prepossessed
�pressed confessed
�professed
�reinvest
�quest congest
�progressed
�repossessed
�rest contest
�protest
�underdressed
�stressed depressed
�recessed
�disinterest
�test detest
�redressed
� �tressed digest
�repressed
� �rest digressed
�request
� �� �
