Word ladder

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edict 

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deceit

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evicted

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Device

Angelice

viced

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dive

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vie

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vibe 

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vibes  (all I could come up with)

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Brives Brives is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Brives, in the Indre département; Brives-Charensac, in the Haute-Loire département

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Brivers   (The people who live in Brives)

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rivers (where the Brivers swim....)

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viers  (those Brivers swimmers in a race in the rivers)

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rise   (what the Briver river would do when they all got in it at once)

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ire

(what the Briver River viers felt when they all jumped in and the river rose and flooded their homes)

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hire (what they had to do to get people to clean up the mess from the flooding Briver River)

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reich  (when the German government took over that part of France for the clean up job cause they couldn't hire enough locals)

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richer (what the cleanup people were)

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chirper

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Richter  (What the earthquake registered that followed the flood that swept away the Bresnians)

The expression Richter magnitude scale refers to a number of ways to assign a single number to quantify the energy contained in an earthquake.  

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pricer   (the person who estimated the cost of the clean-up job)

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ricer (what they cooked their dinner in when the clean up was done)

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rice (what they ate!)

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rice   (one of the items on the dinner table)

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LOL!

ice

(what kept their drinks cold)

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nice (how they felt after the drinks!)

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mince (the type of tarts they ate for desert)

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income     (what they used to pay for everything)

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encomia  (formal expression of praise)

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cinema     (where they went after dinner)