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1. Be kind to the less fortunate. When she became wealthy and successful, her spirit of noblesse oblige was clear in the many ways she helped the less fortunate.

2. Using another’s stuff. Usufruct is a legal term meaning the right to use someone else’s property (without damaging it).

3. A flash of profound insight, sudden understanding. Most of us learn not through real epiphanies, but through lots of little epiphanettes.

4. An early bike (or trike, or hand-operated railway car). Some old dictionaries pictured the velocipede as a bicycle with a huge front wheel and a small rear one.

5. Snakes. The ophiology students carefully capture cobras and move them to less-dangerous habitats.

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