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   As·pire

   /əˈspī(ə)r/

   

   verb

   • 1. direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something: "we never thought that we might aspire to those heights"
   • 2. rise high; tower: literary "above the domes of loftiest mosques these pinnacles aspire"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from French aspirer or Latin aspirare, from ad- ‘to’ + spirare ‘breathe’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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