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Grade 6
(ex-cess) 2 syllables

Definition

noun. more than what is needed or allowed.

Example Sentence

There is an excess of milk.

More Example Sentences

They faced excess food after the party.

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Rhymes

  • bess
  • besse
  • bless
  • bress
  • bresse
  • ches
  • chess
  • cress
  • crests
  • dress
  • es
  • ess
  • esse
  • fess
  • fests
  • gess
  • gless
  • gress
  • guess
  • guests'
  • guests
  • hess
  • hesse
  • jess
  • kess
  • kless
  • kness
  • kress
  • kresse
  • les
  • less
  • mess
  • nes
  • ness
  • pesce
  • pless
  • press
  • press'
  • presse
  • ques
  • ress
  • s
  • s.
  • stress
  • tess
  • tress
  • vess
  • wes
  • yes

  • excess
  • address
  • aggress
  • assess
  • attests
  • bequests
  • caress
  • compress
  • confess
  • contests
  • depress
  • digests
  • digress
  • distress
  • divests
  • egress
  • ellesse
  • etess
  • excess
  • express
  • express'
  • finesse
  • fluoresce
  • forbess
  • fs
  • impress
  • infests
  • invests
  • l'express
  • largesse
  • ls
  • lutece
  • lyness
  • molests
  • noblesse
  • obsess
  • oppress
  • possess
  • profess
  • progress
  • protests
  • recess
  • redress
  • regress
  • repress
  • requests
  • retests
  • siese
  • simplesse
  • success
  • suggests
  • suppress
  • transgress
  • ts
  • undress
  • unless
  • us
  • vs

  • abs
  • acquiesce
  • ccs
  • coalesce
  • convalesce
  • cps
  • cus
  • dispossess
  • dss
  • ers
  • ins
  • las
  • lcs
  • nonetheless
  • oas
  • pos
  • reassess
  • reinvests
  • repossess
  • uss
  • uys

  • abts
  • adss
  • cmos
  • hces
  • kjos
  • nevertheless
  • stds
  • tcas
  • ws
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