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exceptionable & exceptional

exceptionable (ik SEP shuh nuh buhl)
Liable to be objectionable or offensive: “The teachers attempted to censor the exceptionable passages in the new novel assigned to the students.”
exceptional (ik SEP shuh nuhl)
Differing from the norm, either better than average or worse than average: “There was an exceptional amount of rain this summer and as a result, the rivers ran very high.”
The exceptional remark made by the politician was deemed exceptionable by the electoral committee.

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