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Deserve — virtue (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

merit

<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">I believe this is a double definition.<br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">deserve</span>' is the first definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that deserve can be written as merit)</span><br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">virtue</span>' is the second definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that virtue can be written as merit)</span><br/ ><br/ ></span>

(Other definitions for merit that I've seen before include "credit" , "Worth; deserve" , "Advantage" , "Excellence, desert" , "distinction" .)

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