The other night at the bar, our friend Travis was trying to come up with words that start with the prefix "un" that wouldn't work without it. As an example, you can't "un" off the word unkempt. "Wow sir, you are looking quite kempt in that double-breasted suit and monocle." No, doesn't work. No one would ever use that in a sentence, I mean really. Okay, side note, I did this whole post but now I am looking up the non-"un" versions of these words and they are almost all real words, but come on, who uses these words? You're right, no one. Oy, this post is a failure. Here is the list we came up with without using a dictionary or the internet:
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