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   A·pach·e

   /əˈpaCHē/

   noun

   • 1. a member of a North American people living chiefly in New Mexico and Arizona. The Apache put up fierce resistance to the European settlers and were, under the leadership of Geronimo, the last North American Indian people to be conquered.
   • 2. any of the Athabaskan languages of the Apache, which have about 14,000 speakers altogether, though some are virtually extinct.

   adjective

   • 1. relating to the Apache or their language.

   Word Origin from Mexican Spanish, probably from Zuni Apachu, literally ‘enemy’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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