Best
Best verb - To achieve a victory over.
Usage example: at last she's bested her card-playing mother at the game of hearts
Wax
Wax verb - To coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce friction.
Both words in one sentence
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Mystery of the Wax Museum has the heroine, a victim she didn't know who becomes Joan of Arc, and her best friend who almost becomes the Marie Antoinette victim.
Source: Film / House of Wax (1953) -
Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch is slightly less extreme than other examples, but she could wax hysterical with the best of them.
Source: Drama Queen - Wax were a 90s L.A.-based Alternative Rock band best known for their video "California" (You know, the one with the running man on fire).
Source: Names The Same / Music
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