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I taste better than I smell. What am I?
When you take away the whole from me, there is always some left. What am I?
Tear me off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead. What am I?
As a state in America I am round on both sides and high in the middle.
I'm a word that is not even strange. What am I?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.