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Yes, petition is playable

...and is worth 12 points.

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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)

"Petition" Definition

noun

A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority.
A solemn supplication or request to a superior authority; an entreaty.
Law A formal written application requesting a court for a specific judicial action: a petition for appeal.
Law The judicial action asked for in any such request.
Something requested or entreated.

verb-transitive

To address a petition to.
To ask for by petition; request formally.

verb-intransitive

To make a request, especially formally: petitioned for retrial.

verb

To make a request to .
To make a request.
To make a formal written request.

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