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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def extract_words(string):
    '''Extract all alphabetic syllabified forms from 'string'.'''
    return re.findall(r'[%s]+[%s\.]*[%s]+' % (A, A, A), string, flags=FLAGS)