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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 get_common(self, filename):
        ''' Process lists of common name words '''
        word_list = []
        words = open(filename)
        for word in words.readlines():
            word_list.append(word.strip())
        return word_list