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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

• the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

verb

• win a victory over

• thwart the passage of

37%8Worst of the worst
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37%11 The inclination to see the worst aspects of things or to expect the worst
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