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199%6Exact Match!
237%8 [Urgent! Urgent!]
331%12 Determining the most urgent actions

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We think the answer is "DIREST" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  • • Causing fear or dread or terror
  • adjective
  • • Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  • • Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  • • Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
  • • Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "The direst situation imaginable is being stranded in the middle of the ocean with no life raft."
  • • "The direst consequence of global warming is the potential extinction of numerous species."

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New York Times10 Jan 2010 Down 98
New York Times23 Nov 2008 Down 71
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