Mary finked on her brother when their parents asked which one of them took a cookie out of the jar.
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Weak
adjective
impoverished -
Very poor.
We can hardly imagine how impoverished the average person was during the Middle Ages.
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Attack
verb
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Inflict -
To cause someone to experience harm, pain, or suffering.
She didn’t mean to inflict emotional pain, but her harsh words hurt him deeply.
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Weak
noun
liability -
Something that is likely to cause a problem.
Joe was going to choose Fred as his running mate, but then he realized that Fred's drinking problem would just make him a liability, so he chose someone else.
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Disgusting
verb
barf -
To vomit.
Joan drank too much at the party, so that when she came home she barfed on the way to the bathroom all that she ate and drank that night.
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Unhappy
noun
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Misery -
A state of great suffering or unhappiness, especially caused by emotional or physical pain.
After losing his job and home, he lived in deep misery for a long time, but with great effort, he slowly recovered.
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Dangerous
noun
brinkmanship -
The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics
At the height of the Cold War, both sides engaged in a risky brinkmanship that nearly cost millions of lives.
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Disorganized
adjective
shoddy -
Badly made or done
Sergei had to hire another contractor to fix the shoddy work the previous one had done.
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Unfriendly
noun
barb -
A remark that is funny but unkind.
Burt realized that Sam was not really his friend when Sam made several barbed comments directed at Burt at the dinner party.
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Disorganized
noun
morass -
An area of muddy ground - or a complicated or confused situation.
By 1968 the US involvement in Vietnam had become a morass that no one seemed to know how to exit.
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Aggressive
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Crackdown -
A strong or severe enforcement of laws or rules.
The company started a crackdown on employees misusing work hours.
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Disorganized
verb
deteriorate -
To gradually get worse
The empty house deteriorated because there was no one to fix things that broke.
