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  • 71inauspicious — [adj] ominous, unpromising bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill boding, ill omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely …

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  • 72ominous — [adj] menacing, foreboding apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill boding, ill fated, impending, inauspicious,… …

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  • 73portentous — [adj] exciting; foreboding alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, augural, destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful, haunting, ill boding, ill fated, impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous,… …

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  • 74Dire — (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. {Direr} (d[imac]r [ e]r); superl. {Direst}.] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.] 1. Ill boding; portentous; as, dire omens. [1913 Webster] 2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. [1913… …

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  • 75Direr — Dire Dire (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. {Direr} (d[imac]r [ e]r); superl. {Direst}.] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.] 1. Ill boding; portentous; as, dire omens. [1913 Webster] 2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.… …

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  • 76Direst — Dire Dire (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. {Direr} (d[imac]r [ e]r); superl. {Direst}.] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.] 1. Ill boding; portentous; as, dire omens. [1913 Webster] 2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.… …

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  • 77Isthmian Games — The Isthmian Games or Isthmia (ancient Greek Ἴσθμια) were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were named after the isthmus of Corinth, where they were held. As with the Nemean Games, the Isthmian Games were held both the year… …

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  • 78Hrunting — was a magical sword given to Beowulf by Unferth in the ancient Old English epic of the same name. Beowulf used it in battle against Grendel s Mother.Beowulf is described receiving the sword in lines 1455 1458:: And another item lent by Unferth:at …

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  • 79dire — adjective /daɪə(ɹ)/ a) Ill boding; portentous. dire omens b) Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. dire consequences …

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  • 80malignant — a. 1. Malign, malicious, malevolent, bitter, rancorous, spiteful, resentful, envious, virulently inimical. 2. Unpropitious, unfavorable, ill boding. 3. Extremely heinous, virulent, pernicious. 4. (Med.) Dangerous, fatal, virulent …

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