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Fails
- verb -
- be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
- be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
- fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"
- fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
- fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of
Foils
- noun - a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
- cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
- enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
- Fencing sword
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
Frill
- noun - (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
- ornamental objects of no great value
Gaily
- adverb - in a gay manner; "the scandals were gaily diverting"
Grill
- noun - a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he cooked hamburgers on the grill"
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"
- examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology"
Guild
- noun - a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
Guile
- noun - shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Guilt
- noun - culpability
- remorse
- remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense
- the state of having committed an offense
Hails
- noun - be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"
- call for; "hail a cab"
- enthusiastic greeting
- greet enthusiastically or joyfully
- many objects thrown forcefully through the air; "a hail of pebbles"; "a hail of bullets"
- praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"
- precipitate as small ice particles; "It hailed for an hour"
- precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents