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Behest
- noun - an authoritative command or request
Bereft
- adjective - sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
- unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
Cement
- noun - a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
- a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
- any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- bind or join with or as if with cement
- concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the grey cement beside the pool"
- cover or coat with cement
- make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship"
- something that hardens to act as adhesive material
Deceit
- noun - a misleading falsehood
- the act of deceiving
- the quality of being fraudulent
Decent
- adjective - according with custom or propriety;
- conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
- decently clothed; "are you decent?"
- in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"
- observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress; "a modest neckline in her dress"; "though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards"
- socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
- sufficient for the purpose;
Defeat
- noun - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
- To overcome opposition
- win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
Defect
- noun - a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"
- an imperfection in a bodily system; "visual defects"; "this device permits detection of defects in the lungs"
- an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
- faults
Deject
- verb - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"