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No longer alive, or, informally, completely.
An agreement between people, especially in business, or a good price on something.
Loved and valued, or, in British English, expensive.
A scarcity or lack of something, especially something needed or expected.
The end of a person's or living thing's life.
A complete and humiliating failure.
To lower the quality, value, or reputation of something.
Not certain or clearly true, and therefore open to argument or discussion.
A formal discussion in which people express different opinions on a subject.
To lead someone away from moral behavior, often into excessive pleasure-seeking.
Scattered pieces of broken or destroyed material left after something has been damaged or destroyed.
An area scattered with broken pieces or wreckage, often from a crash or disaster.
Money that is owed to someone else.
To show that a widely held belief or claim is false.
A period of ten years.
To slowly break down or rot as a result of natural processes.
The twelfth and final month of the year.
Of an acceptable standard, or morally good and honest.
The act of making someone believe something that isn't true.
To choose one option after thinking about two or more possibilities.
Describing trees that lose their leaves every year, usually in autumn.
A number written with a dot that separates whole numbers from smaller fractional parts, based on units of ten.
To destroy or kill a very large proportion of something.
A choice or judgment made after considering the options.
A flat wooden platform attached to a house, or the floor of a ship, or a set of playing cards.
To speak or recite something loudly and dramatically, often to an audience.
A formal or official statement.
To announce something clearly and officially.
To politely refuse an offer or invitation, or to gradually become smaller, weaker, or worse.
A downward slope.
The process by which colonies gain independence from the country that had ruled them.
To break down or rot gradually through natural biological processes.
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into simpler substances that can be reused by the ecosystem.
The process by which dead plant or animal matter breaks down into simpler substances.
A method of analyzing a text or idea by taking apart its assumptions to reveal hidden contradictions or alternative meanings.
To make something look more attractive by adding items to it.
Something added to an object or place to make it more attractive.
Showing behavior that is polite and appropriate for the occasion.
Something used to lure a person or animal into a trap by imitating the real thing.
To become smaller in size, number, or amount, or to make something smaller.
To publicly criticize something strongly.
Giving a great deal of time and effort to something, or set aside for a particular purpose.
A strong commitment to a task, goal, or person, shown through steady effort over time.
To work out an answer or fact by reasoning from evidence rather than being told directly.
A conclusion reached through logical reasoning, or an amount subtracted from a total.
A logical argument that starts from accepted general statements and reasons step by step to a certain, specific conclusion.
A method of reasoning that starts from a general principle and applies it to reach a specific, certain conclusion.
An action, especially one that is notably good or bad.