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severe
severe · harsh · hard · cruel · rigorous
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • The surrender terms were harsh.

  • Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.

  • The judge made no bones about his disgust with the accused's actions and handed down the severest sentence possible.

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