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  • 21Fateful Harvest — Infobox Book name = Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret title orig = translator = image caption = author = Duff Wilson illustrator = cover artist = country = language = series = subject = genre …

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  • 22fateful — Synonyms and related words: acute, apocalyptic, appointed, awe inspiring, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, certain, conclusive, consequential, consuming, consumptive, critical,… …

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  • 23fateful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. momentous; prophetic; disastrous. See destiny, prediction, importance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Momentous] Syn. portentous, critical, decisive; see crucial , ominous . 2. [Fatal] Syn. destructive …

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  • 24fateful — fate·ful || feɪtfÊŠl adj. destined; decisive; lethal; disastrous; inevitable; prophetic …

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  • 25fateful — adjective having far reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications. Derivatives fatefully adverb fatefulness noun …

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  • 26fateful — fate·ful …

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  • 27fateful — [ˈfeɪtf(ə)l] adj affecting what happens in the future in an important and usually bad way …

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  • 28fateful — /ˈfeɪtfəl / (say faytfuhl) adjective 1. involving momentous consequences; decisively important. 2. fatal, deadly, or disastrous. 3. controlled by irresistible destiny. 4. prophetic; ominous. –fatefully, adverb –fatefulness, noun …

  • 29fateful — adj. 1 important, decisive; having far reaching consequences. 2 controlled as if by fate. 3 causing or likely to cause disaster. 4 prophetic. Derivatives: fatefully adv. fatefulness n …

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  • 30fatal, fateful — These words, derived from a Latin term meaning destiny or fate, have distinct meanings. Fatal means causing death or capable of resulting in destruction or ruin : The highway accident was fatal to four persons. Your lack of support will be fatal… …

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