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iMpEdImEnTs
–noun
1. obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
2. any physical defect that impedes normal or easy speech; a speech disorder.
3. Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law. a bar, usually of blood or affinity, to marriage: a diriment impediment.

Alters
v. tr.

1. To change or make different; modify: altered my will.
2. To adjust (a garment) for a better fit.
3. To castrate or spay (an animal, such as a cat or a dog).
v. intr.
To change or become different.

tEmPestS
n.
1. A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail.
2. Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar: "The tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take all feeling" (Shakespeare).
tr.v. tem•pest•ed, tem•pest•ing, tem•pests
To cause a tempest around or in.
–noun
1. the abrupt, harsh, explosive cry of a dog.
2. a similar sound made by another animal, as a fox.
3. a short, explosive sound, as of firearms: the bark of a revolver.
4. a brusque order, reply, etc.: The foreman's bark sent the idlers back to their machines.
5. a cough.
–verb (used without object)
6. (of a dog or other animal) to utter an abrupt, explosive cry or a series of such cries.
7. to make a similar sound: The big guns barked.
8. to speak or cry out sharply or gruffly: a man who barks at his children.
9. Informal. to advertise a theater performance, carnival sideshow, or the like, by standing at the entrance and calling out to passersby.
Sickle’s
n.
1. An implement having a semicircular blade attached to a short handle, used for cutting grain or tall grass.
2. The cutting mechanism of a reaper or mower.
v. sick•led, sick•ling, sick•les

v. tr.

1. To cut with a sickle.
2. To deform (a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
v. intr.
To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.
adj. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped: a sickle moon.

DoOm
–noun
1. fate or destiny, esp. adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
2. ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.
3. a judgment, decision, or sentence, esp. an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.
4. the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.

Writ
–noun
1. Law.
a. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act.
b. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.

2. something written; a writing: sacred writ.