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hard
not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable. -
stern
rear of boat -
acute
An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'. -
crack
If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface. -
maim
to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life. -
martyr
a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.