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Things encounter often describes ("encounter ________")
How encounter often is described ("________ encounter")
- desperate
- dramatic
- patient
- terrible
- colonial
- successful
- erotic
- interpersonal
- sudden
- medical
- unpleasant
- therapeutic
- close
- hand
- historic
- accidental
- deadly
- cultural
- face
- armed
- famous
- genuine
- bloody
- fierce
- fateful
- existential
- naval
- serious
- second
- casual
- initial
- decisive
- disastrous
- direct
- personal
- unexpected
- clinical
- unfortunate
- violent
- dangerous
- actual
- recent
- first
- fatal
- intimate
- memorable
- next
- divine
- romantic
- sexual
- subsequent
- final
- strange
- sharp
- brief
- earlier
- last
- hostile
- previous
