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no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken; hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless; cannot; must not; not allowed

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

to think; to consider; to believe; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to regard; to imagine; to suppose; to dream; to expect; to look forward to; to feel; to desire; to want; to recall; to remember

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; as a result; really? (in questions); ever?

failure; mistake; blunder