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Fateful

/fˈeɪtfəl/
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(adj) Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

Under Bouteflika, Algeria made many fateful economic errors.
Yanni made a fateful decision.
CEFR Practice Quiz
On that ____ day in 1914, the events began that would eventually lead to the start of the Great War.

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