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criticism
Noun
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Criticism is bad words against a person or a group of people; a critical judgment.
Their marriage received a lot of criticism from their families.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
prior
Preposition
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If something happens prior to something else, it happens before it.
In this recipe, most of the work is actually done prior to cooking.
Prior to 1917 most people had lived on private farms.
prior
Adjective
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occurring before
We learned that police had had prior knowledge of the attack.
Few of these workers have any substantial prior experience in industry.
devices
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noun
an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase 'left to your own devices'
eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force
the children were left to their own devices