Affair
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Single combat between champions, other than a glancing encounter in the midst of battle, is by nature a formal affair.
Source: Mid-Battle Tea Break -
Combat is brutal and a high risk affair, a misroll during spell casting may consign your soul to hell.
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In the Renaissance-Early Industrial West, combat with rapiers and its descendents was an inelegant, brutal affair where grapples, chokes, hidden pistols, trips, gouges, and so on were all fair.
Source: Let's Fight Like Gentlemen
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