Clear
Clear adjective - Easily seen through.
Usage example: the clear glass walls of the aquarium's giant ocean tank
Dark
Dark adjective - Having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning.
Usage example: a troubled kid who was always muttering dark threats that someday they'd all be sorry
Both words in one sentence
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Hoyt's Darkship Thieves, Kit's wife died, and it looks like he murdered her, and he refuses to clear his name out of, it turns out, fear that other dark elements of his past will turn up.
Source: Dark and Troubled Past -
Failing to clear a level in the iOS puzzle game Jelly Splash results in seeing your cute little jelly friends mutated into alien beings by the dark slime you were trying to clear.
Source: It's a Wonderful Failure -
Nighttime in Fallen Earth is as dark as a very clear night with a full moon and stars, assuming your character has very good night vision.
Source: Hollywood Darkness
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