Conquest
Conquest noun - The act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control.
Nearby Word: conquer
Failure
Failure noun - The nonperformance of an assigned or expected action.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Humans Are Warriors: Sunset Shimmer realizes that this is the reason her plans of conquest in the human world were doomed to failure from the very start.
Source: Fanfic / The Great Alicorn Hunt -
This, along with the failure of the conquest of Morocco and the feuds between political factions led to the last and bloodiest of five Civil Wars.
Source: Useful Notes / Spain - Gustav Anderman I's first conquest, Kuanyin, was overjoyed to have him, because they were in the midst of a worldwide crop failure and he was rich enough from his merc days to hire a cadre of scientists to cure the blight that was causing it.
Source: Hegemonic Empire
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