Kept and Spelled

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Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Spelled is an antonym for kept.

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Kept is an antonym for spelled.

Nearby Words: spell, speller, spelling

In Stephen King's The Shining, Danny kept seeing the word "REDRUM" before he realized it was "MURDER" spelled backwards.

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Officially, Afrikaans kept spelling in Dutch until a few years in to the 20th century, although some people spelled phonetically before then.

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If it's not spelled out enough, Episodes 15 and 16 reveal Yukari engineered this whole thing to keep the long-term ecology of Gensokyo in check since everyone has become too complacent with outsiders, and if kept unchecked, the people of Gensokyo could accidentally aid somebody truly evil.

Source: Web Animation / Diamond in the Rough (Touhou)

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