Lower
Lower verb - To cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally.
Shade
Shade verb - To shelter (something) from light and heat.
Both words in one sentence
- Instead of giving the Decepticons A Lighter Shade of Grey, they seemed to lower the morals of the originally bright Autobots.
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On a similar note, the flag of Germany is black-red-gold (Schwarz-Rot-Gold in German), and not black-red-yellow (Schwarz-Rot-Gelb), despite the lower band being very clearly a dark shade of yellow.
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