Read and Shade

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Read verb - To go over and mentally take in the content of.

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Shade and read are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shade" instead a verb "Read".

Shade verb - To shelter (something) from light and heat.

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Read and shade are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Read" instead a verb "Shade".

Nearby Words: shadow, shady, shaded, shading, shad

nice	nice read	nice shade
standard	standard read	standard shade
original	original read	original shade
light	light read	light shade
Other adjectives: brilliant, little, dark, interesting, unique, different.

people	read people	shade people
comic	read comic	shade comic

But she can't read the headstones... so she digs up all of them and pours them out, thinking that it will reunite her with her husband's ghost... instead, it becomes a gigantic shade that starts the plague all over again when people accidentally ingest its ashes.

Source: Webcomic / The Phoenix Requiem
A Lesser Shade Of Evil seems inordinately fond of this idea (non-GMs are asked not to even read the book's introduction), especially given that the "switch" happens during the first session.

Source: Halfway Plot Switch

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