Roll and Work

Roll

Roll verb - Begin operating or running.

Usage example: The cameras were rolling

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Work and roll are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead the word "Roll" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: rolled, rolling, roller, rollback, rollover

Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Roll and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Roll" instead the word "Work" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

good	good roll	good work
best	best roll	best work
normal	normal roll	normal work
specific	specific roll	specific work
Other adjectives: complete, regular, original, true, single, actual, entire, real, hard, little, bad, quick, necessary, early, major, final, extra, next.

Full bottle in front of me Time to roll up my sleeves And get to work And after many glasses of work I get paid In the brain

Source: Drowning My Sorrows
While the rules generally made it pretty easy to work out what you had to roll to accomplish something in almost any given situation, in almost every other case a low dice roll was a good thing.

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Tabletop Games
Lieutenant Just The One Who Started Fires is set on fire at the end, and, although he remembers to drop and roll, it doesn't work.

Source: Man on Fire

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