Separate
Separate verb - To set or force apart.
Tempered
Tempered adjective - Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.
Both words in one sentence
- It's tempered with a separate Dumbledore subplot, so if there's too much fluff for you, you can always look at that.
- There is no rhyme or reason for this other than to separate them for the sake of the plot, and it's even lampshaded when they wonder why they were suddenly short-tempered.
Source: Conflict Ball -
While the DS version was met with praise, the Wii version was rightly tempered for being a blatant port of the portable game, complete with two separate "screens" on the television.Though it was delayed and extensively reworked, The Crystal Bearers was released in late 2009.
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