noun
1 sb/sth's future
ADJECTIVE
▪ awful , grim , horrible , terrible
▪ cruel , unhappy
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What an unfortunate ~ the gods had condemned her to.
▪ sad , tragic
▪ better , worse
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Jackson deserves a better ~ than this.
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They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse ~ at the hands of their enemy.
▪ common , usual
▪ likely
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Under-representation is the likely ~ of small parties.
▪ eventual , final , ultimate
▪ inevitable
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the almost inevitable ~ awaiting gorillas and tigers
▪ uncertain , unknown
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She faces an uncertain ~.
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The ultimate ~ of the captured troops is unknown.
▪ the same , similar
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She broke her ankle before the big game, then suffered the same ~ a month later.
▪ different
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His brother met an altogether different ~.
▪ economic , political
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They're worried about their political ~.
VERB + FATE
▪ face
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He faces a grim ~ if he is sent back to his own country.
▪ meet , suffer , undergo
▪ share
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He had no desire to share the ~ of his executed comrades.
▪ avoid , be spared , escape
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Fortunately, Robert was spared this cruel ~.
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She managed to escape the ~ of the other rebels.
▪ deserve
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What had he done to deserve such a terrible ~?
▪ accept , be resigned to
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The condemned men were resigned to their ~.
▪ bemoan , curse , lament
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Instead of just bemoaning your ~, why not do something to change it?
▪ contemplate , ponder
▪ control
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She has taken steps to control her own ~.
▪ choose
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the rights of a woman to choose the ~ of her body
▪ seal
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He had signed his confession and sealed his own ~.
▪ decide , determine
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An extraordinary general meeting to decide the company's ~ will be held on Thursday.
▪ affect , alter , change , influence
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Will it change the ~ of the company?
▪ abandon sb/sth to , leave sb/sth to
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The generals abandoned the men to their ~.
▪ rescue sb/sth from , save sb/sth from
▪ discover , hear , hear of , know , know of , learn , learn of
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He will learn his ~ in court tomorrow.
▪ predict
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the prophet who predicts ~ and can see the future
▪ await
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The convicts awaited their ~ in prison.
FATE + VERB
▪ await sb/sth , be in store for sb/sth , lie in store for sb/sth
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They were warned of the dreadful ~ that awaited them if ever they returned to their homes.
▪ befall sb/sth
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Worst of all was the ~ that befell the captured rebel general.
▪ be in the balance , hang in the balance
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The ~ of the African wild dog hangs in the balance (= is uncertain) .
▪ be tied to sth
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Our ~ is tied to yours.
▪ depend on sth
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This team's ~ depends on how it performs today.
PHRASES
▪ leave your ~ in sb's hands , place your ~ in sb's hands , put your ~ in sb's hands
▪ have sb/sth's ~ in your hands , hold sb/sth's ~ in your hands
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The jury held the ~ of the accused in their hands.
▪ a ~ worse than death ( often humorous )
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Getting married seemed a ~ worse than death.
▪ sb's ~ rests in sb's hands
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His ~ rests in the hands of the judges.
2 power controlling everything
ADJECTIVE
▪ cruel
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He believed that the universe was controlled by the whims of a cruel ~.
▪ kind
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Fate was kind to me.
VERB + FATE
▪ believe in
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Such coincidences are almost enough to make one believe in ~.
▪ tempt
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It would be tempting ~ to say that we will definitely win the game.
▪ leave sth to
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I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to ~.
FATE + VERB
▪ decide sth , decree sth
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Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
▪ intervene
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He secretly hoped that ~ would intervene and save him having to meet her.
▪ strike
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Only weeks later ~ struck again, leaving her unable to compete.
▪ deal a/its hand , deal sb a hand
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Anne accepted the cruel hand that ~ had dealt her.
▪ take a hand
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Fate took a hand in (= influenced) the outcome of the championship.
▪ have in store for sb/sth , hold in store for sb/sth
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Little did she know what ~ had in store for her.
▪ conspire against sb
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For some reason ~ conspired against them and everything they did was problematic.
▪ smile on sb , smile upon sb
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Fate was not smiling upon her today.
PHRASES
▪ an accident of ~ , a turn of ~ , a twist of ~
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It seemed a cruel twist of ~ that the composer should have died so young.
▪ let ~ take its course
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He was content standing aside, letting ~ take its course.
▪ the hand of ~
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The new job had come at just the right time for him. Was it the hand of ~?