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enemy

On-Yomi: テキ — Kun-Yomi: かたき、あだ、かな.う

Elements:

enemy, antique, vase, stand up, hood, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth, taskmaster

Heisig story:

Picture your most precious antique (it doesn't matter how old it really is, so long as it is the oldest thing YOU own) being knocked over by your most unlikeable taskmaster, and you have a good picture of how people make themselves enemies for life.

Koohii stories:

1) [dwhitman] 15-10-2007(173): The taskmaster became my enemy for life when he smashed the antique vase holding my wife's ashes.

2) [AndamanIslander] 28-1-2008(31): For us Miami Cubans, that antique taskmaster (Fidel) is the enemy.

3) [elanlan] 7-2-2009(25): For the academics: (I always view a taskmaster as being a professor) An antique taskmaster - or professor with an outdated and inefficient teaching philosophy - is your enemy in regard to accumulating knowledge.

4) [plumage] 19-3-2009(22): Link must destroy ANTIQUE vases to replenish items when fighting the TASKMASTER, his main ENEMY.

5) [Lozza] 22-10-2008(17): In Indy Jones movies the enemy is always a taskmaster who is after antiques.

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