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debate : discussion, argument, controversy, dispute


decadence noun [uncountable]
the state of having low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than with serious matters: the corruption and decadence of the nobility : deteriorate verb [intransitive]

1 to become worse: deteriorating health | Relations between the two countries have since deteriorated.

2 [+ into] to develop into a bad or unpleasant situation: The meeting soon deteriorated into a fight.

deterioration noun [uncountable] , decline
decay : deteriorate, decline
deceit : fraud noun

1 [countable, uncountable] a method of illegally getting money from someone, often by using clever and complicated methods: financial losses due to theft or fraud | tax/share/bankruptcy etc fraud (=fraud in a particular financial area)

2 [countable] someone who deceives people to gain money, friendship etc: She realized later that the insurance salesman had been a fraud.