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Ignis

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  1. Also, some people have repeatedly failed to understand the word OR.

    OR means that only one of the stated conditions needs to be true. Hostile intent is not necessary, because she was secretive by using another account to access info that she no longer has access to.

    This is wrong. The "OR" in the definition of interest here ("to observe secretively or furtively with hostile intent") implies equivalence between the conjuncts "secretively" and "furtively" (which makes sense, since they are synonyms). The prepositional phrase at the end ("with hostile intent") modifies the entire syndeton ("secretively or furtively") and not either word singly.

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