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fix: expand homework answer sheet to all 14 unique un-words with occurrence counts

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<strong>under</strong> (as prefix: <em>under-watering</em>)<br>
Means below a threshold or less than needed. Carol deliberately applies less water than standard to a clay-heavy spot. Under-watering on purpose. Not a mistake.
<strong>under-watered</strong><br>
Past tense: Carol under-watered the clay spot. Not a mistake. Thirty years of site knowledge encoded in action, never in words.
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<strong>under-watering</strong><br>
The act of applying less water than a baseline recommends. Carol does this on purpose. Tyler's spec doesn't know. Neither does the sensor.
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<strong>underlying</strong><br>
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<strong>unexpected</strong><br>
Something that arrived without warning. Carol's reaction to her grandson's irrigation upgrade matched "the expression people reserve for wasps' nests & unexpected tax bills." Technically superior. Emotionally disastrous.
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<strong>unfortunately</strong><br>
Signals a gap between how things should work & how they do. "Unfortunately, software maintenance was a next-Tuesday problem in a world that was very good at producing lions."
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<strong>unkindly</strong><br>
Without harshness. Tom delivers the spaghetti diagnosis "not unkindly." The word does quiet work: it marks him as someone who fixes things without making people feel broken.
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<strong>unless</strong><br>
A conditional that marks the edge of machine knowledge. "That's a detail the AI has no way of knowing matters <em>unless</em> you tell it." One word. The whole argument.
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<p><em>11 words. All the same prefix. All pointing at the same problem: something below, something before, something outside the spec.</em></p>
<p><em>14 unique words. 35 total occurrences. <code>understood</code> appears 8 times. <code>underneath</code> appears 5 times. All the same prefix. All pointing at the same problem: something below, something before, something outside the spec.</em></p>
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