to opt
/ˈɑpt/
verbto choose something over something else
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1. About 1 in 10 buyers opted for it.
2. Unfortunately, only 2% of travelers opt for the mobile boarding pass.
3. This next guest opted for a pill free treatment for his issue.
4. Opt for cash instead of cards.
5. The first daughter also opts for top shelf bath and beauty products for her offspring.
to boast
/ˈboʊst/
verbto talk with great pride about one's achievements, abilities, etc.
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1. Google began organizing its health initiatives under the name Google Health in 2018, and now it boasts over 500 employees.
2. The company had long boasted about the quality of its ingredients.
3. So in this case, Samsung's E4 panels boast better brightness, better color accuracy and better power efficiency.
4. This nature preserve boasts an incredible diversity of fauna.
5. Both brothers boast over 2 million followers each.
to pledge
/ˈpɫɛdʒ/
verbto formally promise to do something
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1. Iran's founding document pledges death, tyranny, and the pursuit of jihad.
2. Suddenly, governments and companies all around the world were pledging their commitment to the restoration of earth's forests.
3. A few months later, both king Torrhen Stark and Sharra Arryn pledged their loyalty.
4. Meanwhile, senior members of the military pledged their allegiance to Mr Maduro.
5. - I pledge allegiance.
to proclaim
/pɹoʊˈkɫeɪm/
verbto publicly inform people about something
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1. I proclaim the name of the Lord Jesus Christ over the capital of Texas.
2. they proclaimed.
3. Thousands of coloured neon signs proclaim the city’s bars, bathhouses, massage parlours, and dozens of luxurious night clubs, each with its pretty Thai hostesses.
4. He also proclaimed Russia's innocence.
5. He proclaimed, "The Lord's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!"
to renew
/ɹɪˈnu/
verbto replace something old or damaged with a new one
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1. Renewing our faith in TSA agents, Lil Rey Howery.
2. The court has renewed bridey's bail.
3. The current of the river constantly renews the water inside the cages.
4. The current of the river constantly renews the water inside the cages.
5. Ninety percent of their members renew their membership.
to resume
//ɹiˈzum/, /ɹɪˈzum//
verbto continue again after an interruption
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1. The nation's largest fuel pipeline has slowly resumed service.
2. People are resuming their lives.
3. Resume the figure painting.
4. The games resumed.
5. Even the town itself resumed by degrees its ordinary aspect.
to initiate
/ˌɪˈnɪʃiˌeɪt/
verbto put something in motion
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1. Science emergency defense program initiated.
2. Science emergency defense program initiated.
3. -Science emergency defense program initiated.
4. Initiating beta program.
5. Seneca was initiating an important move.
to manifest
/ˈmænəˌfɛst/
verbto display something, such as a feeling, attitude, or quality
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1. Romanticism has manifested a powerful disdain for practicalities and money.
2. The universe manifest through you.
3. Where is that waste manifested?
4. That love of pastry definitely manifests here at Empellón.
5. - I manifested this dish!
to originate
/ɝˈɪdʒəˌneɪt/
verbto start to be
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1. Humans originated as a hybrid between chimps and pigs?
2. Pomeranians originate from Pomerania, a region in Northern Europe on the coast of Baltic Sea.
3. The water originates further south.
4. Life originates about 3.6 to 3.9 billion years ago.
5. So originating trust.
to stem
/ˈstɛm/
verbto be caused by something
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1. The differences in these properties stem mostly from the differences in their polarities.
2. This sport has to stem the vast chasm between gamers and jocks, the Mariana Trench of culture.
3. The red velvet cake stems back to a marketing ploy by an American food-coloring company.
4. Stems are also very juicy and succulent.
5. Your wine glasses might have a stem.
to suppress
/səˈpɹɛs/
verbto stop an activity such as a protest using force
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1. Light can suppress melatonin.
2. All different types of light can actually suppress your melatonin hormone.
3. Anxiety is suppressed.
4. Blue light can suppress the release of melatonin.
5. Coconut fats also suppress your appetite.
to aspire
/əˈspaɪɹ/
verbto desire to have or become something
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1. - I am Aspire.
2. - Aspire are the luxury company of the future.
3. They aspire to it.
4. I aspire to that.
5. It aspires to things.
to coincide
/ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/
verbto occur simultaneously as something else
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1. My question coincides with that.
2. His presidency coincided with the official end to the American Revolutionary War.
3. Jordan's baseballing days coincided with two of Olajuwon's best seasons.
4. The timing of our entry into this region of the Milky Way coincides with several mass extinction events here on Earth.
5. This victory at Massilia coincided with a continuous change of fortune at Ilerda.
to complement
/ˈkɑmpɫəmənt/
verbto make someone or something better or look better by introducing something to them or it
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1. Ötzi complemented his ibex meat with a side of red deer.
2. The saltiness from the baloney will complement her eggs nicely.
3. Your picture should complement your channel banner.
4. The thick creamy broth complements the texture of the ham, as well as the split peas.
5. The sweet flavor of this treat will complement the fast food's saltiness.
to constitute
/ˈkɑnstəˌtut/
verbto be regarded as something
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1. Which country constitutes the biggest enemy in the eyes of America?
2. Faith and purpose constitute the motive- power of life.
3. Long ago, the pearl industry constituted 95% of the Gulf economy.
4. And these three companies constitute 90% of the entire food service industry.
5. "Girls constitute a revolution."
to coordinate
/koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/, /koʊˈɔɹdənət/
verbto control and organize the different parts of an activity and the group of people involved so that a good result is achieved
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1. They coordinate those two elements.
2. Their helmets and their weapons are coordinated.
3. Just another run of the mill coordinated familial mass suicide.
4. The system coordinates the activity.
5. - Coordinated.
to correspond
/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑnd/
verbto match or be similar to something else
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1. One corresponds to a whole note, two to a half note, four to a quarter note, and eight to an eighth note, and so on.
2. The food preferences of my Capuchin monkeys correspond exactly with the prices in the supermarket.
3. Status stratification corresponds to traditional authority.
4. Each wave or segment of the ECG corresponds to a certain event of the cardiac electrical cycle.
5. This thing corresponds to that thing.
to deprive
/dɪˈpɹaɪv/
verbto prevent someone from having something, particularly something that they need
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1. but you deprived the other student of lottery tickets.
2. They're depriving the next generation of great grandparents.
3. This would deprive rats of their favorite food source.
4. Poverty deprives people of human dignity and decency.
5. As with the elimination of an entire food group, the single-food diet deprives your body of essential nutrients.
to discharge
/ˈdɪsˌtʃɑɹdʒ/, /dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/
verbto make someone leave the armed forces or police or give someone official permission for it
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1. - Throat related discharge.
2. A discharge was equivalent to death.
3. You have honorable discharge.
4. Patients are typically discharged 20 to 60 minutes post procedure from the recovery area.
5. Discharge is a sign of illness.
to displace
/dɪsˈpɫeɪs/
verbto make someone leave their home by force, particularly because of an unpleasant event
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1. The military crackdown in Tigray displaces tens of thousands and prompts accusations of ethnic cleansing.
2. This occupation displaced hundreds of thousands of azeris from their homes.
3. Displacing some water.
4. 600,000 people were displaced.
5. The nickname soon displaced the official name from the spoken word.
to ease
/ˈiz/
verbto reduce the severity or seriousness of something unpleasant
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1. Ease your way in.
2. Ease pain with exercise.
3. Because electron donation eases the formation of the carbon cation intermediates.
4. The smell of green apples can ease claustrophobia.
5. Knees together, feet together, ease my way down.
to embed
/ɪmˈbɛd/
verbto firmly and deeply fix something in something else
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1. Any actor in a democracy is embedded in a network of relationships.
2. Embedding nanoparticles in a material for instance, always.
3. It basically embeds the most fundamental building block of computing, the digital logic gate, directly into your parts.
4. Embedding low-frequency pulsations within light.
5. The brain is embedded.
to enact
/ɪˈnækt/
verbto approve a proposed law
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1. All states and territories had enacted their own unemployment insurance laws.
2. Several states have already enacted such bans.
3. And then the legislature enacted this process.
4. Other states enacted voter ID laws, too.
5. Parliament enacts through this legislation a mechanism for the state control of the press.
to encompass
/ɛnˈkəmpəs/
verbto include a wide range of different things; to completely cover something
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1. The flame really encompassed the totality of the device.
2. Today, the Corpse Party franchise encompasses manga spin-offs, live-action films, and drama CDs.
3. My role and our team encompasses two things.
4. It encompasses the Carolingian ancestral lands.
5. It encompasses almost 3,000 square feet of space.
to endure
/ɛnˈdjʊɹ/, /ɪnˈdʊɹ/
verbto face unpleasant and painful things and still continue
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1. Ultrarunners endure some pretty extreme conditions.
2. For three days the painfully shy adventurer endured ticker tape parades and receptions in New York, Chicago, Washington and Houston.
3. The rest of us have endured stress and anxiety.
4. Enduring the supreme ordeal.
5. The workers here often endure tragic sexual abuse at the hands of their customers.
to evoke
/iˈvoʊk/, /ɪˈvoʊk/
verbto cause someone to recall a memory, feeling, etc.
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1. My soul evokes your presence.
2. The trappings of a distinguished fraternity of men evokes the long tradition of Marcus Garvey ceremonial processions of the officers in black star nurses of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, an organization of thousands of America's poorest standing side by side against the tyranny of their invisibility.
3. Music evokes.
4. So, these things evoked very strong memories for these people.
5. Well cold water also evokes a reaction from inside.
to facilitate
/fəˈsɪɫəˌteɪt/
verbto help something, such as a process or action, become possible or simpler
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1. The availability of easy credit and loans also facilitated buying.
2. Today, the port again facilitates the movement of capital.
3. The organization facilitates the voluntary creation of a product.
4. In the early 2000s, the Bush administration facilitated the growth of for profit colleges.
5. Onions can also facilitate exfoliation.
to foster
/ˈfɑstɝ/
verbto encourage the growth or development of something
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1. We foster the conditions for productive dialogue and exploration across boundaries.
2. The relationship should foster a feeling of trust, security, and mutual success.
3. Rather, institutions like the Compagnie des Indes would always foster speculation.
4. Foster those interests.
5. "Foster your essence."
to hail
/ˈheɪɫ/
verbto praise someone or something, particularly in the press, etc.
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1. Hail our people.
2. Still, America's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, hailed the news.
3. The letter writers hailed our wedding as both a model for action and an inspiration for dreams.
4. Supporters hail Harris's rapid fire questioning. -
5. The kids are hailing a taxi right now.
to halt
/ˈhɔɫt/
verbto make someone or something stop
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1. 'Halt!
2. The plant temporarily halted operations on April 25th.
3. Businesses halted work travel.
4. Several European countries halt the use of one inoculation amid another wave of infections.
5. "Then halt every man."
to incur
/ˌɪnˈkɝ/
verbto have to pay for something
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1. The shippers themselves largely aren't incurring this cost.
2. His own life incurred a lot of anxiety.
3. Rational players are going to incur costs.
4. He incurred multiple brain strokes due to severe decompression sickness.
5. - You incurred memory loss.
to indulge
/ˌɪnˈdəɫdʒ/
verbto allow oneself to do or have something that one enjoys, particularly something that might be bad for one
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1. Indulge me.
2. Mississippi fauna indulges in the yearly feast.
3. Back then my husband and I indulge ourselves.
4. Indulge yourself with the smooth creamy taste of Rice Dream trademark frozen desserts.
5. Even her hobbies indulge her creative side.
to expire
/ɪkˈspaɪɹ/
verb(of a document, contract, etc.) to no longer be legally recognized because of reaching the end of validity period
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1. My parents expired.
2. - Expired.
3. My parents expired.
4. The meter expired?
5. Medicine expires.
to venture
/ˈvɛntʃɝ/
verbto risk something of value
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1. Some tribes ventured westward into the domain of the Avars.
2. Any number of potential prey could venture past.
3. Any number of potential prey could venture past.
4. The puppies venture a move towards the meat.
5. Anybody venture a guess?
to decay
/dɪˈkeɪ/
verbto be gradually damaged or destroyed as a result of natural processes
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1. The undead are decaying human corpses.
2. Physical things decay.
3. The minuses is decay.
4. Muscles are decaying.
5. Unstable isotopes decay to give a number of particles, especially in the case of F-18.
to consolidate
/kənˈsɑɫɪˌdeɪt/
verbto combine two or more things in order to make them easier to handle or increase their efficiency
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1. The entire health system was consolidating.
2. Rather than overextend, the crusaders consolidated their position.
3. This arrangement consolidated the east-west shipping route as the most important artery of world trade and one of the best indicators of the health of the world economy.
4. He was consolidating power.
5. And the evolution of banking in the nineteenth century further consolidates power.
to double-cross
/dˈʌbəlkɹˈɔs/
verbto betray a person that one is in cooperation with, often when they want to do something illegal together
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1. However, with pirates being pirates, they double-crossed him and sailed away after being paid.
2. Chapter 15 opens on the return of Migs Mayfeld, the mercenary and former Imperial sharpshooter who double-crossed Mando in Season 1.
3. I just felt that I'd been double-crossed by the management.
4. Some of their past friends felt like betrayed by them or double-crossed by them.
5. they are double-cross each other, they sell each other out.
