to aver
/ˈeɪvɝ/
verb
to confidently declare something as true
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1In response to this, protestants averred that there was a large pile of fecal matter just under the windows, which cushioned their fall.
2All have aver that h for several days
3Dr. Peterson, the New York neurologist, in a recent magazine article on dreams and their meaning, points out that many dreams thought to be prophetic can be accounted for physiologically and avers that there never was a purely prophetic dream.
4And I had done an hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
5Averring down to, probably used to be 16, 12.
to brook
/ˈbɹʊk/
verb
to allow and not oppose to something that one usually finds to be unpleasant
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1, you brook no defeat.
2- Roll for charisma, roll some brooks.
3- That's a brook.
4We have brook, booger, cookie.
5BROOK: Our biggest challenge with wild pigs is this really high reproductive rate.
to countenance
/ˈkaʊntənəns/
verb
to agree and not oppose to something that one generally finds unacceptable or unpleasant
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1However, this court should not countenance that argument because it would subject an American citizen to the type of conditions which this court has never subjected an American citizen to before.
2Thus, really, the court couldn't countenance.
3Jeremy Corbyn wouldn't countenance serving under anybody else.
4"My countenance never yet betrayed my feelings."
5They get that name because of their countenance.
to delineate
/dɪˈɫɪniˌeɪt/
verb
to give an explanation or depiction in full detail
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1So because this giant space hosts the dining room, living room, and the kitchen, we have to delineate the three spaces very clearly.
2Our old friend, the DSM V, actually delineates two sub types of the disorder.
3Phil clearly delineates between the facts of the story and his own opinion.
4Just delineate them.
5and it delineates your conversation grouping properly.
to disabuse
/dɪsəbˈjus/, /dɪsəbˈjuz/
verb
to help a person rid themselves of their misconceptions
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1If he did, his friend would be quick to disabuse them.
2If you had the illusion of an idyllic relationship among poets, you are disabused at this point.
3No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions.
4I want to disabuse you of that stereotype.
5I have two quick clips to play for you today, which will, in no time at all, disabuse you of the notion that these anti Trump Republicans are our friends.
to divine
/dɪˈvaɪn/
verb
to either predict the future or uncover hidden truths with the use of supernatural forces
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1The sight of success is divine.
2The pasta was divine.
3The relationship of his human to divine nature.
4Then every man, of every clime, That prays in his distress, Prays to the human form divine: Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
5The sets are divine.
to equivocate
/ɪˈkwɪvəˌkeɪt/
verb
to purposely speak in a way that is confusing and open to different interpretations, aiming to deceive others
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1I've seen a lot of tip toeing and equivocating in other reviews when it comes to this camera, so let me be clear about my impression.
2The Bible is equivocating on this institution.
3The Bible, again, equivocates on this question.
4Okay, so Kamala Harris is sort of equivocating.
5- I'm glad that you equivocate strength to being a woman.
to excoriate
/ɛkˈskɔɹiˌeɪt/
verb
to harshly state that something is severely lacking or faulty
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1She would excoriate bankers and their bonuses and their practices.
2He was excoriated.
3And he was bitterly excoriated for it, savagely excoriated for it, a Republican.
4Now, the three judge panel also excoriated PETA for its litigation tactics, accusing the organization of using Naruto as a tool for its own ideological agenda while pretending to be a friend.
5In this particular sentencing hearing, the judge excoriated the DOJ.
to exhort
/ɪɡˈzɔɹt/
verb
to work very hard at persuading someone into doing something
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1One of Mr. Crumpling's daughters exhorted and shouted praises until her strength gave way and she fell to the ground in a dead faint.
2You exhorted everybody who's listening to create factions and precipitating events.
3And he exhorted them to pursue a life of creativity and passion, and this sort of became the initial Last Lecture.
4As he made his way, Julian continuously exhorted the units he passed to greater courage, inspiring them with his oration.
5Now, her daughter pounds the pulpit every Sunday at her church in Jefferson City, Missouri, exhorting her parishioners to vote.
to harangue
/hɝˈæŋ/
verb
to give a speech that is lengthy, loud, and angry intending to either persuade or criticize
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1What is a meringue harangue?
2For the next few months, Kafka’s father harangued him.
3By the way, the Clinton campaign is haranguing these guys,
4The old gentleman ended his harangue.
5The old gentleman ended his harangue.
to impugn
/ˌɪmˈpjun/
verb
to question someone's honesty, quality, motive, etc.
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1Now, in advance of the hearings, Republicans have tried to impugn the integrity and character of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.
2The data points that impugn the lowly cow as the destroyer of the planet, have the wrong object to have a problem with.
3Paganism posits the existence of primordial evil demons or gods, and thus the existence of evil and suffering does not impugn the good gods themselves.
4And so, undeserved suffering and rampant evil impugn the goodness and justice of God himself.
5But generally not the best practice to impugn the reputation of your own witness and client.
to log
/ˈɫɔɡ/
verb
to officially document all the information or events that have taken place, particularly on a plane or ship
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1Log the sample results.
2So log p of x.
3Boltzmann constant times log
4Also log sheets, trip sheets, those types of things.
5Answers logged?
to maunder
/mˈɔːndɚ/
verb
to talk continuously and aimlessly

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to palaver
/pælˈɑːvɚ/
verb
to aimlessly talk a lot
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1Like Dylan Thomas, Leviathan's description of the sea finds a way to give equal voice to the dancing fish and swooning gulls as the soaring waves and the clamor and tremble of the steel ship and the weary palaver of the fisherman locked in their perilous work.
2It is a palaver, to be honest.
3Now, this is more of a palaver than on the motorway, but I am now in the overtaking lane.
to quibble
/ˈkwɪbəɫ/
verb
to argue over unimportant things or to complain about them
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1Shaq's main quibble had shifted.
2I've no patience for your quibbles.
3Other quibbles, notifications don't really have enough space to spread out.
4I do have legitimate quibbles with it.
5So we want my quibble over the over the reserves
to reproach
/ɹiˈpɹoʊtʃ/
verb
to criticize a person and voice the disappointment that is caused by their behavior
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1And, indeed, according to the historian, she exhibited behavior beyond reproach during the entire reign.
2His behavior had to be beyond reproach all the time.
3He reproaches Adam.
4Reproaches, upbraidings followed.
5Each one reproached himself in similar fashion.
to skirt
/ˈskɝt/
verb
to avoid or ignore doing something that one finds to be difficult or controversial
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1Black holes skirt the line between science fiction and science fact.
2I'll skirt the spoiler.
3Our women wear long skirts.
4- Mini skirts are back in.
5They skirt every father-son cliche and strike right at the heart of a real relationship.
apposite
/ɐpˈɑːsɪt/
adjective
having the quality of being appropriate or closely connected to the subject or situation at hand
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1But there is no case to which the mandamus power is legitimately apposite here.
2If you wanted to avoid the constitutional question and ascribe a constitutional intention to the legislature, then you could just say the writ of mandamus here should be construed as required to be apposite to an otherwise existing grant of jurisdiction.
3And if you do get the memory, what I you to do is to apposite your Adult-Self in with your Child-Self within that memory.
conciliatory
/kənˈsɪˌɫiəˌtɔɹi/, /kənˈsɪɫjəˌtɔɹi/
adjective
meaning to end a dispute or to stop or lessen someone's anger
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1This time Galileo was more conciliatory, agreeing that the arguments in favor of the Corpunican theory. . .
2He would sound uncharacteristically conciliatory.
3Can I at least get a conciliatory pat on pat on the head?
4It was conciliatory.
5Such conciliatory tones are rare in Russian diplomacy these days.
contentious
/kənˈtɛnʃəs/
adjective
causing or capable of causing disagreement
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1Even more contentious, though, was the idea of a Greek counterattack.
2The bankruptcies now are very contentious.
3But that batch of votes became contentious.
4However, the creation of the mandate was profoundly contentious.
5- A debate is contentious.
disingenuous
/dɪsɪnˈdʒɛnjuəs/
adjective
lacking sincerity and honesty, particularly by not revealing as much as one knows
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1Their criticism of it was so disingenuous.
2- Yeah, but that's disingenuous.
3That's super disingenuous.
4And typically for populists, they use disingenuous questions rather than real questions.
5They're being totally disingenuous about the whole thing.
eloquent
/ˈɛɫəkwənt/
adjective
able to utilize language to convey something well, especially in a persuasive manner
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1Anomalies are incredibly eloquent.
2Probably more eloquent way to say that,
3She gave an eloquent speech at the gala dinner.
4She's so eloquent.
5He was sharp, eloquent.
extenuating
/ɪkˈstɛnjuˌeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
providing reasons that justify or reduce the seriousness of something bad, such as an offense
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1There are some extenuating circumstances.
2There have been some extenuating circumstances that I've done both at the same time.
3What are your extenuating circumstances why I should give you a break, or leniency, as you put it, when I look at your record and you got 10 violations?
4You will need Brazenness Some double-talk Extenuating circumstances Hairs to split The passive voice and a scapegoat.
5- To be very brutally honest there's some extenuating circumstances that make me not comfortable answering that question.
glib
/ˈɡɫɪb/
adjective
making insincere and deceiving statements with ease
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1Actually, I'm being glib.
2So it may sound kind of glib to just say it so easily.
3The character is glib, but I don't want the show to be glib, if that makes sense.
4I mean, just to not be glib about it.
5The best lawyers are the most glib people.
laudable
/ˈɫɔdəbəɫ/
adjective
(of an idea, intention, or act) deserving of admiration and praise, regardless of success
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1That's pretty laudable.
2The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
3The judge dismissed the case, saying that the casting was under First Amendment protection, but also stated that the plaintiffs goals were laudable.
4While this mission statement includes laudable goals it does not mention several essential aspects of our work, such as education and service.
5While the concept is truly laudable, incorporating technology and fashion trends together is a recipe for disaster.
parochial
/pɝˈoʊkiəɫ/
adjective
possessing a limited understanding or point of view, and not open to broadening it
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1ELENA KAGAN: I did, yeah, and a little bit parochial.
2It was extremely parochial.
3Although some Amish communities take their children to a regular public school, your community has its own parochial school for the children.
4Now actually, that's just another parochial misconception.
5They have parochial interests.
syncretic
/sɪŋkɹˈɛɾɪk/
adjective
creating a combination of different beliefs, ideas, traditions, etc.
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1In 1055, Sijilmasa had been taken, and by 1059, Ibn Yasin and his puritan Amazigh warriors were on the doorstep of the Barghawata confederacy, whose syncretic semi-Islamic faith was considered heresy of the highest order to the puritan Almoravids.
2Here too syncretic religions and cults such as candomblé, makumba and umbanda developed.
3Here too syncretic religions and cults such as candomblé, makumba and umbanda developed.
4The beach of Limonat is the ultimate place to perform the ceremony of Guiné and beg favors from the Love Goddess Erzulie, a syncretic deity identified with the Christian Virgin Mary.
5This is, I think one, of the best examples of that syncretic view of religion, that basically all worshippers are worshipping the same god.
tendentious
/ˌtɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
adjective
stating a cause or opinion that one strongly believes in, particularly one that causes a lot of controversy
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1It's a tendentious question maybe.
2And you might think it's tendentious, but philosophers' examples often give philosophy a bad name.
3Showalter then says this is a phase supplanted by a feminist moment in the history of the novel in which novels like the late work of Mrs. Gaskell, for example, and other such novels become tendentious, and the place and role of women becomes the dominant theme of novels of this kind.
4But that's tendentious.
5But I grant you, I put that in a tendentious fashion.
moreover
/mɔˈɹoʊvɝ/
adverb
used to support or add to the statement that has just been made by giving new or more information
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1Manet's mashup, moreover, stares back at us.
2Moreover, the internet rewards this type of distracted behavior.
3Moreover, his stark statement of the gap strips away some potentially important nuances.
4Moreover take a closer look at the spokes in the wheel.
5Moreover, the death of a presidential candidate does not create a vacancy.
diatribe
/ˈdaɪəˌtɹaɪb/
noun
a harsh and severe criticism or verbal attack that is aimed toward a person or thing
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1You didn't hear Bird Girl's tomato diatribe?
2It contains diatribes against the oppressive world of adults.
3He certainly reserves his most hysterical diatribes for Theodora.
4It is a diatribe against the Emperor Justinian.
5Sancho's diatribe against them perhaps reflects an attitude of the times.
finesse
/fɪˈnɛs/
noun
the act of dealing with a situation in a subtle and skillful way
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1They take more finesse.
2- Put a little finesse on there.
3We're going to finesse our bow here.
4And finesse.
5You finessed it.
imbroglio
/ˌɪmˈbɹoʊɫˌjoʊ/
noun
a situation that is very complex and confusing, particularly a political or social one
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1There's an imbroglio story, a comedy of errors.
2Browder claims a 60 percent success rate, and has expanded Do Not Pay to the U.S. and to other legal imbroglios.
3Now, this version of Dorotea's imbroglio true to the name she assumes is a grotesque parody of her story.
nuance
/ˈnuɑns/
noun
a very small and barely noticeable difference in tone, appearance, manner, meaning, etc.
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1And so this issue takes nuance.
2Women are nuanced surgical fighters.
3The third fatal mistake is not appreciating nuance.
4Nuance is important.
5They lack nuance.

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