aggregate
/ˈæɡɹəɡeɪt/, /ˈæɡɹəɡət/, /ˈæɡɹəɡɪt/
adjectiveconsisting of several numbers, things, or amounts added together
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1. Aggregate planned expenditures.
2. You can aggregate demand between fragmented parties.
3. You have an aggregate.
4. They aggregate the buying power.
5. So this company aggregates the data.
appreciable
/əˈpɹiʃəbəɫ/
adjective(of a change or amount) important or noticeable
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1. It had no appreciable impact on the election.
2. It took 400 years for that really to reach an appreciable number of people.
3. So the question becomes, will we see an appreciable loss in performance?
4. There's some appreciable facet of the environment that's not immediately clear.
5. Within most game worlds, for all other technological capability, we as players effect staggeringly little appreciable change within them.
chronological
/ˌkɹɑnəˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
adjectiveorganized according to the order that the events occurred in
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1. - I prefer chronological.
2. We're chronological.
3. It's roughly chronological.
4. And our next chronological person, our next chronological person skips the 1970s.
5. It is all chronological.
commensurate
/kəˈmɛnsɝət/, /kəˈmɛnsɝɪt/
adjectivesuitable in comparison to something else, like quality, extent, size, etc.
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1. We saw commensurate crackdown on other alternative political parties.
2. And, quality management should be commensurate with the level of risk.
3. The scale of national attention is not commensurate with what happens at Kent State.
4. Whether the punishment is commensurate with the crime.
5. Knowledge is not commensurate with power until we use it.
copious
/ˈkoʊpiəs/
adjectivevery great in number or amount
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1. Each lightning strike generates copious amounts of ions.
2. Third, then take copious notes throughout the call.
3. And he took copious notes.
4. Just do copious amounts of dog socialization.
5. Now, you can see copious amounts of saliva in there.
coterminous
/kˈoʊɾɚmˌɪnəs/
adjectiveequal in meaning, importance, extent, etc.
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1. Their life is coterminous with the earth.
diminutive
/dɪˈmɪnjətɪv/
adjectivemuch smaller than what is normal
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1. See I added the diminutive at the end.
2. It's a diminutive.
3. The term itself is diminutive in the context of Micah 5:2.
4. Six diminutive Africans attracted everyone’s attention.
5. The diminutives are Dante.
ephemeral
/ɪˈfɛmɝəɫ/
adjectivelasting or existing for a small amount of time
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1. Sadness is an ephemeral reaction to something.
2. The effects of caffeine, obviously, are ephemeral.
3. There are sort of more ephemeral.
4. Status updates and image macros are momentary, meaningless, a dime a dozen, just ephemeral.
5. That is ephemeral.
fleeting
/ˈfɫitɪŋ/
adjectivecontinuing or existing for a very short amount of time
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1. Happiness is fleeting.
2. Those things are fleeting.
3. - Friends are fleeting.
4. Friends are fleeting.
5. Friends are fleeting.
flush
/ˈfɫəʃ/
adjectivepossessing a great amount of riches
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1. Flush the heart.
2. Flushing every toilet at the same time.
3. Black tea antioxidants flush these toxins out of your body.
4. Flush the toilet.
5. Then flush the drain with hot water.
modest
/mɑdəst/
adjectiverather small in amount, extent, size, value, etc.
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1. So their ultimate aims are more modest.
2. The other therapeutic categories, the antivirals, like Remdesphere, has only had modest benefit.
3. The other therapeutic categories, the antivirals, like Remdesphere, has only had modest benefit.
4. Be modest!
5. The consumption patterns of ordinary workers in this period were very modest.
pervasive
/pɝˈveɪsɪv/
adjectivespreading or existing throughout something, and usually unpleasant
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1. This theory is pervasive in Saudi media.
2. Shame and gaslighting is pervasive in our work.
3. The symbols, the images of guns are pervasive.
4. Social stigma is pervasive.
5. This medium is all pervasive.
prodigious
/pɹəˈdɪdʒəs/
adjectiveimpressively or exceptionally great in power, extent, quantity, size, or ability
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1. Their media output is prodigious.
2. At the top the great merchants of the cities could be men of prodigious wealth who were generally also the rulers of their towns.
3. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring.
4. In the wake of this great campaign, the English king will pass the baton of command to his prodigious son Edward the Black Prince.
5. The animals had followed their own evolutionary models, giving rise to prodigious beings.
profound
/pɹoʊˈfaʊnd/
adjectiveshowing the intensity or greatness of something
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1. This melt has profound consequences.
2. So the information is profound.
3. The generational impact of this nicotine-reduction policy is profound.
4. Morella’s erudition was profound.
5. profound communication takes place within the body.
profuse
/pɹəfˈjus/
adjectivehigh in quantity or amount
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1. Effects of exposure can include intense burning in the eyes, throat, and on the skin and profuse discharge of mucus.
2. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
3. They're smaller at the withers than the English Cocker Spaniel, and in the show ring you'll see them with a much more profuse coat.
4. Always be profuse in your apologies.
5. Some meat-eaters break down into profuse sweating after a hearty meal consisting of excessive red meat.
rarefied
/ˈɹɛɹəfaɪd/
adjective(of the oxygen level in the air) containing a lower-than-average amount of oxygen
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1. Living in a total rarefied world.
2. I would suggest that it's probably the case that there's not such rarefied air.
3. Blue Origin plans to launch up to six passengers at a time, offering a rarefied treat of 62 mile high views, and a momentary experience of weightlessness.
4. The Supreme Court is obviously good, but it's a very rarefied environment.
5. But the fact that you've tried puts you in rarefied air.
replete
/ɹiˈpɫit/
adjectivecontaining an abundance of something
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1. Your names are replete with hugs, tears, and laughter.
2. - History is replete with examples.
3. The software is replete with reminders of that, too.
4. And Himba songs are replete with allusions to their beloved cows.
5. The repletes are able to expand their abdomens to the size of a small marble.
rife
/ˈɹaɪf/
adjectivecontaining a large amount of something that is usually unpleasant
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1. Rumors of a coup were rife.
2. These playbooks are rife with sleazy salesmanship.
3. Poverty is rife.
4. These things are rife.
5. The American public is rife with good intentions and bad follow-through.
scant
/ˈskænt/
adjectivebarely or not satisfactory in amount
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1. Though the Harvard University Archives has a large collection on the Widener Library designs, information on Julian Abele's contributions is scant.
2. The tourists pay scant attention to these changes.
3. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
4. All right, go scant, go scant.
5. What safety they had was very scant.
slight
/ˈsɫaɪt/
adjectivenot a lot in amount, size, or extent
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1. The relative movement of these mirrors is incredibly slight.
2. The difference is very slight.
3. The chances of higher intelligence developing are slight.
4. Number one is being slighted.
5. The level of discretionary spending was very slight.
celerity
/səˈɫɛɹəti/
nounthe quality of being fast and swift in movement
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1. Its ascent was so smooth and easy and regular that I could not realize its extraordinary celerity, and was lost in admiration of its grace.
2. The final parameter we can adjust is speed of sound through the fluid, also known as the wave celerity.
3. The wave celerity is an indirect measure of the elasticity of the system, and it can depend on the compressibility of the fluid, the material of the pipe and even whether or not it’s buried in the ground.
4. Nobody, hgh I'm too young to have a celerity crush Personally, I think I'm too young to be liking anyone .
exiguity
/ɛɡzɪɡjˈuːɪɾi/
nounthe quality of lacking in amount
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gradation
/ɡɹeɪˈdeɪʃən/
nounthe act of arranging in grades
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1. And again, there are four gradations.
2. Now by 'degree' he meant, of course, the different gradations of wealth and status inside each of the three estates.
3. Aren't there all different gradations of intelligence and insight?
4. Between 40 and 60 is kind of a gradation.
5. Between 40 and 60 is kind of a gradation.
modicum
/ˈmɑdɪkəm/
nouna relatively small degree of a good and desirable thing
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1. And then fast forward 10 years, I got some modicum of success and people start misattributing it.
2. a modicum on trying to enjoy my job
3. Then they know that they still have this little modicum of control over you.
4. And I know what modicum means.
5. Only Damien appears to have some modicum of personality.
paucity
/ˈpɔsəˌti/
nouna lacking amount or number of something
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1. And Jim Clyburn has been critical of the paucity of African Americans in the Cabinet.
2. In 1985, the Guerrilla Girls put out this public service message, calling attention to the paucity of solo shows by women artists in New York's art museums.
3. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of literature examining undergrad school selection and success in medical school and beyond.
4. Given the absolute paucity of qualified candidates this close to the elections.
5. Judging by the paucity of answers it was.
raft
/ˈɹæft/
nounpeople or things in high numbers or amounts
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1. Skis, foot, and pack rafts.
2. Commercial planes use rafts and flotation devices like life preservers.
3. But you're not whitewater rafting backwards.
4. The plane circled the raft.
5. Raft has a dimple.
slew
/ˈsɫu/
nounsomething in large amounts or numbers
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1. A slew of detectives canvassed an enormous area of land near her home.
2. But this combination of styles and functions caused a slew of design inconsistencies across the UI.
3. It recently slew my son.
4. Nevertheless, Clermont’s troops slew them anyway.
5. In the heat of the moment, one of the Roman ambassadors slew a Senone warrior.
surfeit
/ˈsɝfət/
nounsomething that is excessive in amount
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1. If it's anything like forfeit it would be surfeit.
2. For fear I surfeit!
3. Take heed, Sickness, what you do, I shall fear you'll surfeit too.
4. - And even though there's like a surfeit, there's like a flat side and a rounded side, once they fry, you can't really tell.
5. The UK's vaccine rollout is riding high at the moment, but the EU's relative scarcity will soon turn into a surfeit.
to enumerate
/ɪˈnumɝˌeɪt/
verbto mention things individually
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1. And he enumerates his ailments and his infirmities and his deficiencies.
2. Cretan sheep are enumerated to the amount of 20,000.
3. Many other advantages might be enumerated.
4. The federal government, Congress has enumerated powers.
5. Could we, in fact, enumerate every cell type in each individual patient and their state on and off therapy?
to sound
/ˈsaʊnd/
verbto use a special equipment to measure the depth of something, particularly a body of water
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1. Later, he woke up to the sound of Grey Beaver's voice.
2. it sounds like a business transaction.
3. Sound plays an important factor too.
4. The island of Yara sounds a lot like the Far Cry universe's version of Cuba.
5. Sounds dope, though.