aggregate
/ˈæɡɹəɡeɪt/, /ˈæɡɹəɡət/, /ˈæɡɹəɡɪt/
adjective
consisting of several numbers, things, or amounts added together
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1Aggregate planned expenditures.
2You can aggregate demand between fragmented parties.
3You have an aggregate.
4They aggregate the buying power.
5So this company aggregates the data.
appreciable
/əˈpɹiʃəbəɫ/
adjective
(of a change or amount) important or noticeable
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1It had no appreciable impact on the election.
2It took 400 years for that really to reach an appreciable number of people.
3So the question becomes, will we see an appreciable loss in performance?
4There's some appreciable facet of the environment that's not immediately clear.
5Within most game worlds, for all other technological capability, we as players effect staggeringly little appreciable change within them.
chronological
/ˌkɹɑnəˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
adjective
organized according to the order that the events occurred in
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1- I prefer chronological.
2We're chronological.
3It's roughly chronological.
4And our next chronological person, our next chronological person skips the 1970s.
5It is all chronological.
commensurate
/kəˈmɛnsɝət/, /kəˈmɛnsɝɪt/
adjective
suitable in comparison to something else, like quality, extent, size, etc.
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1We saw commensurate crackdown on other alternative political parties.
2And, quality management should be commensurate with the level of risk.
3The scale of national attention is not commensurate with what happens at Kent State.
4Whether the punishment is commensurate with the crime.
5Knowledge is not commensurate with power until we use it.
copious
/ˈkoʊpiəs/
adjective
very great in number or amount
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1Each lightning strike generates copious amounts of ions.
2Third, then take copious notes throughout the call.
3And he took copious notes.
4Just do copious amounts of dog socialization.
5Now, you can see copious amounts of saliva in there.
coterminous
/kˈoʊɾɚmˌɪnəs/
adjective
equal in meaning, importance, extent, etc.
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1Their life is coterminous with the earth.
diminutive
/dɪˈmɪnjətɪv/
adjective
much smaller than what is normal
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1See I added the diminutive at the end.
2It's a diminutive.
3The term itself is diminutive in the context of Micah 5:2.
4Six diminutive Africans attracted everyone’s attention.
5The diminutives are Dante.
ephemeral
/ɪˈfɛmɝəɫ/
adjective
lasting or existing for a small amount of time
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1Sadness is an ephemeral reaction to something.
2The effects of caffeine, obviously, are ephemeral.
3There are sort of more ephemeral.
4Status updates and image macros are momentary, meaningless, a dime a dozen, just ephemeral.
5That is ephemeral.
fleeting
/ˈfɫitɪŋ/
adjective
continuing or existing for a very short amount of time
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1Happiness is fleeting.
2Those things are fleeting.
3- Friends are fleeting.
4Friends are fleeting.
5Friends are fleeting.
flush
/ˈfɫəʃ/
adjective
possessing a great amount of riches
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1Flush the heart.
2Flushing every toilet at the same time.
3Black tea antioxidants flush these toxins out of your body.
4Flush the toilet.
5Then flush the drain with hot water.
modest
/mɑdəst/
adjective
rather small in amount, extent, size, value, etc.
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1So their ultimate aims are more modest.
2The other therapeutic categories, the antivirals, like Remdesphere, has only had modest benefit.
3The other therapeutic categories, the antivirals, like Remdesphere, has only had modest benefit.
4Be modest!
5The consumption patterns of ordinary workers in this period were very modest.
pervasive
/pɝˈveɪsɪv/
adjective
spreading or existing throughout something, and usually unpleasant
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1This theory is pervasive in Saudi media.
2Shame and gaslighting is pervasive in our work.
3The symbols, the images of guns are pervasive.
4Social stigma is pervasive.
5This medium is all pervasive.
prodigious
/pɹəˈdɪdʒəs/
adjective
impressively or exceptionally great in power, extent, quantity, size, or ability
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1Their media output is prodigious.
2At the top the great merchants of the cities could be men of prodigious wealth who were generally also the rulers of their towns.
3From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring.
4In the wake of this great campaign, the English king will pass the baton of command to his prodigious son Edward the Black Prince.
5The animals had followed their own evolutionary models, giving rise to prodigious beings.
profound
/pɹoʊˈfaʊnd/
adjective
showing the intensity or greatness of something
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1This melt has profound consequences.
2So the information is profound.
3The generational impact of this nicotine-reduction policy is profound.
4Morella’s erudition was profound.
5profound communication takes place within the body.
profuse
/pɹəfˈjus/
adjective
high in quantity or amount
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1Effects of exposure can include intense burning in the eyes, throat, and on the skin and profuse discharge of mucus.
2There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
3They'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.
4Always be profuse in your apologies.
5Some 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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1Living in a total rarefied world.
2I would suggest that it's probably the case that there's not such rarefied air.
3Blue 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.
4The Supreme Court is obviously good, but it's a very rarefied environment.
5But the fact that you've tried puts you in rarefied air.
replete
/ɹiˈpɫit/
adjective
containing an abundance of something
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1Your names are replete with hugs, tears, and laughter.
2- History is replete with examples.
3The software is replete with reminders of that, too.
4And Himba songs are replete with allusions to their beloved cows.
5The repletes are able to expand their abdomens to the size of a small marble.
rife
/ˈɹaɪf/
adjective
containing a large amount of something that is usually unpleasant
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1Rumors of a coup were rife.
2These playbooks are rife with sleazy salesmanship.
3Poverty is rife.
4These things are rife.
5The American public is rife with good intentions and bad follow-through.
scant
/ˈskænt/
adjective
barely or not satisfactory in amount
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1Though the Harvard University Archives has a large collection on the Widener Library designs, information on Julian Abele's contributions is scant.
2The tourists pay scant attention to these changes.
3It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
4All right, go scant, go scant.
5What safety they had was very scant.
slight
/ˈsɫaɪt/
adjective
not a lot in amount, size, or extent
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1The relative movement of these mirrors is incredibly slight.
2The difference is very slight.
3The chances of higher intelligence developing are slight.
4Number one is being slighted.
5The level of discretionary spending was very slight.
celerity
/səˈɫɛɹəti/
noun
the quality of being fast and swift in movement
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1Its ascent was so smooth and easy and regular that I could not realize its extraordinary celerity, and was lost in admiration of its grace.
2The final parameter we can adjust is speed of sound through the fluid, also known as the wave celerity.
3The 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.
4Nobody, hgh I'm too young to have a celerity crush Personally, I think I'm too young to be liking anyone .
exiguity
/ɛɡzɪɡjˈuːɪɾi/
noun
the quality of lacking in amount

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gradation
/ɡɹeɪˈdeɪʃən/
noun
the act of arranging in grades
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1And again, there are four gradations.
2Now by 'degree' he meant, of course, the different gradations of wealth and status inside each of the three estates.
3Aren't there all different gradations of intelligence and insight?
4Between 40 and 60 is kind of a gradation.
5Between 40 and 60 is kind of a gradation.
modicum
/ˈmɑdɪkəm/
noun
a relatively small degree of a good and desirable thing
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1And then fast forward 10 years, I got some modicum of success and people start misattributing it.
2a modicum on trying to enjoy my job
3Then they know that they still have this little modicum of control over you.
4And I know what modicum means.
5Only Damien appears to have some modicum of personality.
paucity
/ˈpɔsəˌti/
noun
a lacking amount or number of something
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1And Jim Clyburn has been critical of the paucity of African Americans in the Cabinet.
2In 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.
3Unfortunately, there is a paucity of literature examining undergrad school selection and success in medical school and beyond.
4Given the absolute paucity of qualified candidates this close to the elections.
5Judging by the paucity of answers it was.
raft
/ˈɹæft/
noun
people or things in high numbers or amounts
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1Skis, foot, and pack rafts.
2Commercial planes use rafts and flotation devices like life preservers.
3But you're not whitewater rafting backwards.
4The plane circled the raft.
5Raft has a dimple.
slew
/ˈsɫu/
noun
something in large amounts or numbers
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1A slew of detectives canvassed an enormous area of land near her home.
2But this combination of styles and functions caused a slew of design inconsistencies across the UI.
3It recently slew my son.
4Nevertheless, Clermont’s troops slew them anyway.
5In the heat of the moment, one of the Roman ambassadors slew a Senone warrior.
surfeit
/ˈsɝfət/
noun
something that is excessive in amount
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1If it's anything like forfeit it would be surfeit.
2For fear I surfeit!
3Take 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.
5The 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/
verb
to mention things individually
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1And he enumerates his ailments and his infirmities and his deficiencies.
2Cretan sheep are enumerated to the amount of 20,000.
3Many other advantages might be enumerated.
4The federal government, Congress has enumerated powers.
5Could we, in fact, enumerate every cell type in each individual patient and their state on and off therapy?
to sound
/ˈsaʊnd/
verb
to use a special equipment to measure the depth of something, particularly a body of water
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1Later, he woke up to the sound of Grey Beaver's voice.
2it sounds like a business transaction.
3Sound plays an important factor too.
4The island of Yara sounds a lot like the Far Cry universe's version of Cuba.
5Sounds dope, though.

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