adjacent
/əˈdʒeɪsənt/
adjective
situated next to or near something
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1So cosine of 37.5 equals adjacent over 10.
2- It's adjacent!
3This was adjacent.
4The property is immediately adjacent to the famed Ronald Reagan Ranch.
5This hilltop estate is adjacent to one of the world's most famous streets in the beautiful Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
aspect
/ˈæsˌpɛkt/
noun
a building's side that faces a specific direction
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1So aspect.
2Positive aspects included some genuinely unsettling nightmare sequences.
3And successful networks often take on aspects of their time's systems of power.
4Every aspect carefully thought through.
5Unfortunately, this love has negative aspects.
avenue
/ˈævəˌnu/
noun
a wide path that has trees on both sides and often leads to a large house or building
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1They're using avenues like TikTok.
2Huge parade down Pennsylvania Avenue an avenue that has seen many parades.
3The influx of people brought immediate growth in every avenue.
4The avenues are basically endless.
5What were his alternative avenues?
borough
/ˈbɝˌoʊ/
noun
a district or town of a large city having a local government of its own
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1The primary employers in the area are the city, borough, state, and federal government.
2Both fathers were from the outer boroughs.
3A borough is a town or district incorporated within the US.
4Basketball is in every borough, in every community.
5[TRANSITION] Long island is not a borough.
brownfield
/ˈbɹaʊnˌfiɫd/
adjective
describing an area of land within a town, previously occupied by offices, factories, etc. that can now be cleared in order to construct new buildings
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1Narrator: Some in Hong Kong want to develop unused industrial areas in the new territories known as brownfields.
2While the government is building up the brownfield sites, only 27 acres would be used for public housing.
3Brownfield redevelopment specialists and site managers oversee efforts to make contaminated land livable again.
4Brownfield redevelopment managers need help to accomplish their plans, and hire specialists like hydrologists, GIS technicians, and environmental engineers.
5Sometimes it's brownfield land where new housing is being put, and maybe that's more luxury housing, luxury flats.
campus
/ˈkæmpəs/
noun
an area of land in which a university, college, or school, along with all their buildings, are situated
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1and hippo campus.
2So this campus is having some important conversations right now.
3Campus rape is a touchy subject.
4My campus was a very insular environment.
5Some campuses are just in the middle of cities.
centre
/ˈsɛntɝ/
noun
the part of a city or town where most of the stores, cafés, cinemas, etc. are located
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1Sentrum must mean centre.
2They centre their minds only on the room.
3Centres like this have created thousands of new jobs in Doncaster and elsewhere.
4These centres treat millions of people every year.
5Life insurance companies take centre stage this week.
close
/ˈkɫoʊs/, /ˈkɫoʊz/
noun
a residential street with only one way in or out
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1This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
2He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.
3- Singing with her mouth closed.
4Close the door!
5Close the d-
cul-de-sac
/ˈkəɫdɪˌsæk/
noun
a street with one closed end
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1Kinda a lot of cul-de-sac days, ya know?
2- I also had cul-de-sac days.
3- Did you play cul-de-sac games?
4Cul-de-sacs and error messages running on repeat in your brain and holding you back.
5- It was cul-de-sac.
district
/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/
noun
an area of a city or country with given official borders used for administrative purposes
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1Number one, districts have to have the same number of people.
2We have school districts.
3I love district six.
4-I love my district.
5This district is 85% Democrat.
downtown
/ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn/
noun
the main business area of a city or town located at its center
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1Kira’s new job is downtown.
2Downtown was the opposite.
3We started downtown.
4I work downtown.
5In 1918, an unassuming lunch counter opened downtown.
downtown
/ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn/
adverb
toward or within the central or main business area of a town or city
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1Kira’s new job is downtown.
2Downtown was the opposite.
3We started downtown.
4I work downtown.
5In 1918, an unassuming lunch counter opened downtown.
drive
/ˈdɹaɪv/
noun
a short road or path leading from a street to a building
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1Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2What we call behavior is the cognitive inhibition on a biochemical drive.
3- Drive who in the comments please - Just not that song !
4- Drive a forklift.
5Thieves drove two large diesel trucks into a Nintendo distribution center inside an air cargo warehouse.
to face
/ˈfeɪs/
verb
to have one's front or face directed towards a person or thing or a certain direction
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1He has got a big smile on his face.
2The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
3Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
4Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
5The agencies have been facing huge revenue declines.
gated community
/ɡˈeɪɾᵻd kəmjˈuːnɪɾi/
noun
a set of houses or apartments surrounded by a fence or wall and featuring a guarded entrance that only allows their residents and guests to enter

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greenfield
/ˈɡɹinˌfiɫd/
adjective
used to describe a piece of land that has not been used for constructing buildings on
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1Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the nominee for ambassador to the United Nations.
2LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nominee: What they are doing horrific.
3And Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a career diplomat, is nominated to represent the United States at the UN. -
4And Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a career diplomat, is nominated to represent the United States at the U.N. NEWSWOMAN 2: Mr. Biden also announced his new White House communications team.
5During the first season, Greenfield would unexpectedly kiss Johnson during takes, as the show incorporated a lot of improvisation.
handy
/ˈhændi/
adjective
located nearby; placed conveniently
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1This route-finding capability is remarkably handy.
2Feeling handy?
3What functionality is handy?
4Sometimes competition is handy.
5The Reminders app is very handy.
isolated
/ˈaɪsəˌɫeɪtəd/, /ˈaɪsəˌɫeɪtɪd/
adjective
(of a place or building) long way away from any other place, building, or person
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1First of all, sleepers were completely isolated.
2Ideally, ad sales and editorial are totally isolated.
3Reddit is much more isolated.
4Some places are very isolated.
5Gray eyes are also pretty isolated.
leafy
/ˈɫifi/
adjective
containing lots of plants and trees and therefore being considered an attractive place to reside and visit
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1And maybe leafy?
2The first kind is leafy like lettuce.
3Grow plenty of leafy greens!
4Leafy greens are also very high in antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins.
5Leafy greens can bring color and freshness to your food.
location
/ɫoʊˈkeɪʃən/
noun
the geographic position of someone or something
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1But the sun was not exactly above in other locations to the east or west.
2As a result, people in different locations had different local times.
3Location required.
4Location informs your culture.
5The number two predictor of search results is location.
metropolitan
/ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑɫətən/
adjective
pertaining to a large city
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1Moving into the metropolitan settlements.
2Large metropolitan areas would service all four languages.
3But in metropolitan areas, these services are ubiquitous.
4Some 28 million people live in the Mumbai metropolitan region.
5In the tropics, instead, metropolitan powers applied a different vision of what was called vertical hygiene, or tropical hygiene.
next door
/nˈɛkst dˈoːɹ/
adverb
locating or living in the room or building that is beside the other one
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1"The Girls Next Door" aired in over 150 countries worldwide and ran for six seasons.
2Next Door, Hugh’s girlfriends showed off their happy lifestyles living in the Playboy mansion.
3WHEN YOU LOOKED AT TIMOTHY McVEIGH, HE LOOKED LIKE THE BOY NEXT DOOR.
4Next Door that we love, love, love.
5Next Door if anybody wants to check it out.
outskirts
/ˈaʊtˌskɝts/
noun
the outer areas or parts of a city or town
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1We traveled to the OUTSKIRTS of the CITY to the home of the TALIBAN's senior leader when the TALIBAN was in charge in this country.
2Just 33 years old, he is now the CHIEF to some 5,000 people in a COMMUNITY on the OUTSKIRTS of MANAUS.
3On the OUTSKIRTS of the nation's CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.'s most VULNERABLE residents say they were suffering long before the Coronavirus Hit.
4Probing the OUTSKIRTS of SATURN.
5The massing on the OUTSKIRTS of where the HURRICANE will have the most impact ready to go in.
to overlook
/ˈoʊvɝˌɫʊk/
verb
(of a building) to have a view of something, particularly from above
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1- Those bozos overlook the importance of cardio.
2The window overlooks my daughter's school playground.
3Overlooking the edge of the earth.
4So the patio overlooks the property and the river.
5The comic books, the educators overlooked something.
plot
/ˈpɫɑt/
noun
a small area of land intended or marked for a particular use such as gardening
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1Plotting attack vector.
2Actions include: Plots.
3Did plot bring music together?
4The indicator then plots this value as a line on the stock chart.
5Plotting my next strategy.
private
/ˈpɹaɪvət/
adjective
(of a place) quiet and without noise or people interrupting
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1While some wealthy homeowners can afford private firefighting crews, the vast majority of firefighters work for the government.
2The future is private.
3And I did private the video.
4My mythology is private.
5Today's word is private.
provincial
/pɹəˈvɪnʃəɫ/
adjective
relating to areas of a country, excluding the capital city
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1A provincial court in Pakistan has ordered the release of the key suspect in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
2One of the worst riots took place in the provincial capital of Urumqi.
3However, recently, most provincial authorities have lifted this ban.
4Our provincial government ignored 'em.
5Be provincial.
residential
/ˌɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃəɫ/
adjective
(of an area with buildings) designed specially for people to live in; relating to houses in which people live rather than offices, factories, etc.
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1The building is residential.
2The building is residential.
3Residential care runs in the hundreds of thousand per year.
4Residential treatment is more like a dorm.
5The vast majority is residential.
rough
/ˈɹəf/
adjective
(of a place or neighborhood) involving a lot of crime or violence
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1-These are rough.
2Her feathers look rough.
3Teenagers play rough.
4The season 3 finale of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was rough.
5The next day was ROUGH.
rural
/ˈɹʊɹəɫ/
adjective
relating to, in, or like the countryside and not the city
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1Unlike their urban counterparts, rural hospitals have even fewer ventilators in stock.
2Moreover, until the one person, one vote Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s, most states awarded rural areas significantly-disproportionate political representation in their state legislatures.
3That is, an urban culture became more rural.
4Society even here, as in the West, is rural.
5Early Germanic society was predominantly rural.
secluded
/sɪˈkɫudɪd/
adjective
(of a place) quiet and away from people
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1A secluded island where people age very quickly.
2The secluded home was surrounded by farmland and woods.
3Ione is a secluded town in the middle of absolutely nowhere with a population of only around three people.
4My name is Secluded.
5Find a secluded spot at least 200 feet from camp to serve as your latrine.
slum
/ˈsɫəm/
noun
a very poor and overpopulated area of a city or town in which the houses are not in good condition
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1I'll slum it.
2The streets were crowded slums.
3And put the slums right here.
4They have a slum clearance.
5Put one in every favela, every slum settlement.
to span
/ˈspæn/
verb
(of an arched roof, bridge, etc.) to reach from one side to another
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1The powertrain lineup really spanned a pretty wide range of budgets and tastes and needs.
2Your thumbnail spans the size of your fovea on your retina.
3Her work spans the fields of evolution, behavior, morphology, genetics, genomics, development, and neurobiology.
4His career has spanned multiple genres and mediums.
5Like, games span all generations.
square
/ˈskwɛɹ/
noun
an open piece of land in a city or town that is four-sided and is usually surrounded by buildings
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15 squared.
21.25 meters squared.
3So 2 meters per second squared.
4Just draw squares.
5times distance squared.
street
/ˈstɹit/
noun
a public path for vehicles in a village, town, or city, usually with buildings, houses, etc. on its sides
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1One day she was out shopping when she saw an old woman waiting to cross a busy street.
2Alice wanted to cross the street too, so she went over to offer to help the woman across.
3They watch the people in the street.
4Here’s a stranger that just came in off the street.
5Others occupied streets near the central bank.
suburb
/ˈsəbɝb/
noun
a residential area outside a city
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1I can't sell suburbs.
2Today, some suburbs are changing the plan.
3I mean, the suburbs.
4Our suburbs are multicultural.
5- I'm suburb.
suburban
/səˈbɝbən/
adjective
in or relating to a residential area outside a city
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1But my life subsequently became suburban.
2Suburban women love him.
3The previous picture was suburban.
4With the suburban boom came the boom in lawn culture.
5The behind-the-scenes drama on Desperate Housewives rivaled the antics of the show’s suburban Wisteria Lane.
uptown
/ˈəpˈtaʊn/
adverb
to or in the areas of a city away from the center, particularly where the residents are more wealthy
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1Because we are uptown funk!
2Uptown funk you up
3"Uptown Girls", is crazy.
4A store uptown.
5I'm going back uptown.
urban
/ˈɝbən/
adjective
relating to, situated in, or characteristic of a city or town
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1Urban parents demand school vouchers.
2With lower crime rates, higher fuel costs, and an overall shift in attitude, urban cores are having a second renaissance.
3Again, urban living has plenty of materials for that!
4Urban planners face a new challenge.
5Urban outbreaks have between 2 and 6 times higher reproductive rates than rural outbreaks.

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