adjacent
/əˈdʒeɪsənt/
adjectivesituated next to or near something
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1. So cosine of 37.5 equals adjacent over 10.
2. - It's adjacent!
3. This was adjacent.
4. The property is immediately adjacent to the famed Ronald Reagan Ranch.
5. This hilltop estate is adjacent to one of the world's most famous streets in the beautiful Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
aspect
/ˈæsˌpɛkt/
nouna building's side that faces a specific direction
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1. So aspect.
2. Positive aspects included some genuinely unsettling nightmare sequences.
3. And successful networks often take on aspects of their time's systems of power.
4. Every aspect carefully thought through.
5. Unfortunately, this love has negative aspects.
avenue
/ˈævəˌnu/
nouna wide path that has trees on both sides and often leads to a large house or building
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1. They're using avenues like TikTok.
2. Huge parade down Pennsylvania Avenue an avenue that has seen many parades.
3. The influx of people brought immediate growth in every avenue.
4. The avenues are basically endless.
5. What were his alternative avenues?
borough
/ˈbɝˌoʊ/
nouna district or town of a large city having a local government of its own
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1. The primary employers in the area are the city, borough, state, and federal government.
2. Both fathers were from the outer boroughs.
3. A borough is a town or district incorporated within the US.
4. Basketball is in every borough, in every community.
5. [TRANSITION] Long island is not a borough.
brownfield
/ˈbɹaʊnˌfiɫd/
adjectivedescribing 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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1. Narrator: Some in Hong Kong want to develop unused industrial areas in the new territories known as brownfields.
2. While the government is building up the brownfield sites, only 27 acres would be used for public housing.
3. Brownfield redevelopment specialists and site managers oversee efforts to make contaminated land livable again.
4. Brownfield redevelopment managers need help to accomplish their plans, and hire specialists like hydrologists, GIS technicians, and environmental engineers.
5. Sometimes it's brownfield land where new housing is being put, and maybe that's more luxury housing, luxury flats.
campus
/ˈkæmpəs/
nounan area of land in which a university, college, or school, along with all their buildings, are situated
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1. and hippo campus.
2. So this campus is having some important conversations right now.
3. Campus rape is a touchy subject.
4. My campus was a very insular environment.
5. Some campuses are just in the middle of cities.
centre
/ˈsɛntɝ/
nounthe part of a city or town where most of the stores, cafés, cinemas, etc. are located
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1. Sentrum must mean centre.
2. They centre their minds only on the room.
3. Centres like this have created thousands of new jobs in Doncaster and elsewhere.
4. These centres treat millions of people every year.
5. Life insurance companies take centre stage this week.
close
/ˈkɫoʊs/, /ˈkɫoʊz/
nouna residential street with only one way in or out
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1. This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
2. He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.
3. - Singing with her mouth closed.
4. Close the door!
5. Close the d-
cul-de-sac
/ˈkəɫdɪˌsæk/
nouna street with one closed end
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1. Kinda 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?
4. Cul-de-sacs and error messages running on repeat in your brain and holding you back.
5. - It was cul-de-sac.
district
/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/
nounan area of a city or country with given official borders used for administrative purposes
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1. Number one, districts have to have the same number of people.
2. We have school districts.
3. I love district six.
4. -I love my district.
5. This district is 85% Democrat.
downtown
/ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn/
nounthe main business area of a city or town located at its center
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1. Kira’s new job is downtown.
2. Downtown was the opposite.
3. We started downtown.
4. I work downtown.
5. In 1918, an unassuming lunch counter opened downtown.
downtown
/ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn/
adverbtoward or within the central or main business area of a town or city
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1. Kira’s new job is downtown.
2. Downtown was the opposite.
3. We started downtown.
4. I work downtown.
5. In 1918, an unassuming lunch counter opened downtown.
drive
/ˈdɹaɪv/
nouna short road or path leading from a street to a building
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1. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2. What 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.
5. Thieves drove two large diesel trucks into a Nintendo distribution center inside an air cargo warehouse.
to face
/ˈfeɪs/
verbto have one's front or face directed towards a person or thing or a certain direction
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1. He has got a big smile on his face.
2. The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
3. Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
4. Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
5. The agencies have been facing huge revenue declines.
gated community
/ɡˈeɪɾᵻd kəmjˈuːnɪɾi/
nouna 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/
adjectiveused to describe a piece of land that has not been used for constructing buildings on
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1. Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the nominee for ambassador to the United Nations.
2. LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nominee: What they are doing horrific.
3. And Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a career diplomat, is nominated to represent the United States at the UN. -
4. And 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.
5. During the first season, Greenfield would unexpectedly kiss Johnson during takes, as the show incorporated a lot of improvisation.
handy
/ˈhændi/
adjectivelocated nearby; placed conveniently
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1. This route-finding capability is remarkably handy.
2. Feeling handy?
3. What functionality is handy?
4. Sometimes competition is handy.
5. The 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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1. First of all, sleepers were completely isolated.
2. Ideally, ad sales and editorial are totally isolated.
3. Reddit is much more isolated.
4. Some places are very isolated.
5. Gray eyes are also pretty isolated.
leafy
/ˈɫifi/
adjectivecontaining lots of plants and trees and therefore being considered an attractive place to reside and visit
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1. And maybe leafy?
2. The first kind is leafy like lettuce.
3. Grow plenty of leafy greens!
4. Leafy greens are also very high in antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins.
5. Leafy greens can bring color and freshness to your food.
location
/ɫoʊˈkeɪʃən/
nounthe geographic position of someone or something
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1. But the sun was not exactly above in other locations to the east or west.
2. As a result, people in different locations had different local times.
3. Location required.
4. Location informs your culture.
5. The number two predictor of search results is location.
metropolitan
/ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑɫətən/
adjectivepertaining to a large city
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1. Moving into the metropolitan settlements.
2. Large metropolitan areas would service all four languages.
3. But in metropolitan areas, these services are ubiquitous.
4. Some 28 million people live in the Mumbai metropolitan region.
5. In the tropics, instead, metropolitan powers applied a different vision of what was called vertical hygiene, or tropical hygiene.
next door
/nˈɛkst dˈoːɹ/
adverblocating 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.
2. Next Door, Hugh’s girlfriends showed off their happy lifestyles living in the Playboy mansion.
3. WHEN YOU LOOKED AT TIMOTHY McVEIGH, HE LOOKED LIKE THE BOY NEXT DOOR.
4. Next Door that we love, love, love.
5. Next Door if anybody wants to check it out.
outskirts
/ˈaʊtˌskɝts/
nounthe outer areas or parts of a city or town
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1. We 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.
2. Just 33 years old, he is now the CHIEF to some 5,000 people in a COMMUNITY on the OUTSKIRTS of MANAUS.
3. On the OUTSKIRTS of the nation's CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.'s most VULNERABLE residents say they were suffering long before the Coronavirus Hit.
4. Probing the OUTSKIRTS of SATURN.
5. The 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.
2. The window overlooks my daughter's school playground.
3. Overlooking the edge of the earth.
4. So the patio overlooks the property and the river.
5. The comic books, the educators overlooked something.
plot
/ˈpɫɑt/
nouna small area of land intended or marked for a particular use such as gardening
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1. Plotting attack vector.
2. Actions include: Plots.
3. Did plot bring music together?
4. The indicator then plots this value as a line on the stock chart.
5. Plotting my next strategy.
private
/ˈpɹaɪvət/
adjective(of a place) quiet and without noise or people interrupting
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1. While some wealthy homeowners can afford private firefighting crews, the vast majority of firefighters work for the government.
2. The future is private.
3. And I did private the video.
4. My mythology is private.
5. Today's word is private.
provincial
/pɹəˈvɪnʃəɫ/
adjectiverelating to areas of a country, excluding the capital city
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1. A provincial court in Pakistan has ordered the release of the key suspect in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
2. One of the worst riots took place in the provincial capital of Urumqi.
3. However, recently, most provincial authorities have lifted this ban.
4. Our provincial government ignored 'em.
5. Be 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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1. The building is residential.
2. The building is residential.
3. Residential care runs in the hundreds of thousand per year.
4. Residential treatment is more like a dorm.
5. The 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.
2. Her feathers look rough.
3. Teenagers play rough.
4. The season 3 finale of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was rough.
5. The next day was ROUGH.
rural
/ˈɹʊɹəɫ/
adjectiverelating to, in, or like the countryside and not the city
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1. Unlike their urban counterparts, rural hospitals have even fewer ventilators in stock.
2. Moreover, 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.
3. That is, an urban culture became more rural.
4. Society even here, as in the West, is rural.
5. Early Germanic society was predominantly rural.
secluded
/sɪˈkɫudɪd/
adjective(of a place) quiet and away from people
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1. A secluded island where people age very quickly.
2. The secluded home was surrounded by farmland and woods.
3. Ione is a secluded town in the middle of absolutely nowhere with a population of only around three people.
4. My name is Secluded.
5. Find a secluded spot at least 200 feet from camp to serve as your latrine.
slum
/ˈsɫəm/
nouna very poor and overpopulated area of a city or town in which the houses are not in good condition
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1. I'll slum it.
2. The streets were crowded slums.
3. And put the slums right here.
4. They have a slum clearance.
5. Put 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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1. The powertrain lineup really spanned a pretty wide range of budgets and tastes and needs.
2. Your thumbnail spans the size of your fovea on your retina.
3. Her work spans the fields of evolution, behavior, morphology, genetics, genomics, development, and neurobiology.
4. His career has spanned multiple genres and mediums.
5. Like, games span all generations.
square
/ˈskwɛɹ/
nounan open piece of land in a city or town that is four-sided and is usually surrounded by buildings
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1. 5 squared.
2. 1.25 meters squared.
3. So 2 meters per second squared.
4. Just draw squares.
5. times distance squared.
street
/ˈstɹit/
nouna public path for vehicles in a village, town, or city, usually with buildings, houses, etc. on its sides
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1. One day she was out shopping when she saw an old woman waiting to cross a busy street.
2. Alice wanted to cross the street too, so she went over to offer to help the woman across.
3. They watch the people in the street.
4. Here’s a stranger that just came in off the street.
5. Others occupied streets near the central bank.
suburb
/ˈsəbɝb/
nouna residential area outside a city
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1. I can't sell suburbs.
2. Today, some suburbs are changing the plan.
3. I mean, the suburbs.
4. Our suburbs are multicultural.
5. - I'm suburb.
suburban
/səˈbɝbən/
adjectivein or relating to a residential area outside a city
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1. But my life subsequently became suburban.
2. Suburban women love him.
3. The previous picture was suburban.
4. With the suburban boom came the boom in lawn culture.
5. The behind-the-scenes drama on Desperate Housewives rivaled the antics of the show’s suburban Wisteria Lane.
uptown
/ˈəpˈtaʊn/
adverbto or in the areas of a city away from the center, particularly where the residents are more wealthy
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1. Because we are uptown funk!
2. Uptown funk you up
3. "Uptown Girls", is crazy.
4. A store uptown.
5. I'm going back uptown.
urban
/ˈɝbən/
adjectiverelating to, situated in, or characteristic of a city or town
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1. Urban parents demand school vouchers.
2. With lower crime rates, higher fuel costs, and an overall shift in attitude, urban cores are having a second renaissance.
3. Again, urban living has plenty of materials for that!
4. Urban planners face a new challenge.
5. Urban outbreaks have between 2 and 6 times higher reproductive rates than rural outbreaks.