phobia
/ˈfoʊbiə/
nouna great fear of an object or situation that is irrational
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1. Phobias are an intense fear of an object or situation.
2. But people have phobias of all kinds of other animals.
3. Think phobias.
4. Some proportion of people in this room have phobias.
5. No phobia is of Greek origin Kubu
anglophobia
/ˌæŋɡləfˈoʊbiə/
noundislike (or fear) of Britain and British customs
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acrophobia
/ˌækɹəfˈoʊbiə/
nounan irrational and persistent fear of being high above ground level
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1. It’s even more common than acrophobia, the fear of heights.
2. Acrophobia is an intense fear of heights that can cause anxiety and panic, even if you're not too far above the ground.
3. A 2010 study from the U.S. National Library of Medicine says that acrophobia affects up to 1 in 20 people.
4. You can also think of ways to control the common symptoms of acrophobia.
5. They ride up in an elevator to the top of an impossibly tall building, the height triggering David's severe acrophobia.
xenophobia
/ˌzɛnəˈfoʊbiə/
nounan unreasonable dislike or prejudice against strangers or foreigners
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1. Historically, pandemics have stoked xenophobia.
2. Racism and xenophobia is a political strategy.
3. And xenophobia too.
4. Second, xenophobia, that the xenophobia that characterized the French
5. Xenophobia's on the rise.
zodiac
/ˈzoʊdiˌæk/
noun(astrology) a circular chart divided into twelve parts, which is believed to predict a person's future based on position of different planets
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1. 'No, Ukiah,' Zodiac said quietly.
2. The guards shot Zodiac.
3. "What is Lilhuddy's zodiac?"
4. Both earth signs, these zodiacs share a practical approach to life.
5. Each zodiac sign has its own mode.
zodiacal
/zˈoʊdɪˌækəl/
adjectiverelating to or included in the zodiac
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1. It's called the zodiacal light.
2. This is zodiacal light.
3. You've get a little bit of zodiacal light, that haze in the top bright.
4. Dawn, midday, twilight, the zodiacal path, touched neither men's lives not their hearts, and science retreated into the ground, to concentrate herself upon problems that she was certain of solving.
to vex
/ˈvɛks/
verbcause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
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1. It vexed Suns teammate Danny Ainge and Coach Paul Westphal.
2. Vex will probably always hold grudges.
3. You're quite welcome, Vex!
4. Vex, you're up.
5. This has vexed an entire generation, right, the two Darrins.
vexation
/vɛksˈeɪʃən/
nounanger produced by some annoying irritation
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1. And when she turns to contemplate herself, she really deals with a vexation about how she is situated in the world.
2. It's an invention of a barbarous age which a blind and ignorant population will accept only to its own vexation, hindrance, and constraint.
3. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and he answered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."
4. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and he answered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."
5. It's generally the other requirement for high crimes and misdemeanors that causes all of the vexation.
vexatious
/vɛkˈseɪʃəs/
adjectivecausing irritation or annoyance
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1. Just like the telephone, Bell's work with the deaf left behind a tainted, vexatious legacy.
2. She has been called a VEXATIOUS litigant.
3. So patenting strategies, concerns which go beyond excessive pricing, and pay for delay, and vexatious litigation remain a concern regionally within the EU.
divagation
/dˌɪvɐɡˈeɪʃən/
nouna turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
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1. And that kind of back-and-forth-ness you feel in Prufrock's divagations and wanderings.
divergence
/daɪˈvɝdʒəns/, /dɪˈvɝdʒəns/
nounthe act of spreading or moving apart in different directions
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1. This has positive divergence right over here.
2. So the divergence is negative in this situation.
3. So we have positive divergence.
4. So over here, divergence is positive.
5. A divergence occurs when a stock's price moves one way and RSI moves in the opposite direction.
divergent
/daɪˈvɝdʒənt/, /dɪˈvɝdʒənt/
adjectivediffering or deviating from each other, showing a contrast
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1. The histories of North, Central, and South America are as divergent as the histories of Asia, Europe, and Africa.
2. [Dr. Hextall] The Durban cluster is highly divergent.
3. They have divergent values.
4. A divergent thinker can list many ideas.
5. I'm divergent actually.
diverse
/daɪˈvɝs/, /dɪˈvɝs/
adjectivebeing of various and different types
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1. The phenotype is diverse.
2. The tools are extraordinarily diverse.
3. Today's word is diverse.
4. Food here is so diverse.
5. - Food is super diverse.
diversion
/daɪˈvɝʒən/, /dɪˈvɝʒən/
nounan activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
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1. But the 20th century brought new diversions into British homes.
2. Corruption is the diversion of large parts of the budget.
3. This diversion has created a large deposition of sediment in the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the river.
4. Create a diversion.
5. -You're creating a diversion.
diversity
/daɪˈvɝsɪti/, /dɪˈvɝsɪti/
nouna range of things or people that are significantly different from each other
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1. To take in diversity.
2. So of course many companies emphasize diversity.
3. Diversity is no shortcuts to the heart of the country.
4. Diversity achieved.
5. But, definitely, diversity just enriched the program.
to divert
/daɪˈvɝt/, /dɪˈvɝt/
verbturn aside; turn away from
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1. A firefly diverts oxygen to its light cells through its tracheoles.
2. Blood is diverted away from the skin and towards internal organs.
3. Divert the pressure.
4. Luckily, the plans were diverted.
5. Those natural arcs divert liquid around your eyes to the side of your face.
kiln
/ˈkɪɫn/
nouna type of furnace or oven that is used for baking pottery, ceramics or bricks
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1. Local farmers burn wood in outdoor kilns to make charcoal for cooking fuel.
2. A kiln is not a dormitory until it is.
3. Yes, it's a kiln for kid pottery! -
4. The kilns function as a traditional Korean sauna, a treatment that has been happening for hundreds of years.
5. We're basically in a giant kiln.