to kindle
/ˈkɪndəɫ/
verbcause to start burning
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1. People don't collect Kindles.
2. I like Kindle books.
3. One of my favourite e-readers is Kindle from Amazon.
4. Cornudet's eyes kindled.
5. - You got your very own kindle?
kindred
/ˈkɪndɹɪd/
adjectivesimilar in quality or character
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1. And Kindred has recently embarked on its first commercial venture.
2. The other exemplary topic for this study is Kindred, a 1979 novel by Octavia Butler with a truly terrifying premise.
3. Kindred was produced as a radio play in 2002 for a web-based internet radio program launched by cable's science-fiction channel, Sci Fi.
4. Kindred are usually a problem for me.
5. Kindred is a mysterious new villain.
zeal
/ˈziɫ/
nouna great enthusiasm and eagerness directed toward achieving something
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1. And so I go at everything with kind of a boy scout samurai zeal.
2. The National Federation for Decency took up arms with particular zeal.
3. He was a deeply sincere Catholic with all of the zeal of a convert.
4. Private wealth did not Bryan's public zeal.
5. The youngster embraced his mission with religious zeal and preached furiously against the alleged corruption of the Almoravids, of the sale of wine and pork in their cities, and their reliance on the corrupt court jurists to interpret religious law.
zealot
/ˈzɛɫət/, /ˈziɫət/
nouna fervent and even militant proponent of something
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1. Pat Brown, some would call a zealot for his mission.
2. Zealot is on the ropes, and they're pushing base!
3. Is he a zealot of some kind?
4. His mother was a religious zealot.
5. Both groups of zealots were preoccupied with what might happen next.
zealous
/ˈzɛɫəs/
adjectiveshowing impressive commitment and enthusiasm for something
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1. After spending more time with Howard, I developed a better understanding of his belief that everyone deserves a zealous defense.
2. A client is entitled to zealous advocacy.
3. But the zealous priest is no more suited to the vocation of liberal education or legal education than is the cynical priest.
4. Number one, a lawyer has to be a zealous advocate for his or her client.
5. And every defendant is entitled to a zealous advocate.
to bungle
/bˈʌŋɡəl/
verbto carry out a task in the most incomplete or awkward way
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1. We catastrophically bungled testing.
2. The bureau bungled it.
3. In October of 2001, the US bungled a different public health crisis.
4. Joe Biden just bungled.
5. Because Donald Trump completely bungled that as well.
bungalow
/ˈbəŋɡəˌɫoʊ/
nouna house that is only consisted of one floor or another smaller floor set in the roof
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1. Alexa, what is Bungalow 8?
2. Bungalow 8.
3. The charming little bungalow was perfect for Baker and her sons.
4. Actually love this little three-bedroom bungalow.
5. [Matt] have a three-bedroom bungalow.
miser
/ˈmaɪzɝ/
nouna stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
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1. But real alchemists weren’t just mystical misers.
2. For the well-dressed miser, the only place to shop is Moody's Store for Men. -
3. To be a selfish miner of learning, for self-gratification only, is no nobler in reality than to be a miser of money.
4. He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
5. So notice first here that the younger brother compares his sister's virginity to a miser's treasure.
miserly
/ˈmaɪzɝɫi/
adjective(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
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1. And number seven is: adopts a miserly spending style towards self and others.
2. I am a bit miserly about my heat situation, because we have to pay for it in the current apartment I live in.
3. Depositors have earned a miserly return for 10 years.
4. The secret to Liverpool's success has been in their miserly defence.
5. Unfortunately, the absence of additional game play modes, presentational cutbacks and a miserly unlockable system haul it back from being a direct hit.
typical
/ˈtɪpəkəɫ/, /ˈtɪpɪkəɫ/
adjectivehaving or showing the usual qualities or characteristics of a particular group of people or things
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1. Phillis’s case is typical.
2. The rest of his life was typical.
3. A few weeks of on-the-job training is typical.
4. A background in acting, film and video editing, or cinematography are typical.
5. Constant re-training is typical.
to typify
/ˈtɪpəˌfaɪ/
verbembody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
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1. For centuries he has typified the perfect artistic genius.
2. For me, the brothers typify another duo as well, Soren Kierkegaard's knights of resignation and of faith.
3. And it's really typified by the products from the Cooper's brewery.
4. And the style is really typified by the products from a brewery named Rodenbach.
5. His blend or urban English shape with casual American style typifies American dress to this day.
financial
/ˌfaɪˈnænʃəɫ/, /fəˈnænʃəɫ/, /fɪˈnænʃəɫ/
adjectiverelated to money or its management
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1. You can look at this map to see what standards for financial literacy your state currently mandates.
2. Financial markets do manage risk.
3. Now, of course the main disadvantage of all of this is financial.
4. Part of the reason is financial.
5. Is the accomplishment just financial?
financier
/ˌfaɪnænˈsɪɹ/, /ˌfɪnənˈsɪɹ/
nouna person skilled in large scale financial transactions
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1. One of those men was financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan.
2. And on the entertainment side represented movie studios and financiers.
3. Are you a financier?
4. Technologists, financiers, and the professions will emerge unscathed.
5. A financier who flew too close to the sun.
to writhe
/ˈɹɪθ/
verbto move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
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1. Loki the mischief-maker, was writhing uncomfortably in Thor’s iron grip.
2. Still writhing around.
3. A man writhes on the deck of a ship as the wind and rain thumps against his face.
4. Lucille writhed under this violation of her anonymity.
5. Oh God, my spanx are writhing up.
wry
/ˈɹaɪ/
adjectivetwisted or distorted, often indicating dry or mocking humor.
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1. His father nodded with a wry smile and replied . . .
2. Actor John Larroquette's wry demeanor and dry delivery kept Dan from being a one-note lech, partly because the scripts know when Dan is more pathetic than smooth.
3. Ripe friendship served on wry banter accompanied by a side serving of affectionate teasing.
4. Perhaps that remarkably thin wrist with the leather band around it really does belong to someone who is skeptical, alternative, delicate, intelligent, wry.
5. I saw my geometry teacher in high school, Mr. Rucell's wry smile under his handlebar mustache.
existence
/ɛɡˈzɪstəns/, /ɪɡˈzɪstəns/
nounthe fact or state of existing or being objectively real
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1. Lost in the world of imagination, I forgot my sad, lonely existence for a while, and was happy.
2. Even existence is senseless.
3. What is existence?
4. Existence does not make mistakes.
5. and we all have existences quote-unquote
existential
/ˌɛɡˌzɪsˈtɛnʃəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
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1. The threat to the NFL from this litigation was existential.
2. All of us feel existential alienation.
3. Have an existential crisis.
4. Some things are existential questions.
5. The stakes for the public in the case of Civil War were existential.
pacific
/pəˈsɪfɪk/
adjectivedisposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
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1. Even deeper is the Pacific blackdragon.
2. 12:00 noon Pacific, Yahoo page goes live.
3. The Pacific coast is an expansive beauty.
4. Pacific salmon has parasites, so no salmon sushi, sashimi, no spicy salmon, nothing. -
5. Pacific, and will feature updates on games like The Division, Ghost Recon, and of course, Far Cry.
pacifist
/ˈpæsɪfɪst/
nounsomeone who advocates for peaceful methods to resolve conflicts and opposes violence or war as a means of achieving goals
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1. The angry mass killer was converted into an evangelical pacifist.
2. You're a pacifist?
3. I am Pacifist.
4. My race could be the pacifist children.
5. [jazzy drum beat] - Sohla and I are like that pacifists.
to pacify
/ˈpæsəˌfaɪ/
verbfight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)
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1. After 72 hours of carnage, the city was pacified.
2. Pacify her rage ♪ -♪
3. Again the privy council pacified it in other ways.
4. "I will pacify my problem with these gifts."
5. Because you pacify yourself.
