reckless
/ˈɹɛkɫəs/
adjectivenot caring about the possible results of one's actions that could be dangerous
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1. In the years before, Coca-Cola's international production was somewhat reckless.
2. They're reckless!
3. That was just reckless.
4. The opposite would be reckless.
5. That’s reckless.
dramatist
/ˈdɹɑmətɪst/
nounsomeone who writes plays for the TV, radio, or theater
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1. Her story has inspired poets, dramatists, and artists for more than 2,000 years.
2. I’ll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist.
3. I don't want to teach drama, I want to become a dramatist.
4. It's important for Salinger that Shakespeare was a dramatist.
5. Philosophers, dramatists, theologians have grappled with this question for centuries: what makes people go wrong?
to dramatize
/ˈdɹæməˌtaɪz/, /ˈdɹɑməˌtaɪz/
verbrepresent something in a dramatic manner
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1. [or] did the play Rather Dramatize
2. That's dramatize.
3. It dramatizes it.
4. So the re-composition of the playing field is dramatized in some sense through that imperfect command of the English language.
5. The movies really dramatize prison escapes.
incendiary
/ˌɪnˈsɛndiɛɹi/
adjectivecapable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily
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1. Some in Gaza launched incendiary balloons that sparked fires in Southern Israel.
2. Popping incendiaries!
3. It has an incendiary quality to it.
4. They'd use incendiary arrows.
5. Incendiary weapons set fire to everything in their path.
to incense
/ˈɪnˌsɛns/, /ˌɪnˈsɛns/
verbmake furious
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1. Workers here can produce around 400 incense sticks every hour.
2. Imagine an incense stick.
3. He was incensed.
4. This part of the conversation further incensed Raptors fans.
5. You were lighting incense on top of a golden casket.
incentive
/ˌɪnˈsɛnɪv/, /ˌɪnˈsɛntɪv/
nounsomething that is used as an encouraging and motivating factor
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1. Innovation follows incentives.
2. Motivation came through incentives.
3. Incentives matter.
4. The other tool is incentives.
5. Incentives start the habit.
verbatim
/vɝˈbeɪtəm/
adverbusing exactly the same words
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1. And on the spot, verbatim, he delivered Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
2. So we expect now a verbatim repetition of Exodus 20.
3. And, again, some will be kind of verbatim.
4. And I could literally say the whole movie verbatim.
5. - That's not verbatim or anything but-- -
verbiage
/ˈvɝbiɪdʒ/
nounoverabundance of words
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1. The verbiage of what salary I want.
2. Samsung should just correct their verbiage.
3. So I'm going to get the exact verbiage here.
4. Is that normal verbiage?
5. They have different verbiage and everything.
verbose
/vˈɜːboʊz/
adjectiveusing or having an excessive number of words
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1. And this call is taking longer, but he's just being more verbose and I have no problem with that.
2. I think relevancy of information and the effort to make sure that we're getting who we are across and our skill set across, we can be very, very verbose.
3. It's kind of a verbose mouthful.
4. Some of us are more verbose than others.
5. Active this was and how VERBOSE.
verbosity
/vɜːbˈɑːsɪɾi/
nounan expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
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1. So, if we can disentangle all the verbosity from that paragraph, what I've done is I've laid out the five main bits of the essay, in terms of structure and I've used numbered points for that rather than just a list because numbered makes it really really obvious to the examiner that I've got a good structure.
abbess
/ˈæbɛs/
nounthe superior of a group of nuns
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1. Beginning under the reign of William I after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the abbess of Nunnaminster ranked as barren ex-officio bearing the responsibilities of raising levees in times of war and providing knight service to the king.
2. But its addition may also reflect the pastoral concerns or devotional interests of Nunnaminster's abbess or prioress.
3. An unnamed daughter of Ethelred's was the abbess of the house in the mid 11th century.
4. As you can see on the slide, the death anniversary of abbess Matilda was added on December 13th sometime after her death in 1212.
5. On the final folio of a liturgical calendar that was owned by Wherwell by the late 12th century 11 elegiac couplets commemorating the death of abbess Matilda were copied.
abbey
/ˈæbi/
nouna church with buildings connected to it in which a group of monks or nuns live or used to live
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1. The abbey was amply provisioned.
2. Abbey: High waisted.
3. Come here, Abbey.
4. In fact, her mom teaches my daughter Abbey dance.
5. Abbey: Been thinking about you.
abbot
/ˈæbət/
nounthe superior of an abbey of monks
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1. Our abbot has named this temple as the Midwest Buddhist Meditation Center.
2. They call me the Abbot.
3. When you arrive, the abbot comes out to greet you.
4. You have to subordinate your will to the abbot.
5. While its walls were never breached, its head abbot surrendered in 1580 when the supplies in his temple had been depleted.
palpable
/ˈpæɫpəbəɫ/
adjectivecapable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
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1. The joy was palpable.
2. Your synergy, is palpable.
3. The excitement out of that side of the cameras is palpable.
4. Frustration is palpable.
5. White resistance to black autonomy becomes palpable.
to palpitate
/ˈpæɫpəteɪt/
verbbeat rapidly
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1. This is Emperor palpitating in the Empire were finishing their conquest of the galaxy.
2. My heart didn't even palpitate once.
3. Of course our heart palpitates at the sight of the crowd.
4. My heart was palpitating so quickly.
5. This can cause the heart to palpitate.
palsy
/ˈpɔɫzi/
nouna condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
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1. The author has a son with cerebral palsy.
2. Maybe he has Bell's palsy.
3. He shook as with a palsy.
4. She have cerebral palsy.
5. - I have cerebral palsy, which is commonly abbreviated CP.
cadence
/ˈkeɪdəns/
nounthe close of a musical section
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1. But- People remember the cadence.
2. They remember the cadence, exactly.
3. So, notice the cadence.
4. An integral part of the game, immediately prior to the start of play, the football quarterback begins his cadence.
5. His cadence is unique.
cadenza
/kˈædənzə/
nouna brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music
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1. For the Cadenza, we focused on distinctive design elements that would translate really well for AR.
2. Probably the most widely known example of improvisation in classical music is the cadenza.
3. A few soloists carry on the tradition of improvising their own cadenzas, including pianist Gabriela Montero and Robert Levin.
4. I can improvise a cadenza.
5. So here's Chuck Mangione with his saxophonist and a saxophone cadenza.
abasement
/ɐbˈeɪsmənt/
noundepriving one of self-esteem
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1. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self abasement and worship of angels, dwelling on visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking and not holding fast to the head from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
2. The abasement of Sanehat might well be due to natural causes, beside the reverence for the divine person of the king.
3. Fifth, a petition for Sanehat, winding up with the statement of fear inspired by the king, as explaining Sanehat's abasement.
