delectable
/dɪˈɫɛktəbəɫ/
adjective
extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
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1This is delectable.
2This looks delectable.
3It's delectable butter pound cakes.
4This delectable meal is known as the chicken cheese crumble.
5This is looking delectable!
delectation
/dɪlɪktˈeɪʃən/
noun
act of receiving pleasure from something

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to delegate
/ˈdɛɫəˌɡeɪt/, /ˈdɛɫəɡət/
verb
to give someone a responsibility, assignment, etc., especially someone in a lower position
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1So ultimately twelve states sent delegates to the Federal Convention.
2So twelve states sent delegates to the Federal Convention.
3Many delegates favored much longer terms for senators.
4In South Carolina, the governor chose the delegates.
5Delegate the initial investment.
deleterious
/ˌdɛɫəˈtɪɹiəs/
adjective
inflicting damage or harm upon someone or something
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1So they accumulated lots of deleterious mutations, bad mutations.
2But when you've got mutations, most mutations are deleterious.
3Every organism carry a load of deleterious mutations.
4Anticipate any deleterious effects.
5And that was having a deleterious effect.
maladroit
/ˌmæɫəˈdɹɔɪt/
adjective
not adroit
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1Who will get thrown into the stocks for smuggling and who can convince the sheriff these aren't the maladroits they're looking for, return to their business and move along?
2So for example, for you as an English Learner if you were to learn French you would immensely increase your vocabulary in English because so much of this vocabulary is derived from French this is terms like rendezvous, maladroit, c'est la vie that we also use in everyday English you just have to pronounce them like an American not like in French.
malady
/ˈmæɫədi/
noun
any physical problem that might put one's health in danger
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1No mechanical maladies to report!
2These are maladies that ail modern society and modern medicine.
3From him the malady received its name.
4Juvenile distraction, lesbianism, mania, all of these maladies can be reversed.
5These maladies come for us all.
malaise
/mæˈɫeɪz/
noun
a feeling of being physically ill and irritated without knowing the reason
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1I have feelings of malaise and sadness and sometimes even suicidal thoughts.
2Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the University.
3Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the university.
4This gives a similar illness with fever, malaise, headache, myalgias, and progressive respiratory failure.
5Onset is sudden, with fever of 100 to 102 degrees, and a general malaise.
malapropism
/mˈæleɪpɹˌɑːpɪzəm/
noun
the humorous and incorrect use of a word that sounds similar to the intended word
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1As co-founder of the phenomenal word reference site Wordnik and one time chief editor of American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, including editing the second edition of The New Oxford American Dictionary, Erin McKean, notes, All words (aside from unintentional errors and malapropisms) are words at their birth.
2But one of the guys that I knew, I've got to get back to the topic in a minute, but I just thought of this, was sort of the king of malapropisms.
vernacular
/vɝˈnækjəɫɝ/
noun
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
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1Known in the English vernacular as "touch."
2The next word is vernacular, another word for language, particularly when talking about a native language.
3on the one hand, you have vernacular music.
4The contemporary scientific vernacular of this makes use of the notion of dual processing.
5The vernacular would be typhoon.
vernal
/ˈvɝnəɫ/
adjective
suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
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1for all of us in your things eating i muted failing in vernal about novel , killing i'm going to the last why we're going to content element cheese and seeing them time and I limit myself to move it open Kayla telling social program level of bonding w Marcus fascinated me and hope it was having a snob we are you telling me something cool about it be able pan and turns it really wasn't my choice anymore gala baliga
2He could have used VERNAL commands.
3Each bloomed and died an abated boy, nor dreamed what death was, thought it mere sliding into some vernal sphere.
4They determined that the spring (vernal) equinox will occur every year on March 21st.
5During the autumn equinox and the vernal equinox, one can see a snake-like shadow crawling on the pyramid's balustrade.
versatile
/ˈvɝsətəɫ/, /vɝsəˈtaɪɫ/
adjective
able to move freely in all directions
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1Cast-iron pans are exceptionally versatile.
2Indian hand-loomed fabrics are certainly versatile.
3The wallpaper is versatile.
4Shot gun microphones are extremely versatile.
5This trick is so versatile.
to agglomerate
/əˈɡɫɑmɝˌeɪt/
verb
form into one cluster
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1They're not agglomerated into big things.
2In 1841 they start using 2,000 people agglomerated, that is, living in an urban--;the church, the steeple.
3It has agglomerated production, and has concentrated property in a few hands.
4Some of them are agglomerating together to form larger particles.
5So, albeit a very small creature and very modest, this creature is incredible, because it can agglomerate into these mega-reef structures.
to aggregate
/ˈæɡɹəɡeɪt/, /ˈæɡɹəɡət/, /ˈæɡɹəɡɪt/
verb
gather in a mass, sum, or whole
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1Aggregate planned expenditures.
2You can aggregate demand between fragmented parties.
3You have an aggregate.
4They aggregate the buying power.
5So this company aggregates the data.
to aggrandize
/əˈɡɹænˌdaɪz/
verb
add details to
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1He is excited, perhaps even sexually, by her sadness and far from rescuing her, uses her sorrow to aggrandize himself.
2No explicit provision of the Constitution has been violated here, nor has Congress aggrandized itself at the expense of the executive branch.
3You very frequently misremember things, have I blown up, did I see one or two cases and have I somehow aggrandized it.
4You aggrandize them.
5It's a bit self-aggrandizing, but basically when an individual investor invests in early-stage startups.
knave
/ˈneɪv/
noun
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
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1Yes, I'm still a knave.
2Did the Knave steal the Queen's tarts?
3The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
4The Knave shook his head sadly.
5Even knaves, rascals and scoundrels get cuts and scrapes that need bandages.
knavery
/nˈeɪvɚɹi/
noun
lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
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1I also need some knaveries well, two, because I don't have an active plot at the moment.
2That's some true Knavery.
3And I complete my Knavery so.
4My second Knavery, I will build a discombobulation beam.
5I've surpassed my Knavery.
to navigate
/ˈnævəˌɡeɪt/
verb
to choose the direction of a vehicle, ship, etc., especially by using a map
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1Captains navigate the cruise liners from the US, UK, and Italy.
2Number two is navigating hardware and home goods stores.
3She navigates the tree with stunning agility.
4Number 17, navigate a crowd.
5One person is navigating.
navigable
/ˈnævəɡəbəɫ/
adjective
(of a sea or other area of water) able to be traveled on by boats or ships without difficulty
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1Now, the United States, primarily, has kept the peace in Asia, in navigable waters, for the protection of commerce, and our navy has been a very positive force.
2Information and content can really transform a physical place into a navigable journey for you, a story.
3Within Ethiopia’s borders however only flow one navigable river, the Baro, which flows for 306 kilometers before joining with the Pibor to make the Sobat river, a major tributary of the White Nile.
4But there are economic interests in the Arctic being navigable.
5In fact, it would have been easily navigable by an 80,000-ton modern liner.

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