delectable
/dɪˈɫɛktəbəɫ/
adjectiveextremely pleasing to the sense of taste
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1. This is delectable.
2. This looks delectable.
3. It's delectable butter pound cakes.
4. This delectable meal is known as the chicken cheese crumble.
5. This is looking delectable!
delectation
/dɪlɪktˈeɪʃən/
nounact of receiving pleasure from something
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to delegate
/ˈdɛɫəˌɡeɪt/, /ˈdɛɫəɡət/
verbto give someone a responsibility, assignment, etc., especially someone in a lower position
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1. So ultimately twelve states sent delegates to the Federal Convention.
2. So twelve states sent delegates to the Federal Convention.
3. Many delegates favored much longer terms for senators.
4. In South Carolina, the governor chose the delegates.
5. Delegate the initial investment.
deleterious
/ˌdɛɫəˈtɪɹiəs/
adjectiveinflicting damage or harm upon someone or something
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1. So they accumulated lots of deleterious mutations, bad mutations.
2. But when you've got mutations, most mutations are deleterious.
3. Every organism carry a load of deleterious mutations.
4. Anticipate any deleterious effects.
5. And that was having a deleterious effect.
maladroit
/ˌmæɫəˈdɹɔɪt/
adjectivenot adroit
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1. Who 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?
2. So 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/
nounany physical problem that might put one's health in danger
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1. No mechanical maladies to report!
2. These are maladies that ail modern society and modern medicine.
3. From him the malady received its name.
4. Juvenile distraction, lesbianism, mania, all of these maladies can be reversed.
5. These maladies come for us all.
malaise
/mæˈɫeɪz/
nouna feeling of being physically ill and irritated without knowing the reason
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1. I have feelings of malaise and sadness and sometimes even suicidal thoughts.
2. Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the University.
3. Uncertainty and malaise governed my early days at the university.
4. This gives a similar illness with fever, malaise, headache, myalgias, and progressive respiratory failure.
5. Onset is sudden, with fever of 100 to 102 degrees, and a general malaise.
malapropism
/mˈæleɪpɹˌɑːpɪzəm/
nounthe humorous and incorrect use of a word that sounds similar to the intended word
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1. As 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.
2. But 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/
nounthe everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
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1. Known in the English vernacular as "touch."
2. The next word is vernacular, another word for language, particularly when talking about a native language.
3. on the one hand, you have vernacular music.
4. The contemporary scientific vernacular of this makes use of the notion of dual processing.
5. The vernacular would be typhoon.
vernal
/ˈvɝnəɫ/
adjectivesuggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
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1. for 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
2. He could have used VERNAL commands.
3. Each bloomed and died an abated boy, nor dreamed what death was, thought it mere sliding into some vernal sphere.
4. They determined that the spring (vernal) equinox will occur every year on March 21st.
5. During the autumn equinox and the vernal equinox, one can see a snake-like shadow crawling on the pyramid's balustrade.
versatile
/ˈvɝsətəɫ/, /vɝsəˈtaɪɫ/
adjectiveable to move freely in all directions
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1. Cast-iron pans are exceptionally versatile.
2. Indian hand-loomed fabrics are certainly versatile.
3. The wallpaper is versatile.
4. Shot gun microphones are extremely versatile.
5. This trick is so versatile.
to agglomerate
/əˈɡɫɑmɝˌeɪt/
verbform into one cluster
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1. They're not agglomerated into big things.
2. In 1841 they start using 2,000 people agglomerated, that is, living in an urban--;the church, the steeple.
3. It has agglomerated production, and has concentrated property in a few hands.
4. Some of them are agglomerating together to form larger particles.
5. So, 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/
verbgather in a mass, sum, or whole
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1. Aggregate planned expenditures.
2. You can aggregate demand between fragmented parties.
3. You have an aggregate.
4. They aggregate the buying power.
5. So this company aggregates the data.
to aggrandize
/əˈɡɹænˌdaɪz/
verbadd details to
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1. He is excited, perhaps even sexually, by her sadness and far from rescuing her, uses her sorrow to aggrandize himself.
2. No explicit provision of the Constitution has been violated here, nor has Congress aggrandized itself at the expense of the executive branch.
3. You very frequently misremember things, have I blown up, did I see one or two cases and have I somehow aggrandized it.
4. You aggrandize them.
5. It's a bit self-aggrandizing, but basically when an individual investor invests in early-stage startups.
knave
/ˈneɪv/
nounone of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
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1. Yes, I'm still a knave.
2. Did the Knave steal the Queen's tarts?
3. The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
4. The Knave shook his head sadly.
5. Even knaves, rascals and scoundrels get cuts and scrapes that need bandages.
knavery
/nˈeɪvɚɹi/
nounlack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
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1. I also need some knaveries well, two, because I don't have an active plot at the moment.
2. That's some true Knavery.
3. And I complete my Knavery so.
4. My second Knavery, I will build a discombobulation beam.
5. I've surpassed my Knavery.
to navigate
/ˈnævəˌɡeɪt/
verbto choose the direction of a vehicle, ship, etc., especially by using a map
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1. Captains navigate the cruise liners from the US, UK, and Italy.
2. Number two is navigating hardware and home goods stores.
3. She navigates the tree with stunning agility.
4. Number 17, navigate a crowd.
5. One 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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1. Now, 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.
2. Information and content can really transform a physical place into a navigable journey for you, a story.
3. Within 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.
4. But there are economic interests in the Arctic being navigable.
5. In fact, it would have been easily navigable by an 80,000-ton modern liner.