navel
/ˈneɪvəɫ/
nounthe elevated or empty part in the middle of the stomach, made by cutting the umbilical cord just after birth
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1. Tickle its navel.
2. Jake: We use navel for pastrami.
3. Navel infection happens so easily.
4. The pipe navel-- Pipe navel.
5. Feel that pipe in the navel?
naval
/ˈneɪvəɫ/
adjectiverelating or belonging to a navy
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1. - All right, launching the naval blockade.
2. Historically, naval power equaled power.
3. Most intelligence was naval intelligence, army intelligence and state department intelligence.
4. They had a naval battle.
5. They gave naval support.
nautical
/ˈnɔtəkəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
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1. This zone extends 200 nautical miles from shore.
2. - Got that nautical theme.
3. One of them is nautical.
4. The Avontuur’s voyage has covered over 18,000 nautical miles.
5. A knot is a nautical mile per hour.
quadrate
/kwˈɑːdɹeɪt/
adjectivehaving four sides and four angles
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to quadruple
/kwɑˈdɹupəɫ/
verbincrease fourfold
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1. During the war, plastic production in the United States quadrupled.
2. The total amount of data on Earth, since the dawn of civilization, quadrupled in just six years.
3. Two-percent growth quadruples your standard of living in 70 years.
4. It quadrupled its gross national product.
5. Just one innocent scroll through Instagram and my shopping list quadruples.
wizen
/ˈwaɪzən/
adjectivelean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
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wizened
/ˈwaɪzənd/
adjectivelean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
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anagram
/ˈænəˌɡɹæm/
nouna word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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1. Yeah, it's an anagram.
2. Because that's an anagram for addict shows.
3. He loves anagrams and I could give you lots of specific instances of that.
4. They're anagrams of Kekulé.
5. Crosswords and anagrams are especially good.
analogous
/əˈnæɫəɡəs/
adjectiveable to be compared with another thing due to sharing a similar feature, nature, etc.
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1. It's completely analogous.
2. So this narrowing is analogous to resistance.
3. It's analogous.
4. So that's analogous.
5. Those salmon chips are kind of analogous to lox.
analogy
/əˈnæɫədʒi/
nouna comparison of two unlike things based on a similar feature or resemblance
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1. Here's an analogy.
2. Consider an analogy.
3. Use an analogy.
4. Take an analogy.
5. Art can create an analogy.
eclat
/ɪklˈæt/
nounbrilliant or conspicuous success or effect
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1. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.
eclectic
/ɪˈkɫɛktɪk/
adjectivecombining different elements of various ideas, styles, methods, beliefs, etc.
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1. A rather eclectic collection comprises the inventory of the different traditional activities and objects from the entire Islas Baleares Archipelago.
2. These are eclectic.
3. Eclectic, boho, maximalism, everybody can handle that one.
4. And my inspirations are very eclectic.
5. She's very eclectic.
eclipse
/əˈkɫɪps/, /iˈkɫɪps/, /ɪˈkɫɪps/
nouna period during which the Sun or the Moon is shadowed by a dark circle
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1. Easily, easily eclipses 400 dollars.
2. No asterisk can eclipse the sheer magnitude of his production.
3. Lunar eclipse, moon is eclipsed.
4. People love eclipses.
5. - Total coronavirus cases have eclipsed 300,000. -
gaiety
/ɡˈeɪəɾi/
nouna gay feeling
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1. In the future we're gonna get pretty gaiety of heart-ish about war.
2. In the 1779 work, Nocturnal Revels, it describes the general activities of the meetings: They however always meet in one general sett at meals, when, for the improvement of mirth, pleasantry, and gaiety, every member is allowed to introduce a Lady of cheerful lively disposition, to improve the general hilarity.
3. To add to the breach, he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gaiety grew stronger.
4. Gaiety for Yeats seems to represent some reconstitution of mind and body, some experience of their unity out beyond an experience of tragedy and grief.
5. And there is finally, again, an affirmation of this joy and gaiety, here seen as a property of the artwork itself.
gaily
/ˈɡeɪɫi/
adverbin a gay manner
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1. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done.
2. Gaily coloured lizards darted about among her feet, but they did not startle her.
3. "You are pardoned," he said, gaily.
4. As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
5. Women in furs and men in greatcoats moved gaily in the wintry air.
witticism
/wˈɪɾɪsˌɪzəm/
nouna message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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1. But it's got a 100% of Wade's charm and witticism.
2. And I looked at Sidney, who was in no mood to hear any witticisms or any remarks.
3. People don't like witticism, so I just yell.
4. He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this.
5. The Nanny found its dose of weekly witticisms from its sardonic butler, Niles.
witty
/ˈwɪti/
adjective(of a person) having the ability to say clever and typically funny things
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1. And the tip jar would have a witty joke!
2. She was witty.
3. He's very witty.
4. I'm witty.
5. - I'm witty.