navel
/ˈneɪvəɫ/
noun
the elevated or empty part in the middle of the stomach, made by cutting the umbilical cord just after birth
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1Tickle its navel.
2Jake: We use navel for pastrami.
3Navel infection happens so easily.
4The pipe navel-- Pipe navel.
5Feel that pipe in the navel?
naval
/ˈneɪvəɫ/
adjective
relating or belonging to a navy
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1- All right, launching the naval blockade.
2Historically, naval power equaled power.
3Most intelligence was naval intelligence, army intelligence and state department intelligence.
4They had a naval battle.
5They gave naval support.
nautical
/ˈnɔtəkəɫ/
adjective
relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
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1This zone extends 200 nautical miles from shore.
2- Got that nautical theme.
3One of them is nautical.
4The Avontuur’s voyage has covered over 18,000 nautical miles.
5A knot is a nautical mile per hour.
quadrate
/kwˈɑːdɹeɪt/
adjective
having four sides and four angles

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to quadruple
/kwɑˈdɹupəɫ/
verb
increase fourfold
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1During the war, plastic production in the United States quadrupled.
2The total amount of data on Earth, since the dawn of civilization, quadrupled in just six years.
3Two-percent growth quadruples your standard of living in 70 years.
4It quadrupled its gross national product.
5Just one innocent scroll through Instagram and my shopping list quadruples.
wizen
/ˈwaɪzən/
adjective
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

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wizened
/ˈwaɪzənd/
adjective
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

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anagram
/ˈænəˌɡɹæm/
noun
a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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1Yeah, it's an anagram.
2Because that's an anagram for addict shows.
3He loves anagrams and I could give you lots of specific instances of that.
4They're anagrams of Kekulé.
5Crosswords and anagrams are especially good.
analogous
/əˈnæɫəɡəs/
adjective
able to be compared with another thing due to sharing a similar feature, nature, etc.
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1It's completely analogous.
2So this narrowing is analogous to resistance.
3It's analogous.
4So that's analogous.
5Those salmon chips are kind of analogous to lox.
analogy
/əˈnæɫədʒi/
noun
a comparison of two unlike things based on a similar feature or resemblance
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1Here's an analogy.
2Consider an analogy.
3Use an analogy.
4Take an analogy.
5Art can create an analogy.
eclat
/ɪklˈæt/
noun
brilliant or conspicuous success or effect
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1As 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/
adjective
combining different elements of various ideas, styles, methods, beliefs, etc.
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1A rather eclectic collection comprises the inventory of the different traditional activities and objects from the entire Islas Baleares Archipelago.
2These are eclectic.
3Eclectic, boho, maximalism, everybody can handle that one.
4And my inspirations are very eclectic.
5She's very eclectic.
eclipse
/əˈkɫɪps/, /iˈkɫɪps/, /ɪˈkɫɪps/
noun
a period during which the Sun or the Moon is shadowed by a dark circle
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1Easily, easily eclipses 400 dollars.
2No asterisk can eclipse the sheer magnitude of his production.
3Lunar eclipse, moon is eclipsed.
4People love eclipses.
5- Total coronavirus cases have eclipsed 300,000. -
gaiety
/ɡˈeɪəɾi/
noun
a gay feeling
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1In the future we're gonna get pretty gaiety of heart-ish about war.
2In 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.
3To add to the breach, he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gaiety grew stronger.
4Gaiety for Yeats seems to represent some reconstitution of mind and body, some experience of their unity out beyond an experience of tragedy and grief.
5And there is finally, again, an affirmation of this joy and gaiety, here seen as a property of the artwork itself.
gaily
/ˈɡeɪɫi/
adverb
in a gay manner
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1I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done.
2Gaily coloured lizards darted about among her feet, but they did not startle her.
3"You are pardoned," he said, gaily.
4As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
5Women in furs and men in greatcoats moved gaily in the wintry air.
witticism
/wˈɪɾɪsˌɪzəm/
noun
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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1But it's got a 100% of Wade's charm and witticism.
2And I looked at Sidney, who was in no mood to hear any witticisms or any remarks.
3People don't like witticism, so I just yell.
4He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this.
5The 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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1And the tip jar would have a witty joke!
2She was witty.
3He's very witty.
4I'm witty.
5- I'm witty.

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