liqueur
/ɫɪˈkɝ/
nounstrong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal
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1. - Is it a liqueur?
2. The gin-based liqueur was invented sometime between 1823 and 1840 by James Pimm, the owner of many oyster bars in London.
3. Then, they prepare special cakes and rice liqueur.
4. Then, they prepare special cakes and rice liqueur.
5. Irish cream liqueur over it.
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1. And so in something like a cookie, the sugar will liquefy.
2. You liquefied his insides at this point.
3. Ooh, this really liquefied.
4. This can liquefy an aphid within 90 seconds.
5. It liquefied - Mm-hm.
warrant
/ˈwɔɹənt/
nounan order issued by a judge that authorizes the police to carry out certain measures
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1. High fevers probably warrant a call, as do fevers with a headache, sore neck, or rash.
2. Earaches, bad sore throats, and pain/redness/swelling of joints all warrant a call.
3. Forget warrants.
4. But a first look always warrants a second.
5. Traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice warrant the Tribal Court's exercise of jurisdiction in this case.
wary
/ˈwɛɹi/
adjectiveexercising care due to thinking that someone or something could be dangerous or problematic
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1. Even so, local government officials have remained wary.
2. But the authorities were more wary.
3. Fourth, collaborate with other people, and fifth, be wary of perfectionism.
4. As a male approaches, the woodland troop is wary.
5. And others were always wary.
warily
/ˈwɛɹəɫi/
adverbin a careful manner, with a sense of caution and suspicion
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1. Jarrett looked to the instrument a little warily, played a few notes, walked around it, played a few more notes, muttered something to his producer.
2. And for some years he wanted the United States to engage in this, and we warily have never accepted that formulation.
3. We all know a friend or family member who has grandma’s ashes sitting on the mantelpiece, and we probably give it a wide berth - and stare warily every time the cat gets a little too close.
4. They warily headed back outside to continue the search, but as the investigators came across Todd's looming shipping container and went to take a closer look, they were suddenly chilled to the bone by a strange noise.
5. One of the main food ingredients that people tend to react to warily these days is flour With its abundance of carbohydrates, added sugar and gluten, foods made with wheat flour such as bread tend to be the first thing to get cut from your meal plan when starting a new diet.
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1. - They are aiding and abetting me in my healthy habits.
2. The law should not be aiding and abetting this new intolerance.
3. The government prosecuted the seven leaders of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, as well as Jimmy Omura, for conspiring to counsel, aid, and abet the draft resisters.
4. aiding and abetting the confederacy, and inciting insurrections.
5. Well, aiding and abetting a felon.
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1. But that particular episode, when you watch it, is such a nice evolution of Abed.
2. And they're like, I'm playing Abed.
3. I mean, I guess for me, it was always a straight down-the-middle split, on Community, between Jeff Winger and Abed.
4. And that Abed was, not the real me, but the parts of me that would be left over if you carved all that Jeff Winger off, and vice versa.
5. Troy and Abed have a great on-screen friendship.
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1. And it's gratifying to know that show is having an effect around the country.
2. It's never going to gratify you.
3. After, you'll gratify yourself with some techniques.
4. It's gratifying to be a part of something like that.
5. It was really gratifying to pull something like this off.
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1. Even before naming his kid Miller Lite, he should have been receiving gratis from Miller Lite.
2. It shall be given gratis, and not refused.
3. In fact you might be a little miffed if you don't get apparently gratis extras at these sorts of establishments.
4. As such, according to federal tax law and regulations, the gratis transportation, food and housing received by the Commander-in-Chief are non-taxable fringe benefits.
5. However, if all they want to do is film typical activity that was happening anyway, once approved, they can do that gratis.
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1. So here's the gratuitous child, cute baby video of the talk.
2. This is getting gratuitous.
3. It's gratuitous.
4. Not gratuitous blues, but we did it in the spirit and in the style of the song.
5. It's more like a gratuitous gift.
metaphor
/ˈmɛtəfɔɹ/
nouna type of figure of speech by which a person describes something or someone by referring to something or someone else to point out their similarities or emphasize them or give a better description of what they mean
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1. Here, the overt violence and animalistic savagery extend the metaphor.
2. Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses.
3. Fortunately, my metaphor changed.
4. Chapter 36 uses metaphors of purity and cleansing.
5. We use metaphor all the time in music.
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1. Then you have the first evidence of metallurgy around 5000 to 6000 BC, or 20 minutes into the hour.
2. Apple's metallurgy team has designed an aluminum alloy that uses excess aluminum from the production process, delivering the same great characteristics we expect in all of our products.
3. My father was a blacksmith, so I learned metallurgy and woodworking from him.
4. The most notable aspect of Yue culture was their metallurgy.
5. This is the first textbook on metallurgy written in the West, at least.
to metamorphose
/ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹfoʊz/
verbchange completely the nature or appearance of
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1. Inside a tunnel, ball, or pat, once the larvae hatch, they consume the dung before metamorphosing into a pupa and then an adult beetle.
2. Larval amphibians like tadpoles start their lives limbless and grow legs when they metamorphose into adults.
3. Your face metamorphosed.
4. With the loss of temperature, the glow of its thermal radiation has gone through several metamorphose.
5. You know what he metamorphosed into?
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1. Metaphorically speaking.
2. Anyways, collisions are huge in physics, metaphorically.
3. Metaphorically speaking, yes.
4. So this butterfly effect notion metaphorically organizes activist advocacy in this collection.
5. Metaphorically, the courage and courtesy of Don Quixote have vanquished the arrogance, cruelty and lust of Don Fernando.
metaphysics
/ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪks/
nounthe branch of philosophy that deals with the most fundamental abstract concepts such as existence, truth, identity, etc.
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1. - I was interested, in the first place, in religion as a metaphysics.
2. He doesn't have a metaphysics.
3. What is the metaphysics of Francesca?
4. Metaphysics has no place in law school.
5. In the case of metaphysics, he wrote a book called The Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics.
