vivacious
/vəˈveɪʃəs/
adjectivevigorous and animated
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1. The boy Isaac demonstrated signs of a vivacious intellect from very early on.
2. Marilyn: I'm vivacious, I'm a risk taker, I'm an adventurous person.
3. And may I add, sparkling, vivacious, entrepreneurial spirit.
4. This week's episode was brought to you by the vibrant work of these vivacious individuals.
5. Men have a dream of a woman who is vivacious and carefree, who can enjoy loving and enlivening moments without stress.
vivacity
/vɪvˈæsɪɾi/
nouncharacterized by high spirits and animation
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1. Her lively intelligence, warmth and vivacity won her many friends.
2. And impressions like experiencing colors are vivid in force and vivacity, and ideas are merely a faint copy or something.
3. Leo is a fire sign, so there is a lot of vivacity and larger-than-life capacity to a Leo.
4. Not just because Creed's opponent is a bland and vague character, but because the straightforward cinematography that Steven Caple Jr. employs in these scenes just doesn't have any of the vivacity of the previous film.
5. Margot Robbie plays her with a free-spirited vivacity, but the character of Tate herself is not well-developed.
to vivify
/vˈɪvɪfˌaɪ/
verbgive new life or energy to
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1. The yeast, whose mission it has been up till now to raise the dough, to enliven it, to vivify it, in order to complete its mission, which is also to turn this dough into bread, has to give up its life.
vivisection
/vˌɪvɪsˈɛkʃən/
nounthe act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)
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1. The 2nd century Greek physician Galen gleaned what he could about the human form by performing vivisections on pigs.
2. So if we add up the animals that are raised and killed in labs, so for vivisection, for clothing, in shelters, that would be a number that will be five times lower than the amount of chickens that die in factory farms before reaching slaughter because of the condition.
3. The shift in the animal protection movement has been towards undercover investigations utilizing open records laws painting a picture of what happens every single day behind these closed doors, whether it's at a breeding puppy mill, or at a factory farm, or at a vivisection laboratory.
4. Currently, experiments range from starvation, vivisection, forced transfusions, and sterilizations.
5. And as long as you have a good enough understanding of different aspects like environment, vivisection health and you're normally okay.
to migrate
/ˈmaɪˌɡɹeɪt/
verbto move from a country or region in search of a better job or living conditions
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1. These things can migrate thousands and thousands of miles.
2. The centrosomes migrate to the opposite ends of the cell.
3. My mother migrated to the States.
4. Animals migrate for good reasons.
5. Folklore migrates back and forth from the country to the city.
migratory
/ˈmaɪɡɹəˌtɔɹi/
adjectivehabitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
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1. Ordinarily, the sea otter is not migratory.
2. The migratory timing of Columbia River salmon has been changing as a result of the human fishery on them.
3. And so birds are highly migratory.
4. The major danger for migratory birds is development.
5. And these migratory beekeepers are the last nomads of America.
desolate
/ˈdɛsəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈdɛsəɫət/, /ˈdɛzəɫət/
adjectiveproviding no shelter or sustenance
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1. But it is desolating.
2. A desolate region, where few things grow.
3. Four teenage students took a walk into the desolate woods near the campus of the University of Tennessee.
4. But this is desolate.
5. Fifty years ago in the old Soviet Union, a team of engineers was secretly moving a large object through a desolate countryside.
to despair
/dɪˈspɛɹ/
verbabandon hope; give up hope; lose heart
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1. My mortification quickly turns to despair.
2. Despair is just another form of denial.
3. Despair is chief.
4. The negation of hope, the opposite of hope would be despair.
5. Despair is a complete absence or loss of hope.
desperado
/ˌdɛspɝˈɑdoʊ/
nouna bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
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1. You see, the near-by Indian Territory, was the favourite hiding place for hundreds of desperados, bandits on the run from Federal and local lawmen.
2. My first team are two rebels without a cause they are real life bad boys, a couple of desperado's.
3. You are genuinely a bit of a desperado here, Silverado.
4. On the 2nd of August, while setting at a gambling table in the Bell Union saloon, in Deadwood, he was shot in the back of the head by the notorious Jack McCall, a desperado.
desperate
/ˈdɛspɝɪt/, /ˈdɛspɹɪt/
adjective(of an act) without much hope for its success and done when nothing else works
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1. She certainly did not look desperate or mad enough to have tried to murder her master.
2. This man is desperate.
3. Trump was so desperate.
4. The bereaved couples are desperate.
5. Cornered animals become desperate.
parable
/ˈpɛɹəbəɫ/
nouna short fictitious story with a moral or spiritual lesson, especially one told by Jesus Christ in the Gospels
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1. The second novel, Parable of the Talents, takes place five years after the end the previous novel.
2. Chapter 13 in Matthew is all parables.
3. So here was a case com- parable with that of a railroad coach open on all sides.
4. This is in the packet after the parables.
5. So, this says parable. -
paradigm
/ˈpɛɹəˌdaɪm/
nouna standard or typical example
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1. Families have paradigms.
2. Now your paradigm is controlling your results.
3. Your paradigm controls your perception of situations.
4. Your paradigm controls your effectiveness.
5. Families have paradigms.
paradox
/ˈpɛɹəˌdɑks/
nouna logically contradictory statement that might actually be true
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1. It can include paradox.
2. So here's the paradox.
3. The paradox is pretty well-known.
4. Now, here is the paradox.
5. The new one now sports new paradoxes.
paragon
/ˈpɛɹəˌɡɑn/
nounan ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
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1. The Democratic Party, while no paragon of virtue, is more open to incremental changes fashioned through bargaining with the Republicans.
2. This is the Marvel paragon collection of Chris Claremont.
3. Marvel Made has announced their first Paragon collection with the Chris Claremont Premiere Bundle.
4. There are four characteristics of paragons of grit.
5. If you look at the United States, certainly no paragon of anti-corruption.
infamous
/ˈɪnfəməs/
adjectivefamous for doing horrible things
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1. These unexpected frugivores include infamous predators like the American crocodile, Nile crocodile and Saltwater crocodile.
2. Abu Ghraib Prison under Saddam Hussein was infamous.
3. Mr. Bush's reply has become infamous.
4. Infamous Roman Emperors: One of the Roman emperors was Caligula.
5. It's infamous.
infamy
/ˈɪnfəmi/
nouna state of extreme dishonor
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1. This punt deserves infamy.
2. Can't move the card Infamy.
3. Oh, all overlords increase their Infamy level by one.
4. I lose one Infamy level, so worth it.
5. I'm at Infamy.
odious
/ˈoʊdiəs/
adjectiveextremely unpleasant and repulsive, provoking or deserving hate
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1. One writer wrote that the Constitution was, quote, "the most odious system of tyranny that was ever projected."
2. It also hinges on Bismarck, who was in many ways an odious guy but a very clever guy.
3. The court observed, however, that a punishment clause would have been odious.
4. This grass and poison-type Pokémon is a large flower that has toxic pollen and an odious smell, which it may have gotten from the real thing.
5. I think it's odious.
odium
/ˈoʊdiəm/
nounhate coupled with disgust
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1. Well, I would like to play Odium, the Pit Wreaker.
2. Can I move Odium with that?
3. Any of our special figures, Demithyle, Kier, and Odium, that were on the board are gonna return to go about their business.
4. Yet when he has endured this test, and stander and odium have failed to move or afflict him, he has become a man indeed, one that society will have to reckon with, and finally accept on his own terms.
5. It covers "all written communications that tend to expose one to public hatred, shame, obloquy, contumely, odium, contempt, ridicule, aversion, ostracism, degradation, or disgrace, and to induce an evil opinion of one in the minds of right-thinking persons and to deprive one of their confidence and friendly intercourse in society."
degeneracy
/dɪˈdʒɛnɝəsi/
nounmoral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
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1. With the exception of black holes, these objects are supported by various forms of degeneracy pressure.
2. It takes a stellar core at least about three times the mass of the Sun to overcome neutron degeneracy pressure.
3. Our progress and degeneracy seems to be rapid.
4. So that breaks the degeneracy of these different patterns that have the same number of nodes.
5. Degeneracy is the name, but there's more than one solution for a given value of the variable you're interested in.
degenerate
/dɪˈdʒɛnɝˌeɪt/, /dɪˈdʒɛnɝət/
adjectiveunrestrained by convention or morality
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1. This guy is a degenerate.
2. Over time, the corpus luteum gradually degenerates into the nonfunctional corpus albicans.
3. But their culture degenerated into violence.
4. But their culture degenerated into violence.
5. None of them are degenerate.
