eccentric
/ˌɛkˈsɛntɹɪk/, /ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/
adjectivebehaving in a manner that is considered different and strange
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1. He's eccentric.
2. They're eccentric people.
3. He's an eccentric.
4. The pronunciation of this word is: eccentric.
5. Some are even eccentric.
eccentricity
/ˌɛksənˈtɹɪsəti/
nounstrange and unconventional behavior
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1. It was the eccentricities in my playing and the unusual stuff.
2. Yes, we can detect eccentricities.
3. It networks individuality, community, eccentricity, thrift.
4. And the eccentricity, the changing of the ellipticity of this orbit, goes through a cycle of about every 100,000 years.
5. Filipino shoe designer Kermit Tesoro eccentricity is apparent in this Kraken-based design.
gullibility
/ˌɡəɫəˈbɪɫɪti/
nountendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived
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1. What I've just done here is I've discriminated, I've discriminated amongst consumers depending on consumers willingness to pay, I've essentially charged them different prices and also, to some degree, based on where they shop and their gullibility, I am charging them two completely different prices.
2. So I think, and by then, Obama realized that to some extent he had been suckered by her, if not her intentionality, certainly by her gullibility.
3. So, with my characteristic gullibility I believe in the story as it is told in 375.
4. If you agree, be ready to pay for your gullibility.
5. As many know, the phrase is often used as a taunt that refers to people who either easily believe something they've been told, don't question ideas or give blind obedience and gullibility.
gullible
/ˈɡəɫəbəɫ/
adjective(of a person) quick to believe or trust without questioning or doubting the truthfulness or reliability of something
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1. You are so gullible.
2. "I am so gullible."
3. No offense, but you guys are way too gullible.
4. this person looks gullible.
5. - I'm gullible.
venturesome
/ˈvɛntʃɝsəm/
adjectivedisposed to venture or take risks
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1. Sternberg also thought a venturesome personality contributes to creativity.
2. His venturesome uncles were dribbling globetrotters.
3. If you want to be more venturesome, don't pick riskier stocks.
4. If you want to be more venturesome, take some money out of the bank and put it into the stocks.
5. If you want to be even more venturesome than that, borrow the money to put the money into the stock market.
to barrage
/bɝˈɑʒ/
verbaddress with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
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1. In few seconds, a barrage of shells exploded between Murphy and the Germans.
2. The six Search Bloc members, along with others outside poured a massive barrage of gunfire at their targets.
3. Tidal barrages are very similar to hydroelectric dams.
4. They barraged us with phone calls.
5. And I was expecting a barrage.
barren
/ˈbæɹən/, /ˈbɛɹən/
adjectiveproviding no shelter or sustenance
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1. Soon after, the barren planet crosses Mercury's orbit.
2. Sarai's barren state really casts a shadow over the promise from the very beginning of the story of Abraham and Sarah.
3. The planet is barren and arid.
4. I'm barren.
5. I was barren.
barrister
/ˈbæɹɪstɝ/, /ˈbɛɹɪstɝ/
nouna lawyer in the UK, Australia, and some other countries entitled to argue cases in the higher courts of law
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1. And it was another barrister.
2. And he also is a barrister in the UK in the Matrix chambers.
3. Pip is a barrister and senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney.
4. Like all good barristers, I'm removing the water from the bar table.
5. You're a barrister.
indicant
/ˈɪndɪkənt/
nounsomething that serves to indicate or suggest
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indicator
/ˈɪndəˌkeɪtɝ/
nounsomething that is used to measure a particular condition or value
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1. Bluetooth indicator light, charging indicator, micro-USB port.
2. It has indicators.
3. The indicator then plots this value as a line on the stock chart.
4. The tongue is the indicator. -
5. Blood in your urine is another indicator.
to indict
/ˌɪnˈdaɪt/
verbaccuse formally of a crime
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1. A year after the Charlottesville rally, the U.S. attorney's office in Virginia indicted eight RAM members or associates.
2. So no journalist has yet been indicted.
3. So a number of people were indicted for the Colfax massacre under the 1870 Enforcement Act.
4. [Narrator] On October 13th, 2020, Steve Pankey was indicted on charges of first degree murder and kidnapping in Jonelle's disappearance and subsequent death.
5. But these people should be indicted.
indictment
/ˌɪnˈdaɪtmənt/
nouna formal accusation of a crime
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1. Yet. 1984 is an indictment of specific governments.
2. yes yes sir thanks very much a quick question and a longer question does the indictment the actual document now reside in the archives
3. And these chapters also contain an indictment or a lawsuit.
4. And the indictments didn't.
5. So, the hundred thousand dollars question, "Is an indictment against members of the Trump family imminent?"
to obfuscate
/ˈɑbfəˌskeɪt/
verbmake obscure or unclear
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1. It's obfuscating a puzzle hidden beneath.
2. Look at that, I'm obfuscated by my reticle!
3. The iPhone obfuscates its file system behind layers of annoying abstractions that change with every app.
4. So that obfuscates the individual's identity, which in a lot of situations, is a very good thing.
5. And so that obfuscates this relationship between state and subjects.
obfuscation
/ˌɑbfəˈskeɪʃən/
nounthe activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
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1. That combined with the hidden compartment, where you can install your Tesla Cam USB drive, and you’ve added a layer of obfuscation for a thief to miss.
2. And the role of technology here, what is required to successfully defeat network security measures, only adds to the obfuscation.
3. So, with all of these dangers of weak evaluation and gradient obfuscation, it really pushed people into thinking about maybe a different way we can evaluate our algorithms and this is called Verification Algorithms.
4. They fell for the witness' obfuscation and abandoned their original question.
5. The Metropolitan Police's culture of obfuscation and a lack of candour is unhealthy in any public service.
wile
/ˈwaɪɫ/
nounthe use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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1. As police rushed to set up roadblocks, he wiled away his time browsing in stores.
2. I am wiling to spend half . . .
3. - I can see through the wiles of the redhead.
4. Now, the Bible speaks of his wiles, his devices, his snares.
5. I'd wile away my time drawing airplanes in the class.
wily
/ˈwaɪɫi/
adjectiveskillful in achieving what one desires, especially through deceptive means
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1. Even before he arrived, the wily Loki was already scheming how he would get the dwarves to do his bidding.
2. She is wily.
3. But he's wily.
4. Tate, you have the wily veteran.
5. They are wily.
to abort
/əˈbɔɹt/
verbto terminate an undesired pregnancy before the fetus reaches a viable age
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1. - You abort that baby.
2. And so, he aborted the operation.
3. Abort the mission!
4. Abort, retry, or fail.
5. All right, I aborted mission.
abortive
/əˈbɔɹtɪv/
adjectivefailing to produce or accomplish the desired outcome
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1. And the second largest wave of immigrants was made up of German speakers, including a number of liberals who left after the abortive revolutions of 1848.
2. As soon as Rommel saw that his Westward thrust was doomed, he made an abortive attack South against the Eighth Army.
3. [Narrator] 1976 saw two abortive attempts at the future.
4. To make up for this abortive experiment, he proposed to take her portrait by a scientific process of his own invention.
5. And indeed, in the historical literature, this was termed abortive poliomyelitis, because the infection progressed no further.
jeremiad
/ˌdʒɛɹəˈmaɪəd/
nouna long and mournful complaint
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1. That sounds like an old jeremiad.
2. I mean, I would like to just hear Eddie give that jeremiad to the American people.
3. But there was a remedy for all of this and these condemnatory jeremiads tended to be followed rapidly by calls for the pursuit of reformation of these disorders by a dual policy, a policy of "word and sword."