laborious
/ɫəˈbɔɹiəs/
adjectivecharacterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
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1. It's a bit laborious.
2. Many games are, in fact, very laborious.
3. This is a laborious process.
4. But often entails laborious detective work.
5. While the idea certainly has thematic novelty, the execution was laborious.
labyrinth
/ˈɫæbɝˌɪnθ/
nouna complex maze constructed by Daedalus to imprison the Minotaur
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1. Your little caves are like labyrinths.
2. Labyrinth was at Columbia University and Yale.
3. It's available at Labyrinth.
4. Yeah this place is a labyrinth.
5. My favorite movie is Pan's Labyrinth.
labyrinthine
/ˌɫæbɝˈɪnˌθin/
adjectiveresembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
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1. Which began with the Trump-Russia scandal as a complicated labyrinthine, bizarre international tangle of questions about computer hacking and about money laundering and about collusion.
2. It has a kind of labyrinthine quality to it.
3. They took off and hid in this labyrinthine, networking, spider-webbing system of canyons called the Copper Canyons.
4. So the main theme of the book is the sort of labyrinthine quality of a lot of these cases.
5. It's labyrinthine.
abysmal
/əˈbɪzməɫ/
adjectiveresembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable
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1. Additionally, attrition rates are abysmal, anywhere from 10 to 50% depending on the school.
2. The communication from the ER to the other floor right now is abysmal.
3. Longinus’s abysmal administration of his province had scuppered this plan, however.
4. Investigations by the European Commission confirm these abysmal conditions.
5. Maya: That was abysmal.
abyss
/əˈbɪs/
nouna bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
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1. The abyss of the Atlantic where the bones of six or seven million Africans settled into the sand long ago.
2. One of the biggest things was the abyss.
3. What is your abyss?
4. And the abyss stares back, LexMan895.
5. My shame as a spur, I fled the abyss.
facetious
/fəˈsiʃəs/
adjectivenot showing the amount of seriousness needed toward a serious matter by trying to seem clever and humorous
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1. - You were being facetious.
2. - You were facetious.
3. I'm being facetious.
4. I'm being facetious.
5. I'm being facetious.
facile
/ˈfæsəɫ/
adjectiveperforming adroitly and without effort
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1. On facile ground, halt not.
2. On facile ground, halt not.
3. On facile ground, halt not.
4. On facile ground, halt not.
5. For us, we're very facile around electricity.
to facilitate
/fəˈsɪɫəˌteɪt/
verbto help something, such as a process or action, become possible or simpler
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1. The availability of easy credit and loans also facilitated buying.
2. Today, the port again facilitates the movement of capital.
3. The organization facilitates the voluntary creation of a product.
4. In the early 2000s, the Bush administration facilitated the growth of for profit colleges.
5. Onions can also facilitate exfoliation.
facility
/fəˈsɪɫɪti/
nounskillful performance or ability without difficulty
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1. This facility processes up to a million tons of waste annually.
2. This facility generates over 7% of our proud Capitol’s energy needs.
3. That facility created the primary objective.
4. No one facility could take on that much work in that particular timeframe.
5. We have facilities around there.
to wrest
/ˈɹɛst/
verbto take something out of someone's hand usually by force
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1. He was wresting with the challenge of connecting to his global team.
2. And then you get the content of it: because you have sinned I will destroy you, I will wrest the kingship from you and so on.
3. Soon he ventured on, wresting more Slavic tribes from Khazar control.
4. In the northwestern uplands, the Illyrian army under a chieftain Bardylis had wrested control of strategic approaches, and was preparing to take the vulnerable heartland.
5. Milton is really wresting this poem away from its source in scripture and he's pushing it toward an entirely new genre.
to wrench
/ˈɹɛntʃ/
verbtwist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
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1. Some people saw the wrench.
2. Some stars, like cool red dwarfs, throw another wrench into this system.
3. Nature almost threw a wrench in its plans, though.
4. Chimp Spanner equals monkey wrench.
5. Now turn the wrench fully.
to wreak
/ˈɹik/
verbcause to happen or to occur as a consequence
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1. Even small disruptions in sleep can wreak havoc on safety and performance.
2. -A Canadian goose is wreaking havoc in New Jersey.
3. Hurricanes and typhoons would wreak havoc on the Earth's surface.
4. Smoking cigarettes can wreak havoc on your lungs.
5. Drugs wreaked havoc on this office.
wrath
/ˈɹæθ/
nounbelligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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1. Feel the wrath of my Steve Urkel slammer!
2. In his grief, Achilles’ wrath knows no bounds.
3. Comrades and enemies fled from its wrath.
4. - And Florida man feels wrath out of the aluminum foil packaging of the chicken sandwich.
5. Are you piling wrath.
to wrangle
/ˈɹæŋɡəɫ/
verbto have a prolonged and complicated argument
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1. So I'm wrangling the car.
2. Just wonderful actors and the way he, Bob Riggle would just essentially wrangle cats.
3. He wrangles alligators on his six pack.
4. So, there was wrangling over the definition.
5. Wrangle the cat into an unoccupied room by wrapping it in a heavy blanket.
candid
/ˈkændəd/, /ˈkændɪd/
adjectivespeaking in an honest, straightforward, and unreserved manner
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1. Just be candid here.
2. This photo is a candid.
3. It's much more candid.
4. And he's candid.
5. It's more candid.
candor
/ˈkændɝ/
nounthe quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
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1. I really appreciate your candor on this, Steve.
2. Is this experimental candor?
3. I struggle with radical candor.
4. So Candor is telling the truth, honesty.
5. Bring candor to the party right away.
neural
/ˈnjʊɹəɫ/, /ˈnʊɹəɫ/
adjectiveof or relating to neurons
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1. Neural networks are better than other methods for certain tasks like, image recognition.
2. All mammals demonstrate on-going neural activity throughout their hearing pathways.
3. The second concept is neural plasticity.
4. These nodes are neural systems.
5. Can neural networks play the game of Go?
to garner
/ˈɡɑɹnɝ/
verbassemble or get together
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1. However, one particular phrase garnered the interest of the police.
2. The dishonest man likewise garners his own suffering and happiness.
3. The dishonest man likewise garners his own suffering and happiness.
4. Good thing, too, Fleabag's second season garnered a total of 11 Emmy nominations.
5. The film garnered a nomination for Outstanding TV Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special at the 2007 NAACP Image Awards.
to garnish
/ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/
verbto make food look more delicious by decorating it
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1. We garnish several dishes with it.
2. Garnished with a little cilantro.
3. But every drink needs garnish.
4. The garnish is beautiful.
5. Garnish the plates with basil leaves.
