ultimate
/ˈəɫtəmət/
adjectivefurthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
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1. However, none of this is remotely ultimate.
2. This critical situation gave me ultimate determination.
3. Crocs and alligators are ultimate killers.
4. My first reaction was ultimate shock.
5. Ultimate for a long time to come.
ultimatum
/ˌəɫtəˈmeɪtəm/
nouna final peremptory demand
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1. He had issued his ultimatum.
2. This is the ultimatum.
3. It contained an ultimatum.
4. And my parents gave me an ultimatum.
5. And eventually he gave the law school an ultimatum.
to corrode
/kɝˈoʊd/
verbcause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
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1. And both salt and acids can corrode metal.
2. Even when corroded by wind.
3. Water and wind corrode, removing a metal from the board.
4. First of all, it is corroding the price mechanism.
5. Oils on your hands can also corrode metals, like in the example of the statue of Victor Noir, in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
corrosion
/kɝˈoʊʒən/
nounthe state in which something such as a metal is damaged due to a gradual chemical reaction
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1. The dryness, as well as the lack of acidity in the soil, prevent corrosion on the assets.
2. Some corrosion going on. -
3. When a wind stone is placed on a water stone or vice versa, corrosion occurs.
4. Corrosion is probably already happening inside of that phone.
5. And the iron gall ink is causing corrosion.
corrosive
/kɝˈoʊsɪv/
adjectiveof a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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1. Most animals cannot survive these corrosive waters.
2. The water is almost as corrosive as ammonia.
3. Trade policy is always corrosive.
4. Exposing its wooden interior to corrosive moisture.
5. Resentment in a relationship is a corrosive force.
illusion
/ˌɪˈɫuʒən/
nounsomething many people believe that is false
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1. - Allow us our illusions.
2. Fear is illusion.
3. Equality is complete illusion.
4. As a result, the millennial generation was sold an illusion.
5. Number seven - clustering illusion.
illusive
/ˌɪˈɫusɪv/
adjectivebased on or having the nature of an illusion
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1. Their large clothes would create an illusive target on themselves.
2. But so far, these right regulations remain illusive and, as one legislator pointed out early in the hearing, self-regulation has not worked well in the past.
3. We will discover only chaos and illusive thoughts.
4. But the intonation at the beginning is something more illusive and more difficult to grasp.
5. - They're more illusive.
illusory
/ˌɪˈɫusɝi/
adjectivebased on or having the nature of an illusion
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1. The illusory pattern perception is a cognitive bias we humans have evolved.
2. Here you see an illusory triangle.
3. But that is just as illusory.
4. His father looked at him with illusory speculation.
5. Is reason illusory?
illustrious
/ˌɪˈɫəstɹiəs/
adjectivevery well-known, glorious, or admirable
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1. The Illustrious retinue begins to move.
2. Professor Okediji has an illustrious career.
3. He has had an illustrious career as a lawyer and an appellate litigator in the private sector.
4. Harvard Law has an incredible number of illustrious alumni.
5. These kings would rally for their illustrious patron at the battle of Pharsalus against Caesar in 48 BC.
mentality
/mɛnˈtæɫəti/, /mɛnˈtæɫɪti/
nounmental ability
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1. Maintain this mentality through the rest of the game.
2. My mentality is complex ♪
3. You understand their mentality.
4. Cowboy mentality is the Western mentality.
5. Wyclef: Do not have that mentality.
mentor
/ˈmɛnˌtɔɹ/, /ˈmɛntɝ/
nouna reliable and experienced person who helps those with less experience
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1. So mentors often give advice.
2. Mentoring young generation, bright generations.
3. We need mentors.
4. Mentors have to choose.
5. Mentors feel a great sense of productivity.
to parlay
/ˈpɑɹɫeɪ/
verbstake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager
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1. Left Harvard, could parlay the editor position at the Crimson to getting a staff position at The New Yorker.
2. No one has parlayed the President into less impressive celebrity friends.
3. I did not parlay it into viral fame at the time.
4. but they'll just parlay that there
5. But I didn't parlay it.
to parley
/ˈpɑɹɫi/
verbto discuss the terms of an agreement with an opposing side, usually an enemy
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1. Parley and its partners collect trash from coastal areas like the Maldives.
2. "Parley for the Oceans" collects the plastic bottles in a warehouse in Male.
3. So far, Parley has removed 1,400 tons of plastic from the Maldives.
4. The plastic bottles are recycled by Parley.
5. The Parley team has to move on.
to acquaint
/əˈkweɪnt/
verbmake familiar or conversant with
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1. Stoddart was well acquainted with the laws of attraction.
2. Are you acquainted with the difference That holds this present question in the court?
3. I'm not really acquainted with Volume 30 of Fam Plan Pers.
4. Just over two hours later the Titan of the high seas goes under and just over 1,500 people acquaint themselves with Davy Jones' Locker.
5. He therefore acquainted his father, Ali Baba, with his wish to invite him in return.
to acquiesce
/ˌækwiˈɛs/
verbto reluctantly accept something without protest
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1. Colonies should happily acquiesce to them.
2. - I must acquiesce.
3. Does he acquiesce?
4. It had to be acquiesced in.
5. With a few rare exceptions like Yick Wo and Strauder v. West Virginia, for the first century and a half of its existence the court largely acquiesced in the racism of the white public.
to acquire
/əˈkwaɪɝ/
verbto buy or begin to have something
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1. In December 2020, the company acquired an 80 percent interest in rival high-end mall owner, Taubman Center.
2. The company recently acquired organic meat brand Applegate Farms and Justin's Nut Butters.
3. The mind acquires that ability.
4. Already acquired the communication skill.
5. Acquire the proper running shoes.
acquisitive
/əˈkwɪzətɪv/
adjectiveeager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
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1. Instead of our normal, maybe more acquisitive frame of mind-- like if I have a big insight soon, I can get up and leave.
2. The student today is not the carefree, frivolous young person of yesterday's college novels, and decisively he is not the acquisitive careerist we bemoaned as members of the silent and apathetic generation.
3. Its inequalities increase, we are forced to become greedy, calculating, acquisitive, again our natural pity or compassion is easily overcome by these more powerful passions.
4. Man, he tells us in these opening chapters, is a property-acquiring animal, the acquisitive animal, even in the state of nature where there is again nothing but the natural law to govern human associations and relations with one another.
5. Cephalus, we learn, has spent his life in the acquisitive arts.
to acquit
/əˈkwɪt/
verbofficially deciding and declaring in a law court that someone is not guilty of a crime
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1. An all-white jury in Kansas City acquitted the killer, Raymond Bledsoe, the following year.
2. Most medieval English felony juries acquitted.
3. Jimmy Omura, the newspaper columnist, was acquitted.
4. He was acquitted.
5. 1999, Bill Clinton, acquitted.
stigma
/ˈstɪɡmə/
nouna symbol of disgrace or infamy
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1. Waterbeds developed a stigma.
2. The stigma shades the photoreceptor, but just on one side of the euglena.
3. But the big thing is stigma.
4. So pitbulls have a stigma.
5. Today's word is stigma.
to stigmatize
/ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz/
verbmark with a stigma or stigmata
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1. And it stigmatized Chinese people as being the disease carriers.
2. - It's stigmatized if you're not going to school anymore.
3. We stigmatize mistakes.
4. Are we kind of stigmatizing people from Arkansas, and this part of the country?
5. Both there are obviously stigmatized.
