exposition
/ˌɛkspəˈzɪʃən/
nounan account of inserting background information within a story line or narrative
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1. - I'm just doing exposition, okay man.
2. In Godzilla vs. Kong, major concepts get brief bits of exposition.
3. Oh boy, here comes the exposition.
4. And, so, Louis Napoleon has other expositions.
5. Another 114,000 people saw the exposition when it went on a tour of the provinces.
expository
/ɛkspˈɑːsɪtˌoːɹi/
adjectiveserving to expound or set forth
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1. So the expository device that's modeled on the cake cutting goes like this.
2. So I see Lew as an extreme expository, the internal view of law.
3. One, the prologue as dialogue, as in Part I, and throughout Cervantes' work, instead of an expository piece in the first person, he needs to create another to tell the story of his own self.
4. It really announces a speaker who is using a kind of expository language.
5. She gave the expository interview with the BBC, her marriage came to an end, and unfortunately, she experienced a tragic falling out with her son, Prince William.
affirmation
/ˌæfɝˈmeɪʃən/
nouna statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
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1. We need affirmations too.
2. So, the low-quality science received affirmation for decades.
3. I love affirmations.
4. That affirmation has just changed my total perspective on everything.
5. - I do affirmations.
affirmative
/əˈfɝmətɪv/
adjectiveshowing agreement or approval
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1. - So affirmative action has a really long history.
2. He opposed affirmative action.
3. Affirmative action is about promotions in the police department and the fire department.
4. Affirmative action is a terrible idea.
5. Affirmative action is there.
to endure
/ɛnˈdjʊɹ/, /ɪnˈdʊɹ/
verbto face unpleasant and painful things and still continue
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1. Ultrarunners endure some pretty extreme conditions.
2. For three days the painfully shy adventurer endured ticker tape parades and receptions in New York, Chicago, Washington and Houston.
3. The rest of us have endured stress and anxiety.
4. Enduring the supreme ordeal.
5. The workers here often endure tragic sexual abuse at the hands of their customers.
endurance
/ˈɛndɝəns/
nounthe power to withstand hardship or stress
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1. The first stage was endurance.
2. Endurance run with Kayla.
3. My endurance is up.
4. Today's word is endurance.
5. In addition to amazing strength ability, the legs also have lots of endurance.
enduring
/ɛnˈdjʊɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈdʊɹɪŋ/
adjectivelasting a long time
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1. It was enduring.
2. Allen’s back pain was enduring.
3. Whose back pain was enduring?
4. Allen’s, Allen’s back pain was enduring.
5. Now the back pain was enduring.
vituperative
/ˌvaɪˈtupɝətɪv/, /vəˈtupɝətɪv/
adjectivecriticizing or insulting in a hurtful and angry manner
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1. This same dynamic of intense sibling rivalry appears again in the first few centuries of the Common Era, when some Jews separated from others and in differentiating themselves and creating their own identity as Christians, felt it necessary to engage in devastatingly vituperative and violent rhetoric against their fellow Jews.
2. He writes Galatians to this group trying to convince them not to accept this, what he calls a new teaching or a different Gospel, and this is where Paul is in his most angry and most vituperative of just about all of his letters.
3. Now Forese Donati was in Dante's youth, like I said, a friend and they exchanged a series of vituperative sonnets in which they insulted each other back and forth, and it was filled with language of bodily sensation.
to moderate
/ˈmɑdɝˌeɪt/, /ˈmɑdɝət/
verbmake less fast or intense
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1. It's worth pointing out here that some meta-analyses suggest that antidepressants aren't any more effective than psychotherapy when symptoms are mild to moderate.
2. Journalists and author Cokie Roberts will moderate a discussion with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
3. Moderated by Jeffrey Rosen president and CEO National Constitution Center And Elizabeth Wydra, President Constitutional Accountability Center.
4. William’s conduct at first was moderate.
5. So he moderated the discussion.
moderation
/ˌmɑdɝˈeɪʃən/
nounquality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
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1. For many large online companies, content moderation solves this issue.
2. Is this moderation?!
3. So, moderation is the key.
4. However, moderation is key.
5. The key is moderation.
moderator
/ˈmɑdɝˌeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone who, as a job, helps opposing sides come to an agreement
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1. Each group has a moderator.
2. Each group has a moderator.
3. Other moderators become depressed.
4. Our moderator is HBS Professor Robert Huckman.
5. Add comment moderators.
evasion
/iˈveɪʒən/, /ɪˈveɪʒən/
nounthe act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
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1. - Evasion is great.
2. The opportunities for evasion are greater.
3. He was prosecuted for draft evasion.
4. Part one of your final test is a 3-day escape and evasion course.
5. Anger is an evasion.
evasive
/iˈveɪzɪv/, /ɪˈveɪzɪv/
adjectivedeliberately vague or ambiguous
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1. She agreed but then withheld any findings, and offered evasive answers.
2. We didn’t even have time to take evasive action.
3. Take evasive maneuvers!
4. - I feel evasive.
5. Engaging evasive break now.
taut
/ˈtɔt/
adjectivepulled or drawn tight
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1. The old ones got taut, though.
2. All in this area, the skin is taut.
3. My arm is swollen taut.
4. My arm is swollen taut.
5. Then pull it taut.
tautological
/tˌɔːɾəlˈɑːdʒɪkəl/
adjectiverepetition of same sense in different words
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1. But I do think, at a sort of fundamental level, AAA tends to be a kind of tautological label.
2. His existence could be proved by a neat tautological trick.
3. It's tautological.
4. But it's tautological now that if something is a job that's worth doing, it's worth doing because it's profitable.
5. Now the equation looks simple and it's always true, and yet it's not as straightforward as one would like, because people take something beyond the tautological fact of it being true.
tautology
/tɔːtˈɑːlədʒi/
nounsaying the same thing twice in different wordings, generally considered a fault in style
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1. Also in logic, in which tautologies have given way to typologies.
2. It's an effective tautology.
3. Heroism is a tautology.
4. So it doesn't really free us from the tautology really.
5. It's sort of a tautology.
caprice
/kəˈpɹis/
nouna sudden desire
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1. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.
2. Perhaps it was only an inexplicable caprice.
3. A listener would have thought at last that the one role of woman on earth was a perpetual sacrifice of her person, a continual abandonment of herself to the caprices of a hostile soldiery.
4. And, while they themselves were detained on their way by the caprices of the Prussian officer, scores of Frenchmen might be dying, whom they would otherwise have saved!
5. Lord Hewart said one strategy of government could be to subordinate parliament, to evade the courts and to render the will or the caprice of the executive unfettered and supreme.
capricious
/kəˈpɹɪʃəs/
adjectiveprone to unexpected and sudden changes of behavior, mood, or mind
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1. They're not the menials and servants of capricious gods.
2. He is ponderously capricious.
3. This president's capricious nature and complete intolerance to what are to him inconvenient truths.
4. As I've said, one of the things about tuberculosis is its enormously capricious quality.
5. And to write a new operating system was not a capricious matter.
captious
/kˈæpʃəs/
adjectivetending to find and call attention to faults
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