urban
/ˈɝbən/
adjectiverelating to, situated in, or characteristic of a city or town
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1. Urban parents demand school vouchers.
2. With lower crime rates, higher fuel costs, and an overall shift in attitude, urban cores are having a second renaissance.
3. Again, urban living has plenty of materials for that!
4. Urban planners face a new challenge.
5. Urban outbreaks have between 2 and 6 times higher reproductive rates than rural outbreaks.
urbane
/ɝˈbeɪn/
adjectiveshowing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
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1. We're the co-creators of the monster factory franchise but today we're trying something a little more urbane.
2. Jack is much more reserved, much more urbane.
3. In any case, Lambert Strether, as he arrives in Paris, has awakened to the sheer wonder of urbane culture.
4. Oh my God, they would be so fabulous in these eggplants and these lovely urbane bronzes.
5. Use the urbane bronze, or switch at your cabinet tone or something.
urbanity
/ɜːbˈænɪɾi/
nounpolished courtesy; elegance of manner
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1. You know, we're in the midst of all this urbanity, we gotta make sense of our world.
2. His sheer urbanity as the remarkable writer that he is in those years when he wrote under Tina Brown for The New Yorker was just a remarkable achievement, and his career is still going strong.
3. His characters showed a fresh approach to the romantic hero: vitality, urbanity, charm, and natural talent.
aerial
/ˈɛɹiəɫ/
adjectiveexisting or living or growing or operating in the air
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1. One of Goodyear's main airship functions now is aerial broadcasting.
2. Later on, aerial photos came out.
3. We did aerial shots.
4. Aerial shots had the same problem.
5. - Aerial yoga is something fairly new.
aeronaut
/ˈɛɹoʊnˌɔːt/
nounsomeone who operates an aircraft
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1. Russell read just a single sentence and told him, "No, you must not become an aeronaut."
generality
/ˌdʒɛnɝˈæɫəti/
nounthe quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
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1. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac.
2. The generality of the expression of L’Etoile is a mere perversion of the witness’ phraseology.
3. So here's increasing generality in the concept of acid and base.
4. Just look at the generalities.
5. Can we make generality that way?
to generalize
/ˈdʒɛnɝəˌɫaɪz/
verbto draw a general conclusion based on specific cases that can be irrelevant to other situations
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1. Can you generalize even dimensional boards?
2. can we generalize this model even further?
3. In other words, your brain generalizes the experience.
4. Now we can generalize the idea.
5. An aware person generalizes.
generic
/dʒəˈnɛɹɪk/
adjectiverelating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus
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1. Generics are different though.
2. Are generic medications just as good as the brand?
3. In a lot of respects, the Pixel 3 phones are kind of generic.
4. Current playlist offerings are more generic as well.
5. They like the generics.
generosity
/ˌdʒɛnɝˈɑsəti/
nounthe quality of being kind, understanding and unselfish, especially in providing money or gifts to others
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1. But that rationality also included generosity.
2. That generosity is on display in other pictures like this one by Safarox of McKenzie.
3. The generosity that I saw.
4. Never stifle your generosity.
5. Openness is emotional generosity.
monocracy
/mɑːnˈoʊkɹəsi/
nouna form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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monogram
/ˈmɑnəˌɡɹæm/
nouna graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing
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1. Nah, it's too much logos, it's too much monograms there.
2. It's my favorite print right here, the monogram.
3. This becomes evident with monograms, for example, because they're often offered in weird spots.
4. So, you can have your monogram on your cuff or on the back of your collar, on the inside of your collar.
5. Originally, monograms on dress shirts or garments were used to identify the owner.
monograph
/ˈmɑnəˌɡɹæf/
nouna detailed written account of a particular subject, usually in the format of a short book
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1. His skeleton was described by French anthropologist Marcellin Boule in a detailed monograph published in 1911.
2. His first monograph was published in 1926, when he was 49.
3. He's published 600 papers, 24 books, and nearly 10,000 pages of monographs.
4. Notable examples of such efforts include the monographs by Harvard's own Jeffrey Hamburger in 1997 and by Allison Beach in 2004.
5. I have also read many first monographs which betray their origin in dissertations.
monolith
/ˈmɑnəˌɫɪθ/
nouna single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
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1. Deaf people aren't a monolith.
2. No demographic is a monolith.
3. It's a monolith.
4. Monoliths are popping up all over the place.
5. Yeah, Asian people are not a monolith.
monologue
/ˈmɑnəˌɫɔɡ/
nouna speech given by one person, where they express their thoughts or feelings, and it is usually directed at an audience
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1. It's an amazing monologue.
2. He didn’t sing, but instead delivered a monologue during one of the band’s songs.
3. - Which one is monologue about?
4. She brought a monologue.
5. Take the monologue out of the context of the play or film.
monomania
/mˌɑːnoʊmˈeɪniə/
nouna condition in which someone is obsessively enthusiastic about one thing in a way that it is unhealthy
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monopoly
/məˈnɑpəɫi/
nounexclusive control or possession of something
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1. Monopolies stifle innovation.
2. Of course these big tech companies are monopolies.
3. Monopoly is a board game.
4. So the public has shared its monopoly.
5. Basically the monopolies have total market power.
monosyllable
/mˈɑːnoʊsˌɪləbəl/
nouna word or utterance of one syllable
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1. But I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like gene.
2. She colored at his chill monosyllable and the ascending red increased the beauty of her face.
3. And he handed me a black-and-white printed out thesis on a poet named Etheridge Knight and the oral nature of poetry, and from that point, Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables, the ifs, ands, buts, whats, the gangsta in my slang could fall right on the ear, and from then on, I started chasing Etheridge Knight.
monotone
/ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/
nounan unchanging intonation
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1. My voice becomes more monotone.
2. We hear the monotone bark.
3. He speaks in a monotone, that deep voice.
4. humans don't naturally speak in monotone.
5. My intonation is more monotone.
monotony
/məˈnɑtəni/
nounthe constant lack of change and variety that is boring
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1. Humans, don't like monotony.
2. There’s a lot of monotony.
3. It breaks up monotony.
4. The arrival of visitors always breaks the monotony.
5. They earned this break from the tiresome monotony of the daily grind.