prehensile
/pɹɪhˈɛnsaɪl/
adjectiveadapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
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1. Its prehensile forelegs trap anything within reach.
2. And that long tail is prehensile.
3. See this prehensile tail.
4. Now, all of these legs are prehensile.
5. And it's actually prehensile.
prehension
/pɹɪhˈɛnʃən/
nounthe act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
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abundant
/əˈbəndənt/
adjectivepresent in great quantity
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1. Water is abundant.
2. The universe is abundant.
3. Butterflies are abundant.
4. The sudden influx of water launches the desert floor into action and the blooms are abundant.
5. The benefits of mindfulness are abundant.
superabundant
/sˌuːpɚɹɐbˈʌndənt/
adjectivemost excessively abundant
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1. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
2. He did gaze, however, and said to himself that his features had never before possessed so rich a grace, nor his eyes such vivacity, nor his cheeks so warm a hue of superabundant life.
3. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
4. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
5. Those are not things that can come from government officials almost by definition because they involve things like care, and affection, and all of the things that make for the superabundant good of rearing a happy child to have been realized.
to superannuate
/sˌuːpɚɹˈænjuːˌeɪt/
verbretire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability
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1. [The mind of Europe is] a mind which changes, and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route which does not superannuate either Shakespeare or Homer, or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draftsman.
supercilious
/ˌsupɝˈsɪɫiəs/
adjectivetreating others as if one is superior to them
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1. In other words, it's not a completely supercilious argument, sort of "God is brought into being the same way objects that we make use of are brought into being."
2. Pride loves itself, and treats those beneath it with supercilious contempt, for love of self and contempt for others are always found together in equal degrees, so that the greater the self love, the greater the arrogance.
superficial
/ˌsupɝˈfɪʃəɫ/
adjectivenot analyzing or examining something in a complete or detailed way
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1. But that outward beauty is superficial.
2. The plastic piece on top is purely superficial.
3. So superficial damage is kind of irrelevant.
4. Fortunately, the crack in the shell is only superficial.
5. Its appeal is mostly superficial.
superfluity
/sˌuːpɚfljˈuːɪɾi/
nounextreme excess
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1. Tea tables and other foreign superfluities have given place to spinning wheels, looms.
2. All of us suffer from a fear of superfluity, which the requirements of others has a critical capacity to appease.
3. Might it be possible for a society to develop that allows for consumers spending and therefore provides employment and welfare yet of a kind directed at something other than vanities and superfluities?
4. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity come sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
5. They thought to make up the lack of a head by a superfluity of hands.
superfluous
/ˈsupɝfɫˌwəs/
adjectivemore than is needed, desired, or required
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1. --or a superfluous mission.
2. The h is completely superfluous.
3. It's quite superfluous.
4. The rest is almost totally superfluous.
5. So the whole concept of deposit insurance is completely superfluous here.
afire
/əˈfaɪɹ/
adjectivelighted up by or as by fire or flame
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1. What happened was the barracks in which the women are working is set afire by a German prisoner of war.
2. Some of the departing campers set the dwellings afire with their own hands, causing a ball of smoke to swirl upward toward the Capitol itself.
3. There are only two months to go until Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brings the nine film Skywalker Saga to an end, and with the internet afire with rumors that a new trailer could drop as early as next week, fans are gobbling up every little tidbit of information they can like Jabba the Hutt eating a Klatooine Paddy Frog.
4. Yesterday, a Poplar told me of old forest heavy with fruit that I'd call uncle, bursting red pulp and set afire, a harvest of dark wind chimes.
5. Maybe your pappy slipped it out there and set it afire, a third said.
afoot
/əˈfʊt/
adverbon foot; walking
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1. The game is afoot.
2. The game is afoot.
3. The game is afoot!
4. The game is afoot.
5. The drama was afoot!
aforesaid
/əˈfɔɹˌsɛd/
adjectivebeing the one previously mentioned or spoken of
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1. Afore, aforesaid.
2. Moreover, all these aforesaid customs and liberties, the observance of which we have granted in our kingdom as far as pertains to us toward our men, shall be observed by all of our kingdom, as well clergy as laymen, as far as pertains to them toward their men.
3. An oath, moreover, has been taken, as well on our part as on the part of the barons, that all these conditions aforesaid shall be kept in good faith and without evil intent.
4. Moreover, all these aforesaid customs and liberties, the observances of which we have granted in our kingdom as far as pertains to us towards our men, shall be observed b all of our kingdom, as well clergy as laymen, as far as pertains to them towards their men.
5. An oath, moreover, has been taken, as well on our part as on the part of the barons, that all these conditions aforesaid shall be kept in good faith and without evil intent.
afresh
/əˈfɹɛʃ/
adverbagain but in a new or different way
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1. "It is colder for my son," said the old woman, and wept afresh.
2. Silicon Valley had been my dream, so we uprooted our lives and we started afresh.
3. A new generation will suffer afresh.
4. In reality, there would be a possibility to relocate, to start afresh in another domain, to find someone else, to navigate around the disastrous event.
5. He returned home in the most happy frame of mind, took off his cloak, and hung it carefully on the wall, admiring afresh the cloth and the lining.
mantel
/ˈmæntəɫ/
nouna shelf located above a fireplace, typically included in a frame that surrounds it
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1. This is the mantel.
2. People often place, photos, clocks and knickknacks on the mantel.
3. First things first, we are going to install the mantel.
4. Or highlight your mantel or fireplace?
5. Then add the mantel shelf into place on top.
mantle
/ˈmæntəɫ/
nounshelf that projects from wall above fireplace
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1. After the crust, comes the mantle.
2. And mantle upwellings drive volcanic activity.
3. People have taken the mantle, just like The Flash: Jay Garrick to Barry Allen to Wally West.
4. The mantle has a bunch of iron, magnesium, and aluminum.
5. Turn the mantle into a magazine-worthy focal point with lanterns and sculptural decor.
querulous
/ˈkwɛɹəɫəs/
adjectivehabitually complaining
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1. I don’t feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.
2. I don’t feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.
to query
/ˈkwiɹi/
verbpose a question
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1. And you guys probably have more data about consumer activity, business queries.
2. Google Trends also shows related queries.
3. "I have a query."
4. "I have a query."
5. But query whether it's little more than a prettier version of gentrification.
to frizz
/ˈfɹɪz/
verb(of hair) to become or cause to become tightly curled
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1. But now I want regular frizz.
2. Now you're regular frizz.
3. but now I want regular Frizz.
4. Now you're regular Frizz.
5. - It eliminates your frizz, and it also seals your split-ends.
to frizzle
/ˈfɹɪzəɫ/
verbcurl tightly
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1. The women have copper beads twisted round their heads of frizzled hair, and they are clad in skirts of indigo blue.
2. 'And I,' said the younger, 'I shall wear sere green velvet and satin embroidered with gold, and I will frizzle up my hair and tie it with amber silk ribbons.'
3. When the time approached they made Cinderella lace them, and patch them, and paint them, and frizzle them, and shoe them.
4. Color variation for the Polish chicken is vast, but they can also differ in terms of being bearded, non-bearded or frizzle feathered.
5. Is it cory in the house Is it miss Frizzle?