ordinal
/ˈɔːɹdɪnəl/
adjectiveconnected with or denoting a position or rank in a series
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1. Now, ordinal numbers are different than cardinal numbers.
2. Ordinal numbers are different.
3. Well, what’s the ordinal number?
4. Put your ordinal number.
5. The bottom number, the denominator, is always an ordinal number.
ordinance
/ˈɔɹdənəns/
nounan official rule or order that is imposed by the law or someone with authority
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1. Ordinances, get outta here!
2. NEWSWOMAN 2: One woman declared the ordinance "absolutely unconstitutional."
3. Therefore you praise the ordinance?
4. Birmingham city ordinances segregated the use of drinking fountains, bathrooms, clothing store dressing rooms, by race.
5. Ordinance means munitions or ammunition.
ordinate
/ˈɔːɹdᵻnət/
nounthe value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
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1. We can no longer establish a system of co-ordinates, like the one just mentioned, in a universal inter- mediate matter, and if we were to arrive in one way or another at a definite system of lines crossing each other in three directions, then we should be able to use just as well another similar system that in re- spect to the first moves this or that way.
2. As for the build, DrAshley prescribes an ordinate trailer park, fitting for a washed up pageant queen.
3. No, I don't understand your honor, how they put a sign there, allowing it to be parked, right, less than two and a half feet from a driveway, where clearly the ordinate says you must be sixteen feet from the driveway.
4. This is pretty similar to adding vectors co-ordinate by co-ordinate, it's just that there are, in a sense, infinitely many co-ordinates to deal with.
5. And again, this is analogous to scaling a vector co-ordinate by co-ordinate, it just feels like there's infinitely many co-ordinates.
ordnance
/ˈɔɹdnəns/
nounmilitary supplies
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1. The truck is full of unexploded ordnance.
2. Military ordnance uses high explosives inside of it.
3. In France, ordnance disposal is financed and run centrally by the national government.
4. Ordnance handlers move munitions and other explosive materials for storage or transportation, typically via rail car or airplane.
5. Today, I will be giving a lecture on safety ordnance.
to acknowledge
/ækˈnɑɫɪdʒ/
verbto accept something as true or real
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1. Reviewers acknowledged the craftsmanship and quality of materials in the car.
2. Acknowledges both the legitimacy and the shortcomings of the dominant code.
3. Acknowledge Your Strengths:
4. Princess Kate's outfit additionally acknowledges the current status of Britain's public health.
5. - Acknowledge your biases.
acknowledgment
/ækˈnɑɫɪdʒmənt/
nouna statement acknowledging something or someone
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1. Appreciated your acknowledgment that you're not a historian.
2. Many folks in the library are thanked in my acknowledgments.
3. President Putin relishes an acknowledgment of his status as one of the world's most powerful leaders.
4. These are the acknowledgments.
5. They see acknowledgment of death and loss as ignorance.
dissension
/dɪˈsɛnʃən/
noundisagreement among those expected to cooperate
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1. It's a source of tension, conflict, and dissension.
2. But this has created a lot of dissension, a lot of distraction.
3. But there is dissension within the enemy ranks.
4. There seems to be a push against dissension in academia.
5. And they will be fomenting dissension and problems with it.
to dissent
/dɪˈsɛnt/
verbto give or have opinions that differ from those officially or commonly accepted
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1. RBG's dissent reflected not just a close study and deep knowledge of anti-discrimination statutes and precedent.
2. He dissented.
3. Well, different dissents serve different functions.
4. And then different dissents serve different purposes.
5. Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissented.
dissentient
/dɪsˈɛnʃənt/
adjectivedisagreeing, especially with a majority
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dissentious
/dɪsˈɛnʃəs/
adjectivedissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
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infirmary
/ɪnˈfɝmɝi/
nounan institution where the ill or injured are given medical or surgical treatment
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1. Yes, we finally got an infirmary.
2. I get back to the prison, in the infirmary.
3. He later died in the infirmary of the camp.
4. You might evade the infirmary, but not famine.
5. 25 players had been admitted to the infirmary with heat-related illness.
infirmity
/ɪnˈfɝmɪti/
nounthe state of being weak and unhealthy, especially due to old age or sickness
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1. In your name, Jesus, I command infirmity, go in Jesus' name.
2. And therefore, formal law has an infirmity.
3. This just reinforces the constitutional infirmity that we were addressing in the first place.
4. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
5. People shouldn't be laughing at your infirmity.
plural
/ˈpɫʊɹəɫ/
adjective(grammar) describing words that are more than one in number
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1. So our panel this morning captures this plural meaning of feminisms.
2. This one is plural.
3. Our noun, cars, is plural.
4. Then we have plural.
5. Is that plural?
plurality
/pɫɝˈæɫɪti/
nouna large indefinite number
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1. Crash Course was made with the help of this plurality of people.
2. So is plurality vote really the fairest method?
3. There's a lot of plurality out there.
4. It says single member plurality systems, SMP.
5. A plurality, nearly 40% said Bloomberg loses eight or more points as a result of last night's performance.
to eulogize
/ˈjuɫəˌdʒaɪz/
verbpraise formally and eloquently
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1. But don't eulogize the gas station just yet.
2. What was so astonishing, he was eulogized all over the country.
3. He was in Indianapolis when Senator Kennedy eulogized Dr. King.
4. So he goes from a sharecropper's-- the great-grandson of a slave, to being eulogized by presidents, and mourned by millions, in the space of 80 years.
5. And, in real life the actor had cancer and he's eulogized here by joining the cast.
eulogy
/ˈjuɫədʒi/
nouna formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently
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1. Somebody is giving a beautiful eulogy.
2. You mean a eulogy?
3. The churches of my tears scream a eulogy.
4. A eulogy for the joy that once belonged to the people.
5. Read the eulogy to a friend or family member.
hedonism
/ˈhidəˌnɪzəm/
nounthe pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
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1. Historically, hedonism has gotten kind of a bad rap.
2. Hedonism is taking pleasure.
3. Hedonism is a version of the neutral container theory.
4. That view is called hedonism.
5. That's hedonism.
hedonist
/hˈɛdənˌɪst/
nounan individual who acts according to the belief that pursuing pleasure is of the highest importance in life
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1. The hedonist is gone and so too his confidence.
2. I'm a bit of a hedonist in the classical sense.
3. Always the hedonist, the Macedonian king also began throwing massive banquets, parties, and other lavish celebrations for himself and his aristocratic Thessalian friends.
4. Well, the hedonist offers us a very simple straightforward answer.
5. Still, the hedonist isn't saying from a practical point of view we can necessarily do this.
hedonistic
/ˌhidəˈnɪstɪk/
adjectivedevoted to pleasure
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1. - Hedonistic soccer mom sounds like a Facebook group.
2. Can we disrupt the luxury industry with hedonistic sustainability?
3. That's the hedonistic ethics that Dante really renounces or debates.
4. Your work is highly sensual, even hedonistic.
5. Are we these novelty-seeking, hedonistic, selfish individuals?