tedious
/ˈtidiəs/
adjectivecontinuing for too long and boring
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1. Do you eat something when you're working on a tedious project?
2. This job is very tedious.
3. But it's not tedious, so I like that more.
4. Its overt topic is admittedly rather strange, even tedious.
5. It was tedious.
tedium
/ˈtidiəm/
nounthe feeling of being bored by something tedious
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1. Eventually school and its tortuous tedium would return.
2. But don't worry, we cut out the tedium.
3. All of this tedium ignores the fact that we've never successfully harvested elephant eggs before.
4. Your dedication to meticulous reading is a tedium that I find just so admirable.
5. The problem is tedium.
resolute
/ˈɹɛzəˌɫut/
adjectivefirm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination
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1. but he remains resolute in his devotion to his wife.
2. Oh, Shiprock, as a tall leader you remain resolute, towering into the empty New Mexico sky.
3. President Biden has reportedly removed former President Trump's Diet Coke button from the Resolute desk.
4. He was resolute.
5. The actress has always been resolute throughout her career with a no-nudity policy.
resolution
/ˌɹɛzəˈɫuʃən/
nounan official decision that is made, particularly when an official body takes a group vote
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1. You have any New Year resolutions?
2. I mean, the display resolution is terrible.
3. Another option would be to just get a laptop with a higher resolution display.
4. Some people love resolution.
5. Some people make resolutions WITH someone else.
to resolve
/ɹiˈzɑɫv/
verbto find a way to solve a disagreement or difficulty
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1. Resolve the attack in the following way.
2. Resolve locations and guilds.
3. Then, also, the league has to resolve disputes between clubs.
4. Matured differentiation resolves the relational tension between agency and communion.
5. Resolve the resultant wound.
cursive
/kˈɜːsɪv/
adjectivehaving successive letter joined together
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1. This is cursive.
2. So far, only the barest bits emerge from this frustratingly unique cursive handwriting.
3. Typically taught during the elementary school years, cursive writing builds on the letter formation of block letters or printing.
4. Oh, I hate cursive.
5. Yeah she pulled out the cursive.
cursory
/ˈkɝsɝi/
adjectivehasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
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1. But even a cursory background check would've raised flags.
2. We're kind of taking a cursory view here.
3. So obviously, my presentation was very cursory.
4. I've done some cursory research.
5. Patients were no longer given even a cursory medical exam before being sent to the gas chamber.
hyperbole
/haɪˈpɝbəˌɫi/
nouna technique used in speech and writing to exaggerate the extent of something
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1. Like an overvalued startup, unchecked hyperbole has driven its mental market share way out of proportion.
2. The hyperbole will flow for days-- or not hyperbole.
3. Everything is hyperbole.
4. That's not hyperbole.
5. And thousands is no hyperbole.
hypercritical
/ˌhaɪpɝˈkɹɪtɪkəɫ/
adjectiveinclined to judge too severely
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1. And I saw someone that I didn't really like and didn't click with, and I was hypercritical of him.
2. And what that means is that when somebody approaches you at work and they're being hypercritical, what is the instinct?
3. Let's take the most hypercritical way.
4. But unfortunately, this disorder also makes you hypercritical of yourself.
5. This pattern of brutal honesty is common if we grew up in households that were highly moral, or hypercritical.
nausea
/ˈnɔziə/
nounthe feeling of wanting to vomit, caused by an illness or something frightening or shocking
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1. I had nausea.
2. I felt nausea.
3. The fumes are giving me nausea.
4. The hormones can also greatly increase nausea.
5. Nausea Have you ever felt woozy?
to nauseate
/ˈnɔziˌeɪt/
verbcause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
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1. It was nauseating to watch.
2. This is absolutely nauseating.
3. Because I'm not nauseated.
4. Now, the role of the Pope in all of this is nauseating.
5. Being stuffed on a crowded train or bus is nauseating.
underling
/ˈəndɝɫɪŋ/
nounan assistant subject to the authority or control of another
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1. So to have five bosses and maybe one underling.
2. Coming up, four short stories about the science of our feline overlords and canine underlings.
3. As Henry Beston has written, these are not underlings.
4. Though Lucifer knows this, he does not let on to his underlings.
5. That was the moment when Hatzfeld at last found his unruly underling.
to juxtapose
/ˌdʒəkstəˈpoʊz/
verbplace side by side
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1. There he is juxtaposed with Vladimir Putin.
2. So we have juxtaposed then two responses to the suffering and pain in the world, and specifically the tragedy that befell Israel.
3. He juxtaposes ecstasy, shouting, and jazz against what he calls here "American standardizations."
4. Those are juxtaposed very nicely together.
5. Again, you like juxtapose those things and you like mash it all together.
juxtaposition
/ˌdʒəkstəpəˈzɪʃən/
nounthe act of placing two things side by side to produce a contrasting effect
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1. Like a juxtaposition to what they usually do.
2. - It's a juxtaposition.
3. There's no juxtaposition.
4. The spatial juxtaposition is incredible.
5. That's a juxtaposition right there.
bronchitis
/bɹɑŋˈkaɪtəs/
nouna condition when the tubes that carry air to one's lungs get infectious
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1. Especially when you have bronchitis like me right now.
2. I got bronchitis!
3. Bronchitis causes chest congestion, shortness of breath, wheezing, and once again, a lingering cough.
4. Different signs of bronchitis include the usual cough and chest pains, along with lots of mucus.
5. With chronic bronchitis, your cough can last up to 3 months.
bronchus
/bɹˈɑːnkəs/
nouneither of the two main branches of the trachea
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1. Then it goes through the larynx to the trachea as you can see the trachea is a Tube that consists of cartilaginous rings Towards the end it branches into the bronchi through which the air reaches the right and left lungs You can see each of the bronchus branches into thin tubes with pulmonary vesicles at the end That's where the blood gets oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide by the way an adult person performs around 23,000 inhalations and exhalations a day Impressive, huh oops.
2. The right mainstem bronchus is wider and more vertical than the left which is why if you accidently inhale something big that can’t get coughed out like a peanut, then it’s more likely to go into the right lung than the left.
3. Finally, in the bronchi, but not the bronchioles, there is also a layer of cartilage below the submucosa which stiffens the bronchus and helps to keep it open.
4. Breathing very cold air can cause bronchial constriction, where the bronchus, the airway that leads to the lungs, they can actually constrict and make it difficult to breath as if you're breathing through a small straw as opposed to a bigger straw.
optic
/ˈɑptɪk/
adjectiveof or relating to or resembling the eye
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1. He understands the optics.
2. He built modern optic.
3. Number one is optics.
4. The optics are bizarre.
5. This optic was 22 feet long.
optician
/ɑpˈtɪʃən/
nouna person whose job is to test people's eyes and sight or to make and supply glasses or contacts
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1. And then, I became the optician to the stars.
2. Well, your optician will disagree.
3. Opticians generally work full time, although part-time schedules are not uncommon.
4. Some opticians earn an associate’s degree or a certificate.
5. See your optician.
