to redeem
/ɹɪˈdim/
verbpay off (loans or promissory notes)
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1. You redeem the building.
2. Did this rhino redeem the concept of rhinos?
3. Redeem the empty space.
4. Redeem your free trial.
5. redeeming social values in that.
redemption
/ɹɪˈdɛmpʃən/, /ɹɪˈdɛmʃən/
noun(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
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1. Laif: Redemption is right there!
2. Redemption is the exchange.
3. His redemption comes from the fear of loss of his son.
4. You want redemption?
5. I need redemption from custard gate.
atrocious
/əˈtɹoʊʃəs/
adjectiveexceptionally bad or displeasing
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1. The print quality is just atrocious.
2. The fit on these batteries is atrocious.
3. His behaviour was atrocious.
4. The weather was atrocious.
5. These bags under my eyes are atrocious!
atrocity
/əˈtɹɑsəti/
nounan extremely brutal act, especially in war
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1. Atrocities were perpetrated on a massive scale, on both sides.
2. He called this new law an atrocity.
3. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description.
4. Atrocities are happening right now.
5. There were atrocities.
foppish
/fˈɑːpɪʃ/
adjectiveaffecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
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1. As you know, Oscar Wilde was a famous foppish dandy and so, the fedora wouldn't really gain mainstream popularity with men until the 1920s.
maternal
/məˈtɝnəɫ/
adjectiveconnected to motherhood, notably during childbearing and shortly afterwards
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1. Maternal mortality is down.
2. Doom maternal opened.
3. - Her maternal grandparents built the bowling alley in 1955.
4. Maternal health is a challenge everywhere.
5. The second item on the agenda is maternal mortality.
matriarch
/ˈmeɪtɹiˌɑɹk/
nouna female head of a family or tribe
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1. New matriarch means new style and a new house.
2. A matriarch, the leader of the herd, gives a signal.
3. And now, the matriarch is back.
4. The matriarch is not alone.
5. The matriarch has led her herd here for nothing.
matricide
/mˈætɹɪsˌaɪd/
nounthe murder of your mother
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1. An Atlantian advisor named Volco accused him of matricide but he never had any evidence so he was banished to the surface world.
2. Okay, so that's the first case of matricide.
illuminant
/ɪlˈuːmɪnənt/
nounsomething that can serve as a source of light
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to illuminate
/ˌɪˈɫumɪnɪt/
verbmake lighter or brighter
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1. My hospital's vein finder illuminates veins as opposed to a typical darkening setting.
2. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Four billion years ago, auroras illuminate the infant atmosphere.
3. Uplights or spotlights for trees, floodlights for beds, and path lights illuminate a landscape for nighttime enjoyment.
4. The ads cleverly illuminate the transfer of germs in a humorously disgusting way.
5. The flashes, the booms, illuminated the tower.
to illumine
/ɪlˈuːmaɪn/
verbmake lighter or brighter
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1. (audience applauding) - From the caves of Buddhas to the contemporary art scene, from the painted screen to the public square, he expertly illumines the vast sweep of Chinese art and enlarges our vision of visual culture.
2. It illumines all change.
3. All right, I am, each of us is this pure subject, awareness only, illumining the body and mind.
4. "God has forgiven him," said Virginia, gravely, as she rose to her feet, and a beautiful light seemed to illumine her face.
5. Be like a lighthouse that illumines and beautifies the snarling, swashing waves of the storm that threaten it, that seek to undermine it and seek to wash over it.
egocentric
/ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
adjectivethinking only about oneself, not about other people's needs or desires
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1. And everybody is very egocentric.
2. He’s egocentric.
3. So egocentric bias is attenuated.
4. Our thinking in this stage is still pretty egocentric.
5. The egocentric bubble, like an addiction, is an escape.
egoism
/ˈiɡoʊˌɪzəm/
nounconcern for your own interests and welfare
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1. Egoism says that everyone ought, morally, to pursue their own good.
2. He's got his objective egoism.
3. And he calls this egoism.
4. And the FDA defines a locked egoism as "an algorithm that provides the same result each time the same input is applied to it, and does not change with use."
5. Selfishness and egoism are in fact reinforced for him by the development of reason.
egoist
/ˈiːɡoʊˌɪst/
nouna self-centered person with little regard for others
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1. We may think of egoists as people who have grown sick from too much love.
2. We know, as kind egoists, that we may be confused with the mean-spirited, but our innate conviction of our sincerity lends us the calm to pursuit our aims politely in our own way.
3. It doesn't mean being an egoist.
4. And this doesn’t have to be for just food, you could apply this similar principle to other things like medicine, fuel, money, weapons, clothing or shelter as some examples And as we see already, it seems that the best option is to partake in the system for your own survival, nothing against the other guy, it's just I'm trying to get by and do what’s best for me A very rational egoist argument.
5. That's why bullies, narcissists, and egoists gravitate towards you.
egotism
/ˈiɡəˌtɪzəm/
nounan exaggerated opinion of your own importance
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1. People the world over have the same basic need for food, clothing, and shelter, the same ambitions, the same egotism, and the same temptations.
2. He says, religion is not the place where the problem of man's egotism is automatically solved.
3. And it was both a denial of human egotism and a principle of dissolution and anarchy.
4. To be not only free from vanity, stubbornness and egotism, but to regard one's own opinions as of no value, this indeed is true humility.
5. The man from the West, his egotism enlarged by success, was beginning to outline the history of his career.
egotist
/ˈiɡətɪst/
nouna conceited and self-centered person
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1. By now, the Scot was starting to look less like the capable general of Ocumare, and more like a shallow egotist who’d just happened to get lucky.
2. I don't know anyone who is a pure egotist.
contempt
/kənˈtɛmpt/
nounabsence of respect for something or someone because one considers them unimportant and undeserving of attention
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1. Cooperation, not contempt.
2. The second one is contempt.
3. And contempt is even worse.
4. So, contempt actually erodes the immune system as well as the heart, the relationship.
5. The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
contemptible
/kənˈtɛmptəbəɫ/
adjectivedeserving of contempt or scorn
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1. I was told that I had chosen a life of sin, and this meant I was morally contemptible.
2. As a child, he's in the place of B. He's very alone, felt his needs for closeness, wanting was very contemptible.
3. Your ignorance of your own people is contemptible.
4. What Demosthenes was trying to preserve was kliene Städte, the world of small independent states, a contemptible term in the eyes of Droysen and his fellow nationalists.
5. For a foreign country to attempt such a thing on its OWN is CONTEMPTIBLE.
contemptuous
/kənˈtɛmptʃuəs/
adjectivedevoid of respect for someone or something
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1. Because the business professors on her campus had been so contemptuous of the poets.
2. Kennan was contemptuous of all political science and social science.
3. The Carolingian ruler was contemptuous of Byzantium because it was ruled by a woman, the Empress Irene, a rather exceptional figure.
4. He spat two or three times into the water, with an expression of contemptuous anger.
5. They are contemptuous and minimize other people's accomplishments.