to repeal
/ɹiˈpiɫ/, /ɹɪˈpiɫ/
verbto officially end a law
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1. We repeal the core of the disastrous Obamacare.
2. In 1976 the Federal Land Policy and management act repealed the homestead laws.
3. That act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
4. That Obamacare tax increase is repealed.
5. We repealed the core of the disastrous Obamacare.
to repel
/ɹɪˈpɛɫ/
verbforce or drive back
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1. Water molecules also repel the hydrophobic ends of surfactant molecules.
2. The electron here repels an electron in Alpha Centauri.-- OK-- or anywhere in another galaxy.
3. Silicone also repels water.
4. Cedar repels moths
5. It repels mosquitoes, gnats, fleas.
repentance
/ɹɪˈpɛntəns/
nounremorse for your past conduct
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1. Repentance is changing direction.
2. Repentance means change.
3. What is repentance?
4. The second thing, One thing is repentance.
5. What is repentance?
repentant
/ɹɪˈpɛntənt/
adjectivefeeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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1. The Edict of Grace would be read up to three times and a period of forty days given for repentant ones to come forward.
2. The repentant villain also wants to make amends with his former lover, and he gets down on one knee to prove it.
3. Unsuccessful and repentant, Boromir and the rest of the heroes turn their attention to a sudden attack of Uruk-Hai soldiers sent by Saruman to find the Ring.
4. "And Fredegunde, seeing that they were in danger of death, became repentant."
5. Prove you’re repentant by alerting the paparazzi to your meeting with a nationally-known spiritual adviser.
to arrange
/ɝˈeɪndʒ/
verbto organize items or objects in a specific order or sequence to make them more convenient, accessible, or understandable
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1. Banks arranges a drop on the other side of town.
2. Toads and frogs arrange their eggs differently.
3. Window trimmers arrange furniture, backdrops and props, as well as signage to label price, sales, or other information.
4. Arrange the slices in a 3/4 rectangular baking dish.
5. Arrange your food selections artfully.
arrangement
/ɝˈeɪndʒmənt/
nounan agreement made with someone
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1. The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
2. The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
3. Make the arrangements.
4. The arrangement primarily serves the interest of the suzerain, and not the vassal or the subject.
5. Make arrangements for payment?
heterodox
/ˈhɛtɝəˌdɑks/
adjectivenot in agreement with generally approved principles, opinions, or beliefs
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1. And I should warn you at the outset that I have something of a heterodox view of Marx.
2. He embraces the heterodox idea of monism, sometimes called animist materialism or vitalism, which is essentially a denial of any distinction between the body and the soul.
3. And that the idea of Iran is so anchored in both pre-Islamic notions of spirituality and also in Sufi notions, heterodox messianic.
4. Of course, heterodox work on money demonstrates that orthodoxy invokes a mythical history of money.
5. I think the heterodox stuff on money is right.
heterodoxy
/ˈhɛtɝəˌdɑksi/
nounthe state of acting contrary to generally accepted standards or beliefs
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1. Jeanne wrote in her piece on the Lawyering Process that there is actual clinical heterodoxy.
2. Now, especially being at UCLA, which is all simulation-based for the last 20 years, I understand and appreciate to a certain degree heterodoxy and that there are different ways in which both to teach students and to try to do justice, not through simulation, I should say, but through other models.
3. So there is clinical heterodoxy.
heterogeneity
/ˌhɛtɝədʒɪˈneɪəti/, /ˌhɛtɝədʒɪˈniəti/
nounthe quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
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1. And there, again, we find, actually, very little heterogeneity by that particular cut.
2. The degree of heterogeneity among the countries has gone up.
3. So there's a lot of heterogeneity here.
4. Variety, there's significant heterogeneity in the type of data available.
5. There's secondly the issue of consumer heterogeneity.
heterogeneous
/ˌhɛtɝəˈdʒinjəs/
adjectivecomposed of a wide range of different things or people
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1. The income levels are quite heterogeneous.
2. The young nations were often ethnically heterogeneous and lacked unity.
3. It's heterogeneous.
4. And the American societies are heterogeneous in this, in their risk assessment or social responsibility and so forth.
5. This is a heterogeneous community.
to suppress
/səˈpɹɛs/
verbto stop an activity such as a protest using force
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1. Light can suppress melatonin.
2. All different types of light can actually suppress your melatonin hormone.
3. Anxiety is suppressed.
4. Blue light can suppress the release of melatonin.
5. Coconut fats also suppress your appetite.
suppression
/səˈpɹɛʃən/
nounthe act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
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1. Voter suppression is white supremacy.
2. So, voter suppression has three pieces.
3. Suppression is now denying our voices.
4. Suppression of physiological vasodilatory prostaglandins by NSAIDs may increase the risk for hypertension, edema, and exacerbate pre-existing heart failures.
5. Suppression is the opposite of healing.
to importune
/ˌɪmpoːɹtˈuːn/
verbto request something in an annoyingly persistent way
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1. No DEMOCRAT importuned her to COME.
2. It could reduce the range of the buffer zone, for example, to target precisely the harm that the state has articulated, namely in-your-face importuning that winds up intimidating, and harassing, and causing these horrible physical and psychological harms that the state has suggested.
3. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
4. At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
5. Yeah, and then the other thing is that other leaders seem to be at least importuned, like Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, who's sort of speaking much more positively about the idea of a customs partnership.
importunate
/ˌɪmpoːɹtˈuːneɪt/
adjectiveexpressing persistant and earnest entreaty
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1. Even while I look, I can but heed The restless sands' incessant fall, Importunate hours that hours succeed, Each clamorous with its own sharp need, And duty keeping pace with all.
obsolescence
/ˌɑbsəˈɫɛsəns/
nounthe process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date
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1. Planned obsolescence isn't cool.
2. It's just planned obsolescence.
3. It's planned obsolescence.
4. Planned obsolescence has gone berserk with these Germans!
5. What is planned obsolescence?
obsolete
/ˈɑbsəˌɫit/, /ˌɑbsəˈɫit/
adjectiveoutdated and gone out of use because a new thing has replaced it
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1. Any assumptions about past elections are obsolete.
2. Wall dogs and their walls were obsolete.
3. Redingotes are obsolete.
4. Every piece of technology becomes obsolete.
5. Definitely, these approaches are obsolete.
