jingo
/dʒˈɪŋɡoʊ/
nounan extreme bellicose nationalist
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1. And by G by jingos, by crikey, they were right And thankfully farm stays are not just giving people an opportunity to experience the country, but they're able to live it and interact with it almost as if they own the farm themselves.
jingoist
/dʒˈɪŋɡoʊˌɪst/
nounsomeone who very strongly believes that their country is far more superior than other countries
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enormity
/iˈnɔɹməti/, /ɪˈnɔɹməti/
nounthe quality of being outrageous
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1. And sending people to walk on the surface of another world --the enormity of that giant leap--
2. The enormity of the crime, and who'd committed it.
3. As others arrived at the White House, the enormity of it all sank in.
4. Not really fully appreciating the enormity of what happened.
5. So that the enormity of the effect of the contamination was just beyond anybody's expectation.
enormous
/iˈnɔɹməs/, /iˈnɔɹmɪs/, /ɪˈnɔɹməs/, /ɪˈnɔɹmɪs/
adjectiveextremely large in size or quantity
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1. The challenge of powerful imagesfor an authoritarian state is enormous.
2. The place is enormous.
3. That stinger is enormous.
4. But the challenges the new 53-year-old boss faces are enormous.
5. The price differentials are enormous.
enormousness
/ɪnˈoːɹməsnəs/
noununusual largeness in size or extent or number
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1. And I remember thinking, there's no way I would ever be able to squeeze the enormousness of myself back inside this tiny little body.
to allege
/əˈɫɛdʒ/
verbto say something is the case without providing proof for it
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1. But others allege a culture of abuse.
2. Several independent observers allege the app censors content in accordance with Mainland Chinese guidelines.
3. He also alleged a number of baseless.
4. She alleged both strict liability and negligence as theories of liability.
5. The court documents allege.
allegiance
/əˈɫidʒəns/
nounthe act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
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1. Allegiances will be made.
2. I pledge allegiance from the flag of the United States of America.
3. - I pledge allegiance.
4. - I pledge allegiance.
5. - I pledge allegiance.
allegory
/ˈæɫəˌɡɔɹi/
nouna story, poem, painting, etc. in which the characters and events are used as symbols to convey moral or political lessons
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1. What is the allegory about?
2. What is this allegory?
3. What is allegory first of all?
4. The siren was an allegory of a temptation, an erotic temptation.
5. The dumplings here are the allegory for me.
to crave
/ˈkɹeɪv/
verbhave a craving, appetite, or great desire for
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1. Craving more COVID-19 info?
2. Today people crave a sense of security from work.
3. Our brains crave structure.
4. Craving a summer treat?
5. Still craving that greasy slice?
craven
/ˈkɹeɪvən/
adjectivenot having even the smallest amount of courage
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1. And yet my own students had seen me flee, a craven coward.
2. On July 10, 1770, Hewson married Mary Stevenson, a female acquaintance of Franklin and the daughter of Franklin’s landlady at 36 Craven.
3. Craven has also referred to this entire sequence as Hitchcockian, based on the way it was shot and edited.
4. Your victory is your craven reptile opponent's loss.
5. My name is Jordan Richard-Craven, and I'm a proud member of Section H.
idealist
/aɪˈdiɫɪst/
nounsomeone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
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1. I'm not completely an idealist.
2. It's not idealist at all.
3. I was very much an idealist.
4. He was an idealist.
5. So are you still an idealist?
to idealize
/aɪˈdiˌɫaɪz/
verbconsider or render as ideal
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1. He was idealized as a model of wisdom, courage, temperance, humanity and honesty.
2. He idealized that time of piety, the unity between the czar and his people, the narod.
3. And in a sense, they idealize violence as well.
4. - Some art idealizes and some art focuses on the messiness.
5. In spite of this, those same men still idealized women with larger chests, a find that was backed up by later studies.
ideology
/ˌaɪdiˈɑɫədʒi/
nounan orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
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1. That ideology is critical but also insufficient without identity as well.
2. Their ideology far supersedes ours.
3. Each aspect of them has an ideology.
4. A lot of people here kind of also have the same MAOIs ideology
5. That produces ideology.
pension
/ˈpɛnʃən/
nouna monthly payment that a retired person receives from the government or a private company, for which they used to work
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1. Pensions subsidized.
2. Brought in old age pensions.
3. Pension problems are sparking some concern for workers in northern Kentucky.
4. Pensions are on their way out.
5. Pensions are rising.
pensive
/ˈpɛnsɪv/
adjectivedeeply or seriously thoughtful
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1. He looks, like, pensive.
2. Some of my more pensive videos have been sponsored by them because they just let me talk.
3. Come forth worm and the silent valley, to thy pensive queen.
4. In Italian it is gravi pensieri, the word pensiero is, in English, is pensive.
5. This one is weary face, this one is sad pensive face.
suffrage
/ˈsəfɹɪdʒ/
nounthe citizen's right to vote in political elections
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1. In 1897, New Zealand granted women’s suffrage.
2. At that time, suffrage leaders were actively wooing Southern white members.
3. He hated black suffrage.
4. The federal constitution leaves suffrage requirements, even in federal elections, up to the states.
5. No other state adopted women's suffrage between 1896 and 1910.
suffragist
/ˈsəfɹədʒɪst/
nounan advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
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1. And adverse law had mobilized the suffragists.
2. As these two birthday programs suggest, suffragists modeled Anthony's celebration on those for George Washington.
3. In contrast, white women suffragists emphasized their birthdays.
4. Other suffragists meanwhile resisted the idea of public birthdays.
5. And yet, suffragists had laid the groundwork for that change.
corpulence
/kˈɔːɹpjʊləns/
nounthe state of being fat or obese
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1. He says Banting's letter on corpulence is often considered the first diet book.
2. He said his corpulence and gluttony resulted from man's artificial selection.
corpulent
/kˈɔːɹpjʊlənt/
adjectivefat and with a large body
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1. When the corpulent arms dealer Spiridon Scorpio commands Archer to bring chocolate to a threesome with himself and Lana, the superspy replies plainly, "I'd prefer not to."
2. He was just sort of corpulent.
3. He was the average kind of increasingly corpulent.
4. So my favorite is Tabby clue, but there's like corpulent shoots and ladders.
5. The portrait of this corpulent and obviously affluent gent is Sir Richard Arkwright, who was the creator of the most efficient early textile machinery, and who unlike many others about whom Clark talks, actually profited very handsomely from that work.
corpuscle
/kˈɔːɹpʌskəl/
nouneither of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
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1. In the late 1600s, Newton proposed that light was a stream of particles or corpuscles.
2. All our complicated ideas and lovely movements of the soul depend upon tiny mindless white blood corpuscles, oxygen molecules and the rhythmic spasms of the sinoatrial node.
3. Your blood doesn't clot, you're losing blood from your blood vessels, your blood corpuscles are being broken apart, your red blood cells are being liced, they're not carrying oxygen to your tissues.
4. No man can ever isolate himself to evade this constant power of influence, as no single corpuscle can rebel and escape from the general course of the blood.
5. "The equilibrium of eight corpuscles at the corners of a cube is unstable."