jingo
/dʒˈɪŋɡoʊ/
noun
an extreme bellicose nationalist
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1And 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/
noun
someone who very strongly believes that their country is far more superior than other countries

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enormity
/iˈnɔɹməti/, /ɪˈnɔɹməti/
noun
the quality of being outrageous
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1And sending people to walk on the surface of another world --the enormity of that giant leap--
2The enormity of the crime, and who'd committed it.
3As others arrived at the White House, the enormity of it all sank in.
4Not really fully appreciating the enormity of what happened.
5So that the enormity of the effect of the contamination was just beyond anybody's expectation.
enormous
/iˈnɔɹməs/, /iˈnɔɹmɪs/, /ɪˈnɔɹməs/, /ɪˈnɔɹmɪs/
adjective
extremely large in size or quantity
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1The challenge of powerful imagesfor an authoritarian state is enormous.
2The place is enormous.
3That stinger is enormous.
4But the challenges the new 53-year-old boss faces are enormous.
5The price differentials are enormous.
enormousness
/ɪnˈoːɹməsnəs/
noun
unusual largeness in size or extent or number
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1And 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/
verb
to say something is the case without providing proof for it
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1But others allege a culture of abuse.
2Several independent observers allege the app censors content in accordance with Mainland Chinese guidelines.
3He also alleged a number of baseless.
4She alleged both strict liability and negligence as theories of liability.
5The court documents allege.
allegiance
/əˈɫidʒəns/
noun
the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
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1Allegiances will be made.
2I 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/
noun
a story, poem, painting, etc. in which the characters and events are used as symbols to convey moral or political lessons
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1What is the allegory about?
2What is this allegory?
3What is allegory first of all?
4The siren was an allegory of a temptation, an erotic temptation.
5The dumplings here are the allegory for me.
to crave
/ˈkɹeɪv/
verb
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
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1Craving more COVID-19 info?
2Today people crave a sense of security from work.
3Our brains crave structure.
4Craving a summer treat?
5Still craving that greasy slice?
craven
/ˈkɹeɪvən/
adjective
not having even the smallest amount of courage
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1And yet my own students had seen me flee, a craven coward.
2On July 10, 1770, Hewson married Mary Stevenson, a female acquaintance of Franklin and the daughter of Franklin’s landlady at 36 Craven.
3Craven has also referred to this entire sequence as Hitchcockian, based on the way it was shot and edited.
4Your victory is your craven reptile opponent's loss.
5My name is Jordan Richard-Craven, and I'm a proud member of Section H.
idealist
/aɪˈdiɫɪst/
noun
someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
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1I'm not completely an idealist.
2It's not idealist at all.
3I was very much an idealist.
4He was an idealist.
5So are you still an idealist?
to idealize
/aɪˈdiˌɫaɪz/
verb
consider or render as ideal
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1He was idealized as a model of wisdom, courage, temperance, humanity and honesty.
2He idealized that time of piety, the unity between the czar and his people, the narod.
3And in a sense, they idealize violence as well.
4- Some art idealizes and some art focuses on the messiness.
5In spite of this, those same men still idealized women with larger chests, a find that was backed up by later studies.
ideology
/ˌaɪdiˈɑɫədʒi/
noun
an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
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1That ideology is critical but also insufficient without identity as well.
2Their ideology far supersedes ours.
3Each aspect of them has an ideology.
4A lot of people here kind of also have the same MAOIs ideology
5That produces ideology.
pension
/ˈpɛnʃən/
noun
a monthly payment that a retired person receives from the government or a private company, for which they used to work
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1Pensions subsidized.
2Brought in old age pensions.
3Pension problems are sparking some concern for workers in northern Kentucky.
4Pensions are on their way out.
5Pensions are rising.
pensive
/ˈpɛnsɪv/
adjective
deeply or seriously thoughtful
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1He looks, like, pensive.
2Some of my more pensive videos have been sponsored by them because they just let me talk.
3Come forth worm and the silent valley, to thy pensive queen.
4In Italian it is gravi pensieri, the word pensiero is, in English, is pensive.
5This one is weary face, this one is sad pensive face.
suffrage
/ˈsəfɹɪdʒ/
noun
the citizen's right to vote in political elections
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1In 1897, New Zealand granted women’s suffrage.
2At that time, suffrage leaders were actively wooing Southern white members.
3He hated black suffrage.
4The federal constitution leaves suffrage requirements, even in federal elections, up to the states.
5No other state adopted women's suffrage between 1896 and 1910.
suffragist
/ˈsəfɹədʒɪst/
noun
an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
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1And adverse law had mobilized the suffragists.
2As these two birthday programs suggest, suffragists modeled Anthony's celebration on those for George Washington.
3In contrast, white women suffragists emphasized their birthdays.
4Other suffragists meanwhile resisted the idea of public birthdays.
5And yet, suffragists had laid the groundwork for that change.
corpulence
/kˈɔːɹpjʊləns/
noun
the state of being fat or obese
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1He says Banting's letter on corpulence is often considered the first diet book.
2He said his corpulence and gluttony resulted from man's artificial selection.
corpulent
/kˈɔːɹpjʊlənt/
adjective
fat and with a large body
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1When 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."
2He was just sort of corpulent.
3He was the average kind of increasingly corpulent.
4So my favorite is Tabby clue, but there's like corpulent shoots and ladders.
5The 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/
noun
either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
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1In the late 1600s, Newton proposed that light was a stream of particles or corpuscles.
2All 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.
3Your 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.
4No 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."

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