consumption
/kənˈsəmpʃən/, /kənˈsəmʃən/
nounthe action or process of using a resource such as energy or food
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1. So their savings are financing their consumption.
2. What is consumption?
3. So consumption is the noun.
4. Anyway, the issue also comes down to consumption.
5. 82% of hazing-related deaths involve alcohol consumption.
consumptive
/kənsˈʌmptɪv/
adjectivetending to consume or use often wastefully
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1. Amazon is our consumptive gut.
2. I was stuck in a consumptive mode.
3. This is a picture of a consumptive patient in 1892.
4. Thomas Mann's great book, The Magic Mountain, is perhaps the last great artistic expression of the consumptive era and its susceptibilities.
5. According to artist and researcher Alexis Karl, "Consumptives were thought to be very beautiful."
to jeopardize
/ˈdʒɛpɝˌdaɪz/
verbto put something in danger of harm, loss, or negative consequences
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1. Your immigration status may be jeopardized.
2. It could jeopardize our health.
3. This would jeopardize law, private property.
4. In some cases, I even jeopardized my safety and my health.
5. Such unilateral efforts could jeopardize the climate of a neighboring country.
jeopardy
/ˈdʒɛpɝdi/
nounin the risk of being harmed, damaged, or destroyed
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1. You watch Jeopardy, man!
2. Our hearing, overall health, and well-being of our children is in jeopardy.
3. Zack put everyone's hard work in jeopardy for another prank.
4. THEIR MILITARY AID WAS IN JEOPARDY AS EARLY AS THE DAY IN JEOPARDY AS EARLY AS THE DAY OF THE JULY 25th
5. Getting on Jeopardy!
to augur
/ˈɔɡɝ/
verbpredict from an omen
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1. Certainly, what we're seeing in the last couple of days doesn't augur well.
2. And that didn't augur in their favor when allegations came out, because I think most of the country concluded that the Democrats would be against anyone and that they would use any pretext to take anyone down.
3. That you have succeeded so well during such a time as this is commendable and it augurs well for the years to come when the world will greatly rely on your knowledge, your discernment, and your empathy for those less fortunate than you.
4. Before the armies clashed, Augurs on both sides had performed divinations, and both the Persians and Greeks were told the Gods did not favour an attack.
5. - Let me just, so boy, I tell you, we augured that thing in and we slowed that whole thing down it'll bring you to my next investment after we get through this question.
augury
/ˈɔːɡjʊɹi/
nounan event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
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1. The Burning Girl, a fable of childhood friendship lost and found, coiled and recoiled has the eerie accuracy of an everyday school yarn-- slights, fights, envy, ennui-- that turns the ordinary into augury and the predictable into premonition.
to quarter
/ˈkwɔɹtɝ/
verbdivide into quarters
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1. Oh sure, you guys know quarters?
2. Quarter to score.
3. They had quarters?
4. Quarters leave a residue.
5. Each quarter, analysts publish reports about various stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds.
quartet
/kwɔɹˈtɛt/
nouna musical piece written for four singers or instruments
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1. Maybe I could make a-- a-- a rock and roll string quartet!
2. It's quartets of hexagons.
3. So you should see a quartet for a proton of CH4.
4. He had a quartet with himself.
5. He made a quartet with himself.
quarto
/ˈkwɔɹtoʊ/
nouna book size that results from folding printed sheets twice to create four leaves, making eight pages
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1. There are two quartos, one from 1603 and another from 1604, and then the Folio edition from 1623 The second quarto and the folio are somewhat similar, although the first was probably based on Shakespeare’s notes and the second based on seeing the play in performance.
2. There are two quartos, one from 1603 and another from 1604, and then the Folio edition from 1623 The second quarto and the folio are somewhat similar, although the first was probably based on Shakespeare’s notes and the second based on seeing the play in performance.
3. Historians believe that an actor probably transcribed the first quarto his memory and that that actor probably only played really small parts.
4. You can see the back of the parchment you can tell it's folded in quarto for a time before its current octavo fold.
5. - It is very similar to quinto quarto of the Jewish ghetto in Rome, which is, basically, all the entrails, right?
quartan
/kwˈɔːɹtən/
nouna malarial fever that recurs every fourth day
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1. For Plasmodium malariae, fevers happen every 72 hours, and is called quartan fever.
misogamy
/mɪsˈɑːɡæmi/
nounhatred of marriage
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misogynist
/ˈmɪzədʒɪnɪst/
nounsomeone who hates or despises women or assumes men are much better
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1. Misogynists struck back against these protests.
2. Have you been called a misogynist, a racist, a pig and every other word in the world by journalists?
3. So misogynists hated that.
4. Ooh, it's misogynist and everything.
5. A misogynist was sick, at death’s door.
misogyny
/ˈmɪzədʒɪni/
nounthe feeling of hatred or discrimination against women
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1. My bag was misogyny.
2. Their misogyny is leaking.
3. But misogyny be damned.
4. And species oppression relies on misogyny.
5. Here it is-- misogyny in the animal rights movement.
contrite
/kənˈtɹaɪt/
adjectiveexpressing or experiencing deep regret or guilt because of a wrong act that one has committed
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1. As Picasso’s long time mistress Fernande Olivier notes, I can see them both: contrite children, stunned by fear and making plans to flee the country.
2. He's very contrite, so none of that.
3. Seemed contrite.
4. You're obviously very contrite about it.
5. It comes close to a contrite apology from a president who is never known for issuing apologies.
contrition
/kənˈtɹɪʃən/
nounsorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
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1. She did not apologize or OFFER any contrition after she retrieved her cell phone.
2. As for everyone else, imperfection is embedded in human nature, and therefore so too must be the will to contrition.
3. And offer them their fullest contrition.
4. And they haven’t noticed many expressions of contrition.
5. Say the Act of Contrition.
fanatic
/fəˈnætɪk/
nounan overenthusiastic individual, especially one who is devoted to a radical political or religious cause
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1. Rats are little fanatic.
2. Like many converts from one religion to another, was absolutely fanatic in her attachment.
3. They were Christian fanatics.
4. I'm a cheese fanatic.
5. - I'm a cheese fanatic.
fanatical
/fəˈnætɪkəɫ/
adjectiveholding or acting upon extreme beliefs or opinions, particularly regarding politics or religion
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1. Well, I was very fanatical about the job.
2. They're really fanatical, enthusiastic.
3. The 36-year-old singer's dancehall rhythms and combative lyrics have won him fanatical support among Uganda's urban youth.
4. I'm super fanatical about that
5. - There are a lot of crazy people out there, a lot of fanaticals.
fanaticism
/fəˈnætəˌsɪzəm/
nounextreme political or religious beliefs often accompanied by intolerance for different views
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1. I mean, I've completely given up fanaticism.
2. There's the fanaticism of the PC master race and followers of Lord Gaben.
3. Voltaire was basically a man of reason, who loathed fanaticism, idolatry and superstition.
4. War is not going to happen because of religious fanaticism.
5. Can I hear "fanaticism?"
precarious
/pɹiˈkɛɹiəs/
adjectiveaffording no ease or reassurance
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1. Life in our universe can sometimes be precarious.
2. This is precarious.
3. This is precarious.
4. For the time being, the situation for Caesar was precarious.
5. Their situation is precarious.
precaution
/pɹiˈkɔʃən/
nounan act done to prevent something unpleasant or bad from happening
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1. - You take too many precautions.
2. You also took other precautions.
3. This process requires extraordinary precautions.
4. You must take precautions.
5. - I'm taking precautions.