to impugn
/ˌɪmˈpjun/
verbto question someone's honesty, quality, motive, etc.
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1. Now, in advance of the hearings, Republicans have tried to impugn the integrity and character of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.
2. The data points that impugn the lowly cow as the destroyer of the planet, have the wrong object to have a problem with.
3. Paganism posits the existence of primordial evil demons or gods, and thus the existence of evil and suffering does not impugn the good gods themselves.
4. And so, undeserved suffering and rampant evil impugn the goodness and justice of God himself.
5. But generally not the best practice to impugn the reputation of your own witness and client.
intuition
/ˌɪntuˈɪʃən/
nouninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
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1. Us women have intuition.
2. Intuition is the perspective of the higher self.
3. Intuition comes with a feeling of correctness and affirmation.
4. Trusted intuition!
5. Intuition's a funny thing.
intuitive
/ˌɪnˈtuətɪv/
adjectivebased on or derived from intuition or instinct rather than rational analysis
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1. Hopefully this makes intuitive sense.
2. Intuitive gestures unearth the technology mystery and the sophistication behind the tool.
3. The best circulation is intuitive for people.
4. It allowed really intuitive play.
5. Because, some people are much more emotionally intuitive.
credence
/ˈkɹidəns/
nounthe mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
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1. It also lends a little more credence to the Everett Ross character.
2. What type of credence do you put on big round numbers, Pat?
3. So, the law is a credence good.
4. And one of the canons of construction, the rule against surplusage would lend credence to the idea that a self-dealing pardon is void.
5. Credence needs more development after the first film, especially since he's the MacGuffin at the center of this movie.
credible
/ˈkɹɛdəbəɫ/
adjectiveable to be believed or relied on
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1. The threats were credible.
2. Was that credible?
3. Am I credible?
4. - Just following credible media outlets.
5. He's credible.
creditable
/ˈkɹɛdətəbəɫ/
adjectiveworthy of often limited commendation
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1. Galton wrote later: "The result seems more creditable to the trustworthiness of a democratic judgment than have been expected."
2. So from this diagnosis of the causes of impasse, Habermas drew a connection to a vision for a constitutional pluralist Europe that would rest on and reflect a plurality of constituent powers, among which powers would be the peoples-- not, mind you, the governments-- but the peoples of the several states of Europe, the collectives for whom these democratic achievements of theirs serve as creditable anchors of civic identity, connection, and pride.
3. He conceives an idea more creditable to his head than to his heart.
credulity
/kɹɪˈduɫəti/
nountendency to believe readily
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1. Credulity in high places increased.
2. In the early days, archaeology of the region tended toward credulity.
3. He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity.
4. Maria Bartiromo went along with Donald Trump's obvious lies with the same credulity as those North Korean state media anchors when they used to report on Kim Jong Il, got a hole in one on all 18 holes.
5. Accompanied by a squandering of the nation's material wealth that defied credulity.
credulous
/ˈkɹɛdʒəɫəs/
adjectivebelieving things easily even without much evidence that leads to being easy to deceive
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1. They're credulous I will achieve my goal or I will die trying.
2. I'm credulous by trade and I believe in the higher naiveté.
3. If you read the Gray textbook, while nothing in it is particularly inaccurate, I think Gray is actually a little bit too credulous, too believing in the claims that have been made about the abilities of the animals.
4. But they're sometimes credulous Bayesians.
5. And Clotilde, who seems rather credulous, says, "Great idea!"
creed
/ˈkɹid/
nounany system of principles or beliefs
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1. The Assassin's Creed series takes place during real periods in history.
2. Justice Hugo Black called segregation Hitler's creed.
3. Check out our video on Creed here.
4. The fifth scent in our lineup is Green Irish Tweed from Creed.
5. Assassin’s Creed fans, prepare to freak-out with excitement.
terrestrial
/tɝˈɛstɹiəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or characteristic of planet Earth or its inhabitants
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1. At night, the dwarf croc reveals its terrestrial hunting powers.
2. So these frogs are terrestrial.
3. Only 161 of those planets are terrestrial, like Earth.
4. Of course, the more exciting explanation is extra terrestrial.
5. It is terrestrial skinning.
territorial
/ˌtɛɹɪˈtɔɹiəɫ/
adjectiveof or relating to a territory
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1. In the intervening years, ships largely from Western Europe made territorial claims on many parts of the world.
2. In the early 20th century, seven countries laid territorial claims to parts of Antarctica.
3. Large-billed terns are very territorial.
4. Male poison frogs are incredibly territorial.
5. Some honeybees are more territorial than others.
to proliferate
/pɹoʊˈɫɪfɝˌeɪt/
verbto grow in amount or number rapidly
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1. At the dawn of the Internet era through the late 1990s, proprietary software proliferated.
2. It proliferates the stereotypes about surface-to-air missiles.
3. And the basics of the immune system is proliferating cells.
4. One could clearly proliferate examples of this kind.
5. African narratives in the West, they proliferate.
prolific
/pɹoʊˈɫɪfɪk/
adjectiveintellectually productive
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1. Prolific lying was telling six little lies and three big lies in one day.
2. The online activity of the far-right extremist movement is extremely prolific.
3. Spiders are prolific.
4. He is prolific.
5. Yellow school buses are prolific in North America.
causal
/ˈkɔzəɫ/
adjectiverelated to the relationship between two things in which one is the cause of the other
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1. He found causal.
2. They duplicate causal powers.
3. "Real social science comes up with causal explanations."
4. The link between them and heart diseases is not causal.
5. Science normally proves no causal relation.
caustic
/ˈkɑstɪk/, /ˈkɔstɪk/
adjectiveof a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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1. Mine would be caustic wit. -
2. Oh, so caustic wit was for someone else.
3. That's caustic.
4. Now, sodium hydroxide is caustic.
5. He could be pretty caustic about incomprehensible philosophers.
to cauterize
/ˈkɔtɝaɪz/
verbburn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
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1. Cauterized my hair.
2. - I'm now going to cauterize your vas deferens.
3. - He just cauterized the wound.
4. Are we going to cauterize this?
5. So they actually cauterized blood vessels in each of his nostrils.
to expand
/ɪkˈspænd/
verbextend in one or more directions
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1. All this loot helped Moscow expand their influence and buy principalities.
2. New opportunities, expand my contacts.
3. Just expand the video description box.
4. Just expand the video description box.
5. - Expand your belt, me too.
expanse
/ɪkˈspæns/
nouna wide scope
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1. He sees the whole expanse of the horizon of the world.
2. Vast expanses of dunes bury everything in their relentless advance.
3. Vast expanses of dunes bury everything in their relentless advance.
4. This massive expanse of wilderness is home to hundreds of animal species.
5. A 13 hectare expanse of pristine wilderness nestled in the Eastern Cape.
expansion
/ɪkˈspænʃən/, /ɪkˈspæntʃən/
nounan increase in the amount, size, importance, or degree of something; the action of increasing something
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1. That sheer expansion of scale gives me perspective.
2. Expansion is expensive.
3. Expansion loses almost the same amount of money as the diluters.
4. What sources after is expansion.
5. expansion is about more better different.
