irritable
/ˈɪɹətəbəɫ/
adjectiveeasily annoyed or made angry; displaying anger
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1. The second sign or symptom is feeling extra irritable.
2. They get very irritable.
3. People become more irritable.
4. The Australian magpie is famously irritable.
5. - To be less irritable.
to irritate
/ˈɪɹɪˌteɪt/
verbcause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
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1. Contact with epoxy can irritate the skin.
2. Many things can irritate the diaphragm muscle.
3. These condiments may irritate even more the intestinal mucosa.
4. And dry air really irritates the nasal passageways.
5. Excessive boozing can really irritate your stomach lining.
beau
/ˈboʊ/
nouna man who is the lover of a man or woman
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1. My son, Beau, served in the military.
2. Maybe you have lots of Beau's.
3. Our first couple is beau and Zucker.
4. Beau just spotted a snake.
5. Say hi Beau.
beatific
/biːɐtˈɪfɪk/
adjectivemarked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
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1. [Show icons] With their unreadably beatific expressions and similar poses, this became the genesis for Andy's experimentation with repeated images.
2. Beatrice is the stepping stone for the pilgrim's entering the experience of the beatific vision.
3. The beatific vision then is not exactly-- Prof: This is not a beatific vision.
4. The beatific vision then is not exactly-- Prof: This is not a beatific vision.
5. I find Jerry incredibly beatific, she has that great accent and her children come before anything.
to beatify
/biˈætəˌfaɪ/
verbdeclare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
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1. In 2004, over 80 years after Austria’s last emperor died in misery, Pope John Paul II beatified him for his peacemaking efforts.
2. Pope John Paul II even beatified Duns in 1993.
3. After one miracle, the pope may beatify the candidate, the second step toward sainthood.
beatitude
/biːˈæɾɪtˌuːd/
nounone of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed)
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1. A woman recently wrote to me and said, caregiving is a beatitude.
2. Grief is a beatitude.
3. it's sadistic, the view of those who are suffering, mercifully, I am saying that to me it's the most improbable form of beatitude
4. A little Sunday school girl was asked which of the beatitudes she would rather be like.
5. So look at paragraph 5, this is where Paul is giving his own version of the beatitudes that you're familiar with from Matthew and Luke.
stagnant
/ˈstæɡnənt/
adjectivenot circulating or flowing
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1. And that sheet isn’t stagnant.
2. Things were stagnant.
3. And this spirit is never stagnant.
4. Passwords are stagnant.
5. Being stagnant.
to stagnate
/ˈstæɡˌneɪt/
verbbe idle; exist in a changeless situation
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1. At the same time, wages have been stagnating.
2. Meanwhile, real wages for most workers have stagnated.
3. Meanwhile, the Spurs offense stagnated.
4. Our salaries and wages have stagnated.
5. We stagnate.
stagnation
/stæɡˈneɪʃən/
nouna state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
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1. The stagnation problem is a real problem.
2. It causes stagnation.
3. Stagnation breeds destruction.
4. So immigration is a huge issue next to economic stagnation.
5. Belarusians became increasingly dissatisfied with their economic stagnation, corruption, and sometimes eccentric behaviour of their autocratic leader.
to laud
/ˈɫɔd/
verbpraise, glorify, or honor
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1. Angie Han over at Mashable lauded the way the film ties a ribbon on phase three of the MCU.
2. The prison-set drama stars Jack O'Connell and Ben Mendelsohn, and both men were lauded for their performances in the film.
3. Chefs, celebrities, and foodies around the world have lauded the restaurant as one of the best Thai restaurants in the country.
4. She has been lauded by many students for her remarkable teaching ability and clinical skills.
5. Singapore's contact tracing system was lauded at launch for the speed of its deployment.
laudable
/ˈɫɔdəbəɫ/
adjective(of an idea, intention, or act) deserving of admiration and praise, regardless of success
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1. That's pretty laudable.
2. The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
3. The judge dismissed the case, saying that the casting was under First Amendment protection, but also stated that the plaintiffs goals were laudable.
4. While this mission statement includes laudable goals it does not mention several essential aspects of our work, such as education and service.
5. While the concept is truly laudable, incorporating technology and fashion trends together is a recipe for disaster.
laudatory
/ˈɫɔdəˌtɔɹi/
adjectivefull of or giving praise
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1. I would hesitate to call the vicious, bigoted flame wars that tend to happen in YouTube comment sections collaborative or creative in the laudatory sense.
2. The bottom line here is that, in this transcript, there's no quid pro quo, there's no improper leverage and the overall tone of this transcript is that it is mutually laudatory.
3. So we designed an extra 52 FACILITIES, and i've got to be LAUDATORY to the GOVERNORS, they then imposed and put them on the GROUND and did them THEMSELVES.
4. Hard to say whether this is critical of Elon Musk or laudatory.
ascent
/əˈsɛnt/
nounthe act or process of moving upwards
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1. And their ascent happened far from overnight.
2. Actually, the driverless swine was starting its ascent of the final hill.
3. I have somewhere around 2,000 ascents of the tower.
4. His specialty is bagging first ascents.
5. His specialty is bagging first ascents.
ascendant
/əˈsɛndənt/
adjectivetending or directed upward
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1. And the Catholic Austrians were ascendant in the German Confederation even without a union.
2. And I love Marco Beltrami’s ascendant score as he raises the glass to his lips.
3. Ascendant The Divergent adaptations seemed like a sure thing.
4. Rage Against the Machine was ascendant in 1993 or '94.
5. That power was an ascendant Macedon, ruled by the formidable king Philip II.
enigma
/ɪˈnɪɡmə/
nounthe quality of being very challenging to explain or understand
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1. The international banking system is an enigma.
2. Her whereabouts are an enigma.
3. Draw your planet enigma.
4. Powerful new technologies always present enigmas.
5. Basically, marriage in Belgium is kind of an enigma.
enigmatic
/ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/
adjectivenot clear to the understanding
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1. In her enigmatic way, she represents the birth of a modern perspective on economics, politics, and love.
2. Holmes's aura was enigmatic.
3. No, it's very enigmatic.
4. But as AI becomes more involved in our everyday lives, these enigmatic decisions have increasingly large impacts on our work, health, and safety.
5. This enigmatic flame appears because the Kawah Ijen volcano has huge reserves of sulfur in gas, liquid, and solid form.
to obscure
/əbˈskjʊɹ/
verbmake less visible or unclear
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1. For one thing, equivalent performance on a task can obscure really important differences.
2. This chaos of women's suffrage proposals should not obscure the importance of universal suffrage, national citizenship approach of the late Reconstruction years.
3. As a matter of fact this one obscures the others.
4. The artificial moon would also obscure the view of the natural sky.
5. Partially obscured?
obscureness
/əbskjˈʊɹnəs/
nounthe quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
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