irritable
/ˈɪɹətəbəɫ/
adjective
easily annoyed or made angry; displaying anger
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1The second sign or symptom is feeling extra irritable.
2They get very irritable.
3People become more irritable.
4The Australian magpie is famously irritable.
5- To be less irritable.
to irritate
/ˈɪɹɪˌteɪt/
verb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
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1Contact with epoxy can irritate the skin.
2Many things can irritate the diaphragm muscle.
3These condiments may irritate even more the intestinal mucosa.
4And dry air really irritates the nasal passageways.
5Excessive boozing can really irritate your stomach lining.
beau
/ˈboʊ/
noun
a man who is the lover of a man or woman
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1My son, Beau, served in the military.
2Maybe you have lots of Beau's.
3Our first couple is beau and Zucker.
4Beau just spotted a snake.
5Say hi Beau.
beatific
/biːɐtˈɪfɪk/
adjective
marked 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.
2Beatrice is the stepping stone for the pilgrim's entering the experience of the beatific vision.
3The beatific vision then is not exactly-- Prof: This is not a beatific vision.
4The beatific vision then is not exactly-- Prof: This is not a beatific vision.
5I find Jerry incredibly beatific, she has that great accent and her children come before anything.
to beatify
/biˈætəˌfaɪ/
verb
declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
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1In 2004, over 80 years after Austria’s last emperor died in misery, Pope John Paul II beatified him for his peacemaking efforts.
2Pope John Paul II even beatified Duns in 1993.
3After one miracle, the pope may beatify the candidate, the second step toward sainthood.
beatitude
/biːˈæɾɪtˌuːd/
noun
one 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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1A woman recently wrote to me and said, caregiving is a beatitude.
2Grief is a beatitude.
3it's sadistic, the view of those who are suffering, mercifully, I am saying that to me it's the most improbable form of beatitude
4A little Sunday school girl was asked which of the beatitudes she would rather be like.
5So 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/
adjective
not circulating or flowing
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1And that sheet isn’t stagnant.
2Things were stagnant.
3And this spirit is never stagnant.
4Passwords are stagnant.
5Being stagnant.
to stagnate
/ˈstæɡˌneɪt/
verb
be idle; exist in a changeless situation
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1At the same time, wages have been stagnating.
2Meanwhile, real wages for most workers have stagnated.
3Meanwhile, the Spurs offense stagnated.
4Our salaries and wages have stagnated.
5We stagnate.
stagnation
/stæɡˈneɪʃən/
noun
a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
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1The stagnation problem is a real problem.
2It causes stagnation.
3Stagnation breeds destruction.
4So immigration is a huge issue next to economic stagnation.
5Belarusians became increasingly dissatisfied with their economic stagnation, corruption, and sometimes eccentric behaviour of their autocratic leader.
to laud
/ˈɫɔd/
verb
praise, glorify, or honor
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1Angie Han over at Mashable lauded the way the film ties a ribbon on phase three of the MCU.
2The prison-set drama stars Jack O'Connell and Ben Mendelsohn, and both men were lauded for their performances in the film.
3Chefs, celebrities, and foodies around the world have lauded the restaurant as one of the best Thai restaurants in the country.
4She has been lauded by many students for her remarkable teaching ability and clinical skills.
5Singapore'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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1That's pretty laudable.
2The 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.
3The judge dismissed the case, saying that the casting was under First Amendment protection, but also stated that the plaintiffs goals were laudable.
4While this mission statement includes laudable goals it does not mention several essential aspects of our work, such as education and service.
5While the concept is truly laudable, incorporating technology and fashion trends together is a recipe for disaster.
laudatory
/ˈɫɔdəˌtɔɹi/
adjective
full of or giving praise
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1I would hesitate to call the vicious, bigoted flame wars that tend to happen in YouTube comment sections collaborative or creative in the laudatory sense.
2The 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.
3So 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.
4Hard to say whether this is critical of Elon Musk or laudatory.
ascent
/əˈsɛnt/
noun
the act or process of moving upwards
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1And their ascent happened far from overnight.
2Actually, the driverless swine was starting its ascent of the final hill.
3I have somewhere around 2,000 ascents of the tower.
4His specialty is bagging first ascents.
5His specialty is bagging first ascents.
ascendant
/əˈsɛndənt/
adjective
tending or directed upward
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1And the Catholic Austrians were ascendant in the German Confederation even without a union.
2And I love Marco Beltrami’s ascendant score as he raises the glass to his lips.
3Ascendant The Divergent adaptations seemed like a sure thing.
4Rage Against the Machine was ascendant in 1993 or '94.
5That power was an ascendant Macedon, ruled by the formidable king Philip II.
enigma
/ɪˈnɪɡmə/
noun
the quality of being very challenging to explain or understand
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1The international banking system is an enigma.
2Her whereabouts are an enigma.
3Draw your planet enigma.
4Powerful new technologies always present enigmas.
5Basically, marriage in Belgium is kind of an enigma.
enigmatic
/ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/
adjective
not clear to the understanding
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1In her enigmatic way, she represents the birth of a modern perspective on economics, politics, and love.
2Holmes's aura was enigmatic.
3No, it's very enigmatic.
4But as AI becomes more involved in our everyday lives, these enigmatic decisions have increasingly large impacts on our work, health, and safety.
5This enigmatic flame appears because the Kawah Ijen volcano has huge reserves of sulfur in gas, liquid, and solid form.
to obscure
/əbˈskjʊɹ/
verb
make less visible or unclear
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1For one thing, equivalent performance on a task can obscure really important differences.
2This chaos of women's suffrage proposals should not obscure the importance of universal suffrage, national citizenship approach of the late Reconstruction years.
3As a matter of fact this one obscures the others.
4The artificial moon would also obscure the view of the natural sky.
5Partially obscured?
obscureness
/əbskjˈʊɹnəs/
noun
the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

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