itinerant
/aɪˈtɪnɝənt/
adjectivetraveling from place to place to work
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1. Throughout her itinerant club career, she collected copious trophies and individual honors.
2. Their travels would take many itinerant warriors southwards, and into the heart of the Latin world.
3. An itinerant piano tuner in Tennessee was lynched because he was from Massachusetts.
4. He's an itinerant preacher who extolled the virtues of what was called New Thought, the power of positive thinking regimen.
5. In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah."
itinerary
/aɪˈtɪnɝˌɛɹi/
nouna plan of the route and the places that one will visit on a journey
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1. Of absolute necessity for any touring musician is the itinerary.
2. We found the President's itinerary in your desk.
3. So you've got your itinerary.
4. The book of Numbers recounts the itinerary of the Israelites throughout the 40 years of their wanderings and encampments around the sacred tabernacle.
5. Cruise ships can also change their itineraries.
to itinerate
/aɪtˈɪnɚɹˌeɪt/
verbtravel from place to place, as for work
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1. People this past SUMMER, we saw in EUROPE, we were in AMSTERDAM for that GREAT conference on ITINERATE evangelist, which I think was one of the Greatest Conferences held in the history of the Christian Church.
2. People this past SUMMER, we saw in EUROPE, we were in AMSTERDAM for that GREAT conference on ITINERATE evangelist, which I think was one of the Greatest Conferences held in the history of the Christian Church.
commodious
/kəˈmoʊdiəs/
adjectivelarge and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
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1. Their commodious hold could accommodate 20 Sherman tanks‑‑, 30 2.5 ton trucks, the famous deuce and a half, fully loaded.
2. If I just have enough money in the bank, I have a big enough house, nice enough cars, I have a commodious life, I'll be happy.
3. Hobbes' answer is having a civil state, having civil society, is the only effective means of what he calls commodious self-preservation.
4. Because all of us have a "fear of death, the desire for commodious living, and the hope that by our industry we might obtain it."
5. The things, which we realize rationality demands of us if we have the prudential aim of commodious living.
commodity
/kəˈmɑdəti/
noun(economics) a basic product or raw material that can be purchased or sold
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1. A commodity has a very special meaning for Marx.
2. They produce commodities.
3. Finally, consider commodities.
4. Time is a commodity.
5. Commodity prices are like this.
wavelet
/wˈeɪvlət/
nouna small wave on the surface of a liquid
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1. She is best known for her pioneering work on wavelets, mathematical functions that play a crucial role in signal processing and pattern recognition.
2. That function, when you throw it at a double slit, will form two little wavelets, and they will interfere, that produce an interference pattern of the type you want.
3. With different tissue properties, multiple wavelets are thought to develop, called the multiple wavelet theory.
4. With different tissue properties, multiple wavelets are thought to develop, called the multiple wavelet theory.
5. Along with this multiple wavelet theory, there’s also an automatic focus theory, where there’s a specific origin that is thought to initiate AF by rapid firing of electrical impulses that overtake the sinus node, and combined with the risk factors and tissue heterogeneity, this can promote AF.
to waver
/ˈweɪvɝ/
verbmove or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
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1. The president never wavered.
2. My confidence never wavered.
3. Never wavering.
4. Yet, the resolve of the defenders did not waver.
5. Never waver.
to encumber
/ɛnˈkəmbɝ/
verbto make it so that doing something or the happening of something becomes difficult
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1. Oh, wait, it encumbers me, so no.
2. - You didn't wanna be encumbered by a jacket.
3. They might not be prepared to deal with the consequences of-- their nervous systems are already encumbered.
4. But to one of Soapy's proud spirit the gifts of charity are encumbered.
5. We can only assume these surgeons are already heavily encumbered by the size and density of the balls or ovaries they presumably have given their willingness to operate on a patient who might explode at any second.
encumbrance
/ɛnkˈʌmbɹəns/
nounan onerous or difficult concern
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1. It'll put me over my encumbrance.
2. Title insurance is not for those issues or encumbrances, we call 'em, or clouds on title that a title attorney can find.
3. While you do get excellent stabilization, you also get a fairly large amount of digital noise, and the lack of a wide angle camera in both video and still modes, on back and front, continues to be a real encumbrance.
4. If you Google up things like international encumbrances, you can find American president after American presidents saying we will not commit ourselves to any encumbrance on a long term or permanent basis.
5. If you Google up things like international encumbrances, you can find American president after American presidents saying we will not commit ourselves to any encumbrance on a long term or permanent basis.
to further
/ˈfɝðɝ/
verbpromote the growth of
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1. This furthered tension between Apple and Jobs.
2. The European wars of the early 19th century furthered the Rothschild’s wealth and influence.
3. The European wars of the early 19th century furthered the Rothschild’s wealth and influence.
4. And these partnerships are furthering international medical education, the building of modern health care infrastructure, and disease research.
5. Furthering the fantasy element of his online profile.
odoriferous
/ˌoʊdɚɹˈɪfɚɹəs/
adjectivehaving a natural fragrance
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1. We can trace its odoriferous origins back to the single-celled organisms who sampled Earth’s most primordial perfumes.
2. Your brain is seemingly built to be keenly aware of this danger and so goes ahead and reacts more negatively to said odoriferous odor from an external source, just in case, motivating you to want to leave the stinky zone or at least hold your breath for a bit while the air clears out.
odorous
/ˈoʊdɝəs/
adjectivehaving odor or a characteristic odor
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1. Work environments may be noisy, odorous, and hot, while chemicals used in dry-cleaning are often harsh.
2. Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators work in conditions that are at times noisy and odorous.
3. Work environments may be noisy, odorous, and hot, while chemicals used in dry-cleaning are often harsh.
4. These LED's are wired to sensors that detect the presence of odorous molecules in the air.
5. Chocolate, specifically the cocoa butter also absorbs the smell of surrounding food, so it’s best kept away from other, odorous ingredients.
reflection
/ɹɪˈfɫɛkʃən/
nounthe phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
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1. Intelligence officers love reflections.
2. The next step is reflection.
3. Justice requires reflection.
4. Prof: Reflection changes hands.
5. The opposite of Deflection is Reflection.
reflector
/ɹɪˈfɫɛktɝ/
noundevice that reflects radiation
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1. So you have optical corner reflectors for the Leica total station here.
2. The sea ice is a natural reflector.
3. Or sometimes called parabolic reflectors.
4. We have this reflector in the background.
5. I had to make a wooden reflector.
to effuse
/ɪfjˈuːz/
verbgive out or emit (also metaphorically)
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1. Lefts everywhere are quite good at mounting protests that raise issues which get effused to a wider public debate.
2. "Talking Dead" and its ilk-- another step where pros earnestly effuse as audience for popular television without a script.
3. We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on, And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
effusion
/ɪfjˈuːʒən/
nounflow under pressure
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1. So the effusion rate of the gas is important.
2. This is called pericardial effusion.
3. Now, a pericardial effusion can also develop.
4. Symptoms of a pleural effusions mostly depend on it’s size.
5. Pleural effusions can be due to excess fluid collection, transudative and exudative, or due to blockage of lymphatic drainage.
effusive
/ˈɛfjusɪv/
adjectiveextravagantly demonstrative
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1. And I was pretty effusive.
2. And she says, well, forgive me for being effusive.
3. Zoot101 makes a point that people might not dislike Bronies because they're challenging masculinity, but because they're really effusive about their love of "My Little Pony."
4. His manner was not effusive.
5. That's called an effusive eruption.
furtherance
/ˈfɝθɝəns/
nounthe process of helping something grow, develop, or become more successful
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1. And the district attorney says that Weisselberg knowingly falsified records in furtherance of the scheme.
2. They cannot lie in furtherance of their client's aims.
3. You just have to take one overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy or in furtherance of that ultimate criminal end.
4. You just have to take one overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy or in furtherance of that ultimate criminal end.
5. Certainly paying $3000 would definitely be considered an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy to commit murder.
