languid
/ˈɫæŋɡwəd/
adjective
(literary) feeling weak or ill
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1A languid pace, just as I suspected.
2It's cold, open eyes are staring back at you as its languid, scrunched up form fills every available space in that alcove.
3There's the languid.
4It's very languid in terms of the pulse here.
5Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.
to languish
/ˈɫæŋɡwɪʃ/
verb
to lose strength or energy
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1And this case languishes.
2He languishes in a place that Richard Wright has called no man's land.
3and there he languished in jail for a month.
4Kind of languishing down and down below
5The other half languish behind bars, and the last one, the last Scottsboro Boy is released, no longer a boy, in 1950.
languor
/lˈæŋɡjuːɚ/
noun
a relaxed comfortable feeling
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1Then he took down from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face.
2He steeled himself to keep above the suffocating languor that lapped like a rising tide through all the wells of his being.
3It was very like a sea, this deadly languor, that rose and rose and drowned his consciousness bit by bit.
to emerge
/ˈimɝdʒ/, /ɪˈmɝdʒ/
verb
to become visible after coming out of somewhere
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1Tensions emerge.
2An adult butterfly emerges.
3So a subculture emerged!
4Small businesses emerge.
5Extra unspoken syllables emerge.
emergence
/ˈimɝdʒəns/, /ɪˈmɝdʒəns/
noun
the becoming visible
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1Since their emergence over 200,000 years ago, modern humans have established homes and communities all over the planet.
2Meanwhile, the 19th century also saw the emergence of a few key changes in the philosophy and functions of prisons.
3Politically, parliament saw the emergence that winter of three broad groupings.
4Her emergence marks the beginning of spring.
5UV rays can actually cause the emergence of more acne.
emergent
/ˈimɝdʒənt/, /ɪˈmɝdʒənt/
adjective
coming into existence
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1The alternative, of course, is emergent strategy.
2These are emergent features of the world.
3The emergent properties are determined.
4This level of meaning and purpose and causality is a higher level emergent thing.
5This is emergent.
ambivalence
/æmˈbɪvəɫəns/
noun
mixed feelings or emotions
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1However, Spielberg liked Attenborough's ambivalence.
2On the contrary, Susanna, ambivalence suggests strong feelings in opposition.
3We all have ambivalence.
4Because it shows that ambivalence.
5So in a sense his ambiguity and ambivalence reflected general ambiguity and ambivalence.
ambivalent
/æmˈbɪvəɫənt/
adjective
having contradictory views or feelings about something or someone
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1About 15% of the kids demonstrated insecure ambivalent attachment.
2I was deeply ambivalent about Washington.
3- I'm ambivalent.
4The third style is insecure ambivalent.
5We also have ambivalent.
ambitious
/æmˈbɪʃəs/
adjective
trying or wishing to gain great success, power, or wealth
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1The man is ambitious.
2This one is really ambitious.
3President Joe Biden has ambitious goals.
4The team from Taiwan was a little bit more ambitious.
5Being ambitious.
to officiate
/əˈfɪʃiˌeɪt/
verb
act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding
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1I could officiate.
2-I officiated their wedding.
3He's officiating!
4Yeah, who's going to officiate?
5Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the groom's aunt, officiated, making the wedding a true Trump affair.
officious
/əfˈɪʃəs/
adjective
self-important and very eager to give orders or help when it is not wanted, or needed
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1Joe from Family Guy who's a little bit more officious.
2said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal.
concord
/ˈkɑnˌkɔɹd/, /ˈkɑnkɝd/
noun
agreement and peace between people or a group of countries
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1Lexington and Concord, depending on whether you live in Lexington or Concord.
2Had a shop in Concord.
3The concord, a supersonic passenger jet, had a value of 1.4.
4The capital of New Hampshire is Concord.
5British soldiers came to Concord, the greatest fighting force on the planet at the time.
concordance
/kənkˈoːɹdəns/
noun
agreement of opinions
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1I mean, I'm gonna be doing the concordance.
2The Ice and Fire concordance is the next project in the World of Ice and Fire, which is under contract at Bantam and Random House.
3There’s concordances for Thoreau’s Walden.
4Concordances were just analog Google.
5If you need things like a concordance, that's great, use a concordance.
to concoct
/kənˈkɑkt/
verb
devise or invent
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1These guys have concocted a bunch of insane conspiracy theories.
2"Who, exactly, concocted that play?"
3And they concocted a plan.
4She even concocted the story of the wager.
5- I concocted a whole thing.
concomitant
/ˌkɑnˈkɑmətənt/, /ˌkɑnkəˈmɪtənt/
adjective
simultaneously occurring with something else as it is either related to it or an outcome of it
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1A concomitant to that, business interests are stronger than they've been for decades.
2At the same time there's been a concomitant loss of innocence.
3And religious diversity is, of course, a concomitant of America's constitution, of our constitutional commitment to freedom of expression, freedom of religion.
4Another aspect of the diaphragmatic descent is the concomitant increase in abdominal pressure.
5There has, however, been no concomitant increase in the resources available to police forces.
to irradiate
/ˌɪˈɹeɪdiˌeɪt/
verb
expose to radiation
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1And we're back with another dose of gamma irradiated Hulky goodness.
2It'll probably irradiate you.
3But he just is gamma irradiated.
4These particles would irradiate the Earth all over again, for a longer amount of time, finishing off what was left of the human race.
5They irradiated with UV light using these specifications for 30 minutes and then they did it again.
irradiation
/ˌɪˌɹeɪdiˈeɪʃən/
noun
(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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1In the Berlin case, the patient received full body irradiation for the cancer, and then two separate transplants before achieving remission.
2In this paper, the team made those conditions using a process called ultraviolet irradiation.
3We almost never see it-- with irradiation.
4Germicidal ultraviolet irradiation, on the other hand, is a decades-old technology.
5The irradiation from the explosion will cause a layer of the asteroid's surface to heat up and blow-off, pushing in the opposite direction.

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