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