to repudiate
/ɹipˈjudiˌeɪt/
verbreject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
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1. No politician has ever been more thoroughly and more frequently repudiated by the American people.
2. But was Trump repudiated last night?
3. It could also be philosophically repudiated.
4. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence.
5. So you would, perhaps, repudiate that language with the district judge?
repugnant
/ɹiˈpəɡnənt/, /ɹɪˈpəɡnənt/
adjectiveextremely unpleasant and disgusting
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1. In the wild plains of Africa, hyenas stand out as repugnant animals.
2. I felt the clutch of that MAGA monstrosity, that Trumpian troglodyte, that repugnant ruffian.
3. It was repugnant to America.
4. It was repugnant to any good policing perspective or strategy or approach.
5. That can't be more repugnant to him.
to repulse
/ɹiˈpəɫs/
verbforce or drive back
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1. It's repulsed.
2. I was repulsed.
3. He was repulsed by anything having to do with Japan.
4. Bay Leaves Cockroaches are repulsed by the smell!
5. This was repulsed by IDF as well.
fracas
/ˈfɹeɪkəs/
nouna noisy fight or argument, which usually a lot of people take part in
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1. And there was a fracas, in which Captain Cook was killed by at least one Hawaiian.
2. So the fracas spilled out from Sal's pizzeria to the street.
3. I call them fragilista, someone who denies the anti-fragility of things and fracases by the denial.
4. Don't try to involve us in your fracas.
5. But the episode with the Basque is over, and the fracas with the Yanguesans doesn't come until five chapters later, after the Grisóstomo and Marcela interlude.
fractious
/ˈfɹækʃəs/
adjectivestubbornly resistant to authority or control
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1. It will be a bit of a fractious relationship.
2. And so we live in a very fractious world.
3. The pace of the reopening, in fact, is becoming one of the most fractious debates surrounding coronavirus.
4. The country looks vulnerable because of poor infrastructure and a fractious balance between religion and politics in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
5. Both reformations were predicated on fractious discussion, internal self-doubt and massive realignment of antiquated business models.
to fracture
/ˈfɹækʃɝ/, /ˈfɹæktʃɝ/
verbviolate or abuse
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1. Then the X-Rays showed the hairline fractures.
2. He fractured his ribs, backbone, arms, and skull.
3. Pressurized fluids fracture rocks.
4. These long bones, right above the paw, their called metatarsals, and three of them are fractured.
5. Stress fractured the bone.
fragile
/ˈfɹædʒəɫ/
adjectiveeasily damaged or broken
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1. Democracy is fragile.
2. Your entity is fragile.
3. This thing is fragile.
4. Children with this disorder have abnormally fragile skin that peels or blisters at the slightest touch.
5. The link between the past and the future is fragile.
podium
/ˈpoʊdiəm/
nouna structure used in sports competitions consisting of three adjacent platforms of different levels, on which winners stand to receive their awards
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1. He dries the podium.
2. So Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, that beast right there, that podium destroyed their hand charisma.
3. So never use podium.
4. The podium is not there.
5. The podium is just one thing, the podium.
poesy
/pˈoʊsi/
nounliterature in metrical form
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poetic
/poʊˈɛtɪk/
adjectiveinvolving or relating to poetry
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1. This moment was poetic.
2. blues poetic meter is defined by blues musical meter.
3. Is the name Hilda Doolittle insufficiently poetic?
4. Sometimes pieces are very, very poetic.
5. Their first note about sunspots was quite poetic.
theism
/ˈθiɪzəm/
nounthe doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods
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1. Every religion in the world, which claims God created the universe, whether it's Christianity or Judaism, Islam or the varieties of theism in Hinduism, Shaktism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism, they all claim that there is a conscious entity, all-powerful, omniscient and all of that, which created the material universe.
theocracy
/θiˈɑkɹəsi/
nounthe belief in government by divine guidance
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1. For example, in the Islamic world, you had in Sudan, the Mahdi in the late 19th century, which established a religious theocracy.
2. Gilead is a theocracy.
3. You know it's one of the most despotic theocracies in the world.
4. This type of rule, where people of religious significance control the land is called a theocracy and does count as government.
5. Ruled from Tiaret by a line of Ibadi Imams, this theocracy remained a key nexus in trade between Subsaharan Africa and the Middle East for generations.
theologian
/ˌθiəˈɫoʊdʒiən/
nounsomeone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
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1. He's a patristic theologian.
2. The eminent German theologian Dr. Julius Müller supports this theory in his work on "The Christian Doctrine of Sin."
3. I'm talking about the theologian.
4. Old theologians said no.
5. Theologians like Richard Hooker and Richard Bancroft saw the retention of a traditionalist structure in the Church of England as not simply a matter of convenience, or political expediency, but as a valid Protestant alternative.
theological
/ˌθiəˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
adjectiveof or relating to or concerning theology
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1. Theological views are similar.
2. The calamitous events of 722, but especially 587, raised a critical theological dilemma.
3. So the emperors then create their own theological position.
4. That sounds not only philosophical but downright theological.
5. Can be theological.
theology
/θiˈɑɫədʒi/
nounthe study of religions and faiths
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1. It's theologies.
2. Some of this is theology.
3. He studied theology.
4. Paul gives a theology here of the remnant.
5. My theology is better than my grammar.
compulsion
/kəmˈpəɫʃən/
nouna strong and irresistible urge or impulse to do something
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1. My compulsion would be cleaning.
2. A vice isn't a compulsion.
3. Now, one of the hallmark features of addiction is compulsion.
4. It's the compulsion.
5. It was becoming a compulsion.
compulsory
/kəmˈpəɫsɝi/
adjectivethe production of living organisms from other living organisms
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1. Oxygen is compulsory.
2. ID card is compulsory.
3. So, the outdoor life was compulsory.
4. This course is compulsory.
5. A second plague measure was compulsory burial.