hierarchy
/ˈhaɪˌɹɑɹki/, /ˈhaɪɝˌɑɹki/
nounthe grouping of people into different levels or ranks according to their power or importance within a society or system
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1. Hierarchy is very known around here.
2. Baboon troops have a hierarchy.
3. Hierarchy is everything.
4. Is this hierarchy, again, a genetic quality?
5. We needed hierarchy.
hieroglyphic
/ˌhaɪɹoʊˈɡɫɪfɪk/
nouna writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
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1. That's right, hieroglyphics.
2. The earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics record the victories of Egypt's first Pharaoh's.
3. The Maya scribes wrote thousands of bark books in their hieroglyphic script.
4. Hieroglyphics were elaborate, elegant symbols used prolifically in Ancient Egypt.
5. Unfortunately, hieroglyphics started to disappear.
adversary
/ˈædvɝˌsɛɹi/
nouna person that one is opposed to and fights or competes with
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1. Another adversary wasted.
2. And although in the courtroom it will be adversaries butting heads, in the real world, it isn't adversaries butting heads.
3. The adversaries are well-matched.
4. - Time and proximity can change adversaries into allies.
5. Assess your adversary.
adverse
/ˈædˌvɝs/, /ædˈvɝs/, /ədˈvɝs/
adjectiveagainst someone or something's advantage
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1. And adverse law had mobilized the suffragists.
2. The pandemic clearly had adverse effects on the production of "Mortal Kombat."
3. Long term adverse effects include hallucinations, psychosis, cardiac arrest, and death.
4. So adverse experiences will have different effects depending on their timing and their duration of exposure.
5. Adverse selection is very important or pro-verse selection.
adversity
/ædˈvɝsɪˌti/, /ədˈvɝsɪti/
nouna state of misfortune or affliction
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1. Adversity does.
2. I love adversity.
3. I love adversity.
4. I like adversity.
5. Fighting adversity.
gestation
/dʒɛˈsteɪʃən/
nounthe state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
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1. For example, the African elephant, the largest placental land mammal today by mass, has a gestation period of up to 2 years.
2. And they banned gestation crates.
3. Now again, gestation crates are banned after the fourth week of the sow's pregnancy.
4. Elephants have the longest gestation of any mammal.
5. Nine months of gestation, then out of it comes a baby.
to germinate
/ˈdʒɝməˌneɪt/
verbproduce buds, branches, or germinate
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1. Potter successfully germinated mushroom spores in her home.
2. to germinate.
3. Beets will germinate and grow at the wrong time of year, even in our hot summers.
4. And it'll germinate almost as fast.
5. They're not going to germinate.
to relinquish
/ɹiˈɫɪŋkwɪʃ/, /ɹɪˈɫɪŋkwɪʃ/
verbpart with a possession or right
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1. Have you relinquished all strife?
2. He has to relinquish time.
3. To relinquish.
4. In Korean culture, the announcement of pregnancy relinquishes most mothers-to-be of many duties.
5. They also relinquished the light sight of ownership.
reliquary
/ɹɪlˈɪkwɛɹi/
nouna container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
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1. Many of these found objects made their way into surrealist work in the 1930s: arranged in compositions that resembled reliquaries or mysterious erotic contraptions, seeking the marvellous through the unexpected juxtaposition of objects Meret Oppenheim, shown here posing for Man Ray, created one of the most enduringly evocative surrealist objects.
2. In 1979, Pope John Paul II called the Rosary Chapel a reliquary of America.
to relish
/ˈɹɛɫɪʃ/
verbderive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
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1. Kids relish their victory and their bloody choice .
2. Horror films relish their genre conventions.
3. Relish the opportunity to be an outsider.
4. You relished intellectual challenge.
5. You relished intellectual challenge.
relic
/ˈɹɛɫɪk/
nounan antiquity that has survived from the distant past
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1. As a result, these dunes are relics of a different time.
2. The relic costs two.
3. You give your relic back.
4. Their relics are very much active.
5. Number 13, reclaimed Russian relics.
erudite
/ˈɛɹəˌdaɪt/
adjectivedisplaying or possessing immense knowledge that is acquired by studying and reading
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1. But unfortunately, that mantra was repeated, usually in a lot more erudite way than that.
2. It's erudite.
3. It's a very erudite book, and I encourage you to read it.
4. Of course, there are erudites among Tauruses, but they do not boast of their own knowledge in a particular area.
5. Erudite is knowledge.
erudition
/ˌɛɹəˈdɪʃən/
nounprofound scholarly knowledge
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1. He has done so with striking erudition, with deep immersion in diverse sources, and in prose both elegant and engaging.
2. Against the brutality of the Spartans, Pericles celebrates the generosity, erudition, openness, public spiritedness and dignity of Athenian democratic life.
3. Temples were centres of erudition and wisdom in which the knowledge of magic was formed and initiated, and the sacred writings were kept.
4. Temples were centres of erudition and wisdom in which the knowledge of magic was formed and initiated, and the sacred writings were kept.
5. Morella’s erudition was profound.
lackadaisical
/ˌɫækəˈdeɪzɪkəɫ/
adjectiveidle or indolent especially in a dreamy way
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1. It appeared to us, on the outside, that they were sort of lackadaisical about investigating what the Russians were up to.
2. He directed the actors' finger snaps and gave one direction to actors John Astin and Carolyn Jones: "Be lackadaisical."
3. When you relax in your seat, when you are just a little bit more lackadaisical in your posture, you can mentally relax as well.
4. They have learned to abandon their lackadaisical approach towards significant issues.
5. [ Laughs ] You're pretty lackadaisical hanging out in the park for someone who's sister needs to be rescued.
lackluster
/ˈɫæˌkɫəstɝ/
adjective(of hair or eyes) without shine, sheen, or brightness
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1. And again, sales were lackluster.
2. Its sales growth has been lackluster.
3. Yet my personal performance was lackluster at best.
4. The out of work wear right now is looking so lackluster.
5. The response was lackluster.
to perceive
/pɝˈsiv/
verbto realize through the five senses
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1. Sacks has a form of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces, also known as face blindness.
2. If my eyeball perceives their uh--- likeness.
3. Most people perceive cockroaches as an intruder.
4. Humans perceive sound between 20 and 20,000 Hertz.
5. Your physical brain is perceiving that construct.
perceptive
/pɝˈsɛptɪv/
adjective(of a person) having or showing great imagination or intellectual inventiveness
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1. You are so perceptive.
2. You're very perceptive!
3. I'm very perceptive.
4. I am perceptive.
5. I am perceptive.
to incarcerate
/ˌɪnˈkɑɹsɝˌeɪt/
verblock up or confine, in or as in a jail
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1. My father was formerly incarcerated for terrorist activity on behalf of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
2. Brian Herrington currently incarcerated.
3. We incarcerate 11% more people in the state of Michigan than the national average.
4. Been incarcerated.
5. For every 100,000 residents in the U.S., 698 are incarcerated.
incarceration
/ˌɪnˌkɑɹsɝˈeɪʃən/
nounthe state of being detained; the act of putting or keeping someone in captivity
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1. The incarceration is there punishment.
2. The Kentucky prison reforms did not address juvenile incarceration.
3. Mass incarceration became the thing later.
4. Incarceration is a traumatic experience.
5. Even black hair products suffer from mass incarceration.
incarnate
/ˌɪnˈkɑɹˌneɪt/, /ˌɪnˈkɑɹnət/
adjectivepossessing or existing in bodily form
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1. I thought of him as this archenemy, this devil incarnate.
2. Maybe we incarnate a thousands of years ago.
3. I'm going to incarnate into the system.
4. He was a devil incarnate.
5. You incarnate into the physical for a very important purpose.
