pentad
/pˈɛntæd/
nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
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pentagon
/ˈpɛnɪˌɡɑn/, /ˈpɛntɪˌɡɑn/
noun(geometry) a polygon with five angles and five straight sides
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1. And then a plane flew into the Pentagon.
2. The Pentagon has a severe shortage of urinals.
3. The Pentagon budget is $500 billion dollars.
4. Hello, we are Pentagon.
5. Which Pentagon song has the most iconic choreography?
pentagram
/pˈɛntɐɡɹˌæm/
nouna star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon
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1. Oh, we got a pentagram.
2. There's pentagrams.
3. The emblem is a yellow pentagram star on a blue circular shield.
4. She used the pentagram, the candles, the sigil and the prayer.
5. Pentagram is a design cooperative.
pentahedron
/pˌɛntɐhˈiːdɹən/
noun(geometry) a solid figure with five flat faces
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pentameter
/pˈɛntɐmˌiːɾɚ/
nouna metrical line of poetry consisting of five feet
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1. And pentameter means that there are five feet in a line.
2. And yet, it's also important for reading Pound and for reading Eliot and for reading Moore, who sound the way they do partly because they make a point of not writing pentameter, the meter that Frost often, but not always, chooses.
3. And if you repeat them five times, you have pentameter.
pentathlon
/pɛnˈtæθɫən/
nounan athletic contest consisting of five different events
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1. There's a plaza for badminton and pentathlon, an aquatic center for swimming and diving, the volleyball arena, and of course, the canoe and kayak center.
2. After his urine was found to contain alcohol, Liljenwall was disqualified and was ordered to return the bronze pentathlon medal he’d won while under the influence.
3. A clear example of the Greeks using such a tactic against the Persians is the Battle of Marathon, where the Greek hoplite force charged the Persians over a distance of perhaps 200m. Another event with similar roots in Greek military training was the pentathlon.
pentavalent
/pˈɛntɐvˌeɪlənt/
adjectivehaving a valence of five
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1. So it's not a pentavalent transition state.
2. You can have a pentavalent carbon intermediate.
3. It's not a pentavalent carbon.
4. That is, that is a stable pentavalent carbon.
5. So the question is, is there an example of a pentavalent carbon?
bombast
/ˈbɑmbæst/
nounpompous or pretentious talk or writing
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1. When it became big in Japan, it was the bombast and largeness of life that the lost decade sapped from everybody.
2. It certainly lacks glamour in an age of bravado and bombast.
3. All sides on a matter will contain important truths, lodged amidst exaggerations and bombast.
4. So I thought, forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, my usual tricks.
5. He wanted a little more bombast, so he increased the size of the orchestra pit so he could get more low-end instruments in there.
bombastic
/bɑmˈbæstɪk/
adjectiveostentatiously lofty in style
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1. A bombastic giant of a man with a personality the size of Canada, Christopher was a man who loved booze, cars, and women.
2. Featuring his characteristic pop-rap style of songwriting, the story of his first show is much more grounded than the bombastic historical hit.
3. But, this year, the bombastic brand name feels a bit forced.
4. Do you have to be bombastic?
5. the verses are high, bombastic affairs, while the choruses settle down into the lower part of Sting's range.
to glut
/ˈɡɫət/
verbovereat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
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1. Glut-en, gluten.
2. For the vervets, the termite glut is a feast.
3. We have a raspberry glut.
4. Again, loading your glut, ham, your posterior chain, back straight.
5. So, this exercise really targets those quads, the gluts, the back of the legs.
glutinous
/ɡlˈuːtɪnəs/
adjectivehaving the sticky properties of an adhesive
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1. But, let's just call this glutinous rice puff ball as well.
2. This rice becomes glutinous when boiled and doughy when steamed.
3. First I've got mochiko flour, which is a glutinous rice flour.
4. So the rice flour in Korea is really like glutinous which is totally a Korean word I realise because no one says things are glutinous.
5. It's three main ingredients are glutinous rice flour, water and sugar.
glutton
/ɡlˈʌʔn̩/
nouna person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
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1. At least these gluttons give something back.
2. I'm just a glutton for that.
3. and he's a glutton, just like his mom.
4. He is a glutton.
5. I'm a glutton for glamor.
gluttonous
/ˈɡɫətənəs/
adjectivegiven to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
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1. But you're also gluttonous.
2. Here we go then with Canto VI, the third circle, the gluttonous.
3. In this canto, the gluttonous are famished and disfigured by hunger and their penitence.
4. It's a gluttonous point of pride for Rochester residents old and new, and it's a meal that draws this rust belt city together across lines of class, race and generation.
5. It's almost always in gluttonous food like this.
gluttony
/ˈɡɫətəni/
nouneating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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1. The gluttony and the sloth are downstream of the biochemical process of insulin resistance and fat deposition driven by sugar.
2. And gluttony is a timeless theme.
3. You could make an argument for Gluttony because he eats a lot.
4. Well, the answer to this question is gluttony.
5. Whether it was Taurus' gluttony or Gemini's laziness.
abominable
/əˈbɑmənəbəɫ/
adjectiveextremely horrible and unpleasant
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1. Conditions in Manchester were abominable, including the development of slums, and the spread of disease.
2. I turned into the abominable snow Dan.
3. The difference between our stations is abominable.
4. Abominable snowman type situation with, he's snowboarding.
5. Snowboarding abominable snowman.
abomination
/əˌbɑməˈneɪʃən/
nounan action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
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1. Catholics were abominations.
2. She's an abomination.
3. He called that an abomination.
4. The abomination of desolation is the King James English translation of it.
5. What is the abomination of desolation?
incidence
/ˈɪnsədəns/, /ˈɪnsɪdəns/
nounthe relative frequency of occurrence of something
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1. So, the invasion of rivers is an incidence of convergent evolution.
2. In fact, here's the incidence of cardiovascular death.
3. Incidence of vascular dementia increases with age and cardiovascular risk factors.
4. One in 10,000 to 90,000 births will have an incidence of split hand.
5. This lowers the incidence of gallstone formation.
incident
/ˈɪnsədənt/
adjectivefalling or striking of light rays on something
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1. History records, however, that well over a million passengers rode the wheel during the Fair without incident.
2. This incident sparked nationwide protests, and religious violence between Hindus and Muslims.
3. This incident caused deep embarrassment to Helen.
4. Here are two incidents.
5. So this incident actually happened.
incidental
/ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəɫ/
adjective(sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
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1. That it's not incidental.
2. And with this response, the visuals were delightfully incidental.
3. Share incidental findings and other clinical information with the primary care physician as well as the patient.
4. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.
5. It's only incidental to the business.
incidentally
/ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəɫi/, /ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntɫi/
adverbintroducing a different topic
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1. Incidentally, we call these spacecraft solar sails.
2. Incidentally, it matches the four core, eight thread layout on our new Ryzen 3s.
3. You got a wrestlers body, incidentally.
4. Incidentally, that name, the lysis part means a loosening or a breaking apart.
5. The illusion of speech follows incidentally.
