inchoate
/ˌɪnˈkoʊət/
adjectiverecently started to develop, thus not complete
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1. So that was my inchoate thinking about being a public defender.
2. So we're gonna be talking about things like due process and the hearsay rule, but often these things are completely inchoate in an impeachment setting because the Senate makes its own rules.
3. But whether the House rushed the impeachment hearing and the impeachment decision is probably inchoate to the question of whether there should be additional evidence and witnesses at the Senate trial.
4. So, the whistleblower-complaint-is-hearsay argument is probably not as strong as Lindsey Graham thinks it is, and it's absolutely inchoate in the context of the actual primary evidence, like the transcript.
5. The OAAU and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated at the moment of his assassination were really inchoate.
inchoative
/ˈɪntʃoʊtˌɪv/
adjectiveinitial
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auspice
/ˈɔspɪs/
nouna favorable omen
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auspicious
/ɑˈspɪʃəs/
adjectiveindicating that something is very likely to succeed in the future
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1. He has an auspicious birth.
2. But now, on this auspicious occasion, by the wisdom of humanity, that science, our intelligence, is finding its way back.
3. Ocean Master made his auspicious debut in September 19, 1966s Aquaman #29.
4. The timing of this event is auspicious.
5. Can you tell me most auspicious date for marriage?
uniform
/ˈjunəˌfɔɹm/
adjectivenot differentiated
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1. A uniform is one way whereby the workers can be easily identified by others.
2. The swabs are issued uniforms.
3. Narrator: Recruits are issued uniforms.
4. The new trainees are issued uniforms.
5. At least you guys have uniforms.
to unify
/ˈjunəˌfaɪ/
verbto become whole or united
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1. Unify this country.
2. Unify all things in your life.
3. Solid earthy tones unify upholstery.
4. Solid earthy tones unify upholstery.
5. They unify the whole body.
unification
/ˌjunəfəˈkeɪʃən/
nounan occurrence that involves the production of a union
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1. A period of peace followed the unification of England and Scotland.
2. It was unification.
3. In Armenia, people rallied for unification.
4. Take, for example, the unification of Italy.
5. Steps toward unification exhibit the simplicity.
to complicate
/ˈkɑmpɫəˌkeɪt/
verbmake more complicated
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1. Trump's trade war with China further complicates things.
2. Another clue complicates the mystery, though: this plastic crate, from Taiwan.
3. - Complicated.
4. Two additional factors can complicate things further here.
5. - Complicated.
complication
/ˌkɑmpɫəˈkeɪʃən/
nounthe act or process of complicating
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1. Complications take you away from the Tao.
2. Complications is a medical euphemism for pneumonia and death.
3. In some cases, untreated hernias cause complications.
4. Complications include risks of blood infection, thrombosis, and internal bleeding due to the added anticoagulant.
5. Complications include infertility, ectopic pregnancies, and tubo-ovarian abscesses.
magisterial
/ˌmædʒɪˈstiɹiəɫ/
adjectiveof or relating to a magistrate
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1. The poem is obviously magisterial.
2. And we've certainly had a magisterial court system.
3. And that position, by the way, finds strong support in a book that is coming out in just a month or two, a magisterial 15-nation study, by Calabresi and Owen, of the constitutional courts in constitutional democracies.
4. And the language is magisterial and almost sacred in describing this enterprise that we are all involved in.
5. Julian’s magisterial charisma induced the disgraced cataphractarii into turning their mounts around and returning to battle, but it was too little, too late.
magistracy
/mˈædʒɪstɹəsi/
nounthe position of magistrate
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1. So say, something happened in the magistracy of Pythodorus from Athens or in the consulship of two named Romans.
2. And the 15th year, in the 48th year of the priesthood of Chrysis, and when Aenesias was magistrate at Sparta, and there still being two months left of the magistracy of Pythodorus at Athens, six months after the Battle of Potidaea, and at the beginning of spring, a Theban force-- a little over 300 strong and about the first watch of the night-- entered into Plataea.
3. Moreover, almost all senators, who remained at Commodus’ side, would be preparing for the new years’ changeover of magistracies.
4. Having grown wealthy from the olive oil trade in their native Baetica, Italo-Hispanic Marcus’ Annii clan first rose to political prominence during the Flavian era, when his grandfather was first elevated to patrician status and then occupied multiple magistracies, including that of city prefect of Rome and the consulship.
5. An emulation of the senate’s ancient ladder of magistracies - the cursus honorum - was also developed for equites to rise through the ranks and show their prowess, thereby increasing the pool of talented candidates.
ruminant
/ˈɹumənənt/
adjectivedescribing an animal that has a stomach with four compartments and chews cud as part of its digestion process
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1. Ruminants are cows, goats, sheep, anything that chews it's cud.
2. Giraffes' ancestors were deer-like ruminants.
3. And specifically ruminant meat will be 88% higher.
4. Camels are ruminants, like cows, but they don't act like cows.
5. Right now, grazing-only ruminants contribute just 1g of protein per person per day in the global protein supply.
to ruminate
/ˈɹumɪˌneɪt/
verbreflect deeply on a subject
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1. Ruminate on the text message.
2. The psychological term for this is ruminate.
3. He was ruminating.
4. You're ruminating.
5. Elephants don’t ruminate.
to desist
/dɪˈsɪst/, /dɪˈzɪst/
verbto stop doing something, particularly in response to a request, command, or understanding that it should be discontinued
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1. Cease and desist!
2. My message to the Proud Boys and every other white supremacist group is, cease and desist.
3. So they're desisting from crime for the wrong reason-- TYLER:
4. President Ford told the snoops to desist.
5. "Send that guy a cease and desist letter!"
landholder
/ˈɫændˌhoʊɫdɝ/
nouna holder or proprietor of land
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1. By the 1930s United Fruit was the largest landholder in Guatemala.
2. In the colonies you had lots of landholders who knew that they had the right to be directly involved in the political process.
3. You probably would be a small landholder.
4. Each landholder was in possession of a number of such land strips.
5. Through a medley of small landholders and large corporations, rural land has been transformed into an oil palm monocropping factory.
landlord
/ˈɫændˌɫɔɹd/
nouna person or a company who rents a room, house, building, etc. to someone else
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1. Is the city going to cut small landlords some slack on their taxes?
2. The landlords were gone.
3. Landlords were understandably much more nervous about central London.
4. Landlords have to pay their mortgages.
5. Take the floor, landlord one.
landscape
/ˈɫænˌskeɪp/, /ˈɫændˌskeɪp/
nouna beautiful scene in the countryside that can be seen in one particular view
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1. Digital popularity is physically changing the landscape.
2. As far as speed and everything, landscape works fine, no issues there.
3. So beautifully landscaped.
4. The landscape changes dramatically.
5. New trade deals will change the landscape once more.