incapacity
/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/
nounlack of physical or natural qualifications
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1. The blurry vision is related to the lack of clarity, which results in the incapacity of seeing fine details.
2. That in fact feeds the incapacity.
3. Incompatibility is about having differences that in and of themselves create an incapacity to sustain harmony.
4. Most journalists and reporters were deeply wounded in their childhood relative to their incapacity to actually gain importance.
5. The life experience of the average millennial, has been imbued with powerlessness, a belief in their own incapacity and therefore low self-esteem.
to incapacitate
/ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪt/
verbmake unable to perform a certain action
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1. Are they incapacitated and in bed all day?
2. Pierpont was incapacitated by a devastating bout with Rheumatic Fever.
3. This bean leaf can incapacitate the bloodsuckers.
4. I mean a kid with a revolver could incapacitate it.
5. Our thinking mind is incapacitated.
incapacitating
/ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪtɪŋ/
adjectivethat cripples or disables or incapacitates
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1. With agoraphobia, you fear or avoid these situations because you fear that you may not be able to escape in the event that you become panicked or in the event you have some other incapacitating or embarrassing symptom.
2. Their arsenal had eight lethal substances and 27 incapacitating ones.
appropriate
/əˈpɹoʊpɹiˌeɪt/, /əˈpɹoʊpɹiət/
adjectivesuitable, fitting, or acceptable for a given situation
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1. Appropriate actions include warning, suspending or terminating a bad actor's account.
2. They appropriated federal spending.
3. Appropriate the dollars.
4. Applause is appropriate.
5. Applause is appropriate.
approbation
/ˌæpɹəˈbeɪʃən/
nounofficial approval or agreement
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1. And the Scarboroughs said that they had no doubt that their application will meet with the approbation of the whole American people.
2. When his story was concluded, there was much laughter and approbation, particularly from two or three deputy aldermen, who had been asleep the greater part of the time.
3. It provides legitimation, approbation, recognition.
4. Milton would insert into the printed text of his poem his own anticipation that his epic would receive the same universal approbation as Homer's and Virgil's.
5. I beg they will accept my most cordial thanks for this distinguished testimony of their approbation.
to apprise
/əˈpɹaɪz/
verbincrease the value of
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1. so they were fully apprised of the bill's absurdity when it arrived in that esteemed body.
2. So when he was apprised of a potential investigation, Gordon Gund made up his mind instantly.
3. James Playfair hoped that the young girl would know nothing of her father’s terrible situation until he was in safety, but she was apprised of the truth by the involuntary indiscretion of a sailor.
4. He was not conscious of an effort, but a sharp pain in his wrist apprised him that he was trying to free his hands.
5. Not only does this have malpractice written all over it if the clients weren't apprised of the fact that they could be subject to these disclosures as a result of these secret communications, but on top of that I don't think that Paul Manafort's lawyers are really going to be able to practice in federal court anymore because no prosecutor would ever trust them to keep the terms of a plea agreement secret.
evidential
/ˌɛvɪdˈɛnʃəl/
adjectiveserving as or based on evidence
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1. But socks, normally there's very little evidential value in socks, but for completeness, we decided to send the remaining items of clothing to the scientist who had requested them.
2. There has to be a high level of evidential justification to deploy this type of technology and I just don't think it's there.
3. Welcome to the world of evidentials.
4. In the Sherpa language, evidentials tell you whether the person speaking witnessed the event they're talking about.
5. I'm just standing there, again with my eyes closed, and other people are molding me, evidential.
to evince
/ɪˈvɪns/
verbgive expression to
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1. The New Historicism, on the other hand, evinced a preoccupation with issues of form and textual integrity that certainly followed from the disciplines, the approaches, that preceded them.
2. Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.
3. Giovanni's face evinced many contending emotions.
4. Madame de Malrive evinced no surprise.
5. The differences of opinion among the characters is evinced through the use of language.
rudimentary
/ˌɹudəˈmɛntɝi/
adjectiveconsisting of fundamental and basic principles
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1. It has a very rudimentary structure.
2. Birds have basically rudimentary tails.
3. However, the right side does have some rudimentary part of this.
4. Rudimentary surgeries were also taking place.
5. And our system was rudimentary.
rudiments
/ˈɹudɪmənts/
nounthe elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
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inaccessible
/ˌɪnəkˈsɛsəbəɫ/
adjectivenot able to be reached or entered, usually due to obstacles or restrictions
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1. Inaccessible websites reduce the quality of life.
2. The printer became inaccessible.
3. Our justice system is inaccessible to millions of people every day.
4. The car is inaccessible.
5. My client Soonya is relatively inaccessible at times.
inaccurate
/ˌɪˈnækjɝət/
adjectivenot based on true information
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1. The government should ban inaccurate labelling.
2. Stay inaccurate.
3. Things are inherently inaccurate.
4. Overall, the scene is pretty highly inaccurate.
5. Medical dramas are so inaccurate.
inactive
/ˌɪˈnæktɪv/
adjective(chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
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1. Their frontal lobes are virtually inactive.
2. Inactive vaccines like polio or hepatitis A use dead pathogens that have been killed by heat or chemicals.
3. The brain has been totally inactive.
4. The new Chief minister - Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, Balaji Bajirao - was not inactive either.
5. And the R is inactive.
inadequate
/ˌɪˈnædəˌkweɪt/, /ˌɪˈnædəkwət/
adjectivenot enough or not great enough
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1. Parking was inadequate.
2. Pain management and opioid prescribing is inadequate.
3. At the same time, the government's own surveys are inadequate.
4. Public water infrastructure also is inadequate.
5. The biosecurity on many farms is simply inadequate.
inadmissible
/ˌɪnædˈmɪsəbəɫ/, /ˌɪnədˈmɪsəbəɫ/
adjectivenot legally recognized, especially in a court of law
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1. Even though Sherlock says that their evidence is inadmissible.
2. As you're probably aware, hearsay is often inadmissible in court, but it's often admissible as well.
3. Experts are allowed to rely on otherwise inadmissible testimony to form their expert conclusions.
4. - Objection your honor, that's inadmissible and Mr. Brigance knows it.
5. This is utterly inadmissible.
inadvertent
/ˌɪnædˈvɝtənt/, /ˌɪnədˈvɝtənt/
adjectivedoing or happening unintentionally or accidentally
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1. This is an inadvertent advertisement for V8.
2. Your maybe inadvertent guess was 2400.
3. That's inadvertent.
4. They must have been inadvertent.
5. It was inadvertent.
telepathy
/təˈɫɛpəθi/
nounapparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions
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1. I want telepathy.
2. Your telepathy is on point.
3. First off, what is telepathy?
4. This is telepathy.
5. The best choice is telepathy.
telephony
/ˈtɛɫəˌfoʊni/
nountransmitting speech at a distance
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1. So, this award goes to gadgets outside the world of telephony.
2. Western Union wrote off telephony in 1876.
3. With the multifunction telephony, you can not only charge your phone wirelessly like this, but you can also connect your phone seamlessly to the MBUX.
4. They've never heard of telephony.
5. The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty.
bale
/ˈbeɪɫ/
nouna large bundle bound for storage or transport
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1. Two hundred kilos a bale.
2. - I have smoked bales of weed.
3. Now, can Bale channel the hatred of a billion beings?
4. It's a bale.
5. We paid $11 per bale.
baleful
/ˈbeɪɫfəɫ/
adjectivedeadly or sinister
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1. I wouldn't mow it, until the ice could bear the machine, until it wouldn't buckle under, and the baleful loosestrife had gone to seed.
2. So essentially the Massachusetts delegates to the Confederation Congress say: 'No, we're not even going to consider this idea of revising the Articles because it's going to result in what they call "baleful aristocracies."
3. And it's a history that's organized over and against the notion of a kind of baleful dominance of the Church of Rome.
4. After it had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with.