faun
/fˈɔːn/
nouna rustic forest god or spirit that is part human and part goat
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1. A faun is hurting.
2. This faun, Mr. Tumnus, understandably gets a fair amount of description compared to other characters in the books.
3. Like the House of the Faun, it took up an entire city block.
4. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods from Greece.
5. The faun basically is Roman.
fauna
/ˈfɔnə/
nouna living organism characterized by voluntary movement
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1. Marine fauna is dying.
2. So I like the fauna.
3. In terms of fauna, the taiga is host to many large mammals such as moose, reindeer, caribou and wolves.
4. That was Fauna!
5. Mississippi fauna indulges in the yearly feast.
lethargic
/ɫəˈθɑɹdʒɪk/
adjectivedeficient in alertness or activity
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1. Yeah, I'm feeling very lethargic.
2. Without healthy food and exercise habits, you’ll be constantly lethargic.
3. and I'd feel very, kind of just lethargic.
4. I feel lethargic.
5. Feeling a little bit lethargic?
lethargy
/ˈɫɛθɝdʒi/
nouna state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
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1. Karen, she was diagnosed with lethargy and dementia.
2. Later in the disease, the victim experiences weight loss, lethargy, recurrent yeast infections, rashes or sores, fevers and night sweats.
3. It can lead to lethargy and anemia.
4. Getting your caffeine fix from black tea will not just fight lethargy but will also increase mental alertness.
5. Common symptoms of this keto flu include fatigue lethargy, vomiting and gastrointestinal distress.
unconscionable
/ənˈkɑnʃənəbəɫ/
adjectiveexcessively unreasonable or unfair and therefore unacceptable
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1. But for a campaign to take out against my daughter Bridget McCain was just unconscionable.
2. This is just unconscionable.
3. It really is unconscionable when you really think of it.
4. So if we find cases of, say, unconscionable price.
5. The post office handles unconscionable numbers of pieces of mail.
subconscious
/səbˈkɑnʃəs/
nounpsychic activity just below the level of awareness
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1. Our first word is subconscious.
2. Core beliefs are mostly subconscious.
3. Now, obviously this stuff is subconscious.
4. Source has a subconscious.
5. The entire process of swimming is subconscious.
peerage
/ˈpɪɹədʒ/
nounthe peers of a kingdom considered as a group
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1. When he went to the Treasury to work as an advisor, raised the peerage in 1942 as Baron Keynes of Tilton in the County of Sussex, Lord Keynes led the British delegation to the Bretton Woods Conference in the United States, at which the Allied nations hammered out post-war economic policy.
2. The peerage were the greater nobility.
3. So we've looked at the peerage, the greater nobility.
4. They were related to the This Family and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy.
5. Gardenias and the peerage were his only weaknesses.
peerless
/ˈpɪɹɫɪs/
adjectiveeminent beyond or above comparison
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1. Deborah Willis is the peerless in terms of plumbing the archive, and preserving what you might call African-American ways of seeing.
2. By the 1950s, Schlesinger's women's suffrage collections were very strong, nearly peerless.
3. We have practitioners who are at our Harvard-affiliated hospitals who give those hospitals their peerless reputation.
4. Peerless archers and expert riders, any commander would be a fool to not take advantage of such an army.
5. Proving himself a genius in guerilla warfare, and a peerless leader of men, at one point the middle-aged Sertorius challenged his opponent to single combat.
antagonism
/ænˈtæɡəˌnɪzəm/
noun(biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure
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1. Property, in its present form, is based on the antagonism of capital and wage-labour.
2. Antagonism kills connection.
3. That turns into antagonism.
4. This creates an internal atmosphere of antagonism.
5. But does so through antagonism.
antagonistic
/ænˌtæɡəˈnɪstɪk/
adjectivecharacterized by antagonism or antipathy
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1. So the British officers early on were very antagonistic towards the Americans and French.
2. However, it wasn't antagonistic.
3. And this thought is, on the one hand, antagonistic to Marx.
4. It's basically become antagonistic.
5. The positive effect is called the antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis.
fallacious
/fəˈɫeɪʃəs/
adjectiveintended to deceive
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1. So this is to me, it's sort of a fallacious reason not to call it Arabic philosophy.
2. This conclusion is, of course, fallacious.
3. Ad hominem criticisms are not always, but are very frequently fallacious.
4. Ad hominem criticisms are not always but are very frequently fallacious.
5. Pratt spent 27 years in jail for a fallacious murder charge, just because he was a member of the Panthers.
fallacy
/ˈfæɫəsi/
nouna misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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1. That logical fallacy is called "confusing correlation with causation."
2. A related fallacy is that of the undistributed middle.
3. Our final fallacy for today is the appeal to nature.
4. Isn't that the gambler's fallacy?
5. That's a fallacy.
fallible
/ˈfæɫəbəɫ/
adjectivelikely to fail or make errors
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1. I'm so fallible.
2. So in a way, the data will always be fallible.
3. We, human beings have a very fallible memory.
4. - We're human, fallible.
5. Claims are fallible.
syllabic
/səˈɫæbɪk/
adjectiveconsisting of a syllable or syllables
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1. You use syllabics.
2. L is a syllabic consonant.
3. Those are called syllabic consonants.
4. We call that a syllabic consonant.
5. So simple chanting for readings, that's syllabic chant.
syllabication
/sˌɪlɐbɪkˈeɪʃən/
nounforming or dividing words into syllables
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decasyllable
/dᵻkˈæsɪləbəl/
nouna verse line having ten syllables
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disyllable
/dɪsˈɪləbəl/
nouna word having two syllables
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debility
/dəˈbɪɫəti/
nounphysical weakness or infirmity that is caused by a disease, illness, or aging
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1. But the thing that made Whitman an amazing poet was that he included within the realm of bodily being in the world debility and death and deterioration and breakdown.
2. This is probably a good thing as the human body is not adapted well for extreme height, and those outliers who do tower over the rest of us often suffer from various pains and other debilities related to their abnormal height as they age.
to debilitate
/dəˈbɪɫəˌteɪt/
verbmake weak
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1. It's emotionally debilitating.
2. And it's debilitating, quite frankly.
3. It's debilitating.
4. But some of us are absolutely debilitated by it.
5. This is debilitating.
debilitative
/dᵻbˈɪlᵻtˌeɪɾɪv/
adjectivecausing debilitation
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