to discountenance
/dˈɪskaʊntənəns/
verbshow disapproval by discouraging
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1. Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
to discourse
/ˈdɪskɔɹs/
verbtalk at length and formally about a topic
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1. Today's social discourse takes place on the public forum of the internet.
2. Civil discourse is the key.
3. Was that discourse?
4. These discourses are economics and social psychology.
5. Critical discourse is no longer a art form.
discourteous
/dɪskˈɜːɾiəs/
adjectiveshowing no courtesy; rude
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1. Leaders find that profoundly discourteous and profoundly undermining of a more junior person's gravitas, that they are not able to pay full attention.
2. It was discourteous users that made it so.
3. And he wasn't discourteous or anything, so he didn't cross the line to make people feel he hated them.
4. I, who in so short a space of time saw such great complements in my praise, felt it would have been discourteous not to respond to them, and so, embracing him around the neck, where by I destroyed his collar all together, I said to him, 'That is an error into which many of my uninformed admirers have fallen.
5. Discourteous Aromas Aircrafts are enclosed spaces which is why you should avoid using things that have heavy scents out of respect for your fellow passengers.
to discover
/dɪˈskəvɝ/
verbmake known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
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1. Cybersecurity company McAfee discovered the flaw.
2. The world is discovering the importance of finance.
3. New mom discovers a fish carcass.
4. Researchers at the Harvard University in 2011 have discovered a somewhat weird correlation between asymmetrical earlobes and people with relatively exceptional leadership potentials.
5. Cultures discovered the key feature of valuation thousands of years ago.
to discredit
/dɪsˈkɹɛdət/
verbto make is so that someone or something is no longer respected or trusted
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1. A lot of people have, thankfully, discredited their work.
2. So discredit the American democratic system.
3. - Does that discredit you?
4. Unfortunately for Nels, this further discredited the supposed interaction.
5. They discredit it
to collate
/kəˈɫeɪt/
verbcompare critically; of texts
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1. They're all collated under the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum, which is considered to be the gold standard of energy modeling in the world.
2. So we collated loads of these phone calls.
3. The data from the TIRA radar system and from GESTRA are collated at Germany’s Space Situational Awareness Center in Uedem near the Dutch border.
4. Collate this with the date of the fifth extract made by myself from the newspapers.
5. I collated loads of images of everything that I love in the home.
collateral
/kəˈɫætɝəɫ/
adjectivesituated or running side by side
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1. Your father was collateral damage.
2. They put up collateral.
3. I use collateral.
4. Collateral is a commitment strategy.
5. So collateral is a very scarce resource.
proletarian
/ˌpɹoʊɫəˈtɛɹiən/
adjectivebelonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
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1. For that short period of time, Marx saw the embodiment of his proletarian revolt.
2. There were not all that many proletarians in 1867.
3. '71, there is this proletarian revolution inspired by The Communist Manifesto.
4. At this stage, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeoisie.
5. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority.
proletariat
/ˌpɹoʊɫəˈtɛɹiət/
nouna social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
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1. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population.
2. The proletariat goes through various stages of development.
3. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.
4. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.
5. But the proletariat, as yet in its infancy, offers to them the spectacle of a class without any historical initiative or any independent political movement.
to gyrate
/ˈdʒaɪˌɹeɪt/
verbto wind or move in a spiral course
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1. You can't see, I'm gyrating right now.
2. Inside this dark, gyrating capsule he flies on instruments alone.
3. I'm gyrating wildly between 15 and 120 FPS.
4. Just gyrate and let him catch you gyrating.
5. Because he just gyrated a little bit of love.
gyroscope
/ˈdʒaɪɹəˌskoʊp/
nounrotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
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1. It's got accelerometers and gyroscopes in it.
2. It's called a gyroscope.
3. Dude, it even has the gyroscope.
4. And the gyroscope will turn, what we call gyroscopic precession.
5. An accelerometer measures velocity and a gyroscope measures rotation motion.
boor
/ˈbʊɹ/
nounan insensitive and uneducated person who lacks culture and manners
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1. Although burning with rage, Asano did this, but afterwards Kira continued to mock him, saying that he was a clumsy country boor who did it improperly.
boorish
/ˈbʊɹɪʃ/
adjectiveill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
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1. And finally your pet is a barbarian if they are boorish, brazen, and courageous to a fault.
2. His attacks may seem harsh and potentially even an absurd defence of boorish upper class set of values.
3. The mistress of the house is back to putting up with her boorish husband but the two nights with a hairdresser make a sarcasm and dullness importantly more bearable.
4. But with a little perseverance, adults tired of feeling boorish in Asian restaurants can become adept.
5. Ask loudly if anyone else is bothered by this boorish behavior.
exorbitance
/ɛɡzˈoːɹbɪtəns/
nounexcessive excess
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exorbitant
/ɪɡˈzɔɹbɪtənt/
adjectivegreatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
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1. Before Prime launched in 2005 one-day shipping was an exorbitant luxury.
2. It's exorbitant.
3. It's an incredibly exorbitant amount of money!
4. This device had an exorbitant price that could reach $130.
5. The main tactic just comes down to an exorbitant amount of frosting.
mystification
/mˌɪstɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
nounthe activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
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1. To view diagrams as instruments of mystification might seem like a contradiction in terms.
2. It's all mystification.
3. Affidavits of this character are readily made matter of mystification.
4. He feels that the plot hinges on mysticism or religious mystification.
5. I've dealt with the filmic mystification of it.
mystique
/mɪˈstik/
nounan aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing
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1. Mystique is not a good thing anymore.
2. And noise can ruin that mystique.
3. The character of Mystique is incredibly important to me as a non-binary person.
4. This drives, I think, the mystique and therefore broad attraction to these objects.
5. However, their timeless mystique has inspired legends and many outright misconceptions about emerald-colored peepers.
to expedite
/ˈɛkspɪˌdaɪt/
verbspeed up the progress of; facilitate
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1. What is an expedited processing mean?
2. Certainly no amount of money can expedite the loss of a loved one as somebody pointed out there.
3. Really expedites the process.
4. And essentially, expedite the healing process.
5. These strikes only expedited Suleiman’s resolve to obliterate the Knights of Malta.
expeditious
/ˌɛkspəˈdɪʃəs/
adjectivemarked by speed and efficiency
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1. For static rappel, you'll utilize the rappelling on cliffsides to get into a building in the most expeditious manner.
2. - I actually ended up going with expeditious search.
3. Expeditious search means that I am going to be able to get a good look around, faster than I normally would.
4. They are more expeditious in marching and in organizing themselves, because they are not burdened with arms.
5. And Congress also mandates that the postal service shall give the highest consideration to the requirement for the most expeditious collection, transportation and delivery of important letter mail.