to expostulate
/ɛkspˈɑːstuːlˌeɪt/
verbto strongly argue, disapprove, or disagree with someone or something
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1. There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them.
2. Having had a glass or two, Mr. Swaffer’s foreigner tried to expostulate: was ejected forcibly: got a black eye.
exposure
/ɪkˈspoʊʒɝ/
nounvulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
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1. The acute medical therapy is indicated in the exposure.
2. The key is exposure.
3. Other risks factors include exposure to allergens and stress.
4. Avoid exposure.
5. Exposure is pretty boring.
to expound
/ɪkˈspaʊnd/
verbadd details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
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1. The sangha traveled through the subcontinent, expounding the dharma.
2. And I'll let her expound on that.
3. Nancy can expound on that.
4. He expounds on his many years of investing and shares a decent amount of the wisdom gathered through time.
5. And all of this expounds the scope of forms that we can produce.
precipice
/ˈpɹɛsəpəs/
nouna very steep cliff
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1. Well, voting rights is on the precipice right now.
2. Well, voting rights is on the precipice right now.
3. We’re on the precipice here.
4. Precipices, rock falls and mud make each journey a lottery.
5. Precipice running to and running from human beings.
precipitant
/pɹɪsˈɪpɪtənt/
adjectivedone with very great haste and without due deliberation
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1. Or maybe these things, the pure aesthetic experience and its effect aren't even separate, and like the drugs, Walt is very talented at cooking, are the precipitant of a very complex process.
2. That may have been many people's hope, but in the winter of 1687 and the spring of 1688 two precipitants transformed the situation.
precipitous
/pɹɪˈsɪpɪtəs/
adjectivedone with very great haste and without due deliberation
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1. Questions arise about applications and tuition for community colleges amid a precipitous drop in enrollment, especially among students of color.
2. However, the fall is not as precipitous as you might expect.
3. And what you had is this precipitous decline in the number of people going to church.
4. But hunger pains can wake you up as well, as can precipitous blood sugar drops during the night.
5. So, you get this precipitous decline.
theoretical
/ˌθiɝˈɛtɪkəɫ/
adjectiveinvolving or related to the ideas of a scientific subject rather than its practical use
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1. The entire argument about its existence is theoretical.
2. Concepts inform an episode's theoretical framework.
3. Some of these limitations are theoretical.
4. Jurisprudence is more theoretical.
5. This possibility wasn't just theoretical.
theorist
/ˈθiɝɪst/
nounsomeone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
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1. So, string theorists did calculations in model universes.
2. Theorists critique an inspiration.
3. Conspiracy theorists scare big companies.
4. And so moral theorists have a variety of approaches to punishment.
5. But conspiracy theorists make another claim of a connection with the Devil.
to theorize
/ˈθiɝˌaɪz/
verbto believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
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1. We can theorize a couple of things at this point.
2. We theorize.
3. And some theorize humans played a large part in this.
4. He theorizes an idea of history, a tripartite idea of history according to the three persons of the Trinity: the age of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
5. Locals theorize that the blaze may have been the result of an unattended meth lab in the trailer.
thesis
/ˈθisəs/
nouna statement that is used as a premise in argumentation
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1. So theses are warm McDonald's fries?
2. My thesis makes three main arguments.
3. First phase, submit your thesis.
4. So theses are the two telescopes.
5. Actually, here's the thesis.
ironic
/aɪˈɹɑnɪk/
adjectivecontaining or expressing irony, meaning the opposite of what is said
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1. That was ironic.
2. That's ironic.
3. - It is ironic.
4. It’s ironic.
5. An ironic mustache just perked up somewhere.
irony
/ˈaɪɹəni/
nouna form of humor in which the words that someone says mean the opposite, producing an emphatic effect
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1. irony is real.
2. What is the irony?
3. Irony is dead.
4. Irony is dead.
5. Now, note the irony.
to botanize
/bˈɑːtɐnˌaɪz/
verbcollect and study plants
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botany
/ˈbɑtəni/
nounthe scientific study of plants, their structure, genetics, classification, etc.
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1. And, speaking of botany!
2. - Economic botany is the use of plants by people.
3. This isn't botany.
4. I didn't study botany.
5. So, I did tropical ecology and plant botany.
to entreat
/ɛntɹˈiːt/
verbask for or request earnestly
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1. As the military escort prepared to lead the body through the streets in a large procession, Castro entreated the captain to divert the route to the Presidential Palace.
2. Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.
3. He entreated the Normans to join his cause, who, motivated by a thirst for battle and plunder, agreed.
4. "Thou liest!" shouted Macduff's little son, who was immediately stabbed, and with his last breath entreated his mother to fly.
5. Lord Satan, by your grace I entreated the, to inspire Baffin to manifest before me.
entreaty
/ɛnˈtɹiti/
nounearnest or urgent request
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1. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
2. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
3. The plaintive entreaties of the chick stimulate the adult to regurgitate a mouthful of fish.
4. But he was deaf to her entreaties.
5. She saw his surprise, and extended her hands in deprecation and entreaty.
inborn
/ˈɪnˌbɔɹn/
adjectivenormally existing at birth
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1. Deprivation was essentially trumping any inborn intelligence.
2. Temperament refers to your inborn way of behaving.
3. Or is it inborn?
4. This terrible crime, Judge, was inborn in their very nature, handed down from ancestry.
5. And both are inborn.
inbred
/ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/
adjectiveproduced by inbreeding
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1. They're a bunch of bigheaded, inbreds with breathing problems.
2. and that comes with my apologies to any inbreds here.
3. So, you can imagine those tigers are very inbred.
4. it's an inbred faculty.
5. So to an extent, we're all a little inbred.
nebula
/ˈnɛbjəɫə/
noun(pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea
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1. We are as much the universe as a neutron star or a black hole or a nebula.
2. Nebula features lots of YouTube's top educationalist creators like Lindsay Ellis, Thomas Frank, and Charl the Coconut the coconut with his sidekick Patrick Willems.
3. Nebula features lots of YouTube's top educational-ish creators, like our newest additions, Adam Neely, Charles Cornell, and Mary Spender.
4. Nebula features lots of YouTube's top educational-ish creators, like Thomas Frank, Knowing Better, Hbomberguy, and TierZoo, as well as tons of others.
5. Nebula features lots of YouTube's top educational creators, like Knowing Better, Hbomberguy, Real Engineering, Tier Zoo, and tons of others.
nebulous
/ˈnɛbjəɫəs/
adjectiveof or relating to or resembling a nebula
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1. Other shortcomings are less nebulous.
2. - Significant is a nebulous word.
3. - That's nebulous.
4. Oh it's nebulous! -
5. With school, it’s more nebulous.