inadvisable
/ˌɪnædˈvaɪzəbəɫ/, /ˌɪnədˈvaɪzəbəɫ/
adjectivenot sensible and likely to have unwanted consequences
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1. MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: We were quietly told earlier in the day that it would be inadvisable to show up at certain bonfires uninvited with a camera crew in tow.
2. - I don't wanna call Josh an idiot explicitly, but I would say that it was inadvisable to flip the anti griddle in the way that he did.
3. "There is an old saying that is inadvisable to put all your eggs in one basket."
4. For example, it is inadvisable for you to use all your income to pay off your debt, even if doing so will leave you debt-free.
5. It even encouraged me to pursue some more fulfilling career paths that may otherwise have been inadvisable.
inalienable
/ˌɪˈneɪɫjənəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
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1. And protects inalienable rights.
2. - Pizza is an inalienable right.
3. - Pizza is an inalienable right.
4. Clean air and a livable climate are inalienable human rights.
5. This issue of health care as an inalienable right will acquire flesh-and-blood dimensions.
inane
/ˌɪˈneɪn/
adjectiveextremely silly or stupid
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1. - That's inane!
2. Trolls would post inane nonsense, but never seriously.
3. If you want to fight, shout all of the inane slander you want.
4. But this social pressure is inane and doesn't leave us happy.
5. Here's a video of Donald Trump telling one of those inane stories about people referring to him as sir.
inanimate
/ˌɪˈnænəmət/
adjectivelacking life or consciousness and incapable of moving on its own
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1. Humans, all inanimate matter, oxygen.
2. Algorithms will sometimes mistake inanimate objects for the foremost biological expression of social identity, the face.
3. I begin inanimate
4. The women are almost inanimate.
5. His inanimate opponent never stood a chance.
rancor
/ˈɹæŋkɝ/
nouna feeling of hatred and a desire to harm others, especially because of unjust treatment received
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1. there's so much division, so much partisan rancor in our country that this issue, disability, crosses every boundary-- every boundary, including Democrats and Republicans.
2. The stakes feel higher if Luke Skywalker is trapped fighting the Rancor.
3. They said, after months of rancor and pettiness, one small woman brought Washington to its feet.
4. In fact, I think that the inflammation so many individuals must cope with on a daily basis may be contributing to some of our political woes and the rancor people express across the country.
5. This age-old rancor goes both ways.
rancorous
/ˈɹæŋkɝəs/
adjectiveshowing deep-seated resentment
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1. The idea that somehow elections are going to get less rancorous, that's just not going to happen.
2. Rancorous voting is compelling for a number of reasons.
3. And then the fact that you can't get elected for president next year without winning or competing for electoral votes in Maine, and you won't be elected for president without learning something about rancorous voting because you have to win in Maine.
4. That doesn't mean it's a rancorous relationship and it doesn't mean that the relationship can't be repaired.
5. It was the most rancorous.
to exorcise
/ˈɛksɚsˌaɪz/
verbexpel through adjuration or prayers
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1. Between the start of his career in 1986, until shortly before his death in 2016, Father Amorth claimed to have exorcised 300 subjects per year.
2. When Friedkin met Amorth, he had been exorcising Cristina for nine months.
3. But again, in the pagan worldview, sin is understood very often as the work of a demon or an evil god that might possess a person, might have to be exorcised from that person by means of magic.
4. He's a phantasm, he can never quite exorcise.
5. Much like a western ghost though, Onryō can be exorcised by priests- whether Christian, Buddhist, or from any of the number of other religions found in the region.
exorcism
/ˈɛksɝˌsɪzəm/
nounfreeing from evil spirits
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1. This guy is doing exorcisms on people.
2. Over the years, exorcism has undergone many different transformations.
3. Exorcism goes back even before the time of Christ.
4. Exorcism is the casting out of evil spirits.
5. An exorcism was her only hope for a cure.
outreach
/ˈaʊˌtɹitʃ/
nounthe act of reaching out
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1. Our mental health campaign efforts also include external outreach engagements with clinicians, psychologists, security managers and defense organizations.
2. And we have to do a lot more outreach, a lot more inviting, a lot more welcoming.
3. And this week, I asked our team for outreach.
4. Animal Equality focuses on corporate outreach.
5. We do vegan outreach.
to outride
/aʊtɹˈaɪd/
verbride better, faster, or further than
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outright
/ˈaʊˈtɹaɪt/
adverbwithout restrictions or stipulations or further payments
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1. And eventually outright banned the former president.
2. He rejected Randolph's demands outright.
3. Others dismissed her theory outright.
4. People just ask for money outright.
5. Proprietorship means outright ownership.
to tantalize
/ˈtænəˌɫaɪz/, /ˈtæntəˌɫaɪz/
verbharass with persistent criticism or carping
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1. So it's constantly tantalizing us, the sense of possibility.
2. The names are tantalizing.
3. She tantalizes him with a really good view of her swelling.
4. To scholars, the reason for this aberrant v is as clear as it is tantalizing.
5. These missing areas tantalize us with their lack of a modern home-grown Romance language.
tantamount
/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/
adjectivebeing essentially equal to something
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1. This is tantamount to skirting the real issues involved.
2. That would be tantamount to creating divine enemies, immortal enemies.
3. This is tantamount to murdering people deliberately.
4. To question or disobey the law is tantamount to destroying the authority of the law.
5. With your mass, it will be tantamount to a minor earthquake.
to abstain
/æbˈsteɪn/, /əbˈsteɪn/
verbto avoid doing something, especially something that one enjoys
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1. Now our next word was abstain.
2. Now our next word was abstain.
3. Her kittens didn’t abstain.
4. Abstain from them, avoid them.
5. You abstain.
abstemious
/ɐbstˈiːmiəs/
adjectiveavoiding too much consumption of alcoholic drinks or food
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1. Perhaps you were trying to be abstemious.
2. Well, the exquisitely abstemious Son of God resists this most tempting of temptations just as he has resisted all the others.
3. Traditionally, like all poor people around the world, the Chinese were very abstemious, every grain of rice counts.
abstinence
/ˈæbstənəns/
nounthe fact of avoiding things that one likes to do, particularly drinking alcohol or having sex, for health or religious reasons
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1. Maybe abstinence is key?
2. Abstinence is the best treatment.
3. - I was literally taught abstinence in school.
4. This post-partum abstinence is a major issue, especially in Africa now.
5. Which is abstinence.
inconsistent
/ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/
adjectivenot agreeing with one's beliefs, principles, or standards
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1. These jugs are inconsistent.
2. the research is inconsistent.
3. Your Republican politics as well as your Republican religion is flagrantly inconsistent.
4. The bottom of the ocean here is inconsistent.
5. These two Nash equilibria are inconsistent with backward induction.
inconstant
/ɪnkˈɑːnstənt/
adjectivelikely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable
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1. So we have two wonderful scholars with us this evening to help us to come to terms with our inconstant attentions.
2. I could see too the parquet sparkling beneath the crystal chandeliers that once had hung from their sunburst moldings and the flickering wall sconces along the walls, this diffuse and inconstant light illuminating again the faces of girls and boys not so much older than me, but in a different life.
3. It's inconstant that it's not as if there's agreement, like this is my side, and this is your side.
4. The theological critique is that Homer simply depicts the gods as false, as fickle, and inconstant.
5. In Paradiso III, Dante meets two women, the empress Constance, and the irony of the name is a little bit obvious among the inconstant spirits, and Piccarda.
inconvenient
/ˌɪnkənˈvinjənt/
adjectivecausing difficulty, annoyance, or trouble, especially because of being poorly timed or unsuitable for a situation
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1. The whole thing is highly inconvenient.
2. Inconvenient features like a Bixby assistant button right next to the volume rocker.
3. A sliced power button is rather inconvenient.
4. The rain is inconvenient.
5. Make procrastinating inconvenient.
inconsiderable
/ɪnkənsˈɪdɚɹəbəl/
adjectivenot enough to attract attention or seem important
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1. After all, a not inconsiderable percentage of the population prefers cats to dogs, or loves both.
2. JANET HOOK: No masks, no-- RONALD BROWNSTEIN: Not an inconsiderable point.
3. And so my message here, in this TEDx talk today is that in the profession of teaching, we have a inconsiderable amount of expertise.
4. Germanic criminal codes were filled with cruel punishments for the most inconsiderable misdemeanors, like the loss of ears, nose, eyes, tongue, hands, and genitalia.
5. Napoleon had a banner hung in his not inconsiderable house in Ajaccio, in the family house.