incomparable
/ˌɪnˈkɑmpɝəbəɫ/
adjectivesuch that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared
Click to see examples
Examples
1. The fun behind the scenes of that movie is incomparable.
2. That seasoning is incomparable.
3. So this data is incomparable.
4. The military aspects of forward presence are somewhat incomparable.
5. The party supplies are absolutely incomparable with reductions you receive at Dollar Tree and Family Dollar and other local dollar stores.
incompatible
/ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbəɫ/
adjectivenot compatible
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Are these two doctrines incompatible?
2. Pursuit of science and primary care are not incompatible.
3. Pursuit of science and primary care are not incompatible.
4. Arrogance is incompatible with nature.
5. The capitalist growth model is incompatible with a zero-carbon world.
incompetent
/ˌɪnˈkɑmpətənt/
adjectivenot qualified or suited for a purpose
Click to see examples
Examples
1. She is incompetent.
2. He was incompetent.
3. The incompetent steward is about to pour tepid coffee into your crotch.
4. The president is not incompetent.
5. They are incompetent.
incomplete
/ˌɪnkəmˈpɫit/
adjectivenot having all the necessary parts
Click to see examples
Examples
1. So I turned in an incomplete assignment.
2. Your list is incomplete.
3. The cooking was incomplete.
4. The summons is incomplete.
5. Beverages Every meal is incomplete without your choice of beverage.
incomprehensible
/ˌɪŋˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəɫ/
adjectiveunintelligible and impossible to comprehend
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Ways of understanding otherwise incomprehensible events?
2. It's incomprehensible.
3. All settings make your voice sound incomprehensible.
4. Another one is incomprehensible.
5. It's completely incomprehensible.
incompressible
/ˌɪnkəmˈpɹɛsəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of being compressed; resisting compression
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Also water is incompressible whereas air is compressible.
2. Brake fluid is nearly incompressible.
3. Now, water is pretty close to incompressible.
4. For water, it's incompressible and it has the other components.
5. Water is nearly an incompressible liquid.
acrid
/ˈækɹɪd/
adjectivestrong and sharp
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Bodies splayed out, the acrid smell of cordite that we are so used to here.
2. Maybe it was that acrid thing.
3. - Wait, I am getting a pretty acrid aftertaste, in my throat.
4. It doesn't have that acrid taste that you see in most matchas.
5. so it doesn't have an acrid flavor from cooking too much.
acrimonious
/ˌækɹəˈmoʊniəs/
adjectivemarked by strong resentment or cynicism
Click to see examples
Examples
1. The ever more acrimonious fight has dominated her life, thrust her into the public eye, and cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees.
2. A dozen of you will help me with my acrimonious divorce.
3. Meetings just end up long and acrimonious.
4. What's happening today is that President Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto, the Mexican president, agreed on a bilateral deal to revamp Nafta and to, sort of, ending months of acrimonious negotiations between the US and Mexico on trade.
5. And one just has to hope that the end is not actually acrimonious and leads to actually worse relations between the United States and North Korea, which is a possibility if the two sides can't agree.
acrimony
/ˈækɹɪˌmoʊni/
nounwords or feelings that are filled with anger or bitterness
Click to see examples
Examples
1. All this acrimony made for a tense annual NRA meeting, the following week.
2. It was a day marred by acrimony between at least three of NATO's leading countries.
3. But it's filled with ACRIMONY and
4. The incompatibility between the size of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which torture our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.
5. By 1994, it was falling apart in acrimony.
indubitable
/ɪndˈuːbɪɾəbəl/
adjectivetoo obvious to be doubted
Click to see examples
Examples
1. We deploy knowledge and ideas that carry indubitable prestige to stand guard against the emergence of more humble, but essential knowledge from our emotional past.
2. But in any event, he made the argument that the Enlightenment quest for certainty was a fool's errand begun basically by Descartes and taken to its apotheosis in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and that philosophers from Descartes to Kant got engaged in this hopeless endeavor of justifying philosophy from the ground up from indubitable premises.
3. Perhaps one of the most famous is Michael Walzer who wrote a book called Spheres of Justice, who also rejects the idea that the values guiding politics can be justified in a logical sense from indubitable first premises and generate guides for action in politics that must be compelling to any right-thinking rational person.
4. With Germany rising once more as an imperial power, or as a fascist state with a more capable version of Hitler, it's indubitable that the nation would have launched the same offensives it did in the days before the official start of World War II.
5. Our reason does not testify to some kind of inner voice of conscience or anything that would purport to give it some kind of indubitable foundation.
to induce
/ˌɪnˈdus/
verbto influence someone to do something particular
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Capitalism induced shame.
2. Eventually, doctors induced a coma.
3. Fear- inducing uncertainty.
4. Now, this sub-game induces a different value for Jake.
5. However, certain types of seafood like shellfish can induce allergic reactions.
to induct
/ˌɪnˈdəkt/
verbplace ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
Click to see examples
Examples
1. We're not systematically inducted into the weirdness of the news world.
2. According to the practice of the times, he was inducted into the Federal Army.
3. The gold medal of the Federation Aeronautics International, FIA, and five years later was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame.
4. The wrestling hall of fame your honor, you've inducted to.
5. For his many humanitarian works in his post-professional career, he was inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame.
inductee
/ˌɪnˈdəkˈti/
nouna person inducted into an organization or social group
Click to see examples
Examples
1. General Cody has received the United States Military Academy Distinguished Graduate Award and the George C. Marshall Goodpaster Award and is an inductee of the Army Aviation Hall of Fame.
2. The National Toy Hall of Fame has announced its next class of inductees and I'm guessing a lot of babies voted because the winner was the box it comes in.
3. He's a three-time Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy award-winning guy
4. Bob Proctor, star of the blockbuster film The Secret and inductee into the Personal Growth Hall of Fame, and his esteemed business partner Sandy Gallagher offer thousands the opportunity to become a Proctor Gallagher Consultant, beginning full or part time, at your leisure, as your own boss.
5. Catcher Josh Gibson, one of the greatest power hitters of all time and also eventual Cooperstown-inductee, was asked if Paige really had given Murphy all he had.
peril
/ˈpɛɹəɫ/
noungreat danger, particularly one that is fatal or causes harm
Click to see examples
Examples
1. I got a peril.
2. Biodiversity is in peril.
3. They understand the perils.
4. my name is peril wolf
5. The country is in peril.
perilous
/ˈpɛɹəɫəs/
adjectiveinvolving a great deal of danger
Click to see examples
Examples
1. And the next layer is just as perilous: the photosphere.
2. And the financial landscape is perilous.
3. The forests of Northern California can be perilous.
4. Our times are perilous, almost unthinkably so.
5. Deforestation and over-collection for the pet trade are perilous threats for this rare animal.
perilousness
/pˈɛɹɪləsnəs/
nounthe state of being dangerous
Examples
to malign
/məˈɫaɪn/
verbspeak unfavorably about
Click to see examples
Examples
1. It's maligned.
2. The lump really could be malign.
3. Fruitcakes, unfortunately, are much maligned.
4. "You have maligned a great woman."
5. Long maligned saturated fats like coconut oil can actually lower inflammation.
malignant
/məˈɫɪɡnənt/
adjective(of a tumor or disease) uncontrollable and likely to be fatal
Click to see examples
Examples
1. It's malignant.
2. Its consumption can prevent malignant genetic alterations in cells.
3. Is it a malignant?
4. Malignant narcissists usually have an overlay of some other form of mental disorder.
5. The most dangerous one is actually the malignant narcissist.
to malinger
/mɐlˈɪŋɡɚ/
verbavoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Turing’s landlady actually accused him of malingering and called his refusal to enlist a disgrace!
2. And I've got malingering.
3. This is malingering at its finest, where he's trying to pretend he's ill in order to get care from somebody else.
4. There are ways to check for people who are malingering.
5. And you can see that the psychiatrist is not permanently harmed, and in fact malingers and fakes the seriousness of his injury to get sympathy from his coworkers.
malingerer
/mɐlˈɪŋɡɚɹɚ/
nounan individual who feigns incompetence or illness just so they would not have to do something
Click to see examples
Examples
1. One man said that wasn’t the case, calling Mark a malingerer, meaning someone pretending to be mentally unwell.