restitution
/ˌɹɛstɪˈtuʃən/
nounthe act of restoring something to its original state
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1. One is sort of more specific to restitution.
2. They provide restitution.
3. So restitution takes on a whole new meaning when viewed from this perspective.
4. Restitution paid.
5. He made restitution and found himself a new job.
restive
/ˈɹɛstɪv/
adjectiverefusing to be controlled
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1. JANE FERGUSON: Taliban fighters roam freely in the Tangi Valley, on the border between restive Logar and Wardak provinces.
2. He has turned a blind eye to militants in the neighboring Caucasus region, where there's still a restive Islamist insurgency.
3. Your fathers were wise men and if they did not grow mad, they grew restive under this treatment.
4. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball.
5. On Monday, Air France-KLM's restive French unions are meeting to discuss whether to continue their strike campaign.
restorative
/ɹəˈstɔɹətɪv/
adjectivetending to impart new life and vigor to
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1. And restorative processes are imposed in a lot of international context.
2. But restorative cities is also a movement.
3. Our federal government isn't terribly restorative?
4. But sleep is restorative.
5. Stage 3 is considered restorative sleep.
restrained
/ɹiˈstɹeɪnd/
adjectivecool and formal in manner
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1. It's very restrained.
2. So in some ways, it's very restrained.
3. The restrained use of color is exquisite.
4. It just felt a little bit restrained.
5. Their form was also relatively restrained.
to transfuse
/tɹænsˈfjuz/
verbgive a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to
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1. By 1907, doctors were mixing together small amounts of blood before transfusing it.
2. For the nearest sites, these blood deliveries arrive in about 15 minutes ready to be transfused into patients critically in need.
3. So you could go, transfuse them and only take out the white cells, the immune cells.
4. Luckily, the doctors had some blood of her blood type on hand that had been delivered via Zipline's routine service, and so they transfused her with a couple units of blood.
5. Because we need to transfuse blood every two seconds in this country.
transfusion
/tɹænsˈfjuʒən/
nounthe introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
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1. Fortunately, Denis’s patient survived the transfusion.
2. Transfusion is serious!
3. What is substrate transfusion?
4. So lots of transfusions means lots of iron in the blood.
5. - People do whole blood transfusion.
to fluctuate
/ˈfɫəktʃəˌweɪt/
verbto rise and fall continuously in amount, quality, size, etc.
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1. Fluctuates means changes in level or amount.
2. Fluctuates means changes in level or amount.
3. Its sales price will fluctuate.
4. Another reason behind hair thinning and loss is fluctuating thyroid and insulin levels.
5. Fluctuating blood glucose results in rapid changes of mood.
fluctuation
/ˌfɫəktʃuˈeɪʃən/
nounthe quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
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1. Such fluctuations waste a lot of water.
2. I understand fluctuation.
3. - Whoa. - We had fluctuation.
4. The fluctuations are a part in 100,000.
5. A person with heart failure will experience weight fluctuations.
banal
/bəˈnɑɫ/
adjectiverepeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
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1. That sounds horrifically banal.
2. It was banal.
3. The reason, though, is quite banal: money, as always.
4. it's banal.
5. Instead, this element here is much more banal.
banality
/bəˈnæɫɪti/
nouna trite or obvious remark
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1. The surveillance footage is remarkable in its banality.
2. Even though people watch the video and go, But the reality of Death is banality.
3. This really is plumbing new depths of banality.
4. It's the counterpoint to Hannah Arendt's "Banality of Evil."
5. "This really is plumbing new depths of banality."
to disavow
/ˌdɪsəˈvaʊ/
verbrefuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with
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1. Trump also disavowed any US involvement in the plot.
2. Disavow any idea that you ever had.
3. His former coach, Mike Fratello, is openly disavowing his development.
4. in 2016, the Department of Justice did disavow this statement as overreaching.
5. He's disavowing our intelligence agencies in Helsinki.
disavowal
/dˌɪsɐvˈaʊəl/
noundenial of any connection with or knowledge of
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1. But it's the disavowal of that kind of truth that makes a curricular that's organized around this laboratory story of the United States that makes it a weapon because it's not including the reality that you just mentioned.
2. Another hallmark of this sovereign subject is the disavowal of the social conditions of its own freedom.
3. One other thing I might do presenting former President Donald Trump, right now get unequivocal STATEMENT of what happened and disavowal of the CLAIMS of FRAUD.
4. And it was anything but a HEARTFELT disavowal.
5. A similar kind of disavowal can go on around hurt.
genealogist
/dʒˌiːnɪˈælədʒˌɪst/
nounan expert in genealogy
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1. And then she became the genetic genealogist on this TV show called "Finding Your Roots."
2. I spoke with Luxembourgian genealogists and Burmese archivists, and I pissed a lot of people off in the process.
3. It is not just for genealogists.
4. And she is also a superb genealogist.
5. That’s Bruce Durie, a Scottish genealogist and author who wrote about sensory perception.
genealogy
/ˌdʒiniˈɑɫədʒi/
nounthe study or investigation of ancestry and family history
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1. We have such complex genealogies.
2. The 2015 genealogy fair includes a presentation on introduction to genealogy at the National Archives.
3. Almost the entire genealogy of the kings of Rohan all basically mean king.
4. Who else has no genealogy?
5. The genealogy would just be different.
to overreach
/ˈoʊvɝˌɹitʃ/
verbto fail to achieve any success due to putting to much effort into something or having very high expectations
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1. Now, of course, the Republicans claimed executive overreach.
2. So my argument then, that globalization overreached and that the backlash against it is going to dial it back, I would stand by.
3. We cannot overreach this way.
4. I worry about government overreach.
5. And that overreach seems to be driven by elements within the deep state.
overpass
/ˈoʊvɝˌpæs/
nouna type of bridge that is built over a road to provide a different passage
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1. Land-based wind turbines are limited by our overpasses on highways.
2. 12-foot-high bus approached a nine-foot-high overpass.
3. [RAPID BANGING] Protesters on the overpass are dropping umbrellas down to people down here
4. In this case, you should avoid power lines and overpasses.
5. One time in New York state, there was a bridge overpass my introduction to New York that measures from the center of the hub, as opposed to from the road surface.
to overhang
/ˈoʊvɝˌhæŋ/
verbbe suspended over or hang over
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1. You're not overhanging boxes over the edge in any way.
2. Yeah, trim off the spaghetti overhang.
3. Violence overhangs the frontiers of that territory like a storm cloud charged with hail and lightening.
4. Account for any overhangs, too, typically about ¾- of an inch to an inch.
5. It's overhanging the back of the vehicle.
to felicitate
/fəˈɫɪsɪˌteɪt/
verbexpress congratulations
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1. That was designed to felicitate the DOJ motions to stay the litigation, to identify them, to make the courts take them seriously.
felicitous
/fɪˈɫɪsətəs/
adjectiveexhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
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1. In some versions of the story, this felicitous carelessness was ascribed to one of his assistants, not to Fleming himself.
2. There's a philosopher of science here at Harvard named Catherine Elgin, who wrote a book called True Enough, in which she talks about felicitous falsehoods, and that science is never completely true.
3. It's not the most felicitous phrase.
4. We've had fair followers, compensatory liability regime, green tulips, but most felicitous, I think, is, I guess, popularizing wiggle room for the IP realm.
5. The results are not always very felicitous.
felicity
/fɪˈɫɪsəti/
nounpleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
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1. Felicity stares at me while I sleep!
2. But it would have been won with greater felicity if I should have been allowed to put them in action.
3. Thus, and only thus, could you gain a share in the felicity of mankind.
4. She even played the title role in the TV movie Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, as she traded in her chestnut brown locks for a golden copper shade.
5. Hack number 1 comes to us today from Felicity in New York.
