susceptible
/səˈsɛptəbəɫ/
adjective
(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
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1Some people are more susceptible.
2Any game with lots of stuff is susceptible to it.
3The kidneys, liver, lungs and brain are particularly susceptible.
4The smaller populations were far more susceptible to diseases and environmental disasters.
5Over-exfoliated skin is susceptible to infections and external damage.
susceptibility
/səˌsɛptəˈbɪɫəti/
noun
the tendency or capacity to be easily affected or influenced by something
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1He knew all of my susceptibilities.
2What is inherited is the susceptibility to allergic reactions, due to irregularities in the makeup of the immune system.
3Here again, genetic factors predispose susceptibility to the disease, but lifestyle plays a major role.
4Mutations in the filaggrin gene cause dry skin and, as a result, a strong susceptibility to the disease.
5Here again, genetic factors predispose susceptibility to the disease, but it is believed that lifestyle plays a very important role in type 2.
to venture
/ˈvɛntʃɝ/
verb
to undertake a risky or daring journey or course of action
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1Some tribes ventured westward into the domain of the Avars.
2Any number of potential prey could venture past.
3Any number of potential prey could venture past.
4The puppies venture a move towards the meat.
5Anybody venture a guess?
to regress
/ˈɹiɡɹɛs/, /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/
verb
go back to bad behavior
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1You have regressed.
2Whereas these regressed.
3In fact, we've regressed.
4Vitamin A packed veggies and the DCIS and atypia regressed to normal cells, but the invasions persisted.
5Even if they regress a little bit.
regression
/ɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/
noun
returning to a former state
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1The blue line is our regression line.
2In its simplest terms, regression is fitting the best straight line to a dataset.
3Logistical regression deals with more complex relationships with multiple continuous variables.
4Other common trend-tracking indicators include linear regression, envelops, and Bollinger Bands®.
5Later, these children experience developmental regression.
prig
/ˈpɹɪɡ/
noun
a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
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1While a few prigs on platforms are talking about 'oneness' and absorption in 'The All', the folk that dwell in all the valleys of this ancient earth are renewing the varieties for ever.
2And if anyone should promptly ask (in the manner of the debating clubs) for the definition of a prig, I can only reply that a prig is an oligarch who does not even know he is an oligarch.
3And if anyone should promptly ask (in the manner of the debating clubs) for the definition of a prig, I can only reply that a prig is an oligarch who does not even know he is an oligarch.
4It is almost as sure to reveal to the prig the smallness and emptiness of his vanity, as it is to show the bashful man the weakness and ineffectuality of his dividence.
priggish
/pɹˈɪɡɪʃ/
adjective
exaggeratedly proper
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1Beneath a veneer of kindness, these people are the bearers of latent hostility, deadly competitiveness, self-absorbed hysteria or priggish moralism.
2They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.
3It can never make one over-precise, self-conscious, affected, or priggish.
illicit
/ˌɪˈɫɪsət/
adjective
not morally or socially acceptable
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1With an increase in demand, illicit drug markets turned to cheaper production solutions.
2You know, illicit labor arrangement.
3Illicit drugs flooded the nation.
4Illicit fentanyl hasn't flooded the street drug supply outside North America yet.
5The illicit couple just sit.
illiterate
/ˌɪˈɫɪtɝət/
adjective
lacking the ability to read and write in any language
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1Those people were illiterate.
250% dabbawalas are illiterate.
3Barbarians were illiterate.
4Most nobles were illiterate.
5Jones' mother was illiterate.
antithesis
/ænˈtɪθəsəs/
noun
exact opposite
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1And Obama's role is the antithesis of leadership.
2So, the antithesis of that are of many flying insects.
3It's the antithesis.
4So the distinction between this fictional figure of a self-claimed spiritual father Brunetto and the heroic grandfather, Cacciaguida, the antithesis is very clear.
5The antithesis of this whole thing is sustainable food.
antitoxin
/ˌæntiˈtɑksən/
noun
an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin
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1In some cases, doctors can administer an effective antitoxin, but it can take babies weeks or a month to recover.
2But, when the bacteria are not stressed, they also make antitoxins that interfere with those toxins in some way.
3The antitoxin sticks around to prevent the toxin from making a mess.
4But antitoxins are more fragile than the toxins they hinder, so in a stressful environment, they fall apart first.
5This serum therapy proved to be pretty effective, and by 1895 companies were cranking out the antitoxin in bulk.
luscious
/ˈɫəʃɪs/
adjective
sexually attractive and very seductive
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1He is seriously luscious.
2Whereas red onion has this luscious plumpness to it.
3This just looks absolutely luscious.
4- My house is a luscious house.
5But luscious brows are a beauty staple within the Mexican culture.
lustrous
/ˈɫəstɹəs/
adjective
brilliant
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1Uh, we have a-a lustrous history on this show of people winning debates and then going on to take the White House.
2Lustrous, I like that.
3Another guest that winter night Flashed back from lustrous eyes the light.
4I love the speckled quality there and that lustrous shine.
5These proteins have a triangular prism-like structure which refracts light to show various colors and also gives the overall fabric a lustrous appearance.
to luxuriate
/lʌɡʒˈʊɹɹɪˌeɪt/
verb
thrive profusely or flourish extensively
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1They're free to luxuriate in what seems today like an endless epilogue, rudderless and profoundly weird, just like they were in the early days.
2He luxuriates.
3For Comus, nature has given us all of her riches and it's our duty, it's our obligation, to spend them, to consume them, and to luxuriate in nature's generosity.
4and they sort of luxuriate in that in some sense, and it lasts all of a year.
5So I can luxuriate and just enjoy the splendors of my closet.
luxurious
/ɫəɡˈʒɝiəs/
adjective
extremely comfortable, particularly when expensive things are involved
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1Their St. Petersburg house was luxurious in comparison to their old home.
2The prime-beef patty just really tastes so luxurious.
3Both transportations are equally luxurious.
4This shower is truly luxurious.
5This one smells luxurious.

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