susceptible
/səˈsɛptəbəɫ/
adjective(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
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1. Some people are more susceptible.
2. Any game with lots of stuff is susceptible to it.
3. The kidneys, liver, lungs and brain are particularly susceptible.
4. The smaller populations were far more susceptible to diseases and environmental disasters.
5. Over-exfoliated skin is susceptible to infections and external damage.
susceptibility
/səˌsɛptəˈbɪɫəti/
nounthe tendency or capacity to be easily affected or influenced by something
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1. He knew all of my susceptibilities.
2. What is inherited is the susceptibility to allergic reactions, due to irregularities in the makeup of the immune system.
3. Here again, genetic factors predispose susceptibility to the disease, but lifestyle plays a major role.
4. Mutations in the filaggrin gene cause dry skin and, as a result, a strong susceptibility to the disease.
5. Here 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/
verbto undertake a risky or daring journey or course of action
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1. Some tribes ventured westward into the domain of the Avars.
2. Any number of potential prey could venture past.
3. Any number of potential prey could venture past.
4. The puppies venture a move towards the meat.
5. Anybody venture a guess?
to regress
/ˈɹiɡɹɛs/, /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/
verbgo back to bad behavior
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1. You have regressed.
2. Whereas these regressed.
3. In fact, we've regressed.
4. Vitamin A packed veggies and the DCIS and atypia regressed to normal cells, but the invasions persisted.
5. Even if they regress a little bit.
regression
/ɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/
nounreturning to a former state
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1. The blue line is our regression line.
2. In its simplest terms, regression is fitting the best straight line to a dataset.
3. Logistical regression deals with more complex relationships with multiple continuous variables.
4. Other common trend-tracking indicators include linear regression, envelops, and Bollinger Bands®.
5. Later, these children experience developmental regression.
prig
/ˈpɹɪɡ/
nouna person regarded as arrogant and annoying
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1. While 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.
2. And 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.
3. And 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.
4. It 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/
adjectiveexaggeratedly proper
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1. Beneath a veneer of kindness, these people are the bearers of latent hostility, deadly competitiveness, self-absorbed hysteria or priggish moralism.
2. They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.
3. It can never make one over-precise, self-conscious, affected, or priggish.
illicit
/ˌɪˈɫɪsət/
adjectivenot morally or socially acceptable
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1. With an increase in demand, illicit drug markets turned to cheaper production solutions.
2. You know, illicit labor arrangement.
3. Illicit drugs flooded the nation.
4. Illicit fentanyl hasn't flooded the street drug supply outside North America yet.
5. The illicit couple just sit.
illiterate
/ˌɪˈɫɪtɝət/
adjectivelacking the ability to read and write in any language
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1. Those people were illiterate.
2. 50% dabbawalas are illiterate.
3. Barbarians were illiterate.
4. Most nobles were illiterate.
5. Jones' mother was illiterate.
antithesis
/ænˈtɪθəsəs/
nounexact opposite
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1. And Obama's role is the antithesis of leadership.
2. So, the antithesis of that are of many flying insects.
3. It's the antithesis.
4. So the distinction between this fictional figure of a self-claimed spiritual father Brunetto and the heroic grandfather, Cacciaguida, the antithesis is very clear.
5. The antithesis of this whole thing is sustainable food.
antitoxin
/ˌæntiˈtɑksən/
nounan antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin
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1. In some cases, doctors can administer an effective antitoxin, but it can take babies weeks or a month to recover.
2. But, when the bacteria are not stressed, they also make antitoxins that interfere with those toxins in some way.
3. The antitoxin sticks around to prevent the toxin from making a mess.
4. But antitoxins are more fragile than the toxins they hinder, so in a stressful environment, they fall apart first.
5. This serum therapy proved to be pretty effective, and by 1895 companies were cranking out the antitoxin in bulk.
luscious
/ˈɫəʃɪs/
adjectivesexually attractive and very seductive
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1. He is seriously luscious.
2. Whereas red onion has this luscious plumpness to it.
3. This just looks absolutely luscious.
4. - My house is a luscious house.
5. But luscious brows are a beauty staple within the Mexican culture.
lustrous
/ˈɫəstɹəs/
adjectivebrilliant
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1. Uh, we have a-a lustrous history on this show of people winning debates and then going on to take the White House.
2. Lustrous, I like that.
3. Another guest that winter night Flashed back from lustrous eyes the light.
4. I love the speckled quality there and that lustrous shine.
5. These 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/
verbthrive profusely or flourish extensively
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1. They're free to luxuriate in what seems today like an endless epilogue, rudderless and profoundly weird, just like they were in the early days.
2. He luxuriates.
3. For 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.
4. and they sort of luxuriate in that in some sense, and it lasts all of a year.
5. So I can luxuriate and just enjoy the splendors of my closet.
luxurious
/ɫəɡˈʒɝiəs/
adjectiveextremely comfortable, particularly when expensive things are involved
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1. Their St. Petersburg house was luxurious in comparison to their old home.
2. The prime-beef patty just really tastes so luxurious.
3. Both transportations are equally luxurious.
4. This shower is truly luxurious.
5. This one smells luxurious.
