recluse
/ɹɪˈkɫus/
nounan individual who lives by themselves and avoids all sorts of contact with other people
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1. Which he could have quite easy become a recluse.
2. The man is a recluse.
3. He's kind of a recluse.
4. He was a recluse.
5. When the Emperor is evil, recluse'.
reclusive
/ɹiˈkɫusɪv/, /ɹɪˈkɫusɪv/
adjectivereferring to a place or setting that is secluded, remote, or hidden from public view, often with limited access or visibility
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1. In 1915, the reclusive writer slipped his manuscript of The Trial into a desk drawer.
2. - I'm not normally a reclusive person.
3. They're reclusive.
4. These notoriously reclusive animals aren't habituated to humans.
5. In an Indian reservation in Northern Arizona, there exists a tiny reclusive community of 208 people.
animadversion
/ˌænɪmɐdvˈɜːʒən/
nounharsh criticism or disapproval
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1. But the gang which has drawn upon itself the pointed animadversion, although the somewhat tardy and very suspicious evidence of Madame Deluc, is the only gang which is represented by that honest and scrupulous old lady as having eaten her cakes and swallowed her brandy, without putting themselves to the trouble of making her payment.
animalcule
/ˈænɪmˌælkjuːl/
nouna microscopic or tiny animal, typically visible only under a microscope
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1. And yet, even then, when the ultraviolet light had passed, the sun animalcule’s microtubules were ready to grow once more.
2. Our speciality here at Journey to the Microcosmos is talking about the micro sun animalcules of the world, but what if you wanted to learn about a sun that’s a bit more macro?
3. You've seen it in John Snow, who talked about the possibility of animalcules.
4. So, he invented the microscope to look at that, but what he found was little animalcules and he eventually looks at sperm and he sees the animalcules in it.
5. He interprets it as the same animalcules as in the water.
to animate
/ˈænəˌmeɪt/, /ˈænəmət/
verbheighten or intensify
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1. And culture does animate the discussions.
2. Animate some hearts Kelsey.
3. This trope animated the passion play of American lynching.
4. Righty's body is animated.
5. - Just animate my hair.
animosity
/ˌænəˈmɑsəti/
nounstrong hostility, opposition, or anger
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1. And as the middle shrank, partisan animosity grew.
2. The animosity made a bit more sense.
3. The animosity between Hindus and Muslims actually predates the British empire.
4. The animosity is fueled by fear and family loyalty.
5. She really had animosity towards me.
animus
/ˈænɪməs/
nouna feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
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1. He's not motivated by any anti-Muslim animus at all.
2. Wallace himself actively stirred up racial animus, and frequently railed against government bureaucrats, intellectuals, and the press.
3. And once again, animus between rival players drew two old friends into the beef arena.
4. But President Trump has this strange animus towards Chancellor Merkel.
5. Are they motivated by national security or political animus?
presentiment
/pɹɪzˈɛntɪmənt/
nouna feeling or suspicion that something, particularly something unpleasant, is about to take place
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1. CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire.
2. Soapy did likewise, with a presentiment that luck would again run against him.
presentment
/pɹiˈzɛntmənt/
nounan accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
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1. (18) Inquests of novel disseisin, mort d'ancestor, and darrein presentment shall be taken only in their proper county court.
2. Therefore, under the presentment clause of the Constitution, the bill became law 10 days after it was presented to him.
3. The presentment clause sets up two mechanisms to protect that basic structure.
4. This Court has said that the presentment clause should be interpreted to protect the president's veto and the Congress's veto-- and the Congress's ability to override that veto, excuse me.
5. What earlier century had even a presentment that such productive forces slumbered in the lack of social labor?
vehemence
/ˈviəməns/, /vəˈhiməns/
nounintensity or forcefulness of expression
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1. He was extraordinarily a clear-headed man but with a vehemence.
2. I mean, their most reliable political strategy is to trigger the loyalty and vehemence of their base.
3. Pursued THISMP with a vehemence that was cruel and stupid, in RETROSPECT.
4. The diplomat remembers, first and foremost, that some of the vehemence with which we can insist on having our way draws energy from an overall sense of not being respected or heard within a relationship.
5. And to some extent, Procopius has that tone, which seems to contrast very much with the vehemence of the Secret History, leading some people to assume that he was crazy when he wrote the Secret History.
vehement
/ˈviəmənt/, /vəˈhimənt/
adjectivemarked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
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1. "Vehement denunciation" of moral decay and social injustice, is the way the Kaufman phrases it .
2. There were vehement protests against the Fugitive Slave Act.
3. And Douglas was a vehement opponent the filibuster, which had generally been used by Southern segregationists.
4. And this has been the object of vehement contentions as well.
5. Tecumseh delivered a vehement reply.
to tremor
/ˈtɹɛmɝ/
verbshake with seismic vibrations
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1. The overstimulation of these neurons by acetylcholine then causes tremors and rigidity.
2. - Whoa, the tremors stopped.
3. We see vocal tremor, weakness and rigidity.
4. The tremors normally last for a total of 9 days or so.
5. But observations from the last year recorded hundreds of tremors.
tremulous
/ˈtɹɛmjəɫəs/
adjective(of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
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1. He babbled of a baseball-playing son of his, and at every explodent spat into my neck, and every now and then wiped his glasses on my sheet wrap, or interrupted his tremulous scissor work to produce faded newspaper clippings.
2. And other times, in the middle of the night, he calls out in a tremulous voice, "Nana, will you ever get sick and die?"
3. The guy told them in tremulous tones that some crazed man had just kept him as a prisoner in an apartment.
4. Myoclonus describes lightening-like limb movements or limb jerks, that can also be more tremulous.
5. As he led her over the threshold of the laboratory, Georgiana was cold and tremulous.
to extort
/ɛkˈstɔɹt/
verbto use force or threats to obtain something from someone
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1. Edgar extorts and threatens John over the course of the game, and gets away scot free.
2. So you're extorting people now?
3. His dad is being extorted.
4. He's being extorted.
5. Smaller gangs battle over drug territory and extort local businesses.
extortion
/ɛkˈstɔɹʃən/
nounthe felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)
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1. I call them extortion websites.
2. They run extortion rackets.
3. Sharing is punished as extortion.
4. The girls agree to Zack's extortion.
5. Todd denied the attempts at extortion.
misadventure
/mɪsədˈvɛntʃɝ/
nounan instance of misfortune
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1. These guys never hurt anybody, they just had foibles and misadventures.
2. It centers around the misadventures of physicists Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, as well as their fellow Caltech scientists, neighbors, and romantic partners.
3. This book, actually, focuses on his most recent misadventure as a marketing fellow at HubSpot, a Boston startup.
4. The wild misadventures of these characters just keep getting crazier.
5. But it was not without misadventure.
misanthrope
/ˈmɪsənˌθɹoʊp/
nounsomeone who detests and avoids others
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1. The main additions are that he is a misanthrope who loves to party.
2. We have the charmless misanthrope.
to misapprehend
/mɪsˌæpɹɪhˈɛnd/
verbinterpret in the wrong way
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1. True economy is misapprehended, and people go through life without properly comprehending what that principle is.
