cataclysm
/ˈkætəˌkɫɪsəm/
nouna sudden, violent, and severe political or social change or event that gives way to a lot of harm or destruction
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1. and instead, the Palaeozoic Era ended in cataclysm.
2. Birds survived the cataclysm, of course, making them the last surviving lineage of the dinosaurs.
3. And these are cataclysms.
4. Unlike the KT event however, the Younger Dryas cataclysm is astonishingly recent: just 12,800 years ago.
5. An extinction level cataclysm occurred on our planet between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.
catalyst
/ˈkætəɫəst/, /ˈkætəɫɪst/
nouna thing or person that is the reason an important event or change is taking place
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1. It has a catalyst.
2. Experiences like this formed the catalyst for his great humanitarian work in later life.
3. Catalyst Games-- love them.
4. The catalyst goes from each step.
5. STUDENT: B is a catalyst.
catapult
/ˈkætəˌpəɫt/
nounan engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
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1. These catapults are obviously in the wrong place.
2. In a single day, one mushroom can catapult billions of tiny spores into the air.
3. The mainstream media catapulted him to the number one.
4. The mainstream media catapulted him to the number one.
5. Success catapults you just as abruptly but just as far way out over here into the equally blinding glare of fame and recognition and praise.
cataract
/ˈkætɝækt/
nouna large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice
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1. This massive cataract carries roughly 116 times more water per second over its edge than the Congo River's Inga Falls, the largest waterfall by volume on land.
2. Cataracts, loss of their cornea, inflammation inside the eye, and a severe form of Glaucoma that would result in irreversible blindness.
3. With cataracts they're kind of the sneak thief of sight.
4. 90 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop cataracts.
5. Around 18 million people undergo cataract treatment globally each year.
sphericity
/sfɛɹˈɪsɪɾi/
nounthe roundness of a 3-dimensional object
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spheroid
/ˈsfɪˌɹɔɪd/
noun(geometry) a solid shape obtained by half-rotating an ellipse around one of its axis
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1. But the Earth is almost spheroid, or a slightly wonky sphere.
2. It's like an oblong spheroid.
3. The oblate spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid.
4. The true shape of Earth is called an oblate spheroid.
5. Peas These tiny green spheroids can be a big help at bedtime, thanks to a compound called pantothenic acid.
spherometer
/sfəɹˈɑːmɪɾɚ/
nouna measuring instrument for measuring the curvature of a surface
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emigrant
/ˈɛməɡɹənt/
nounsomeone who moves from one country to another with the intention of settling there permanently
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1. At daybreak a caravan came along, of emigrant peasants, on their way to Bremen or Hamburg to take ship for America, where good fortune, the fortune of their dreams, was awaiting them.
2. A poor emigrant from Central Europe bound to America and washed ashore here in a storm.
3. I thought well, if this is true, and these thousands, hundreds-of-thousands of emigrants are moving through the city of Naples, and there is a major cholera epidemic, and they're arriving at Ellis Island, well surely some of them will have been afflicted with the disease, and there would be records there of that, at Ellis Island.
4. These were emigrants who came to these shores, and to South America, and then sent back very large-scale remittances that were very important to the Italian economy.
to emigrate
/ˈɛməˌɡɹeɪt/
verbto leave one's own country in order to live in a foreign country
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1. My parents emigrated from Taipei in the '70s.
2. My grandfather emigrated from Canton to Peru.
3. Now my parents emigrated from Holland to Canada actually in 1952.
4. In 1906, his family emigrated to New York.
5. Pilar’s husband emigrated three years ago.
to perturb
/pɝˈtɝb/
verbdisturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
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1. The planets are slightly perturbed, but stay approximately in the same orbit.
2. I am perturbed, Abigail.
3. And the perturbed customers said the inside of the punching bag stunk to high heaven.
4. Number eight, something in the darkness In this creepy clip, Colt, a terrier, is perturbed by an unseen entity lurking in the darkness.
5. The trolleys are organized in a specific way to ensure optimal work efficiency for the flight attendant so perturbing this only results in inconvenience.
perturbation
/ˌpɝtɝˈbeɪʃən/
nounan unhappy and worried mental state
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1. For the mechanism studies, you need perturbation that are experimentally controlled.
2. 2% to 5% is a very large perturbation.
3. On top of this homogeneous background, we have perturbations that are seeded in their very early universe.
4. Mutations are only causing perturbations in the inherited set of possibilities that a given evolutionary lineage has produced.
5. And perturbations in the environment are going to basically alter microglia as normal functions.
to baste
/ˈbeɪst/
verbsew together loosely, with large stitches
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1. This is basting?
2. The ribs have been basted.
3. The main one is basting.
4. He's basting the whole time.
5. Butter baste your steaks, for God's sake.
bastion
/ˈbæstʃən/
nounprojecting part of a rampart or other fortification
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1. Bastion is actually voiced by Chris Metzen who's our creative director.
2. These bastions were often surrounded by various peripheral villages which provided grain and livestock.
3. TikTok is a bastion of satire of President Trump.
4. Oysters are like the last bastion of food transparency.
5. - That's Bastion, not Sebastian.
prodigal
/ˈpɹɑdɪɡəɫ/
nouna recklessly extravagant consumer
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1. But what about the prodigal superheroes who have finally returned to the house of ideas, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four?
2. Prodigal is this hero that kind of shows up.
3. Now reread the prodigal son, if you want the physics there.
4. The prodigal daughter came back and it's like "Okay, well."
5. The prodigal diplomat finally returned to the Imperial Court in Chang’an in 125 BC.
prodigious
/pɹəˈdɪdʒəs/
adjectiveso great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
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1. Their media output is prodigious.
2. At the top the great merchants of the cities could be men of prodigious wealth who were generally also the rulers of their towns.
3. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring.
4. In the wake of this great campaign, the English king will pass the baton of command to his prodigious son Edward the Black Prince.
5. The animals had followed their own evolutionary models, giving rise to prodigious beings.
prodigy
/ˈpɹɑdədʒi/
nounan impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality
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1. We love a prodigy.
2. I'm a prodigy, I know science.
3. I never got good grades, wasn't some kid prodigy.
4. This child might be a savant, this child might be a prodigy.
5. I'm a prodigy
lawgiver
/lˈɔːɡɪvɚ/
nouna maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws
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1. Then there is another god which is the petty lawgiver.
2. And then it comes to the lawgiver.
3. Well it is the lawgiver who actually can inspire what he calls amour-propre.
4. And now comes the question of the lawgivers, and this is a very important argument.
5. But our lawgiver made his law of another temper.
lawmaker
/ˈɫɔˌmeɪkɝ/
nouna maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws
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1. Lawmakers currently remain in talks for future legislation.
2. At the end of March, lawmakers passed a record 2 trillion dollar stimulus package.
3. - Lawmakers are no stranger to heated debate.
4. American lawmakers can create incentives for electric cars.
5. Meanwhile, in Georgia, lawmakers made a different determination.