seminal
/ˈsɛmənəɫ/
adjectivepertaining to or containing or consisting of semen
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1. The birth of the MP3 was a seminal moment for all of media and entertainment.
2. I'm referencing Paul Hardcastle's seminal '80s tune, "19."
3. In book two of the Iliad, the seminal poet lists off the contingents of allies in the united Greek army, a list that has a remarkable amount of similarities to the locations of late Mycenaean archaeological sites.
4. And we've seen many seminal moments.
5. The seminal weight-loss reality program is finally being resurrected.
seminar
/ˈsɛməˌnɑɹ/
nouna class or course at a college or university in which a small group of students and a teacher discuss a specific subject
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1. These seminars cost $2,700 each.
2. Attending seminars.
3. So each seminar was about two and a half hours long.
4. I attended seminars.
5. We run seminars all the time.
seminary
/ˈsɛməˌnɛɹi/
nouna private place of education for the young
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1. I went to seminary at nine.
2. Very often the seminaries are the best training grounds for atheists.
3. He started out as a seminary student.
4. He gave me a seminary education in a five-minute phone call.
5. - I'm a seminary drop out.
gradation
/ɡɹeɪˈdeɪʃən/
nounthe act of arranging in grades
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1. And again, there are four gradations.
2. Now by 'degree' he meant, of course, the different gradations of wealth and status inside each of the three estates.
3. Aren't there all different gradations of intelligence and insight?
4. Between 40 and 60 is kind of a gradation.
5. Between 40 and 60 is kind of a gradation.
gradient
/ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/
nounthe rate of change of temperature, pressure, etc. between one part and another
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1. Perhaps, the most blatant example is this gradient.
2. Every gradient shifted.
3. Texture gradient goes like this.
4. Gradient is a machine.
5. Gradient means a change in pressure with position.
to recur
/ɹiˈkɝ/, /ɹɪˈkɝ/
verbhappen or occur again
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1. Gold, turquoise, garnet are recurring things in the burials of the chieftains.
2. Human errors recur continuously.
3. It's recurring monthly revenue, or weekly revenue.
4. Recurring theme.
5. In Benavente, Rioseco, and along the Castille Canal, the disorders recurred.
recurrent
/ɹiˈkɝənt/, /ɹɪˈkɝənt/
adjectiverecurring again and again
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1. The last one, number nine, is recurrent thoughts of death.
2. Okay so this one everything is recurrent.
3. right there and the final one is having recurrent thoughts of death or suicidal ideation.
4. What is your recurrent offer?
5. If you have recurrent.
to oscillate
/ˈɑsəˌɫeɪt/
verbmove or swing from side to side regularly
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1. The prints rapidly oscillate between associations of violence and beauty and precariousness and permanence and matter and spirit.
2. These waves oscillate at around 10 to 100 cycles per second.
3. Gorgonian fans oscillate with the waves.
4. When is oscillates.
5. So every single source of electromagnetic wave is oscillating charges.
oscillation
/ˌɑsəˈɫeɪʃən/
noun(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
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1. That oscillation is a tell-tale sign of coherence in the system.
2. That cycle is the oscillation.
3. These oscillations are very fine.
4. Wind can induce oscillation in a building just like a tie down strap in a vehicle.
5. Small amount of friction has slowly damped the oscillation.
brawn
/ˈbɹɔn/
nounpossessing muscular strength
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1. They are brawn, finesse, resolve, wits, and panache.
2. And the five traits are brawn, finesse, resolve, wits, and panache.
3. And they are brawn, finesse, resolve, wits, and panache.
4. Number six, brains over brawn.
5. But as you know, brain beats brawn.
brawny
/ˈbɹɔni/
adjective(of a person) physically strong with well-developed muscles
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1. There's no doubt that ROG Phone 5 and its brawnier Pro and Ultimate cousins will be able to run with the top dogs.
2. Remember to watch David Cogen's real-world test of this machine at TheUnlockr, and don't miss my review of its bigger brawnier cousin, the Zephyrus Duo, both linked below.
3. In the hand, the V30 is nothing like its predecessors, which were brawny, metal blocks better suited to toolboxes than tuxedo pockets.
4. And so they thought I looked more brawny.
5. Being brawny gives animals dominance over a landscape, but it also requires much more food, which is a vulnerability.
epicure
/ˈɛpɪkˌjʊɹ/
nouna person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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1. You're all high in openness to experience, and it looks like it might even taste good, and you're all epicures.
epicurean
/ˌɛpəkˈjʊɹiən/, /ˌɛpəkjʊˈɹiən/
adjectivedisplaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
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1. And the epicurean society, there they would meet.
2. No matter which herald has enabled this epic epicurean, there are heroes ready to protect the world from his numerous attacks, especially The Fantastic Four course meal--
3. It's a very succesful arrangement and a great many other epicurean communities are founded.
4. The Epicurean philosophy Bracciolini dog up with its emphasis on friendship, simplicity and the acceptance of limitations wasn't exciting to him because it was old, but because its wisdom was still needed.
5. Nonetheless, pleasure is the aim of an Epicurean ethics, my pleasure.
profound
/pɹoʊˈfaʊnd/
adjectivehaving or displaying a lot of knowledge or great understanding
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1. This melt has profound consequences.
2. So the information is profound.
3. The generational impact of this nicotine-reduction policy is profound.
4. Morella’s erudition was profound.
5. profound communication takes place within the body.
profundity
/pɹəfˈʌndɪɾi/
nounintellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
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1. Visitors to big cities like Houston might be surprised to hear something more like, - Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to beautifully capture the profundity of Deep Southern culture.
2. He acknowledges their promise, their profundity, their scientific value.
3. That's the really fascinating thing about aging beef, it goes through these peaks and valleys of flavor, of sourness, or sweetness, of profundity of blue cheesiness, of steeliness, of all of these flavor influences.
4. And it is a profundity, but we've heard it so many times that it's banal.
5. One of the main purposes of my art for many years has been dedicated to showing the beauty of black people to the world, our history, our profundity, and the value of black lives.
insensible
/ˌɪnˈsɛnsəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of physical sensation
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1. I was sitting by Doctor Franklin, who perceived that I was not insensible to these mutilations.
2. And so we care about theoretical grounding, insensible principles, and being computationally efficient.
3. They’re called insensible because we’re not aware of them.
4. They carried him out insensible.
5. Durham put the question to himself as he walked back along the quays, in a state of inner commotion which left him, for once, insensible to the ordered beauty of his surroundings.
inscrutable
/ˌɪnsˈkɹutəbəɫ/
adjectiveof an obscure nature
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1. He was totally inscrutable.
2. So it's absolutely inscrutable.
3. you're just doing these inscrutable hand motions.
4. The spot market is inscrutable.
5. The infatuation is inscrutable.
insecure
/ˈɪnsəkjɝ/
adjectivenot confident about oneself or one's skills and abilities
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1. The third style is insecure ambivalent.
2. People are more insecure.
3. These folks are deeply insecure.
4. People are insecure.
5. So insecure.
inseparable
/ˌɪnˈsɛpɝəbəɫ/
adjectiveunable to be separated or divided
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1. That winter in Alexandria, the Queen and the Triumvir were inseparable.
2. The pair were inseparable.
3. My helmet is inseparable!
4. You guys were inseparable!
5. Trust and timing are inseparable.
innumerable
/ˌɪˈnumɝəbəɫ/
adjectivetoo numerous to be counted
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1. So the opportunities for rejection are innumerable.
2. Under the shallow waters of the flood areas swim innumerable fish.
3. Under the shallow waters of the flood areas swim innumerable fish.
4. Our next word is innumerable, innumerable.
5. Our next word is innumerable, innumerable.
