epistle
/ɪˈpɪsəɫ/
nounany of the letters in the New Testament, written by the apostles
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1. I said from the very beginning of the semester, it was called the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle to the Jews, and I said it's not really either.
2. I said from the very beginning of the semester, it was called the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle to the Jews, and I said it's not really either.
3. Okay, in the epistles it's almost always agape.
4. In his Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul declares emphatically that the whole of the Christian religion depends upon the miraculous resurrection and re-appearance of Jesus.
5. Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.
epistolary
/ɪˈpɪstəˌɫɛɹi/
adjectivewritten in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
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1. Hey, you, come here, to revise the epistolary form, which inescapably implies distance and time and space, which is probably useful.
2. And you are a virtuoso in a number of different forms, like lists, the epistolary poem.
3. Early on in his career at one point, Benjamin Franklin found himself in the midst of an epistolary duel, which basically just means he was arguing with somebody through letter writing.
4. The epistolary novel is one which the whole novel consists of an exchange of letters between the characters.
5. The two exchange letters, and their correspondence makes up a bulk of the book, making it one of the first examples of an epistolary novel.
epistemology
/ɛˌpɪstəˈmɑɫəˌdʒi/
nounthe branch of philosophy in which knowledge is studied
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1. And their epistemology allows them different access, different gestures of fluency.
2. That's the epistemology of "Skin in the Game."
3. He had an epistemology, and he had a theory of politics.
4. Some people have described economics as interactive epistemology.
5. The second learning point is called epistemology.
antechamber
/ˈæntɛˌtʃeɪmbɝ/
nouna large entrance or reception room or area
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1. Inside the vault's antechamber the King of Keys picks the lock on the metal grate that is the last remaining barrier between the team and the interior of the vault.
2. She thought of the silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, lit by tall bronze candelabra, and of the two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove.
3. The pest house was really the antechamber to eternity.
to antedate
/ˈæntɪdˌeɪt/
verbestablish something as being earlier relative to something else
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1. Do you have any difficulty with the applicability of the Act to a course of events which antedated the Act's enactment and indeed to litigation which commenced prior to the Act's adoption by Congress?
2. Sometimes the idea seems to be that the personae antedate the theory and indeed may cause the judge to adopt the theory.
3. And that antedated COVID.
4. Now, what happens in 1914 is conscription, universal conscription antedating the war presented armies of a size that had never before been pulled together.
to antecede
/ˌæntɪsˈiːd/
verbbe earlier in time; go back further
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1. It suggests that in the disordered world of the woods this sexuality is so primal that it antecedes gender distinctions.
antediluvian
/ˌæntiːdɪlˈuːviən/
adjectiveso extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
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1. I remember trying to use these things and on these special players and it was just, it was really pretty antediluvian and nobody really signed up for these things.
2. Another letter a couple of years later he described himself as an antediluvian patriarch.
3. And there's another letter that he writes a couple of years later in which he describes himself as living at Monticello like an antediluvian patriarch.
4. We have a state law case going, for instance, with the New York City Police Department, which is a particularly antediluvian agency in this respect, who bought a bunch of the-- you know the x-ray machines that they had in the airports that they took out because they were unsafe, which was actually a result of our reporting on them.
antemeridian
/ˌæntəmɛˈɹɪdiən/
adjectivebefore noon
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antenatal
/ˈæntənˌeɪɾəl/
adjectiveoccurring or existing before birth
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1. During pregnancy it's called antenatal depression and anytime within four to six weeks after giving birth, it's called postpartum depression.
2. Number ten, and probably the best bit of advice I think, go to the antenatal classes with your wife.
3. And we did like, antenatal classes, didn't we?
4. The Midwife arrived and started doing all of my antenatal checks.
5. You mean the antenatal like NCT?
anterior
/ænˈtɪɹiɝ/
adjectiveof or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
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1. The most common type is anterior epistaxis where blood vessels from a group inside your nostrils rupture, and usually it only involves one nostril.
2. Thyroid hormone secretion is under control of thyroid-stimulating hormone, TSH, from the anterior pituitary.
3. The anterior arch has an anterior tubercle and a facet for the dens, and the posterior arch has a posterior tubercle and a groove for the vertebral artery.
4. This is the anterior portion.
5. This part of the brain is called the anterior cingulate gyrus.
anteroom
/ˈæntɚɹˌuːm/
nouna large entrance or reception room or area
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1. And I’m in that little anteroom with Hope, and there’s some people coming in and out.
2. So when Chris and I went in the anteroom, we first talked alone until our colleagues realized what we might be doing, and then one by one, they came over, and then it got rather heated.
3. Her husband had been sleeping since midnight, in a little deserted anteroom, with three other gentlemen whose wives were having a very good time.
4. There's an anteroom with photographs of children who perished and then you come into a large space.
loath
/ˈɫoʊθ/
adjective(usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
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1. They loath to talk without the say-so of Ian Wilson I did call the Tower Master.
2. I am loath to give any particular timeframe or dates or reasons because that’s part of the intelligence business.
3. And after the U.S. assumed control of Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish American War, U.S. officials for geo-strategic reasons and for economic reasons were loath to give it up.
4. Is it just that men are loath to admit it?
5. They loath criticism.
to loathe
/ˈɫoʊð/
verbto dislike something or someone very much often with a sense of disgust
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1. I loathe Halloween.
2. I loathe a veggie burger that is like mush on mush on mush.
3. But Camus’s hero Dr Rieux loathes this approach.
4. "Loathe" means hate.
5. The white slave-holders in the South who were aware of Walker's handiwork loathed it.
irrefutable
/ˌɪɹəfˈjutəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of being disproved or denied
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1. On a very similar note, Popper also pointed out that irrefutable theories are not scientific.
2. There is irrefutable evidence of the Loch Ness Monster.
3. And then when the science became irrefutable
4. Pretty irrefutable evidence, don't ya think?
5. It's just the evidence is so irrefutable.