flora
/ˈfɫɔɹə/
noun(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
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1. The flora has a harder time.
2. - Falklands flora, wildlife watching, walking and hiking.
3. But what type of animal was Flora?
4. Is it Flora?
5. Margarine giant, Flora, made its whole range vegan.
floral
/ˈfɫɔɹəɫ/
adjectiveresembling or suggesting the characteristics of flowers, such as delicacy or colorfulness
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1. That one is floral.
2. That shock shock, surprise surprise, is floral.
3. - I got floral foam.
4. Overall, men just didn't dig florals.
5. You can wear florals.
to assail
/əˈseɪɫ/
verbattack someone physically or emotionally
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1. Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has been assailed by international observers for suppressing political opponents and dissent, sometimes violently.
2. As the emperor’s legions were marching past the city of Samarra, the rear-guard was assailed from the rear by Sassanid cavalry.
3. The Romans were assailed them from all sides with missiles, hitting and running at the small group.
4. Buckets of pitch and missile weapons, as well as ballistae and scorpion siege weapons, began to assail the ships commanded by Imry Florent.
5. The Romans were assailed from all sides with missiles in hit and run attacks against their small group.
assailant
/əˈseɪɫənt/
nounsomeone who attacks
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1. The trainee must then confront an assailant.
2. Shots came in through the window from one or more unidentified assailants.
3. Who's the assailant and who's the victim?
4. The assailant punched and shoved two jars of pickles at the sandwich maker before fleeing.
5. And suddenly, maybe an assailant is behind you.
destitute
/ˈdɛstəˌtut/
adjectivecompletely wanting or lacking
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1. Because Medicaid covers people below or near the poverty line, the uninsured are usually not completely destitute.
2. I'm destitute.
3. After the divorce, most people are destitute.
4. I followed slum dwellers, beggars, destitute children with a video camera.
5. "I'm going to be destitute."
destitution
/ˈdɛstəˌtuʃən/
nouna state without friends or money or prospects
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1. The other thing about the economic collapse is that it's led to a complete destitution within the health infrastructure once funded by the government.
2. By now they were broke and on the verge of destitution.
3. And in DESTITUTION and WRETCHEDNESS the DEVIL pays his WAGES.
4. And at the age of 12 I experienced war, destitution in my family, the deaths of 22 of my relatives in horrible ways, as well as the murder of my elder brother.
5. Thus, the overall destitution of the English peasantry and rural depopulation should not be solely linked to Enclosure.
stoic
/ˈstoʊɪk/
adjectivenot displaying emotions and not complaining, especially in difficult and painful situations
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1. Stoics also believed in a cosmopolitanism that all humans, as cogs in the universal machine, are interconnected.
2. The stoics were appalled.
3. He's stoic in the face of imminent death.
4. He was totally stoic.
5. Go stoic.
stoicism
/ˈstoʊəˌsɪzəm/
nounan indifference to pleasure or pain
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1. And so stoicism is about control in that sense.
2. Outwardly, Orwell bore her death with stoicism.
3. Mostly, I write about stoicism.
4. So you talked a lot about stoicism.
5. That later became "stoicism."
lingo
/ˈɫɪŋɡoʊ/
nouna characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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1. The lingo goes on, and on, and on.
2. We got our own lingo.
3. We got our own lingo.
4. I know the lingo.
5. Cheat The Lingo.
lingua
/ˈɫɪŋɡwə/
nouna mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
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1. Lingua franca in a way that nobody would have dreamed before.
2. Suddenly Batman was the lingua franca, was all over the place.
3. After the conquest of Greece by the Macedonians however, and the subsequent conquest of the Persian Empire and Hellenization of its former territories, a common Attic-based Koine Greek dialect was put into use as a lingua franca of the region, as would continue to be used throughout the Roman era.
4. And today it is a lingua franca for a significant portion of the East African states like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
5. People can't speak the common lingua franca and they need a lot of help to get access to a justice system.
lingual
/lˈɪŋɡwəl/
adjectiveconsisting of or related to language
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1. Of course, as with all lingual conventions, it can be (and often is) overused.
2. And she would always say "Let's get lingual."
3. That’s the end of the Manhattan Project, a multi-lingual, global project that cost a ton of money and human life.
4. Those bumps all over your tongue are actually called lingual papillae, and there are four kinds: circumvallate, fungiform, filiform, and foliate.
5. Now, this is called lingual luring.
contemporaneous
/kənˌtɛmpɝˈeɪniəs/
adjectiveof the same period
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1. So these are contemporaneous prices.
2. So contemporaneous prices he says are 1,1.
3. That's kind of contemporaneous with the release of the movie.
4. Taylor allegedly took contemporaneous notes throughout the affair.
5. The contemporaneous price today is the present value of the price today.
contemporary
/kənˈtɛmpɝˌɛɹi/
adjectivehaving a modern or current style or design
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1. The situations were contemporary.
2. Again, contemporary science paints an interesting portrait here.
3. The other one is more contemporary.
4. Contemporaries were very aware of this.
5. Contemporaries didn't have information of this kind.
vitriol
/ˈvɪtɹiəɫ/
nouncriticism or comments that are severely cruel and hurtful
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1. He doesn't deserve your vitriol any more than I deserved his.
2. And finger-wagging vitriol is not what this country needs.
3. A frenzy of social media speculation and, in many cases, extreme vitriol has followed, causing Courtier's family to go on the defensive.
4. The vitriol easily tarnished Hathaway's Oscar win for Les Mis.
5. The vitriol made its way to social media, too.
vitriolic
/ˌvɪtɹiˈɑɫɪk/
adjectiveof a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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1. By the way, he still managed to die penniless, and only 8 people attended his funeral because of his vitriolic ridicule of Christianity.
2. and I was very vitriolic with him, you could say, very vicious.
3. Sutter's reaction to criticisms of the show's third season, which saw the club head to Ireland, could politely be described as vitriolic.
4. But a judge on the Second Circuit wrote a vitriolic dissent.
5. King talked about, we have to repent in our day and age not for the, simply for the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but the silence and inaction of the good people.
extempore
/ɛkstˈɛmpoːɹ/
adverbwithout prior preparation
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1. And this is the priest who was a sort of philosopher, an extempore philosopher.
extemporaneous
/ɛkstˌɛmpoːɹˈeɪniəs/
adjectivewith little or no preparation or forethought
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1. That was extemporaneous.
2. As a result of PELOSI's QUESTION, it was extemporaneous.
to intermit
/ˌɪntɚmˈɪt/
verbcease an action temporarily
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1. You've seen me cover intermitting fasting, keto, well now it's time for me to cover another incredibly popular diet.
intermittent
/ˌɪntɝˈmɪtənt/
adjectiveoccurring irregularly over a period of time
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1. Solar power is intermittent.
2. So these energies are intermittent.
3. State-supplied power is intermittent across the country.
4. What exactly is intermittent fasting?
5. Try intermittent fasting.
intermittency
/ˌɪntɚmˈɪtənsi/
nounthe quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping
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1. And as usual, the intermittency of renewables poses a challenge, even as energy storage solutions get cheaper.
2. Lastly, there's the perpetual hurdle of intermittency.
3. However, their intermittency is sometimes seen as an impediment and a knock against renewable energy, but on the flip side, it's also pushed interest in energy storage forward like never before.
4. The intermittency of renewables needs to be supported by fast and responsive energy production.
5. So that makes it a fantastic exporter of power and helps each country manage the intermittency of renewable energy.
