flora
/ˈfɫɔɹə/
noun
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
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1The flora has a harder time.
2- Falklands flora, wildlife watching, walking and hiking.
3But what type of animal was Flora?
4Is it Flora?
5Margarine giant, Flora, made its whole range vegan.
floral
/ˈfɫɔɹəɫ/
adjective
resembling or suggesting the characteristics of flowers, such as delicacy or colorfulness
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1That one is floral.
2That shock shock, surprise surprise, is floral.
3- I got floral foam.
4Overall, men just didn't dig florals.
5You can wear florals.
to assail
/əˈseɪɫ/
verb
attack someone physically or emotionally
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1Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has been assailed by international observers for suppressing political opponents and dissent, sometimes violently.
2As the emperor’s legions were marching past the city of Samarra, the rear-guard was assailed from the rear by Sassanid cavalry.
3The Romans were assailed them from all sides with missiles, hitting and running at the small group.
4Buckets of pitch and missile weapons, as well as ballistae and scorpion siege weapons, began to assail the ships commanded by Imry Florent.
5The Romans were assailed from all sides with missiles in hit and run attacks against their small group.
assailant
/əˈseɪɫənt/
noun
someone who attacks
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1The trainee must then confront an assailant.
2Shots came in through the window from one or more unidentified assailants.
3Who's the assailant and who's the victim?
4The assailant punched and shoved two jars of pickles at the sandwich maker before fleeing.
5And suddenly, maybe an assailant is behind you.
destitute
/ˈdɛstəˌtut/
adjective
completely wanting or lacking
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1Because Medicaid covers people below or near the poverty line, the uninsured are usually not completely destitute.
2I'm destitute.
3After the divorce, most people are destitute.
4I followed slum dwellers, beggars, destitute children with a video camera.
5"I'm going to be destitute."
destitution
/ˈdɛstəˌtuʃən/
noun
a state without friends or money or prospects
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1The other thing about the economic collapse is that it's led to a complete destitution within the health infrastructure once funded by the government.
2By now they were broke and on the verge of destitution.
3And in DESTITUTION and WRETCHEDNESS the DEVIL pays his WAGES.
4And 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.
5Thus, the overall destitution of the English peasantry and rural depopulation should not be solely linked to Enclosure.
stoic
/ˈstoʊɪk/
adjective
not displaying emotions and not complaining, especially in difficult and painful situations
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1Stoics also believed in a cosmopolitanism that all humans, as cogs in the universal machine, are interconnected.
2The stoics were appalled.
3He's stoic in the face of imminent death.
4He was totally stoic.
5Go stoic.
stoicism
/ˈstoʊəˌsɪzəm/
noun
an indifference to pleasure or pain
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1And so stoicism is about control in that sense.
2Outwardly, Orwell bore her death with stoicism.
3Mostly, I write about stoicism.
4So you talked a lot about stoicism.
5That later became "stoicism."
lingo
/ˈɫɪŋɡoʊ/
noun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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1The lingo goes on, and on, and on.
2We got our own lingo.
3We got our own lingo.
4I know the lingo.
5Cheat The Lingo.
lingua
/ˈɫɪŋɡwə/
noun
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
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1Lingua franca in a way that nobody would have dreamed before.
2Suddenly Batman was the lingua franca, was all over the place.
3After 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.
4And today it is a lingua franca for a significant portion of the East African states like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
5People can't speak the common lingua franca and they need a lot of help to get access to a justice system.
lingual
/lˈɪŋɡwəl/
adjective
consisting of or related to language
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1Of course, as with all lingual conventions, it can be (and often is) overused.
2And she would always say "Let's get lingual."
3That’s the end of the Manhattan Project, a multi-lingual, global project that cost a ton of money and human life.
4Those bumps all over your tongue are actually called lingual papillae, and there are four kinds: circumvallate, fungiform, filiform, and foliate.
5Now, this is called lingual luring.
contemporaneous
/kənˌtɛmpɝˈeɪniəs/
adjective
of the same period
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1So these are contemporaneous prices.
2So contemporaneous prices he says are 1,1.
3That's kind of contemporaneous with the release of the movie.
4Taylor allegedly took contemporaneous notes throughout the affair.
5The contemporaneous price today is the present value of the price today.
contemporary
/kənˈtɛmpɝˌɛɹi/
adjective
having a modern or current style or design
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1The situations were contemporary.
2Again, contemporary science paints an interesting portrait here.
3The other one is more contemporary.
4Contemporaries were very aware of this.
5Contemporaries didn't have information of this kind.
vitriol
/ˈvɪtɹiəɫ/
noun
criticism or comments that are severely cruel and hurtful
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1He doesn't deserve your vitriol any more than I deserved his.
2And finger-wagging vitriol is not what this country needs.
3A frenzy of social media speculation and, in many cases, extreme vitriol has followed, causing Courtier's family to go on the defensive.
4The vitriol easily tarnished Hathaway's Oscar win for Les Mis.
5The vitriol made its way to social media, too.
vitriolic
/ˌvɪtɹiˈɑɫɪk/
adjective
of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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1By the way, he still managed to die penniless, and only 8 people attended his funeral because of his vitriolic ridicule of Christianity.
2and I was very vitriolic with him, you could say, very vicious.
3Sutter's reaction to criticisms of the show's third season, which saw the club head to Ireland, could politely be described as vitriolic.
4But a judge on the Second Circuit wrote a vitriolic dissent.
5King 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/
adverb
without prior preparation
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1And this is the priest who was a sort of philosopher, an extempore philosopher.
extemporaneous
/ɛkstˌɛmpoːɹˈeɪniəs/
adjective
with little or no preparation or forethought
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1That was extemporaneous.
2As a result of PELOSI's QUESTION, it was extemporaneous.
to intermit
/ˌɪntɚmˈɪt/
verb
cease an action temporarily
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1You've seen me cover intermitting fasting, keto, well now it's time for me to cover another incredibly popular diet.
intermittent
/ˌɪntɝˈmɪtənt/
adjective
occurring irregularly over a period of time
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1Solar power is intermittent.
2So these energies are intermittent.
3State-supplied power is intermittent across the country.
4What exactly is intermittent fasting?
5Try intermittent fasting.
intermittency
/ˌɪntɚmˈɪtənsi/
noun
the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping
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1And as usual, the intermittency of renewables poses a challenge, even as energy storage solutions get cheaper.
2Lastly, there's the perpetual hurdle of intermittency.
3However, 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.
4The intermittency of renewables needs to be supported by fast and responsive energy production.
5So that makes it a fantastic exporter of power and helps each country manage the intermittency of renewable energy.

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