parsimony
/ˈpɑɹsəˌmoʊni/
nounextreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
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1. To actually build our clades, the simplest approach is to go for maximum parsimony, where the phylogeny with the fewest number of gains or losses of a trait wins.
2. Investment expectations are not about parsimony.
3. For seven years, Pete, AKA Mr. Money Mustache, has been preaching parsimony on his popular blog.
4. So that's the principle of parsimony.
5. Therefore, we come to the conclusion that one of these traits, one of these trees, is probably correct, just by the principle of parsimony.
parsimonious
/ˌpɑɹsəˈmoʊniəs/
adjectivespending money very reluctantly
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1. It’s less parsimonious to assume that the ancestors of ostriches, chickens, and songbirds all evolved feathers independently.
2. I mean, the parsimonious explanation is, they're going to suffer something.
3. If you want one parsimonious theory, stick with the one we have.
4. You know, even just a fairly parsimonious amount is gonna give you that creaminess and a little bit of that emotion.
5. It's certainly logically parsimonious.
to explicate
/ˈɛkspɫəˌkeɪt/
verbmake plain and comprehensible
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1. Less flamboyant than The Prince and narrower in its margin for interpretation, the Discourses contains Machiavelli's undisguised admiration for ancient governmental forms, and his most eloquent, thoroughly explicated republicanism.
2. Because this lecture is introductory, I'm not going to spend a great deal of time explicating the more difficult moments in his argument.
3. Well, there is a sentence for you and, as I say, I don't have time to explicate it
4. Now, there's one dominant text that explicates this, and it's Frankfurter's dissent in the Barnette decision, which is the second of the two famous flag salute cases.
5. In that case, and others, explicating the meaning of state within the Constitution indicate when citizens act together in their political capacity to exercise the sovereign power of their state, they have special rights and powers under the Tenth Amendment, which they do not have in their capacity as individuals.
explicit
/ɪksˈpɫɪsət/
adjectiveexpressed very clearly, leaving no doubt or confusion
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1. His anger is always explicit.
2. The GIF usage is explicit.
3. Our first adjective is 'explicit'.
4. The law is very explicit.
5. The first versions of ag-gag were that explicit.
to carp
/ˈkɑɹp/
verbraise trivial objections
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1. You had a carp eyeball as a snack an hour ago.
2. People think of Asian carp as one species.
3. So these carp are an invasive species obviously.
4. So I've filleted a carp.
5. Eat carp, maybe?
carping
/ˈkɑɹpɪŋ/
nounpersistent petty and unjustified criticism
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ferocity
/fɝˈɑsəti/
nounthe property of being wild or turbulent
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1. [Narrator] The ferocity of the chili pepper is measured in Scoville heat units. -
2. His skill and ferocity on the battlefield quickly earned him the respect of his men, and his enemies.
3. No, Ray Lewis hit that with ferocity and intensity.
4. I play with passion, I play with ferocity.
5. Their ferocity and courage are almost as legendary as their horns.
ferocious
/fɝˈoʊʃəs/
adjectivemarked by extreme and violent energy
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1. And it’s ferocious.
2. The winds are ferocious right now.
3. You have some ferocious nawshers there.
4. Big wave surfing is really ferocious.
5. It's very ferocious.
to parch
/ˈpɑɹtʃ/
verbcause to wither or parch from exposure to heat
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1. The soil is parched.
2. Mm, yeah, parched.
3. I’m parched.
4. I'm parched.
5. I'm parched.
parched
/ˈpɑɹtʃt/
adjectivedried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
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1. Hope is on the horizon for the parched landscape too.
2. Slowly we traipsed through the parched landscape.
3. Geez, I feel parched.
4. Meanwhile, back on the parched Earth, survivors harness the power of freakish mutant animals and natural resources, using rocks and dirt to recreate civilization as it existed before the bomb.
5. - I am so parched.
lithe
/ˈɫaɪð/
adjectivebeing flexible and moving in an attractive way
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1. He's younger, more lithe, and a little smarter.
2. He's quick and he's nimble, and he's lithe, which are the qualities you need to do what he's doing.
3. Miss Virginia E. Otis was a little girl of fifteen, lithe and lovely as a fawn, and with a fine freedom in her large blue eyes.
4. I want to see lithe Negro girls, Etched dark against the sky, While sunset lingers.
5. But in Room, the 2015 movie about a kidnapped woman that brought her so much attention and acclaim, her body was much more lithe and razor-sharp.
lithesome
/lˈaɪðsʌm/
adjectivegracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
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epitaph
/ˈɛpəˌtæf/
nouna brief statement or poem written on a tombstone or grave marker to honor and remember a deceased person
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1. -Oh, an epitaph if I've ever heard one.
2. Then there was Epitaph.
3. So any epitaph is therefore a self-declared cenotaph, an inscription on a place where the body isn't, which of course tells us a lot, too, about the arbitrary nature of language.
4. He scratched his name, birth month and year into the rock as an epitaph.
5. They look like epitaphs for an ancient civilization.
epithet
/ˈɛpəˌθɛt/
nouna defamatory or abusive word or phrase
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1. So this is an epithet that the Dothraki use for Viserys, "The Cart King."
2. He's occasionally described with some of the epithets that are associated with El.
3. So he's throwing up epithets and insults at Shylock, but really he just wants a low interest rate.
4. For these murders, Sviatopolk would earn himself the chilling epithet: The Accursed.
5. she burst out, heaping up her epithets with reckless prodigality.
epitome
/ɪˈpɪtəmi/
nouna standard or typical example
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1. This is the epitome.
2. This project is the epitome of perfectly imperfect.
3. - Spanish-style houses are the epitome of Los Angeles.
4. We have raised the epitome of a self-defeating person.
5. For the better part of a century, the epitome of Mexican beauty has involved dark curls, red lipstick, and bold eyebrows.
to epitomize
/ɪˈpɪtəˌmaɪz/
verbembody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
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1. This exchange epitomized the theme of this beef.
2. In a lot of ways, Sims epitomizes the story of American medicine for black women.
3. Two events epitomize that boom: ESPN's X -Games and Vans Warped Tour.
4. Now, Christmas shopping epitomizes the consumer experience in the United States.
5. This project epitomizes the struggle of the Morales administration.
amateur
/ˈæməˌtɝ/, /ˈæməˌtʃɝ/
adjectivelacking skill or not done in a professional way
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1. Are you amateur?
2. I'm amateur.
3. I meant proper amateur!
4. Amateurs can do it also.
5. - Amateur gamers playing this game.
amatory
/ˈæmətˌoːɹi/
adjectiveexpressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
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curt
/ˈkɝt/
adjectivebrief and to the point; effectively cut short
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1. This chandelier was built by Curt in the art department out of twisted wire and stuff.
2. Curt, I'm kidding.
3. CURT: We are trying to get blood off Flicka.
4. CURT: Check her eyes, too.
5. Yes, we are curt as a nation.
to curtail
/kɝˈteɪɫ/
verbterminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
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1. The Massachusetts Government Act curtailed self-government there.
2. Immigration agents will also curtail arrests in or near courthouses.
3. Such investigations were sharply curtailed during the Trump years.
4. - It curtails herpes. -
5. It can also curtail the normal functioning of the stomach and oesophagus.