epidemic
/ˌɛpəˈdɛmɪk/, /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/
adjective(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
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1. Epidemics are also really bad.
2. Epidemics is an ideal topic for interdisciplinary exploration.
3. What causes epidemics?
4. What causes epidemics?
5. what causes epidemics.
pandemic
/pænˈdɛmɪk/
adjective(of a disease) spreading rapidly and affecting many people across the world
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1. Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
2. Actually, last year when the pandemic was greater than ever, we have the highest revenue here for the shops.
3. Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down clothing factories in China.
4. Our main story tonight concerns pandemics.
5. Few industries have felt the impact of the coronavirus pandemic more than the restaurant industry.
epidermis
/ˌɛpəˈdɝməs/
noun(anatomy) the outer layer of the skin that overlays the dermis
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1. The first layer is called the epidermis.
2. The epidermis also contains immune cells, touch sensory cells and melanocytes.
3. And just above, the outermost layer of skin, is the epidermis.
4. The epidermis forms the thin outermost layer of skin.
5. Stiffening of the epidermis.
epizootic
/ˌɛpɪzuːˈɑːɾɪk/
adjective(of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region
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1. The second followed fairly quickly after, and this was avian influenza, H5N1, which was a new or emerging epizootic.
2. And this was one of the great global epizootics, with tens of millions of wild birds perishing.
interim
/ˈɪnɝəm/, /ˈɪntɝəm/, /ˈɪntɹəm/
adjectivelasting only temporary before something permanent is presented
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1. Narrator: Guaidó, the president of the National Assembly, claimed the title of interim leader in January 2019.
2. We have an interim explanation.
3. Where he lays out this interim plan.
4. So the interim report on the President's Commission focused on medical education and opioid supply reduction.
5. It reports interim results this week.
to interject
/ˌɪntɝˈdʒɛkt/
verbto insert between other elements
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1. May I just interject one thing?
2. We interject a little bit of discomfort.
3. - Interject if I forget something.
4. Can I just interject a question there?
5. So I interject some text in between each of these.
interlocutor
/ˌɪntɝˈɫɑkjətɝ/
nouna person who takes part in a conversation
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1. Putin is a very demanding interlocutor.
2. You deal with, because of protocol, your interlocutor.
3. President Obama’s interlocutor in Russia was President Medvedev, not Prime Minister Putin.
4. He is a brilliant interlocutor on his faculty.
5. And then, this interlocutor walked away, walked around, talked to other people.
interloper
/ˈɪntɝˌɫoʊpɝ/
nounsomeone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
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1. If a big spiral collides with a much smaller galaxy, it can tear apart the interloper and literally absorb it into itself.
2. And just last week, scientists published their first detailed data about the interstellar interloper.
3. The interloper survives the fall, but he's out of the running. -
4. Not far away, the male leopard takes a short break from his courtship with the female interloper.
5. - We're interlopers.
interlude
/ˈɪntɝˌɫud/
nouna short interval between parts of a play, movie, etc.
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1. And in the book I put an interlude on computers in the book.
2. A ride in a motor launch on the lake provides a relaxing interlude.
3. And peace was merely a brief interlude between wars.
4. from there, we go prechorus, chorus, and then the interlude.
5. So that is the interlude on metallic objects called conductors.
to intermediate
/ˌɪnɝˈmidiɪt/, /ˌɪntɝˈmidiɪt/
verbact between parties with a view to reconciling differences
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1. One of Wegener's biggest supporters, Alexander Du Toit, proposed an intermediate stage.
2. These words are for intermediate students.
3. Intermediates do not patronize refreshment-rooms.
4. It's all intermediated now.
5. Intermediate values are selected for.
intermission
/ˌɪntɝˈmɪʃən/
nounthe act of suspending activity temporarily
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1. "Intermission" was brought to you by Hotels.com, book your stay today.
2. Alright it is intermission.
3. - It's intermission.
4. It's intermission right now.
5. It's intermission!
peccable
/pˈɛkəbəl/
adjectiveliable to sin
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peccadillo
/pˌɛkɐdˈɪloʊ/
nouna mistake or immoral act that is small and not serious
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1. And although we often like to believe that science operates completely separately from the peccadilloes of human emotion, it doesn’t.
2. She will never open the door to the possibility of opening a conversation about his peccadilloes.
3. And the whole mission of the project is to find holes in the language of emotion and try to fill them so that we have a way of talking about all those human peccadilloes and quirks of the human condition that we all feel but may not think to talk about because we don't have the words to do it.
peccant
/pˈɛkənt/
adjectiveliable to sin
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1. According to humoralist principles, it would lead to an evacuation of the peccant humor.
2. So, the main indication of treatment was to assist the body in expelling what was called the peccant humor responsible, or the morbific poison.
vestige
/ˈvɛstɪdʒ/
nounan indication that something has been present
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1. They are the last vestiges of the British Empire.
2. To summarize my first normative claim, the dark ghetto is a vestige of white supremacy.
3. However adults often retain vestiges of it.
4. Not a vestige of it was to be seen.
5. The destroyed village was marked by a few vestiges of walls.
vestigial
/vəˈstɪdʒiəɫ/
adjectivenot fully developed in mature animals
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1. Partly because some modern whales still have the vestigial remnants of a pelvis and hind-limb bones.
2. -They're vestigial.
3. Vestigial pelvic bones are now used to anchor the penises of male whales.
4. Then there are vestigial organs.
5. There is vestigial characteristics.
to err
/ˈɛɹ/, /ˈɝ/
verbto make a mistake or be incorrect
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1. err down is unlocked.
2. Tip number one, err on the side of caution when it comes to your timing.
3. I err to the side of life insurance caution.
4. I’m angry err!
5. A camel says, err!
erroneous
/ɛˈɹoʊniəs/, /ɝˈoʊniəs/
adjectivehaving been grounded in or consisting of incorrect information
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1. Erroneous white supremacist rhetoric echoed by Fox News made it to the ear of the president of the United States, influencing him to make it part of our government's day job.
2. In the light of a deeper knowledge and wider experience such judgment is found to be erroneous.
3. In the light of a deeper knowledge and wider experience such judgment is found to be erroneous.
4. Some of the followers of this so-called erroneous belief were cruelly persecuted in 385 A.D.
5. I was just arguing that, clearly, erroneous review compelled deferential treatment of the special trial judge's ruling.
errant
/ˈɛɹənt/
adjectivestraying from the right course or from accepted standards
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1. An errant throw to first sends the ball into foul territory.
2. The NBA is nullifying the reality of this game because of this official's errant proclivity for extra technical fouls.
3. Okay, we've got Wightshiv the Errant.
4. There's a lot of errant hairs stuck to it.
5. There was an errant cockroach that was gallantly slain.
erratic
/ɪˈɹætɪk/
adjectiveliable to sudden unpredictable change
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1. So the erratic behavior really concerns us.
2. Everything is erratic.
3. Her attendance, however, was erratic.
4. Frost's schooling was erratic.
5. and she is erratic.