to qualify
/ˈkwɑɫəˌfaɪ/
verbdescribe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
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1. The product qualifies for 12 month no interest.
2. 3rd Degree Quarterly and 3rd Degree Annual plan automatically qualify.
3. A related bachelor’s degree qualifies a candidate for some entry-level positions.
4. More education usually qualifies a candidate for higher-level work.
5. Vinegar, wine, salad dressing, and citrus juice all qualify.
qualitative
/ˈkwɑɫəˌteɪtɪv/
adjectiverelated to or involving quality of something, not numbers or amounts
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1. The other part of this is qualitative substantiality.
2. They also have qualitative demands.
3. It was qualitative.
4. Our experiences have qualitative properties.
5. That is, have a qualitative experience.
emphasis
/ˈɛmfəsəs/, /ˈɛmfəsɪs/
nouna principle of design that refers to the visual importance or prominence of certain elements in a composition
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1. Emphasis on were.
2. They both have equal emphasis.
3. The emphasis is at the beginning.
4. Notice the emphasis here too.
5. The emphasis is personal security.
to emphasize
/ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz/
verbthe act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
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1. The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2. So of course many companies emphasize diversity.
3. Christoph's assignment for me really emphasizes the absolute tyranny of the human figure in art.
4. First, emphasize flexibility.
5. Now recent papers are also emphasizing the importance of your microbiome.
emphatic
/ɛmˈfætɪk/
adjectivespoken with emphasis
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1. Put the emphatic words of the sentence at the end.
2. Is he being emphatic?
3. It was just emphatic.
4. - This is more emphatic.
5. - It sounds pretty emphatic.
to compute
/kəmˈpjut/
verbto calculate a sum or number
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1. We computed the mean and the variance last time.
2. The CPU computes the alignment of the frames.
3. Computing dynamic stochastic general equilibrium bottles with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility.
4. Then, compute the center of mass.
5. Question nine is computing the mass of salt in the world ocean.
computation
/ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃən/
nounthe procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
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1. And it does, after all, do computation.
2. Computation has two senses, an observer-independent sense and an observer-relative sense.
3. Does computation name a machine, a thinking process?
4. Computation is not a fact of nature.
5. Luckily, this computation has a really nice geometric interpretation.
galvanic
/ɡæɫˈvænɪk/
adjectivepertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action
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1. It's your galvanic skin response.
2. - It's galvanic skin response.
3. The harness is fastened with galvanic releases, which slowly dissolve in salt water.
4. Tables and chairs and lint, nothing happens, as in normal people, but when you show him a picture of his mother, the galvanic skin response is flat.
5. These tabs on your first finger are measuring your galvanic skin response. -
galvanism
/ɡˈælvənˌɪzəm/
nounelectricity produced by chemical action
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1. Galvanism was the vacuum-brewed coffee and Wes Anderson movies of its time.
2. For thousands of years galvanism slumbered in copper and zinc, which lay quietly beside silver.
3. Our game then abruptly brought to, and lay as if paralyzed, his massy frame quivering and twitching, as if under the influence of galvanism.
to galvanize
/ˈɡæɫvəˌnaɪz/
verbstimulate (muscles) by administering a shock
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1. The role of the USSR in fascism’s defeat galvanized Communist parties in Latin America.
2. In the wake of the Moynihan Report, groups across the country, individuals and groups, galvanize into action.
3. It galvanized the office of the prosecutor.
4. Our boys' deaths galvanize.
5. And their recommendations have galvanized every health organization against them.
arbor
/ˈɑɹbɝ/
nouna shelter in a park or garden, that is surrounded by plants, such as climbing shrubs or vines, that people can sit under and relax
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1. Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deep-shaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.
2. Its supple vines wind around other plants or structures, like this arbor.
3. What the F is Arbor's Day?
4. Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deep-shaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.
5. You will need A vine plant A trellis, arbor, or arch A wooden stake Floral wire and pruning shears.
arboreal
/ɑɹˈbɔɹiəɫ/
adjectiveof or relating to or formed by trees
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1. Others became arboreal like the spiny tree rat.
2. They're very arboreal.
3. Arboreal what is it?
4. Arboreal, an animal that lives up in the trees.
5. Even the scorpions are arboreal here.
arboriculture
/ˈɑːɹboːɹˌɪkʌltʃɚ/
nounthe tending of and caring for trees
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1. He points out that the knowledge of how to do this, of how to grow the kind of grapes you want, viticulture, and also arboriculture, both of these, are learned from Asia.
discomfort
/dɪˈskəmfɝt/
nounthe state of being tense and feeling pain
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1. Dissolving any discomfort.
2. We avoid discomfort.
3. Invite the discomfort.
4. The result is discomfort from gas and cramps.
5. Indigestion is discomfort in your upper abdomen.
to discomfit
/dɪskˈɑːmfɪt/
verbcause to lose one's composure
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1. In those books, he spent most of his time picking on Peter but it's nice to see that he's channeled that energy into something more productive that flatly reading the school news to his fellow classmates on a truly bizarre and discomfiting news show.
2. And speaking of bizarre and discomfiting news reporting, it's nice to see Peter showing off what being a photographer means in 2017, filming the battle sequences in Civil War in his own Peter React series.
3. In America we have the discomfiting origin myth of the superiority of the white Christian European, embodied, for example, in the concept of manifest destiny.
4. He could see that he had unsettled them, discomfited them by elevating the separation of powers above the Bill of Rights.
sociable
/ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/
adjectivepossessing a friendly personality and be fond of spending time with people
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1. And it's sociable.
2. He was quite sociable to the end.
3. Presumably, he had some sociable interests.
4. and it's more sociable.
5. - I am very sociable.
socialist
/ˈsoʊʃəɫəst/, /ˈsoʊʃəɫɪst/
adjectiveadvocating or following the socialist principles
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1. The Scandinavian countries, like Norway and Sweden, they love these socialist policies.
2. But this socialist wave still represented a diverse array of definitions and opinions.
3. My opponent, radical liberal Raphael Warnock, is a socialist.
4. Socialists talked about it.
5. Joe Biden's a socialist.
profuse
/pɹəfˈjus/
adjectivehigh in quantity or amount
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1. Effects of exposure can include intense burning in the eyes, throat, and on the skin and profuse discharge of mucus.
2. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
3. They're smaller at the withers than the English Cocker Spaniel, and in the show ring you'll see them with a much more profuse coat.
4. Always be profuse in your apologies.
5. Some meat-eaters break down into profuse sweating after a hearty meal consisting of excessive red meat.
profusion
/pɹəfˈjuʒən/
nounthe property of being extremely abundant
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1. The relativity of truth, the profusion of languages, these things that afflict Eliot are a source of faith for Stevens.
2. Therefore, there's this wild profusion of Lithuanian literature that comes into Lithuania, which of course as you know was not independent.
3. Yet in those we see character and incident made the basis of interest, in place of the childish profusion of marvels of the Tales of the Magicians.
4. Which may explain the huge profusion of horse race betting shops found in the country.
5. The pelicans have appeared, to exploit the profusion of fish.
profuseness
/pɹəfjˈuːznəs/
nounthe property of being extremely abundant
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1. Its bounteous Nature herself who has poured forth all this profuseness.
