radiance
/ˈɹeɪˌdiəns/, /ˈɹeɪdjəns/
nounan attractive combination of good health and happiness
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1. Flame-like radiance descends on a creature.
2. I really liked Dungeons and Dragons: Pool of Radiance on my Commodore 64.
3. And 2πf is the angular frequency and radiance per second.
4. It is not you, but your radiance.
5. A regular application of black tea also promotes radiance and contributes to a more even skin tone.
to radiate
/ˈɹeɪdiˌeɪt/, /ˈɹeɪdiət/
verbextend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
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1. Those electrons will radiate a small number of gamma rays.
2. No judgment at all, just radiate love.
3. No judgment at all, just radiate love.
4. No judgment at all, just radiate love.
5. - Radiating waves of pain.
forensic
/ˌfɔˈɹɛnsɪk/, /fɝˈɛnsɪk/
adjectiveof, relating to, or used in public debate or argument
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1. Maybe forensics will have better luck.
2. It reveals forensics of map design.
3. Forensics is my second team.
4. Forensic psychiatry focuses on the overlap between psych and the law.
5. Forensic evidence pieced together the unfortunate story.
forensics
/ˌfɔˈɹɛnsɪks/, /fɝˈɛnsɪks/
nouna field of science that through the practice of scientific techniques, etc. helps the police in their cases
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1. This special episode of Forensics will cover Tesla's rise to the top as well as its vision for the future.
2. Will there be another Forensics video on the death of TikTok?
3. And, this is Forensics, after all.
4. In this episode of Forensics, we talk about Concorde.
5. In high school, I participated in Forensics which is to say Speech and Debate teams.
prophecy
/ˈpɹɑfəsi/
nounknowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
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1. You have a prophecy?
2. Prophecy, the prophecy fulfilled.
3. - Fulfill the prophecy.
4. Self-fulfilling prophecies are the main problem of these relations.
5. The prophecy is true.
to prophesy
/pɹˈɑːfəsi/
verbpredict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
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1. - I prophesy, whoop!
2. So he prophesied during the time of King Josiah.
3. So he had prophesied 70 years for an exile.
4. He prophesied rain during the reign of King Uzziah.
5. For the angel prophesied a son who would prepare the way for the Lord.
benign
/bɪˈnaɪn/
adjectivepleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
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1. Yes the freckles are benign!
2. It's benign.
3. Two, antibiotics are not benign medications.
4. Ironically, the largest shark of all is also benign.
5. Are they benign?
benignity
/bɪnˈɪɡnɪɾi/
nouna kind act
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to esteem
/əˈstim/
verbto greatly admire or respect someone or something
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1. Over time, The Shining's esteem evolved.
2. So, the symptoms of co-dependents are, low-self esteem.
3. Money was great, respect, esteem.
4. Like, the key to all of this is building self esteem.
5. I had self esteem.
estimable
/ˈɛstəməbəɫ/
adjectiveworthy of admiration and respect
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1. A pound of man's flesh, taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
2. "You are much more estimable than your words," said the father stork.
3. Alas, that through my fault these estimable persons should have come to so bad an end!
oral
/ˈɔɹəɫ/
adjectiveinvolving or related to the mouth
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1. These people mostly are just oral.
2. And some people even hear oral hallucinations.
3. Does oral argument matter?
4. Oral antibiotics work like a charm.
5. More often than not, this sound is oral.
to orate
/ˈoːɹeɪt/
verbtalk pompously
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1. He's makin' the world a better place, do you see this house of jurors that's he's just orating to?
2. Cochrane orated a summation fitting of a wartime speech, and even though it was completely over the top by most people’s standards, it meant something as wel.
3. You're basically orating, as if you were Homer.
4. Think of yourself in the Odyssey, instead of being the person who's just orating to the audience, you're actually speaking with the chorus.
oratorio
/ˌɑɹəˈtɔɹioʊ/
nouna lengthy musical composition with a religious theme based on the Bible written for orchestra, choirs and singers without using costumes, action or any scenery
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1. An oratorio about suffering, Jesus who invented the thing of don't hit back.
2. Last year Helmuth Rilling, who is a famous German conductor, came and worked with some of the ensembles and did Mendelssohn's Elijah, which is a huge romantic oratorio about two and a half hours long.
3. An acting ability for a comedic role is almost as important or more important in some cases than really great singing voice because you're not standing on stage it's not an oratorio you're not still you're not able to focus a hundred percent of your being on just your voice.
4. Whether it's an oratorio and you can be a little bit more straight faced or if again you're playing the buffoon type character where you want to be something funnier, comedic.
5. I always recommend doing something from an oratorio, Handel or something that is in English so you're not battling a new language and learning how to sing classically.
oratory
/ˈɔɹəˌtɔɹi/
nounaddressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
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1. It's not made for Oratory.
2. An oratory was public entertainment during the pre-Civil War years.
3. We say its only oratory.
4. this is extraordinary oratory.
5. It's not oratory.
oracle
/ˈɔɹəkəɫ/
nouna message or prophecy that is conveyed by a priest or priestess
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1. - What does oracle mean?
2. - It was Oracle.
3. And traditionally, oracles live at the naval of the universe-- the naval.
4. The media has the oracle.
5. He's always misunderstanding oracles.
oracular
/oːɹˈækjʊlɚ/
adjectiveof or relating to an oracle
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1. Well there are many alternatives to classic style, they-- Turner and Thomas describe contemplative style, oracular style, practical style, and a number of others.
2. It is permitted to make inquiries of God through oracular devices but God only conveys information at his own will.
3. The Latter Prophets are poetic and oracular writings that bear the name of the prophet to whom the writings are ascribed.
4. And we're treating them as oracular sources of activities and news.
5. Hidden guts is more romantic, more oracular.
to effervesce
/ˈɛfɚvˌɛs/
verbbecome bubbly or frothy or foaming
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1. (bubbles effervescing)
2. But take watermelon, put it in water, and then effervesce the whole thing.
3. But Phil effervesces unless he gets his falafel fix.
4. The bubbles rise and effervesce in a cylindrical spiral That encircles the fish.
effervescent
/ˌɛfɝˈvɛsənt/
adjective(of a liquid) giving off bubbles
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1. That one's like effervescent, - man.
2. Ooh it's effervescent.
3. A swarm of projectile bobbles lifts effervescent over the lip into a grim rictus and drifts there, lost along the spackled back wall.
4. So if you ever want something effervescent.
5. You have effervescent personality.
confluence
/ˈkɑnfɫuəns/
nouna coming together of people
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1. So the confluence of all of that was the result.
2. The confluence of all of these factors pushed the podcast business to new heights. -
3. Another notable wetland of this type occurs at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southern Iraq.
4. So the confluence of these two events are remarkable.
5. Confluence feels good to people.
confluent
/kɑnˈfɫuənt/
adjectiveflowing together
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1. A layer of breast cancer cells, a confluent layer, is laid down in a Petri dish.
2. So the same confluent layer of kind of carpetive cancer is laid down.
3. Jay Kreps, who's the CEO of Confluent, talked about this.
4. This is confluent smallpox, in which there isn't a single place on the body where you could put a finger and not be covered by lesions.