to disregard
/ˌdɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
verbto intentionally ignore or pay no attention to something, often resulting in neglect or disrespect toward it
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1. Disregard that.
2. The 2016 Republican presidential nominee disregards the norms of adult behavior.
3. - Disregard the machine.
4. The rights of individuals were disregarded.
5. Also, thou shalt not disregard the irrational.
to disqualify
/dɪsˈkwɑɫəˌfaɪ/
verb(particularly of a physical disability) to make a person not fit or suitable for a particular position or activity
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1. - Disqualified.
2. I disqualify myself.
3. 80% of people are immediately disqualified.
4. The other one is most definitely disqualified by interest.
5. - Disqualified - Oh gosh. -
to disquiet
/dɪsˈkwaɪət/
verbdisturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
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1. - That's disquieting.
2. Dawkins's mocking view of religion coincides with deep disquiet about militant Islam in the West.
3. Therefore, they be the sooner disquieted
4. He uses an actual Hebrew word that means disquieting thoughts.
5. The man in front dropped his Book - no great matter, but it disquieted them all.
disquietude
/dɪskwˈaɪəɾuːd/
nounfeelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
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1. Man partakes of this duality, and both the surface change and disquietude, and the deep-seated eternal abode of Peace, are contained within him.
2. where there is no peace, but on the contrary, discord, disquietude and strife.
homage
/ˈɑmədʒ/, /ˈhɑmədʒ/
nounrespectful deference
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1. The homage was a nod to the fans.
2. The very first episode even pays homage to the original premise!
3. In Isla del Sol, in Lake Titicaca, the yatiri pays homage to Tata Inti, the sun god.
4. In Isla del Sol, in Lake Titicaca, the yatiri pays homage to Tata Inti, the sun god.
5. Now, I give homage to my dad.
homeopathy
/ˌhoʊmioʊˈpæθi/
nouna medical system that treats the disease by administering substances that mimic the symptoms of those diseases in healthy persons
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1. The belief in homeopathy correlates with skepticism about vaccinations.
2. What is homeopathy?
3. I was reading about homeopathy.
4. And so homeopathy is something that offers a treatment without side effects.
5. Homeopathy works with the same concepts.
homily
/ˈhɑməɫi/
nouna speech or a piece of writing that is meant to advise people on the correct way of behaving
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1. As homily blurred into homily, Binham's flock continued to gaze.
2. As homily blurred into homily, Binham's flock continued to gaze.
3. That's homily.
4. I quoted to you at length from the Tudor Homily on Obedience first published in 1547 with its stress on hierarchy, degree, order, subordination, and obedience.
5. In 1537, Cromwell and Cranmer engineered the issue of the Bishop's Book, a set of homilies which again moved cautiously towards Protestant definitions of faith.
perpetrator
/ˈpɝpəˌtɹeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone who perpetrates wrongdoing
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1. Eventually the perpetrator's family had to pay a fee of $3,000.
2. - In each case, the perpetrators were fathers! -
3. I'm the perpetrator.
4. You're a perpetrator.
5. Several people meet their perpetrators in AAA meetings.
perpetual
/pɝˈpɛtʃuəɫ/
adjectivecontinuing uninterrupted that seems to last forever
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1. A million miles away, the Dscovr spacecraft faces perpetual noon.
2. The assets were divisible, transferable, perpetual.
3. The law is perpetual transmutation of energy.
4. You get perpetual nighttime.
5. And the result is sort of gratifyingly perpetual.
to perpetuate
/pɝˈpɛtʃəˌweɪt/
verbto make something keep going or last for a long time
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1. You perpetuated injustice.
2. The game just perpetuates.
3. This feminist insistence merely perpetuates human slavery.
4. Unaddressed bias perpetuates vast inequity.
5. But actually, the action itself perpetuates the problem.
perpetuity
/ˌpɝpɪtˈjuɪti/
nounthe property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)
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1. Here we have a perpetuity.
2. At 6 percent interest a 12 dollar perpetuity is worth 200 dollars.
3. So at 6 percent interest a 12 dollar perpetuity is worth 200 dollars.
4. I mean, in perpetuity.
5. In perpetuity, but every text, every voicemail- Even during dependency, while it's pending the whole time.
perpendicular
/ˌpɝpənˈdɪkjəɫɝ/
adjectiveintersecting at or forming right angles
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1. The area vector is perpendicular to the area itself.
2. The row of spots is perpendicular to the direction of the lines.
3. The axis line is perpendicular to the direction of the isoelectric lead.
4. Every plane has a perpendicular.
5. So E is perpendicular.
to rectify
/ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/
verbmake right or correct
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1. - Which we're rectifying right now.
2. I shall rectify the situation.
3. Rectify your heart, and you will rectify your life.
4. President Trump rectified the disparities in the 1994 Biden crime bill that disproportionately hurt African Americans.
5. But a Vegan lifestyle can rectify that.
rectitude
/ˈɹɛktɪˌtud/
nounrighteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
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1. We're all overconfident about our knowledge, our wisdom and our rectitude.
2. But they don't tend to deal with matters that we would call, we would call, matters of conscience or moral rectitude.
3. Rioters do indeed very often seem to have been infused with a strong sense of the rectitude of their acts.
4. So then, rioting crowds had an empowering sense of the rectitude of their actions.
5. Do your work with passion, integrity, and rectitude.
contribution
/ˌkɑntɹəbˈjuʃən/
nounan amount of money contributed
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1. First, contributions are essentially untaxed.
2. So far, 600,000 people have made contributions.
3. Your contribution helps.
4. Raise medical health care contributions?
5. what is contributions?
contributor
/kənˈtɹɪbjətɝ/
nounsomeone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money
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1. Our major contributors are teachers.
2. It made me a critic rather than a contributor.
3. These guys in their 70s, these guys in their 60s, and then here are the contributors.
4. It only has five contributors.
5. The first contributor is media manipulation, government cover-up and societal gas-lighting.
supplicant
/ˈsəpɫəkənt/
nounone praying humbly for something
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1. It's not the adult advertisers versus the supplicant teens of yore.
2. This same scribe also altered some of the grammatical forms in the preceding prayers so that it scripted a woman instead of a man as its supplicant.
3. There are 212 supplicants waiting, your Grace.
4. Obviously, they should BECAME a liberal and a disappointment to conservatives but that affected the court, TOO because SUPPLICANT presidents, they VOWED
5. It embodies all the aspects of this government of negligence, criminal negligence, and utter disregard for citizens who, for the most part, are not treated as such, but as supplicant clients by a sectarian system, in which the rights of all these - and they are all minorities - have been usurped by their leaders on a dynastic basis.
to supplicate
/sˈʌplᵻkˌeɪt/
verbmake a humble, earnest petition
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1. So the priest of Baal set up the altars, and then they begin to supplicate and to beg and to pray that their gods will come and send fire to consume the sacrifice.
2. Recognizing his weak position, the Emperor in Constantinople, Michael VII, supplicated himself to the Normans, allowing Duke Guiscard’s daughter to marry his son, and paying the Franco-Norseman an annual tribute of 200 pounds of gold.
supplication
/sˌʌplɪkˈeɪʃən/
nounthe act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
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1. At this twilight hour, our beloved nation reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray for the many thousands of people who have died from the coronavirus during this past year.
2. And yet I fear our supplication shall fall on deaf ears.
3. That was a sign of greater supplication.
4. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
5. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
supplicatory
/sˈʌplɪkətˌoːɹi/
adjectivethe act of applying paving materials to an area
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