premature
/ˌpɹiməˈtʃʊɹ/
adjective(of a baby) born before the determined time of birth
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1. Sadly, though, our celebrations were premature.
2. The proper target for gentle criticism is premature perfectionism.
3. Premature scaling is death for sure.
4. These free radicals cause premature aging.
5. That age is definitely premature.
premeditated
/pɹiˈmɛdəˌteɪtɪd/
adjectivecharacterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning
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1. Statistically, one of the highest causes of both manslaughter and premeditated murder is because of adultery.
2. Now, in one of the 13th-century treatise's more poetic passages, Bracton describes self-defense as "an unavoidable necessity committed without premeditated hatred, but with sorrow of heart."
3. She said Khashoggi had been the victim of deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia was responsible under international human rights law.
4. It's essentially the premeditated killing.
5. It shows that the defendant acted in a premeditated way because of the sexual assault of his daughter.
to preoccupy
/pɹiˈɑkjəˌpaɪ/
verbengage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
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1. The music industry was preoccupied with the whole peer-to-peer file transfer, illegal theft.
2. My brain was preoccupied with friendships, the need for friendships.
3. Number two, is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
4. The warlord is preoccupied with questions of honor and loyalty.
5. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
to preordain
/ˌpɹiɔɹˈdeɪn/
verbforeordain or determine beforehand
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1. [SPEAKING KOREAN] INTERPRETER: And in Western theistic tradition, it's God who preordained your destiny.
2. It's preordained.
3. It's differentiating a pain brain versus a patient's brain who's preordained to the addiction domain.
4. Is it preordained?
5. Is it preordained?
to deform
/ˌdiˈfɔɹm/
verbbecome misshapen
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1. Jem’s left arm is eventually deformed by Ewell.
2. The strong uneven gravitational pull on Earth would continuously deform the planet.
3. A damaged lunula can permanently deform nail growth.
4. Her five horrid, deformed little dogs who incessantly yap on the roof under my window.
5. Without them, the windshield would deform.
deformity
/dɪˈfɔɹməti/
nounan appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
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1. Deformities cited as film defects by officials.
2. So we can quantify those deformities.
3. As you may have already guessed, a number of these kids had deformities.
4. Feet deformities may be present from birth.
5. Hand and foot deformities are the most obvious signs of rheumatoid arthritis.
absolute
/ˈæbsəˌɫut/
adjectivecomplete and total, or free from any imperfection
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1. Space is absolute.
2. No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
3. His will is absolute.
4. First, presidents have absolute immunity from all civil actions taken as a result of official acts while president.
5. - Without creativity, we have absolute murder, and chaos, and dancing.
absolution
/ˌæbsəˈɫuʃən/
nounthe act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
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1. Bayard saw this attitude as another way in which whites exploited blacks, not for money or for power in this case, but for moral absolution.
2. - IO created the throw for Hitman: Absolution.
3. I don't wanna hear your absolution.
4. This is the extraordinary caricature of the holy office, giving the absolution before even the commission of the crime.
5. Receive the priest's absolution, which frees you of your sins.
to digress
/daɪˈɡɹɛs/
verbto steer away from the matter at hand and focus on a different topic in speech or writing
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1. I digress.
2. I digress.
3. I digress.
4. Anyway, I do digress.
5. I digress.
digression
/daɪˈɡɹɛʃən/
nouna turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
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1. Actually, that's an interesting digression.
2. That was a digression.
3. It's a digression.
4. So this is a digression on reaction order and complex reaction.
5. This is a slight digression.
frontal
/ˈfɹəntəɫ/
adjectivebelonging to the front part
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1. The key here is frontal cortex.
2. Caffeine stimulates frontal cortex.
3. Frontal cortex, anything to tell me about this?
4. Frontal storms which were down here before move up there.
5. My frontal lobe creates an image of a movement.
frontier
/fɹənˈtɪɹ/
nouna wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
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1. The new frontier is here.
2. Build up that frontier.
3. Two frontiers will guide this transformation.
4. The next killer turned the last frontier into his personal killing grounds.
5. Innovation is creating new frontiers.
scintilla
/sɪnˈtɪɫə/
nouna sparkling glittering particle
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1. Adult judges in court have described in in court as a scintilla, a dab, even a glimmer.
2. Is there a scintilla of patriotism in his soul?
3. Bolton hasn't expressed so much as a scintilla of regret for all the horrific stuff he's been involved in.
4. His scintilla of hope for something better through Yennefer is lost precisely because of the selfishness through which he employed the Law of Surprise thinking he'd cheated someone out of a child he could never bear himself with no consequences, and when it got tough, abandoning Ciri to a much uglier fate than necessary.
5. Now, of course, most of the right wingers who talk about postmodernism don't have an iota of a clue, not even a scintilla of an idea of what postmodernism is.
scintillating
/sˈɪntɪlˌeɪɾɪŋ/
adjectivehaving brief brilliant points or flashes of light
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1. Also very well received and translated into numerous languages, it's a scintillating and witty comedy of manners that follows the travails of Casey Han, a young Korean American Princeton graduate who makes her way in New York at the turn of the 21st century.
2. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our feared drenched communities and some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
execrable
/ˌɛɡˈzɛkɹəbəɫ/
adjectivedeserving a curse
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1. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
2. And he's asking permission from somebody, I don't know, to go and help her out in the, I mean, it's not astronaut behavior, it's not logical behavior, it's so execrable from actual practical demonstration of what the reality of space flight is like.
3. And the execrable secretions, the juices that help you in digestion have to go somewhere.
execration
/ɛɡzɪkɹˈeɪʃən/
nounthe object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
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intoxicant
/ɪntˈɑːksɪkənt/
adjectivecausing intoxication
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1. It is an intoxicant and it's safe, but also, if you wanna have the best experience and you wanna have a really pleasant experience, you just have to try a few-- dabble.
2. And then superimposed onto that, what happens when this process of forming eggs and sperm is dealing with environmental exposures to different chemicals intoxicants?
3. When prohibition came along, Pemberton removed the wine and shifted the brand from a medicine to a soda but the other powerful intoxicant remained in the ingredients until 1903.
4. Alcohol is a drug, alcohol is an intoxicant and alcohol is toxic to the human body.
to intoxicate
/ˌɪnˈtɑksəˌkeɪt/
verbhave an intoxicating effect on, of a drug
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1. The smell is literally intoxicating.
2. [ Both giggling ] You guys intoxicated?
3. Her scent is intoxicating.
4. Her scent is intoxicating.
5. - It's intoxicating.
to profess
/pɹəˈfɛs/
verbadmit (to a wrongdoing)
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1. Screech professes his love for Lisa.
2. Or you can profess your undying love for the Biebs.
3. Verbal influence, by the way, he always professes contempt for.
4. Monsieur Le Blanc professed total ignorance, as before.
5. The bachelor professed his love to both Bushnell and JoJo Fletcher, which definitely didn’t sit well with his future fiance.
professor
/pɹəˈfɛsɝ/
nouna faculty member at a college or university who has not yet attained job security or is at the rank below full professor
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1. One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
2. New subjects, lectures, and professors are added every month.
3. We played professors.
4. New subjects, lectures, and professors are added every month.
5. We say professor.