guile
/ˈɡaɪɫ/
nounthe use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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1. And Homer really approves of doing things by guile rather than force.
2. Ponzi had lost his youth, his confidence, and his guile.
3. Yo-Yo turns her head to guile, as if listening to something, then turns back to the group.
4. The fox is the symbol of fraud and guile.
5. By guile and by bluster, by night and by day, I battered and scattered the fools from my way.
guileless
/ˈɡaɪɫɫəs/
adjectivefree of deceit
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peaceable
/ˈpisəbəɫ/
adjectiveinclined or disposed to peace
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1. Peaceable assembly is the cornerstone to the ongoing fight for equal rights.
2. I believe politics is the peaceable resolution of conflict among legitimate competing interests.
3. I believe politics is the peaceable resolution of conflict among legitimate competing interests.
4. A fancy name for Quartering a Standing Army among peaceable subjects.
5. And if women were the elected leaders of our society, we would have a more peaceable world.
peaceful
/ˈpisfəɫ/
adjectivewithout any conflict, violence, or war
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1. The young artist’s life was now more peaceful.
2. Peaceful thoughts result in a peaceful mind.
3. At low tide the water is like a mill pond, placid and peaceful.
4. My community is very peaceful.
5. The ballroom is really peaceful.
hardhearted
/hˈɑːɹdhɑːɹɾᵻd/
adjectivelacking in feeling or pity or warmth
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hardihood
/hˈɑːɹdɪhˌʊd/
nounthe trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
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1. And I don't think any of our opponents could have the hardihood to say that they are not.
2. Among these, the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roystering blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round, which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood.
3. If that were true the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off.
4. If we were just to take the first one, that they are soft where we are hard, that's very, very understandable, that because they didn't have to struggle all that much, they don't have the kind of hardihood that comes to people when they have to struggle a lot just to get the bare essentials from life.
hardy
/ˈhɑɹdi/
adjectivehaving rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
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1. So turtles are pretty hardy!
2. Hardy means lots of meat, probably lots of carbs like potatoes or rice or bread.
3. Mini varieties are hardy to Zone 4.
4. Now, turnips are remarkably hardy.
5. These guys are pretty hardy.
definite
/ˈdɛfənət/
adjectivefixed, clear and obvious
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1. - I draw very, very definite lines.
2. so that part is definite.
3. And some things were definite nos.
4. The second one is less definite.
5. This guy has a definite momentum p.
definitive
/dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv/
adjectiveproviding a final or ultimate solution or answer
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1. He wrote the definitive book on Tesla's life.
2. Definitive proof of what's going on here now.
3. Is this answer definitive, though?
4. DNA is absolutely definitive.
5. - I want definitives.
to inure
/ˌɪnˈjʊɹ/
verbcause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
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1. And so in some ways, that inured to our benefit because this is the low point for Frank and Maney, and they are tired.
2. That will obviously inure to the benefit of community colleges and to families.
3. Most of us, most of the time, are probably going about our lives relatively inured against-- relatively insured against-- interaction with the justice system.
4. So, having footage of interactions with potential suspects where the police can clearly show that they engaged in no misconduct inures to the benefits of the police as well.
5. They are, of course, there to protect the political figure from harm, not to do errands, or chores for that political figure, and accepting processes, is in effect, something that inures to the benefit of, in this case, Hillary Clinton, but even if Hillary Clinton is evading service, she won't be able to evade service forever.
inured
/ˌɪnˈjʊɹd/
adjectivemade tough by habitual exposure
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1. It's definitely not for the faint of heart or for anyone who has ever confronted their own mortality because there's a lot of jitters and it's something that the people who are building this are quite inured to.
2. And I have to say that over my life, I think I've become a bit inured to stories that people tell me.
3. And above all, to make the body more inured to hardships, they accustom it to carry great weights.
4. We the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years.
mordant
/ˈmɔɹdənt/
adjectiveof a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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1. This strategy of defiance insists on squaring up to the grimness, and then asserting control over it through mordant dryness.
2. If you want to dye the stick to fabric you actually need to add a chemical called a mordant to your dye so that the color sticks and doesn't just wash out or you could just buy the clothes in the color you want them to be.
mordacious
/mɔːɹdˈeɪʃəs/
adjectivebiting or given to biting
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eminent
/ˈɛmənənt/
adjectiveof imposing height; especially standing out above others
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1. Eminent domain is an absolute necessity for a country.
2. You need eminent domain.
3. You need eminent domain.
4. What is eminent domain?
5. Privatizing eminent domain in the US.
eminence
/ˈɛmənəns/
nounhigh status importance owing to marked superiority
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1. If you're looking for eminence, you need look no further than the days that led up to the strike that was taken against Soleimani.
2. In other words, the relationship between intelligence and eminence is very slight.
3. His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan the Archbishop of New York delivered the first lecture under the auspices of the professorship.
4. As one of the many Germanic tribes that had settled in Roman territory following the collapse of the West, they had quickly risen to eminence.
5. I don't know 30 second second ten minutes Definite eminence.
rote
/ˈɹoʊt/
nounmemorization by repetition
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1. He liked analysis not rote learning.
2. And second, students are often taught rote memorization, not practical applications.
3. Since I was a kid, I've had a terrible rote memory.
4. the rigid rise and fall of this line gives the verse a rote, mechanical feel, making it seem less like a plea for love and more like an advertisement.
5. I have a terrible rote memory.
rotary
/ˈɹoʊtɝi/
adjectiverelating to or characterized by rotation
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1. - Rotary machines are pretty easy to understand.
2. There's rotary motors.
3. I can hear the rotary engine.
4. Do you sell Dremel rotary tools? -
5. Fortunately, Dr. Felix Wankel invented the rotary engine.
rotund
/ɹoʊˈtənd/
adjectivespherical in shape
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1. This rotund, barrel-like belly is on full display in the early herbivorous pelycosaur Cotylorhynchus, whose body dwarfed its tiny head.
2. See how rotund he is and how his tail doesn't quite seem to match up with the size of his body.
3. You might see the rotund, happy man, sitting there talking to kids and posing for photos, and think that his job is simple.
4. Rotund everyone sees when they come here.
5. Turtlenecks will make you look like a squat, rotund turtle.
to deport
/dɪˈpɔɹt/
verbto force a foreigner to leave a country, usually because they have broken the law
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1. But now, the goverment is deporting my family.
2. We deport them.
3. Three million were deported by Obama.
4. deport him, please.
5. Te gusta jugar deportes.
deportment
/dəˈpɔɹtmənt/
noun(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
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1. I mean, it was used as a novel for deportment and for courtesy, even more so, it surpassed the model for courtly behavior which was written by a great Italian writer called Baltasare Castiglione.
2. But the Amadís was much more fun to read, and therefore it surpassed Castiglione's book as a source of models for deportment for people in the courts.
3. The topic in the speech also refers to utopian models of behavior, roles codified by the Renaissance: the courtier, the knight, the poet or man of letters, and in Spain, the saint were models of deportment.