to dissect
/daɪˈsɛkt/
verbcut open or cut apart
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1. You truly dissected that song.
2. This school of Socialism dissected with great acuteness the contradictions in the conditions of modern production.
3. Dissecting aortic aneurysm.
4. The kids are dissecting owl pellets today.
5. He dissected a salamander.
dissection
/ˈdaɪsɛkʃən/, /daɪˈsɛkʃən/
nouncutting so as to separate into pieces
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1. In other words, dissection became part of the sentence.
2. William Hewson’s dissection bones are currently on display in the Seminar room in the house.
3. Based on an uncomfortable audition for a Shakespeare play, the show presents Cobb's dissection of the issue of race in theater.
4. This is a dissection of an untreated cadaver by Andres Pilat in Spain.
5. I have never a dissection like that.
epicycle
/ˈɛpɪsˌaɪkəl/
nouna circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid
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1. These circles were called epicycles.
2. So, add epicycles.
3. So, they had to add more epicycles.
4. So, add epicycles repeatedly.
5. Remember epicycles?
epicycloid
/ˈɛpɪsˌaɪklɔɪd/
nouna line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle
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to contuse
/kəntˈuːs/
verbinjure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
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1. - He probably contused his heart and bled into the paracardial center.
contusion
/kənˈtuʒən/
nounan injury that leaves a bruise and causes extreme pain but doesn't break the skin tissue
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1. Throughout the series, Samuelsson got under Neely's skin, and a collision between the pair in game six did damage to Cam's other leg, causing a thigh contusion.
2. As the Penguins celebrated the Cup, Neely's body reacted to the injury by ossifying the contusion, which means it began turning the muscle into bone.
3. I have contusions, lacerations and internal bleeding.
4. It is very efficient to treat arthrosis, arthritis, fibromyalgia, bursitis, tendonitis, contusions, muscle distensions, and rheumatism.
5. So, a young child with multiple bruising, multiple contusions, is very suspicious for child abuse, and it would need to be screened by children or family services.
to superintend
/sˈuːpɚɹɪntˌɛnd/
verbwatch and direct
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1. Umluaf and Schuppanzigh made every effort to prove the impossibility of a fraud of any sort, pointing out that every piece of money had passed through the hands of the two theatre cashiers, that the figures tallied precisely, and that furthermore his nephew, on the instruction of his apothecary brother, had superintended the cashiers in defiance of all custom.
2. For example, in July 1775, the act establishing Virginia's first bills of credit of the revolutionary era appointed 10 men as a committee to superintend the burning of said notes to be taxed out of existences by the ordinances of the Virginia convention.
3. And then you superintend all of the brief-writing and all the cases that the United States participates in-- and that's a lot of cases.
superlative
/sʊˈpɝɫətɪv/
adjectivehighest in quality
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1. Use a superlative.
2. Everything is superlative.
3. They use lots of superlatives.
4. And we're playing superlatives!
5. What is a superlative?
supernumerary
/sˌuːpɚnˈuːmɚɹˌɛɹi/
adjectivemore than is needed, desired, or required
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1. And if the drops are the right size, the first red supernumerary ring can overlap significantly with the main dark blue ring, and what do red and blue give?
2. So as the saying goes, roses are red, violets are blue, and purple in a rainbow is a supernumerary hue.
3. If you look at it, there is a backward E, there is an equal sign, there is an M, which is on its side, there is a C, and there is a supernumerary that also looks like the square.
4. His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, peradventure, the parade of a silver teapot.
5. Now that you're slightly uncomfortable from having to look at supernumerary teeth, how do you feel about evolution's affect on modern humans?
to supersede
/ˌsupɝˈsid/
verbto take something or someone's position or place, particularly due to being more effective or up to date
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1. Today, Harryhausen's stop-motion animation technique has been superseded by more sophisticated computer-generated imaging and performance-capture animations.
2. Do you supersede the orders of the General Director on this matter?
3. Then the governor superseded that mandate, eliminated it.
4. And quickly the demand for that product superseded our ability to create videos.
5. Their ideology far supersedes ours.
to supervene
/sˈuːpɚvˌiːn/
verbtake place as an additional or unexpected development
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1. When men are intoxicated with the wines of luxury, and pleasure, and vanity, the thirst of life grows and deepens within them, and they delude themselves with dreams of fleshly immortality, but when they come to reap the harvest of their own sowing, and pain and sorrow supervene, then, crushed and humiliated, relinquishing self and all the intoxications of self, they come, with aching hearts to the one immortality, the immortality that destroys all delusions, the spiritual immortality in Truth.
2. Every great moral philosopher has a strategy for helping us submit our passions to some kind of control, to some kind of supervening moral power.
3. Precipiting or immediate causes supervened, and these were thought to be some irregularity in the patient's life.
to accord
/əˈkɔɹd/
verballow to have
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1. Hard-liners on both sides opposed the Oslo accords.
2. We shouldn’t, on top of everything else, accord our illness too much portentous respect.
3. We have international accords now.
4. According, once again, to our friend DR.
5. It's got accord to it.
centilitre
/sˈɛntɪlˌiːɾɚ/
nouna metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter
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centimetre
/ˈsɛntəˌmitɝ/
nouna unit of measurement in the metric system equal to one hundredth of a meter, used to measure small distances, such as the length of an object
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1. Just cutting lines about a centimetre apart.
2. 42 centimetres is the ground clearance?
3. Eight or nine centimetres are more timeless.
4. The height of the plinth is eight centimetres.
5. For some minutes Holmes looked carefully at the ground, his eyes only centimetres away from the mud.
centenary
/ˈsɛntəˌnɛɹi/
adjectiveof or relating to or completing a period of 100 years
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1. I Centenary is just so hot right now, I can't miss out on it.
2. And when I spoke at the centenary, I asked my friends from Germany, they actually reconstructed it and put it in a computer.
3. And, so, in 1889, the year of the centenary of the French Revolution, here is the Czar of Russia showing up in Paris and being welcomed enthusiastically.
4. I know all this because the commemoration of the centenary has just taken place.
5. Emmanuel Macron marked the centenary of the end of the first world war with a tour of the battlegrounds on which the war was fought.
centurion
/sɛnˈtʊɹiən/
noun(ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
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1. Each century is commanded by a centurion.
2. After these files, there is the fourth Centurion.
3. This centurion asked Jesus for help.
4. With these qualities, a man became a Roman centurion through two streams - promotion or recommendation.
5. In their armour, weaponry, and clothing, centurions were like the peacocks of Roman military power.
populace
/ˈpɑpjəɫəs/
nounpeople in general considered as a whole
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1. Angered at such epic Arab humiliation, the populace rioted.
2. The populace is quite well fed, market day in the city features a cornucopia of food-stuffs by the wagon load from the very fertile farmlands and the bounty of the rivers and ocean.
3. Historically, the populace prior to outside immigrations was divided to these twelve tribes.
4. The Belgian populace tracked the craft's movements from the town of Liege to the border of the Netherlands and Germany.
5. The populace here too adopts the alphabet: Greek, Coptic, Arabic.
populous
/ˈpɑpjəɫəs/
adjectivedensely populated
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1. With this map, the really populous countries are giant, while ones with smaller populations are tiny.
2. Kiribati, meanwhile, the most populous county in Micronesia, has a GDP per capita of $1,500.
3. And our domestication of the chicken has made it the most populous bird on the planet, with 2.5 chickens for every human on Earth.
4. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country.
5. This story starts in one of the most populous cities in Tanzania:
population
/ˌpɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe number of people who live in a particular city or country
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1. We encountered and interbred with archaic hominin populations within and outside of Africa along the way.
2. Thousands of goldfish have infested West Medical Lake and are now crowding out the native fish population.
3. Therefore populations will always outstrip their resource base.
4. The word population is a noun.
5. Over 70% of the worlds population does.