bole
/ˈboʊɫ/
nounthe main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
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1. Boles: I worked with people like Dinah Washington, Little Esther, Etta James, Etta Jones, B.B. King, but I was very blessed, musically.
2. Boles: I was here during the bad times, and I was here during the so-called good times.
3. Boles: It's a relocation of all the older citizens.
4. While that was boling I've prepared some rice.
5. Boling them too much: Boiling may be a quick way to prepare veggies, but it’s also a quick way to rid them of nutrients and flavor.
bolero
/boʊˈɫɛɹoʊ/
nouna Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets
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1. These uniquely Dominican bolero songs were given the name Bachata by the upper class to disparage the music.
2. This is Ravel's Bolero.
3. It's a piece by Maurice Ravel called Bolero.
4. You're in like a bolero tie and cowboy boots.
5. according to bassist Jack Cassady, the rhythm is inspired by Maurice Ravel's Bolero, which was itself inspired by the classic Spanish dance genre bolero.
boll
/ˈboʊɫ/
nounthe rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
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1. The dried cotton seed pod, or boll, that surrounds the fibers cracks open, unveiling a burst of several thousand fiber cells in a fluffy mass.
2. If you can’t decide where you want to go use Boll, a website for crowdsourcing polls.
3. They discovered the boll
4. In fact, even when the BOLL weevils LEFT, they didn't go back to their Cotton Crops, they stuck with PEANUTS.
5. The boll weevil is a little bug that gets into the boll.
to bolster
/ˈboʊɫstɝ/
verbto enhance the strength or effect of something
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1. But further study of Bmp4 expression patterns in birds with and without penises could bolster support for this hypothesis.
2. The presence of an ancient ocean would definitely bolster those ideas.
3. Meanwhile, states are also bolstering security.
4. Higher tariffs would bolster domestic manufacturing.
5. It bolsters their ego.
to levy
/ˈɫɛvi/, /ˈɫivi/
verbto enforce a type of payment, such as fees, taxes, or fines, and collect it
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1. Tywin even levied a tax on the brothels.
2. They levy taxes.
3. My name is Levy.
4. Could you still levy interstate taxes?
5. The 1870 Tariff Act levied a duty of 20% on oranges, lemons, pineapples, and grapes, and a duty of 10% on limes, bananas, and essentially all other fruit.
levity
/ˈɫɛvɪti/
nouna manner lacking seriousness
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1. There's a lot of levity.
2. Brevity is levity.
3. Where's the levity in your life?
4. levity visited Tangier, Morocco Greetings from Indonesia
5. Humor is levity.
to levitate
/ˈɫɛvɪˌteɪt/
verbbe suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
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1. And can patients levitate?
2. The knives are levitating?
3. I'm levitating.
4. These vactrains levitate inside closed tubes, moving forward with the help of magnetic fields.
5. Levitating off the ground like Criss Angel?
leviathan
/ɫəˈvaɪəθən/
nounthe largest or most massive thing of its kind
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1. This film is Leviathan.
2. Leviathan comes from the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible.
3. Well Leviathan became an extremely controversial book.
4. And then his major work is Leviathan.
5. Raise-- does-- do Leviathans have fangs?
doleful
/ˈdoʊɫfəɫ/
adjectivefilled with grief and sorrow
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1. And the Welsh were singing their ballads, and the Germans were singing doleful Lutheran hymns, and the Catholic French were singing this and that.
2. The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill-starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.
grantor
/ˈɡɹæntɝ/
nouna person who makes a grant in legal form
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1. And that says that the credit grantors can look to bankruptcy up to 10 years.
2. It seems to imply to people or at least a separate grantor and the grantee, kind of like a kidney donor.
grantee
/ɡɹˈæntiː/
nouna recipient of a grant
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1. Those grantees have thus far allocated over 16.5 dollars million of the 252 million available by February 2020.
2. Michael Scott Moore, he’s a Pulitzer Center grantee, a journalist, and a novelist.
3. It seems to imply to people or at least a separate grantor and the grantee, kind of like a kidney donor.
4. So we work with our grantees, our partners, but also with IKEA to support refugee livelihoods and enable people affected by forced displacement.
5. If you were to go to another website and pay four or five dollars for shipping, I grantee you you're going to get it in three to five days versus that 15 business day allowance.
to mistrust
/mɪˈstɹəst/
verbregard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
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1. The fifth story is the mistrust story.
2. And then these exploitative relationships reinforce your mistrust of people.
3. For General Hodges, the mistrust goes both ways.
4. They mistrusted direct democracy.
5. Afghan intelligence services Are mistrusting these people a lot.
to misrepresent
/mɪsˌɹɛpɹəˈzɛnt/
verbrepresent falsely
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1. Okay I misrepresented the ease of this project a little bit.
2. He misrepresented his educational history.
3. He misrepresented his business history.
4. Police, for example, can't misrepresent a person's basic legal rights.
5. He's misrepresenting my case.
misrepresentation
/mɪsˌɹɛpɹɪzɛnˈteɪʃən/
nouna misleading falsehood
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1. - You know misrepresentation of gundams is deeply offensive.
2. The other side of misrepresentation, for native peoples, is invisibility.
3. What we have here is a misrepresentation about an autobiographical fact.
4. So, it is a misrepresentation of the science.
5. That's a misrepresentation.
to misplace
/mɪsˈpɫeɪs/
verbplace or position wrongly; put in the wrong position
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1. If so, his trust was misplaced.
2. Have you ever misplaced one accidentally?
3. Sometimes places are misplacing the blame back on them.
4. Nothing, not one penny is misplaced.
5. And I actually misplaced that as well, too.
misrule
/mɪsˈɹuɫ/
noungovernment that is inefficient or dishonest
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1. In January, 1866, Bismarck accused Austria of misrule in Holstein.
2. This country has become stymied in corruption, in nepotism and in misrule.
3. Still, however, in doing this you get the kind of carnivalesque uprising from below which Jameson associates with romance: that letting off of steam, that entertaining of the possibility of utopia that you get, for example, in the early modern period on that day in which someone is called the Lord of Misrule, the entire social order for one day is inverted, the low are elevated to positions of authority, and for one day you get the keys to the castle, in effect.
to misuse
/mɪsˈjus/, /mɪsˈjuz/
verbapply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly
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1. Data misuse was a major blow to the platform.
2. But the term is sometimes misused.
3. A lot of people misuse the tomato clip.
4. Sometimes that word is misused.
5. They are misusing the name of Islam. -
to mismanage
/mɪsˈmænɪdʒ/
verbmanage badly or incompetently
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1. Whenever you're, in one way or another, mismanaging your own country, you’ve got to point fingers somewhere else.
2. Mismanage the production vs. demand and you could end up with blackouts.
3. Because, entrepreneurs, the C.E.O., they mismanage the revenue, they mismanage the cash flow, they mismanage their marketing, they mismanage their employees.
4. - Illegally mismanaging his charitable foundation.
5. And it was fascinating because they were mismanaging this enormous capital asset.
