dilettante
/daɪltˈɑːnteɪ/
noun
an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
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1In Japanese-controlled Tianjin, he and Empress Wanrong reinvented themselves as a pair of rich dilettantes.
2Conversely, don't hire the people who have these dilettante resumes of sort of a little bit here, a little bit there.
3He was sort of a dilettante student.
4Myself, I'm more a dilettante, short attention-- you're supposed to laugh at that, too.
5And the criticism was essentially that this court-- the judges were dilettantes.
diligence
/ˈdɪɫədʒəns/, /ˈdɪɫɪdʒəns/
noun
persistent effort or attention towards a task or goal
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1Our next word is diligence.
2Diligence really means discipline.
3She learned diligence.
4So the first step is diligence.
5Diligence means the practice of selective watering.
diligent
/ˈdɪɫɪdʒənt/
adjective
consistently putting in the necessary time and energy to achieve one's goals
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1It’s diligent.
2He was diligent.
3She is diligent.
4And the women are diligent.
5And the adjective is diligent, diligent.
energetic
/ˌɛnɝˈdʒɛtɪk/
adjective
active and full of energy
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1You're energetic.
2It felt energetic.
3Rottweilers are energetic dogs.
4Feeling energetic?
5Feeling energetic?
to enervate
/ˈɛnɚvˌeɪt/
verb
to cause someone to lose physical or mental energy or strength
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1It can be enervating after a while.
2With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature.
3Well, those rezonings were exhausting and enervating and important, but rezoning was never my mission.
4Mr. Otis was extremely fond of the young Duke personally, but, theoretically, he objected to titles, and, to use his own words, "was not without apprehension lest, amid the enervating influences of a pleasure-loving aristocracy, the true principles of Republican simplicity should be forgotten."
to enfeeble
/ɛnˈfibəɫ/
verb
make weak
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1It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.
2They've enfeebled it.
3Gaiseric had already been hungrily eying the enfeebled western empire ever since Aetiusdeath and this turmoil at the highest level simply confirmed the fact that Rome was vulnerable.
4Arraying his warriors with haste, the Arab commander ordered a full-scale assault to scale Tripoli’s enfeebled walls.
5It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.
vainglory
/vˈeɪŋɡlɚɹi/
noun
outspoken conceit
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1And here we're going to play a little bit of Vainglory.
2Vainglory is the mobile equivalent of League of Legends.
3Grant did not like the vainglory of victory or the drama of high strategy or the blood of battle, and he did not think that all wars were worth fighting, yet some essential part of his being was brought into play only in war.
4Pride is equivalent to what he calls vanity or vainglory.
vainglorious
/veɪŋɡlˈoːɹɪəs/
adjective
showing excessive pride in one's abilities or accomplishments
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1To release us from this exhausting and vainglorious folly, religions used to kindly remind us, in the words of Ecclesiastes, that all is vanity.
2It's their fifth anniversary beer called Vainglorious.
3While I wait for this to cool, I'm going to try this Vainglorious, dry hop Pilsner.
recession
/ˌɹiˈsɛʃən/, /ɹɪˈsɛʃən/
noun
a period of economic decline marked by a rise in unemployment and the fall in the GDP
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1In the past, they were a major stabilizing force during downturns, but during the Great Recession, they became a big drag because of this.
2What causes recessions?
3We always have recessions.
4Recessions are bad.
5After a hundred years came recession.
recessive
/ɹəˈsɛsɪv/
adjective
(of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
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1This pattern of inheritance is called autosomal recessive.
2Black morph manta rays have a recessive gene.
3They had a recessive son.
4They had a recessive son.
5Now, what are recessive tones?
to assess
/əˈsɛs/
verb
to form a judgment on the quality, nature, or ability of something or someone
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1Her tests and tasks for the protagonists assess their cleverness and worthiness as adults.
2That study assessed the capabilities of automation technology.
3Assess your situation.
4Assess your adversary.
5- Assess the situation.
assessor
/əˈsɛsɝ/
noun
an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it
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1I was the assessor.
2You need independent assessors to take a look at this.
3And the independent assessor team delivers a report.
4The assessor was an Athenian general, Aristides.
5According to experts, county assessors have historically overtaxed Black residents as a form of punishment for economic mobility.
impersonal
/ˌɪmˈpɝsənəɫ/
adjective
not relating to or responsive to individual persons
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1- IHOP is so impersonal.
2Or maybe it's something impersonal.
3It is impersonal imagination and artistic delight.
4Email and text are impersonal.
5and it's so impersonal to me.
to impersonate
/ˌɪmˈpɝsəˌneɪt/
verb
assume or act the character of
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1He did not impersonate a dead infant.
2Soon, Frank's cons increase and he even impersonates an airline pilot.
3- What animal can you impersonate?
4What animal can I impersonate?
5- Who can I impersonate?
to displace
/dɪsˈpɫeɪs/
verb
to make someone leave their home by force, particularly because of an unpleasant event
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1The military crackdown in Tigray displaces tens of thousands and prompts accusations of ethnic cleansing.
2This occupation displaced hundreds of thousands of azeris from their homes.
3Displacing some water.
4600,000 people were displaced.
5The nickname soon displaced the official name from the spoken word.
disposition
/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/
noun
the inherent qualities that one is normally characterized by
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1From the start, however, he demonstrated a volatile disposition.
2Texture in music is the dispositions of the musical lines.
3You got a very compassionate disposition from the city's attorney and from Officer Kessler.
4Are they dispositions to sins?
5What is the disposition?
to dispossess
/ˌdɪspəˈzɛs/
verb
to deprive someone of a property they possess, such as a house, land, or other things of high value
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1And you dispossess them of the land
2there's different ways of dispossessing people.
3A lot of people are not dispossessed.
4That means all species can be exterminated, people can be dispossessed.
5Isaiah said, "You will dispossess nations."
impasse
/ˈɪmˌpæs/, /ˌɪmˈpæs/
noun
a difficult situation where progress is not possible because the people involved are unable to come to an agreement
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1We've reached an impasse.
2- We reached another impasse, Goorgen.
3Break the impasse.
4They had an impasse here, a big impasse.
5This impasse on Reconstruction, though, basically just sat there until Lincoln's death.
impassable
/ˌɪmˈpæsəbəɫ/
adjective
incapable of being passed
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1Constricted by an impassable wall of rock-hard ice at the top, and bedrock at the bottom.
2With this, these dirt roads can become impassable for days due to floods and mud.
3On September 3rd, the coastal route became impassable and forced the crusaders to turn inland for a time, where they would be separated from their supply ships.
4The rest of the park is an impassable mess.
5The perilous Bay idea may indeed have been more of a scare tactic myth than a real impassable obstacle.

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