dilettante
/daɪltˈɑːnteɪ/
nounan amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
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1. In Japanese-controlled Tianjin, he and Empress Wanrong reinvented themselves as a pair of rich dilettantes.
2. Conversely, don't hire the people who have these dilettante resumes of sort of a little bit here, a little bit there.
3. He was sort of a dilettante student.
4. Myself, I'm more a dilettante, short attention-- you're supposed to laugh at that, too.
5. And the criticism was essentially that this court-- the judges were dilettantes.
diligence
/ˈdɪɫədʒəns/, /ˈdɪɫɪdʒəns/
nounpersistent effort or attention towards a task or goal
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1. Our next word is diligence.
2. Diligence really means discipline.
3. She learned diligence.
4. So the first step is diligence.
5. Diligence means the practice of selective watering.
diligent
/ˈdɪɫɪdʒənt/
adjectiveconsistently putting in the necessary time and energy to achieve one's goals
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1. It’s diligent.
2. He was diligent.
3. She is diligent.
4. And the women are diligent.
5. And the adjective is diligent, diligent.
energetic
/ˌɛnɝˈdʒɛtɪk/
adjectiveactive and full of energy
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1. You're energetic.
2. It felt energetic.
3. Rottweilers are energetic dogs.
4. Feeling energetic?
5. Feeling energetic?
to enervate
/ˈɛnɚvˌeɪt/
verbto cause someone to lose physical or mental energy or strength
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1. It can be enervating after a while.
2. With 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.
3. Well, those rezonings were exhausting and enervating and important, but rezoning was never my mission.
4. Mr. 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/
verbmake weak
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1. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.
2. They've enfeebled it.
3. Gaiseric had already been hungrily eying the enfeebled western empire ever since Aetius’ death and this turmoil at the highest level simply confirmed the fact that Rome was vulnerable.
4. Arraying his warriors with haste, the Arab commander ordered a full-scale assault to scale Tripoli’s enfeebled walls.
5. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.
vainglory
/vˈeɪŋɡlɚɹi/
nounoutspoken conceit
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1. And here we're going to play a little bit of Vainglory.
2. Vainglory is the mobile equivalent of League of Legends.
3. Grant 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.
4. Pride is equivalent to what he calls vanity or vainglory.
vainglorious
/veɪŋɡlˈoːɹɪəs/
adjectiveshowing excessive pride in one's abilities or accomplishments
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1. To release us from this exhausting and vainglorious folly, religions used to kindly remind us, in the words of Ecclesiastes, that all is vanity.
2. It's their fifth anniversary beer called Vainglorious.
3. While I wait for this to cool, I'm going to try this Vainglorious, dry hop Pilsner.
recession
/ˌɹiˈsɛʃən/, /ɹɪˈsɛʃən/
nouna period of economic decline marked by a rise in unemployment and the fall in the GDP
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1. In the past, they were a major stabilizing force during downturns, but during the Great Recession, they became a big drag because of this.
2. What causes recessions?
3. We always have recessions.
4. Recessions are bad.
5. After a hundred years came recession.
recessive
/ɹəˈsɛsɪv/
adjective(of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
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1. This pattern of inheritance is called autosomal recessive.
2. Black morph manta rays have a recessive gene.
3. They had a recessive son.
4. They had a recessive son.
5. Now, what are recessive tones?
to assess
/əˈsɛs/
verbto form a judgment on the quality, nature, or ability of something or someone
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1. Her tests and tasks for the protagonists assess their cleverness and worthiness as adults.
2. That study assessed the capabilities of automation technology.
3. Assess your situation.
4. Assess your adversary.
5. - Assess the situation.
assessor
/əˈsɛsɝ/
nounan official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it
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1. I was the assessor.
2. You need independent assessors to take a look at this.
3. And the independent assessor team delivers a report.
4. The assessor was an Athenian general, Aristides.
5. According to experts, county assessors have historically overtaxed Black residents as a form of punishment for economic mobility.
impersonal
/ˌɪmˈpɝsənəɫ/
adjectivenot relating to or responsive to individual persons
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1. - IHOP is so impersonal.
2. Or maybe it's something impersonal.
3. It is impersonal imagination and artistic delight.
4. Email and text are impersonal.
5. and it's so impersonal to me.
to impersonate
/ˌɪmˈpɝsəˌneɪt/
verbassume or act the character of
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1. He did not impersonate a dead infant.
2. Soon, Frank's cons increase and he even impersonates an airline pilot.
3. - What animal can you impersonate?
4. What animal can I impersonate?
5. - Who can I impersonate?
to displace
/dɪsˈpɫeɪs/
verbto make someone leave their home by force, particularly because of an unpleasant event
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1. The military crackdown in Tigray displaces tens of thousands and prompts accusations of ethnic cleansing.
2. This occupation displaced hundreds of thousands of azeris from their homes.
3. Displacing some water.
4. 600,000 people were displaced.
5. The nickname soon displaced the official name from the spoken word.
disposition
/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/
nounthe inherent qualities that one is normally characterized by
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1. From the start, however, he demonstrated a volatile disposition.
2. Texture in music is the dispositions of the musical lines.
3. You got a very compassionate disposition from the city's attorney and from Officer Kessler.
4. Are they dispositions to sins?
5. What is the disposition?
to dispossess
/ˌdɪspəˈzɛs/
verbto deprive someone of a property they possess, such as a house, land, or other things of high value
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1. And you dispossess them of the land
2. there's different ways of dispossessing people.
3. A lot of people are not dispossessed.
4. That means all species can be exterminated, people can be dispossessed.
5. Isaiah said, "You will dispossess nations."
impasse
/ˈɪmˌpæs/, /ˌɪmˈpæs/
nouna difficult situation where progress is not possible because the people involved are unable to come to an agreement
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1. We've reached an impasse.
2. - We reached another impasse, Goorgen.
3. Break the impasse.
4. They had an impasse here, a big impasse.
5. This impasse on Reconstruction, though, basically just sat there until Lincoln's death.
impassable
/ˌɪmˈpæsəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of being passed
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1. Constricted by an impassable wall of rock-hard ice at the top, and bedrock at the bottom.
2. With this, these dirt roads can become impassable for days due to floods and mud.
3. On 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.
4. The rest of the park is an impassable mess.
5. The perilous Bay idea may indeed have been more of a scare tactic myth than a real impassable obstacle.
