to peruse
/pɝˈuz/
verbto consider or examine something while being very careful and attentive to detail
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1. - Check 'em out-- - Peruse their site.
2. You can peruse this slide and that paper which I strongly recommend at your leisure.
3. that you can peruse at your leisure.
4. and they perused the backyard
5. You didn't really peruse.
perusal
/pɝˈuzəɫ/
nounreading carefully with intent to remember
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1. But if you do a quick perusal of the issues table of contents, you see that Davis' contribution is among a number of works by black women intellectuals, all her contemporaries.
2. But perusal of the cards led to some unexpected finds and stories our team wasn't previously aware of.
3. But even if you were to find such a well educated person to write back and forth with, a quick perusal of surviving text from this era in its original form would quickly dissuade you from the notion that this would be an effective way to communicate.
4. Okay, my perusal of her, her file indicates that she has had no prior police contact.
vigilant
/ˈvɪdʒəɫənt/
adjectivecarefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
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1. Because blues are vigilant.
2. So be vigilant.
3. The sympathetic is very vigilant.
4. But baboons are vigilant.
5. The church courts were vigilant.
vignette
/vinˈjɛt/, /vɪnˈjɛt/
nouna brief, impressionistic scene or sketch in literature or film that focuses on a particular moment or character
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1. It's a vignette.
2. And the vignettes about Joe Biden from Greg Weaver of Amtrak, who suffered a heart attack, a conductor.
3. Although York's prevailing attitude towards restoration is conservative, vignettes of modernity exist.
4. Still though, the non-walking vignettes bothered me.
5. What you're seeing is a vignette.
to amend
/əˈmɛnd/
verbto make small changes to a statement, law, etc. to make it more accurate or improve or correct it
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1. You’ve made amends.
2. A man like you doesn't make amends.
3. Make amends.
4. No, seriously, amend the constitution.
5. He did make amends.
amenable
/əˈmɛnəbəɫ/, /əˈminəbəɫ/
adjectivedisposed or willing to conform
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1. And they may be more amenable to a deeper discount as the end of the month approaches.
2. And then CNN, HLN was amenable to my travel schedule.
3. And I am fully amenable to that discussion.
4. But the Frankish rulers are at least amenable to influence from the priests, bishops, guardians of the saints.
5. It's just so amenable to sharing family style.
immigrant
/ˈɪməɡɹənt/
nounsomeone who comes to live in a foreign country
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1. Immigrants do too.
2. My parents are immigrants.
3. "Immigrants are good people."
4. Parents were immigrants.
5. They have immigrants.
to immigrate
/ˈɪməˌɡɹeɪt/
verbto come to a foreign country and live there permanently
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1. His family immigrated from Russia.
2. My parents both immigrated from Asia.
3. My great grandfather immigrated from England.
4. Modern American writers and artists immigrated famously to London, to Paris.
5. Harold's family immigrated to this country.
psychiatry
/saɪˈkaɪətɹi/, /sɪˈkaɪətɹi/
nounthe study of mental conditions and their treatment
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1. In terms of competitiveness, psychiatry is more attainable, with an average Step 1 in the 2020 cycle of 227 and Step 2CK of 241, and a 90% match rate.
2. Forensic psychiatry focuses on the overlap between psych and the law.
3. Psychiatry is a unique specialty within medicine.
4. Psychiatry is not for everyone.
5. The bottom line is you practice psychiatry.
psychopathic
/ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/
adjectivesuffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
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1. Certainly many people with criminal records don't fit that psychopathic profile.
2. Because it became a psychopathic family of clowns.
3. And again, these are psychopathic traits as well.
4. They Have Many Sides: psychopathic behavior is always changing.
5. Those with psychopathic brains displayed a much higher level of activity in their nucleus accumbens.
psychotherapy
/ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
nounthe branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods
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1. And there's also a whole other category of treatment that's pretty different from the talking and listening that goes on in psychotherapy.
2. Dozens of studies have confirmed that psychotherapy is both effective and efficacious.
3. It's worth pointing out here that some meta-analyses suggest that antidepressants aren't any more effective than psychotherapy when symptoms are mild to moderate.
4. We do not need psychotherapy.
5. Psychotherapy has long recognised this distinction.
outskirts
/ˈaʊtˌskɝts/
nounthe outer areas or parts of a city or town
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1. We traveled to the OUTSKIRTS of the CITY to the home of the TALIBAN's senior leader when the TALIBAN was in charge in this country.
2. Just 33 years old, he is now the CHIEF to some 5,000 people in a COMMUNITY on the OUTSKIRTS of MANAUS.
3. On the OUTSKIRTS of the nation's CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.'s most VULNERABLE residents say they were suffering long before the Coronavirus Hit.
4. Probing the OUTSKIRTS of SATURN.
5. The massing on the OUTSKIRTS of where the HURRICANE will have the most impact ready to go in.
to outstrip
/aʊtˈstɹɪp/
verbto posses or reach a higher level of skill, success, value, or quantity than another person or thing
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1. So they just far outstrip every other state.
2. demand is outstripping supply.
3. Therefore populations will always outstrip their resource base.
4. But now reality is outstripping those projections.
5. The warthog's little legs can't outstrip The dogs' athletic strides.
to outweigh
/ˈaʊtˌweɪ/
verbbe heavier than
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1. National prestige outweighed concerns about profitability, at least for a little while.
2. The benefits have to outweigh the cost.
3. For the mongoose, the reward outweighs the risk.
4. The right to life outweighs the appeal to consequences.
5. The health hazards of this diet outweigh its benefits.
fertile
/ˈfɝtəɫ/, /fɝˈtaɪɫ/
adjective(of an animal, person, or plant) able to produce offspring or fruit or seed
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1. This guy's fertile.
2. The earth is fertile.
3. The soil is beautifully fertile here.
4. So the land is fertile.
5. Such transforming and transcendent interpretations are often fertile.
to fertilize
/ˈfɝtəˌɫaɪz/
verbincrease productivity of the soil by spreading suitable substances on it
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1. The sperm fertilizes the egg.
2. The male gamete fertilizes a female gamete.
3. Tip number seven: Fertilize your tomatoes.
4. Fertilize the oceans.
5. The male fertilizes a seed.
fertilisation
/fˌɜːɾɪləzˈeɪʃən/
nouncreation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
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1. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
2. Fertilisation occurs in all flowering plants, some of which like wheat, potatoes and rice are staple crops - food that is eaten in large amounts as part of a community’s daily diet and provides a large fraction of their energy and nutrient needs.
3. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
4. Fertilisation occurs in all flowering plants, some of which like wheat, potatoes and rice are staple crops - food that is eaten in large amounts as part of a community's daily diet and provides a large fraction of their energy and nutrient needs.
5. For a lot of people out there, two years is too long to wait, so they turn to the alternative fertilisation options offered by the black market.
to besmear
/bɪsmˈɪɹ/
verbspread or daub (a surface)
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to besmirch
/bɪsmˈɜːtʃ/
verbcharge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
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1. We don't want to besmirch his reputation.
2. Don't let Nick besmirch my good reputation.
3. Hey, don't you ever besmirch Billy, - I can't stop, I can't stop.
4. Because her reputation was so besmirched by history.
5. In a previous episode, I think I besmirched the name of maple syrup.