to embody
/ɪmˈbɑdi/
verbrepresent, as of a character on stage
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1. Back in the day, Forever 21 embodied the American dream.
2. The Windrush generation embodies a pivotal moment in British history.
3. - Embody the spirit of the gamer.
4. The American grizzly embodies the spirit of America.
5. To many Chinese, this moment embodied their greatest shame.
embodied
/ɪmˈbɑdid/
adjectivepossessing or existing in bodily form
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1. Representative lewis has EMBODIED the virtues of COURAGE, COMMITMENT, RESILIENCE and timism in his lifelong fight for SOCIAL justice and Universal Human Rights.
2. He dearly LOVED and whose values he EMBODIED.
3. I had to become more embodied.
4. A Freeze John Lewis used to describe the Nonviolent Resistance and PROTEST he EMBODIED throughout his LIFETIME.
5. Monroe gave his life HUNDREDS of MARINES were SAVED, as he LAY dying on the deck, his FINAL question EMBODIED devotion that sales with every Coast Guard Memory.
embodiment
/ɛmˈbɑdimənt/
nouna new personification of a familiar idea
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1. Physical money is the embodiment of value.
2. And this video was our embodiment of that message.
3. That is embodiment.
4. As confirmed by the show's creators, the main characters are living embodiments of Greed, Lust, Sloth, Gluttony, Wrath, Pride, and Envy.
5. Transcendence is valued over physical embodiment.
inhospitable
/ˌɪnhɑˈspɪtəbəɫ/, /ɪnˈhɑspətəbəɫ/
adjectiveunfavorable to life or growth
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1. The whole region was inhospitable untamed jungle.
2. Grinding away tirelessly in inhospitable environments, under uncharitable overlords.
3. He came up in very inhospitable circumstances.
4. Some day, Earth's surface could become inhospitable for humans.
5. These extreme survivors use the inhospitable environment as protection against predators.
inhuman
/ˌɪnˈhjumən/
adjectivelacking compassion, empathy, or any qualities traditionally associated with human beings
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1. "It's inhuman."
2. Inhuman miners have worked the stone for millennia.
3. Each Inhuman has vastly different powers.
4. That is inhuman.
5. You felt inhuman.
ingratitude
/ɪnɡɹˈæɾɪtˌuːd/
nouna lack of gratitude
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1. My gift to you a brand new attitude Complacency is just as dangerous as ingratitude.
2. But that's what the story is about is, it's not really so much about greed, it's about ingratitude.
3. That's being ungrateful, and ingratitude is immoral.
4. Perhaps irritated by Han ingratitude, Emperor Vima Takto raised a force of 70,000 horsemen, placed it under a senior general and had it cross the Pamir Mountains.
5. I love and can love only that earth which I have left, stained with my blood, when, in my ingratitude, I quenched my life with a bullet in my heart.
to ingratiate
/ˌɪŋˈɡɹeɪʃiˌeɪt/
verbgain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
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1. The 23- year-old university student ingratiated himself to the French overlords and quickly took on the trappings of French privilege.
2. You know, you learned about the city, you ingratiated yourself to the people.
3. They will be ingratiating him.
4. I'm not going to ingratiate one thing and play something up.
5. You might be ingratiating, again, or, between them, you might be friendly.
ingrate
/ɪnɡɹˈeɪt/
nouna person who shows no gratitude
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1. And, yo, I'm no ingrate ♪
2. It can take years and a lot of work to realise we are imprinted to follow fools and ingrates.
3. Great for who ingrate when?
4. Now, I'm going to set aside here, because I can't deal with it, this little outburst that seems so incredibly indecorous and inappropriate, "ingrate."
privateer
/pɹˌaɪvətˈɪɹ/
nouna privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
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1. Teach was somewhat successful as a privateer.
2. - In 1619, the English privateer ship, white lion landed at Point Comfort in Virginia.
3. It was built by privateers.
4. It's one of her privateers.
5. - We are Ye Banished Privateers.
privation
/pɹaɪˈveɪʃən/
nounact of depriving someone of food or money or rights
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1. Along that desperate and dangerous journey, Nadja and Bruno met migrants from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, most fleeing privation, conflict, political persecution, or a combination of all three, and one group in particular, men from Bangladesh.
2. Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.
3. Monck himself wasn’t exempt from this period’s privations, suffering similar varieties of discomfort and deprivation as his troops.
4. The ingenuity of Madame de Malrive's tenderness found, however, the day after his arrival, a means of tempering their privation.
5. They are not undesirable if you believe as he does that even the best city must provide provisions for war, and therefore a warrior's life, a soldier's life, will require harsh privation in terms of material rewards and benefits as well as a willingness to sacrifice for others.
privy
/ˈpɹɪvi/
adjective(followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known
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1. We are not privy to the results.
2. I wasn’t privy to that.
3. The privy council had to deal with it in other ways.
4. Only close relatives and friends are privy to your thoughts and feelings.
5. Harry's brother, Prince William, was also privy to the conversation.
chaste
/ˈtʃeɪst/
adjectivemorally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
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1. It's a very chaste image but also one - an image of fertility and a clear sense that the benefit, the result, of the driving out of the Dakota form Minnesota and the success of white conquest is the arrival of a tree full of babies.
2. Don't you see that by his grace I have been for many years now careful to lead a chaste and sober life?
3. It's more chaste than it appears.
4. So look at line 423 of Comus, where the elder brother explains that the chaste Lady can actually travel anywhere she pleases utterly unafraid.
5. Indeed, probably he was chaste.
chastity
/ˈtʃæstəti/
nounabstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
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1. Ye olde chastity belt.
2. Today, chastity belts have made a resurgence for use in sexual role-playing.
3. If anything, her chastity will only attract such injuries.
4. Chastity belts are a medieval joke.
5. Always wear a chastity belt ♪ -
to chastise
/tʃæˈstaɪz/
verbto severely criticize or scold
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1. My brother chastised me recently.
2. He chastises and upbraids the Israelites for their rebellion and failures.
3. They chastise the people.
4. You are being chastised.
5. You are being chastised.
herbaceous
/ɝˈbeɪʃəs/
adjectivecharacteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part
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1. The green chorizo, it's a really herbaceous sausage.
2. It is an herbaceous flavor.
3. Now, there are two principles to herbaceous borders.
4. They fall under the category of herbaceous plants and are only cultivated for their edible parts.
5. So it's more herbaceous.
herbarium
/ɝˈbɛˌɹiəm/, /hɝˈbɛˌɹiəm/
nouna collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study
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1. We have about three million specimens in our herbarium.
2. We have been doing research on botany, and we have a small herbarium of 4,500 sheets of plants.
3. I housed that 4,000 material at the herbarium of Makerere University.
4. I devoted half of it to rebuild the herbarium, because we didn't have good infrastructure to start plants.
5. I had opportunity to go all over, where herbarium for my African material is.
herbivorous
/ɝˈbɪvɝəs/, /hɝˈbɪvɝəs/
adjectivefeeding only on plants
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1. But still the elephant loses a lot to Argentinosaurus - the largest herbivorous dinosaur in the world.
2. They're herbivorous.
3. Now gorillas share 98% of our DNA and their digestive tract is almost identical to ours and apart from the occasional insects again they're herbivorous.
4. Who is completely herbivorous.
5. There are herbivorous fish.
dolor
/dˈɑːlɚ/
noun(poetry) painful grief
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1. And so, medical students still, today, learn the Latin terms for these different stages, which are calor, rubor, tumor, and dolor.
2. He's like, we're dolor based, we're from the northern part of Spain.
dolorous
/dˈɑːlɚɹəs/
adjectivecausing or displaying great sadness or distress
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