violation
/vaɪəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe act of breaking a legal code
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1. Should the government forgive violations of immigration law?
2. Violation of this would mean a substantial monetary fine and imprisonment.
3. Is the situation a violation?
4. Discriminatory laws, assaults on the independence of the judiciary, suppression of political competition, police violence, and similar products of populism are human rights violations.
5. 50 years, never had a violation?
violator
/ˈvaɪəˌɫeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone who assaults others sexually
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1. Violators are charged between $500 and $1500 per legal call.
2. Violators must be punished! -
3. Violators faced heavy fines.
4. One of them is a human rights violator.
5. The violators received five-day jail sentences and a fine.
maraud
/mɝˈɔd/
nouna sudden short attack
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1. Or, used for victory celebrations as the trophies of marauding men.
2. For the point here, as the leader of this portion of the marauder tribe, Barfta likes nice things.
3. - It's a marauder song.
4. A Genoese admiral by the name of Andrea Doria had been marauding Ottoman holdings in the Peloponnese.
5. There are marauding predators everywhere.
marauder
/mɝˈɔdɝ/
nounsomeone who attacks in search of booty
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1. And Ben's co-writing my Marauders' issues and Vita's got a standalone Marauder story.
2. And Ben's co-writing my Marauders' issues and Vita's got a standalone Marauder story.
3. They reference the Trexler marauder.
4. In fact, the Marauder has several benefits as a city runabout.
5. The Marauder has got 290 brake horsepower and a top speed of just 70 miles an hour, which admittedly isn't brilliant.
to deprave
/diˈpɹeɪv/
verbcorrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
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1. In combination with this came an intense feeling of panic and alarm over the depraved outcome I knew this event risked having on my students, all students.
2. This is absolutely disgusting, depraved.
3. Your Honor, these defendants are nothing less than depraved hyper sociopath who think nothing of human life.
4. - Depraved man raped and beat that woman there and he'd like to do it again.
5. It's demented, its depraved.
depravity
/dɪˈpɹævəti/
nounmoral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
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1. But depravity among the girls and improper guardianship-- he girls and their mothers-- were the races most serious defects.
2. Every day with Steven, I discover a new depth of the depravity.
3. There's just no end to the depravity.
4. Both of you have fallen further into depravity over the past couple of years.
5. And so you see your depictions of black depravity, of desire for white women.
to deprecate
/ˈdɛpɹəˌkeɪt/
verbexpress strong disapproval of; deplore
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1. At the end of the paragraph, "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war."
2. Just think if Lincoln would have said it this way: Both parties deprecated war but those Confederates, those rebels, those traitors.
3. Both parties deprecated war"-- Eight times in these brief sentences Lincoln uses the consonant di.
4. And I say that not at all to self deprecate.
5. - It's deprecating.
to depreciate
/dɪˈpɹiʃiˌeɪt/
verbto diminish in value, especially over time
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1. Now with tiny homes, they generally depreciate.
2. It depreciates very quickly, and a phone from last year, or the year before, can accomplish the same thing.
3. Usually, the structure itself depreciates - styles change and wood rots, but the land underneath it appreciates.
4. Depreciating assets.
5. And they depreciate over time, the majority of them.
depreciation
/dɪˌpɹiʃiˈeɪʃən/
nouna decrease in price or value
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1. So, the yen's depreciation means import costs are much higher.
2. If you own real estate, you can now deduct things as depreciation, real estate taxes, property taxes.
3. That’s depreciation.
4. Then you have to factor in fleet maintenance and the vehicles’ depreciation.
5. And that is potentially some depreciation in that athletic ability.
to allocate
/ˈæɫəˌkeɪt/
verbto give something particular to someone or to use something for a specific purpose
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1. Judy, the new law allocates $5 billion for farmers of color.
2. And so every society allocates labor one way or another.
3. Step 4, allocate time to interact with them, your stakeholders.
4. they allocate time energy and resources 4.
5. Investors with a higher risk tolerance might allocate a smaller amount to income-producing investments.
to allot
/əˈɫɑt/
verbgive out
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1. We have allotted ten minutes for questions and answers at the end of each session.
2. Like, on the run of show, I allotted five minutes for apron shots.
3. They're allotted a certain amount of shares to distribute to their clients.
4. Babies were allotted well-paid wet nurses who were regularly subject to inspection by sisters of the order.
5. So women are allotted more rights.
to alloy
/ˈæˌɫɔɪ/
verbmake an alloy of
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1. It has to be alloyed with other metals.
2. Various tools require various alloys for hardness.
3. Cast iron is always an alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon.
4. This is a shape memory alloy.
5. These cool alloys perfectly match the overall modern exterior.
colloquial
/kəˈɫoʊkwiəɫ/
adjectivecharacteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
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1. For years the community used colloquial terms for the feeling without consensus on what to call it.
2. It's a colloquial word- - Grub.
3. That English expression is quite colloquial.
4. We call it colloquial usage.
5. But it also has a colloquial meaning as well.
colloquy
/ˈkɑɫəkwi/
nounformal conversation
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1. But before the verdict came in was when the plea colloquy took place.
2. And after the plea colloquy, the judge found the note indicating that the jury had acquitted him, which has got to be the most devastating feeling of all.
3. Then 30 days later, he files a motion to withdraw the guilty plea, full colloquy, no issues.
4. The district court, within the context of guilty pleas, doesn't have to run the colloquy again.
5. He argues also that the transcript of the magistrate's colloquy with Mr. Mendez was not admitted into evidence.
variable
/ˈvɛɹiəbəɫ/
adjectiveliable to or capable of change
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1. Our next word is VARIABLE.
2. Variables means choices or possibilities, variables, choices or possibilities.
3. Breadcrumbs are infinitely variable.
4. The parts at the end of the Y's are variable.
5. And those questions all have variables to them.
variant
/ˈvɛɹiənt/
adjectivediffering in certain aspects or characteristics from the standard or common form
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1. COVID variants are among the chief culprits.
2. One is the variants.
3. That slightly altered virus is a variant.
4. Some variants have a 100% mortality rate.
5. Because different variants have different calories.
metronome
/mˈɛtɹənˌoʊm/
nounclicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music
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1. So this represents two metronomes with different frequencies.
2. Metronome setting.
3. Metronome setting.
4. That was a metronome, though. -
5. I have some metronomes here.
metropolis
/məˈtɹɑpəɫəs/
nouna large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
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1. It's a bustling metropolis.
2. Metropolis is a huge city.
3. The metropolis is the center of this unsettled world that Marx describes.
4. Life in the modern metropolis was de-familiarizing.
5. A dhow against the modern backdrop of Abu Dhabi symbolizes the rapid growth from fishing settlement to booming metropolis.
florid
/ˈfɫɔɹəd/
adjectiveelaborately or excessively ornamented
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1. The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus.
2. And his face was florid.
3. They don’t go about it in a florid manner.
4. They don’t go about it in a florid manner.
5. The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus.
floridness
/flˈɔːɹɪdnəs/
nounextravagant elaborateness
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