to accouter
/ɐkˈuːɾɚ/
verb
provide with military equipment

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accouterment
/əˈkutɝmənt/
noun
clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
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1Got my quesadilla, all accouterments included by HelloFresh, got my beans and lunch is served.
2And these parlor immigrants who surrounded themselves with the accouterments of the bourgeoisie, which was groundbreaking in its way of disrupting the usual bromides of labor, history, and social history.
3We bought-- for $100, we bought a small press with all the accouterments and things.
4They are the group least likely to experience the accouterments of citizenship.
5Two, do pair your double-breasted jackets with informal accessories and accouterments like shoes.
faction
/ˈfækʃən/
noun
a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
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1There are factions.
2Factions had formed.
3Next, players choose factions.
4So we need more factions.
5But that faction, that second faction doesn't win the argument.
factious
/fˈækʃəs/
adjective
dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
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1You couldn't get rid of faction by saying to men, it's not good to be factious, you should think of the whole community at all times.
2Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.
to vilify
/ˈvɪɫɪˌfaɪ/
verb
spread negative information about
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1In many democratic countries around the world, charismatic leaders vilify political opponents, disparage institutions, and claim the mantle of the people.
2So the southern press would have vilified him.
3Trans women are vilified when coming to hospitals.
4So we have been vilified.
5What kinds are vilified?
vilification
/ˌvɪɫəfəˈkeɪʃən/
noun
slanderous defamation
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1Those news organizations searched for the truth and told it, undeterred by pushback, or pressure, or vilification.
2Those news organizations searched for the truth and told it, undeterred by pushback, or pressure, or vilification.
3If the purpose of the unprecedented vilification of Waring was intended to cower him, it did not work.
4Number one: The fox snake is a classic case of vilification based on this identification.
5And of course, Labour supporters will argue that this was all down to a vilification campaign.
parlor
/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/
noun
reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
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1Tattoo parlors even advertised this service!
2Parlor, all of these things really energized people right up before the insurrection.
3--in the parlor.
4Who says massage parlors?
5You can block parlor.
parliament
/ˈpɑɹɫəmənt/
noun
the group of elected politicians whose responsibility is changing or making laws or discussing political matters
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1The UK is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one member of parliament (M.P.) to represent them.
2He needs a parliament.
3But meanwhile parliament had reopened negotiations with the King.
4Politically, parliament saw the emergence that winter of three broad groupings.
5Parliament enacts through this legislation a mechanism for the state control of the press.
to evanesce
/ˈɛvənˌɛs/
verb
disappear gradually

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evanescence
/ˌɛvəˈnɛsəns/
noun
the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
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1But anyway, this practice of ground-calligraphy, I think it chimes with a certain strand of evanescence or disappearance in Chinese art of recent decades.
2And evanescence is also the emission of light.
3Making the Top Five is Amy Lee from Evanescence.
4Okay, like I said again in my Ghost Love Score thing, she is treating it alot like Amy Lee from Evanescence or whomever and she went before Amy or right around the same time.
5- Hey guys, I'm Amy Lee from Evanescence and I'm here with Buzzfeed to take the quiz to find out which classic alt rock band I am.
evanescent
/ˌɛvəˈnɛsənt/
adjective
fading out of existence, mind, or sight quickly
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1We are miniscule bundles of evanescent matter on an infinitesimal corner of a boundless universe.
2So the writer has tried everything in his search for something that's permanent and not evanescent.
3The ostent evanescent, The substance of an artist's mood or savan's studies long, Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's toils, To fashion his eidolon.
4So, fear is evanescent.
5Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
objective
/əbˈdʒɛktɪv/
noun
a goal that one wants to achieve
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1None of us is objective.
2Science is objective.
3Certain funds have different objectives as well.
4John Macomber: Objectives key performance indicators and results.
5Objective: show power and the muscles of the coalition.
objector
/əbˈdʒɛktɝ/
noun
a person who dissents from some established policy
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1During World War Two in the US, some conscientious objectors volunteered for medical research as an alternative way to serve their country.
2Six were objectors.
3There were few conscientious objectors in Germany.
4Because my father himself, and my three uncles, in World War II, were all conscientious objectors, all pussycats.
5Is it the opinion of religious objectors?
to remunerate
/ɹɪmˌjunɝˈeɪt/
verb
make payment to; compensate
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1Those that can bill for scans or procedures are best remunerated and there is ample scope for involvement with the pharmaceutical or lucrative device industry, If that's what inflates your balloon.
2And you seem to see, and many studies have shown this recently, that creators seems to be a little bit the loser of the system because they are most of the time not really remunerated.
3So here is one of the findings that has been recently put out by a group of researcher at the University of Glasgow that showed basically that only the top-selling authors are rewarded by the system and that we have to look for other mechanism to remunerate creators.
4But it's more like, look at these limitations as a way to remunerate creators differently.
5They pay royalties over the sales to the patent holders, so they are remunerated for sharing their intellectual property.
remuneration
/ɹɪmˌjunɝˈeɪʃən/
noun
something that remunerates
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1I've got a question about transparency of remuneration.
2As of August 8, 1947 BILLY has not received any remuneration for the use of this negative.
3There's remuneration.
4We know statutory remuneration.
5But these remunerations stick to the creators.
extrajudicial
/ˌɛkstɹədʒuːdˈɪʃəl/
adjective
beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted
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1Like the slave codes, the Black codes legitimized white supremacist extrajudicial vigilantism and anti-Black violence.
2The United Nations human rights body says it has received reports of sexual gender-based violence, rape, extrajudicial killings, among other crimes allegedly committed in the period of fighting.
3We used to find out after the extrajudicial police killings.
4You know, extrajudicial killing, hey, that really works for Rodrigo Duterte.
5She said Khashoggi had been the victim of deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia was responsible under international human rights law.
extraordinary
/ˌɛkstɹəˈɔɹdəˌnɛɹi/, /ɪkˈstɹɔɹdəˌnɛɹi/
adjective
very unusual, special, or surprising
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1The refinement in this thing is extraordinary.
2The unrest and the fighting in the streets was extraordinary.
3Just the thematic expansion of the issue is extraordinary.
4The quality of life is extraordinary.
5These creatures are extraordinary.
to overthrow
/ˈoʊvɝˌθɹoʊ/
verb
to forcefully remove a person of authority or power from their position
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1The leaders of the French Revolution didn't just overthrow the monarchy.
2The Russian empire was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
3The regime is overthrown.
4The provisional government was overthrown.
5The usurper was quickly overthrown by one of Alauddin Khalji’s generals, Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq.
to overshadow
/ˈoʊvɝˈʃædoʊ/
verb
to cause a person or thing to come across as less significant
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1The Tea family has always been overshadowed.
2The history of the Byzantine empire is often overshadowed by the Western Roman empire.
3Three, Bond's style never overshadows him.
4Jessica Simpson Simpson's side hustle success has long overshadowed her relatively brief career as a pop and reality TV star.
5However, the excitement is overshadowed by mother Kim Plath's reluctance.

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