accouterment
/əˈkutɝmənt/
nounclothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
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1. Got my quesadilla, all accouterments included by HelloFresh, got my beans and lunch is served.
2. And 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.
3. We bought-- for $100, we bought a small press with all the accouterments and things.
4. They are the group least likely to experience the accouterments of citizenship.
5. Two, do pair your double-breasted jackets with informal accessories and accouterments like shoes.
factious
/fˈækʃəs/
adjectivedissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
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1. You 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.
2. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.
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1. In many democratic countries around the world, charismatic leaders vilify political opponents, disparage institutions, and claim the mantle of the people.
2. So the southern press would have vilified him.
3. Trans women are vilified when coming to hospitals.
4. So we have been vilified.
5. What kinds are vilified?
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1. Those news organizations searched for the truth and told it, undeterred by pushback, or pressure, or vilification.
2. Those news organizations searched for the truth and told it, undeterred by pushback, or pressure, or vilification.
3. If the purpose of the unprecedented vilification of Waring was intended to cower him, it did not work.
4. Number one: The fox snake is a classic case of vilification based on this identification.
5. And of course, Labour supporters will argue that this was all down to a vilification campaign.
parlor
/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/
nounreception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
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1. Tattoo parlors even advertised this service!
2. Parlor, all of these things really energized people right up before the insurrection.
3. --in the parlor.
4. Who says massage parlors?
5. You can block parlor.
parliament
/ˈpɑɹɫəmənt/
nounthe group of elected politicians whose responsibility is changing or making laws or discussing political matters
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1. The UK is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one member of parliament (M.P.) to represent them.
2. He needs a parliament.
3. But meanwhile parliament had reopened negotiations with the King.
4. Politically, parliament saw the emergence that winter of three broad groupings.
5. Parliament enacts through this legislation a mechanism for the state control of the press.
evanescence
/ˌɛvəˈnɛsəns/
nounthe event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
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1. But anyway, this practice of ground-calligraphy, I think it chimes with a certain strand of evanescence or disappearance in Chinese art of recent decades.
2. And evanescence is also the emission of light.
3. Making the Top Five is Amy Lee from Evanescence.
4. Okay, 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/
adjectivefading out of existence, mind, or sight quickly
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1. We are miniscule bundles of evanescent matter on an infinitesimal corner of a boundless universe.
2. So the writer has tried everything in his search for something that's permanent and not evanescent.
3. The 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.
4. So, fear is evanescent.
5. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
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1. None of us is objective.
2. Science is objective.
3. Certain funds have different objectives as well.
4. John Macomber: Objectives key performance indicators and results.
5. Objective: show power and the muscles of the coalition.
objector
/əbˈdʒɛktɝ/
nouna person who dissents from some established policy
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1. During World War Two in the US, some conscientious objectors volunteered for medical research as an alternative way to serve their country.
2. Six were objectors.
3. There were few conscientious objectors in Germany.
4. Because my father himself, and my three uncles, in World War II, were all conscientious objectors, all pussycats.
5. Is it the opinion of religious objectors?
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1. Those 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.
2. And 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.
3. So 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.
4. But it's more like, look at these limitations as a way to remunerate creators differently.
5. They pay royalties over the sales to the patent holders, so they are remunerated for sharing their intellectual property.
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1. I've got a question about transparency of remuneration.
2. As of August 8, 1947 BILLY has not received any remuneration for the use of this negative.
3. There's remuneration.
4. We know statutory remuneration.
5. But these remunerations stick to the creators.
extrajudicial
/ˌɛkstɹədʒuːdˈɪʃəl/
adjectivebeyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted
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1. Like the slave codes, the Black codes legitimized white supremacist extrajudicial vigilantism and anti-Black violence.
2. The 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.
3. We used to find out after the extrajudicial police killings.
4. You know, extrajudicial killing, hey, that really works for Rodrigo Duterte.
5. She 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/
adjectivevery unusual, special, or surprising
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1. The refinement in this thing is extraordinary.
2. The unrest and the fighting in the streets was extraordinary.
3. Just the thematic expansion of the issue is extraordinary.
4. The quality of life is extraordinary.
5. These creatures are extraordinary.
to overthrow
/ˈoʊvɝˌθɹoʊ/
verbto forcefully remove a person of authority or power from their position
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1. The leaders of the French Revolution didn't just overthrow the monarchy.
2. The Russian empire was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
3. The regime is overthrown.
4. The provisional government was overthrown.
5. The usurper was quickly overthrown by one of Alauddin Khalji’s generals, Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq.
to overshadow
/ˈoʊvɝˈʃædoʊ/
verbto cause a person or thing to come across as less significant
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1. The Tea family has always been overshadowed.
2. The history of the Byzantine empire is often overshadowed by the Western Roman empire.
3. Three, Bond's style never overshadows him.
4. Jessica Simpson Simpson's side hustle success has long overshadowed her relatively brief career as a pop and reality TV star.
5. However, the excitement is overshadowed by mother Kim Plath's reluctance.
