to dupe
/ˈdup/
verbto fool or trick someone
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1. He was duped.
2. They're duped.
3. I have two designer dupes.
4. Now, what is my designer dupe?
5. I'm a dupe.
duplex
/ˈduˌpɫɛks/
adjective(used technically of a device or process) having two parts
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1. I had a duplex along with my dog, my favorite companion Navarro.
2. - Could have a decent duplex.
3. This is called duplex fiber.
4. Eventually moving into duplex, bigger bigger units.
5. I bought a duplex.
duplicity
/duˈpɫɪsɪti/
nounthe type of behavior that is dishonest and contradictory and has deception as its motive
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1. There's duplicity in Frost's poetry, and there's a certain doubleness in the figure that he projects as a poet.
2. First of all it's a double-- has duplicity all over, this text has, it's a book of poetry and it's a book of prose.
3. It's about his engagement and disillusionment in the Spanish republican forces, the loyalist forces, and about the tensions and the duplicity of Stalin's folks undercutting the Trotskyites and undercutting the anarchists.
4. After a long time, the Sultan seemed to suspect the duplicity of his vizier, and not only deposed but banished him.
5. It was an odd circumstance of the case that, though Madame de Treymes' avowal of duplicity was fresh in his ears, he did not for a moment believe that she would deceive him again.
agrarian
/əˈɡɹɛɹiən/
adjectiverelating to farming or agriculture
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1. Well, similarly, agrarian disturbances present a less lurid picture than the one conjured up by the word "riot."
2. Surprisingly often agrarian riots were announced in advance.
3. And again, agrarian risings of this kind very rarely involved violence against people.
4. Agrarian riots were often in a similar way a particular stage in a process of dispute and negotiation.
5. He studied both law and agrarian history.
agriculture
/ˈæɡɹɪˌkəɫtʃɝ/
nouna large-scale farming enterprise
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1. Nonetheless, agriculture only makes up about 4% of their economic output.
2. With this new way of life comes agriculture.
3. Agriculture now consumes 70% of global freshwater resources.
4. Many scientists attribute agriculture to the rapid growth and global expansion of humans.
5. Here's another example from technology: agriculture.
inoffensive
/ˌɪnəˈfɛnsɪv/
adjectivegiving no offense
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1. Aesthetically, HTC's sense is relatively inoffensive.
2. A fib is a small inoffensive lie.
3. A fib is a small inoffensive lie.
4. These inoffensive reptiles were one of the groups that chose camouflage.
5. These inoffensive reptiles were one of the groups that chose camouflage.
inopportune
/ˌɪˌnɑpɝˈtun/
adjectivenot opportune
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1. And this seems a particularly inopportune time to take one of our best weapons so far and put it back on the shelf, even temporarily.
2. Trauma surgery gets a bad rap since traumas are unpredictable and can come in at any moment, seemingly at the most inopportune hours of the night.
3. We get visible armpit stains at the most inopportune moments: during a speech, on a date, at a job interview.
4. Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Roman procurator Gessius Florus chose this inopportune moment to collect overdue taxes.
5. Over the years, Eric has gotten into hot water for insensitively promoting the collection at inopportune moments during the Trump administration.
inordinate
/ˌɪˈnɔɹdənɪt/
adjectivebeyond normal limits
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1. This put an inordinate amount of pressure on the crew and some of them became overtaken with exhaustion.
2. Is it going to cost an inordinate amount of money?
3. But on top of that, the North Korean government also pumps an inordinate amount of propaganda and ideology, from a very young age, into the North Korean people, in a form of extreme indoctrination.
4. We have craved inordinate things.
5. And save an inordinate amount of money.
insatiable
/ˌɪnˈseɪʃəbəɫ/
adjectiveimpossible to satisfy
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1. We are insatiable.
2. Elizabeth’s appetite for blood was insatiable.
3. Your appetite for the wrong things is insatiable.
4. But the chicks are insatiable.
5. Having an insatiable curiosity.
vacuous
/ˈvækjuəs/
adjectivedevoid of matter
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1. Now, many philosophers find this solution troubling, because it kinda makes God’s goodness vacuous.
2. Although it appears that Kirby is just a vacuous pastel marshmallow, there must be some hidden wisdom that grants him the power he wields.
3. Like, are you vacuous or do you have some depth?
4. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss Mary Sutherland.
5. So it's either a black tent, or a giant, empty, vacuous room.
vacuum
/ˈvækjum/
nouna space that is utterly devoid of matter
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1. CSIs might even vacuum the entire area to collect tiny samples.
2. If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
3. Ride a horse, vacuum at the same time.
4. Dust then vacuum.
5. Now Matt is obviously just vacuuming our little landing and hallway.
militant
/ˈmɪɫətənt/
adjectiveshowing a fighting disposition
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1. Islamist militant groups are finding success in other ungoverned spaces as well.
2. You have black militants, certainly.
3. These young militants undertake a war on bourgeois specialists.
4. Also that year, Islamist militants killed 147 people at a university in northern Kenya.
5. Palestinian militants sometimes fire rockets at fnearby Israeli towns and cities.
militarism
/ˈmɪɫətɝˌɪzəm/
nouna political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
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1. These four things sparked an era of revolutions in democracy, but they also unleashed ideas of nationalism, militarism, and leader worship.
2. Militarism is basically at its heart, a problem solving ideology.
3. The military education also exposed him to the conservative militarism of Prussia at an early age.
4. It's not about militarism.
5. And ultimately, what are the connections between militarism and climate change?
to militate
/ˈmɪɫɪˌteɪt/
verbhave force or influence; bring about an effect or change
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1. Furthermore, prowess in one kind of race seems to militate against one’s chances of success in others.
2. And is likely to be entwined with a range of problematic attractions that militate in key ways against our chances of growth and happiness, as adults.
3. I think the AMERICAN people are going to MILITATE against THIS.
4. But there is something excessively unphilosophical in the attempt on the part of Le Moniteur, to rebut the general assertion of L’Etoile, by a citation of particular instances militating against that assertion.
5. Now, at first glance, this fact strongly militates against my suggestion;—but let us reflect.
militia
/məˈɫɪʃə/, /mɪˈɫɪʃə/
nouna military group consisting of civilians who have been trained as soldiers to help the army in emergencies
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1. The media will paint militia groups as anti-government.
2. In July, 1850, government troops attacked a God Worshippers’ militia.
3. But Kurdish militias successfully fought back.
4. We no longer had militias.
5. And the militias are still there.
apparent
/əˈpɛɹənt/
adjectivedescribing something that is easy to see or notice
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1. His bravery and cunning were immediately apparent.
2. Furthermore, over time, many discrepancies between the archeological record and the biblical text became apparent.
3. The downside of a sick building is much more apparent particularly.
4. The evils of a selective removal of jurisdiction in controversial cases are only too apparent.
5. Prerenal causes are usually apparent.
apparition
/ˌæpɝˈɪʃən/
nouna ghostly appearing figure
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1. It was an apparition.
2. He's a phantom, an apparition.
3. and it’s obviously a demonic apparition.
4. asked this apparition.
5. Look at that ghostly apparition!
duteous
/dˈuːɾiəs/
adjectivewillingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
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dutiable
/dˈuːʃɪəbəl/
adjectivesubject to import tax
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dutiful
/ˈdutifəɫ/
adjectivewillingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
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1. Also, the traditional picture of elite women particularly the wives of powerful men like the President has been one of dutiful wives following the dictates of husbands.
2. What if the women were not so dutiful?
3. In such circumstances, a dutiful father is key to survival.
4. At home, he was generally a dutiful husband.
5. Kate describes her dutiful helper.