perspective
/pɝˈspɛktɪv/
nouna specific manner of considering something; a certain attitude toward something
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1. That sheer expansion of scale gives me perspective.
2. Age brings perspective.
3. Disability depends on perspective.
4. Guys, perspective is the game.
5. Perspective matters, too.
perspicacious
/pɝspəˈkeɪʃəs/
adjectivementally acute or penetratingly discerning
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1. I'm wondering, is there one of these that's more fruitful, more perspicacious for thinking about quantum computing than the others.
2. This week's episode was brought to you by the hard work of these perspicacious individuals.
3. So, I wanted to write something that was more perspicacious, if I could manage that.
4. But at the same time they had a perspicacious knowledge of the forest that was astonishing.
perspicacity
/pɚspɪkˈæsɪɾi/
nounthe capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
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1. Defenders of the test agree that grades are important but they also argue that it's better to have more information about an applicant especially considering that grade inflation is a lot more common in some high schools than others but with the standardized test, everyone's taking the same thing and is scored the exact same way and the testing industry claimed that the test are continually evolving to better measure relevant skills and test that students are actually learning in high school rather than whether they can remember the definition of legerdemain and perspicacity.
2. These are men and women who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon, simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessel, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its unique refractive pattern that can be read with the same perspicacity with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.
perspicuous
/pɚspˈɪkjuːəs/
adjective(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
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to divulge
/daɪˈvəɫdʒ/, /dɪˈvəɫdʒ/
verbmake known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
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1. But Theranos had divulged no reviews, no white papers, nothing.
2. Who divulged this?
3. He has never divulged the contents of what was found inside.
4. And I can't divulge all of the information.
5. He also divulged that he had multiple conversations with the Queen and Charles about his future in the royal family.
divulgence
/daɪvˈʌldʒəns/
nounthe act of disclosing something that was secret or private
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to introspect
/ˈɪntɹəˌspɛkt/
verbreflect on one's own thoughts and feelings
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1. We need to introspect.
2. You can't introspect and find them.
3. Introspect and think about it while this is suddenly thrust on you.
4. Introspect a minute.
5. So always introspect and figure out the things that could help you in your journey.
introvert
/ˈɪntɹoʊˌvɝt/
noun(psychology) a person who is preoccupied with their own thoughts and feelings rather than the external world
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1. Introverts unite separately.
2. Introverts may also have smaller social groups as a result.
3. Can introverts lead too?
4. Even introverts go out at least once a week.
5. Introverts rejoice!
intrinsic
/ˌɪnˈtɹɪnsɪk/
adjectivebelonging to something or someone's character and nature
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1. Pretty simple-- moats add intrinsic value.
2. None of it is intrinsic.
3. So success for me was very intrinsic.
4. Confidence is almost entirely intrinsic.
5. The point about democracy is intrinsic.
valid
/ˈvæɫɪd/
adjectivewell grounded in logic or truth or having legal force
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1. Your life is valid.
2. Your choices are valid.
3. Your knowledge is valid.
4. Your voice is valid.
5. Every emotion is valid.
to validate
/ˈvæɫədeɪt/
verbprove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
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1. As of February 2019, the monitor validated almost one point three billion dollars in relief.
2. It validates my work.
3. Does the water resistant features validate the price?
4. Doctors validate all of our content.
5. Validate your emotions.
to ameliorate
/əˈmiɫjɝˌeɪt/
verbto make something, particularly something unpleasant or unsatisfactory, better or more bearable
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1. And I think it's ameliorating a little bit.
2. What does ameliorate mean any way?
3. I'm going to ameliorate the situation of enslaved people.
4. When this became especially bad, rubaums repeatedly tried to ameliorate the issue by cancelling all debts and resetting from a blank slate.
5. Being low in sodium, it is an excellent addition to ameliorate kidney disease.
amelioration
/əˌmiɫjɝˈeɪʃən/
nounthe act of relieving ills and changing for the better
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1. But there can never be safety - and that is why for Camus we need to love our fellow damned humans and work without hope or despair for the amelioration of suffering.
2. Its most immediate objectives were frequently the defense or the amelioration of a threatening economic situation.
3. And it's also becoming apparent, in both the medical community and the pharmaceutical community-- and Nathan was talking about this earlier-- that our traditional ways of relying heavily on animal experimentation are falling short in terms of our expectations for human health ameliorations.
4. Nothing about the President's speech, or his photo opportunity was about reconciliation, about progress, about repair, or even about amelioration or de-escalation of the protests.
5. The terminology I want to point you to here I came across this in the climatology literature, reading books from the 1940s and 50s where they were commenting on this rise, but they refer to it as quote, "the recent amelioration of climate."
to disengage
/dɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
verbrelease from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
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1. 51% of the management workforce is disengaged at work.
2. Force coming in sideway, disengage.
3. Disengaging their colleagues.
4. Number two, is disengage emotionally.
5. Your personality and morality are disengaged.
to disentangle
/ˌdɪsənˈtæŋɡəɫ/
verbextricate from entanglement
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1. And this is really the key to disentangling from toxic relationships.
2. So the two worlds in many ways are more disentangled than they ever had been before.
3. And so I'm going to disentangle all this for you by giving you some examples.
4. And we don't really yet have a powerful method for disentangling these two effects.
5. We can never disentangle those two faces of beauty when we quite literally face the world.
disfavor
/dɪsˈfeɪvɝ/
nounan inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
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1. A weaker cis-regulator is always disfavored.
2. The intent of R.A.V. was to ensure that the government did not abuse unprotected categories of speech in order to disfavor speakers.
3. Steric hindrance tends to disfavor SN2 processes.
4. It does it by disfavoring SN2.
5. However, during the period in which the character of Mattie was off on her adventure (1880s), in formal writing contractions were absolutely disfavored.
to disfigure
/dɪsˈfɪɡjɝ/
verbmar or spoil the appearance of
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1. They get a little bit disfigured.
2. Back at the care center, the creepy little kid sic’s the disfigured Yoko on Alex.
3. Contracting smallpox as a child, Stalin would be disfigured for life with his signature facial scars which only added to his tough exterior demeanor.
4. There's something disfigured.
5. Do people come out horribly disfigured?
pragmatic
/pɹæɡˈmætɪk/
adjectivebased on practical considerations rather than theory
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1. Airlines are pragmatic.
2. Pragmatic businesses are everywhere.
3. Pragmatic businesses dominate the economy.
4. What is pragmatic capitalism?
5. Otherwise, judges must respect politically pragmatic decisions.
pragmatist
/ˈpɹæɡmətɪst/
nouna person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions
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1. Joe Cannon was a pragmatist who was happy on a small town porch.
2. I'm a pragmatist.
3. They are pragmatists, or they are concerned with practicality.
4. He's German, and a pragmatist.
5. So there are pragmatists in the room.
pragmatism
/ˈpɹæɡməˌtɪzəm/
nounthe attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
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1. You've made a case for pragmatism basically.
2. There’s beauty in pragmatism.
3. Pragmatism and work with people that have an interest in real solutions.
4. A flat one speaks of pragmatism and sticking to the facts.
5. Like, pragmatism is lost.