virile
/ˈvɪɹəɫ/
adjectivecharacteristic of a man
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1. So, you can still be virile - Dr. Chwalek:
2. He's virile.
3. He's nowhere near as virile as he once was.
4. It reinforces the homoerotic charge of their dance, and the way Nathan observes his virile body as they dance together.
5. He's virile, he's masculine.
virago
/vɪˈɹɑˌɡoʊ/
nouna woman who is ill-tempered or aggressive
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bellicose
/ˈbɛɫəˌkoʊs/
adjectivedisplaying a willingness to start an argument, fight, or war
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1. You're bellicose.
2. What does bellicose mean?
3. Bellicose, you're prone to warfare.
4. This expansion put them on the doorstep of another bellicose Empire, the Hittites.
5. The animal was studying him with bellicose curiosity.
belligerent
/bəˈɫɪdʒɝənt/
adjectivecharacteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
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1. They can be belligerent.
2. But a total of 72 nations were belligerents in the second world war.
3. When the United States became belligerent.
4. They're equally belligerent.
5. And these new belligerent cops assault the mother.
viceroy
/ˈvaɪsɹɔɪ/
nounshowy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller
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1. Luckily for him, in 1939 a family acquaintance had been appointed as the new Viceroy for the East African colonies.
2. I’ll treat with the Viceroy on equal terms.
3. The Viceroy shall do it for me.
4. At the same time, his stepson the viceroy of Italy, Eugène de Beauharnais, was hard-pressed by the brother of Charles, Archduke John, and the march on Vienna could have compelled John to retreat from Italy.
5. He's the viceroy.
vicarious
/vaɪˈkɛɹiəs/
adjectiveexperienced at secondhand
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1. That's not vicarious.
2. Federal employees enjoyed vicarious protection.
3. Nature accepts no vicarious sacrifice, no vicarious service.
4. Nature accepts no vicarious sacrifice, no vicarious service.
5. And what happens when tragedy becomes secondhand, becomes vicarious tragedy.
aversion
/əˈvɝʒən/
nouna strong feeling of dislike toward someone or something
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1. Loss aversion is a classic copywriting technique.
2. You can introduce risk aversion, all sorts of other things.
3. However, any negative experience will cause fear and aversion.
4. No, I have more aversions.
5. That quantifies risk aversion.
to avert
/əˈvɝt/
verbto prevent something dangerous or unpleasant from happening
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1. - Avert your gaze.
2. Crisis averted.
3. Crisis averted!
4. Avert your eyes kids!
5. Crisis averted!
subjacent
/sˈʌbdʒeɪsənt/
adjectivelying nearby but lower
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subjection
/sʌbdʒˈɛkʃən/
nounthe act of conquering
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1. The goal of the Persians was the absolute subjection of Greece.
2. He wrote On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and finally on The Subjection of Women.
3. It is with subjection to compulsory licenses of member states for failure to work or insufficient working invention.
4. There's a new subjection of language, the subjection of language to a new altered style.
5. There's a new subjection of language, the subjection of language to a new altered style.
to subjugate
/ˈsəbdʒəˌɡeɪt/
verbput down by force or intimidation
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1. The local people were subjugated.
2. This treaty threatened your subjugate.
3. From 1236-37, the Volga Bulghars, Kipchaks and Mordvins were subjugated.
4. In the east, the direct Ashina line subjugated two primary rival nomadic nations.
5. The Eastern Turkic Khaganate was subjugated in 630, followed by its Western counterpart in 642.
bureau
/ˈbjʊɹoʊ/
nouna division of a government department
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1. It was a speaker's bureau.
2. The bureau bungled it.
3. The bureau guy already went to court for it already.
4. The Freedmen's Bureau establishes free labor arrangements in former plantation areas.
5. The Freedmen's Bureau record on this front is mixed at best.
bureaucracy
/bjʊˈɹɑkɹəsi/
nounnonelective government officials
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1. Aztec bureaucracy included tax collection, judiciary system, and censuses.
2. Bureaucracy achieves its power via knowledge.
3. And finally, bureaucracy developed.
4. Bureaucracy is domination through knowledge.
5. This reduces bureaucracy, authority and corruption.
to fete
/ˈfeɪt/
verbhave a celebration
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1. On July 6th, 1957, the Quarry Men played the Woolton village fete and one of Lennon’s bandmates decided Lennon should be introduced to a friend of his.
2. So they're feting Lorraine Hansberry, and Mollie is right there with Lorraine Hansberry.
3. Going to a fete or a party.
4. The late Geoffrey Dickens, M.P. was attending a fete in his constituency.
5. Coachella bella Zoe's Palm Springs event of the year, ZOEasis, is, quote, "arguably the most fashionable fête at Coachella."
festive
/ˈfɛstɪv/
adjectiveoffering fun and gaiety
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1. It's festive.
2. - Yes. - Be festive.
3. The atmosphere is almost always festive.
4. It's festive.
5. - I am festive.
festal
/fˈɛstəl/
adjectiveoffering fun and gaiety
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apolitical
/ˌeɪpəˈɫɪtɪkəɫ/
adjectivehaving no interest or involvement in politics
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1. We have to communicate a certain apolitical gravitas.
2. Rodgers was apolitical.
3. The surrender terms were actually almost utterly apolitical.
4. She talked to government help group Apolitical.
5. Women's place in this was essentially apolitical.
asexual
/eɪˈsɛksjuəɫ/
adjectivenot having or involving sex
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1. I'm asexual.
2. I'm asexual.
3. I'm asexual.
4. - You're asexual?
5. I'm asexual.
aboriginal
/ˌæbɝˈɪdʒənəɫ/
adjectivehaving existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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1. Most aboriginal communities have a Northern store.
2. Aboriginal communities recognize three important categories outside of humans and animals in their mythos: Ancestral Creators, ghosts or human spirits, and spirit beings.
3. For Aboriginals, humans exist because of these Ancestor Beings.
4. Today Aboriginal rights are huge hot button topic in Australian legislation.
5. Today's word is aboriginal.