vegetal
/ˈvɛdʒətəɫ/
adjectivecomposed of vegetation or plants
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1. - Ah, I was getting that vegetal quality.
2. They can be a little vegetal.
3. - It's a little vegetal.
4. It's a little vegetal.
5. The result is a rich earthy tea with vegetal grassy notes, sweet nuttiness, and pleasant bitter undertones.
to vegetate
/ˈvɛdʒəˌteɪt/
verbgrow like a plant
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1. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
2. Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
3. In those countries which are but little developed, industrially and commercially, these two classes still vegetate side by side with the rising bourgeoisie.
4. In the U.S., this is called low-impact development and it includes strategies like rain gardens, vegetated rooftops, rain barrels, and other ways to bring more harmony between the built environment and its original hydrologic and ecological functions.
5. These are things like rain gardens, green roofs, and vegetated filter strips.
vegetative
/ˌvɛdʒəˈteɪtɪv/
adjectivecomposed of vegetation or plants
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1. So, plants have a vegetative soul and can grow.
2. There's vegetative fuels like this all along the Greenway, and the fire was just moving rapidly.
3. There we are in Phase D, in something like, perhaps, persistent vegetative state.
4. This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.
5. If the middle part of your lip is swollen with small bubbles, it could be due to vegetative neurosis.
to rejoin
/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/
verbjoin again
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1. Then you rejoin group life.
2. Alypius will eventually rejoin him.
3. Even his disloyal brother George rejoined him.
4. Even his disloyal brother George rejoined him.
5. he rejoined.
rejoinder
/ɹiˈdʒɔɪndɝ/, /ɹɪˈdʒɔɪndɝ/
nouna quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
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1. Faulkner can be seen in many ways as a rejoinder and maybe a dissent, a departure from this quantitative approach.
2. This rejoinder evoked laughter and applause from the partisan Tennessee audience.
3. "You shall be my husband to save your life," was the rejoinder.
4. And I think it is a belated rejoinder to the earlier episode of Robert looking at his own face in the water, in a sense that this is associated with trauma for some reason.
5. So it's a very eloquent rejoinder to that earlier moment, but also a rewriting of that earlier moment.
to accentuate
/ækˈsɛntʃueɪt/
verbthe act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
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1. The extra long beard and hair really accentuate.
2. His tuckus is nicely accentuated.
3. A great overcoat will accentuate your style.
4. - Accentuated.
5. Accentuate your arms.
to accession
/əkˈsɛʃən/
verbmake a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
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1. Although little Sisi didn’t know it yet, his accession would change her life.
2. This second stage started in 2014 with the accession of Crimea.
3. Even her Catholic councilors readily accepted her accession.
4. That's the accessions process.
5. The people of Aphrodisias, like those right across the empire, would have celebrated accession of the new emperor.
accessory
/ækˈsɛsɝi/
adjectivefurnishing added support
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1. Got accessories.
2. Baking accessories?
3. Install accessories like a soap dispenser.
4. I love accessories.
5. - Accessories are very important.
skeptic
/ˈskɛptɪk/
nounan individual who regularly questions and doubts the validity of ideas and beliefs, particularly those that are commonly accepted
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1. I'm a skeptic.
2. We're all skeptics.
3. I’m a skeptic.
4. The skeptics were right.
5. As a skeptic your negative assessments are a defense against suffering.
skeptical
/ˈskɛptəkəɫ/, /ˈskɛptɪkəɫ/
adjectivedenying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion
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1. Initially, other geologists were skeptical.
2. Of course, scientists were skeptical.
3. The court, understandably, was skeptical.
4. Online sleuths remain skeptical.
5. Other researchers are more skeptical.
unintelligible
/ˌənɪnˈtɛɫədʒəbəɫ/
adjectivepoorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
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1. However, some of the words are completely unintelligible.
2. Whereas the South speaks a completely unintelligible Dravidian branch with languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
3. Today, their languages are mutually unintelligible, though their customs are almost identical.
4. It's unintelligible.
5. The student’s essay was unintelligible.
uninhibited
/ˌənɪnˈhɪbɪtɪd/
adjectivenot inhibited or restrained
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1. And then, in a similar vein, you took a photograph, very uninhibited.
2. Since Eric failed his game and let Jigsaw go, his rampage continues uninhibited.
3. This is typically due to an uninhibited detrusor muscle that contracts randomly.
4. I am fully uninhibited to be my greatness.
5. Uninhibited use of this process leaves aquifers to dry out, severely weakening earth foundations as a result.
unkempt
/ənˈkɛmpt/
adjectiveuntidy and not groomed
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1. Vernon’s natural charisma, his unkempt looks, the down to earth style and his deep scriptural knowledge were a potent mix.
2. Because it looked somewhat unkempt to me.
3. He emerged after the time jump sporting a shaggy beard, unkempt hair that grew to his shoulders, and a protruding belly courtesy of barrels of beer and newfound love for Cheez Whiz.
4. Unkempt hair, torn clothes, and they had to cover the lower part of their face.
5. Even long unkempt nails turn women off.
unobtrusive
/ˌənəbˈtɹusɪv/
adjectivenot obtrusive or undesirably noticeable
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1. And those are the best unobtrusive measures, getting reports from significant others around you.
2. And they'll be as unobtrusive as possible.
3. They promise to be unobtrusive.
4. And it's unobtrusive.
5. It's unobtrusive.
to infer
/ˌɪnˈfɝ/
verbto reach an opinion or decision based on available evidence and deduction
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1. We can also infer the shape of the inflationary potential.
2. Privacy infers a value.
3. This infer ending S links right into the I.
4. Our brains infer.
5. And that fact is inferred from the observations of these galaxies.
inference
/ˈɪnfɝəns/
nouna conclusion that is deduced from the existing evidence or known facts
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1. And finally, we-- sort of another category is doing inference on individual consumer behavior.
2. Your brain is making an inference.
3. I got the inference.
4. So, the other class of approximate inference methods is variational inference.
5. My inference is this.
litigant
/ˈɫɪtɪɡənt/
noun(law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
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1. This map here shows you the litigation activity by just a single set of litigants affiliated with the Democratic Party.
2. Your honor, we're only the appellate litigants here.
3. The litigant does not have any heavier burden of satisfying any First Amendment standard.
4. That policy denies a litigant standing when he seeks to assert the rights of absent parties, when in fact, the litigants rights and those third party rights are not inextricably bound.
5. The first major hurdle for American litigants is whether cases can satisfy the threshold procedural requirements for a court to even decide a case.
to litigate
/ˈɫɪtɪˌɡeɪt/
verbinstitute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
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1. Edgy litigate really doesn't have a trophy.
2. She litigated cases like Brown vs Board of Education.
3. You can maybe litigate your way out of a 1,000-vote margin.
4. My wife litigated a case about conditions at the main prison in Michigan, in Jackson, Michigan.
5. You've litigated a bunch of these cases.
litigious
/ˈɫɪtɪdʒəs/, /ɫɪˈtɪdʒəs/
adjectiveof or relating to litigation
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1. That would be litigious.
2. He's litigious.
3. It's really litigious, they're always like in legal battles.
4. We're a litigious society.
5. Court records show that our poet was exceedingly litigious.
inferential
/ˌɪnfɝˈɛnʃəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or having the nature of illation or inference
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1. Inferential statistics allows us to make….inferences.
2. We ask inferential statistics to do all sorts of much more complicated work for us.
3. Inferential statistics let us test an idea or a hypothesis.
4. So we actually have to use predictive inferential methods even to understand the effectiveness of our other predictive inferential methods.
5. And we have lots of inferential machinery to help us with that.
