pledgee
/plˈɛdʒ/
nounsomeone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge
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sophism
/sˈɑːfɪzəm/
nouna deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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sophistical
/səfˈɪstɪkəl/
adjectiveplausible but misleading
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1. Notwithstanding our respect for the important document which declared our independence, yet if anything be found in it, and especially in what may be regarded rather as its ornament than its substance, false, sophistical and unmeaning, that respect should not screen it from the freest examination.
2. Speeches unhampered by rules of evidence and relevance, and without the discipline imposed by judges could be fanciful, false, and sophistical.
to sophisticate
/səˈfɪstəˌkeɪt/, /səˈfɪstəkət/
verbalter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
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1. We're probably not going to have game characters that sophisticated for a long time.
2. They have archetypes like the scheming liar, the tyrant, the sophisticate, the misguided fool, or the monster.
3. He never was a Parisian sophisticate, he was a working-class Pied-Noir, that is someone born in Algeria but of European origin, whose father had died of war-wounds when he was an infant, and whose mother was a cleaning lady.
4. Words that will help you have sophisticated English conversations.
5. So we do not have sophisticated enough conversations on the creative variable, because creative has gotten so expensive that you're not able to test properly its scale and make proper decisions.
sophistry
/ˈsɔfɪˌstɹi/
nounthe clever use of arguments that seem correct and convincing but are actually false in order to deceive people
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1. So part of the statistical sophistry that's going on here is a call for an intervention on one hand, a call for neglect on the other, and the neglect being predicated on somehow the racial disparity being so excessive that it's proof of the underlying moral degeneracy of the entire group.
2. Every once in a while, this is the problem with sophistry and pseudo intellectual ism that every once in a while some idea that people who don't read history or philosophy or political science or whatever, they have no frame of reference.
3. Those tokens which he had hitherto considered as proofs of a frightful peculiarity in her physical and moral system were now either forgotten, or, by the subtle sophistry of passion transmitted into a golden crown of enchantment, rendering Beatrice the more admirable by so much as she was the more unique.
4. Hey, Legal Eagles, it's time to think like a lawyer, because the first day of the impeachment trial in the Senate was filled with all kinds of lawyer skills and complete sophistry.
vagrant
/ˈveɪɡɹənt/
nounsomeone who travels aimlessly, particularly due to having no place to call home
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1. It could've been a vagrant who loved pancakes.
2. 50,366 people were counted including paupers and vagrants.
3. He also showed up in The Big Bang Theory as Theodore, a creepy vagrant who Sheldon rents his room out to as part of a revenge plot against Leonard.
4. There, he was taken by the constables as a vagrant and sent home to Stow Bardolph.
5. In London, there was an institution charged with the oversight of the vagrant poor, the Bridewell.
vagary
/ˈveɪɡɝi/
nounan unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)
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1. The vagaries of the legislative process are lost on him.
2. Time moves more or less slowly according to the vagaries of the human mind: it may fly or it may drag.
3. And, in fact, the Affordable Care Act was written in the Congress, mostly in the Senate, because of the vagaries of the legislative process.
4. And that difference seems to reflect the vagaries and subtleties of memory itself.
5. Then there are the vagaries of old age.
vagabond
/ˈvæɡəbɑnd/
nouna wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
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1. You ever heard the word vagabond?
2. Mary and their four girls were vagabonds of war.
3. His muscle-bound cousin was a vagabond naturalist.
4. Alright, tell us about your Vagabond.
5. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness.
preeminence
/pɹiˈɛmənəns/
nounhigh status importance owing to marked superiority
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1. The mayors of the palace of Austrasia come to preeminence in the Merovingian realms in the early eighth century.
2. That claim for the judge's preeminence as a character is brought home to us at the very end when the novel switches to the present tense and makes these remarkable claims for the judge.
3. we celebrate an institution, not only for its preeminence, but as a powerful force for change.
4. Harvard-- this immodest title-- Secrets to Its Preeminence, Learning from the Wisdom of Harvard Law School.
5. We celebrate an institution, not only for its preeminence but as a powerful force for change.
preeminent
/pɹiˈɛmənənt/
adjectivegreatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
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1. One of the country's preeminent historians, Gordon-Reed teaches at Harvard Law School.
2. And a preeminent legal scholar who for 40 years was a law professor at Columbia University.
3. Preeminent is word related to our second word.
4. He is the preeminent demographer for Florida.
5. This is the preeminent example of mature Second Style Roman wall painting.
inexperience
/ˌɪnɪkˈspɪɹiəns/
nounlack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
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1. The inexperience of the skiers became evident and the trio had to abandon their journey.
2. I'm not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.
3. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values.
4. Due to the young ruler’s inexperience, real governmental authority was exercised by courtier Basil Lakapenos.
5. But the misfit's inexperience shows.
inexpressible
/ˌɪnɛkspɹˈɛsəbəl/
adjectivedefying expression
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1. It is an inexpressible honor and privilege to stand on this stage beside him.
2. Aldous Huxley said that "after silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
3. As soon as Ali Baba's wife was gone, Cassim's looked at the bottom of the measure, and was in inexpressible surprise to find a piece of gold sticking to it.
4. Leaving the horses on the turn, to the inexpressible disgust of the waggoner he bounded off, going over the ploughed ground in long leaps, and suddenly appeared before the mother, thrust the child into her arms, and strode away.
5. What inexpressible madness seized me with that thought?
inestimable
/ɪnˈɛstᵻməbəl/
adjectivebeyond calculation or measure
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1. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only!
2. One of the things that I learned in the course of those five years was the inestimable moral value of the jurors, judged in the way they went about their work.
3. One of the things that I learned in the course of those five years was the inestimable moral value of the jurors, judged in the way they went about their work.
4. But part of being resilient is really drawing on the truth of your worthiness, the truth of your dignity, the truth of your inestimable value.
5. "His mother never tried to deprive him of any of those inestimable advantages!"
ineligible
/ˌɪˈnɛɫɪdʒəbəɫ/
adjectivenot eligible
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1. But because he wasn’t a US citizen, he was ineligible to fight for a national title.
2. Because they were created by the US government, they are ineligible for copyright and fall into the public domain.
3. If you have a prostitution conviction, you may be ineligible to rent an apartment for up to five years.
4. - It's ineligible.
5. Current projections show that people under the age of 65 are generally ineligible for the vaccine.
inefficient
/ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt/
adjectivenot able to reach maximum productivity or produce desired results with minimum waste of energy, money, or time
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1. However, this enzyme is notoriously inefficient.
2. Slavery is remarkably inefficient.
3. Conventional farming is inefficient.
4. The stealthy hunter becomes slow, inefficient.
5. So one of those two numbers was gloriously inefficient.
bodice
/ˈbɑdɪs/
nounthe upper part of a woman's dress covering the back and chest down to the waist
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1. On top of the shirt, a woman wears a bodice.
2. Now you've got a few choices of bodice types.
3. And you've got your classic butter cream bodice for your cake.
4. And that's one bodice option.
5. So it gives us a striped bodice effect to your cake.
bodily
/ˈbɑdəɫi/
adjectiveof or relating to or belonging to the body
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1. Every emotion has a bodily correlate.
2. So take for example, sexual bodily autonomy.
3. A good deal the same thing is true of bodily development.
4. It fell bodily.
5. Call those things the bodily functions.
systemic
/sɪˈstɛmɪk/
adjectiveaffecting an entire system
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1. Family dynamics are systemic.
2. It's systemic.
3. The problem is systemic.
4. The real takeaways here are systemic.
5. The failure of the assumptions in many different industries can create systemic effects.
systematic
/ˌsɪstəˈmætɪk/
adjectivedone according to a system and in a planned way
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1. It's systematic in a sense.
2. But anyway, college students not here, show systematic biases of incorrect physical intuitions.
3. And there the evidence is less systematic.
4. It was systematic.
5. They're not systematic.