acerbic
/əˈsɛɹbɪk/
adjectivesour or bitter in taste
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1. Drawings of Antoinette accompanied acerbic words, showing her in her extravagant dress and driving ire toward her and the rest of the royal family.
2. It's like a nutty acerbic pleasant backrub, like it's so bad it's good, one of those things.
3. However, a role that stands out above the others for this fan-casting is the acerbic, driven political consultant Jennifer Barkley on Parks and Rec.
4. It had that usual Chelsea Fagan trademark hyperbolic and acerbic humor that doesn't always go over super well.
5. Justice Scalia got laughs because he was incredibly sharp witted, a little bit acerbic.
acetate
/ˈæsəˌteɪt/
nouna fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate
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1. The O attacks the carbonyl, acetate leaves.
2. So you put acetate on here.
3. A much better version is acetate.
4. It gives acetate.
5. Ethyl acetate is a solvent.
acetic
/əˈsɛtɪk/, /əˈsitɪk/
adjectiverelating to or containing acetic acid
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1. In fact, acetic acid is in all types of vinegar, from white wine to balsamic.
2. Acetic anhydride looks like this.
3. Internationally, acetic anhydride is heavily regulated.
4. One of the ingredients in white vinegar is acetic acid.
5. Acetic acid is the main component of apple cider vinegar.
epigram
/ˈɛpəˌɡɹæm/
nouna saying that coveys an idea in a manner that is short and witty
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1. And every time he speaks, it's an epigram.
2. He offers them these portentous sayings, like this last little epigram about the tavern and the road thereto, and he uses this archaic language.
3. And if you don't like taking your epigrams from a philosopher, try a scientist.
4. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated.
5. And such was the origin of Sir Roger's famous epigram.
epilogue
/ˈɛpəˌɫɔɡ/
nouna concluding part added at the end of a novel, play, etc.
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1. There may have been an epilogue.
2. The game has an epilogue and now I am in the epilogue
3. The 18th century epilogue is the part that's addressed very directly to the present.
4. Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune.
5. This epilogue followed the episode in which his most popular character got his diploma and it--
epiphany
/ɪˈpɪfəni/
nounthe event of manifestation of Jesus Christ to the Magi
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1. - Everybody was having epiphanies back then.
2. What is that epiphany?
3. There he had an epiphany.
4. So I had another epiphany.
5. One woman has an epiphany.
parameter
/pɝˈæmətɝ/
nouna constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
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1. First, it establishes the parameters.
2. Match takes three parameters, search for, search where, and matching method.
3. It takes two parameters.
4. A spoon has that parameter, a key looks like a guitar.
5. Set some parameters.
paramount
/ˈpɛɹəˌmaʊnt/
adjectivehaving superior power and influence
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1. The knife is paramount.
2. The mind-body connection is paramount.
3. A good diet is paramount.
4. Organization is paramount.
5. Hard work was paramount.
paramour
/pˈæɹɐmˌʊɹ/
nouna woman who cohabits with an important man
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1. Tear my burlap off, paramour.
2. - I brought you to a-- - Did Zach kill all of my potential paramours?
3. But Elizabeth was rebellious, and had gotten into the habit of sneaking her paramour John Betts into her room.
4. An encounter with the jealous boyfriend of one of his paramours left him with a distinctive scar on the left side of his face.
5. If you work with your paramour, consider finding a new job.
paraphernalia
/ˌpɛɹəfəˈneɪɫjə/
nounequipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
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1. And it had all sorts of sort of contraband paraphernalia.
2. So the cost of organizational paraphernalia will add up really quickly.
3. but they have a lot of amazing paraphernalia there
4. Their search of Paulk's home yielded meth, drug paraphernalia, body armor, and most importantly, Paulk's pet squirrel.
5. - You got pizza paraphernalia.
to paraphrase
/ˈpɛɹəˌfɹeɪz/
verbto express the meaning of something written or spoken with a different choice of words
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1. But this slogan is just paraphrasing the definition.
2. I paraphrased a bit there.
3. I'm paraphrasing a little bit.
4. I'm paraphrasing Cass Sunstein's article.
5. I'm paraphrasing kind of.
somnambulist
/sˈɑːmnɐmbjˌʊlɪst/
nounsomeone who walks about in their sleep
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1. Somnambulists in deep sleep have solved most difficult mathematical problems and performed various acts with results which have surprised them in their normal waking states.
somniferous
/səmnˈɪfɚɹəs/
adjectivesleep inducing
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somnolent
/ˈsɑmnəɫənt/
adjectiveinclined to or marked by drowsiness
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1. It seemed to him that as he sat there the yellow day contemplated him drowsily, like a prone and somnolent yellow cat.
insomnia
/ˌɪnˈsɑmniə/
nouna disorder in which one is unable to sleep or stay asleep
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1. Some people have insomnia.
2. Some people have insomnia.
3. The result is insomnia.
4. Abnormal sleeping habits means insomnia.
5. Stress can cause insomnia for some people.
penitence
/pˈɛnɪtəns/
nounremorse for your past conduct
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1. He clothed himself in a friar’s robe as a sign of penitence and set out to meet the sovereigns at Burgis, some 500 miles from his landing port of Cadiz.
2. That man is Heracles, divine hero of Greek mythology, who is serving penitence for slaying his own family in years past.
3. Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
4. You have to get punished. Penitence.
5. In this canto, the gluttonous are famished and disfigured by hunger and their penitence.
penitent
/ˈpɛnɪtɪnt/
adjectivefeeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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1. Canto XI begins with the penitents, who now change, reverse perspective.
2. This is the prayer of the penitents.
3. Now he, Dante, becomes the object of temptation for the penitent souls.
4. Even before the Catholic Church was founded, there was a tradition of penitents showing humility by covering themselves with sackcloth and ashes.
5. Penitents remained apart from the community until the Thursday before Easter.
penitential
/pˌɛnɪtˈɛnʃəl/
adjectiveshowing or constituting penance
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1. This is a penitential tool.
2. So by making people work, including people who come from the upper classes, this is a penitential labor indeed, particularly labor with your hands.
3. Labor, all of these are penitential activities in which the individual will is suppressed.
4. So jury trial for felony took root during an age of penitential literature which encouraged deep reflection on the nature of sin.
5. With him such sensations required, for his own relief, some immediate penitential escape, and as Madame de Treymes turned toward the door he addressed a glance of entreaty to his betrothed.
latent
/ˈɫeɪtənt/
adjectivepotentially existing but not presently evident or realized
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1. 399 had latent syphilis.
2. Latent is what we already have developed with the fingerprint powder.
3. You know what 'latent' means?
4. So might latent valence loop explain the trivalence and pentavalence of nitrogen, or the amine-HCl reactivity?
5. Latent emotions will sooner or later manifest in aggression or tears.
latency
/ˈɫeɪtənsi/
nounthe state of being not yet evident or active
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1. So you can actually get latency.
2. The drivers get that lower latency that 5G enables.
3. The key things here are latencies.
4. What's the latency?
5. So latency was a very big issue.