chimeral
/tʃˈaɪmɹəl/
adjectivebeing or relating to or like a chimera
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referee
/ˌɹɛfɝˈi/
nounan official who is in charge of a game, making sure the rules are obeyed by the players
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1. Referees already influence the game a lot, obviously, a referee's judgment, their decision-making.
2. One problem, the referees blew their whistles.
3. Each player will have a referee.
4. Show your referee.
5. Referee is Mario.
referendum
/ˌɹɛfɝˈɛndəm/
nounthe process by which all the people of a country have the opportunity to vote on a single political question
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1. So right now there's a referendum coming up in Catalonia.
2. In 1947 Franco announced a referendum to let the Spanish people decide.
3. In 2016, the country held a referendum.
4. The referendum passed.
5. They won the referendum.
squalid
/ˈskwɑɫəd/
adjectivefoul and run-down and repulsive
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1. Natives were worked to death in squalid labor camps, while resistance fighters were brutally executed in public.
2. I was squalid edit someone yeah?
3. Due to this, as well as the squalid conditions in the trenches, disease started to rival the combat itself in troop death rates.
4. In a jail cell at Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey he now sits in the daytime thinking about his wife, his kids, pining for his squalid shack in a fishing town in Ecuador.
5. Do they live in squalid conditions where they can barely move?
squalor
/ˈskwɑɫɝ/
nounsordid dirtiness
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1. Charles Ponzi spent the last few years of his life in squalor, working as a teacher and translator to make ends meet.
2. They knew what they were doing back then when the Europeans were kind of in squalor.
3. And Mark, he could live in squalor, but he cleans-- or he makes the bed every single morning.
4. Utter squalor in Bushwick and commute an hour and a half every day to their two jobs.
5. You will live amongst the squalor and swine until we say otherwise.
pall
/ˈpɑɫ/, /ˈpɔɫ/
nounburial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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1. It's a decidedly odd ending that casts a pall over an otherwise excellent series.
2. To Pall, the root of the problem of 5G is the lack of controlled tests about its influence on public health and environment.
3. By 1991, the glamor of Escobar’s lifestyle was beginning to pall next to the extreme violence.
4. It is a pall asite, a type of stony-iron meteorite with olivine crystals estimated to be 4.5 billion years old.
5. We said a couple of dishes, this pall brought out his whole menu!
to palliate
/pˈælɪˌeɪt/
verbprovide physical relief, as from pain
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1. The government has to spend money on fighting this virus, and also help palliate the effects and give citizens a soft landing.
palliative
/ˈpæɫiətɪv/
adjectivemoderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
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1. Begin with a fact-- most treatments for cancer at this stage are merely palliative.
2. Palliative care has been around for a long time.
3. So actually, initially, palliative care meant hospice.
4. What's your palliative care plan?
5. The palliatives for this are not obvious.
pallid
/ˈpæɫəd/
adjectiveabnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
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1. Alfred was an extremely pallid, sickly child.
2. The pallid prominent personage almost died of fright.
3. And you'll note that she looks extremely pallid, and is quite thin.
4. The face is drawn and pallid.
5. You're looking a little pallid.
pallor
/pˈælɚ/
nounthe condition of having an unhealthy pale appearance as a result of illness, emotional distress, etc.
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1. But you'd be wrong to mistake her size and pallor for frailty.
2. They could stand at a podium and thump it and look unhinged with their hair and their hands and their pallor.
3. His long black hair scattered over the straw bolster contrasted with the olive pallor of his face.
4. But a deadly pallor, overspreading her face, had proved to me that my exertions to reassure her would be fruitless.
5. There would be an elevated pulse, pain in the chest and shoulders, general lassitude, a loss of weight, pallor, declining performance at work or at school.
durance
/dˈʊɹəns/
nounimprisonment (especially for a long time)
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1. The largest project of this kind is the international thermonuclear experimental reactor found in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France.
duress
/ˈdʊɹɛs/
nouncompulsory force or threat
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1. - Not under duress, she's fine.
2. - I'm not under duress.
3. So the standard doctrine of duress says yes.
4. So this is a moment of duress, the equivalent of the dietitian's duress, the equivalent of Joe Brown's duress.
5. Guy Fieri only eats eggs under duress.
norm
/ˈnɔɹm/
nouna standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
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1. I'm willing to comply with social norms.
2. Norms don't have the centralized machinery of government.
3. So setting norms, training.
4. Others will see norms at work.
5. Defy the norm!
normalcy
/ˈnɔɹməɫsi/
nounexpectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common
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1. - This is a return to normalcy.
2. This is a return to normalcy.
3. Steven's affection for his daughter had transcended normalcy.
4. This care package can bring a sense of normalcy and a sense of together.
5. Apparently life does gain a semblance of normalcy after eight years in the White House - at least, somewhat.
to enunciate
/iˈnənsiˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnənsiˌeɪt/
verbexpress or state clearly
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1. Enunciate because we have to understand your stupidity.
2. And they all enunciated so well.
3. Enunciate it.
4. The doctrine was first enunciated by Woodrow Wilson in his 14 points.
5. Enunciate a word!
enunciation
/ɪnˌʌnsɪˈeɪʃən/
nounthe articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
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1. They have people for enunciation.
2. There's almost no enunciation in there right.
3. He's not slamming the vocal consonants as much, though he does a little bit of that for accentuation and you know enunciation but for the most part he's just being real careful about his low-end because he's saving it for the top.
4. There's almost no enunciation or articulation in their sounds right.
5. we can even compare it to techniques like patter singing, where melodic complexity takes a back seat to skills like speed and enunciation, or to the operatic concept of sprechgesang, which also employs approximate pitch in order to deliver dialogue naturally without losing the musicality of the performance.
to percolate
/ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪt/
verbpass through
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1. - Percolating on it.
2. That issue has been percolating out there.
3. And, like, always percolating on something.
4. And it percolates up, not down.
5. Percolate means to brew coffee by forcing hot water through the ground particles of coffee beans.
chimera
/tʃɪˈmɛɹə/
nounsomething that is very desirable, yet almost impossible to achieve
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1. That’s a chimera.
2. Now in biology, a chimera is not as scary as in the myth.
3. What's it called, chimera?
4. That true love is a chimera.
5. It's called ChIMERA.
percolator
/ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪtɝ/
nouna coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans
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1. I use a percolator because that's what we use in Italy and somebody told me that it burns the coffee because the water's boiling.
2. We can also call the machine that makes this type of coffee a coffee percolator.
3. Now, this is a real, affordable coffee percolator that works on gas.
4. You will need Percolator coffee pot Water Coffee and fire.
5. Running Man, Roger Rabbit, Patty Duke, any dance you can imagine, Spongebob, Percolator, that leaves the floor.
chimera
/tʃɪˈmɛɹə/
nouna mythological creature in Greek mythology. It is typically depicted as a fire-breathing creature with the body and head of a lion, the head of a goat protruding from its back, and a serpent for a tail
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1. That’s a chimera.
2. Now in biology, a chimera is not as scary as in the myth.
3. What's it called, chimera?
4. That true love is a chimera.
5. It's called ChIMERA.