to abbreviate
/əˈbɹiviˌeɪt/
verbshorten
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1. During the fifth round, game play is abbreviated.
2. I'll abbreviate that as butt-milk.
3. Or abbreviated REITs.
4. So it's abbreviated tosic acid.
5. We abbreviate it.
to abate
/əˈbeɪt/
verbbecome less in amount or intensity
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1. Suddenly his preoccupation with Jeff’s hair abated.
2. His preoccupation will suddenly abate.
3. Michael’s preoccupation would not abate.
4. Michael’s preoccupation, Michael’s preoccupation with Jeff’s hair did not abate.
5. The pollution has abated.
extrovert
/ˈɛkstɹəˌvɝt/
noun(psychology) a person that is preoccupied with external things and prefers social situations
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1. Well, extroverts are confident in their personality.
2. Extroverts are weird.
3. Extroverts use it more than introverts.
4. Extroverts like being in social settings.
5. Extroverts have lots of friends.
to extrude
/ɪkˈstɹud/
verbform or shape by forcing through an opening
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1. We extrude it.
2. Extrude it!
3. - Baby carrots are extruded from large carrots with special machinery.
4. Lesser quality pastas are extruded through Teflon dies.
5. It just extrudes.
extrinsic
/ɛkˈstɹɪnsɪk/
adjectivenot forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
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1. And so these are extrinsic factors.
2. I added marked price, extrinsic value, intrinsic value.
3. Extrinsic very obviously those things are trained twenty six twenty seven Bucks
4. That's an extrinsic reward.
5. Extrinsic motivation is a recipe for productivity disaster.
extremity
/ɛkˈstɹɛməti/
nounthe outermost or farthest region or point
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1. In Miku, we see the extremity of fandom.
2. We get blood from our head to our extremities.
3. Middle sons would inherit lands between the extremities.
4. The patient’s extremities were of an icy coldness.
5. The left most extremity is A prime.
extremist
/ɛkˈstɹimɪst/
adjective(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
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1. Muslim extremists struck America.
2. White supremacists, 16 percent were anti-government extremists.
3. Four percent were in cell extremists.
4. - They're extremists.
5. Every week, religious extremists take another African village.
to sequence
/ˈsikwəns/
verbarrange in a sequence
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1. We sequenced the metagenomics.
2. Three weeks later, researchers sequenced the genome of the same virus in a patient in Seattle.
3. We sequence your microbiome.
4. It means sequence.
5. Sequence is a very important aspect of comics.
sequent
/ˈsikwənt/
adjectivein regular succession without gaps
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polygamy
/pəˈɫɪɡəˌmi/
nounthe condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time
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1. These kings also practice something on the order of polygamy.
2. They allow no polygamy.
3. Polygamy is also commonly practiced and about 2/3 of women will have been married before the age of 18.
4. Polygamy is still practiced.
5. And in certain areas of Nigeria, polygamy is in fact legal.
polyglot
/ˌpɑˌɫiɡɫɑt/
adjectivehaving a command of or composed in many languages
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1. That word polyglot sounds familiar, Neil.
2. That word polyglot sounds familiar, Neil.
3. What is the meaning of the word polyglot?
4. And some very famous polyglots would agree about the importance of consistency.
5. She’s a polyglot.
polygon
/ˈpɑɫɪˌɡɑn/
noun(geometry) a flat shape consisting of three or more straight sides
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1. Typically, that number is somewhere between 5,000 and 60,000 polygons.
2. Their budget was between 60 and 300 polygons.
3. For more fun and games, check out our friends at Polygon right here.
4. The polygons will be there.
5. You still get the polygon scalp.
polyhedron
/ˌpɑˌɫiˈhidɹən/
noun(geometry) a solid figure formed by flat polygonal faces
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1. And a polyhedron is a three-dimensional shape that has flat surfaces and straight edges.
2. So, for example, a cube is a polyhedron.
3. So this right over here is a polyhedron.
4. This is a polyhedron.
5. A rectangular pyramid is a polyhedron.
polysyllable
/pˈɑːlɪsˌɪləbəl/
nouna word of more than three syllables
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polytechnic
/ˌpɑˌɫiˈtɛknɪk/, /ˌpɑɫɪˈtɛknɪk/
nouna technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences
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1. He completed his first inves- tigations in Switzerland, where he first was engaged in the Patent Bu- reau at Berne and later as a pro- fessor at the Polytechnic in Zurich.
2. However, later that year, a New York polytechnic firm added cellulose- sawdust, wood chips and paper shreds- to water and froze it for a much more promising base structure for such a ship.
polytheism
/ˈpɑˌɫiθiɪzəm/
nounthe belief in or worship of multiple gods or deities
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1. From polytheism's worship of many gods there's a natural evolution to henotheism's elevation of one god to a supreme position.
2. It was a polemic against polytheism and the pagan worldview.
3. And local religion means polytheism.
4. Polytheism is what we're talking about.
5. Before 301 AD, though, Armenia's religion was Armenian polytheism.
intransigent
/ˌɪnˈtɹænsədʒənt/, /ˌɪnˈtɹænzədʒənt/
adjectiveunwilling to behave differently or change one’s opinions or attitude, especially in an unreasonable way
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1. As a result the North Vietnamese were intransigent and weren't negotiating and didn't think they had anything to negotiate because they thought that there was a possibility their armed forces would overrun the South Vietnamese.
2. One intransigent soldier was summarily court-martialed and shot.
3. We tend to think of it as an intransigent given.
4. We have other landlords who have been much more hard-nosed, and some have been totally intransigent.
5. The Apology presents Socrates right as presenting the most intransigent case for the philosopher as a radical critic or questioner of society.
intransigence
/ˌɪnˈtɹænsədʒəns/, /ˌɪnˈtɹænsɪdʒəns/
nounthe state or quality of unwillingness to change one's opinion or behavior
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1. But the campaign and Houthi intransigence have succeeded in transforming the Arab world's poorest country into a humanitarian catastrophe.
2. His principled intransigence, his indefatigable energies had made him great Secretary of State, but the same stubbornness and self-righteousness, contempt for compromise and for the business of politics made him a terrible president.
3. This is partly because of the absolute intransigence of the Bishop of Alexandria-- the Archbishop of Alexandria, Athanasius.
4. The second cause of this roots of radicalism is what we might call perceptions of southern intransigence or perceptions of southern truculence.
5. First, the intransigence of local leaders to settle for nothing less than their maximum demands.