diacritical
/ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtəkəɫ/
adjectivecapable of distinguishing
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1. Just to, pronunciation? - Diacritical, knowing where to stress, because of the layout of the screen that contains our clues, some words that should be together are separated, one on one line, the other on another line, and sometimes just naturally we tend to pause at the end of a line.
2. The bug was caused because some languages written in a Perso-Arabic script, including Sindhi, stack diacritical marks on top of the main characters, meaning that an individual character can get quite tall with lots of marks above and below it.
3. If you need to use accent marks, also called diacritical marks, in your text while typing in Pages, TextEdit, or just about anything on the Mac, there are several different ways to easily type these with the keyboard.
diaphanous
/daɪˈæfənɪs/
adjectiveso thin as to transmit light
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1. He possesses a set of characteristics so diaphanous that language passes right through them.
2. I'm not sure and at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, you get into an elevator and go from, you know, the stage level up to where the press gallery is and so people are packed into this elevator like sardines and an Al just looks down and he realizes that, you know, he's carrying his award in his hand just naturally at his side, but the head of the Oscar has actually slipped between the cheeks and the diaphanous dress of the young lady who's standing in front of him.
3. And then, most interesting of all, is the fact that she wears a veil over her head, and it's a kind of diaphanous veil, as I think you can see.
4. In fact, it's even better done here because you can see the shape of the knuckles and so on, underneath the garment, the very diaphanous garment that she wears.
5. We introduced glass both as a railing component and at the floor, and you can see the kind of diaphanous light that comes through it.
diatomic
/ˌdaɪəˈtɑmɪk/
adjectiveof or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms
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1. So it's just stretching a diatomic molecule.
2. A high energy ultraviolet photon will dissociate that diatomic oxygen into two oxygen atoms.
3. Well these ice clouds, these ice particles, freeze up diatomic chlorine by holding the nitric acid in the ice itself.
4. Ozone is simply adding another oxygen atom to diatomic.
5. The N-N triple bond is the strongest diatomic bond.
diatribe
/ˈdaɪəˌtɹaɪb/
nouna harsh and severe criticism or verbal attack that is aimed toward a person or thing
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1. You didn't hear Bird Girl's tomato diatribe?
2. It contains diatribes against the oppressive world of adults.
3. He certainly reserves his most hysterical diatribes for Theodora.
4. It is a diatribe against the Emperor Justinian.
5. Sancho's diatribe against them perhaps reflects an attitude of the times.
diabolic
/dˌaɪəbˈɑːlɪk/
adjectiveextremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
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1. If yes, the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic.
2. This will ensure that the physical profile of the wire is very small, so as Leatherface rushes forwards he isn't able to see it in the dark, but it'll also serve another, much more diabolic purpose.
3. He saw this as another sign of diabolic meddling on the one-dollar bill by the Illuminati.
4. Are the hidden meanings behind these logos signs of corporate diabolic malevolence, or just very expensive mistakes?
5. Are they evidence of a diabolic presence in the world, or are they just expensive coincidences?
incongruous
/ˌɪŋˈkɔŋɹuəs/
adjectivepeculiar and not like what is considered suitable or appropriate for a situation
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1. It's a fun theory, but there's not much evidence to back it up, apart from a single incongruous poster in the game room.
2. Like, it's very incongruous, hence the comedy, I hope.
3. And if you don't hear the incongruous nature with what I'm saying, I'm not saying it very well.
4. We see this kind of incongruous intermingling of familiar things throughout this meal.
5. If there was a bowl of fruit up there as you walked in, it'd be incongruous but people wouldn't shriek with laughter and point to the fruit.
inconsequential
/ˌɪŋˌkɑnsəˈkwɛntʃəɫ/
adjectivewithout any significance or importance
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1. What actually happened at that moment is really inconsequential.
2. So that is inconsequential.
3. However, his arrest was almost inconsequential in the overall struggle against organized crime.
4. We're all so inconsequential.
5. It's just completely inconsequential.
inconspicuous
/ˌɪŋˈkɑnspɪkwəs/
adjectivenot prominent or readily noticeable
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1. Enter this inconspicuous character.
2. Without bubble-making oxygen tanks and scuba equipment David is inconspicuous underwater.
3. However, this tiny inconspicuous creature hides a deadly secret.
4. - Inconspicuous at the airport, shove a hat on.
5. - It was very, like, inconspicuous.
interpreter
/ˌɪnˈtɝpɹətɝ/
nounsomeone who verbally changes the words of a language into another
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1. And the woman writes, 'Interpreter?'
2. So many protests, so many protests do not have interpreters.
3. So the first guy is acting as the interpreter, and, first of all, he's not even really a professional interpreter.
4. So the first guy is acting as the interpreter, and, first of all, he's not even really a professional interpreter.
5. Finally, interpreters work in pairs.
to interrogate
/ˌɪnˈtɛɹəˌɡeɪt/
verbto question someone in an aggressive way for a long time in order to get information
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1. The women are also interrogated.
2. We interrogated.
3. The members interrogate the dead girl's friend.
4. We could interrogate the author psychoanalytically.
5. We can interrogate hierarchies.
to coerce
/koʊˈɝs/
verbto cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
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1. I'm not coercing them.
2. - I was coerced.
3. I'm not coercing you.
4. They are being coerced.
5. This person was coerced into consenting.
coercion
/koʊˈɝʃən/
nounusing force to cause something to occur
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1. Coercion is never a form of want.
2. Freedom is better than coercion.
3. But where's the coercion?
4. Rape is the coercion of an unwilling female into intercourse.
5. The next phase is coercion tactics.
to mar
/ˈmɑɹ/
verbmake imperfect
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1. After a whirlwind of Methodist social functions, Louise and Johnny were marred on May 19, 1951.
2. Other flaws marred the body.
3. What chance can mar the pearl and gold Thy love hath left in trust with me?
4. Print out a mars.
5. I am using mars, boost and caramello.
marred
/ˈmɑɹd/
adjectiveblemished by injury or rough wear
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1. Well, President Trump is furious at the idea that his marred legacy became even more tarnished today, as he became the first Britain to be impeached twice.
2. Well, President Trump is furious at the idea that his marred legacy became even more tarnished today, as he became the first Britain to be impeached twice.
3. Marred BY uncertainty, why this case is so crucial to our DEMOCRACY's FUTURE.
4. It was a speech marred
5. Marred you meant to do after Sleepless Nights.
refusal
/ɹəfˈjuzəɫ/, /ɹɪfˈjuzəɫ/
nounthe act of rejecting or saying no to something that has been offered or requested
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1. Her refusal to be a second class citizen.
2. A refusal to grant equal pay?
3. Cinderella expected this refusal.
4. Murr: Q, That refusal was a big mistake.
5. Murr: Q, That refusal was a big mistake.
to refute
/ɹɪfˈjut/
verboverthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
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1. The scientific community has refuted the deniers for decades, pointing to the basic facts over and over again.
2. But Boeing and NASA both refuted the OIG numbers.
3. This afternoon, in Georgia, Gabriel Sterling, a top state elections official, refuted the president's allegations of fraud.
4. Roberto is refuted.
5. Amihai Mazar, a professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israeli archaeologist, refutes Begin’s claim because it simply doesn’t make any sense.
refutation
/ˌɹɛfjuˈteɪʃən/
nounthe act of determining that something is false
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1. Which is absolutely fascinating because it's not just a full refutation of Tucker's lazy racism, it's also a very fun fork fact.
2. Yours is a refutation of the simply moralistic family life.
3. For these men, war appears as a refutation of evil, whether it be the evil of Hitler's threat to Marc Bloch's France or the slaveholders' threat to Thoreau's America, or less exalted but no less real, the evil of personal hollowness.
4. And gave a number of kind of refutations for counter arguments to the idea that a machine could think.
5. But no decisive refutations have emerged so far proving some element of the video to be faked.
assonance
/ˈæsənəns/
nounthe use of similar vowels close to each other in nonrhyming syllables as a literary device
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1. we can break these into two groups: assonance, where the vowel sound is the same, and consonance, where the consonant is the same.
2. It's also a very good characterization of Hemingway in terms of the old icy brilliance and the assonance in Hemingway's prose that makes it almost like poetry at many moments.
assonant
/ˈæsənənt/
adjectivehaving the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
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to assonate
/ˈæsənˌeɪt/
verbcorrespond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance
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