immune
/ˌɪmˈjun/
adjective(usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence
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1. None of us are immune.
2. No other industry is immune from products liability suits.
3. Conspiratorial thinking is immune to contradictory evidence or lack of evidence.
4. None of us are immune.
5. The sunlight attracts immune cells to your skin’s surface.
immunity
/ˌɪmˈjunəti/, /ˌɪmˈjunɪti/
nounthe quality of being unaffected by something
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1. Humans develop immunity.
2. Maybe boost immunity?
3. Boosts Immunity:
4. - Get immunity.
5. - Gets immunity.
progeny
/ˈpɹɑdʒəni/
nounthe immediate descendants of a person
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1. Vision, progeny 2.0-- accessing.
2. Parents very rarely disown their progeny.
3. He makes promises of progeny to Abraham and his heirs.
4. His progeny, his sons, and then their sons, and their sons retained the throne for years after that.
5. This one gets 50 progeny.
progenitor
/pɹoʊˈdʒɛnɪtɝ/
nounan ancestor in the direct line
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1. Samuel Beckett was perhaps the progenitor of the concept of sound and silence as mechanisms of menace.
2. the progenitors of the genre have largely been lost to history.
3. Now, many cells in the bone marrow are hematopoietic progenitors, which are precursors to the different types of blood cells.
4. but it's a progenitor cell.
5. One result of this asymmetrical division is a committed progenitor cell.
to seduce
/sɪˈdus/
verbinduce to have sex
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1. Meanwhile his halting, gauche attempts to seduce women were met by ridicule and rejection.
2. She seduces her uncle.
3. It seduces its visitor with sweet nectar.
4. Cow seduces Indonesian man.
5. Oh, OK, OK David So, tryna seduce the ladies.
sedulous
/sˈɛdʒuːləs/
adjectiveputting continuous effort, care, and attention in doing something
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plenitude
/plˈɛnɪtˌuːd/
nouna full supply
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1. She is the author of a lovely new small volume entitled The Plenitude of Distraction.
2. And indeed there is a plenitude of thinking in it, despite its very handy size.
3. The opposite of narrative scarcity is narrative plenitude.
4. Abolishing the conditions of voicelessness is about achieving narrative plenitude for everyone in our society, not just for the majority or the wealthy or the privileged.
5. It's the principle of plenitude or fecundity, or the great chain of being, that reality is actually as full as possible.
plenteous
/plˈɛntiəs/
adjectiveaffording an abundant supply
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1. It exists a component, called dark matter, that we know is about 23%, six more times plenteous than usual matter and it is in this room, it goes across us, but we cannot see it.
plethora
/ˈpɫɛθɝə/, /pɫəˈθɔɹə/
nounextreme excess
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1. From their leaves, flowers, and buds, to fruit, seeds, and nuts, trees have a plethora of energy sources.
2. The redundant denomination of the depicted object's parts provides a plethora of places-- loci-- not unlike the segments of the Guidonian hand, a common mnemonic device.
3. whole plethora of strikes that we can sell.
4. So shirts can mean a plethora of different things.
5. They have a plethora of traditional Moldovan folk arts and music.
to ensconce
/ɪnˈskɑns/
verbfix firmly
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1. Trump has been uncomfortably ensconced at one of the best medical facilities in the world while he and his allies try to rip healthcare away from millions.
2. This book's constructivism ensconced in a conception of political legitimacy is, to me, a very close relative of the so-called political constructivism of John Rawls.
3. They're now safely ensconced in their houses.
4. I'm ensconced in pleather.
5. I'm ensconced in pleather.
to enshrine
/ɛnʃˈɹaɪn/
verbenclose in a shrine
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1. It is enshrined in the Constitution.
2. During his tenure from 1877 to 1911, the High Court enshrined racial segregation in American life.
3. Their work is now enshrined in a permanent exhibit at the International Spy Museum in Washington.
4. The Ainu home was enshrined with various live-in gods.
5. They basically enshrined the second-class status of women in the civil code.
to enshroud
/ɪnʃˈɹaʊd/
verbcover as if with a shroud
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1. The impact caused tsunamis, wildfires, and a massive cloud of debris and aerosols that enshrouded the planet, darkening the skies and cooling the atmosphere. -
2. In it, we're introduced to the planet Wobani, one that's enshrouded by clouds.
3. so it gets enshrouded.
4. The outer rim of the volcano's caldera rises over 7,000 feet, creating a barrier to human encroachment and enshrouding mysterious creatures, many yet to be discovered.
5. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell.
to ensnare
/ɪnsˈnɛɹ/
verbcatch in or as if in a trap
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1. There the company was ensnared in a government corruption scandal.
2. He tried to ensnare all of the races.
3. It protects you, but it also ensnares you.
4. I think children had ensnared me the moment I connected fatherhood with loss.
5. The wealth, beauty, and luxury of Alexandria ensnared the Arabs and their general in equal measure, but Amr could not make his headquarters there without the caliph’s permission.
evangelist
/iˈvændʒəɫɪst/, /ɪˈvændʒəɫɪst/
nouna preacher of the Christian gospel
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1. We turned our Kickstarter backers into evangelists.
2. She became an evangelist.
3. They are evangelists for the WTO.
4. - I grew up evangelist.
5. Evangelist, I just talk to people. -
evangelical
/ˌivænˈdʒɛɫɪkəɫ/
adjectivein agreement with or relating to a Christian group that insists on the importance of the Bible and salvation through faith
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1. The angry mass killer was converted into an evangelical pacifist.
2. Black evangelicals voted another way.
3. About a third of Latinos are evangelical.
4. And at the same time, I'm on a journey of spirituality, trying to figure out my roots, being based in evangelical Christianity.
5. Evangelicals have joined it.
insolent
/ˈɪnsəɫənt/
adjectivemarked by casual disrespect
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1. They were insolent.
2. And as they now begun freely to permit men assigned to the army to practice military matters as their profession, there soon resulted that these men became insolent, and they became form idable to the Senate and damaging to the Emperor.
3. I feel an insolent child.
4. On the return of the Indian with meats of various kinds, she began to eat voraciously, and soon had regained sufficient courage to reply with spirit to his insolent remarks.
5. The other, insolent like all in authority, merely stared without replying.
insolence
/ˈɪnsəɫəns/
nounthe trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
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1. The silence increasingly looked like insolence, an affront the most powerful sovereign on earth could not ignore.
2. They shall pay for their insolence.
3. When he visited Professor Sharon Waite to ask for a revised grade, she reportedly became so frustrated with what she viewed as the student's insolence that she threw his own report at him.
4. The ghost of Kwaio past demands a sacrificial pig for your insolence.
5. For these insolence I will have to puke on your bed.
polemic
/pəˈɫɛmɪk/
nouna strong verbal or written statement of opinion, especially one that refutes or attacks a specific opinion
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1. So his polemical methods would certainly be influenced by the most potent polemic that was ever launched in the German language.
2. Now, we saw when we read Genesis 1, that there was something going on there, there's a polemic going on.
3. At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.
4. It was a polemic against polytheism and the pagan worldview.
5. Excuse my polemic.
polemical
/pəˈɫɛməkəɫ/
adjectiveof or relating to strong arguments meant to criticize or defend a particular opinion, person, idea, etc.
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1. This is not a polemical book at all.
2. So that view of Machiavelli's became, of course, an extremely polemical one.
3. Things have become very polemical.
4. In effect, Dante has a radically polemical view of the utopian spirit.
5. Prof: Okay, now that passage is actually quite polemical the way it's written.
to polemicise
/pɑːlˈɛmɪsˌaɪz/
verbengage in a controversy
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