immovable
/ˌɪˈmuvəbəɫ/
adjective
not able or intended to be moved
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1Most people are not completely immovable.
2Now all of that earth is immovable.
3My purpose is immovable.
4The Spirit was immovable as ever.
5You're immovable at that point.
immiscible
/ˌɪˈmɪsəbəɫ/
adjective
(chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing
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1By dissolving hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid into two different immiscible, or un-mixable, solvents, we actually create nylon right here.
2When it’s heated to melting, they naturally become three immiscible liquid layers, controlled by their density differences.
3They're immiscible.
immeasurable
/ˌɪˈmɛʒɝˌæbəɫ/
adjective
impossible to measure
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1The payoff would be immeasurable.
2Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.
3Therefore, its benefits are immeasurable.
4For example, the diversity of zooplankton is immeasurable.
5Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.
immature
/ˌɪmətˈjʊɹ/
adjective
not fully developed or mature; not ripe
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1And credit card processing is immature.
2These kids are highly immature in terms of their immune systems.
3The seeds inside those pea seeds are immature.
4- You wanna know immature?
5You're immature!
immaterial
/ˌɪməˈtɪɹiəɫ/
adjective
not consisting of matter
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1Elevate the material to the immaterial.
2Surely that interval is immaterial.
3These remarkable images were based on immaterial reality.
4The immaterial soul is good.
5The soul is an immaterial substance.
profligate
/ˈpɹɔfɫɪˌɡeɪt/
adjective
recklessly wasteful
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1We were the profligate.
2Nature is profligate with variation.
3Jakob Fugger managed to strike a mining deal with the profligate noble too.
4Speaker 1: So we are getting absolutely no respite whatsoever from the profligate barrage of fake scandals relating to Joe Biden that are emanating from right wing media.
5All of the Western religions begin with the notion of Eden, and descend through a kind of profligate present to a very ugly future.
profligacy
/ˈpɹɔfɫɪˌɡæsi/
noun
dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
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1The wanted the right to own property, and to shield their familiesfinancial security from the profligacy of drunken husbands.
2Some of it was due to this and some was my own profligacy in just getting carried away.
to seclude
/səˈkɫud/
verb
keep away from others
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1According to writer T.J. English Batista spent the last weeks of the revolution secluded in his palace.
2If I go to a beach, it'll be secluded.
3I kinda secluded into my own world.
4It’s not that secluded.
5Developing a reputation for asceticism beyond even his fellow monks, he largely secluded himself in his own cell for 7 years before leaving the monastery for the mountains.
seclusion
/sɪˈkɫuʒən/
noun
the act of secluding yourself from others
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1After her breakdown in 1866, the former empress of Mexico lived in seclusion in Belgium, forever haunted by paranoia.
2His retirement years were spent in quiet seclusion.
3But this fall, Putnam is in semi-seclusion, with wife Rosemary in resplendent rural New Hampshire, and he appreciates the irony.
4Not in the intellectual seclusion of a monastery or ivory tower, But deeply embedded in the company of other humans, dining.
5He was kind of in hiding in seclusion, which be a lot of people actually agreed with that.
secular
/ˈsɛkjəɫɝ/
adjective
not concerned or connected with religion
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1Here's the secular trends.
2Secular people that I know--
3The military is fiercely secular.
4What is secular literature good for?
5Our world is secular.
to engross
/ɪnˈɡɹoʊs/
verb
devote (oneself) fully to
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1The alien sounds of The War of the Worlds are engrossing in and of themselves, but to me-- and therefore for our purposes today-- there are no stories with global significance, especially this one, that we can separate from the genealogy of modern white supremacy and its consequences.
2Fortunately, Seacat's so engrossed in trying to steal one of the family cars from the garage, that the boy safely sneaks away.
3I was totally engrossed in this thing, right.
4She had been so engrossed by anticipation that she couldn’t believe her eyes.
5- Got very engrossed in it.
to engulf
/ɪnˈɡəɫf/
verb
devote (oneself) fully to
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1We human beings have engulfed the planet.
2One of the world’s oldest democracies is engulfed by rage.
3Engulfed by the sea.
4The mudslide engulfed hundreds of workers and residents below the reservoir.
5The whole world is engulfed in a revolution.
poise
/ˈpɔɪz/
noun
great coolness and composure under strain
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1Maintaining admirable poise.
2A water python is silently poised at the water's edge.
3Her poise is striking.
4She was poised.
5- I think the poise.
poised
/ˈpɔɪzd/
adjective
marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action
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1It's a huge wave of millennials, age 25 to 34 ESPECIALLY, who are just POISED, MOSTLY renting.
2Republicans also look poised to retain their MAJORITY in the SENATE.
3He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
4You're very poised.
5- I got Mufasa, I'm a poised king, through and through.
to congeal
/kənˈdʒiɫ/
verb
become gelatinous
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1Oh, it's all congealed.
2It has congealed to some extent, the starches.
3The word congeal is so accurate.
4- Congeal those bad boys.
5Yo, this stuff is congealed.
congenial
/kənˈdʒinjəɫ/
adjective
suitable to your needs
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1Now, this is highly congenial to the worldview of a scientist and it is pretty much the worst nightmare to a post-modernist.
2He's very congenial.
3I would recall Marshall-- he was congenial.
4The higher intellect, the imagination, the spirit, and even the heart might all find their congenial aliment in pursuits which, as some of their ardent votaries believed, would ascend from one step of powerful intelligence to another, until the philosopher should lay his hand on the secret of creative force and perhaps make new worlds for himself.
5It's more congenial to him in every way.
congenital
/kənˈdʒɛnətəɫ/
adjective
having a disease since birth but not necessarily hereditary
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1We call that congenital esotropia.
2Others have congenital prosopagnosia.
3Mitral stenosis can also be congenital.
4Congenital cytomegalovirus infection is the infection of a fetus with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, during intrauterine life.
5Many Down syndrome babies have congenital heart defects.
domestic
/dəˈmɛstɪk/
adjective
of or relating to the home
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1The team must also decide if the focus will be on domestic sales or if the baby food will be exported to foreign countries.
2For domestic animals, they had only chickens.
3I have not personally experienced domestic violence and abuse in that regard, but I have experienced child abuse.
4Domestic violence is a serious problem everywhere, especially when it comes to marginalized groups.
5Domestic slaves exercised a degree of human agency.
domesticity
/ˌdoʊˌmɛsˈtɪsəti/
noun
the state or quality of being focused on home life, family, and the activities associated with maintaining a household
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1She preferred a life of promiscuity and alcohol abuse to maternal domesticity.
2The lack of domesticity, the pitiless illumination and anonymous furniture offer an alternative to ordinary sentimentality and good taste.
3Over the course of the next couple of generations, their numbers outside of domesticity are expected to dwindle to just a quarter of its current population.
4And we can see this in an ecofeminist text’s Rape of the Wild, which explores the masculinized violence directed at women and animals, and to a larger extent the natural world through language, hunting, domesticity, technology, and slavery.
5Domesticity is very important to Cancers, who take great pains in feathering their nests.
domicile
/dˈɑːmɪsˌaɪl/
noun
housing that someone is living in
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1Her essay deftly inserts this work into a longer history of photography, of African-American domiciles, and everyday life, including photographs by the great Gordon Parks.
2You know what, we have just one tiny domicile
3For our entire lives, Wednesdays come after Thursdays, the sun has risen in the East, and our domiciles and dwellings have remained static beneath our feet.
4And, in fact, we'll spend the entire lecture on the city of Ostia, because like Pompeii and Herculaneum before it, especially like Pompeii, we have an extraordinary array of not only private domiciles, but also public architecture from the city of Ostia that gives us an outstanding sense of what this city looked like in antiquity.
5People have been cleaning the floors of their domiciles for thousands of years.

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