immovable
/ˌɪˈmuvəbəɫ/
adjectivenot able or intended to be moved
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1. Most people are not completely immovable.
2. Now all of that earth is immovable.
3. My purpose is immovable.
4. The Spirit was immovable as ever.
5. You're immovable at that point.
immiscible
/ˌɪˈmɪsəbəɫ/
adjective(chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing
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1. By dissolving hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid into two different immiscible, or un-mixable, solvents, we actually create nylon right here.
2. When it’s heated to melting, they naturally become three immiscible liquid layers, controlled by their density differences.
3. They're immiscible.
immeasurable
/ˌɪˈmɛʒɝˌæbəɫ/
adjectiveimpossible to measure
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1. The payoff would be immeasurable.
2. Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.
3. Therefore, its benefits are immeasurable.
4. For example, the diversity of zooplankton is immeasurable.
5. Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.
immature
/ˌɪmətˈjʊɹ/
adjectivenot fully developed or mature; not ripe
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1. And credit card processing is immature.
2. These kids are highly immature in terms of their immune systems.
3. The seeds inside those pea seeds are immature.
4. - You wanna know immature?
5. You're immature!
immaterial
/ˌɪməˈtɪɹiəɫ/
adjectivenot consisting of matter
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1. Elevate the material to the immaterial.
2. Surely that interval is immaterial.
3. These remarkable images were based on immaterial reality.
4. The immaterial soul is good.
5. The soul is an immaterial substance.
profligate
/ˈpɹɔfɫɪˌɡeɪt/
adjectiverecklessly wasteful
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1. We were the profligate.
2. Nature is profligate with variation.
3. Jakob Fugger managed to strike a mining deal with the profligate noble too.
4. Speaker 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.
5. All 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/
noundissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
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1. The wanted the right to own property, and to shield their families’ financial security from the profligacy of drunken husbands.
2. Some of it was due to this and some was my own profligacy in just getting carried away.
to seclude
/səˈkɫud/
verbkeep away from others
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1. According to writer T.J. English Batista spent the last weeks of the revolution secluded in his palace.
2. If I go to a beach, it'll be secluded.
3. I kinda secluded into my own world.
4. It’s not that secluded.
5. Developing 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/
nounthe act of secluding yourself from others
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1. After her breakdown in 1866, the former empress of Mexico lived in seclusion in Belgium, forever haunted by paranoia.
2. His retirement years were spent in quiet seclusion.
3. But this fall, Putnam is in semi-seclusion, with wife Rosemary in resplendent rural New Hampshire, and he appreciates the irony.
4. Not in the intellectual seclusion of a monastery or ivory tower, But deeply embedded in the company of other humans, dining.
5. He was kind of in hiding in seclusion, which be a lot of people actually agreed with that.
secular
/ˈsɛkjəɫɝ/
adjectivenot concerned or connected with religion
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1. Here's the secular trends.
2. Secular people that I know--
3. The military is fiercely secular.
4. What is secular literature good for?
5. Our world is secular.
to engross
/ɪnˈɡɹoʊs/
verbdevote (oneself) fully to
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1. The 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.
2. Fortunately, Seacat's so engrossed in trying to steal one of the family cars from the garage, that the boy safely sneaks away.
3. I was totally engrossed in this thing, right.
4. She had been so engrossed by anticipation that she couldn’t believe her eyes.
5. - Got very engrossed in it.
to engulf
/ɪnˈɡəɫf/
verbdevote (oneself) fully to
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1. We human beings have engulfed the planet.
2. One of the world’s oldest democracies is engulfed by rage.
3. Engulfed by the sea.
4. The mudslide engulfed hundreds of workers and residents below the reservoir.
5. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution.
poise
/ˈpɔɪz/
noungreat coolness and composure under strain
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1. Maintaining admirable poise.
2. A water python is silently poised at the water's edge.
3. Her poise is striking.
4. She was poised.
5. - I think the poise.
poised
/ˈpɔɪzd/
adjectivemarked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action
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1. It's a huge wave of millennials, age 25 to 34 ESPECIALLY, who are just POISED, MOSTLY renting.
2. Republicans also look poised to retain their MAJORITY in the SENATE.
3. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
4. You're very poised.
5. - I got Mufasa, I'm a poised king, through and through.
to congeal
/kənˈdʒiɫ/
verbbecome gelatinous
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1. Oh, it's all congealed.
2. It has congealed to some extent, the starches.
3. The word congeal is so accurate.
4. - Congeal those bad boys.
5. Yo, this stuff is congealed.
congenial
/kənˈdʒinjəɫ/
adjectivesuitable to your needs
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1. Now, this is highly congenial to the worldview of a scientist and it is pretty much the worst nightmare to a post-modernist.
2. He's very congenial.
3. I would recall Marshall-- he was congenial.
4. The 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.
5. It's more congenial to him in every way.
congenital
/kənˈdʒɛnətəɫ/
adjectivehaving a disease since birth but not necessarily hereditary
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1. We call that congenital esotropia.
2. Others have congenital prosopagnosia.
3. Mitral stenosis can also be congenital.
4. Congenital cytomegalovirus infection is the infection of a fetus with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, during intrauterine life.
5. Many Down syndrome babies have congenital heart defects.
domestic
/dəˈmɛstɪk/
adjectiveof or relating to the home
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1. The team must also decide if the focus will be on domestic sales or if the baby food will be exported to foreign countries.
2. For domestic animals, they had only chickens.
3. I have not personally experienced domestic violence and abuse in that regard, but I have experienced child abuse.
4. Domestic violence is a serious problem everywhere, especially when it comes to marginalized groups.
5. Domestic slaves exercised a degree of human agency.
domesticity
/ˌdoʊˌmɛsˈtɪsəti/
nounthe state or quality of being focused on home life, family, and the activities associated with maintaining a household
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1. She preferred a life of promiscuity and alcohol abuse to maternal domesticity.
2. The lack of domesticity, the pitiless illumination and anonymous furniture offer an alternative to ordinary sentimentality and good taste.
3. Over 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.
4. And 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.
5. Domesticity is very important to Cancers, who take great pains in feathering their nests.
domicile
/dˈɑːmɪsˌaɪl/
nounhousing that someone is living in
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1. Her 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.
2. You know what, we have just one tiny domicile
3. For 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.
4. And, 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.
5. People have been cleaning the floors of their domiciles for thousands of years.
