comparison
/kəmˈpɛɹəsən/
nounthe process of examining the similarities and differences between two or more things or people
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1. The physician and writer Lewis Thomas most famously made this comparison in 1973.
2. But massive sonic booms had no comparison.
3. Ultimately, comparison is a fool's errand for two reasons.
4. Here comes comparison.
5. Number eight is comparisons.
comparative
/kəmˈpɛɹətɪv/
adjectiverelating to or based on or involving comparison
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1. His reasoning is comparative.
2. Comparative reading actually is nothing new.
3. Steve and Dan Ziblatt's book is much more comparative.
4. My torts class is quite comparative.
5. Another logic is comparative risk.
comparable
/ˈkɑmpɝəbəɫ/, /kəmˈpɛɹəbəɫ/, /kəmpɹəbəɫ/
adjectivehaving a similar ground that justifies making a comparison
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1. My state is only moderately comparable.
2. The system performance of both vehicles is comparable.
3. So the fuel consumption is directly comparable.
4. Comparable inferior, that makes no sense.
5. The daiya is comparable.
angelic
/ˌænˈdʒɛɫɪk/
adjectivemarked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
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1. And two angelic beings descend from Heaven.
2. It is so angelic.
3. - Great, this baby is angelic.
4. Yeah, I mean, or angelic powers.
5. Look at it his angelic little smile.
archangel
/ˌɑɹˈkeɪndʒəɫ/
nounan angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy
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1. As an archangel dog of war, he can usher those who have passed over into Heaven.
2. Richard Speight Jr. played the archangel Gabriel, disguised as the trickster Loki.
3. Golden eagle, archangel, we have been engaged.
4. The angel on this card is Gabriel, Archangel of water, and Gabriel has his trumpet.
5. And that angel is Rafael, the archangel of the air.
ingénue
/ˈɑndʒəˌnu/, /ˈɪnˌdʒɛnˌju/, /ˈɪndʒənu/, /ɪnˈdʒɛnu/
nouna young, innocent, and naive character, often a young woman, in a story or play
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1. Right, it's important to hire first timers, young ingenues, and give them a shot.
2. So, was it Dierdre, the wife in green, or Marlene, the ingenue in red?
3. Do I still have the skin for an ingenue?
4. - I wanted to be an ingenue.
5. I feel like an ingénue, at 45.
ingenuous
/ˌɪnˈdʒɛnjuəs/
adjectiveshowing simplicity, honesty, or innocence and willing to trust others due to a lack of life experience
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1. Centuries ago, the Inca developed ingenuous suits of armor that could flex with the blows of sharp spears and maces, protecting warriors from even the fiercest physical attacks.
2. And I look at that, and it's very ingenuous, but it also shows that his motivation is to keep all of your money in his bank because he wants to control your money.
3. Best of all, the company set up a CCTV camera to film their attempts, which made for an ingenuous advertisement of their product.
4. it's fast charging, it's ingenuous.
to obtrude
/əbˈtɹud/
verbthrust oneself in as if by force
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1. The first and the one I did mention last time is the way in which language obtrudes itself as sound.
2. Well, you have to speak very carefully or language obtrudes.
to obstruct
/əbˈstɹəkt/
verbblock passage through
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1. To obstruct the inspector?
2. Sometimes this growth can literally obstruct the tube.
3. Obstruction of justice obstructs justice.
4. The sign is obstructed.
5. The sign is obstructed.
admittance
/ədˈmɪtəns/
nounthe act of admitting someone to enter
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1. First denied testing, twice denied E.R. admittance.
2. She then applied for admittance to MIT but was turned down.
3. But one must prove one's worth for admittance.
4. We obtained a scholarship-free admittance to seven different universities, and now he's going to NYU.
5. He had 10 years in which to try, and only on admittance did he become a full citizen and a regular soldier.
admissible
/ədˈmɪsəbəɫ/
adjectiveallowable, acceptable, or valid, especially in a court of law
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1. None of this is admissible in court.
2. When they were coming in unlimited, they had to be admissible.
3. Can body language be submitted as admissible evidence in court?
4. well polygraphs aren't admissible in court.
5. Because it's not admissible in court in your guys's eyes.
pitiful
/ˈpɪtəfəɫ/
adjectivedeserving or inciting pity
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1. That is really pitiful, Mr. Darwin.
2. Isn't he pitiful?
3. Your god is pitiful!
4. His mother had a very pitiful auberge.
5. It's pitiful.
pitiless
/ˈpɪtiɫəs/
adjectivewithout mercy or pity
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1. Sadness has wrapped each sufferer up in a pitiless sense of their own singularity.
2. The lack of domesticity, the pitiless illumination and anonymous furniture offer an alternative to ordinary sentimentality and good taste.
3. Celestina is a pitiless book with what can all ready be called a realistic quality, and I'll talk about realism in a minute.
4. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart.
5. And we did it in 1846, when surgery was virtually torture and surgeons were told what they needed most was to be pitiless.
pitiable
/ˈpɪtiəbəɫ/
adjectiveinspiring mixed contempt and pity
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1. I groaned in anguish at the pitiable spectacle . .
2. We have love for pitiable people when we think we can actually end up in the same situation.
3. He was in a pitiable state of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter.
4. I groaned in anguish at the pitiable spectacle.
5. You cannot bear to see anyone in a pitiable state.
sinus
/ˈsaɪnəs/
nouna wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel
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1. Kind of clears my sinus.
2. Presence of a normal P wave therefore indicates sinus rhythm.
3. Paranasal sinuses are air cavities in the bones of the skull.
4. The sinuses are non-tender.
5. A cold of any kind can really affect your sinuses.
sinuous
/ˈsɪnwəs/
adjectivecurved or curving in and out
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1. Ah, I feel better now so lets check out a game Mr. Orange Paper sent me called Sinuous.
2. Nicknamed Nessie, the rumored creature is most often described with a small head on a long, sinuous neck with a thick body, seal-like flippers, and a long tail.
3. It matches the sand around there, and it's sinuous.
4. The great creator raised his sinuous, powerful, flexible arm, and we know where we stand.
5. Shortly before sunrise, in the shadows of the forest, the mud ghosts approached the enemy lines, with slow, sinuous movements.
sinuosity
/sˌɪnjuːˈɑːsɪɾi/
nounhaving curves
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1. At that point, as you recall, because I had the feeling that maybe the explanation is a little bit-- was a little bit too wriggly, but Dante's poem-- canto moves in that way with a lot of sinuosities there.
tutelage
/ˈtjutɪɫɪdʒ/
nounteaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
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1. He put his sons under the tutelage of John Hemings who was the carpenter, the master carpenter at Monticello.
2. From his tutelage, I gained a lot of really important skills.
3. Is she getting some tutelage from a force ghost like Luke or Yoda?
4. I studied under the tutelage of John Chancellor, David Brinkley, Barbara Walters, all of them at NBC.
5. She was placed under the tutelage of the Earl of Shrewsbury down in the Midlands.
tutelar
/tˈuːɾɛlɚ/
adjectiveproviding protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
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tutorship
/tˈuːɾɚʃˌɪp/
nounteaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
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