to allure
/əˈɫʊɹ/
verbto attract or tempt someone, particularly by offering or showing something appealing
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1. The allure of Paris is clear.
2. For millions of Britons, local attractions are losing their allure after a year of lockdown.
3. Our wheels grind the crack allure of '66.
4. No one can deny the allure of this mysterious corner of our planet.
5. But there's allure now.
allusion
/əˈɫuʒən/
nouna statement that implies or indirectly mentions something or someone else, especially as a literary device
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1. Did you notice any allusions?
2. The allusions to Paradise Lost are part of that portentousness.
3. This indirect allusion to Boule de Suif shocked the respectable members of the party.
4. Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.
5. You may recognize the allusion.
vendible
/vˈɛndəbəl/
adjectivefit to be offered for sale
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1. Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.
vendition
/vɛndˈɪʃən/
nounthe act of selling goods for a living
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vendor
/ˈvɛndɝ/
nounsomeone on the street who offers food, clothing, etc. for sale
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1. Vendors can act arbitrarily.
2. Vendors can make mistakes.
3. The vendor cuts the meat into smaller pieces.
4. So the city paid a vendor $100.
5. Now, this vendor has traditional down cold, completely.
thoroughbred
/ˈθɝoʊˈbɹɛd/
nounan animal with a purebred lineage that has not been mixed with any other breeds, and is typically associated with horses that are bred specifically for racing purposes
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1. Some thoroughbreds were even sold for slaughter at a horse meat market.
2. The two thoroughbreds pounded down the track neck and neck.
3. She was given a Thoroughbred horse for her fifth birthday and won her first equestrian trophy later that same year.
4. It feels like a thoroughbred.
5. The famous British thoroughbred horse See the Stars has been valued at over $125 million, and charges up to $95,000 for a romantic encounter round the back of the barn.
thoroughfare
/ˈθɝoʊˌfɛɹ/
nouna road, street, or passage that provides a direct route or passage for vehicles, pedestrians, or both
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1. This was, of course, a thoroughfare for all of our people both by the sea and land.
2. We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning.
3. You don't have to go too far off the main thoroughfares before you suddenly have these intense areas of poverty.
4. We're not going to do complex intersections on major highways and thoroughfares for the purposes of this video.
5. And some of the main thoroughfares are going to be busier than other places.
pestilent
/pˈɛstɪlənt/
adjectivelikely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
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1. Manhood and womanhood are good things, though men and women are often perfectly pestilent.
2. Madison, who's more responsible for the Constitution than anyone else, referred to, quote, "the pestilent effects of paper money on the necessary confidence between man and man, on the necessary confidence in the public councils, on the industry and morals of the people, and on the character of republican government."
pestilence
/ˈpɛstəɫəns/
nouna pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
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1. But just behind it follow Pestilence and Famine, and close behind them, Death.
2. Pestilence and Famine will rule the land.
3. I will stand between them and the pestilence and The Sword and the depression.
4. According to 049, you've been infected with 'the pestilence'.
5. I mean pestilence, horrible sights, horrible locations.
impermissible
/ˌɪmpɝˈmɪsɪbəɫ/
adjectiveprohibited by the law
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1. "That's clearly an impermissible question."
2. And so allegedly, there's impermissible variation from one place to another in the number of drop boxes that are available to voters.
3. For us, all instrumentalization is by definition impermissible.
4. Actually, there's evidence of impermissible motive here in the record.
5. Is that just an impermissible in light of your construction of VMI?
impervious
/ˌɪmˈpɝviəs/
adjectiveresistant to being affected or damaged by something
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1. - Better become impervious.
2. Both materials should be impervious to my level 5.5 stainless steel razor blade.
3. The pure sapphire crustal on the Tissot watch is still impervious to the scratching.
4. Impervious cover is a big issue.
5. But, not all cover has to be impervious.
implacable
/ˌɪmˈpɫækəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of being placated
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1. At Jasper Ridge, this little drop has been enough to halt an implacable invader’s march toward world domination.
2. But overall, McConnell was implacable in his opposition to the Obama agenda.
3. it's the implacable march of fact.
4. Against such an implacable foe, the last of Song resistance was ground to dust .
5. Was she able to placate the implacable?
implausible
/ˌɪmˈpɫɔzəbəɫ/
adjectivenot seeming believable or reasonable enough to be considered true
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1. We have to take a gamble on an always implausible idea: that we deserve kindness.
2. Not an implausible thing to say.
3. In this next clip, Donald Trump tells a completely implausible story, including what we call the search routine.
4. What's implausible about them?
5. And they're both implausible.
defendant
/dɪˈfɛndənt/
nouna person in a law court who is sued by someone else or is accused of committing a crime
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1. The prosecution calls the defendant.
2. Defendants had no counsel.
3. Defendants could not get their trial.
4. Defendants have always known these facts.
5. The defendant will answer the question.
defensible
/dɪˈfɛnsəbəɫ/
adjectivecapable of being easily supported by arguments or adequately justified by reasoning
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1. That’s not even defensible as satire.
2. It's not defensible.
3. ROBERT WRIGHT: No, it's a totally defensible reaction.
4. Indeed, is entirely defensible.
5. As a result, on the 7th Mercy moved to a more defensible St. Peter valley.
defensive
/dɪˈfɛnsɪv/
adjectivedesigned or used in a way that provides a person or thing with protection against attack
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1. Defensive designs can deter crime.
2. We're defensive.
3. His strategic goals, therefore, were entirely defensive.
4. So, trenches are defensive weapons.
5. So what is defensive driving?
defiance
/dɪˈfaɪəns/
nounintentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
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1. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.
2. President Trump is projecting defiance as he faces his greatest political peril yet, an unprecedented second impeachment.
3. Nietzsche himself, in some moods, knows this defiance full well.
4. My defiance is for it, not for another thing.
5. Praise him in defiance.
defiant
/dɪˈfaɪənt/
adjectiveboldly resisting authority or an opposing force
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1. Even today, President Trump remains defiant.
2. In the Trobriand islands, hundreds of defiant warriors await the arrival of their enemies.
3. In the Trobriand islands, hundreds of defiant warriors await the arrival of their enemies.
4. The residents are defiant.
5. Oh, wait, defiant.