indescribable
/ˌɪndɪsˈkɹaɪbəbəɫ/
adjectivedefying expression or description
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1. The bond is indescribable.
2. It's indescribable.
3. And the look on her face was indescribable.
4. They are all indescribable alike.
5. It's indescribable.
indestructible
/ˌɪndəˈstɹəktɪbəɫ/
adjectivenot easily destroyed
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1. It's indestructible.
2. It's indestructible!
3. No high end phone is entirely indestructible.
4. It's indestructible.
5. This public toilet is indestructible.
indifferent
/ˌɪnˈdɪfɝənt/, /ˌɪnˈdɪfɹənt/
adjectivemarked by a lack of interest
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1. - You were indifferent
2. - Indifferent Fish was my Phish cover band in high school.
3. The formalists are really relatively indifferent to questions of meaning and to questions of interpretation.
4. The koala is indifferent to the rhythm of the bustling world.
5. Are you indifferent?
indiscernible
/ˌɪndɪsˈɜːnəbəl/
adjectivedifficult or impossible to perceive or discern
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1. A motion of matter departicularizing into the indiscernible.
2. But with the OnePlus 6T, the fingerprint scanner is indiscernible from the rest of the screen.
3. Black pepper is kind of indiscernible.
4. So, it's very indiscernible, but it's actually a continuous stair-stepping.
5. As we're entering the spring, the road markings are almost indiscernible on our roadways.
audit
/ˈɔdɪt/
nouna formal inspection of a business's financial records to see if they are correct and accurate or not
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1. The audit blames the complexity of the program, a confusing design, a lack of taxpayer awareness and inadequate oversight by the IRS.
2. The voters in Arizona and the state Senate in Arizona pursued this audit.
3. The accounts were audited by parliamentary commissioners.
4. Audit them.
5. Being audited?
auditor
/ˈɔdɪtɝ/
nouna qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
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1. Auditors revealed that nearly $2 billion has gone missing.
2. In 2019, Florida’s state auditor released a report on the state’s unemployment system.
3. Like the auditors, the investors, the limited partners do not check.
4. Auditors are now looking for bamboo in ballots. -
5. Auditors have 28 months from the time you filed your return to render a decision.
audition
/ɑˈdɪʃən/
nouna meeting with filmmakers during which they ask the actor or actress to perform a short scene to see if they are suitable for a role
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1. -Maroon 5 auditioned.
2. We auditioned a bunch of people, a bunch of good people.
3. Audition it.
4. - We had auditions?
5. Auditioning for Castaway.
illegitimate
/ˌɪɫɪˈdʒɪtəmɪt/
adjectiveof marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
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1. It's an illegitimate regime.
2. Are they really imposing illegitimate burdens on voters?
3. Are these unwritten doctrines illegitimate?
4. An illegitimate bee, aren't you, Benson? -
5. Sometimes, of course, it's completely illegitimate.
illiberal
/ɪlˈɪbɚɹəl/
adjectivenarrow-minded about cherished opinions
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1. We have an illiberal president who assaults our institutions, our values, our democracy, who debases our culture.
2. But he is a reformer of the illiberal sort.
3. But there's a difference between liberal and illiberal populists.
4. He wants to go the illiberal way.
5. A government should not be doing illiberal legislation like this without express parliamentary votes in primary legislation.
illimitable
/ɪlˈɪmɪɾəbəl/
adjectivewithout limits in extent or size or quantity
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1. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
2. He saw the hero at St. Helena where he stood on the rock gazing out over the illimitable ocean, while great thoughts stirred his breast.
to readjust
/ˌɹiəˈdʒəst/
verbadjust anew
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1. The biggest hurdle is just readjusting your expectations.
2. She just readjusted her expectations.
3. - I gotta readjust.
4. Yeah, you have to readjust.
5. Readjust it to correct.
to reassure
/ˌɹiəˈʃʊɹ/
verbto do or say something to make someone stop worrying or less afraid
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1. A mother calmly reassures her terrified child that the robots are not looking for her.
2. Reassure customers you will send only valuable email.
3. Penti reassures the youngsters.
4. Pinti reassures the youngsters.
5. Reassure your partner.
to recede
/ɹɪˈsid/
verbpull back or move away or backward
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1. The universe will recede from view.
2. It receded.
3. The glacier’s terminus has receded 3km since 1870.
4. The glaciers are receding at the rate of 20 to 30 meters a year.
5. Are your gums receding?
recidivist
/ɹəˈsɪdɪˌvɪst/
nounsomeone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
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1. If you actually convict rapists and recidivists, there will be less rape and less recidivism.
2. The majority of immigrants are still single adults right now, many of whom have tried several times, so-called recidivists.
3. They're recidivist or whatever it is.
4. You might think that reputation should drive these recidivists advisors from the industry.
5. But more importantly, my most recidivist patient had been in and out of jail over two hundred times before he came to treatment here.
to elude
/ɪˈɫud/
verbescape, either physically or mentally
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1. It just completely eluded you.
2. Not everyone eluded recapture as did Oney Judge and Hercules.
3. But always happiness eluded me.
4. However, this infamous reptile still eludes us in the wild.
5. Mastery of basic skills and a bare minimum of cultural literacy eludes vast numbers of our students.
elusion
/ɪlˈuːʒən/
nounthe act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
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elusive
/ɪˈɫusɪv/
adjectiveskillful at eluding capture
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1. So far, exoplanet rings, or exorings, have been pretty elusive.
2. Objectivity, in fact, is elusive.
3. - They're elusive.
4. This burrito is elusive.
5. Now, in the eighteenth century, statistics are elusive.
palate
/ˈpæɫət/, /ˈpæɫɪt/
noun(anatomy) the inside upper side of the mouth that separates it from the nasal cavity
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1. Cleanse the palate.
2. Rinse your palate with some water.
3. - Here, cleanse your palate.
4. Clean your palate a little bit.
5. Refined palate is their fame quirk.
palatable
/ˈpæɫətəbəɫ/
adjectivedescribing food or drink that has a pleasant taste
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1. It's also very not politically palatable.
2. So this is more palatable.
3. Can you do a Chilean accent palatable?
4. The stem of the pasilla wouldn't be palatable.
5. That is a palatable price.
unpalatable
/ənˈpæɫətəbəɫ/
adjectivedescribing food that does not have a pleasant taste
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1. Proboscis monkeys have a chambered stomach to help them break down the unpalatable fibrous leaves.
2. All this presents Beijing with an unpalatable choice.
3. Today we're talking about the unpalatable nature of noisy restaurants.
4. That seems like a very unpalatable combination of views.
5. These machines could also be useful in working more unpalatable but nutrient-rich ingredients like algae, duckweed, and grass into familiar dishes.