overwrought
/ˌoʊvɝˈɹɔt/
adjectivedeeply agitated especially from emotion
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1. Pilots that are working for Amazon's contractors are overwrought with schedules and scheduling changes and constant training.
2. My body has a biological imperative to be inspired by burning spirits, epic competition, and overwrought inner monologue set against the backdrop of a competitive sport.
3. But yes, I think I'm quite good at not feeling overwrought by things, to be honest.
4. , the overwrought dialogue is like, so good.
5. They're just continued with the elements, the overwrought tables, the carved wood, the ornate grills on the door, the columns that are faux finished.
overweight
/ˌoʊvɝˈweɪt/
adjectiveweighing too much or more than what is desired or expected
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1. Even vegetarians in the US are overweight.
2. Millions of us are overweight.
3. Almost 2 billion are overweight altogether.
4. The whole population is overweight.
5. 25 to 30 is overweight.
overweening
/ˌoʊvɚwˈiːnɪŋ/
adjectivehaving too much pride or confidence in oneself
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1. I'm not saying it's a be all and end all and I don't want an overweening state, which is gonna control everything.
to overleap
/ˌoʊvɚlˈiːp/
verbjump across or leap over (an obstacle)
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1. And within five years, he had become a named full professor first at Harvard, then at Vanderbilt, then at Duke, and had completely overleaped those 20 years that he had been gone.
2. Milton, too, manages with a word like this to remind us that we're only seeing the garden after Satan has overleaped its boundaries and has begun sneaking around.
overlord
/ˈoʊvɝˌɫɔɹd/
nounsomeone who is in a position of power, especially in the past
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1. What is your overlord, Becca?
2. Oh, all overlords increase their Infamy level by one.
3. Awe, he misses his corgi overlord.
4. Overlords may not exploit their land during their next turn.
5. And then, of course, welcome our hopefully benevolent orange juice and tax refund managing overlords.
overproduction
/ˈoʊvɝpɹəˈdəkʃən/
nountoo much production or more than expected
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1. This rare hormonal disorder of the pituitary gland causes overproduction of human growth hormone.
2. The first one is overproduction of sebum.
3. Cushing’s syndrome is due to overproduction of cortisol by the adrenal glands.
4. A healthy gut reduces the overproduction of DHT.
5. The answer is: the overproduction crisis.
to overrun
/ˈoʊvɝˌɹən/
verbinvade in great numbers
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1. On October 20, 2011, rebel fighters finally overran its defenses.
2. And the system is already overrun right now.
3. Human beings have overrun the world.
4. A flash flood has overrun your town.
5. They violently overrun the Mexican border.
ardent
/ˈɑɹdənt/
adjectivecharacterized by strong enthusiasm
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1. On the House floor, the president's most ardent supporters rejected impeachment.
2. Militarily though, some ardent Optimates still challenged him in Hispania.
3. The final obstacle to the church's entrance can test the most ardent pilgrim's faith.
4. - I am Ardent.
5. - I am Ardent.
ardor
/ˈɑɹdɝ/
nounintense feeling of love
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1. During this period prior to the First World War, Mussolini’s moral character deteriorated as his socialist ardor increased.
2. A military ardor pervades all ranks.
3. Taking Epidaurus, he says, would have threatened the neighboring states near the coast, it might bring peace at once, or at least cool the ardor for war amongst Sparta's allies.
4. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped.
5. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped.
arduous
/ˈɑɹdʒuəs/
adjectiverequiring vigorous effort, particularly on a continuous basis
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1. Each step is arduous.
2. It's an arduous journey.
3. But their journey is becoming more and more arduous.
4. They have an arduous journey ahead.
5. The rehab process was arduous.
inedible
/ˌɪˈnɛdəbəɫ/
adjectivenot suitable for food
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1. It was inedible.
2. - This is kind of inedible.
3. Because of the hard seeds, these bananas were inedible.
4. Coelacanths are inedible.
5. It’s inedible, of course.
ineffable
/ˌɪˈnɛfəbəɫ/
adjectiveindescribable or beyond words, often used to describe beauty or aesthetic experiences
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1. There's an ineffable quality to it.
2. That are a little bit more ineffable, that are more qualitative?
3. At the bottom of the steps she stands waiting, with a smile of ineffable joy, an attitude of matchless grace and dignity.
4. some of these sensations will truly be ineffable, meaning that you can't describe them.
5. no one of course is somebody sensations will be ineffable.
inefficacious
/ɪnˌɛfɪkˈeɪʃəs/
adjectivelacking the power to produce a desired effect
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1. Allowing office workers to individually adjust temperatures then became inefficacious.
inevitable
/ˌɪˈnɛvətəbəɫ/
adjectivebound to happen in a way that is impossible to avoid or prevent
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1. That carbon-based life is inevitable?
2. Her death was inevitable.
3. College was inevitable.
4. A war became inevitable.
5. My success is inevitable.
periodicity
/pˌiəɹɪˌɑːdˈɪsɪɾi/
nounthe quality of recurring at regular intervals
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1. Obsessed with the perfection of the periodicity.
2. And as we now know, the periodicity of elements is a physical phenomenon.
3. Many different periodicity of locomotion appeared in this knockout monkey.
4. What determines the periodicity of swells?
5. They don't happen with great periodicity.
peripatetic
/ˌpɛɹəpəˈtɛtɪk/
adjectiveconstantly traveling to different locations, particularly due to work
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1. His peripatetic relative was a transcendentalist.
2. You remember during the period of the Judges when the Ark of the Covenant was peripatetic and would stay at different places, but for some time it came to rest at Shiloh with the priest Eli and his sons.
3. They were wandering peripatetic healers, but now they're recognizable as members of the same guild.
4. Remember, these are peripatetic physicians whom you invite into your home.
5. With seven billion peripatetic Homo sapiens on the planet, it was perhaps inevitable that one of them would eventually trod on the grave of the magnificent titan buried beneath the badlands of Southern Patagonia.
peripheral
/pɝˈɪfɝəɫ/, /pɝˈɪfɹəɫ/
adjectiverelating or belonging to the edge or outer section of something
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1. But the peripheral is just a USB peripheral.
2. The dihydropyridine class acts on peripheral blood vessels.
3. Peripheral receptors transmit signal to the respiratory center via the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves.
4. Peripheral vision is here.
5. - Peripheral vision though is like 90 degrees.
periphery
/pɝˈɪfɝi/
nounthe outside boundary or surface of something
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1. And the rest is periphery.
2. Everything else is periphery.
3. The periphery of grocery store is also very calculated.
4. You've got the periphery with the emergence of these suburbs.
5. The solution is on the periphery.
