invulnerable
/ˌɪnˈvəɫnɝəbəɫ/
adjective
immune to attack; impregnable
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1You're pretty much invulnerable.
2Firebreaks are not invulnerable to the spread of fires.
3You're invulnerable!
4Certain species are invulnerable to fire.
5Certain species are invulnerable to fire.
involuntary
/ˌɪnˈvɑɫənˌtɛɹi/
adjective
not subject to the control of the will
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1- It's involuntary!
2Now by the way, pseudo seizure symptoms are involuntary.
3Laughter is involuntary.
4Sometimes attention is involuntary.
5Sneezes are involuntary.
inviolable
/ˌɪnˈvaɪəɫəbəɫ/
adjective
demanding great respect in a way that cannot be ignored or degraded
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1And for her, as a member of Congress representing a district in California, as a constitutional officer, as speaker of the House, for her, her allegiance an oath to the Constitution is inviolable.
2When you protect an area, you're saying it's inviolable.
3But there are two inviolable ideas which should nevertheless, in the face of the grossest behavior, be kept in mind to increase our chances of being able to forgive.
4Knocked off course by the crushes power, we forget one central inviolable fact of human nature.
5Isaiah Berlin put it this way: "Law sets frontiers, not artificially drawn, within which men shall be inviolable."
invincible
/ˌɪnˈvɪnsəbəɫ/
adjective
incapable of being overcome or subdued
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1Our brains aren't invincible.
2The sports train is invincible.
3The big companies aren't invincible.
4Feel invincible.
5You're invincible.
invariable
/ˌɪnˈvɛɹiəbəɫ/
adjective
not liable to or capable of change
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1A general, invariable recipe, and if we follow instructions thoroughly, we'll get the correct result.
2The invariable fact about state socialism was that the people at the top of the state apparatus privileged themselves and their children, and a new class struggle developed.
3But the other almost invariable thing that you see in their backgrounds is that from a young age they experience some sort of trauma, and the school did not know how to respond to it.
4So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.
5Thus ever does the gross fatality of earth exult in its invariable triumph over the immortal essence which, in this dim sphere of half development, demands the completeness of a higher state.
to attain
/əˈteɪn/
verb
to succeed in reaching a goal, after hard work
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1At the end of the sixth tape, he attained total satisfaction.
2Evolution attains to the highest fulfilment of its purpose when the spirit manifests perfectly.
3Other combat arms of the Corps must attain a gray belt qualification, or second step qualification.
4Thus, a great mass of men had attained at least a semi-freedom.
5I attained the desired texture, guys.
attainment
/əˈteɪnmənt/
noun
the action or fact of achieving a goal or an aim
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1It's given a premium to educational attainment.
2According to Vedanta, the end and aim of Evolution is the attainment of perfection.
3An office hours appointment with Professor Whiting is among the most difficult attainments on the law school campus.
4I took advantage now of my attainments.
5Take a look at mathematical attainment by 15 year-olds.
to occlude
/əklˈuːd/
verb
block passage through
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1The UVC, the most energetic type, was occluded by the Earth's atmosphere.
2And this can occlude normal blood flow.
3When they come together like this, now they are occluding.
4Whereas an occluded front is a cold front and a warm front that have come together.
5They're occluded, from his point of view, with a kind of gray piece of wood.
occult
/əˈkəɫt/
noun
supernatural practices and techniques
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1One of these occult individuals deserves a special mention: Father Guglielmo Campana.
2This next roll, will be intelligence and a occult.
3The guy was into some spooky occult stuff.
4Also, postpone your investigations into the occult.
5The occult gives Yeats aesthetic forms for understanding individual psychology and historical event.
to quack
/ˈkwæk/
verb
to make the characteristic sound of a duck
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1Instead I picked quacks.
2So, here's our first meaning, quack.
3Quack of dawn sounds like the full expression, crack of dawn.
4No, mine is quack!
5- Quack! - Wait.
quackery
/ˈkwækɝi/
noun
medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
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1That his discoveries could be pigeonholed as mere Jewish quackery.
2- Ducks are always angry because the butler steals their quackery.
3- Quackery is what ducks call cutlery.
4- Someone stole my quackery.
5Most quackery is ignored by serious scientists.
recidivism
/ɹəˈsɪdɪˌvɪzəm/
noun
habitual relapse into crime
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1Recidivism is high.
2So the next example also in the criminal justice system is recidivism risk.
3Recidivism, by the way, is coming back to jail.
4Likely, though, it increases recidivism rates.
5Recidivism is measurable.
reciprocal
/ɹɪˈsɪpɹəkəɫ/
adjective
concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return
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1Secondly, none of it was reciprocal back then.
2That's that reciprocal
3So the relationship between history and discourse is reciprocal.
4These have a reciprocal relationship.
5The time period and frequency are reciprocals.
to reciprocate
/ɹɪˈsɪpɹəˌkeɪt/
verb
alternate the direction of motion of
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1However, the love was never really reciprocated by the Marvel films.
2and it's reciprocated?
3And it's reciprocated.
4It's never reciprocated, by the way.
5- Can I reciprocate?
reciprocity
/ˌɹɛsɪˈpɹɑsɪti/
noun
mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges
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1So most relations have of a reciprocity.
2That reciprocity is useful.
3You can promote reciprocity.
4You can promote reciprocity.
5The second foundation is fairness/reciprocity.
salve
/ˈsɑv/
noun
anything that is soothing or acts as a remedy for a wound, burn, etc.
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1We put salve on it.
2The final step is the massage with CBD salve.
3The salve is more shares.
4The lip salve is a favorite among celebrities, including Nicky Hilton.
5Also, salve for tiger wound.
salvo
/ˈsæɫvoʊ/
noun
rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
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1Today, the Iron Curtain speech is seen as the opening salvo in the Cold War.
2This was the initial salvo to an epic rivalry.
3It was the opening salvo of the French Revolution.
4Salvo entered the Harvard LL.M program after he obtained his law degree and Ph.D. from the University of Catania, Italy.
5So Trump's first salvo was that it might take days to know the results.
to salvage
/ˈsæɫvədʒ/, /ˈsæɫvɪdʒ/
verb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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1We must salvage the shreds.
2At 0.3 megapixels and the field still very much in its infancy, only the best lighting could salvage these photos.
3I've salvaged a few things.
4Of course, the cage was salvaged.
5Everything in the kitchen was salvaged.
salutary
/ˈsæɫjəˌtɛɹi/
adjective
tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
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1So making the authorization process work has salutary effects.
2But, looked at more benevolently, there is something hugely salutary and noble about our capacity to entertain tender daydreams.
3Along the way, unrequited love provides us with an occasion to exercise our aptitudes for optimism in a highly salutary way.
4From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose.
5We will take it as a salutary warning, I think, for the rest of our conference this week.
salubrious
/sælˈuːbɹɪəs/
adjective
indicating or advancing healthiness
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1Production of grain-based beers in northern Europe had a resurgence after the collapse of the Roman Empire, due to its salubrious effects and the fact that beer was often safer to drink than untreated water, which could carry a host of diseases.
2Physicalise it, you know, the streets of London and certainly the sort of more, or rather less salubrious and more dangerous quarters of London were places where you had to have your whits about you and you had to be ready for a fight and you had to know how to fight, in order to stay alive.
3Opiates, like laudanum, were sometimes given to relieve symptoms, and patients were advised to travel to more salubrious climates, to visit the sea, the mountains, the dry American southwest, the Mediterranean.

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