panacea
/ˌpænəˈsiə/
nounsomething that is believed to cure any disease or illness
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1. There's no panacea here.
2. We still don't have a panacea.
3. It's not a panacea.
4. It's not a panacea.
5. It's not a panacea.
pandemonium
/ˌpændɪˈmoʊniəm/
nouna state of extreme confusion and disorder
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1. Regardless, the name alone triggered a pig-induced pandemonium.
2. And it's pandemonium.
3. This place will be pandemonium.
4. - Pandemonium, it is.
5. It was pandemonium.
panorama
/ˌpænɝˈæmə/
nouna picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
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1. For the first time with iPad, you can take large panoramas up to 43 megapixels.
2. Take a panorama.
3. So I'm bring in this panorama here.
4. This is a political panorama.
5. Then you tap Panorama.
authoritarian
/əˌθɔɹəˈtɛɹiən/
adjective(of a person or system) enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of individual freedom
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1. The challenge of powerful imagesfor an authoritarian state is enormous.
2. So Cass Sunstein's question, does populism lead to authoritarians?
3. Using executive orders is authoritarian.
4. Now, this project was authoritarian.
5. Sara's parents are Authoritarian.
autocracy
/ɔˈtɑkɹəsi/
nouna political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
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1. People are opposed to autocracy.
2. You have an autocracy.
3. They didn't remember the czarist autocracy.
4. They called the Maduro regime back then a 21st-century autocracy, a 21st-century dictatorship.
5. They are autocracies.
autocrat
/ˈɔtəˌkɹæt/
nouna cruel and oppressive dictator
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1. Yet the story of Diaz is more than just the story of an autocrat.
2. They govern like autocrats.
3. I said autocrat.
4. Trump is a wannabe autocrat who thinks he can rule unilaterally.
5. Of course, the subtitle of his book is Tying the Autocrat's Hands something and The Rise of The Rule of Law in China.
excess
/ˈɛkˌsɛs/, /ɪkˈsɛs/
adjectivemuch more than the desirable or required amount
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1. - Shake off the excess.
2. Shake off excess flour.
3. Excess pollination will create lots of brown webbing.
4. Shake off excess, oops.
5. Shake off any excess.
to exceed
/ɪkˈsid/
verbbe greater in scope or size than some standard
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1. Instead, reality exceeded my dreams.
2. Exceeding expectations.
3. And annual spending by travelers with disabilities exceeds $13 billion.
4. And nowhere does the quality of an education system exceed the quality of its teachers.
5. Far exceeded expectations.
to reclaim
/ɹiˈkɫeɪm/
verbto get back something that has been lost, taken away, etc.
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1. Reclaiming control and responsibility over my mind.
2. Number three, reclaim your attention.
3. Number 13, reclaimed Russian relics.
4. The nature had really reclaimed the whole complex.
5. $200 in the bank, and you guys have reclaimed the lead.
to recollect
/ˌɹɛkəˈɫɛkt/, /ˌɹikəˈɫɛkt/
verbto bring to mind past memories or experiences
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1. We should have recollected.
2. Do you recollect learning about situation position and condition?
3. I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
4. He recollected the place where Brom Bones's ghostly competitor had disappeared.
5. [Narrator] When police brought Smith in for interrogation, he calmly recollected the series of events.
to recompense
/ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/
verbmake payment to; compensate
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1. You can become involved in organizations that are trying to improve the community-- things for recompense in a way to take to pay it forward in a way.
2. Are we recompensed in some way for all of those sacrifices that we make in the name of virtue?
3. Everyone knew the history of the Dolphin, and everyone thought the young Captain well recompensed for his devotion.
4. He asks to be recompensed for these extraordinary losses.
5. Any affection that I come to exchange has never been for recompense.
to reconcile
/ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪɫ/
verbbring into consonance or accord
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1. Never reconcile.
2. We have to reconcile the patient's knowledge of their body with physicians' measurements.
3. You guys reconciled that?
4. Seemingly contradictory ideas are reconciled in that state of no-mind and ecstasy.
5. Then your father and I reconciled.
to recreate
/ˈɹɛkɹiˌeɪt/, /ɹikɹiˈeɪt/
verbcreate anew
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1. It recreates natural light.
2. The researchers recreated the flight of a meteorite.
3. They recreate this thing.
4. The desk lamp recreated.
5. - Recreate a scene from Clueless.
synergy
/ˈsɪnɝdʒi/
nounthe working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects
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1. Synergy solves the problem of having to have two keyboards and two mice for two or more separate computers.
2. Your synergy, is palpable.
3. See teamwork, synergy.
4. It was synergy.
5. Key words would be synergy, actually.
symbiosis
/ˌsɪmbaɪˈoʊsəs/
nounthe relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other
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1. For microbiologist Dr. Lynn Margulis, the draw was symbiosis.
2. Does it offer true symbiosis?
3. The symbiosis of man and reptile keeps alive the ancestral codes of the great river of black waters.
4. Now, the symbiosis with the magical dimension of the jungle is almost absolute.
5. For me, the most interesting thing in nature is symbiosis.
synopsis
/sɪˈnɑpsɪs/
nouna brief summary or overview of the plot, characters, and major events of a book, movie, or other narrative work
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1. What you're getting here in 1 Peter is sort of a synopsis of a salvation experience.
2. A synopsis is different than a story.
3. If you haven’t seen the previous videos in this series about concrete, here’s a quick synopsis.
4. I read a synopsis of it.
5. Alongside the photo, the official synopsis was also revealed.
aural
/ˈɔɹəɫ/
adjectiveconnected with the sense of hearing or the ear
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1. Prepare yourself for aural bliss.
2. I'm experiencing aural bliss.
3. Appreciate the aural bliss.
4. Prepare yourself for aural bliss.
5. Milton's assaulting as well our aural memory of the sounds of paradise, our memory of the beauty of the poetic verse that had produced in us our visual sense of the gorgeousness of the Garden of Eden.
auricle
/ˈɔːɹɪkəl/
nounthe externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
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1. These are called auricles.
2. So the pinna, or auricle, is the part that you can see, and wiggle, and grab, or festoon with an earring.
3. To do the same thing vertically, we use the flappy external parts of our ears, which are called pinnae or auricles.
4. The different shapes and contours of our auricles at different angles make sounds sound different.
syndrome
/ˈsɪnˌdɹoʊm/
nouna set of characteristics, behaviors, or qualities considered as normal for a particular type of person
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1. Those interactions could cause serotonin syndrome.
2. Now often, a result of Capgras syndrome is tragic.
3. HELLP syndrome develops in about 10 to 20% of women with severe preeclampsia or eclampsia.
4. White-nose syndrome has wiped out populations of bats.
5. Down syndrome babies have typical facial features.
