to annex
/ˈæˌnɛks/, /əˈnɛks/
verbattach to
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1. At the same time, they had annexed other smaller independent states in the North.
2. In the wake of Aristobulus’s defeat, Pompey annexed large parts of once-independent Judea.
3. The annex is 20 pages long.
4. Chandragupta annexed the Macedonian satrapies in the Indus without much trouble.
5. Your favorite lunch joint is opening up a strip club annex.
to annotate
/ˈænəˌteɪt/
verbprovide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
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1. It's all annotated up for you.
2. And then annotate that with neurocomputational models of each type of neuron works.
3. "Black Women in American," annotated bibliography by the anthropologist educator and future president of Spelman and Bennett colleges, Johnetta Cole.
4. It's not annotated here, because you guys have the rough cut.
5. Can we annotate that?
contingent
/kənˈtɪndʒənt/
adjectivepossible but not certain to occur
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1. So relationship is always contingent.
2. Which ones are contingent?
3. Perhaps they have contingent claims.
4. So obviously now the total endowment is very contingent.
5. My happiness is contingent on this.
contingency
/kənˈtɪndʒənsi/
nouna possible event or occurrence or result
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1. You have contingency plans.
2. And function results from contingency.
3. Second, understand the contingencies of various loan forgiveness programs.
4. The best histories of the Civil War emphasize the contingency of the outcome.
5. no contingency to provide medications.
divisible
/dɪˈvɪzəbəɫ/
adjectivecapable of being or liable to be divided or separated
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1. It's infinitely divisible in weight.
2. So money has to be easily divisible and not atrophy and things like that.
3. They're not divisible.
4. The assets were divisible, transferable, perpetual.
5. It's divisible by a whole bunch of numbers.
divisive
/dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
adjectivecausing a split in people and resulting in their disagreement with each other
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1. And then, at the same time, says very divisive things.
2. That's divisive.
3. Dill is divisive.
4. Secondly, another referendum would be hugely divisive.
5. These sea and lake dwellers are often very divisive for people.
divisor
/dɪˈvaɪzɝ/
noun(mathematics) the number that divides another number in a division problem
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1. Or you can think of it as what is their greatest common divisor?
2. It's what's known as a perfect number, and a perfect number is one of those numbers where the divisors is of the number add up to the number itself.
3. Numbers with lots of factors have lots of divisors, primes only have two divisors, and you might think that you’d need perfect knowledge of the distribution of primes to get anything useful out of this.
4. So what we do is we put a divisor under this number.
5. And so this divisor is really key in making sure that the index doesn't change dramatically just because, for example, a company needs to come off and have a new company relisted on it.
to propitiate
/pɹəpˈɪɾɪˌeɪt/
verbto bring an end to the anger of a person, ghost, spirit, or god by pleasing them
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1. It's seeking through these rituals and manipulations of certain substances to, again, let loose certain powers, set into motion certain forces, that will coerce a god to be propitiated, for example, or calmed or to act favorably or to vindicate the devotees, and so on.
2. This world of magic, then, was essentially a world of trying to propitiate or to manipulate unidentified supernatural powers, largely for the purposes of protection and relief.
3. Another reaction was one of mass repentance to propitiate an angry divinity.
propitious
/pɹəˈpɪʃəs/
adjectivehaving a high probability of producing a successful result
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1. We know that's not propitious for democracy either.
2. Armistice Day itself produced huge crowds and gatherings, which were not propitious for stopping the spread of the disease.
3. Secondly, he had agreed with Louis that he would himself convert to Catholicism at a propitious moment.
4. And it was on his death bed that at last he found the propitious moment he had been waiting for and converted to Catholicism.
5. Look at the terrain: A propitious place for an ambush.
proponent
/pɹəˈpoʊnənt/
nouna person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
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1. Instead, police reform proponents have been advocating a shift towards the guardian mentality.
2. Proponents of autonomous vehicles make compelling claims about the potential benefits of self-driving cars.
3. Proponents of the death-with-dignity movement find value in concepts like personal liberty.
4. Proponents of immunity would also argue logistical problems.
5. Proponents do encourage daily walks, though.
to recapitulate
/ˌɹikəˈpɪtʃəˌɫeɪt/
verbsummarize briefly
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1. Recapitulating painful stereotypes in order to critique them.
2. So I'm recapitulating all that you have to know for the purposes of this class from introductory economics and intermediate economics.
3. As I say, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
4. He then shortly recapitulated the facts which have already been recorded.
5. Condensed in Canto XXXIII of Paradise, recapitulated right there.
recitation
/ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/
nouna public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
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1. The exams mostly tested memorization and recitation from the important government and Confucian texts.
2. And he did these recitations about finding his long lost son on the highway and he had lost track of him.
3. Psalm 136 punctuates a recitation of God's great deeds, the creation, the Exodus, the conquest of the Promised Land and so on with the phrase, "His steadfast love is eternal."
4. Instead of scribes, they had recitations.
5. Instead of scribes, they had recitations.
to recoil
/ɹiˈkɔɪɫ/
verbdraw back, as with fear or pain
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1. You recoiled.
2. Of recoil, from firing a weapon like the cricket.
3. First, what is recoil?
4. So what is recoil?
5. The blood of his body recoiled before it.
recrudescent
/ɹɪkɹuːdˈɛsənt/
adjectivethe revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement
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effective
/ˈifɛktɪv/, /ɪˈfɛktɪv/
adjectiveachieving the intended or desired result
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1. Dozens of studies have confirmed that psychotherapy is both effective and efficacious.
2. It's worth pointing out here that some meta-analyses suggest that antidepressants aren't any more effective than psychotherapy when symptoms are mild to moderate.
3. This tool is effective.
4. Video content is effective.
5. What treatments are effective?
effectual
/ɪfˈɛktʃuːəl/
adjectiveproducing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect
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1. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances, that a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation.
2. Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
3. Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
4. I'm not effectual.
5. Let us look at the effectual truth of things, not what is imagined to be but the way people actually are.
to extradite
/ˈɛkstɹəˌdaɪt/
verbto use a legal process to send an accused person back to the state or country where the crime was committed to be put on trial
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1. He was then extradited to Sweden where he served another six months imprisonment.
2. Anyone could be extradited.
3. This time he was extradited to the US, where he is on trial in New York City.
4. or to be extradited as prisoners of war?
5. He was extradited back to Texas and charged with the murder.
extradition
/ˌɛkstɹəˈdɪʃən/
nounthe surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)
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1. In February 2019, Lam introduced an extradition bill.
2. Five months later, the CPS formally sought the extradition of Lugovoy on a charge of murder.
3. But the same bill would also allow extradition to mainland China.
4. The governor of Alabama called for the extradition of Robert Williams because of his publication, The Emancipator.
5. JOHN J GIBBONS: --in the extradition case.
to modify
/ˈmɑdəˌfaɪ/
verbmake less severe or harsh or extreme
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1. The educator can also modify HAL's responses on the fly.
2. Modifying Existing Activities.
3. - Modify that thing.
4. In which the particle modifies the verb.
5. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns.
modification
/ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən/
nounthe act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
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1. The base also handles aircraft modifications.
2. The modification provided two test positions.
3. Different people will have different modifications.
4. Love body modification.
5. Maybe this spelling needs modification.