to badger
/ˈbædʒɝ/
verbto repeatedly and annoyingly ask someone something, particularly as a way of persuasion
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1. Badgers are found all over the world.
2. Badgers, go away.
3. Badgers are in her backyard.
4. He's badgering the witness.
5. Yeah, some badgers do.
badinage
/bˈædɪnɪdʒ/
nounfrivolous banter
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callosity
/kælˈɑːsɪɾi/
noundevoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
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1. And we all lack what’s known as ischial callosities.
2. Those white spots are called callosities because, well, they’re basically calluses.
3. Baby whales are born without any callosities, but they start to develop within a few months.
4. But here’s the thing: whale callosities are naturally gray.
5. One lives in deep pits in callosities, while the other one hangs out in more open spots.
callous
/ˈkæɫəs/
adjectiveemotionally hardened
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1. He came back, his hands were calloused, the moisture on his hands were literally gone, he is now playing in Europe.
2. In the data from Romania, we see particularly among boys, the kids in the institutional group, 35% percent of them show evidence of callous unemotional traits.
3. Well, gross negligence generally involves a higher degree of bad conduct and callous indifference to consequences.
4. A pair of rich geniuses brutally murder a boy for their own callous amusement and intellectual curiosity.
5. - To be like morally callous.
inexpedient
/ˌɪnɛkspˈiːdiənt/
adjectiveimpractical, inconvenient, and inadvisable
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inexorable
/ˌɪˈnɛksɝəbəɫ/
adjectivenot to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
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1. --the inexorable nature of this comes through so powerfully in your book.
2. It looked inexorable.
3. After their establishment and solidification in the early third century with such battles as Guandu and Red Cliffs, the three kingdoms of Shu, Wu and Wei gradually began an inexorable decline.
4. The inexorable finger underwent no change.
5. So, Robert, in the background of all of this, of course, the inexorable story of the road to Brexit continues.
inexplicable
/ˌɪnəksˈpɫɪsəbəɫ/
adjectiveincapable of being explained or accounted for
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1. And not to exercise that power is inexplicable to me.
2. But Jose Cruz's inexplicable error in the bottom of the inning opened the door for a Marlins rally.
3. So this decision is simply inexplicable.
4. Like, I get inexplicable crushes on bad dudes.
5. This move is also sort of inexplicable.
inextensible
/ˌɪnɛkstˈɛnsəbəl/
adjectivenot extensile
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1. One of the tricks that went in here is if I start to reinforce this last tumeric balloon with an extensible fibers or any inextensible material then I can get extension bending coupling, extension twisting coupling, I can get all sorts of complex motions and I can do this without control.
pauper
/ˈpɔpɝ/
nouna person who is very poor
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1. When he died rather suddenly, authorities buried him in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
2. King or pauper, no one was safe from the plague.
3. 50,366 people were counted including paupers and vagrants.
4. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
5. Is he not a pauper pilot from Italy?
pauperism
/pˈɔːpɚɹˌɪzəm/
nouna state of extreme poverty or destitution
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1. He even managed to write and publish a book, L'extinction du pauperism (the Extinction of Poverty) which was almost Marxist in its treatment of the poor.
2. He ran as an outsider populist, promising L'extinction du pauperism to the poor, military discipline to Bonapartists, and a president untainted by the June Days to everyone else.
3. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
to reestablish
/ɹiɪˈstæbɫɪʃ/
verbbring back into original existence, use, function, or position
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1. Reestablish a federal bank!
2. Step two, reestablish your habits and routines.
3. So the Church of England was reestablished.
4. And the shortcut is then reestablished.
5. Reestablish your sense of connection and contribution.
retention
/ɹiˈtɛnʃən/
nounthe act of retaining something
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1. Retention increased.
2. Second thing is retention.
3. Retention is obviously equally as important.
4. This drastically improves retention.
5. Such quick tests can improve retention by up to 30%.
to reform
/ɹəˈfɔɹm/, /ɹɪˈfɔɹm/
verbto make a society, law, system, or organization better or more effective by making many changes to it
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1. Reform took two major strands: living conditions and ideologies.
2. Tribes can reform their constitutions.
3. reforming potentially our electoral systems.
4. We need reform.
5. My wife Anne, great public servant-- legal aid, lawyer, juvenile court judge, First Lady of Virginia, reformed the state's foster care system, Secretary of Education, now on our State Board of Education.
reformer
/ɹɪˈfɔɹmɝ/
nounan apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel
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1. Antitrust reformers, of course, talked about it.
2. Xi Jinping is a reformer.
3. Reformers, the barriers they faced.
4. And the market reformer was successful there.
5. And the reformers were supported by Protestant and especially evangelical Christian churches.
obstinate
/ˈɑbstənət/
adjectivestubborn and unwilling to change one's behaviors, opinions, views, etc. despite other people's reasoning and persuasion
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1. You can kind of reach an agreement, even if the person is being really obstinate.
2. And thank Yadwigha for his obstinate toil.
3. Their leader was Wudi’s grandmother, the Grand Empress Dowager Dou, an obstinate old woman who believed her grandson’s rash policies would bring about their doom.
4. But he was obstinate.
5. Oh my gosh you are obstinate.
obstinacy
/ˈɑbstənəsi/
nounresolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
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1. Franz Josef may not have realized it, but his obstinacy had just doomed them all.
2. Despite his obstinacy, the Turks had grown fond of the teenager.
3. Which obstinacy is increased by the confidence and the love either of the Captain or of the Country.
4. From the lower part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy.
5. And the water retained its tranquil obstinacy, invincible.
to perspire
/pɝˈspaɪɹ/
verbexcrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
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1. Perspiring a little bit.
2. Rocky has labored, he has perspired, and now he's ready for his championship match.
3. Then, the lungs are stimulated to excrete carbonic gas, and the skin to perspire by physical exercise and natural methods.
4. When we get anxious our bodies start to perspire more, and our breathing rates and muscle tension increase.
5. Cats perspire through their paws.
perspiration
/ˌpɝspɝˈeɪʃən/
nounsalty fluid secreted by sweat glands
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1. This perspiration now absorbed my attention.
2. Well, the whole purpose of sweat, and perspiration is to cool your body.
3. - You've got a lot of perspiration.
4. The cool perspiration redoubled on Mr. Button's forehead.
5. This decreases perspiration and buildup of oil.
to revert
/ɹiˈvɝt/, /ɹɪˈvɝt/
verbto go back to a previous state, condition, or behavior
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1. Nose grind revert.
2. So it reverted to sort of a flat design.
3. Beni reverts back to an old habit.
4. Beni reverts back to an old habit.
5. So, the mutations reverted to symmetry.
reversion
/ɹɪˈvɝʒən/
nounturning in the opposite direction
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1. The second observation-- second lesson-- is about reversion to the mean.
2. But we still have essentially a reversion back to the CFR courts in criminal practice.
3. In other words, there was a complete reversion.
4. So it is a reversion to the mean product.
5. It's about reversion to an original type and an unknown future.