to badger
/ˈbædʒɝ/
verb
to repeatedly and annoyingly ask someone something, particularly as a way of persuasion
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1Badgers are found all over the world.
2Badgers, go away.
3Badgers are in her backyard.
4He's badgering the witness.
5Yeah, some badgers do.
badinage
/bˈædɪnɪdʒ/
noun
frivolous banter

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callosity
/kælˈɑːsɪɾi/
noun
devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
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1And we all lack what’s known as ischial callosities.
2Those white spots are called callosities because, well, they’re basically calluses.
3Baby whales are born without any callosities, but they start to develop within a few months.
4But here’s the thing: whale callosities are naturally gray.
5One lives in deep pits in callosities, while the other one hangs out in more open spots.
callous
/ˈkæɫəs/
adjective
emotionally hardened
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1He came back, his hands were calloused, the moisture on his hands were literally gone, he is now playing in Europe.
2In 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.
3Well, gross negligence generally involves a higher degree of bad conduct and callous indifference to consequences.
4A pair of rich geniuses brutally murder a boy for their own callous amusement and intellectual curiosity.
5- To be like morally callous.
inexpedient
/ˌɪnɛkspˈiːdiənt/
adjective
impractical, inconvenient, and inadvisable

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inexorable
/ˌɪˈnɛksɝəbəɫ/
adjective
not 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.
2It looked inexorable.
3After 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.
4The inexorable finger underwent no change.
5So, Robert, in the background of all of this, of course, the inexorable story of the road to Brexit continues.
inexplicable
/ˌɪnəksˈpɫɪsəbəɫ/
adjective
incapable of being explained or accounted for
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1And not to exercise that power is inexplicable to me.
2But Jose Cruz's inexplicable error in the bottom of the inning opened the door for a Marlins rally.
3So this decision is simply inexplicable.
4Like, I get inexplicable crushes on bad dudes.
5This move is also sort of inexplicable.
inextensible
/ˌɪnɛkstˈɛnsəbəl/
adjective
not extensile
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1One 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/
noun
a person who is very poor
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1When he died rather suddenly, authorities buried him in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
2King or pauper, no one was safe from the plague.
350,366 people were counted including paupers and vagrants.
4He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
5Is he not a pauper pilot from Italy?
pauperism
/pˈɔːpɚɹˌɪzəm/
noun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
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1He 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.
2He 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.
3He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
to reestablish
/ɹiɪˈstæbɫɪʃ/
verb
bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
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1Reestablish a federal bank!
2Step two, reestablish your habits and routines.
3So the Church of England was reestablished.
4And the shortcut is then reestablished.
5Reestablish your sense of connection and contribution.
retention
/ɹiˈtɛnʃən/
noun
the act of retaining something
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1Retention increased.
2Second thing is retention.
3Retention is obviously equally as important.
4This drastically improves retention.
5Such quick tests can improve retention by up to 30%.
to reform
/ɹəˈfɔɹm/, /ɹɪˈfɔɹm/
verb
to make a society, law, system, or organization better or more effective by making many changes to it
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1Reform took two major strands: living conditions and ideologies.
2Tribes can reform their constitutions.
3reforming potentially our electoral systems.
4We need reform.
5My 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/
noun
an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel
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1Antitrust reformers, of course, talked about it.
2Xi Jinping is a reformer.
3Reformers, the barriers they faced.
4And the market reformer was successful there.
5And the reformers were supported by Protestant and especially evangelical Christian churches.
obstinate
/ˈɑbstənət/
adjective
stubborn and unwilling to change one's behaviors, opinions, views, etc. despite other people's reasoning and persuasion
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1You can kind of reach an agreement, even if the person is being really obstinate.
2And thank Yadwigha for his obstinate toil.
3Their 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.
4But he was obstinate.
5Oh my gosh you are obstinate.
obstinacy
/ˈɑbstənəsi/
noun
resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
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1Franz Josef may not have realized it, but his obstinacy had just doomed them all.
2Despite his obstinacy, the Turks had grown fond of the teenager.
3Which obstinacy is increased by the confidence and the love either of the Captain or of the Country.
4From 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.
5And the water retained its tranquil obstinacy, invincible.
to perspire
/pɝˈspaɪɹ/
verb
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
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1Perspiring a little bit.
2Rocky has labored, he has perspired, and now he's ready for his championship match.
3Then, the lungs are stimulated to excrete carbonic gas, and the skin to perspire by physical exercise and natural methods.
4When we get anxious our bodies start to perspire more, and our breathing rates and muscle tension increase.
5Cats perspire through their paws.
perspiration
/ˌpɝspɝˈeɪʃən/
noun
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
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1This perspiration now absorbed my attention.
2Well, the whole purpose of sweat, and perspiration is to cool your body.
3- You've got a lot of perspiration.
4The cool perspiration redoubled on Mr. Button's forehead.
5This decreases perspiration and buildup of oil.
to revert
/ɹiˈvɝt/, /ɹɪˈvɝt/
verb
to go back to a previous state, condition, or behavior
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1Nose grind revert.
2So it reverted to sort of a flat design.
3Beni reverts back to an old habit.
4Beni reverts back to an old habit.
5So, the mutations reverted to symmetry.
reversion
/ɹɪˈvɝʒən/
noun
turning in the opposite direction
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1The second observation-- second lesson-- is about reversion to the mean.
2But we still have essentially a reversion back to the CFR courts in criminal practice.
3In other words, there was a complete reversion.
4So it is a reversion to the mean product.
5It's about reversion to an original type and an unknown future.

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