vestment
/ˈvɛstmɛnt/
noungown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy
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1. At the same time, he's explored the Christian resonances of the iron motif, cultivating its echoes, for example, in the veil of the Virgin of Guadalupe, as in this print, as well as to Christian liturgical vestments and to the Gothic arch.
2. Indeed, the enthusiasm of students in a political cause is a vestment of its legitimacy and honesty.
3. The corpse was stripped of its vestments, three of its fingers were cut off, and according to one source, it was dumped into a common grave.
4. Some of the more radical Protestants in convocation wanted to get rid of traditional vestments worn by the priests during services.
5. It's a suit of armor, a retaliation vestment, a political statement.
unrequited
/ˌənɹiˈkwaɪtɪd/
adjectivenot returned in kind
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1. This relationship of unrequited love was breaking young Vargas’ heart.
2. Unrequited love edges us inevitably towards a basic humility.
3. For intense periods of our lives, we suffer the agony of unrequited love.
4. He had unrequited love.
5. And unrequited love on top of that, that is going nowhere.
untenable
/ənˈtɛnəbəɫ/
adjective(of a position, argument, theory, etc.) not capable of being supported, defended, or justified when receiving criticism or objection
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1. The image of ourselves as a static thing is untenable.
2. The system in the earliest years of the country was really untenable.
3. It's untenable.
4. And, so, the cycle of violence is totally untenable.
5. The strains of extensive Israeli mobilisation was becoming economically untenable.
unregenerate
/ˌʌnɹiːdʒˈɛnɚɹˌeɪt/
adjectivenot reformed morally or spiritually
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1. The godly saw themselves as a beleaguered minority in a world that was dominated by the reprobate, the unregenerate.
unprecedented
/ənˈpɹɛsɪˌdɛntɪd/
adjectivenever having existed or happened before
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1. This time is unprecedented.
2. Obviously, your organizational skills were unprecedented.
3. In 2005, the Ballard area of Seattle experienced unprecedented growth.
4. This degree of growth is unprecedented in the United States.
5. A democracy theory of value, of course, is entirely unprecedented.
surveyor
/ˈsɝˌveɪɝ/, /sɝˈveɪɝ/
nounan engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures
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1. He cut his teeth as a surveyor.
2. This probably included architects, engineers, surveyors, plumbers, roofers, carpenters, stonemasons and so on.
3. Surveyors use sophisticated technology to take precise measurements of the Earth’s surface for maps and construction projects.
4. Surveyors typically need a bachelor’s degree in surveying, or a related field.
5. The surveyor has portrayed various sheep grazing on it.
surveillance
/sɝˈveɪɫəns/
nounclose observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
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1. Not everyone thinks this kind of surveillance is a good thing.
2. Surveillance and privacy issues could arise if the central bank is able to monitor every transaction.
3. A society of surveillance is just one step away from a society of submission.
4. Surveillance is surveillance.
5. Surveillance is cop work.
treble
/ˈtɹɛbəɫ/
nounthe part in harmonic music or the voice with the highest pitch that belongs to a boy or female vocalist
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1. I am going to have treble pneumonia.
2. Its potential liability is $90 million on your-- POTTER STEWART: Treble?
3. I'm sorry-- $30 million treble.
4. On Shaftesbury's estate the vacancy rate has trebled over the last year.
5. But at this price, you get great bass, clear audio, awesome treble.
to subsist
/səbˈsɪst/
verbsupport oneself
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1. And they subsisted on a combination of small-scale agriculture and hunting and gathering, depending on where they were situated.
2. We had to subsists on a soup and a beer.
3. 200 years ago, 90 percent of the world's population subsisted in extreme poverty.
4. You subsist entirely off of old Army rations you found at an abandoned military base.
5. And in international law, would subsist even if negotiations had broken down.
subsistence
/səbˈsɪstəns/
nouna situation in which one has just enough money or food to survive
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1. Well, what is subsistence?
2. What is subsistence?
3. Lots of people were subsistence farmers back then.
4. Subsistence farming is drying up basically.
5. Most hungry people in the world are subsistence farmers.
to substantiate
/səbˈstænʃiˌeɪt/, /səbˈstæntʃiˌeɪt/
verbto prove something to be true by providing adequate evidence or facts
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1. The president’s allegations of large scale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantiated.
2. These online rumors certainly cannot be substantiated.
3. And does the report substantiate what is a serious charge?
4. Those are certainly experimentally substantiated.
5. This has been substantiated as early as 1926.
substantive
/ˈsəbstəntɪv/
adjectiveof or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
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1. To the extent substantive rationality is involved.
2. So substantive considerations enter the thing.
3. It had no substantive content.
4. This was substantive.
5. The bill does not change fthe substantive law.
to reunite
/ˌɹiuˈnaɪt/
verbto bring together again, especially after a period of separation
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1. Others were reunited with their families in Saudi Arabia.
2. He reunited the empire, east and west.
3. The pride is reunited.
4. Reunited at last.
5. Reunited with the CLA Coupé.
to retrieve
/ɹiˈtɹiv/, /ɹɪˈtɹiv/
verbto find and collect data stored on a computer
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1. Then, retrieve a one-quarter inch refrigerator water supply line.
2. Retrieve the dough.
3. We frequently retrieve polyps as well as foreign bodies.
4. We frequently retrieved polyps as well as foreign bodies.
5. They retrieve the black box flight data recorder from the rear of the aircraft.
putrid
/ˈpjutɹɪd/
adjectiveof or relating to or attended by putrefaction
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1. - It's putrid.
2. Malodorous volatile thiols are found in putrid food because they're products of degrading protein.
3. - Uh, it's putrid.
4. A putrid odor becomes almost more putrid with cologne or perfume.
5. A putrid odor becomes almost more putrid with cologne or perfume.
putrescent
/pjuːtɹˈɛsənt/
adjectivebecoming putrid
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monastic
/məˈnæstɪk/
adjectiveof communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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1. Maybe people come to you for the monastic tradition.
2. Now mindfulness is derivative of a monastic practice.
3. 12th century lists of collation from monastic houses often included Isidore sentences.
4. He's also a monastic entrepreneur.
5. Now, that's the monastic point of view.
monastery
/ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/
nouna building where a group of monks live and pray
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1. Different monasteries have different liturgies.
2. Some monasteries have more prayer and less contemplation, or less prayer and more work.
3. The monasteries were gone.
4. You mentioned a monastery.
5. The most powerful institutions in Ireland were monasteries.