to inundate
/ˈɪnənˌdeɪt/
verbto cover a stretch of land with a lot of water
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1. Was her answer inundated?
2. It will inundate some cities.
3. A sugie cooker inundated.
4. - Inundated with honey mustard.
5. Now, our environment is inundated with evidence.
inundated
/ˈɪnənˌdeɪtɪd/
adjectivecovered with water
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1. If your Local Community is inundated and OVERWHELMED
2. As I said before, we are so inundated, especially as women, with all things wedding culture that it can feel very, very difficult to decide what is really important for us, and to feel like it's OK for us to want to opt out of things to save money.
inundation
/ˌɪnənˈdeɪʃən/
nounthe rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
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1. King Tides Already, today, flooding and inundation are common in the Marshall Islands.
2. Higher sea levels mean more inundation, more exposure to tides, waves, and storm surge, and ultimately more erosion.
3. Every unit of rise in the river doesn’t equal that much extra width in inundation.
4. The problem is that, once a channel overbanks, every unit of rise in the river equals much wider extents of inundation.
5. Here's a map of my city, New York City, showing inundation in red.
transverse
/tɹænzˈvɝs/
adjectiveextending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
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1. And the transverse, or horizontal plane divides the body top and bottom.
2. - Fetus is transverse.
3. That's a transverse wave.
4. So sound waves are longitudinal, light waves are transverse.
5. Only 1.5% of people have this single transverse palmar crease in at least one hand.
transposition
/tɹænspəzˈɪʃən/
nounthe act of reversing the order or place of
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1. And though they’ll try, any transposition loses fidelity.
2. Relation slides in monkist transposition.
3. we call this a transposition, and for our purposes, it's irrelevant.
4. So right there, there's also a substitution or a transposition of a temporal attribute onto a spatial attribute as well.
5. But there are numerous other bonds between them, and race, a kind of oblique racial transposition actually is one of the common grounds between Gatsby and Myrtle.
to transplant
/tɹænsˈpɫænt/
verbto remove a plant from its original place and replant it somewhere else
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1. Often people are transplants.
2. Uterus transplants are very expensive.
3. The gas bubble presses the transplant firmly onto the back of the cornea.
4. The gas bubble pushes the transplant onto the cornea.
5. I transplanted that backup into the raised bed.
to transmute
/tɹænsmjˈuːt/
verbto change something's nature, appearance, or substance into something different and usually better
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1. You've transmuted all of that fear in your body until love.
2. And it's basically moving energy, so I transmute energy blocks that I can feel in an animal.
3. But its alchemy cannot transmute lead into gold.
4. Yes, thank you: commuted, not transmuted.
5. Desire is transmuted because it is free of its Shadow.
to transmit
/tɹænzˈmɪt/
verbto convey or communicate something, such as information, ideas, or emotions, from one person to another
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1. The vagus nerve transmits information between the brainstem and organs like the lungs, heart ,stomach, and liver.
2. Even an elephant’s footsteps transmit useful information about its size and whereabouts to other elephants.
3. The camera transmits an image to a monitor.
4. Peripheral receptors transmit signal to the respiratory center via the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves.
5. Children transmit influenza frequently but not SARS Cov2.
transmission
/tɹænsˈmɪʃən/, /tɹænzˈmɪʃən/
nounthe act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted
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1. As Ethic weaves her way towards the innermost maze, her radio picks up a transmission.
2. The transmission is a familiar 8-speed ZF auto.
3. So it prevents transmission.
4. Put the transmission into reverse.
5. Put the transmission into reverse.
transference
/tɹænsˈfɝəns/
nounthe act of transfering something from one form to another
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1. Now transference describes an experience when a person unconsciously redirects certain feelings, expectations, or desires onto someone else.
2. Now watch the magic transference as the spirit of the ash moves through the concrete.
3. Most commonly, transference refers to a therapeutic setting, where a person in therapy may apply certain feelings or emotions towards a therapist.
4. Transference overall, is extremely common.
5. Prayer is the transference of a burden
transferrer
/tɹænsfˈɜːɹə/
nounsomeone who transfers something
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to transfigure
/tɹænsfˈɪɡjɚ/
verbchange completely the nature or appearance of
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1. Gender, a topic otherwise so pervasive and so painful, one that is so weighty and has so much at stake, that's so wonderful and so on omnipresent, in drag is briefly transfigured into an art, a florid zone of freedom, choice, and play.
2. He came to the us four decades ago, pursued his PhD here at Harvard, joined the faculty, and embarked on a career that has transfigured scholarship on Chinese art.
3. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them.
4. The protest of the belated figure is the protest which takes the form of transfiguring the precursor text in such a way that one can find oneself to be original.
successor
/səkˈsɛsɝ/
nouna person or thing that is next in line to someone or something else
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1. Alexey’s oldest son, Feodor, was his successor.
2. One of whom was Rick Scott's successor.
3. But his successor, Dilma Rousseff, approved just 21.
4. The direct-to-video successor made $300 million in VHS sales.
5. The successor was Richard II - second son of the Black Prince.
successive
/səkˈsɛsɪv/
adjectivehappening one after another
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1. The government has been waging successive wars on the north of Yemen.
2. Those billions of cells come from successive rounds of cell division.
3. Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
4. And here are successive pictures in that book.
5. Social scientists call it successive approximations.
to revoke
/ɹiˈvoʊk/, /ɹɪˈvoʊk/
verbcancel officially
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1. Revoke your license.
2. So he revokes the order.
3. Revoked the vile order.
4. He revoked Jay's level four access.
5. Revoke Article 50!
revocation
/ˌɹɛvəˈkeɪʃən/
nounthe cancelation of a law, agreement, or decision
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1. These reforms included the consolidation of One-party rule, the revocation of freedom of speech and the introduction of rationing.
2. It wasn't a revocation of the promises.
3. But I do think that the challenge to the Trump administration's revocation of California's waiver raises all these interesting questions of federalism.
4. Have you experienced a revocation of conditional release?
5. And the revocation actually went through with respect to two men because they were in prison at the time and the warden hadn't actually given them the physical document.
to commiserate
/kəˈmɪsɝˌeɪt/
verbto feel or express sympathy or compassion
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1. I can commiserate with people daily.
2. To be a good companion, it isn’t enough simply to be polite or to commiserate.
3. One thing I will commiserate with you on, and that is mobile Facebook.
4. Maybe you’ve been thinking about building a website where you can commiserate about those early mornings and pointless papers.
5. You can commiserate and make fun of everyone together.
bullion
/ˈbʊɫjən/
nouna mass of precious metal
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1. So that paranoid survivalist burying bullion in his backyard is still playing the trust game.
2. It's like bullion.
3. - It's beef bullion.
4. - I love beef bullion.
5. I also got some more bullion.
bulbous
/ˈbəɫbəs/
adjectiveshaped like a bulb
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1. And hammer-headed bats have bulbous nose and fleshy lips.
2. That bulbous head has powerful mouthparts that chew through the tough oak leaves.
3. Yours is also very bulbous.
4. It's bulbous.
5. So it's not so bulbous.