integral
/ˈɪnəɡɹəɫ/, /ˈɪntəɡɹəɫ/
adjectiveconsidered a necessary and important part of something
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1. Their design is integral to the mechanics of the fight.
2. Garfield's speech was integral to the crime of impersonation.
3. Service to humanity is integral to Harvard Medical School's mission.
4. Charles' constant display of manipulation in the form of affection was integral to the tight-knit status of the Manson Family as a whole.
5. The argument is integral to the question itself.
integrity
/ˌɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/, /ɪnˈtɛɡɹɪti/
nounthe state of being together as one and not separated or broken into parts
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1. Integrity matters.
2. Our team has integrity.
3. The election itself must have integrity.
4. Have integrity.
5. Integrity requires bravery.
tendency
/ˈtɛndənsi/
nounan attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
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1. We all have garbage tendencies.
2. This tendency is now reversing.
3. Kruse's tendencies were a chip off the old block.
4. One tendency unites them all.
5. What are their tendencies?
tendentious
/ˌtɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
adjectivestating a cause or opinion that one strongly believes in, particularly one that causes a lot of controversy
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1. It's a tendentious question maybe.
2. And you might think it's tendentious, but philosophers' examples often give philosophy a bad name.
3. Showalter then says this is a phase supplanted by a feminist moment in the history of the novel in which novels like the late work of Mrs. Gaskell, for example, and other such novels become tendentious, and the place and role of women becomes the dominant theme of novels of this kind.
4. But that's tendentious.
5. But I grant you, I put that in a tendentious fashion.
submissive
/səbˈmɪsɪv/
adjectivewilling to obey unquestionably
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1. You are submissive, maybe too submissive.
2. You are submissive, maybe too submissive.
3. These folks are usually pretty submissive.
4. and I'm more submissive in bed.
5. - Submissive, well you thought.
submission
/səbˈmɪʃən/
nounthe state or act of accepting defeat and not having a choice but to obey the person in the position of power
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1. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet to bring people back to the one true religion, which involves the worship of, and submission to, a single and all-powerful God.
2. A society of surveillance is just one step away from a society of submission.
3. Forget the submission.
4. The other S word is submission.
5. Submission brings peace.
conservatism
/kənˈsɝvəˌtɪzəm/
nouna political belief with an inclination to keep the traditional values in a society by avoiding changes
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1. Another result of conservatism was a new rationale for allegiance to a kingdom or state.
2. American conservatism is precisely the reverse.
3. The range of conservatism is far bigger.
4. Is conservatism the new counterculture?
5. That leads to conservatism in foreign policy.
conservative
/kənˈsɝvətɪv/
adjectivesupporting traditional values and beliefs and not willing to accept any contradictory change
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1. Conservatives, on the other hand, showed no racial bias.
2. Conservatives have no problem with Social Security.
3. Conservatives were outraged.
4. Not one of them was conservative.
5. Conservatives were more conservative than liberal.
conservatory
/kənˈsɝvətɔɹi/
nouna school or college that people attend to for studying music, theater, or some other form of art
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1. He accidentally built a conservatory.
2. - Here's our water goddess of spring in the conservatory.
3. Excuse the conservatory.
4. Then over here, there is a conservatory.
5. Obviously, that is the conservatory there
decimal
/ˈdɛsəməɫ/
adjectiverelating to a system of numbers that are multiplied by, divided to and power of ten
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1. We have our decimal point.
2. The decimal point is right over here.
3. Decimal point included.
4. Do I get a decimal?
5. We also want decimals here.
decathlon
/diˈkæθɫɔn/
nouna competition consisting of ten different sports that takes place over two days
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1. Decathlon, the maker of the masks, suspended sales to the public and donated them to hospitals in need.
2. But what he is truly remembered for was his performance in the decathlon.
3. Milt Campbell, a great friend of mine, won the decathlon in the Olympics.
4. And meanwhile like the decathlon champ, he gets a gold medal.
5. - Decathlon, I'm not sure what that one is.
decapod
/dᵻkˈæpɑːd/
nouncrustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
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1. And they started with the first decapod crustaceans, like Palaeopalaemon.
2. And Palaeopalaemon is the oldest lobster-like decapod ever found, and also one of the oldest decapods, period.
3. And Palaeopalaemon is the oldest lobster-like decapod ever found, and also one of the oldest decapods, period.
4. Now, on the other side of the decapod family tree, there’s Platykotta, just a little older than Eoprosopon at about 200 million years old, from the late Triassic Period.
effulgent
/ɪfˈʌldʒənt/
adjectiveradiating or as if radiating light
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effulgence
/ɪfˈʌldʒəns/
nounthe quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
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primeval
/pɹaɪˈmivəɫ/
adjectivehaving existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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1. By 370 million years ago entire ecosystems had developed on the primeval continents.
2. Man’s primeval fear of snakes was immediately applied to its marine relatives, and in some cases quite rightly so.
3. Man’s primeval fear of snakes was immediately applied to its marine relatives, and in some cases quite rightly so.
4. It's like primeval. -
5. It's pretty primeval.
primitive
/ˈpɹɪmətɪv/, /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/
adjectivecharacteristic of an early stage of human or animal evolution
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1. Primitive humans don't do manners.
2. Human beings were pretty primitive back then.
3. Here in the Boyaca region, the method of coal mining is primitive.
4. They also have primitive areas.
5. The work as an apprentice was very primitive.
primordial
/pɹaɪˈmɔɹdiəɫ/, /pɹɪˈmɔɹdiəɫ/
adjectivehaving existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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1. It's primordial water.
2. Primordial particles affect the large-scale structure of the universe in very distinctive ways.
3. - You were looking up primordial.
4. Silence is the primordial enemy.
5. They are primordial.
indignity
/ˌɪnˈdɪɡnəˌti/
nounan affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
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1. This is an indignity.
2. But those were the little indignities.
3. The indignities did not stop there.
4. It warns us of indignity, threat, insult and harm.
5. And at that point, the wheat has suffered the ultimate indignity.
indignant
/ˌɪnˈdɪɡnənt/
adjectiveangered at something unjust or wrong
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1. Voltaire was indignant.
2. We'll call these guys "indignant angels."
3. My opponent or my partner's payoffs come from the indignant angel matrix.
4. Jesus was indignant.
5. He was also indignant at the lack of intelligence and sensitivity of his imitator.