intellect
/ˈɪnəˌɫɛkt/, /ˈɪntəˌɫɛkt/
nounthe ability to reason, understand, and learn, often associated with intelligence or mental capacity
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1. Because intellect feels stupid without data.
2. Reasoning is the intellect.
3. We've wasted intellect.
4. I have an intellect.
5. Your intellect is here in the consciousness.
intelligible
/ˌɪnˈtɛɫədʒəbəɫ/
adjectivehaving the ability of being understood without difficulty
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1. The red light is intelligible, in other words, within that semiotic system.
2. Now the difference is very clearly intelligible in terms of a conflict of modes of production.
3. Is it intelligible?
4. At three years, three quarters is intelligible.
5. So, are they mutually intelligible?
transience
/ˈtɹænziəns/
nounan impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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1. And because you're looking for transience and you want confidence, of course, you'll build two of these-- one in Northern California, one in Southern California.
2. Allow transience.
3. There is also some thought that aged cheeses might be a reminder of decay, transience, and death, similar to the vanitas paintings of the time meant to evoke the fleeting nature of life.
4. There is inevitably in the transience of his madness, of this invention of self, and of his very life.
5. The next artist is Kay Overstry, and she's interested in ephemerality and transience.
transient
/ˈtɹænʒənt/
adjectiveof a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
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1. It's transient.
2. Depression is not transient.
3. The late-onset lactose intolerance can be transient.
4. The transient orcas also inspect a rocky plateau for prey. ?
5. All emotions are transient.
transitive
/tɹˈænsɪtˌɪv/
adjective(grammar) describing a verb that needs a direct object
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1. In the eyes of the crown, Catholicism is transitive.
2. Using transitive properties that never worked in fight math.
3. So this one is transitive.
4. So this phrasal verb is transitive.
5. In all of these examples the phrasal verb is transitive.
transitory
/ˈtɹænzəˌtɔɹi/
adjectiveonly continuing for a short stretch of time
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1. My love for my husband is transitory compared to his love for himself.
2. If you're wrong about the exclusivity of this forum, do you win or do you lose if this is, indeed, a transitory claim?
3. If this is indeed a transitory claim.
4. So is crawling just a transitory stage?
5. The ritual represents the transitory nature of material life.
to stanch
/ˈstæntʃ/
verbstop the flow of a liquid
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1. If you follow through on this commitment, in addition to everything else you accomplish in life, you'll be saving lives, stanching the flow of hatred and the dissolution of our national bond.
2. If you follow through on this commitment, in addition to everything else you accomplish in life, you'll be saving lives, stanching the flow of hatred, and the dissolution of our national bond.
3. Kyle Farnsworth entered hoping to stanch the bleeding.
4. well they even say they got a new fragrance kind of smells like a little like cherry it's not some horrible stanch that you breathing in so if you're doing it inside the car on plastic you don't get a horrible after odor that lingers in your car now the next product I'm talking about is hg power glue system it's a regular super glue type thing
stanchion
/stˈænʃən/
nounany vertical post or rod used as a support
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1. She took her frustration out on the basket stanchion and then took the rest of it out with an unnecessary foul.
2. I used to hide behind a stanchion.
3. Of course it would be better without the stanchions, but you can forgive the precaution.
4. What we have is 2 stanchions, with a rope in between.
5. In fact I put a stanchion up to just keep the kids from touching it.
constituent
/kənˈstɪtʃuənt/
nounan abstract part of something
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1. It captivated constituents.
2. That affects her constituents big time.
3. And the key constituents here are master's degree students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
4. And the key constituents here are master's degree students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
5. The core responsibility of our job is serving our constituents.
constituency
/kənˈstɪtʃuənsi/
nouna group of people in a specific area who elect a representative to a legislative position
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1. The UK is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one member of parliament (M.P.) to represent them.
2. Out of the 650 constituencies 647 have a higher representation error than parliament.
3. Part of it is the constituency demand.
4. A constituency will elect a whole bunch of different members as individuals.
5. I would just disappoint my constituency.
deficiency
/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
nounthe state or condition of lacking or having an inadequate amount or quality of something
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1. Liver Damage Protein deficiency brings on fatty liver.
2. Edema Protein deficiency causes edema.
3. Deficiency of nutrients and genetics also plays a part in it.
4. Around 79% of adults in the US have magnesium deficiency.
5. Deficiency of biotin can cause muscle fatigue and cramps as well.
deficient
/dɪˈfɪʃənt/
adjectiveinadequate in amount or degree
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1. On top of that, their digital presence was very deficient.
2. Most people in this country are vitamin D3 deficient.
3. It's so deficient.
4. Your skin and the hair can also be deficient of color or pigmentation.
5. Around 41% of U.S. adults are deficient.
efflorescent
/ˌɛflɚɹˈɛsənt/
adjectivebursting into flower
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efflorescence
/ˌɛflɚɹˈɛsəns/
nounthe time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
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1. The Abbasids oversaw an efflorescence of culture unlike anything that had been seen since Hellenistic times.
2. And we see a great efflorescence of wall building therefore after the sack of 386 B.C.
3. Banking is just an efflorescence of private credit.
4. That is banking is not just an efflorescence of private credit that we all accept.
5. There was an extraordinary efflorescence, development of spiritualism, of séances.
prescient
/ˈpɹɛsiənt/
adjectiveperceiving the significance of events before they occur
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1. So that was a very prescient move on her part.
2. -Yeah, man, they're prescient.
3. Man, was that prescient.
4. So again, this was very prescient because the discussion about TRIPS flexibilities was relatively underdeveloped at that time.
5. And boy were we prescient.
prescience
/ˈpɹiʃiəns/
nounthe power to foresee the future
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1. I wish I could say that I had the prescience to see that Putin was going to emerge as the Russian leader that he later emerged as.
2. Dean Cohen mentioned my prescience, which thank you for that, in seeing the house price bubble, which I did, and I think others did as well.
3. No one has that kind of prescience.
4. My predecessor, Jeff Flier, showed remarkable prescience in establishing the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
5. They tell the future, and we're given an excerpt from that book that describes the disaster, and so we know that something like prescience is a quality of Jewish writing, imagined in this way as a kind of religious practice.
rapacity
/ɹæpˈæsɪɾi/
nounreprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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1. While the Plantagenet king’s own captains often managed to retaliate with equal rapacity, Philip VI had the larger navy, and there was a real possibility of England being invaded.
rapacious
/ɹəˈpæʃɪs/, /ɹəˈpeɪʃɪs/
adjectiveexcessively greedy and grasping
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1. I don't want them, if they get higher than that then they're sort of responsible for the rapacious greed that's destroying our country.
2. This is the first time that this rapacious tyrant has ever actually loved anyone and his character is reformed as a result.
3. Being rapacious doesn't make you a capitalist, it makes you a sociopath.
4. Or, maybe you blame the banking industry and rapacious consumer capitalism for the upcoming apocalypse, either way, they could both be the antichrist taking shape just as people and things in the past were called the antichrist.
5. Yet, anxieties that the Romans must have had about the rapacious Vandals were fortunately unfounded.
sonata
/səˈnɑtə/
nouna musical composition for a solo instrument, typically accompanied by piano, in 3 or 4 movements of contrasting keys
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1. The three outliers are Ambien, Sonata and Lunesta.
2. My title would be Castlevania: Sonata of the Eclipse.
3. Mozart's piano concertos are much more difficult than his sonatas.
4. This piece is a sonata by Scarlatti.
5. A sonata has three parts: the exposition, development, and recapitulation.
sonnet
/ˈsɑnɪt/
nouna verse of Italian origin that has 14 lines, usually in an iambic pentameter and a prescribed rhyme scheme
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1. Basically, Sonnet 18 is one big extended metaphor.
2. - Write me a sonnet.
3. These sonnets about the book, in praise of the book, are like today's blurbs.
4. like, take the sonnet.
5. Petrarchan sonnets have a somewhat more involved form.