to speculate
/ˈspɛkjəˌɫeɪt/
verbto form a theory or opinion about a subject without knowing all the facts
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1. Researchers can only speculate.
2. To speculate.
3. Well, researchers speculate.
4. Since Frozen's release, fans have speculated a thematic connection between Elsa's upbringing and her potential homosexuality.
5. Fans speculated that last season's Bachelorette, a.k.a.
speculator
/ˈspɛkjəˌɫeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
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1. After all, speculators face the danger that the item is already overpriced.
2. Low tax rates for speculators is not in their interest.
3. And then there are speculators in the market.
4. It could be some speculator.
5. They're speculators.
to correlate
/ˈkɔɹəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈkɔɹəɫət/
verbto be closely connected or have mutual effects
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1. The belief in homeopathy correlates with skepticism about vaccinations.
2. They correlate zero.
3. Excess belly fat correlates with higher blood pressure and cholesterol levels, two key risks to the health of your heart.
4. A country’s rise in emissions correlates strongly with their growth in GDP.
5. Lungs correlate to relationship.
correlation
/ˌkɔɹəˈɫeɪʃən/
nouna mutual connection or relation between two or more things
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1. Correlation is .66.
2. Correlations are just as good as causation.
3. Correlation is a scaled covariance.
4. Correlation means connection or association.
5. so can traders trade correlation
correlative
/kˈɔːɹɪlətˌɪv/
adjectiveexpressing a reciprocal or complementary relation
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1. Correlative evidence is an essential part of science.
2. Let's study correlative energies.
3. So, in this correlative pair we talk about the idea of surprise.
4. So there is correlative evidence.
5. Clench and release your jaw: Getting a better jawline is correlative to working the jaw itself.
to deject
/dɪˈdʒɛkt/
verblower someone's spirits; make downhearted
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1. Plenty of people would feel completely dejected by this whole situation.
2. Dejected, she walked away.
3. Dejected, she walked away.
4. Using dejected suggests that in that moment, she's lost hope that she'll ever compete again.
5. And I was just feeling so sad and dejected.
dejection
/dɪdʒˈɛkʃən/
nouna state of melancholy depression
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1. I deserve this emotional dejection that I'm currently experiencing.
2. Five figures are pictured in varied states of dejection.
3. At this sight, Saladin apparently burst into tears in dejection and grief.
4. At this sight, Saladin apparently burst into tears in dejection and grief.
5. Others say it will be dejection and evaporation into the ether.
to embellish
/ɪmˈbɛɫɪʃ/
verbadd details to
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1. - They embellish.
2. and you embellish that dry mix.
3. Maybe the philosopher embellished those boxes in his account.
4. Embellished. -
5. I embellish.
solicitude
/səˈɫɪsɪˌtud/
nouncare or worry for a person's well-being
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1. The solicitude coming from Cash is also inexplicable.
2. And I would accustom all the youth of my State to this training: but that part of them whom I have enrolled to fight, I would (especially) train with greater industry and more solicitude, and I would train them always on their free days.
3. The Government of the United States has been desirous by this friendly proceeding of manifesting the great value which they have invariably attached to the friendship of the Emperor and their solicitude to cultivate the best understanding with his Government.
4. Of course, that is what he's trying to do, and so she responds to what she hears to be Adam's paternal solicitude.
5. The solicitude coming from Cash is also inexplicable.
solicitous
/səˈɫɪsətəs/
adjectiveshowing hovering attentiveness
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1. And the current administration is no different, although they seem, to me, to be extra solicitous of Russia generally, and Putin specifically, in ways I don’t exactly understand.
2. And this was at a time when there was increasing anger in the in the grassroots of the Democratic party with the degree to which the Obama administration was being solicitous of the banks and had let the AIG bailouts go, and so on.
3. Nor were they protective and solicitous of youthful innocence.
4. She would sit staring into the darkness Saying nothing As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon she suddenly said Okay, I'm ready let's go now We drove in silence to the address she had given me It was a low building two orderlies Came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up they were solicitous and intent Watching her every move.
5. But many active and solicitous persons could by no means reassure themselves, and asserted that the dead official still showed himself in distant parts of the city.
solemn
/ˈsɑɫəm/
adjectivedignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
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1. A solemn thing to resist the Holy Spirit.
2. Be solemn.
3. Adults, on the whole, are solemn.
4. Solemn design is often important and very effective design.
5. Perfection happens during solemn play.
archaeology
/ˌɑɹkiˈɑɫədʒi/
nounthe scientific study of ancient societies through examining the remains of their monuments, graves, tools, corpses, etc., some of which are found deep in the ground
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1. Evidence comes from three fields: archaeology, pollen analysis, and paleontology.
2. In the early days, archaeology of the region tended toward credulity.
3. Archaeology would suggest that.
4. The other advantage for England over Ireland in terms of evidence is archaeology.
5. The really fun title is space archaeology.
archaic
/ɑɹˈkeɪɪk/
adjectivedating back to the ancient past
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1. We encountered and interbred with archaic hominin populations within and outside of Africa along the way.
2. It is archaic.
3. His stuff seems archaic NOW!
4. His pictures described as archaic, tribal, and of elemental power.
5. When he speaks about matters of chivalry he uses archaic words drawn from the romances of chivalry.
penury
/ˈpɛnjʊɹi/
nouna state of extreme poverty or destitution
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1. PAUL SOLMAN: Charlotte Lucas' lot wasn't the happiest, but better than penury, one imagines.
2. Their money, Greene's slaving wealth, is what funded the rise of the son into the ranks of lawyerdom and then the peerage, and also what saved the Copley's from penury in his declining years.
3. Prove quite so painful so hard to hear so much something We need to avoid that we'd rather die in Penury ignored and unfulfilled than ever hear it
4. In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.
penurious
/ˌpɛnˈjuɹiəs/
adjectivehaving an extreme lack of money
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to rebut
/ɹiˈbət/, /ɹɪˈbət/
verboverthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
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1. Nikola rebutted the fraud claims, saying that there were dozens of inaccurate allegations in the report.
2. And to rebut that comment, I've drawn the phase diagram for carbon dioxide.
3. Trump rebutted, and he wants it to be a stolen election party.
4. You don't need to rebut that point.
5. but that theory was quickly rebutted as being completely impractical in the real world.
rebuttal
/ɹiˈbətəɫ/, /ɹɪˈbətəɫ/
nounthe speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
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1. I have no rebuttal.
2. I have no rebuttal.
3. Mr. Shanmugam, you have rebuttal.
4. Mr. Inglemeyer and Mr. Grisanti, do a rebuttal?
5. We'll hear rebuttal.
to tempt
/ˈtɛmpt/
verbto feel the desire to do something
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1. The darkness also tempts the carnivores out of their hiding places.
2. The darkness also tempts the carnivores out of their hiding places.
3. Political disruptors are tempting voters away from the UK's two big main parties.
4. This guy's name is TEMPT.
5. TEMPT was one of the foremost graffiti artists in the 80s.
tempter
/tˈɛmptɚ/
nouna person who tempts others
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1. The tempter came, like the Serpent of Eden, and decoyed them with the magic word, freedom.
2. You have to meet the tempter alone.
3. Are you willing to say no to the temptations of the tempter?
4. In the beginning, Satan was more like a tempter to get people to stray to the dark side and question their belief in God Almighty.
5. Now we have a much more wicked tempter, a more monstrous figure who’s a real brute.