to counteract
/ˈkaʊntɝˌækt/
verbact in opposition to
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1. - I counteracted your BS.
2. The antidote counteracts the effects of the tranquilizer.
3. The citric acid will counteract the chemical in the peppers.
4. You counteract the effect of the tariffs.
5. The slightly blue cast in these blonde shades will counteract ruddiness in the skin.
subpoena
/səˈpinə/
nouna writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court
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1. Judy, the subpoenas were for data from the accounts of at least two House Intelligence Committee Democrats, their staff, and their families.
2. President Trump is defying subpoenas from Congress.
3. Avoiding subpoenas? -
4. So just send out subpoenas.
5. Should subpoenas go out to his brother too?
counterbalance
/ˈkaʊntɝˌbæɫəns/
nouna weight that balances another weight
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1. This must be counterbalanced with the reality of human suffering.
2. So, it kind of counterbalances the difference between the sweetness of the actual milk chocolate versus the semi-bitterness of semisweet chocolate chunk.
3. Here it means a counterbalance.
4. - It's a nice counterbalance.
5. But to me, this just provides that counterbalance.
countercharge
/ˈkaʊntɝˌtʃɑɹdʒ/
nouna retaliatory charge
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1. Legal terms dominate, as Job calls for the charges against him to be published, and then he hurls countercharges in a suit against God.
2. Elizabeth offered to hear both sides of the story, and commissioners met to hear the charges of murder and adultery which were laid by the Lords of the Congregation against Mary and to hear Mary's countercharges of treason and rebellion against her Scottish subjects.
3. Amr, seeing that his horsemen were in place, countercharged with immense ferocity, driving the Romans back towards their own fortifications.
4. When the overburdened cataphracts and their horses began to slow down from exhaustion, Aurelian’s cavalry turned and countercharged them, scattering the Palmyrene forces, winning a decisive victory and allowing the emperor to sit on the enemy’s line of retreat.
5. As they did, Templar units at the Christian rear and Raymond’s division upfront responded with a mounted countercharge that crashed into the units led by Gökböri and Taqi al-Din.
counterclaim
/ˈkaʊntɝˌkɫeɪm/
nouna claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action
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1. That was a dismissal of a counterclaim, is that right?
2. What's the potential liability on the counterclaim?
3. First, it must be remembered that this is indeed a counterclaim.
4. It is clear that the facts of petitioner's counterclaim fall squarely within the protective principles of the act-of-state doctrine.
5. You're constantly arguing for claims and counterclaims, and defenses.
to counterfeit
/ˈkaʊntɝˌfɪt/
verbmake a copy of with the intent to deceive
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1. Counterfeits come in all shapes and sizes.
2. Cynicism is counterfeit wisdom.
3. Cynicism is counterfeit strategy.
4. Copyright counterfeits are subject to no oversight, no regulation, and no accountability.
5. Today's word is counterfeit.
to countermand
/kˈaʊntɚmˌænd/
verbcancel officially
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1. Jewish citizens of the Paducah of Kentucky appealed to President Lincoln expressing outrage and Lincoln countermanded Grant's order.
2. I do a lot of healthy things to commandeer that, to countermand that
3. but I'm going to break down some major ones that we've tested and we know to be true and that we've countermanded with different things that have really helped us okay.
4. So, but with that said, there is a lot of really cool things we can do to countermand that, and to also have a good immune function, but also some other remedies that can help us to get rid of mucus off the cords.
5. These duties of bringing the guilty to justice, carrying out searches, and providing protection for litigants who might otherwise face danger from high-status accused individuals, gave the local centurion a military authority which could countermand provincial government if required.
counterpart
/ˈkaʊntɝˌpɑɹt/
nouna person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
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1. They’re counterparts.
2. Is Guinart Don Quixote's counterpart?
3. Her counterpart, B, faces exactly the same pair of choices.
4. Hemp concrete, hemp fuel, hemp clothing, hemp insulation, and hemp paper could all potentially replace their current counterparts.
5. Female orangutans and chimpanzees also outlive their male counterparts.
to countervail
/ˈkaʊntɝˌveɪɫ/
verboppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
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1. The other reason for this growth ceiling is countervailing forces.
2. But for the purposes of calculating their margin of sub-- the rate of countervailing duties, the denominator should be defined, and US allegation was surely the denominator must be domestic production within South Korea.
3. But there is the countervailing interest there.
4. Tocqueville believed that in aristocratic times there were always countervailing centers of power.
5. There are two countervailing forces.
to delude
/dɪˈɫud/
verbto mislead someone or to make them believe something that is not true
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1. [Demis] Still deluded?
2. One Twitter user even called him a deluded idiot.
3. Are you deluding yourself?
4. He's deluded.
5. - Parents are deluded.
delusion
/dɪˈɫuʒən/
nounthe act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
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1. Fregoli delusion has the opposite problem.
2. The delusions can take on a persecutory or nihilistic tone.
3. You have delusions.
4. They have delusions of grandeur.
5. Dexamethasone, rare side effect of the drug includes grandiose delusions.
delirium
/dɪˈɫɪɹiəm/
nounstate of violent mental agitation
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1. Those are all symptoms of delirium.
2. Delirium, by contrast, is an acute confusional state.
3. It could not be delirium.
4. Such symptoms are often categorized as delirium.
5. -My book is called Delirium.
delirious
/dɪˈɫɪɹiəs/
adjectiveexperiencing delirium
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1. Am I delirious?
2. This guy is delirious.
3. She said delirious.
4. She said delirious.
5. He's delirious.
to emit
/ɪˈmɪt/
verbexpel (gases or odors)
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1. Incinerators still emit harmful pollutants, especially in countries with lax environmental regulations.
2. Even the telescope itself emits too much heat.
3. Smartphones emit harmful radiation.
4. One car emits four tons.
5. Both plants and trees emit aerosols.
emitter
/ɪˈmɪtɝ/
nounthe electrode in a transistor where electrons originate
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1. They are the big emitters.
2. We have hundreds of these emitters.
3. What does a particle emitter do?
4. There was no sound emitter of any kind.
5. This is actually a light emitter.
emissary
/ˈɛməˌsɛɹi/
nounsomeone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
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1. He dispatches emissaries into Indian country while he is at the fort.
2. They sent emissaries to the Seven-Sisters schools.
3. And that conspiracy simply is "abolition emissaries."
4. These emissaries were killed on Achillas orders.
5. With its emissaries, the name of Dupin had grown into a household word.
to participate
/pɑɹˈtɪsəˌpeɪt/
verb(archaic) share in something
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1. Wendy's mother participated in a small-scale act of Internet fraud.
2. The CEOs of Match Group and Tinder both declined to participate in this video.
3. About 14,000 people participated.
4. Tip number two, participate.
5. Young killer whales participate actively.
partible
/pˈɑːɹɾəbəl/
adjective(of e.g. property) capable of being parted or divided
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to parse
/ˈpɑɹs/
verb(grammar) to divide a sentence into its grammatical constituents, identifying the syntactic role of each part
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1. And so the question parses being president in a way that I don't accept.
2. So we could parse out this thing.
3. We'll parse it a little bit.
4. But you can read it, you can parse that grammar, a different way.
5. As a result, their pre-Islamic history is parsed together through the external accounts of foreign empires.
partisan
/ˈpɑɹtəzən/
nounan emphatic supporter of a cause, political party, or person
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1. The partisans were fighting in the forest.
2. That's partisan.
3. And as the middle shrank, partisan animosity grew.
4. Partisan polarization was at very low levels.
5. -A lot of us are partisans on either side.
partition
/pɑɹˈtɪʃən/
nouna wall or piece of glass that is used to divide different parts of a building
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1. The partition was bloody.
2. Instead the barbarian inhabitants of Hispania partitioned the province.
3. Roll up partition please!
4. Partition not work.
5. no Roll the partition!