valiant
/ˈvæɫjənt/
adjectiveshowing courage, bravery, or determination in the face of danger or adversity
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1. They made a valiant effort last night.
2. Your effort was valiant.
3. It's a valiant idea.
4. You gave a valiant effort, buddy.
5. it was a valiant, valiant effort.
valorous
/vˈælɚɹəs/
adjectivehaving or showing valor
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1. In the ensuing campaigns, the valorous General Tiberius quashed another rebellion, then moved to Bohemia, Pannonia and Dalmatia to deal with further insurrections.
2. so I have all the settings maxed and valorous with our setup and I'm barely dipping below 144, that's totally fine.
3. So please let us make a pause, an interlude, while Toby, the valorous knight, delivers us from this monster, who is very elusive, it seems.
usage
/ˈjusədʒ/, /ˈjusɪdʒ/
nounaccepted or habitual practice
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1. Power companies usually measure energy usage in kilowatt hours.
2. Early emoticons gave it widespread usage.
3. In response, the American Heritage Dictionaries include usage notes.
4. Water usage is down 75 percent in our worldwide carpet tile business.
5. So limit your usage.
utilitarian
/juˌtɪɫəˈtɛɹiən/
adjectivehaving utility often to the exclusion of values
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1. But utilitarians have other theories of punishment.
2. Its packaging and promotion often felt very dull, utilitarian even.
3. Is it utilitarian?
4. Hydraulic jumps don’t just serve utilitarian purposes.
5. My meals are utilitarian.
utility
/juˈtɪɫəti/
nounthe quality of being of practical use
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1. And those skills have utility.
2. One beer increases your utility a lot.
3. Number three is using utilities.
4. Utilities, is that a word?
5. Water utilities use tanks and reservoirs.
typography
/təˈpɑɡɹəfi/
nounthe craft of composing type and printing from it
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1. The typography of the books you've chosen matters.
2. And the typography, the presentation of the book is part of that.
3. and I see typography everywhere.
4. Typography is painting with words.
5. - It's typography cake.
typographical
/ˌtaɪpəˈɡɹæfɪkəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or occurring or used in typography
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1. You want to make actually sure that you don't have any grammatical or typographical errors.
2. The problem is the Social Security Administration said, don't use us for that purpose because typographical errors are rampant and we are not designed for that use.
3. Obviously that's a typographical error, and we'll be adding additional section times to make up for that.
4. Whatever the case, becoming more explicit, on March 30, 1881, Puck magazine editors went so far as to create a set of typographical emoticons to help out in making certain writing more clear, with their set representing Joy, Melancholy, Indifference, and Astonishment.
sylph
/ˈsɪɫf/
nounan elemental being believed to inhabit the air
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1. These are long-tailed sylphs which are some hummingbirds from the Peruvian Andes.
sylvan
/ˈsɪɫvən/
adjectiverelating to or characteristic of wooded regions
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1. Finally, Jalal ad-Din was assassinated in Sylvan and the Khwarezmian Empire ceased to exist.
2. The first we see in The Witcher are sylvans, which resemble fawns, the unpredictable woodland man-goats from Greco-Roman mythology, although maybe they hit more like the bloodthirsty half-man-half-bovine Minotaur.
3. Let me go a little bit further: Above the antique mantel was displayed As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene The change of Philomel
4. Sylvan awesome so sorry you hear about your unsuccessful attempt there Sylvan but with a little more practice we're confident that you're gonna get it the next time
5. Sylvan awesome so sorry you hear about your unsuccessful attempt there Sylvan but with a little more practice we're confident that you're gonna get it the next time
rife
/ˈɹaɪf/
adjectivecontaining a large amount of something that is usually unpleasant
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1. Rumors of a coup were rife.
2. These playbooks are rife with sleazy salesmanship.
3. Poverty is rife.
4. These things are rife.
5. The American public is rife with good intentions and bad follow-through.
rift
/ˈɹɪft/
nouna gap between cloud masses
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1. Both operations widened the rift between the Sikh minority and the rest of the country.
2. But one appearance caused a rift with the administration.
3. The rift with her older daughter remains.
4. The Touch controllers use a band of LEDs and an external tracking camera that the oculus rift uses.
5. Okay everyone, the rift is stable.
quiescence
/kwɪˈɛsəns/
nounquiet and inactive restfulness
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1. And this hadn't mattered that much to business, because there had been labor quiescence through the 1970s, as you can see from that slide.
2. "The desire to return to the quiescence of the organic world."
3. [though], the pleasure principle, keeping watch on the invasion of stimuli from without and especially from within, seeking their discharge, serves the death instinct, making sure that the organism is permitted to return to quiescence.
quiescent
/kwaɪˈɛsənt/
adjectivenot active or activated
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1. These are called quiescent galaxies because at some point in the galaxy’s life, its star formation stopped.
2. Their autopsy revealed the characteristic signs of strangulation: the quiescent galaxies had much higher levels of heavy metals than the living, star-forming galaxies.
3. And just like in most major galaxies, this black hole is currently quiescent.
4. Sometimes periapical abscesses become quiescent, meaning that they don’t grow much but the bacteria remain alive within the abscess cavity.
5. Normally, they're just sitting there sort of in a quiescent state, not reproducing very rapidly, making collagen, providing matrix to keep up sort of the normal structure of your skin.
pyre
/ˈpaɪɝ/
nounwood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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1. This town is a pyre.
2. They would have had pyres, funeral pyres.
3. Sacrificed on the funeral pyre.
4. - That's a pyre.
5. Great pyres of bodies consumed by the flames.
pyromania
/pˌaɪɹoʊmˈeɪniə/
nouna mental condition in which one is obsessed with setting things on fire
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1. And there are other disorders that have mania in the name like pyromania, which is compulsive fire setting.
2. I'm a pyromania bro.
3. Pyromania and kleptomania are also categorized as DIC disorders.
4. Pyromania describes individuals who purposefully and repeatedly set fires, but unlike arsonists, who set fires to deliberately damage property or for political gain- individuals with pyromania experience fire setting as a compulsion- feeling a strong impulse to set fires and feeling relief and often euphoria once they do.
5. Not surprisingly, both pyromania and kleptomania can easily land individuals in serious legal trouble.
pyrotechnic
/ˌpaɪɹoʊˈtɛknɪk/
adjectiveof or relating to the craft of making fireworks
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1. we need props, pyrotechnics, the works!
2. In recent years, Sydney has done pyrotechnics in the harbor.
3. We're shooting this with the pyrotechnics.
4. Another very common one is pyrotechnics.
5. With pyrotechnics that trail big hits.
to opt
/ˈɑpt/
verbto choose something over something else
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1. About 1 in 10 buyers opted for it.
2. Unfortunately, only 2% of travelers opt for the mobile boarding pass.
3. This next guest opted for a pill free treatment for his issue.
4. Opt for cash instead of cards.
5. The first daughter also opts for top shelf bath and beauty products for her offspring.
option
/ˈɑpʃən/, /ˈɔpʃən/
nounsomething that can or may be chosen from a number of alternatives
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1. Another option would be to just get a laptop with a higher resolution display.
2. Number four, give them options.
3. Options include dogs, giraffes, unicorns, and deer.
4. Options include fruits, vegetables and fish.
5. Options include banks, brokerage houses, mutual fund companies, credit unions, and insurance companies.
optometry
/ɑpˈtɑmətɹi/
nounthe health-care profession particularly concerned with the eye and its diseases
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1. I'm a professor at the SUNY College of Optometry.
2. So that really peaked my interest in optometry.
3. Most optometrists work in offices of optometry.
4. They must also pass the National Board of Examiners in Optometry exam.
5. I actually went to school for optometry.
optimism
/ˈɑptəˌmɪzəm/
nounthe belief in a favorable outcome or positive future
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1. Vice President Pence projected optimism.
2. It stoked optimism.
3. Optimism sounds frivolous.
4. Crisis has tempered optimism.
5. - Optimism is power.
