to extirpate
/ˈɛkstɝˌpeɪt/
verbdestroy completely, as if down to the roots
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1. He understood very well that we have to, as he put it, extirpate the Iroquois.
2. But we had to extirpate them.
3. Thirteen big figures of the states, the two smaller figures are the Mohawks on the eastern door of the confederacy Iroquois and the Senecas on the western conducting diplomacy to go through the doors and not through the walls that is something that the Iroquois hold the United States to, to this day, one hand Washington is doing things like that, he is dispatching armies into Indian country extirpate these people, don't allow them to make peace until you have done the work of destruction.
4. But it's very hard to extirpate from the legal system.
5. Sadly, populations have been extirpated, in many areas of their natural range.
to extinguish
/ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ/
verbput an end to; kill
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1. Eventually, the population could extinguish.
2. Extinguish the fire!
3. Extinguish the fire.
4. Extinguishing an oil fire.
5. - Instead of using good old water, firefighters extinguish fires with "wet water."
extinct
/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
adjective(of an animal, plant, etc.) not in existence anymore; not having any living members
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1. All big dinosaurs go extinct.
2. The next status up is extinct. -
3. The word extinct is an adjective.
4. The dinosaurs went extinct.
5. Species go extinct all the time.
donor
/ˈdoʊnɝ/
nounsomeone or something that gives money, clothes, etc. to a charity for free
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1. We compensate donors for their time and their commitment to the program.
2. Donors actually get letters from the kids in the classroom.
3. Do donors experience long-term after-effects?
4. Living donors can spare one kidney, one lung, a piece of liver, pancreas, intestine, or stem cells.
5. The donors provide post-conflict aid.
donee
/dˈoʊniː/
nounthe recipient of funds or other benefits
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1. The first successful blood transfusion was performed in 1907, however the blood had to be donated from the donor to the donee directly, because blood left on its own generally tends to coagulate, which is kind of a problem in an unpredictable warzone.
to culminate
/ˈkəɫmɪˌneɪt/
verbto end by coming to a climactic point
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1. Three years of chaos would culminate in impeachment.
2. Trump's dominance would culminate in front of the cameras in the Rose Garden.
3. And that process culminates in the TRIPS Agreement.
4. This odd behavior would culminate in the unexplained death of the player.
5. This whole Cash Diet thing is culminating in a trip to Mardi Gras.
culmination
/ˌkəɫməˈneɪʃən/
nouna final climactic stage
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1. The culmination of the hostilities was the siege of Osaka castle.
2. Here is the culmination of a historically wild night of regular season baseball.
3. Today marks the culmination of your years of hard work, your sacrifices, and your profound commitment to the calling of medicine.
4. Today marks the culmination of your years of hard work, your sacrifices, and your profound commitment to the calling of medicine.
5. Culmination of Burning Man is the torching of the effigy of a man.
bylaw
/ˈbaɪˌɫɔ/
nouna set of rules or directives made and maintained by an authority, especially in order to regulate conduct
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1. Bylaws are all rather standard and are normally included with the incorporation, but we have a template you can download for reference.
2. As it's evolved in modern times, the corporation has a charter or bylaws.
3. We want votes on changing the bylaws.
4. We often use a term called bylaws.
5. And finally, any time that municipal bylaws prohibit you from doing a U-turn.
archipelago
/ˌɑɹkəˈpɛɫəˌɡoʊ/, /ˌɑɹtʃəpəˈɫeɪˌɡoʊ/
nouna large collection of islands or the sea surrounding them
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1. The archipelago has been home to a succession of people for tens of thousands of years.
2. The archipelago is, at one and the same time, myth and reality, the place where science and fantasy meet.
3. The archipelago is, at one and the same time, myth and reality, the place where science and fantasy meet.
4. The archipelago is, at one and the same time, myth and reality, the place where science and fantasy meet.
5. The Indonesian archipelago sits right in the middle of it.
archetype
/ˈɑɹkɪˌtaɪp/
nounsomeone or something serving as the very typical example of a thing or person
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1. Some archetypes are based on their gameplay requirements.
2. They have archetypes like the scheming liar, the tyrant, the sophisticate, the misguided fool, or the monster.
3. Society archetype emerges around about the age of five, six, seven, eight.
4. The next archetype is the lover.
5. Columns are architectural archetypes.
archdeacon
/ˌɑːɹtʃdˈiːkən/
noun(Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop
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archbishop
/ˈɑɹtʃˈbɪʃəp/
nouna bishop of the highest rank who is responsible for all the churches in a specific large area
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1. But in 2005, the archbishop selected me for the role.
2. In the case of Antoinette and Louis, the crowd included royal dignitaries and an archbishop.
3. The archbishop just called a meeting with every priest in the diocese to a mandatory meeting where he made that announcement.
4. Desmond Tutu retired as Archbishop in 1996.
5. The Archbishop protested.
to vacillate
/ˈvæsəˌɫeɪt/
verbmove or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
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1. Still, Wilhelm vacillated.
2. And they actually vacillate between the three phases.
3. Sometimes these different types of narcissists actually vacillate back and forth between the various signs of the types of narcissists they are.
4. And the poem vacillates, as it were, between them.
5. Maybe their parents, vacillated back and forth between meeting their needs and not meeting their needs.
vacuity
/vækjˈuːɪɾi/
nountotal lack of meaning or ideas
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1. So this is my interpretation but, of course, it's open for discussion of the vacuity and raucousness of politics now.
2. It's just a big cosmic vacuity.
3. If we let our desires melt away, we'll see the world for what it truly is, a vacuity, nothingness, and we'll slip into this happy state of nirvana which has been defined as having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
uproarious
/ʌpɹˈoːɹɪəs/
adjectivemarked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
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1. And everyone else erupts in uproarious laughter.
2. Simple, inscrutable, slow, intense, based on true events, totally fantastical, deadly serious, and seriously uproarious.
3. After the crowd's uproarious laughter alerted her to the blunder, Mone put the man, who is actually a relatively successful real-estate agent, back down.
4. As the publication reported, Waller-Bridge's performance was met with uproarious applause: "Oscar winner Rami Malek was standing clapping in the stalls as Waller-Bridge mouthed 'Oh my god, thank you' to the West End audience."
5. I did a shot before I-- - (uproarious laughter) -
upturn
/ˈəpˌtɝn/, /əpˈtɝn/
nounan improvement or a positive change in a situation, especially in the economy or business
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1. Even if an upturn were to begin in 2022, Moody's base case projection doesn't see state tax revenues returning to 2019 levels until 2024.
2. Manuals about birth control methods continued the trend of bringing down the birthrate, although there was a brief upturn just after the war.
3. The family fortunes took an immediate upturn when Amie received an inheritance.
4. And the upturn corresponds to the capitalist era.
5. Far from just an aesthetic choice, these upturn tips save airlines a pretty penny in fuel expenses every year.
upkeep
/ˈəpˌkip/
nounthe act of maintaining something in good condition
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1. As you can see from our current tally, I spend about $55 a month alone just on client upkeep.
2. For general upkeep, you can gently dust with a soft hat brush or a damp cloth.
3. The upkeep would be phenomenal.
4. Most importantly, they don't require as much upkeep as wood which can rot!
5. Requiring as much upkeep as the wild prairie itself.
to upbraid
/ˈəpˌbɹeɪd/
verbto criticize or scold someone for doing or saying something that one believes to be wrong
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1. They will avoid the easy task of censoring and upbraiding us.
2. He chastises and upbraids the Israelites for their rebellion and failures.
3. It doesn't really contain prophecies and it doesn't really upbraid the people for their failings, which are two things that most of the other prophets do.
4. What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat, as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.
5. On his return, he questioned the parrot concerning what had passed while he was from home, and the bird told him such things as gave him occasion to upbraid his wife.