handshake
/ˈhændˌʃeɪk/
noun
an act of taking a person's hand and shaking it as a greeting or after having made an agreement with them
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1Handshake? -
2Today's word is handshake.
3Handshakes are an important part of non-verbal communication for humans.
4You remember the handshake?
5- Handshake again.
harmonious
/hɑɹˈmoʊniəs/
adjective
peaceful, helpful, and friendly with no disagreement involved
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1For the typical Fujianese peasant in the 17th century, life was hardly harmonious.
2And what's harmonious mean?
3All of the elements feel really harmonious.
4Almost all of them are harmonious!
5The sounds of the voices were harmonious.
harmoniously
/hɑɹˈmoʊniəsɫi/
adverb
in a manner that is helpful, peaceful, friendly, and without disagreement
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1Bit tip number two, use tags and search harmoniously.
2A body so harmoniously composed, 90
3Four, do wear cologne that works with other scents harmoniously.
4Bald eagles once lived harmoniously with the island fox, never considering them as food.
5And to me, just eats so harmoniously.
harmony
/ˈhɑɹməni/
noun
coexistence in peace and agreement
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1But the birds sing the harmony.
2So, to recap, the synthsters have achieved harmony both musically and personally.
3These chords still dominate the harmony in a lot of songs.
4so with this definition, does music need harmony?
5Again the key here is harmony.
hear! hear!
/hˈɪɹ hˈɪɹ/
interjection
used to show one's complete agreement with something, particularly in a speech

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to honor
/ˈɑnɝ/
verb
to do what one promised or agreed to do
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1- Honored.
2Governor mayor honored dabbawala after Prince Charles not before that, the specialty of India.
3The stones will honor Holocaust victims from their communities.
4Honor the stranger.
5Honor His name -
honor system
/ˈɑːnɚ sˈɪstəm/
noun
an agreement that is completely based on the honesty of the parties involved
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1- This is the honor system.
2This is the honor system.
3And I'm going to go on the honor system.
4But even still, this relies on an honors system of sorts.
5We're on the honor system here.
to humor
/ˈhjumɝ/
verb
to do the things that a person wants, no matter how unreasonable they are, in order to keep them satisfied
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1And people also like humor.
2Number 2: Use humor.
3Because humor connects people.
4You tried humor.
5- I think humor.
in accord with
/ɪn ɐkˈoːɹd wɪð/
phrase
in agreement with; not against
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1He expected his workers to live clean lives in accord with Christian moral principles.
2That the brutal murder of hundreds of African-Americans was an ordinary, natural event in accord with the correct state of affairs so much so that I can send a Dear Mom postcard, I just passed through Tulsa, isn't this a wonderful place.
3What I suggest in the book is I don't than want to make grandiose claims that if only Edward Lansdale had been listened to, Vietnam would be this paradise and everything would have worked out great, everything would be in accord with America's wishes.
4The CUI program requires that agencies implement policies and procedures for decontrolling CUI, and recommends as a best practice that CUI policy for all Executive branch agencies (Authorized Holders and designating authorities) authorize and assign agency personnel, by title and position, to implement agency CUI decontrol policy in accord with the laws, regulations, and government-wide policies governing CUI.
5And if we want to have a theory of electromagnetism, we need to put it in accord with quantum mechanics.
to incline
/ˈɪnkɫaɪn/, /ˌɪnˈkɫaɪn/
verb
to bend one's head downward, particularly as an act of agreement, greeting, etc.
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1Incline your ear.
2Incline my heart.
3I incline my heart.
4We incline our hearts.
5Stage twelve: incline 75 percent.
incontestable
/ɪnkəntˈɛstəbəl/
adjective
true and therefore impossible to be denied or disagreed with
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1So Mambrino's helmet has an incontestable chivalric pedigree, a deep pedigree, which makes it all of the more ridiculous that it be confused with a barber's basin.
2Through considering the uncertainties in all that we had asserted, to the inviolable truths, incontestable truths, I developed a more nuanced understanding.
3if I had no other information I wouldn't assume Roll Out used one, so I guess it's technically evidence for the onbeat version, but I saw a lot of people presenting this as, like, incontestable proof, as if even considering the offbeat version meant flagrantly ignoring the obvious musical fact that all songs start on beat 1, and that's just not how it works.
4And when an institution reaches beyond those and creates more expansive doctrines that bring incontestable norms-- even norms that, I, myself might strongly favor-- I think you are creating a risk of fanning the populist flames in ways that may get rid of institutions or hobble institutions that may end up being essential for surviving a period of populism.
incontestably
/ɪnkəntˈɛstəbli/
adverb
‌in a manner that leaves no room for disagreement or denial
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1The New Criticism, incontestably and without rival, created an atmosphere in which it was okay to notice that things were a little more difficult than they'd been supposed to be.
2This by the way-- although what they serve is not exactly a work of nature-- is why even that which is incontestably better than secular poetry, in other words hymnody, and also divine knowledge or theology-- even these fields, which are the supreme fields, are also serving sciences.
3just incontestably good--
4he insists that it's possible to tell the difference between meaning and significance if, good historicists that you are, you can pin down accurately and incontestably the author's meaning, appealing to all the philological tricks that you have, throwing out irrelevancies and insisting that you finally have the meaning right-- of course, how many times has that happened?
5It's another kind of pleasure that Iser is perhaps not taking into account that we take in that which seems to be simply incontestably real as we read it, and Iser leaves that out of account.
incontrovertible
/ˌɪŋˌkɑntɹoʊˈvɝtɪbəɫ/
adjective
true in a way that leaves no room for denial or disagreement
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1I think it's incontrovertible.
2And these were incontrovertible.
3No, astronomers had found the first incontrovertible brown dwarf.
4But Machiavelli couldn't overlook an incontrovertible problem: it doesn't work.
5And I think that's incontrovertible.
incontrovertibly
/ɪnkˌɑːntɹəvˈɜːɾəbli/
adverb
in a manner that leaves no room for denial or disagreement
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1In the 1970s, she gathered and published a huge amount of data, showing clearly and incontrovertibly that the galactic rotation problem was typical galactic behavior, and that there was some kind of unexplained physics at work.
2No one has been able to prove this incontrovertibly, but there is some interesting evidence, both pro and con.
3But given how few people use that option, given how accessible mail and voting is in Colorado, it's incontrovertibly easier to vote in Colorado.
indisputable
/ˌɪndɪˈspjutəbəɫ/
adjective
true and therefore leaving no room for disagreement or denial
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1It's pretty indisputable.
2Photography is sort of the indisputable truth, very often.
3Evans' photographs are iconic and indisputable documents of the Depression.
4The essential facts, tonight, are indisputable.
5The facts in this case are quite simply indisputable.
indisputably
/ˌɪnˈdɪspjuˌtæˌbɫi/
adverb
in a way that makes any disagreement or denial impossible or unlikely
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1But it was indisputably not a bird.
2Some things are just wrong, and others are indisputably right.
3Scotland is a country, indisputably, but it’s not a sovereign state.
4League of Legends is indisputably one of the most complex games on the competitive scene today.
5Like, indisputably, that is a sentence.
in favor of
/ɪn fˈeɪvɚɹ ʌv/
phrase
in agreement; in support of something or someone
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184% of Americans are in favor of legalization.
2Court ruled in favor of the baker.
3In fact, a number of Republicans on the hill, and Republican strategists were in favor of it.
4Southerners were in favor of district reforms.
5The court finds in favor of the bees.
in tune
/ɪn tˈuːn/
phrase
in agreement with someone or something
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1The fact that the U.S. is building one gigafactory or the equivalent of one gigafactory every four months and China's building one every week, China is in tune with the pace of what's happening here and the U.S. at the moment isn't.
2Yeah, and you're counting every single penny, you're becoming more in tune with your finances.
3Children and animals rely on their parents or keepers and are in tune to their emotions.
4Researchers took a close look at this mucus and found that its composition changed over time, in tune with the fry’s needs.
5So from then on all the industries were in tune with environmental regulations and they complied with all those new requirements that needed to get done.
to lend one's name to sth
/lˈɛnd wˈʌnz nˈeɪm tʊ ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phrase
to publicly support something
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1But on the other hand, she was perhaps the last person one might think would lend their name to a perfume.
2What she ultimately found was a man named Ignacio Anaya Sr . who, while he probably wasn’t the first person to ever decide to mix tortilla chips with melted cheese and jalapenos, does seem to be the person directly responsible for nachos becoming a thing, along with lending his name to the food item.
3We can see amongst them a French flag Preserved as a relic and bearing the fleur-de-lys which dates from 1682, the same year that Cavelier de La Salle took possession of Louisiana The Saint Louis who lends his name to the cathedral is Louis XIV king of France
to like
/ˈɫaɪk/
verb
to show support for or interest in a post shared on social media, a blog, etc. by tapping a specific button
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1The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2"I'd like some more jam, please."
3Everybody likes his daughter.
4I like chicken.
5Grains are plants, like oats, wheat, and barley.
like
/ˈɫaɪk/
noun
something by which a person can show their interest in or approval of a post shared on social media, a blog, etc. by tapping a specific button
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1The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2"I'd like some more jam, please."
3Everybody likes his daughter.
4I like chicken.
5Grains are plants, like oats, wheat, and barley.
to make up
/mˌeɪk ˈʌp/
verb
to become friends with someone once more after ending a quarrel with them
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1Cells make up organs.
2The organic component of soil, called humus, is mostly made up of broken down lignin.
3Make up your mind.
4Right now, women make up 58% of the American workforce.
5The protests in recent months have finally made up her mind.
to make peace
/mˌeɪk pˈiːs/
phrase
to stop fighting with someone and become friendly with them once more
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1In 1634, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II had his own general Wallenstein assassinated, because it appeared that Wallenstein was plotting to make peace with Sweden and perhaps planning a coup, although why anyone would want to be the Holy Roman Emperor at that point is an absolute mystery to me.
2They were ready to go full-on Lord of the Flies before shared goals forced them to cooperate and ultimately, make peace.
3So I'd argue that it's not the costs of going to war that has made peace so attractive, it's the benefits of not going to war.
4You’re just going to have to make peace with glitter being a permanent feature of your floors, your furniture, maybe even your food and hair and skin.
5If you don't want to make peace, I am ready to issue a statement of war to the world.
maybe
/ˈmeɪbi/
adverb
used as a response to a question when one does not have a definite answer or does not want to agree or disagree
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1I even wrote a letter to Chris just kind of hoping that maybe the message could be relayed.
2Maybe I'm ranting on about this too much.
3Maybe today's grads are at least making more money.
4Maybe face my fears.
5Maybe the girl singing had a good voice
to meet sb halfway
/mˈiːt ˌɛsbˈiː hˈæfweɪ/
phrase
to come to an agreement with someone by granting some of their requests while they grant some of one's requests
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1and then if you can like meet me halfway with like a mixture of all sorts of things, that would be awesome, actually you know what, this is something that's kind of funny.
2I'm meeting you halfway.
3And we have had five months of people unwilling to recognize the legitimacy of their views and come to meet them halfway.
4Meet us halfway.
5Maybe I'll meet you halfway, bare long nails.
to mend
/ˈmɛnd/
verb
to resolve a dispute or problem
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1Eventually, the fences between certain abolitionists and women’s suffragists did mend.
2Some things can mend in time.
3"Mend".
4You can mend a relationship.
5I've mended those bridges now.
to mend one's fences
/mˈɛnd wˈʌnz fˈɛnsᵻz/
phrase
to reconcile with someone

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middle ground
/mˈɪdəl ɡɹˈaʊnd/
noun
a specific set of opinions, ideas, etc. on which conflicting parties agree; a position that is intermediate
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1There's no middle ground.
2There's no middle ground.
330 is just a good middle ground.
4Find the middle ground.
5There's no middle ground?
modus vivendi
/mˈoʊdəs vaɪvˈɛndi/
noun
an agreement between oppositions to stop arguing for a specific time or indefinitely

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to nail down
/nˈeɪl dˈaʊn/
verb
to finally come to an agreement or decision

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to nod
/ˈnɑd/
verb
to move one's head up and down as a sign of agreement, understanding, or greeting
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1Her father nodded.
2People are nodding.
3Sofia nodded.
4The boy nodded, yes.
5Are your feet nodding?
no kidding
/nˈoʊ kˈɪdɪŋ/
interjection
used ironically as a response to a statement that is obvious

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1No kidding, Bill Cosby gets laughs.
2No kidding, where is this?
3No kidding she needs a shot of tequila.
4No kidding, not joking around.
5No kidding you laugh at me a lot.
noncontroversial
/nɑnˌkɑntɹəˈvɝʃəɫ/
adjective
not causing or unlikely to cause disagreement
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1And even when Obama was president, he slow-walked those judgeships, even the noncontroversial ones, especially the noncontroversial ones.
2And even when Obama was president, he slow-walked those judgeships, even the noncontroversial ones, especially the noncontroversial ones.
3That should be very noncontroversial.
4I don't want to say that it's important that it's a show for kids because I don't-- you know, I don't know that that's a noncontroversial statement to make.
5Just on a regular basis, getting information from the CDC has to clear so many different levels for a noncontroversial thing.
nor
/ˈnɔɹ/
conjunction
put before a positive verb to express agreement with the preceding negative statement
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1South Dakota's neighbors had no chance, nor neighbor's neighbors.
2Nor is his wife,
3Nor is the impact of isolation merely a what-if question.
4Nor is this Lead The Field program a collection of pleasantries, platitudes, or Pollyanna.
5Nor were Mattel’s directors.
at all
/æt ˈɔːl/
adverb
in the slightest degree or in any respect
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1Not intoxicated At All.
2This doesn't bother me At All.
3At no hearing, no public ruckus At All.
4GIVEN THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF OHIO 'S 11th, DO THEY HAVE A CHANCE, AT ALL, OF FILLING THE SEAT?
5In fact, she had no EXTERNAL injuries At All.
of course
/ʌv kˈoːɹs/
adverb
used to give permission or express agreement
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1And Glasgow is, of course, a big football city.
2'Of course,' agreed his friend.
3Your favorite musician is of course, The Strokes.
4Of course, this one won.
5Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's latest update is, of course, massive.
OK
/ˈoʊˈkeɪ/
interjection
said to show that we are agreeing to do something or we agree with something

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1Ok, one hundred cents makes one dollar.
2OK, so the first part of the chapters create this problem.
3Ok so, all typical vertebrae have a vertebral body, a vertebral arch and seven individual processes.
4OK you guys have a great week
5Ok, and when you're not?
oneness
/ˈwənəs/, /ˈwənnəs/
noun
the state of feeling a unity with someone or something
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1You're in fact creating oneness in physical form.
2Oneness is the ego.
3The ultimate reality is that of oneness.
4The truth of the reality of this universe is oneness.
5The ultimate reality in this universe is that of oneness.
on one's side
/ˌɑːn wˈʌnz sˈaɪd/
phrase
agreeing with someone or supporting them in an argument, plan, etc.
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1Physics was on his side.
2'I want the Egyptian people to know that we are on their side, and that we want their country to be strong and safe.
3Saladin knew that time was on his side.
4The people, those of us who grew up in that system and didn't have a choice, don't get mad at us because we're on your side and you've got ta know that.
5As it happens, fortune was on his side.
(it / that) is a deal
/ɪt ðæt ɪz ɐ dˈiːl/
sentence
said to let someone know that one agrees with something, particularly with someone's terms

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on the same page
/ɑːnðə sˈeɪm pˈeɪdʒ/
phrase
in complete agreement with someone
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1We're on the same page.
2I've been in a relationship for two years, a little over two years, and there's probably a good chance that we don't agree on everything politically, but I'm pretty sure that for my main points that would be deal breakers, I'm pretty sure we're on the same page.
3Before getting into this kind of relationship, I definitely suggest talking about it and making sure everyone’s on the same page as far as how to communicate, what you’re getting involved with as far as culture goes.
4Some you might recognize from earlier in this series, but I want to make sure we're all on the same page.
5We’ll highlight this chiral center with a red dot just so we’re on the same page!
out of tune
/ˌaʊɾəv tˈuːn/
phrase
not in agreement with someone or something

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