accommodation
/əˌkɑməˈdeɪʃən/
nounan arrangement made and accepted by a group of people who were in disagreement
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1. Higher ranked individuals, though, of course have more spacious accommodations.
2. some living trees have made accommodations for them, too.
3. Two of them are offering accommodations on the main exercise.
4. What are the accommodations?
5. We have public accommodations.
to acquiesce
/ˌækwiˈɛs/
verbto reluctantly accept something without protest
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1. Colonies should happily acquiesce to them.
2. - I must acquiesce.
3. Does he acquiesce?
4. It had to be acquiesced in.
5. With a few rare exceptions like Yick Wo and Strauder v. West Virginia, for the first century and a half of its existence the court largely acquiesced in the racism of the white public.
acquiescence
/ˌækwiˈɛsəns/
nounwillingness to accept something or do what others want without question
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1. There was an acquiescence on the part of many of this new arrangement.
2. It's not a time for passive acquiescence, but a time for active engagement.
3. What it really means is acquiescence, whether or not a choice is real.
4. Hear Congress's acquiescence in ongoing tort suits.
5. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
acquiescent
/ˌækwiˈɛsənt/
adjectivetoo willing to accept something or do what others want without question
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1. People were acquiescent.
2. These are the most acquiescent bad guys I've ever seen.
3. And the frustrating thing about that, obviously the right thing to do, if you are someone who has more financial privilege, is to be the person who is more acquiescent, who is more empathetic, who gives more of yourself, obviously.
4. And it wasn't just that in many of these horrible incidents in the '40s and '50s and earlier, law enforcement officers were often either acquiescent or complicit, but then there were not prosecutions, which is a form of acquiescence itself to that violence.
5. What happened to him, I mean why does he all of a sudden become so humble and acquiescent?
to allow
/əˈɫaʊ/
verbto acknowledge something; to accept the truth or correctness of something
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1. Some cities have even passed laws that allow Segways to travel only on sidewalks.
2. Allow ample recovery and rest time.
3. Allow room for dialogue.
4. No voices allowed.
5. No voices allowed.
to bow to
/bˈoʊ tuː/
verbto reluctantly agree to do something
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1. I bow to The Rock.
2. The White House bows to pressure.
3. I bow to your healing prowess.
4. I bow to that man.
5. I bow to you.
to call it quits
/kˈɔːl ɪt kwˈɪts/
phraseto acknowledge that a debt, argument, etc. is settled
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to capitulate
/kəˈpɪtʃuɫeɪt/, /kəˈpɪtʃuɫɪt/
verbto stop resisting something and accept it
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1. In the meanwhile, other towns and cities of their land had capitulated, and were now living in relative peace with the Rus.
2. Return of the Chosen Son Germany capitulated on 8 May 1945.
3. On the 8th of May, German forces in Norway capitulated.
4. Hearing of the imminent arrival of this armada, Emperor Romanos I capitulated, giving up yet more precious gifts in tribute, while offering more concessions to Rus merchants.
5. After 30 days of sleepless nights, she finally capitulated and raised the grade.
capitulation
/kəˌpɪtʃəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe act of not resisting something anymore and agreeing to it
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1. This is capitulation, really.
2. After the capitulation in June, the parliament was dissolved.
3. This is capitulation really.
4. You could see it right away, capitulation to the downside.
5. The development paradigm is essentially a capitulation.
to come to heel
/kˈʌm tə hˈiːl/
phraseto accept to obey someone
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complaisance
/kəmplˈeɪsəns/
nounwillingness to do what makes others pleased and accept their opinions
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1. I argue that it was removed in complaisance to South Carolina & Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.
complaisant
/kəmˈpɫeɪsənt/
adjectivewilling to please others without question
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1. He took the name of Cogia Houssain, and, as a new-comer, was, according to custom, extremely civil and complaisant to all the merchants his neighbours.
compliant
/kəmˈpɫaɪənt/
adjectivewillingly obeying rules or doing what other people demand
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1. Their CM6 enterprise NVME SSDs are PC express 4.0 and NVME 1.4 compliant.
2. I'm compliant.
3. If so, then they're compliant.
4. - She's so compliant.
5. My knees were completely compliant.
to compromise
/ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/
verbto come to an agreement after a dispute by reducing demands
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1. In 2017 a hack compromised millions of accounts.
2. Air and oxygen exchange, CO2 exchange is compromised.
3. Now compromise has different meanings.
4. This momentary feeling of relief can seriously compromise your regular posture.
5. After all, relationships take compromise.
compromise
/ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/
nouna middle state between two opposing situations that is reached by slightly changing both of them, so that they can coexist
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1. In 2017 a hack compromised millions of accounts.
2. Air and oxygen exchange, CO2 exchange is compromised.
3. Now compromise has different meanings.
4. This momentary feeling of relief can seriously compromise your regular posture.
5. After all, relationships take compromise.
to concede
/kənˈsid/
verbto grant something such as control, a privilege, or right, often reluctantly
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1. The point is conceded already.
2. The administration concedes this.
3. The state conceded.
4. The state conceded.
5. The president conceded any preemptive pardons to any of this.
concession
/kənˈsɛʃən/
nounsomething that is done, allowed, or allowed to have in order to put an end to a disagreement; the act of giving or allowing this
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1. The company made two big concessions.
2. The passive resistance campaign in the south achieved some concessions.
3. Concessions workers couldn't wash their hands.
4. Page 146, another concession Charles makes.
5. and you make some concessions.
to defer to
/dɪfˈɜː tuː/
verbto accept someone's decision or opinion based on mere respect for that person
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1. A good human, with a sense of responsibility, will defer to a proper authority, or Law Number 2.
2. Carney is deferring to you. -
3. Defer to the agency.
4. The judge deferred to his distinguished witness.
5. Defer to a friend, manager, or parent.
to give in
/ɡˈɪv ˈɪn/
verbto agree to do something that one does not want to
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1. Never give in!
2. Their vaccine, the Russian one is given in two doses.
3. Never give in.
4. Give in?
5. And give in a crunch.
to give way
/ɡˈɪv wˈeɪ/
verbto cease fighting something or someone
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1. Then other parts of the line give way.
2. Openness gave way to depression.
3. The simple shapes and starkness kind of give way to this really angular electronic beauty.
4. The light, the visual tableau completely gives way to an auditory soundscape, basically.
5. Byzantines give way to the Umayyads.
to relent
/ɹɪˈɫɛnt/
verbto accept something after refusing it a lot
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1. Even then, parliament would not fully relent.
2. Don eventually relents.
3. However, the doctor did not relent on his decision.
4. His mother finally relented.
5. It doesn't relent.
submission
/səbˈmɪʃən/
nounthe state or act of accepting defeat and not having a choice but to obey the person in the position of power
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1. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet to bring people back to the one true religion, which involves the worship of, and submission to, a single and all-powerful God.
2. A society of surveillance is just one step away from a society of submission.
3. Forget the submission.
4. The other S word is submission.
5. Submission brings peace.
submissive
/səbˈmɪsɪv/
adjectivewilling to obey unquestionably
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1. You are submissive, maybe too submissive.
2. You are submissive, maybe too submissive.
3. These folks are usually pretty submissive.
4. and I'm more submissive in bed.
5. - Submissive, well you thought.
submissively
/səbmˈɪsɪvli/
adverbin a manner that displays obedience
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1. Their strong bonds are constantly reaffirmed By greeting ceremonies, Where even the alpha dogs act submissively to the others.
to submit
/səbˈmɪt/
verbto accept the control, authority, or superiority of someone or something; to agree to something for this reason
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1. Over 50 private sector vendors submitted responses.
2. So chef submitted 1,200 recipes.
3. Instead, both applicants and programs submit a rank list.
4. Submit a term paper.
5. People were submitting unreliable news to their community.
to yield
/ˈjiɫd/
verbto stop fighting something or someone
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1. After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
2. The high yield market is now at bubble levels.
3. Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
4. Fats yield more energy per unit mass than carbohydrates.
5. Six full weeks of tireless searching would yield not a single sign of the mini-woodsman.
you win
/juː wˈɪn/
interjectionused to finally agree to what someone wants after trying one's best not to do it
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1. I get it, I should never had ended this BATTLE, you're better than ME, You Win.
2. We get from KANSAS, You Win.
to come to terms with sth
/kˈʌm tə tˈɜːmz wɪð ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phraseto gradually learn to accept or deal with something unpleasant
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1. And speaking of mainstream schools, I'm gonna tell you a couple of fun moments when I was in high school, which is when I really started to pay attention to the fact that, oh, okay, I have some hearing loss and I'm coming to terms with it finally because before that I was just kind of like in denial about it, I don't know if it's just because I hated it or if it's because I just wasn't thinking about it.
2. At the end of the epic, Gilgamesh comes to terms with his limitations as a human.
3. The experience of coming to terms with defeat can build the resilience and self-awareness necessary to manage academic, social, and physical hurdles.
4. Once the hapless square comes to terms with the third dimension, he begs his host to help him visit the fourth and higher dimensions, but the sphere bristles at the mere suggestion of dimensions higher than three and exiles the square back to Flatland.
5. As an activist, you have to really come to terms with a lot of what you're doing.