absolute
/ˈæbsəˌɫut/
adjective(of a decision or decree) final and unlikely to change
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1. Space is absolute.
2. No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
3. His will is absolute.
4. First, presidents have absolute immunity from all civil actions taken as a result of official acts while president.
5. - Without creativity, we have absolute murder, and chaos, and dancing.
accountability
/əˈkaʊnəbɪɫɪti/, /əˈkaʊntəˌbɪɫɪti/
nounthe fact of being responsible for what someone does and being able to explain the reasons
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1. Accountability equals trust.
2. I demand accountability.
3. It prevents accountability.
4. The law requires accountability.
5. Accountability will help so many people.
accountable
/əˈkaʊnəbəɫ/, /əˈkaʊntəbəɫ/
adjectiveresponsible for one's actions and being ready to explain them
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1. No one is accountable.
2. Be accountable.
3. I am accountable.
4. Tobacco smoking is accountable for about 90% of COPD cases.
5. Is it accountable?
acquittal
/əˈkwɪtəɫ/
nounan official judgment in court of law that declares someone not guilty of the crime they were charged with
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1. We didn't get an acquittal.
2. So the acquittal of Johnson really didn't have much effect.
3. The fact of the trial and the acquittal are there.
4. Verdict we could really trust is an acquittal on all counts.
5. Remember Trump's first impeachment when Republican senators prejudged an acquittal of Donald Trump?
to adjudge
/əˈdʒədʒ/
verbto declare something true or to be the case according to facts
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1. - Two-thirds of the Senators present not having pronounced him guilty, the Senate adjudges that the respondent, William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, is not guilty as charged.
2. Now of course, here Adams says that really striking thing-- and then he's careful to add right after it that, quote, "For opposing a threatened tyranny we have been not only called, but in effect adjudged rebels and traitors to the best of kings."
3. So one comes to the conclusion that levulose must be adjudged to have one of the following two constitutional formulae.
to adjudicate
/əˈdʒudɪˌkeɪt/
verbto make a formal decision or judgment about who is right in an argument or dispute
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1. We are adjudicating a number of comments that did come through in the public period.
2. You have to adjudicate intention in the individual case.
3. But here, at the acceptance of a felony guilty plea, guilt is actually adjudicated.
4. And over time, different things will be adjudicated.
5. Today we are adjudicating the case of Tfue versus FaZe Clan.
adjudication
/əˌdʒudəˈkeɪʃən/
nounthe act or process of making a formal decision about who is right in an argument or dispute
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1. Our volume of cases and adjudication timeliness is stable.
2. And he adjusted his adjudication overtly to advance it.
3. They've agreed to transnational adjudication.
4. Your Honor, Dale's case or controversy involves an adjudication regarding fraud.
5. We present for your adjudication young Nathan Leopold, age 19, undeniably a genius.
adjudicator
/ɐdʒˈuːdᵻkˌeɪɾɚ/
nounsomeone who makes a formal decision about who is right in an argument or dispute
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1. So adjudicators can demand corroboration where it's reasonably available.
2. In addition, the legal process, adjudicators, the immigration system as a whole-- it doesn't take trauma into account.
3. What would an adjudicator hear?
4. And these claims were never presented on paper to the adjudicators.
5. I'm an adjudicator, for the unemployment office.
adoption
/əˈdɑpʃən/
nounthe action of starting to use a certain plan, name, method, or idea
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1. Adoption can happen for many reasons.
2. Whatever the situation, adoption is a part of many people’s lives.
3. Adoption can be difficult for children.
4. Today's word is adoption.
5. And adoption was slow.
alternative
/ɔɫˈtɝnətɪv/
nounany of the available possibilities that one can choose from
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1. There is now a surgical alternative to improve hearing without an external device.
2. So, we have alternatives.
3. Dividend-paying stocks and REITs are alternatives as well.
4. Even the best pianists are using electric alternatives now.
5. We all use alternatives, all the time.
alternatively
/ɔɫˈtɝnətɪvɫi/
adverbas a second choice or another possibility
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1. Alternatively, linen neck wear looks quite good.
2. Alternatively, have a cardigan or a sweater vest.
3. Well, alternatively, the ice could cool the surface temperature of the lava.
4. Alternatively, natural peppermint works even better.
5. Alternatively, some plant-based milk, like unsweetened almond milk, contains fewer carbs.
appeal
/əˈpiɫ/
noun(law) the procedure of formally asking a higher court to dismiss and reverse the decision made by a lower court
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1. Socialism in the wake of the Industrial Revolution appealed to many Americans.
2. Others appealed to the states for women's admission to the polls.
3. This spiritual side of his writing appealed to many readers.
4. None of this is appealing.
5. And his message certainly had appeal.
to appeal
/əˈpiɫ/
verbto make a formal request concerning a reversal of the decision that has been made in a court of law
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1. Socialism in the wake of the Industrial Revolution appealed to many Americans.
2. Others appealed to the states for women's admission to the polls.
3. This spiritual side of his writing appealed to many readers.
4. None of this is appealing.
5. And his message certainly had appeal.
appellant
/əˈpɛɫɪnt/
nouna person who appeals in a higher court against a decision made in a lower court
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1. Appellants must pay careful attention to their calendars as they only have a 60-day window after the expiration of those deadlines to appeal to the ISCAP.
2. Appellants are encouraged to be realistic in their appeals to ISCAP and to limit the number of appeals they bring to the ISCAP.
3. Both were appellants in the Court of Appeals, I think.
4. Rachel Maxam, for the plaintiff appellants, and yes, that is the correct issue. -
5. You're the appellant. -
appellate court
/ɐpˈɛlət kˈoːɹt/
nouna special court that people can appeal against the decisions of lower courts
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1. Rarely does an appellate court ever issue a oral decision.
2. The appellate court will correct it.
3. Three judges on an appellate court is somewhere in between.
4. And then the appellate court reversed.
5. Making factual findings, appellate courts, deference to the trial court.
avenue
/ˈævəˌnu/
nouna possible way of tackling a problem or getting something done
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1. They're using avenues like TikTok.
2. Huge parade down Pennsylvania Avenue an avenue that has seen many parades.
3. The influx of people brought immediate growth in every avenue.
4. The avenues are basically endless.
5. What were his alternative avenues?
award
/əˈwɔɹd/
nounan official decision based on which something is given to someone
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1. Dundee cards award a perk or disadvantage for the end game.
2. All right, sadly no points are awarded that round.
3. The presser is awarded flair.
4. But no points awarded that round.
5. Awards mean the world to everyone.
to award
/əˈwɔɹd/
verbto make a formal decision to give someone something valuable as a result of their deeds
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1. Dundee cards award a perk or disadvantage for the end game.
2. All right, sadly no points are awarded that round.
3. The presser is awarded flair.
4. But no points awarded that round.
5. Awards mean the world to everyone.
to bag
/ˈbæɡ/
verbto make a decision to postpone something or to give up doing it
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1. She was late and in a hurry, but the people searched her and her bag carefully.
2. The old woman looks in her bag.
3. Kenny gets off the bus with his bag.
4. Apple bags?
5. Sleeping bag.
beggars cannot be choosers
/bˈɛɡɚz kænˈɑːt biː tʃˈuːzɚz/
sentenceused to express that people have no choice but to be satisfied with what is offered to them instead of asking for what they desire
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between the devil and the (deep / ) (blue / ) sea
/bɪtwˌiːn ðə dˈɛvəl ænd ðə dˈiːp blˈuː sˈiː/
phrasein a situation where both choices lead to an undesirable outcome
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1. And so this led me to think about how many other refugee children are in this kind of between the devil and the deep blue sea of either being excluded completely or being included in a way which really emphasizes their disability, emphasizes their difference, and is a really an act of discrimination.
to be one's own (master / mistress)
/biː wˈʌnz ˈoʊn mˈæstɚ mˈɪstɹəs/
phraseto do what one pleases, free of control and interference of others
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1. In the final crisis, when the knight has been forced to the ground by his squire, Sancho's defiant assertion, 'Ayúdome a mí, que soy mi señor,' 'I help myself because I am my own master,' inevitably carries political resonances, for it implies a conscious rejection of the traditional basis of authority and status and portends the emergence of a different world, a world that Cervantes himself must have imagined with disquiet, if not with dread.
blind test
/blˈaɪnd tˈɛst/
nouna way of making a decision about a product's popularity or distinguishing features by trying different products, usually without knowing their name in order to state ones opinions or preferences
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1. In our double blind test, subjects played three games on our LG G1 OLED TV, Cyberpunk 2077, Control and Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition.
2. In a blind test, you’re more likely to pick a goat than a car.
3. You do a blind test.
4. So this is a blind test.
5. And you can be totally honest because this wasn't a blind test.
buyer’s market
/bˈaɪɚz mˈɑːɹkɪt/
phrasea situation in which supply exceeds demand that gives buyers an advantage in terms of price and choice
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by default
/baɪ dɪfˈɑːlt/
phraseto be won a competition because there was no opposition
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1. But the fact that you were now able to request an ASL interpreter for things, like I don't know, talking about mental health, or LGBT, things that didn't necessarily have anything to do, by default, with just building your accessibility, the fact that they made that happen was so awesome.
2. If Google can figure out a way to just add crowdsourcing by default, or to have the option to turn on by default, I think that would be the most beneficial.
3. Her organization pressured major delivery apps to opt out of sending cutlery by default.
4. In 2017, they sued their country's biggest food delivery apps, trying to force them to stop giving cutlery by default.
5. So for better or worse, these nine digits have essentially become our national I.D. by default, and now the number is assigned when you're born and it tracks you till you die.