to abide
/əˈbaɪd/
verb(always negative) to tolerate someone or something
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1. He cannot abide criticism.
2. It abides in every soul.
3. In summers beside, they abide.
4. Whoever does not love abides in death.
5. I can't abide this status quo.
admiration
/ˌædmɝˈeɪʃən/
nouna feeling of much respect for and approval of someone or something
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1. Number four, requires excessive admiration.
2. Admiration is everything.
3. Express your admiration.
4. Express your admiration.
5. I need admiration.
to adore
/əˈdɔɹ/
verbto love and respect someone very much
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1. She adores her little alligator pouch.
2. I adore this blue chair and that golden sunburst mirror.
3. My wife and I adore our children.
4. People adore the company.
5. We adore celebrities.
acquired taste
/ɐkwˈaɪɚd tˈeɪst/
nounsomething that one dislikes first but starts to like it with the passage of time
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1. It's an acquired taste.
2. It is an acquired taste.
3. Grapefruit Now this one is another acquired taste.
4. Sardines With Olive Oil Much like salmon, sardines are an acquired taste.
5. Outer Wilds's tricky exploration and puzzle solving is definitely an acquired taste.
allergic
/əˈɫɝdʒɪk/
adjectivecharacterized by a strong dislike or hatred toward someone
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1. Lots of people are allergic to it.
2. My eight-year-old daughter is allergic to peanuts.
3. However, certain types of seafood like shellfish can induce allergic reactions.
4. Regular consumption of oranges can also reduce allergic asthma.
5. Only about 2% of kids are allergic to eggs.
anathema
/əˈnæθəmə/
nounsomething that is gravely hated and disapproved of
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1. For them a 2016 processor in a 2017 flagship is anathema.
2. It used to be anathema.
3. But for many people, adopting social media into the mourning process at all is anathema.
4. This is anathema.
5. This again was anathema to Puritan ministers.
antipathetic
/ˌæntɪpɐθˈɛɾɪk/
adjectivehaving or showing extreme hatred or hostility toward someone
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antipathy
/ænˈtɪpəθi/
nouna strong feeling of aversion, opposition, or dislike
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1. During that period Socrates appeared to be undeterred by the return to favor of democracy and the antipathy towards those who espoused views in opposition to it.
2. Wilhelm’s antipathy toward Hitler became personal.
3. When MUSLIMS around the WORLD have antipathy towards THEM.
4. And sadly, this new majority exhibits the same old antipathy to free speech.
5. First of all, there's a long history of antipathy between science and the law in American jurisprudence.
averse
/əˈvɝs/
adjectiveBeing strongly opposed to something or disliking it
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1. U.S. consumers are notoriously averse to friction.
2. They're risk averse.
3. I really, really get pretty conflict averse
4. So alpha is more risk averse.
5. Cats are averse to those textures.
aversion
/əˈvɝʒən/
nouna strong feeling of dislike toward someone or something
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1. Loss aversion is a classic copywriting technique.
2. You can introduce risk aversion, all sorts of other things.
3. However, any negative experience will cause fear and aversion.
4. No, I have more aversions.
5. That quantifies risk aversion.
to be sweet on
/biː swˈiːt ˈɑːn/
phraseto like somebody very much in a romantic way
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1. Payday is going to be sweet on this one.
to despise
/dɪˈspaɪz/
verbto hate and have no respect for something or someone
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1. And lastly, I despise cold weather.
2. Others despise it.
3. I despise raw onions.
4. I despise plants and minerals.
5. - I, I absolutely despised dancing.
disgust
/dɪsˈɡəst/
nouna strong feeling of distaste for someone or something
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1. I felt revulsion and disgust, and yet I continued to turn the pages, I would not have known how to articulate it.
2. But their penchant for violence and sacrifice soon disgusted their employers.
3. - Disgusted.
4. - Disgusted.
5. - Disgusted!
to dislike
/dɪˈsɫaɪk/
verbto not like a person or thing
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1. A picky child might dislike these lunches.
2. Dislike, dislike strongly.
3. People dislike losses.
4. Unfortunately for the cast and crew, critics largely disliked the film.
5. Ants dislike the lemon smell.
dislike
/dɪˈsɫaɪk/
nounthe feeling of not liking something or someone
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1. A picky child might dislike these lunches.
2. Dislike, dislike strongly.
3. People dislike losses.
4. Unfortunately for the cast and crew, critics largely disliked the film.
5. Ants dislike the lemon smell.
enamored
/ɛˈnæmɝd/
adjectivehaving a strong liking or admiration for something
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1. I have become very enamored of this generation of women.
2. I watched several normal people in my family become less enamored with Jibo over several days.
3. So I'm actually very enamored right now with this idea that I would term unwearables for sleep rather than wearables for sleep.
4. The husband may become enamored of the wife and in various ways raise her status or degrade her status and so forth.
5. I just remember like being so enamored eating this dish.
enemy
/ˈɛnəmi/
nounsomeone who is against a person, or hates them
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1. Remember, I am a bad enemy.
2. And peace processes always have enemies.
3. This guy is, - Enemy.
4. But a successful colony inevitably attracts enemies.
5. In 1992, enemies surrounded the European city of Sarajevo.
faddiness
/fˈædɪnəs/
nounthe fact of having or showing unreasonable tendency or preference toward some things and not others, particularly food
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faddy
/fˈædi/
adjectivehaving or showing an unreasonable tendency to like some things and not others, particularly food
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1. I'm trying it out, I know it's a bit faddy
to favor
/ˈfeɪvɝ/
verbto prefer someone or something to an alternative
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1. The odds will always favor the house.
2. And forest perimeter favors deer, and white-footed mice.
3. Now, which side would resonance favor?
4. The study favored back squats over front squats.
5. Favor crunchy foods.
favored
/ˈfeɪvɝd/
adjectivehaving characteristics or features that makes something or someone preferable
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1. He soon gained a reputation for his wit, and became a favored dinner guest, where he would espouse his aesthetic values.
2. The Christian religion thus seemed to be a kind of annoying epiphenomenon of Roman society when, in fact, with this event, Constantine's conversion, it becomes first a tolerated religion, then a favored religion, and very quickly, within the course of the fourth century AD, the official and almost the only religion of the Roman Empire.
3. The favored capital column type, and capital of the Romans, the Corinthian, is what is used here.
4. The favored weapon of Odin, Gungnir is a magical weapon crafted by the dwarves of Norse mythology.
5. Since Pete's mom seems to share similar religious beliefs, Madison would naturally be the favored daughter-in-law candidate.
finicky
/ˈfɪnəki/
adjectivedemanding or showing an excessive care and attention to small details
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1. The cinemagraph software is finicky.
2. Cheetah females are finicky breeders.
3. - Cats are finicky like that.
4. - Cats are finicky animals.
5. I hate finicky neighbors!
for one's liking
/fɔːɹ wˈʌnz lˈaɪkɪŋ/
phrasein a way that is based on one's tastes or wishes
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1. If you don't have a lot of trees in a biome, it means you probably don't get enough rainfall for their liking.
2. This all sound a little hippy-dippy liberal for my liking.
3. That's a little splashy for my liking.
4. This results in only a minimal hit to your performance though, you may find the result in images to blurry for your liking.
5. But that’s getting a little too close to ethics for my liking.
frenemy
/fɹˈɛnəmi/
nouna person who pretends to be a friend when in reality is one's rival or enemy
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1. Talk about a frenemy.
2. Do people still say 'frenemy?'
3. And the frenemy of relationship continues.
4. Ghana is like their closest frenemy.
5. What is a frenemy?
give me something any (day / time)
/ɡˈɪv mˌiː sˈʌmθɪŋ ˌɛni dˈeɪ slˈæʃ tˈaɪm/
phraseused to express one's preference to something or someone over other things
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1. Another problem is that the ability of quinine (the primary medicine used against malaria) to kill parasites has declined over time.
2. Only time will tell if the important marketing decisions made earlier will be effective in selling the product. be easy to remember be easy to pronounce be unique hint at what the product is for include positive words or word parts contain effect letters translate well into other languages have no negative associations
3. Yet at that time, an umbrella was an unambiguous symbol of power.
4. Often the original significance of the clothing has been forgotten or has changed over time, yet societies continue to respect the conventional symbolism.
5. He would have plenty of time to do his job.
to go for
/ɡˈoʊ fɔːɹ/
verbto choose something among other things
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to go off
/ɡˌoʊ ˈɔf/
verbto stop liking someone or something or lose interest in them or it
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1. Go off.
2. Go off.
3. Go off.
4. The oven timer goes off.
5. Go off diaper baby.
to grow on
/ɡɹˈoʊ ˈɑːn/
verbto gradually like something more and more
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1. Grapes grow on really short viney trees.
2. The fine wine grows on a vine.
3. Aflatoxin grows on corn and peanuts.
4. The first eyes grew on trilobites.
5. Myth number seven - moss grows on the north side of a tree.
grudge
/ˈɡɹədʒ/
nouna deep feeling of anger and dislike toward someone because of what they did in the past
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1. This person bears a lot of grudges.
2. Vex will probably always hold grudges.
3. No grudges, go.
4. - Oh hold a grudge.
5. - Like they hold grudges.
to hate
/ˈheɪt/
verbto really not like something or someone
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1. If you were mad, I wouldn't hate you.
2. I hate those devices.
3. Except for Marie's fabled love for Dewey Prince, these women hated men, all men, without shame, apology or discrimination.
4. Some people like it, others hate it.
5. - I freaking hate you guys right now.
hate
/ˈheɪt/
nounstrong dislike for someone or something
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1. If you were mad, I wouldn't hate you.
2. I hate those devices.
3. Except for Marie's fabled love for Dewey Prince, these women hated men, all men, without shame, apology or discrimination.
4. Some people like it, others hate it.
5. - I freaking hate you guys right now.
to hate the sight of sb/sth
/hˈeɪt ðə sˈaɪt ʌv ˌɛsbˈiː slˈæʃ ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phraseto be unable to tolerate someone or something because of one's hatred or hostility toward them
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1. Young Chuck originally wanted to become a physician, but he hated the sight of blood.
2. Young Chuck originally wanted to become a physician, but he hated the sight of blood.
3. He hates the sight of blood, he sucks on a bike, I'd give him back if I could.
4. He hates the sight of blood, he sucks on a bike, I'd give him back if I could.
5. If you hate the sight of milk or juice cartons, why not just pour it into a pitcher?
to have a lot of time for
/hæv ɐ lˈɑːt ʌv tˈaɪm fɔːɹ/
phraseto be really interested in someone or something
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1. We'll also definitely have a lot of time for questions at the end.
2. And we'll have a lot of time for Q&A.
3. To get us started, though, let's take a minute to look at the sheet itself since we didn't have a lot of time for that in the opening.
4. He doesn't have a lot of time for new projects.
5. She is tough to please, she doesn't have a lot of time for things that's aren't mission-critical, and she really doesn't trust anyone's judgment more than her own.
to have against
/hæv ɐɡˈɛnst/
verb(not used in the progressive tenses) to dislike somebody/something for a particular reason
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1. What grudge do you have against Simone?
2. -What does Trump have against dogs?
3. What points do they have against me?
4. What leverage do they have against me?
5. - What did you have against Doug?
to have a sweet tooth
/hæv ɐ swˈiːt tˈuːθ/
phraseto be attracted to food that contains a lot of sugar
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1. You have a sweet tooth.
2. Whenever I eat sweet baby moves around, so I have a feeling my baby's gonna have a sweet tooth, too.
3. Of course, I don't have a sweet tooth.
4. I have a sweet tooth, so this is perfect.
5. The people that have a sweet tooth my family are probably like River, me, Mum and Poppy, maybe Daisy, I'm not too sure.
to have a thing (for / about) sb/sth
/hæv ɐ θˈɪŋ fɔːɹ slˈæʃ ɐbˈaʊt/
phraseto be excessively obsessed with someone, especially in a way that seems strange or unreasonable
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1. I have a thing for showers like these.
2. I have a thing for showers like these.
3. In this case, the goddess is Ishtar, who definitely has a thing for Gilgamesh.
4. In this case, the goddess is Ishtar, who definitely has a thing for Gilgamesh.
5. We have a thing for you to sign.
to have no time for
/hæv nˈoʊ tˈaɪm fɔːɹ/
phraseto refrain from involving someone or spending time with them
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1. Look, I would love to make fun of that, but unfortunately, I have no time for losers.
2. We have no time for any setbacks.
3. ’Cause we have no time for any setbacks.
4. If I sought to answer all the criticism that crossed my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day and I would have no time for constructive work.
5. -I have no time for you.
to have no use for someone
/hæv nˈoʊ jˈuːs fɔːɹ sˈʌmwʌn/
phraseto dislike or have no sense of respect for someone or something
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to have a soft spot for sb/sth
/hæv ɐ sˈɔft spˈɑːt fɔːɹ ˌɛsbˈiː slˈæʃ ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phraseto be particularly fond of someone or something
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