able
/ˈeɪbəɫ/
adjective
having expertise, intelligence, or skills
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1Able people get angry.
2Surveillance and privacy issues could arise if the central bank is able to monitor every transaction.
3The root word is able.
4"Be able to".
5Differently abled?
absurd
/əbˈsɝd/
adjective
very illogical, unreasonable, or stupid
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1The valuation is absurd.
2Their individual NBA accolades are absurd.
3Michael’s idea was absurd.
4Whose actions were absurd?
5Michael’s actions, Michael’s actions were absurd.
alert
/əˈɫɝt/
adjective
able to notice things or think quickly
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1After a period of fighting and dying, macrophages alert the brain of the immune system: the dendritic cells.
2Interferon activity also alerts T cells.
315 minutes later, and back at Buxton Road, a brief message alerts the on-call scenes of crime officers, Karen Duncan and Elaine Reese.
4Hot take alert!
5Their loud calls alert the rest of the family.
accomplished
/əˈkɑmpɫɪʃt/
adjective
possessing great skill in a certain field
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1I feel super accomplished.
2You feel accomplished.
3I feel so accomplished!
4I feel accomplished! -
5- I feel so accomplished.
articulate
/ɑɹˈtɪkjəˌɫeɪt/, /ɑɹˈtɪkjəɫət/
adjective
(of a person) able to express oneself clearly and effectively
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1And this book actually articulates a very consistent thesis.
2I felt revulsion and disgust, and yet I continued to turn the pages, I would not have known how to articulate it.
3Even his ankles articulate now.
4Articulating your military and career experience.
5Articulate Your Values!
brainy
/ˈbɹeɪni/
adjective
very smart
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1Maybe Anna's power will be something more brainy?
2She's the brainy pig.
3So, late last century, some really brainy physicists had this ingenious idea: to instead build computers that are founded on the principles of quantum mechanics.
4He's the brainy one.
5Oh it looks so brainy.
brutal
/ˈbɹutəɫ/
adjective
extremely violent and cruel
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1The Cubansfight for independence was brutal.
2The form of torture was brutal.
3The fighting was brutal.
4Winter on the plateau is brutal.
5The first year is brutal.
competent
/ˈkɑmpətɪnt/
adjective
possessing the needed skills or knowledge to do something well
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1Only these guys are actually competent.
2"Is he competent?"
3- I'm annoyingly competent.
4Rick Levin is very competent.
5Who is more competent?
argumentative
/ˌɑɹɡjəˈmɛntətɪv/
adjective
(of a person) ready to argue and often arguing
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1We're argumentative buggers as people.
2It's a little argumentative.
3- Yeah, argumentative again.
4I'm argumentative, but he just kind of.
5You're argumentative?
bad-tempered
/bˈædtˈɛmpɚd/
adjective
easily annoyed and quick to anger

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cheeky
/ˈtʃiki/
adjective
behaving in an impolite way that is amusing or offensive
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1- Cheeky nipple, come on, zip.
2This guy was cheeky alright
3The hyenas are getting cheeky.
4Some women prefer cheeky bottoms.
5- Choose a cheeky!
clumsy
/ˈkɫəmzi/
adjective
doing things or moving in a way that lacks control and care, usually causing accidents
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1She was clumsy.
2He writes her clumsy poems.
3They're pretty clumsy.
4He was clumsy.
5- I'm quite clumsy.
conceited
/kənˈsitəd/
adjective
taking excessive pride in oneself
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1That's pretty conceited.
2The entire kingdom knew about his conceited ways.
3The entire kingdom knew about his conceited ways.
4And so I created this kind of conceited guy.
5She is too conceited to love.
coward
/ˈkaʊɝd/
noun
someone who is not brave to do things that other people find unchallenging
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1The president is a keyboard warrior coward.
2Draw your weapon, coward.
3-What do you mean, coward?
4A chicken is a coward.
5And we architects are cowards.
chickenshit
/tʃˈɪkɪnʃˌɪt/
noun
a person who is weak and lacks courage

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eccentric
/ˌɛkˈsɛntɹɪk/, /ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/
adjective
behaving in a manner that is considered different and strange
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1He's eccentric.
2They're eccentric people.
3He's an eccentric.
4The pronunciation of this word is: eccentric.
5Some are even eccentric.
harsh
/ˈhɑɹʃ/
adjective
cruel and unkind toward others
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1Working conditions were harsh.
2French rule was harsh.
3This place is harsh.
4Life without a pride is harsh.
5Girl, your garlic breath is harsh!
infamous
/ˈɪnfəməs/
adjective
famous for doing horrible things
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1These unexpected frugivores include infamous predators like the American crocodile, Nile crocodile and Saltwater crocodile.
2Abu Ghraib Prison under Saddam Hussein was infamous.
3Mr. Bush's reply has become infamous.
4Infamous Roman Emperors: One of the Roman emperors was Caligula.
5It's infamous.
intolerant
/ˌɪnˈtɑɫɝənt/
adjective
not open to accept beliefs, opinions, or lifestyles that are unlike one's own
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1People are very intolerant.
2Some people are lactose intolerant.
3- Anybody lactose intolerant?
475% of the planet is lactose intolerant.
5In fact about 65% of the world's adults are lactose intolerant.
insensitive
/ˌɪnˈsɛnsətɪv/, /ˌɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
adjective
not caring about other people's feelings
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1--That's extremely insensitive.
2- Well not insensitive
3In other words, the interaction between pairs of charges is insensitive to the presence of any other charges.
4The roadworkers aren't insensitive to that.
5These patches will be pretty insensitive to light or temperature.
judgmental
/dʒədʒˈmɛnəɫ/, /dʒədʒˈmɛntəɫ/
adjective
criticizing people too quickly
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1Humans are judgmental.
2Became really frustrated, really judgmental.
3That's kind of judgmental.
4- This doctor sounds so judgmental in this video.
5His voice was judgmental.
narrow-minded
/nˈæɹoʊmˈaɪndᵻd/
adjective
not open to new ideas, opinions, etc.
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1But when you go to those-- there's an old school where it's a very narrow-minded way of looking at things.
2I think we are that narrow-minded.
3"I don't like narrow-minded people".
4In place of these questions has arisen a kind of narrow-minded focus on methodology often at the expense of the life and death issues that make up the substance of the political.
5Sometimes I can be narrow-minded.
assertive
/əˈsɝtɪv/
adjective
confident in expressing one's opinions, ideas or needs in a clear, direct, and respectful manner
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1BRITTANY: Be more assertive.
2She's also very assertive.
3I'm fairly assertive.
4Be assertive in your physical posture.
5- Are you assertive?
attentive
/əˈtɛntɪv/
adjective
giving much attention to something or someone with interest
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1One, be attentive.
2Dogs are incredibly attentive animals.
3The owner is so attentive.
4The mother is very attentive to those meows.
5Is attentive.
cautious
/ˈkɔʃəs/
adjective
(of a person) careful to avoid danger or mistakes
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1Be cautious.
2Sacks was cautious.
3Be cautious!
4Be cautious!
5Be cautious.
affectionate
/əˈfɛkʃənət/, /əˈfɛkʃənɪt/
adjective
expressing love and care
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1it's affectionate.
2- Affectionate term for being derogatory about something and gettin' away with it.
3We're very affectionate.
4You're just really affectionate.
5People are really affectionate here though.
charitable
/ˈtʃæɹətəbəɫ/, /ˈtʃɛɹətəbəɫ/
adjective
kind and generous toward the less fortunate
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1Charitable organizations that housed the destitute.
2So, which interpretation of Inception is more charitable?
3- Illegally mismanaging his charitable foundation.
4Their treatment of the Barrett M107, the inspiration for their Heavy Sniper, is less charitable.
5That characterization, in my view, is even more charitable.
compassionate
/kəmˈpæʃənət/
adjective
expressing concern or having sympathy for the misfortunes of others
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1That's compassionate.
2He's compassionate.
3I'm compassionate.
4He's compassionate.
5Every city has to be compassionate.
considerate
/kənˈsɪdɝət/
adjective
thoughtful of others and their feelings
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1And be considerate.
2I'm considerate.
3So considerate!
4that's considerate.
5Sacrificial. - Considerate.
courageous
/kɝˈeɪdʒəs/
adjective
expressing no fear when faced with danger or difficulty
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1She is courageous.
2Be courageous.
3Be courageous.
4Was she courageous?
5Scorpios are generally pretty courageous.
dignified
/ˈdɪɡnəˌfaɪd/
adjective
displaying calmness and seriousness in a manner that deserves respect
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1So you have to give him a way out, a dignified way out.
2You have to make dignified faces, like this one.
3In its stark gravity, Richard Serra's 'Fernando Pessoa' creates a dignified home for sorrow.
4It's dignified stuff.
5You will need A dignified demeanor An interest in the arts and sensible spending habits.
faithful
/ˈfeɪθfəɫ/
adjective
continuing to support or being loyal to a certain person, idea, group, etc.
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1'I'm going to be your faithful and beautiful wife.'
2Some faithful friends of Stalin even admitted to having disloyal thoughts if not deeds, which was adequate sin to justify execution.
3The TV series is very faithful so far.
4A real man is faithful to his wife.
5A church bell summoned the faithful to a baptism.
frank
/ˈfɹæŋk/
adjective
direct and honest in expressing oneself that some people might find it unpleasant
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1Go, Frank.
2Frank, that was for you.
3My brother-in-law is Frank.
4Taking on Frank.
5His name is Frank.
heroic
/hɪˈɹoʊɪk/
adjective
displaying great bravery as that of a hero or heroine
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1Want more last second heroics?
2You lose heroic.
3The people of P&G have just done heroic work this last year.
4This is heroic.
5These people did a heroic deed.
hospitable
/ˈhɑˈspɪtəbəɫ/
adjective
treating guests or visitors with friendliness, warmth, and generosity
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1This has been very hospitable.
2You are hospitable, nice, friendly.
3The colonies were not hospitable places, needless to say.
4They're so hospitable.
5Our gut is a wonderfully hospitable environment for those bacteria.
jolly
/ˈdʒɑɫi/
adjective
cheerful and happy
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1Won't life be jolly now!'
2The jolly collie swallowed a lollipop.
3Anyway, it was jolly expensive.
4The first one is jolly.
5He's extremely jolly.
duplicitous
/duˈpɫɪsɪtəs/
adjective
attempting to deceive other people
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1And I thought that left a place to have a conversation about Jefferson as politician as opposed to duplicitous politician insofar as that's redundant.
2He realised his mistakes and stopped spying, but eventually returned to his duplicitous role with a vengeance.
3Is there something, perhaps, duplicitous about the way Nathan suggests he's related to this enterprise of imagining?
4But in 1991, the master conman finally had a stint in prison, at the Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc, in California, for his involvement in a bankruptcy fraud scheme, where, among other duplicitous activities, he brazenly posed as a variety of different lawyers in the case.
5Gabrielle Union After starring as the duplicitous BFF Chastity in 10 Things, Gabrielle Union went onto accelerate her status as a screen star, with prominent roles in Bring It On, Love and Basketball, and Bad Boys 2.
just
/ˈdʒəst/, /dʒɪst/
adjective
fair, reasonable, and morally right
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1and I just started upgrading the equipment!
2A society of surveillance is just one step away from a society of submission.
3But this just kind of feels like a hideous way to lose your sword.
4We just got a really good photographer.
5In just three years, nurse vacancies nearly doubled.
reluctant
/ɹiˈɫəktənt/, /ɹɪˈɫəktənt/
adjective
not welcoming or willing to do something because it is undesirable
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1Well, it was reluctant.
2Was he reluctant?
3It was reluctant.
4I was reluctant.
5I was reluctant for a long time
shithead
/ˈʃɪtˌhɛd/
noun
a person who is annoyingly stupid or unlikeable
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1Shithead go.
2Get out of your pink spandex suit, shithead.
3Jack: Urgh you shithead!
4Jack: AH you shithead!
5I'm Negan, shithead.
snake
/ˈsneɪk/
noun
a dishonest person with the tendency to deceive people for personal gain
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1So in the end, snakes pose one of the greatest evolutionary mysteries in the history of animal life.
2Generally snakes have fairly short tails.
3Shame on you, sneak snake.
4Snakes can belch fire.
5- Snakes can predict earthquakes.
butterfingers
/bˈʌɾɚfˌɪŋɡɚz/
noun
someone who keeps dropping things
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1Which I don't think count as Butterfingers now that I think about it.
2And also a king size Butterfingers are two Butterfingers in one.
3And also a king size Butterfingers are two Butterfingers in one.
4There's a fear with Butterfingers that you may lose a tooth.
5- Butterfingers, I do all that.
dirtbag
/dˈɜːtbæɡ/
noun
a person who is hateful or detested because of their dishonest actions
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1Step on it, dirtbag!
2But she doesn't come off as a dirtbag or anything.
3His username was like 'dirtbag' something.
4Come on, you dirtbag.
5He's a dirtbag with a heart of gold, and he's my dog.
freeloader
/ˈfɹiˌɫoʊdɝ/
noun
a person who habitually takes advantage of others' generosity without offering anything in return
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1But sometimes, these hungry freeloaders cause serious, life-threatening health problems.
2Some people tell the story that poor folks are lazy freeloaders who would cheat and lie to get out of an honest day's work.
3Spend too long sculpting and freeloaders will try to steal it.
4But he's not a freeloader.
5Advertisers aren't really interested in targeting freeloaders.
wretch
/ˈɹɛtʃ/
noun
someone who behaves in an evil or immoral way
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1The wretch appalled no longer can dispise.
2Faced with losing his life, the poor wretch recognises that every minute could be turned into aeons of time, with sufficient imagination and appreciation.
3Some wretch had just walked out with the Mona Lisa.
4I followed the poor wretch to his home.
5"Then I am a miserable wretch for not holding my tongue!"
unruly
/ənˈɹuɫi/
adjective
not willing to follow rules or instructions
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1Just the geography here is completely unruly.
2My bush is unruly.
3- Unruly passenger, "Meet the Parents."
4One evening, with the Goths unruly due to shortages of food and water, a large band of reinforcements arrived.
5Short curly hair sure can be unruly.
sassy
/ˈsæsi/
adjective
talking or behaving in a way that is rude, disrespectful, or too confident
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1The machine is sassy.
2"I feel sassy."
3Be sassy.
4- See sassy.
5That was sassy.
scumbag
/ˈskəmˌbæɡ/
noun
a person who is seen as untrustworthy or unethical, and who may engage in behavior that is harmful to others
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1So maybe the real scumbag here is the DNA polymerase.
2We're all scumbags.
3Guess scumbags stick together.
4These guys are scumbags.
5Yeah, like I hate scumbags like that
douchebag
/dˈuːʃɪbˌæɡ/
noun
a person who behaves arrogantly, insensitively, or inconsiderately toward others
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1Who's this douchebag?
2These douchebags have never seen black women before.
3love is a douchebag.
4love is a douchebag.
5So fraternity's have a douchebag.

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