absorbed
/əbˈzɔɹbd/
adjectivepaying much attention to something or someone that makes one unaware of other things
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1. This absorbed energy is emitted again, as infrared radiation.
2. Inspiration is ABSORBED a lot of TIMES
3. You're very absorbed.
4. You're not to become so absorbed.
5. So absorbed was the attention of all that Boule de Suif's entrance was almost unnoticed.
inquisitive
/ˌɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪv/
adjectivehaving a desire to learn many different things
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1. So this baby will be inquisitive.
2. And hyenas are very inquisitive.
3. The hyenas are very inquisitive.
4. I'm inquisitive.
5. Dogs are incredibly inquisitive.
apprehensive
/ˌæpɹiˈhɛnsɪv/, /ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv/
adjectivenervous or worried that something unpleasant may happen
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1. Yeah, you felt apprehensive.
2. Do not be apprehensive.
3. I was also apprehensive.
4. I was also apprehensive.
5. Confidence level, apprehensive.
astounded
/əˈstaʊndɪd/
adjectivegreatly shocked or surprised
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1. At the very same time I'm astounded by the enormous successes of science.
2. So, therefore, I am astounded.
3. I am astounded.
4. All of you are just so astounded about our very stark height difference.
5. I am astounded.
agitated
/ˈædʒəˌteɪtɪd/
adjectivevery nervous in a way that makes one unable to think clearly
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1. People can get very agitated.
2. I was just so agitated.
3. The elephants get more and more agitated.
4. Temperature is agitated motion.
5. You become very agitated.
frantic
/ˈfɹæntɪk/
adjectivegreatly frightened and worried about something, in a way that is uncontrollable
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1. These people were frantic.
2. The pace grows more frantic.
3. Meanwhile, the feed gets frantic.
4. The family are frantic.
5. The family was frantic.
broken
/ˈbɹoʊkən/
adjectivephysically or mentally weakened as a result of much suffering
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1. The organic component of soil, called humus, is mostly made up of broken down lignin.
2. My HEART IS BROKEN.
3. his leg is so broken.
4. My focus gets so broken.
5. This show is so broken.
disturbing
/dɪˈstɝbɪŋ/
adjectiveupsetting or unsettling
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1. Other arguments are more disturbing, though.
2. The results were disturbing.
3. Even more disturbing is the ultimate goal of Buddhism- Nirvana.
4. This next part is pretty disturbing.
5. Sores on the tongue are pretty disturbing.
disgusted
/dɪsˈɡəstəd/, /dɪsˈɡəstɪd/
adjectivehaving or displaying great dislike for something
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1. I'm disgusted.
2. They're disgusted!
3. - I was disgusted.
4. I'm disgusted.
5. He's disgusted.
lovable
/ˈɫəvəbəɫ/
adjectivepossessing traits that attract people's affection
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1. I mean, lovable pet has produced some eggs!
2. I'm not lovable.
3. I'm not lovable.
4. Playing the lovable bartender Kevin Ball is Steve Howey.
5. That beard and rosy cheeks say, "Lovable shrimp boat captain."
desolate
/ˈdɛsəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈdɛsəɫət/, /ˈdɛzəɫət/
adjectivefeeling very lonely and sad
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1. But it is desolating.
2. A desolate region, where few things grow.
3. Four teenage students took a walk into the desolate woods near the campus of the University of Tennessee.
4. But this is desolate.
5. Fifty years ago in the old Soviet Union, a team of engineers was secretly moving a large object through a desolate countryside.
contemptuous
/kənˈtɛmptʃuəs/
adjectivedevoid of respect for someone or something
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1. Because the business professors on her campus had been so contemptuous of the poets.
2. Kennan was contemptuous of all political science and social science.
3. The Carolingian ruler was contemptuous of Byzantium because it was ruled by a woman, the Empress Irene, a rather exceptional figure.
4. He spat two or three times into the water, with an expression of contemptuous anger.
5. They are contemptuous and minimize other people's accomplishments.
content
/ˈkɑntɛnt/, /kənˈtɛnt/
adjectivesatisfied and happy with one's situation
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1. Creating content. -
2. My wife watches content in the bath.
3. Add content.
4. - Putting out content.
5. Getting content in there.
devoted
/dɪˈvoʊtɪd/
adjectiveexpressing much attention and love toward someone or something
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1. And an entire discipline of second temple and early Christian scholarship is devoted to this problem of emergence.
2. In the US, 47% of the total national surface area is devoted to food production.
3. - I said devoted.
4. They're devoted.
5. She is devoted.
ecstatic
/ɛkˈstætɪk/
adjectivevery excited and happy
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1. The people were ecstatic.
2. I was ecstatic!
3. I'm ecstatic.
4. Naturally, the new parents were ecstatic about their bundle of joy.
5. She looks ecstatic.
thrilled
/ˈθɹɪɫd/
adjectivevery excited, happy, or pleased about something
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1. They're thrilled.
2. I'm thrilled.
3. The man is thrilled.
4. The man and his girlfriend are both thrilled.
5. His wife was less than thrilled.
gloomy
/ˈɡɫumi/
adjectivehopeless or causing sadness
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1. The next day, the mood was gloomy.
2. And academics paint an even gloomier picture.
3. Wow, those numbers do really look gloomy!
4. The outlook is gloomier for banks.
5. So it's really gloomy.
joyful
/ˈdʒɔɪfəɫ/
adjectivehaving, showing, or causing much happiness
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1. This moment is joyful, this moment not.
2. These joyful cookies are from Turkey.
3. Be joyful about it.
4. The first one is pretty joyful.
5. And yes, a house is joyful.
fond
/ˈfɑnd/
adjectivefeeling or showing emotional attachment or nostalgia towards a person or thing
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1. Is it fond?
2. I have very fond memories.
3. Does it bring up fond memories?
4. Mr. Sabier's case brought back fond memories of my time as a baseball dad.
5. The grandmother was incredibly fond, deeply in love with this little girl.
appalled
/əˈpɔɫd/
adjectivevery scared and shocked by something unpleasant or bad
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1. I am appalled
2. Some of the members were appalled.
3. She looked appalled.
4. Most Greeks were, at least theoretically, very appalled at the morals or the lack of morals of the Persians from their perspective.
5. People were rather appalled at the whole thing.
horrified
/ˈhɔɹəˌfaɪd/
adjectivevery scared or shocked
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1. My father was so horrified by the impact of South Africa of the apartheid system.
2. He's horrified.
3. I'm horrified!
4. I was horrified.
5. The X-ray technician was understandably horrified.
disillusioned
/ˌdɪsɪˈɫuʒənd/
adjectivefeeling disappointed because someone or something is not as worthy or good as one believed
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1. I feel very disillusioned.
2. So he got incredibly disillusioned.
3. You had become disillusioned.
4. He did become disillusioned.
5. When did I become disillusioned?
distressed
/dɪˈstɹɛst/
adjectivevery nervous and upset
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1. But the market isn't distressed.
2. What's distressed?
3. After the forensic tests, my colleagues were very distressed.
4. But the herd is still unusually distressed.
5. - He looks distressed.
disturbed
/dɪˈstɝbd/
adjectivevery upset or nervous
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1. I'm disturbed.
2. - I am so disturbed.
3. - I am pretty disturbed.
4. A disturbed body clock can directly affect your sleep cycle.
5. Disturbed sleep affects body temperature.
uneasy
/əˈnizi/
adjectivenervous or worried, particularly about the imminence of something unpleasant
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1. - It's uneasy.
2. Are you uneasy?
3. The cubs are uneasy, unsure.
4. Feel uneasy.
5. Others are very uneasy.
fierce
/ˈfɪɹs/
adjectivehaving or displaying aggressiveness
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1. My mother-child bond is fierce.
2. That character is so fierce.
3. The competition is very fierce.
4. Her hair is fierce.
5. My answer is fierce.
frozen
/ˈfɹoʊzən/
adjectivenot showing any emotion
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1. All assets of Maduro subject to U.S. jurisdiction are frozen.
2. My fingers feel frozen!
3. The cans are frozen.
4. The pipes are frozen.
5. The mousse is frozen.
frustrated
/ˈfɹəsˌtɹeɪtəd/
adjectiveirritated and upset because of being unable to achieve something or change an unwanted situation
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1. People are really frustrated.
2. The beneficiaries are frustrated.
3. People are very frustrated.
4. The patient is frustrated.
5. All too often, the sufferer becomes frustrated.
intrigued
adjective
wanting to know more about something because it seems very interesting
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1. I'm so intrigued.
2. So I was very intrigued.
3. I was highly intrigued.
4. I'm very intrigued.
5. - I'm super intrigued.
protective
/pɹəˈtɛktɪv/
adjectivedisplaying or having a desire to protect someone or something
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1. Masks are protective.
2. United States laws on hate speech are much more protective.
3. Protective eyewear totally works.
4. The baby’s mother is highly protective.
5. Bears are protective.
provocative
/pɹoʊˈvɑkətɪv/
adjectivecausing anger or argument, particularly intentionally
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1. President Putin's comments today were quite provocative.
2. The very idea of a male ballerina was provocative.
3. You’re provocative.
4. The dominant form is provocative.
5. You've got provocative questions.
self-conscious
/ˌsɛɫfˈkɑnʃəs/
adjectiveembarrassed or worried about one's appearance or actions
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1. Medicine made a self-conscious decision to transform itself from an art into a science.
2. And there are lots of moments like this, self-conscious moments of style.
3. Libras are very self-conscious individuals and are always judging themselves.
4. So, an alternate explanation may be something like this: "My father has a very self-conscious way of being."
5. The man in the picture represents the masculine and self-conscious mind.
sentimental
/ˌsɛnəˈmɛnəɫ/, /ˌsɛnəˈmɛntəɫ/, /ˌsɛntəˈmɛnəɫ/, /ˌsɛntəˈmɛntəɫ/
adjectiveeasily affected by emotions
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1. That's making me so sentimental.
2. He's overly sentimental just to get attention.
3. Kind of all of my jewelry mostly has sentimental value to me.
4. He's sentimental.
5. Is it sentimental?
speechless
/ˈspitʃɫəs/
adjectiveunable to speak for a short time, particularly as a result of surprise, shock, or anger
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1. Everything, from its impressive size to the number of passengers on board, leaves unprepared observers speechless.
2. I'm speechless right now.
3. Her answer left the woman speechless.
4. My man is speechless.
5. I'm speechless!
compassion
/kəmˈpæʃən/
noungreat sympathy for a person or animal that is suffering
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1. Compassion, religiously practice compassion.
2. Compassion, religiously practice compassion.
3. Have compassion.
4. But great leaders like Ratan have compassion.
5. Compassion has many faces.
heartbreak
/ˈhɑɹtˌbɹeɪk/
nouna feeling of great distress or sadness
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1. - Some found heartbreak.
2. Unfortunately, playoff heartbreak also defined those years.
3. Death, failure of an exam, heartbreak.
4. Family, love, heartbreak.
5. Family, love, heartbreak.
sob story
/sˈɑːb stˈoːɹi/
nouna story told in order to gain the sympathy of other people, particularly one that seems to be fake
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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.
poker face
/pˈoʊkɚ fˈeɪs/
nouna facial expression that does not reveal a person's feelings or thoughts
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1. Number five, Lady Gaga Lady Gaga became famous after her big hit Poker Face, and who would've thought she actually had one all this time?
goddamn
/ˈɡɑdˌdæm/
adjectiveused for showing annoyance or anger with a person or thing, in a way that is not very polite
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1. You goddamn dirty hippie!
2. Goddamn it!
3. Goddamn it!
4. Goddamn it!
5. Goddamn spider attacked!
bloody
/ˈbɫədi/
adjectiveused for expressing annoyance or anger in a way that may seem a bit offensive
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1. The whole fabric of America is bloody to its very core.
2. The partition was bloody.
3. Now bloodied.
4. Change is bloody.
5. Historically, revolutions are bloody.
bananas
/bəˈnænəz/
adjectiveexperiencing an state of extreme anger, excitement, or craziness
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1. So, you can, I don't know, you can go bananas all you want, but it also helps because if you want to, you know, give your neighbor food or something like that, you can.
2. Basically, we've gone bananas for bananas.
3. And there will be so many more moments where we go bananas and realize what we thought was just a cool fact actually has a huge backstory.
4. We’re going to go bananas now when you read what the chancellor has decided to do.
5. MALE SPEAKER: Oh, it's going bananas, dude.
disenchanted
/dɪsɪnˈtʃænɪd/, /dɪsɪnˈtʃæntɪd/
adjectivenot believing in the worth or value of a person or thing any longer
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1. We feel disenchanted and let down.
2. His central work, 'The Dutch Proverbs,' presents a comically disenchanted view of human nature.
3. I don't want our labor force to become disenchanted.
4. She started to become disenchanted with her behavior.
5. For any number of these reasons, some, disenchanted parents seek a way out.