anthropology
/ˌænθɹəˈpɑɫədʒi/
nounthe study of the origins and developments of the human race and its societies and cultures
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1. I studied anthropology and neuroscience.
2. I learned the word anthropology from my sixth grade teacher, Mr. Wey.
3. The anthropology of the dessert resurrection is really one of the most interesting parts of all of this.
4. I've done anthropology on the main statistical units.
5. One of them, from anthropology, is the study of human universals.
aristocrat
/ɝˈɪstəˌkɹæt/
nounsomeone who is a member of the aristocracy, which is the highest social rank
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1. With their sleek coat and athletic build, dobermans look like aristocrats.
2. Some of them are aristocrats themselves.
3. Aristocrats alone could hold these positions.
4. Aristocrats didn't form voluntary associations.
5. You were an aristocrat.
baron
/ˈbæɹən/, /ˈbɛɹən/
nouna man of the lowest rank in the British nobility
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1. The barons were especially opposed to the influence of the Lusignans.
2. - B. Dave Walters playing Victor Temple, undisputed baron of the Valley.
3. And finally, the barons who display six silver balls on their coronets.
4. But for fans, perhaps the most exciting project is Baron +
5. Where's Baron?
earl
/ˈɝɫ/
nouna British man of high social rank
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1. My Name Is Earl? -
2. I'm Earl
3. Oh, come on, Earl!
4. His name is Earl.
5. Share your story actually, Earl.
noble
/ˈnoʊbəɫ/
nouna person of the highest social rank
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1. He was very familiar with England's noble families.
2. He was born into a noble family that owned a good deal of land.
3. Noble spirits, your time has passed.
4. The nobles saw another opportunity, though.
5. The nobles gambled all the time.
peer
/ˈpɪɹ/
nouna person of the same age, social status, or capability as another specified individual
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1. My peers were the perfect example of white trash at its worst.
2. Now his peers are missing a day of education.
3. Additionally, your peers appreciated your cross-community involvement in the Women's Law Association, Middle East Law Students Association, Immigration and Refugee Clinic, US Attorneys Clinic, and the Gender Violence Legal Policy Workshop.
4. I lack peers.
5. Peer over his shoulder.
belonging
/bɪˈɫɔŋɪŋ/
nounthe feeling of being happy or comfortable in a specific situation or group
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1. Their belongings were destroyed.
2. Forget your belongings.
3. I hid my belongings.
4. - Respect your belongings.
5. Gather your belongings.
citizenship
/ˈsɪtɪzənˌʃɪp/
nounthe legal status of being a member of a certain country
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1. The basic issue is citizenship.
2. What bundle of rights might attend citizenship?
3. Citizenship played a major part in the drafting process.
4. Citizenship takes on this kind of linguistic aspect as well.
5. Citizenship requires inclusion.
alien
/ˈeɪɫiən/
adjectiveunlike what one knows or is used to; odd and scary
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1. Finding aliens.
2. Get the laughing over about resident alien.
3. Aliens are here.
4. Aliens are here.
5. Aliens built the pyramids.
civic
/ˈsɪvɪk/
adjectiverelating to the activities or duties of individuals concerning their town, city, or local area
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1. Civics minded?
2. This demonstrates her civic involvement.
3. I'm talking civics.
4. They're only civic.
5. Doncaster's civic leaders are realists.
humanitarian
/ˌhjuˌmænəˈtɛɹiən/, /ˌjuˌmænəˈtɛɹiən/
adjectiveinvolved in or related to helping people who are in need to improve their living conditions
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1. My passion for that was mostly through humanitarian spaces.
2. Humanitarian groups warned of a long-term disaster.
3. The abolition of slavery created a huge humanitarian crisis in the South.
4. To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind.
5. So, the humanitarian implications were obvious.
sexuality
/ˌsɛkʃuˈæɫəti/
nounthe qualities and activities that are related to sex
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1. Our next taboo topic is sexuality.
2. Female sexuality changed.
3. Foucault sees sexuality as the effect of power-knowledge, power as knowledge.
4. Sexuality is fluid.
5. Sexuality, got it.
feminist
/ˈfɛmənɪst/
adjectiveinvolved in or related to feminism
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1. Are feminists anti-men?
2. The feminists have an agenda.
3. Myth number six-- companies with female founders or CEOs are inherently feminist.
4. Feminist ethics always has an epistemological aspect to it.
5. Hate feminists.
feminine
/ˈfɛmənən/
adjectiverelated to women; possessing qualities or appearance considered to be typical of women
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1. Isn't mime feminine?
2. Attacks are feminine.
3. Villains are feminine.
4. Now the feminine can relax.
5. today's subject is divine feminine.
gender-neutral
/dʒˈɛndɚnˈuːtɹəl/
adjectivenot exclusive to any particular gender and suitable for people of all gender identities
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1. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were the gender-neutral pseudonyms adopted by Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe around 1917.
2. And apparently that constitution had gender-neutral language in it, and it referred to inhabitants voting, inhabitants who could meet a fifty-pound property requirement, so any inhabitant who had those fifty pounds could vote.
3. Sage Another gender-neutral name, Sage is also trending upward right about now.
4. One of the biggest trends is expected to be gender-neutral fashion.
5. In 2018 she launched her gender-neutral line of children's clothing, Celinununu.
masculine
/ˈmæskjəɫən/
adjectiverelated to men; possessing qualities or appearance considered to be typical of men
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1. El libro is masculine and singular.
2. It just sounds way more masculine.
3. No! Dulcinea's voice is masculine.
4. The divine masculine is God.
5. Still, the origin of the name retains its masculine roots.
LGBTQ
/ˌɛldʒˌiːbˈiːtˌiːkjˈuː/
adjectivelesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning
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1. I love our LGBTQ youth.
2. Today's program is LGBTQ and A.
3. 15% of the incoming class at Harvard Medical School this August identify as LGBTQ.
4. You have LGBTQ.
5. The government is also not supporting LGBTQ people.
bisexual
/ˌbaɪˈsɛkʃuəɫ/
nounsomeone who is sexually drawn to people of more than one gender
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1. -You're a bisexual, Lilly.
2. -You're a bisexual, Lilly.
3. 1.3% of Americans identify as bisexual.
4. I'd say bisexual?
5. So you bisexual.
heterosexual
/ˌhɛtɝoʊˈsɛkʃəwəɫ/
nounsomeone who is sexually drawn to people of the opposite sex, rather than their own sex
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1. So heterosexual women do not show sexual interest in Buck Angel.
2. They're heterosexuals.
3. And most people are heterosexual.
4. - Heterosexual, that's like-- - Straight.
5. - Heterosexual, that's like?
homosexual
/ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkˌʃəwəɫ/
nounsomeone who is sexually drawn to people of their own sex
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1. The homosexual deer are bravely protesting forest inequality.
2. At the time, homosexual men usually lead double lives.
3. A classic example for Freud is homosexual desires.
4. Homosexuals are often involved in paedophile excesses.
5. Homosexual acts are against Nature's laws.
gay
/ˈɡeɪ/
nounsomeone, especially a man, who is sexually drawn to people of their own sex
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1. By now, San Francisco was probably the gayest city in America, with one estimate claiming nearly a fifth of the voting age population was LGBT.
2. What is unequivocally the gayest war ever?
lesbian
/ˈɫɛzbiən/
nouna woman who is sexually drawn to other women
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1. Both women are proud lesbians.
2. Come on, lesbians.
3. Can lesbians fly?
4. - Little lesbians who write it!
5. Where are the lesbians?
straight
/ˈstɹeɪt/
nounsomeone who is sexually drawn to people of the opposite sex
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1. Keep your back straight
2. So keeping the arms straight.
3. Standing leg straight.
4. Keep my back straight.
5. Stretch the arm straight.
transgender
/ˈtɹænzˈdʒɛndɝ/
adjectivedescribing or relating to someone whose gender identity does not correspond with their birth sex
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1. Transgender, I mean.
2. His point was-- take transgender.
3. "That person is transgender."
4. - I'm transgender. -
5. I'm transgender.
demographic
/ˌdɛməˈɡɹæfɪk/
noun*** a particular sector of a population
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1. The demographics changed as well.
2. Demographic change then supplied a large home market for industry.
3. Social history can measure demographic change.
4. The first headwind is demographics.
5. Another pillar of the strategy, like Russia, is demographic.
ethnicity
/ɛθˈnɪsɪti/
nounthe state of belonging to a certain ethnic group
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1. What is my ethnicity?
2. What is Joseph Gordon-Levitt ethnicity?
3. - They said ethnicity! -
4. - The biggest thing is ethnicity.
5. Do people guess your ethnicity often?
to rebel
/ˈɹɛbəɫ/, /ɹɪˈbɛɫ/
verbto oppose a ruler or government
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1. Crush those rebels!
2. Just weeks later, the first American CIA training and arms reach Syrian rebels.
3. Also rebels is after the Clone Wars.
4. Rebels is after the Clone Wars.
5. My own flesh and blood to rebel!
to integrate
/ˈɪnəˌɡɹeɪt/, /ˈɪntəˌɡɹeɪt/
verbto become or make someone with certain differences become part of a social group
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1. Cues of success actually integrate more things.
2. - Integrate.
3. His teaching and scholarship integrate psychology, social cognition, economics, history and law.
4. The fire control integrates thermal capability with direct-view optics, laser rangefinder, compass, fuse setter, ballistic computer and an internal display.
5. Reuters now integrates African blogs into their coverage of Africa.
segregation
/ˌsɛɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
nounthe policy of separating a group of people from the rest based on racial, sexual, or religious grounds and discriminating against them
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1. And housing segregation tightened its grip on the American landscape.
2. Your 60s didn't have segregation.
3. On the other hand, segregation does at least ensure a strong possibility of representation.
4. I.E. segregation equals good neighborhood.
5. Segregation draws a line around not just your neighborhood, but your life.
sociological
/ˌsoʊsiəˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
adjectiverelated to the scientific study of society and how people interact with each other
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1. But the important part is the sociological story.
2. Is it sociological?
3. It has a sociological purpose and a societal purpose.
4. The question is far from disinterested sociological curiosity.
5. The sociological lesson is what?
multicultural
/ˌməɫtiˈkəɫtʃɝəɫ/
adjectiverelated to or involving several different cultures
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1. It’s multicultural.
2. My life is multicultural.
3. "Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man" the book is multicultural as well.
4. Multicultural people comprise 39% of the population but just 22% of broadcast leads.
5. Our suburbs are multicultural.
superior
/suˈpɪɹiɝ/
adjectivehigher in status or rank in comparison with someone or something else
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1. His efficiency greatly impressed his superiors.
2. My superiors liked me.
3. The superior raises the ear.
4. Omelets with cabbage are just so far superior.
5. - Feeling superior.
senior citizen
/sˈiːnjɚ sˈɪɾɪzən/
nounan old person, especially someone who is retired
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1. Or senior citizens who use libraries as social hubs for various activities.
2. In those days senior citizens held a place of honor.
3. It covers all healthcare needs for senior citizens.
4. Student loan debt is also crushing senior citizens.
5. A program for senior citizens that used the lawyers and social workers.
bourgeoisie
/ˌbʊɹʒˌwɑˈzi/
nounthe society's middle class
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1. That's like bourgeoisie.
2. That's like bourgeoisie.
3. The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.
4. The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
5. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.
petite bourgeoisie
/pətˈiːt bˌʊɹʒwɑːzˈiː/
nounthe society's lower middle class
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protocol
/ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɑɫ/, /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɔɫ/
nounthe accepted way of behavior in a community or group of people
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1. But these protocols make sense.
2. So the Vietnamese government has revised their protocols now.
3. Here's the protocol.
4. The protocol deals with the special position of Northern Ireland after Brexit.
5. I know protocol.
primitive
/ˈpɹɪmətɪv/, /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/
adjectiverelated or belonging to a society or way of life without modern industry, etc.
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1. Primitive humans don't do manners.
2. Human beings were pretty primitive back then.
3. Here in the Boyaca region, the method of coal mining is primitive.
4. They also have primitive areas.
5. The work as an apprentice was very primitive.
straight
/ˈstɹeɪt/
adjective(of a person) sexually attracted only to one's opposite sex
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1. Keep your back straight
2. So keeping the arms straight.
3. Standing leg straight.
4. Keep my back straight.
5. Stretch the arm straight.
hillbilly
/ˈhɪɫbɪɫi/
nounsomeone who lives far from cities or towns and is considered stupid and uneducated
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1. No thanks, we're not goddamn hillbillies.
2. Is there any hillbillies?
3. You hillbilly, enjoy the next NASCAR event.
4. Hey, I'm a Puerto Rican Hillbilly.
5. - There was no hillbilly girl.