amber
/ˈæmbɝ/
adjectivehaving a yellowish-brown color
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1. Amber, what did you do to your face?
2. Hi, my name is Amber.
3. Amber who visited Costa Rica with her Spanish class?
4. The amber colored Iron Ranger and the light brown 6-inch classic moc-toe.
5. Our traffic lights are going amber.
emerald
/ˈɛmɝɹəɫd/, /ˈɛmɹəɫd/
adjectivehaving a bright green color
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1. All emeralds are grue!
2. Emerald, what could you possibly still not understand about this concept?
3. Emerald: "Of course you do."
4. But emeralds can be super pale.
5. Whats an emerald sword?
ruby
/ˈɹubi/
adjectivepurplish-red in color
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1. Ruby: Remember!
2. Ruby: Wait!
3. Ruby: "Just making a cake."
4. Ruby: "Ask your cake butler."
5. Ruby: Missed!
turquoise
/ˈtɝkwɔɪz/
adjectivegreenish-blue in color
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1. So turquoise was discovered some 6000 years ago.
2. Gold, turquoise, garnet are recurring things in the burials of the chieftains.
3. Again, turquoise is a mix between a brilliant blue and a brilliant green.
4. Hi, my name is Turquoise
5. - Turquoise, anything you learned?
beige
/ˈbeɪʒ/
adjectivehaving a pale brown color like sand
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1. So it's nicely beige.
2. So this word is beige.
3. It's very beige.
4. Mine is beige.
5. Polyphenols in red wine convert white fat into beige fat.
bronze
/ˈbɹɑnz/
adjectivedeep reddish-brown in color
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1. But it got bronze.
2. [ Laughter ] "I won bronze."
3. "I won bronze."
4. Bronze gelatin is a grade of gelatin.
5. With every breath, my bronze pounded chest.
burgundy
/ˈbɝɡəndi/
adjectivedeep red in color
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1. You see that in Burgundy, for instance.
2. So this is burgundy.
3. My socks are burgundy two-tone socks from Fort Belvedere.
4. One of my favorite go-to is actually a burgundy with a light gray checkered blazer.
5. Of course, burgundy red is an all-time classic.
chestnut
/ˈtʃɛsˌnət/, /ˈtʃɛstˌnət/
adjectivehaving a red-brown color
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1. Does yours water chestnuts in it?
2. Chestnuts offer plenty of protein, vitamin E and dietary fiber.
3. Place the chestnuts in a single layer in the shallow baking pan.
4. Chestnuts roasting on the burner ♪ -
5. Chestnuts roasting on the burner ♪ -
creamy
/ˈkɹimi/
adjectivehaving a color between yellow and white
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1. Egg yolks are extremely creamy.
2. These beans are creamy.
3. The sauce is creamy.
4. The sauce is so creamy.
5. So this one is creamier.
ebony
/ˈɛbəni/
adjectivehaving a dark black color
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1. We always use ebony, from Africa.
2. Ebony, put on your goggles, both of you.
3. - It's Ebony.
4. An ebony grove provides the perfect cover.
5. The final scene is ebony.
hazel
/ˈheɪzəɫ/
adjective(especially of the eyes) having a greenish-brown or gold color
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1. Hazel nut is dark brown?
2. Hazel nut is dark brown.
3. Hazel nut is dark brown.
4. Hazel the rabbit.
5. The main character in The Fault in Our Stars is named Hazel.
khaki
/ˈkæki/, /ˈkɑki/
adjectivehaving a dull yellowish-brown color
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1. My nicest clothes were cowboy boots and khaki pants.
2. - You had khakis in your closet?
3. - I will be wearing khakis.
4. So first of all, what's a khaki?
5. Wear baggy jeans or khakis.
olive
/ˈɑɫəv/, /ˈɑɫɪv/
adjectivegrayish-green in color
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1. I like olives.
2. I love olives.
3. - I got olives.
4. - I said olives.
5. Olives are one of my favorite foods.
scarlet
/ˈskɑɹɫət/
adjectivehaving a bright red color
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1. In the Spring, both of Eleanor’s brothers contracted scarlet fever.
2. - It's scarlet.
3. Migrants in scarlet are nesting.
4. So here's Scarlet.
5. I'm Scarlet. - Marco. - Spencer.
sea-green
/sˈiːɡɹˈiːn/
adjectivebluish-green in color
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1. The tilted roof was of sea-green porcelain, and the jutting eaves were festooned with little bells.
2. The tilted roof was of sea-green porcelain, and the jutting eaves were festooned with little bells.
sky-blue
/skˈaɪblˈuː/
adjectivelight blue color like that of a cloudless sky
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1. Then, he looked at the other side of the road and saw a sky-blue truck.
2. This driver went for awesome, sky-blue lines.
coal-black
/kˈoʊlblˈæk/
adjectivehaving a very dark black color
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1. But Georgiana had no sooner touched the flower than the whole plant suffered a blight, its leaves turning coal-black as if by the agency of fire.
snow-white
/snˈoʊwˈaɪt/
adjectivehaving a pure white color like the snow
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1. On the table there is snow-white cloth, and on this there are beautiful plates.
2. This gave the illusion of a snow-white face, but over time, it would eat away at people’s skin and caused scarring, headaches, nausea, muscle damage, baldness, and eventually early death.
3. A majestic snow-white cruise ship looks like a piece of art.
4. This results in the snow-white appearance that we imagine when we think about albinism.
5. However, once astronauts are in space, they swap orange for snow-white evening wear.
subtle
/ˈsətəɫ/
adjectivehard to notice or detect
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1. This one is subtle.
2. The D is very subtle.
3. Number four is much more subtle.
4. The differences are subtle.
5. The flavor profile is subtle.
transparent
/tɹænˈspɛɹənt/
adjectiveable to be seen through
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1. Pricing is not transparent.
2. But transparent cordierite displays a different color for each dimension.
3. The lower part of the atmosphere is generally transparent.
4. Now this hole here is transparent.
5. The eggs themselves are transparent, like tiny marbles.
vibrant
/ˈvaɪbɹənt/
adjective(of colors) bright and strong
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1. Your life feel more vibrant.
2. Our church is vibrant.
3. Even the fish were more vibrant.
4. This dessert is very vibrant.
5. Chinatown is vibrant.
dull
/ˈdəɫ/
adjective(of colors) not clear or shiny; lacking brightness
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1. So their minds are dulled.
2. - This knife is very dull.
3. The cabin is completely dull.
4. Most scientists are really rather dull.
5. My eyes are really dull actually.
contrast
/ˈkɑntɹæst/, /kənˈtɹæst/
noundifferences in color or in brightness and darkness that an artist uses in a painting or photograph to create a special effect
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1. This stands in stark contrast to the picture we get from Camus, who said that we are all the determiners of the value of our own lives.
2. Contrast these, the Franklin's Expedition.
3. Contrast refers to the difference between the lightest part of your image and the darkest part of your image.
4. Pain is contrast.
5. Life experience implies contrast.
arch
/ˈɑɹtʃ/
nounanything with a curved top and parallel sides
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1. Arch the back.
2. Arch that back.
3. Arch that back.
4. - Arch that back.
5. - Arch your back!
circular
/ˈsɝkjəɫɝ/
adjectiveformed or having a shape like a circle
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1. Their nucleus is pretty circular.
2. I can circular breathe.
3. I say circular motion.
4. But no physical object is perfectly circular.
5. They have rings, many moons, also circular orbits.
cone
/ˈkoʊn/
noun(geometry) a three dimensional shape with a circular base that rises to a single point
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1. Ladies and gentlemen, meet salad cone.
2. Here's a cone.
3. 'comb' turns to 'cone'.
4. Hit the cone.
5. So wing mirror on the passenger side, tap the cone just like that.
curl
/ˈkɝɫ/
nounsomething that resembles a spiral or coil
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1. Curl your eyelashes.
2. Curling the tailbone forward.
3. - Curling my hair for the concert.
4. Because girls have curls.
5. - Curls get the girls.
cylinder
/ˈsɪɫəndɝ/, /ˈsɪɫɪndɝ/
noun(geometry) a solid or hollow shape with two circular bases at each end and straight parallel sides
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1. Each cylinder has its own carburetor.
2. Bring in the cylinders.
3. What's cylinders?
4. So each cylinder has two spark plugs on it.
5. Vertically placed cylinders.
dimension
/dɪˈmɛnʃən/
nouna measure of the height, length, or width of an object in a certain direction
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1. Policy has so many dimensions, so many subsets, so many different nuances.
2. Dimensions matter.
3. Now death, death has three dimensions.
4. - I have dimensions.
5. I have dimensions.
right angle
/ɹˈaɪt ˈæŋɡəl/
noun(geometry) an angle of 90° or ¹/₂ π radians
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1. The first one says right angle in the middle.
2. - Find the right angle?
3. Find the right angle?
4. Right angles and straight lines have a brilliant history in American property law.
5. Make a right angle.
fragile
/ˈfɹædʒəɫ/
adjectiveeasily damaged or broken
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1. Democracy is fragile.
2. Your entity is fragile.
3. This thing is fragile.
4. Children with this disorder have abnormally fragile skin that peels or blisters at the slightest touch.
5. The link between the past and the future is fragile.
immense
/ˌɪˈmɛns/
adjectiveextremely great or large
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1. The force of the thing is immense.
2. The implications are immense.
3. The length of this terrace is absolutely immense.
4. The pressure on Junior was immense.
5. The strive for power among young individuals became immense.
intact
/ˌɪnˈtækt/
adjectiveundamaged and complete
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1. The sense is intact.
2. The brains were intact.
3. My feelings feel intact.
4. Our skin is intact.
5. The candles are intact.
invisible
/ˌɪnˈvɪzəbəɫ/
adjectivedescribing something that cannot be seen
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1. The face of the Earth was invisible.
2. The other voices are invisible.
3. Some omissions are invisible.
4. Cows are invisible.
5. People with disabilities are invisible.
linear
/ˈɫɪniɝ/
adjectiveinvolving lines or having the shape of a straight line
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1. Otoliths also sense linear motion.
2. And the dotted line is linear.
3. Furthermore, in commercial applications, a big chunk of them actually use linear models.
4. And our intuition is linear.
5. History is not linear.
spiral
/ˈspaɪɹəɫ/
noun(geometry) a curved shape or design that gradually winds around a center or axis
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1. Spirals take on wildly different appearances depending on their angle to us.
2. From that point, things spiraled downward fairly steadily.
3. The league spiraled into a panic.
4. Large paddle blades spiral vigorously.
5. Even so, the number of vacant properties in the West End has spiralled.
minute
/ˈmɪnət/, /maɪˈnut/, /maɪnˈjut/
adjectivevery small
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1. Oh, wait a minute.
2. It can fill up 270 pints a minute.
3. Wait a minute.
4. But for these experienced Buddhist monks, the gamma waves lasted minutes!
5. But for these experienced Buddhist monks, the gamma waves lasted minutes!
rear
/ˈɹɪɹ/
adjectivesituated or near the back of something
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1. That camera hump rears its ugly head as well.
2. Competition, again, is rearing its head.
3. Hyenas rear their cubs in underground dens.
4. And now, the ugly specter of trigonometry rears its head.
5. Rear the intersection.
