altitude
/ˈæɫtəˌtud/
noun
the distance between an object or point and sea level
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1Neither of these technologies addresses altitude.
2[Air Traffic Control] South Air 227, say altitude.
3Next, we have altitude.
4You get altitude sickness.
5Well, the altitude exacerbated my symptoms.
latitude
/ˈɫætəˌtud/
noun
the distance of a point north or south of the equator that is measured in degrees
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1Latitude is distance north or south of Earth’s equator.
2Globally, net primary production on land generally changes with latitude.
3And southern latitudes will have more daylight than nighttime.
4We give ourselves latitude.
5High latitudes are generally high productivity.
longitude
/ˈɫɑndʒəˌtud/
noun
the distance of a point east or west of the meridian at Greenwich that is measured in degrees
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1Longitude is distance east or west of the Greenwich Meridian, an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and through Greenwich, England.
2Precise longitude measurements require precise clocks.
3They follow the lines of longitude.
4They follow the lines of longitude.
5But on this axis is longitude.
bay
/ˈbeɪ/
noun
an area of land that is curved and partly encloses a part of the sea
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1Red powder, red powder adds the bay to the biscuit.
2Bay leaves.
3- Ambulance bay needs hands.
4- I want bay.
5Bay leaves, some sugar, cranberry juice, pectin.
branch
/ˈbɹæntʃ/
noun
a smaller part of a river that is separated from the main and larger part
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1When the multiverse branched.
2And those networks are typically branching hierarchical networks.
3- Take out the branch!
4Dodging branches.
5The collective weight of thousands of birds bends branches almost to breaking point.
clearing
/ˈkɫɪɹɪŋ/
noun
a treeless area in a forest
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1Having trouble breaching rooms and clearing goons?
2Additionally, each clearing has a suit.
3Jeeves leaves the clearing.
4Security laws contemplate clearing.
5A clearing teeming with antelope.
cove
/ˈkoʊv/
noun
a small curved area of land that partly encloses a specific part of the sea
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1Cove could definitely chat with you.
2Cove is too cool, probably because of the name.
3Cove swiped an object while at school.
4Cove, what do you need Cove?
5Love, cove, move.
crater
/ˈkɹeɪtɝ/
noun
the round top of a volcano
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1Our mighty explosion just leaves another crater.
2The moon has craters!
3That creates a crater.
4And the markets crater.
5Crater that landed in.
deposit
/dəˈpɑzɪt/, /dɪˈpɑzət/
noun
a layer of matter that has been accumulated, particularly by a body of water
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1The coal deposits of Britain match deposits in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America.
2These beetle deposit their eggs in candlenut trees.
3MUHAMMAD YUNUS: Take deposits.
4- Deposit your bibs.
5- Deposited the majority of his intelligence.
dock
/ˈdɑk/
noun
a structure built out into the water so that people can get on and off boats or ships
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1The shuttle docked forward.
2Just docking a couple of points.
3The docks gets another knife.
4Docking a spacecraft, "Interstellar."
5So I docked some marks.
estuary
/ˈɛstʃuˌɛɹi/
noun
the part of a river that is wide and where it meets the sea
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1From Rio De Janairo, the fleet travelled south to the Rio de la Platta estuary.
2and so you have an estuary all along the coast.
3This is the Severn estuary, home to the second biggest tide in the world.
4Examples of such marshes are the Camargue at the estuary of the Rhone River in Southern France, the Mississippi delta and The Wash of Eastern England.
5A third example is the estuary circulation.
flow
/ˈfɫoʊ/
noun
the state of moving constantly and steadily
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1Flow has this massive neurochemical dump.
2Flows roundward then onward.
3Fluid flows everywhere.
4So lead flow.
5Between them, these new revenue flows dwarf aid.
gulf
/ˈɡəɫf/
noun
an area of sea that is partly surrounded by land, with a narrow opening
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1Just ask the Gulf corvina fish.
2The speed of this transformation highlighted the gulf between the two sets of people.
3We keep Gulf fritillary butterflies here.
4That's the Gulf
5Longtail stingrays also scour the gulf floor in search of mollusks and crustaceans.
horizon
/hɝˈaɪzən/
noun
the line where the sky and earth seem to come in contact with each other
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1So researchers like Sadoway are exploring new horizons.
2Bring me that horizon!
3[ Sighs ] -Broaden your horizons.
4Never broaden your horizons.
5It expand my horizon.
iceberg
/ˈaɪsbɝɡ/
noun
a very large floating piece of ice
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1Icebergs are from glacial ice.
2I really like iceberg.
3We're using iceberg here, maximum crunch factor.
4Icebergs on the other hand are compacted snow, an entirely different origin than sea ice.
5But these tidewater glaciers do produce icebergs.
peak
/ˈpik/
noun
the pointed top of a mountain; a mountain that has a pointed top
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1Snow dusted peaks.
2Smartphones peaked then.
3The HIV epidemic peaked.
4North Sea oil and gas production peaked years ago.
5My career basically peaked here.
peninsula
/pəˈnɪnsəɫə/
noun
a large body of land that is partially surrounded by water but is attached to a larger area of land
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1The shower's three by 42, and the kitchen comes with a peninsula.
2It's got a peninsula.
3Also, the southernmost tip of the Tombali region splits a peninsula with Guinea.
4But now the peninsula is the site of one of Russia’s largest economic projects.
5The abundance of krill attracts other visitors to the peninsula in the summer.
plain
/ˈpɫeɪn/
noun
a vast area of flat land
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1The next fact is just plain crazy.
2Speak out plain.
3Drink plain, unsweetened green tea.
4This one is plain.
5Life is plain.
plateau
/pɫæˈtoʊ/
noun
an area of land that is flat and higher than the land surrounding it
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1It hits its plateau.
2Oftentimes, those people kind of hit their plateau.
3Pretty soon, though, most lifters hit a plateau.
4All right, our next word is plateau.
5A plateau is something physical and metaphorical.
pole
/ˈpoʊɫ/
noun
the most northern or most southern points of the earth that are joined by its axis of rotation
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1The ruling brought Poles back into the streets, and in much bigger numbers than in 2016.
2Poles are great.
3Poles already had a basis for nationalism.
4Number five, create tent poles for your daily structure.
5Poles get stuck to our tongues.
pond
/ˈpɑnd/
noun
an area containing still water that is comparatively smaller than a lake, particularly one that is made artificially
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1A young person was standing on the other side of the pond.
2At low tide the water is like a mill pond, placid and peaceful.
3Which pond is the adverb?
4Which pond is the adverb?
5The pond is about 40 percent salt by weight.
range
/ˈɹeɪndʒ/
noun
a line of mountains or hills
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1Worldwide, Solenopsis ranges as far south as the southern tips of South America, Africa, and Australia.
2After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
3- Range two challenge two.
4Range must also obey line of sight rules.
5But reliable estimates range between 60 billion and 200 billion dollars per year.
ravine
/ɹəˈvin/
noun
a deep narrow valley with steep sides, usually worn by a stream
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1- She lost her dog in a ravine.
2Michael's found a pretty sweet ravine.
3You guys find my ravine.
4- What does ravine?
5A truck went off the road into the ravine.
reservoir
/ˈɹɛzəvˌwɑɹ/, /ˈɹɛzɝvˌwɑɹ/
noun
a lake, either natural or artificial, from which water is supplied to houses
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1In reservoirs, however, the species has likely evolved a resistance to the virus over many generations.
2Just fill up your reservoir with water.
3Reservoirs never change the temperature.
4The reservoir is much larger.
5Reservoirs carved from the earth of the Allegheny Mountains.
summit
/ˈsəmət/, /ˈsəmɪt/
noun
the top of a mountain
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1Reach your summit, Mountain.
2Mount Everest’s summit is higher than any other mountain in the world.
3The summit, honestly, is pretty anti-climactic.
4The summit features team Sherzai as well as 24 different experts in the fields of lifestyle, medicine and conscious living.
5The summit features Dr. Funk as well as 24 different experts in the fields of lifestyle medicine and conscious living.
swamp
/ˈswɑmp/, /ˈswɔmp/
noun
an area of land that is covered with water or is always very wet
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1The light from big cities would totally swamp its sensors.
2Drain the swamp!
3Drain the swamp!
4U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.
5- No. - Drain the swamp.
tundra
/ˈtəndɹə/
noun
the expansive flat Arctic regions, of North America, Asia, and Europe, in which no trees grow and the soil is always frozen
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1Other biomes include tropical rainforest, tundra, deserts, and oceans.
2In the tundra, summer temperatures rarely exceed 10°C.
3The tundra biome lies north of the boreal forest, the taiga.
4This is the tundra.
5Then you've got tundra.
to erode
/ˈiɹoʊd/, /ɪˈɹoʊd/
verb
to gradually lose surface as a result of being constantly in contact with the wind, water, etc.; to destroy surface in this way
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1The Frank persons trust in their basic purity erodes the rationale for editing or self-censorship.
2Marriages erode one text at a time.
3Today's word is erode.
4Emerging evidence is eroding the stereotype . . .
5Any lack of integrity, erodes the self concept.
arid
/ˈæɹəd/, /ˈɛɹəd/
adjective
(of land or a climate) very dry because of not having enough or any rain
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1A huge percentage of the nation's fruits and vegetables, nuts, and beef come of this increasingly arid West.
2On the other hand, we have an arid landscape.
3Practically the entire long coastline of Peru is extremely arid desert, second only to the Atacama of Chile, the driest of all deserts.
4The planet is barren and arid.
5Anyway, this part of South Australian outback is incredibly arid and barren.
barren
/ˈbæɹən/, /ˈbɛɹən/
adjective
(of land or soil) not capable of producing any plants
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1Soon after, the barren planet crosses Mercury's orbit.
2Sarai's barren state really casts a shadow over the promise from the very beginning of the story of Abraham and Sarah.
3The planet is barren and arid.
4I'm barren.
5I was barren.
coastal
/ˈkoʊstəɫ/
adjective
situated on or near a coast
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1Coastal economies often rely on fishing and tourism.
2The coastal trade grew enormously.
3Totally beach, totally coastal.
4Eastern coastal combined with an urban loft.
5Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities.
fertile
/ˈfɝtəɫ/, /fɝˈtaɪɫ/
adjective
(of land or soil) able to produce crops or plants well
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1This guy's fertile.
2The earth is fertile.
3The soil is beautifully fertile here.
4So the land is fertile.
5Such transforming and transcendent interpretations are often fertile.
inland
/ˈɪnˌɫænd/
adjective
located away from the coast
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1These squadrons fought inland with the marines of the second division.
2Further inland, the French Empire claimed a vast swath of territory from Labrador to Louisiana.
3The rest were stationed inland as a reserve.
4Inland winds pack speeds of 250 kilometers an hour.
5Inland flooding as well, and we saw that in Irene.
offshore
/ˈɔfˈʃɔɹ/
adjective
located in the sea, not far from the coast
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1Outside the breeding season, sardines find safety offshore.
2Her partner is currently working offshore, as always in two-week long stints.
3And so, the best chance for a really big fish is offshore?
4Only a tiny fraction can make its way offshore.
5We have guys offshore in the oil platforms.
marine
/mɝˈin/
adjective
related to the sea and the different life forms that exist there
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1These days, marine generalists include many species of sharks and dolphins.
2Marines have already used the headsets for training simulations.
3- That white hat gave you Marine training.
4Marines fire a total of fifty rounds at targets at 200, 300, and 500 meters away from the standing, kneeling, sitting, and prone positions.
5Marines must read history, some biographies, and lots about war.
neighboring
/ˈneɪbɝɪŋ/
adjective
(of a place) close to another
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1Neighboring atoms just get too crowded with too much diaxial strain in the axial position.
2In Texas for example, two neighboring counties have different budgets for their voting systems.
3Massive streams of refugees are overwhelming neighboring countries.
4The neighboring building supplies the skinny little abode with electricity.
5Middle of February, peaceful SCLC rally in a neighboring, neighboring area was attacked by the police.
upstream
/ˈəpˈstɹim/
adverb
against the current of a river or stream
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1The shellfish have declined as water is drained off upstream for human use.
2Rain can create dirty runoff and eutrophication and dead animals upstream can affect the water.
3Low head dams almost always have subcritical flow upstream.
4And heavy rainfall hundreds of kilometres upstream provided an ominous sign that this river could soon burst its banks.
5You really are swimming upstream.

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