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Artless

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1 lacking art, knowledge, or skill.2 made without skill.b free from artificiality.3 free from guile or craft.

Sentences:

1) Her simple artless charm won us over instantly.2) a genuine and artless girl

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Derivative

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describes something that borrows heavily from something else that came before it.

Sentence:

1) The economic meltdown of the last decade is due largely to the mismanagement of derivatives, which are deals based on the outcome of other deal.

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Equivocate

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be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

Synonyms: beat around the bush, prevaricate.

Sentences:

1) People hate to be wrong and hate to admit being wrong and will engage in cognitively dissonant actions to equivocate and justify past actions.

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Inconsequential

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lacking worth or importance.

Sentences:

1) His work seems trivial and inconsequential.

2) trying to win their votes is inconsequential: the election's over.

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Occlude

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To Obstruct or to block passage through.

Sentences:

1) Heart surgeons are looking for occlusions in blood vessels––things that occlude the flow of blood.

2) Unlike VR, which occludes a user’s vision to replace it with an enclosed environment, augmented reality imposes virtual objects onto the real world.

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Ascetic

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someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline.

practicing great self-denial.

Close synonyms: abstemious.

Root

Asketikos: monk or rigorously self disciplined.

self disciplined.

Sentences:

1) “"Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James”.

2)

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Desiccate

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Lacking vitality or life less.

Remove water from(maybe to preserve).

Synonyms: dry up, dehydrate.

Sentences:

1) a desiccate romance.

2) Without desiccation, raisins or beef jerky would not be possible.

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Erudite

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having or showing profound knowledge.

Er+rude= to bring out + rude.

Erudite- to teach to bring out from raw State.

Sentences:

1) an erudite professor.

2) He’s been an erudite fish-man and a whimsical hybrid of human, tree and goat.

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Incorporate

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make into a whole or make part of a whole

Sentences:

1) “She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal”.

2) incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case.

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Officious

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Annoyingly eager to do more than it is required.

word to describe someone that acts more official than they actually are.

They want to make their opinions known and followed, despite not having any kind of real power

Sentences:

1) bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself.

2) Yet his responses seemed officious and incongruous with Rice’s alarming testimony.

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Assiduous

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marked by care and persistent effort.

Synonyms: Careful

Sentences:

1) They were assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures.

2) The project required some assiduous planning.

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Desultory

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Marked by definite plan or purpose or regularity; Jumping from one to another.

desultor - man in a circus who jumps from one place to another.

Synonyms: Purposeless.

Sentences:

1) “desultory thoughts”.

2) “the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties”.

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esoteric

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confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.

synonyms: abstruse, recondite

Sentences:

1) a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories.

2) It’s more esoteric than his first essays, and largely aimed at software designers.

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indeterminate

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not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance

1) “of indeterminate age”

2) “a zillion is a large indeterminate number”

3) “an indeterminate point of law”

4) “the influence of environment is indeterminate"

5) “an indeterminate future”

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onerous

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not easily borne; wearing.

onus- burden.

Synonyms: Burdensome.

Sentences:

1) “my duties weren't onerous”.

2) The agencies allow employers to tap into a more flexible work force — and avoid some of the region’s more onerous labor costs.

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opprobrium

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a state of extreme dishonor. or harsh criticism.

Synonyms: infamy.

'opp'- opposite(remembering).

probus: disgraceful act.

Sentences:

1) the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city.

2) She never lived with her husband again, but remained legally married to avoid his wrath and societal opprobrium.

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Indegence

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A state of extreme poverty or destitution.

Sentences:

1) their indigence appalled him.

2) Exley's life of splendid indigence didn't change when his book met with wide acclaim.

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eulogy

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a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently.

synonyms: encomium.

Sentences:

1) Family members took their time to perfect their eulogies.

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deterrent

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serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit.

opposite of reward.

Sentences:

1) death penalty is supposed to be a deterrent.

2) detention is a deterrent that should encourage students to behave.

3) Not that the prices seem a deterrent to many people.

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assuage

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to lessen the intensity of

to put an end to by satisfying .

Synonyms: alleviate or mollify

Sentences:

1) Life contains sorrows that cannot be assuaged, and it is important to be honest in acknowledging this.

2) He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.

3) a mother cooing to her toddler and assuaging his fear of the dark

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Attenuate

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become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude.

Sentences:

1) Even an attenuated solution will remove the stain.

2) "This tanning process tends to attenuate the deer hide, making it softer."

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Diatribe

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a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing.

Synonyms: Harangue, Tirade.

Sentences:

1) The article is a diatribe against mainstream media.

2) a bitter diatribe about how unfair the tax system is

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Euphamisms

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an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh.Sentences:

Sentences:

1) like saying "neutralizing the target" instead of "killing someone."

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Indolent

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disinclined to work or exertion. Or slow to heal or develop.

In+dolent = not + suffer/give pain

Sentences:

1) an indolent hanger-on.

2) Mr. Guadagnino is very good at catching the indolent drift of long summer days, with their sleepiness and bared limbs.

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Oscillate

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be undecided about something./ move or swing from side to side regularly.

Synonyms: vacillate, vibrate.

Sentences:

1) He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement.

2) the needle on the meter was oscillating.

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Audacious

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Take risks; invulnerable to fear, unrestrained by convention.

Synonyms:brave, intrepid.

Sentences:

1) Now, for the details on that audacious idea.

2) audacious visions of the total conquest of space.3)an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas.

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Dichotomy

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being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses.

Synonyms: duality.

Examples: war and peace.

Sentences:

1) the dichotomy between eastern and western culture.

2) her outfit is a sartorial dichotomy: an elegant gown and ratty old tennis shoes.

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Exacerbate

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Make worse.

Antonyms: ameliorate.

Sentences:

1) Although many families believe child marriage provides a financial benefit, it often only exacerbates the situation.

2) And chronic underinvestment in health, education and the economy exacerbate the problems.

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Inert

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unable to move; having only a limited ability to react chemically.

The joke is arch and accurate, but like the rest of the piece’s commentary on race, it’s inert.

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Ostentatious

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attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration.

Synonyms: Pretentious.

Sentences:

1) an ostentatious display of knowledge.

2) These are easily identified by their ostentatious packaging and three-digit prices.

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Austere

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simple or plain; of a person : having a serious and unfriendly quality;having few pleasures.

Sentences:

1) The sisters aren’t new by any account to the austere world of classical music recordings.

2) He was known for his austere style of writing.3) They lived an austere life in the country.

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Diffidence

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Lacking self confidence or having self doubt.

Sentences:

1) But Ross’s own diffidence and her belief in collaboration also kept her work in the shadows.

2) But the government’s blatant bias during the campaign was at odds with this apparent diffidence.

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exculpate

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to clear from alleged fault or guilt.

ex + culpa = out+ blame.

Synonyms: absolve, acquit, vindicate, exonerate.

Sentences:

1) The president of the United States has made no comment on the deaths of four soldiers except to exculpate himself.

2) “It basically removed my chances of exculpating myself from everything she said about me,” he said.

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Pate

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liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.

the top of the head.

Sentences:

1) plopped a cap on his bald pate.

2) They taste like small parcels of buttery pate.

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Ingenuous

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showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness; lacking craft or subtlety.

Synonyms: naive, artless.

Sentences:

1) his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.

2) an ingenuous admission of responsibility.

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Paragon

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a model of excellence or perfection. The best.

Synonyms: Ideal, idol.

Sentences:

1) was a paragon of goodness.

2) a paragon of a wife.

3) Yet for many Republicans, Moore is a paragon of traditional values.

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autonomous

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existing or functioning independently(judiciary/political bodies).

auto + nomos = self + law.

Sentences:

1) the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies.

2) an autonomous judiciary.

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Diffuse

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not localized or is spread; It can mean lacking conciseness.

Sentences:

1) diffuse speech is scattered and unclear..

2) a diffuse report from the scene of the earthquake.

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exigency

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a pressing or urgent situation.

Synonyms: need,urgency

Sentences:

1) exceptionally quick in responding to the exigencies of modern warfare.

2) a leader must act in any sudden exigency.

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Inherent

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existing as an essential constituent or characteristic.

Sentences:

1) shortcomings inherent in our approach.

2) His vocals often recede so far in the mix that their inherent sweetness gets lost.

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Partisan

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a person who strongly supports something or someone.

usually referring to support of a political party. so if you're accused of being too partisan, it means you're mainly interested in boosting your own party and attacking the other one.

Sentences:

1) Why did that highly partisan article appear in your News Feed?

2) Fake news often goes viral precisely because of the strong engagement that it generates from partisans on both sides.

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aver

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To declare or confirm something as true.

Antonyms: gainsay.

Sentences:

1) Mr. Murray avers that many large organizations in the private sector are run by curmudgeons like him .

2) Organizing these components is the role of public institutions, Mulgan avers.

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Digression

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a message that departs from the main subject; a turning aside;

Sentences:

1) The professor's frequent and extended digressions are the stuff of campus

legend.

2) a digression into irrelevant details.

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Extrapolation

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an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations.

Sentences:

1) From Churchill, we learn to resist pessimistic extrapolation.

2) All of that is true, and extrapolating outward from this race to future races is therefore fraught.

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innocuous

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not injurious to physical or mental health; lacking intent or capacity to injure;

in+nocere= not+ harm (same like innocent)

Sentences:

1) those innocuous lies we must tell every day if society is to remain civil.

2) confined himself to innocuous generalities.

3) Newton is getting crucified for an innocuous comment..

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Pathological

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of or relating to pathology;

being such to a degree that is extreme, excessive, or markedly abnormal.

Sentences:

1) She has a pathological fear of heights. .

2) pathological changes in the body; (relating to a disease)

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Banal

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lacking originality, freshness, novelty

Sentences:

1) The writing was banal but the story was good.

2) Her life story reduced to a banal little brooch.

3) Most of what he wrote was banal: the price of tomatoes, a quarrel with his wife.

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Pungent

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Sharply painful; causing a sharp irritating sensation.

Sentences:

1) a play with pungent dialogue.

2) a pungent satire of current politics.

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Pragmatic

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concerned with practical matters.

Sentences:

1) Successful movements need pragmatic leadership, and that inevitably means allowing some people to broker compromises that move the community forward.

2) Some tutorials are winning combinations of the pragmatic and the esoteric.

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truculence

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aggressively self-assertive; eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

trux- fierce or wild

Sentences:

1) die-hard fans who became truculent and violent after their team's loss.

2) a theater critic who was notorious for his titanically truculent reviews.

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insensible

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incapable of physical sensation; barely able to be perceived.

Sentences:

1) an almost insensible change.

2) insensible to pain.

3)

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Dirge

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a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

Synonyms: Lament,elegy

Sentences:

1) So goes a 19th-century German dirge describing a family's last resting place.

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facetious

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Meant to be humourous or funny; joking inappropriately

Sentences:

1) The questions were facetious, but Burnett didn’t smile.

2) Bogart plays for teams with facetious names like the Kentucky Fighting Chickens and the Thundercats.

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Pausity

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an insufficient quantity or number

Sentences:

1) There is surely no paucity of people who harbor an irrational hatred for the media.

2) The paucity of data available to inform policymakers and the medical profession is shocking.

3) This is especially true of financial data, he says, because of their comparative paucity.

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Belie

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Be in contradiction with.

Sentences:

1) Mechtild fell to her knees with an agility that belied her age.

2) The presentation of a survey belies its complexity.

3) But the lack of electricity belied that success

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Facilitate

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Make easier.

1) you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge.

2) The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse.

3) I would like to thank Elon Musk for facilitating this endeavor.

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Insinuate

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introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner.

Sentences:

1) I insinuated that I did not like his wife.

2) He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table.

3) You mean you would want the USA to insinuate itself into the selection of the German Prime Minister?

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Pedantic

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marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.

Sentences:

1) Stone puts on a pedantic voice, mocking his friend: “For your information, I was a crocodile.

2) It is Mr Bale’s performance, however, that elevates the sometimes pedantic material into something more human.

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Beneficient

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doing or producing good

Sentences:

1) “the most beneficent regime in history”.

2) America is empowering a new era of robber baron who want us to believe they are beneficent philanthropists.

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Discerning

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having or revealing keen insight and good judgment.

Sentences:

1) A discerning critic.

2) a discerning reader.

3) As Ronaldo hinted, however, discerning who will emerge as the dominant force over the next decade is easier said than done.

4) a discerning reader of the NYT, I expect something more fair and balanced than this pat, simplistic answer.

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Fallacious

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containing or based on a fallacy.

Sentences:

1) In a classic right-wing strategy of fallacious argument ad hominem, the WPC released a press release on Oct.

2) The argument that material things divests minorities of moral grievance is a fallacious one.

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Inspid

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lacking interest or significance or impact.

Sentences:

1) an insipid personality.

2) Well, the "original" movie wasn't much good and, judging from the concept, this one promised to be even more insipid.

3) Oxford Dictionaries defines pablum as “bland or insipid intellectual fare.

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Penchant

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A strong liking.

Synonyms: preference.

Sentences:

1) Another politician with a penchant for basketball was quick to show her support for Watts’s speech.

2) He wondered, though, if they would, given Trump’s penchant for honoring loyalty.

3) Transparency advocates worry that the ruling is a troubling precedent given concerns about Greitens’ penchant for secrecy.

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Bolster

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support and strengthen.

Sentences:

1) bolster morale.

2) The lottery unveiled Quick Draw last year as way to bolster struggling revenues.

3) The company also said it would bolster capital spending to ramp up production

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Discordant

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not in agreement or harmony.

Synonyms: Dissonance.

Sentences:

1) Views discordant with present-day ideas.

2) The music grows more and more discordant in the early 2000s; by the 2030s, it’s so fast and distorted it’s anxiety inducing.

3) The music grows more and more discordant in the early 2000s; by the 2030s, it’s so fast and distorted it’s anxiety inducing.

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Fatuous

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Devoid of intelligence.

Synonyms: Silly, Fool;

Sentences:

1) Sometimes a leader says something so fatuous that when his acolytes hail his brilliance, they leave us breathless.

2) The claim that this fight is about some abstract idea of “history” and not hate is especially fatuous when you consider the history of this particular statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville.

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Insularity

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the state of being isolated or detached.

Remember Insulation.

Sentences:

1) Along with its fertile soil, Shakespeare’s garden of England was defined by its Edenic insularity, and by its impenetrability to intruders.

2) If economics are indeed what’s driving the retreat from insularity in Europe, that bodes well for the United States, too.

3) One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Trump administration centers on the insularity of its outlook

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Penury

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a state of extreme poverty or destitution.

Synonyms: indigence

Sentences:

1) But discontent among the rank-and-file, especially at their own economic penuries, is evident.

2) The beaten, humiliated Kaan lost the support of its vassals and was reduced to penury.

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Bombastic

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high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

Synonyms: pompous.

Sentences:

1) These allegations of dark motives seemed to her bombastic.

2) For all his successes, though, LePage is known for his bombastic leadership style.

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Discredit

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the state of being held in low esteem.

Synonyms: disgrace,disrepute

Sentences:

1) The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary.

2) The letter is the latest development in the Republican campaign to discredit the Russia investigation.

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Fawning

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attempting to win favor by flattery.

Synonyms: Obsequious, boot licking

Sentences:

1) A fawning television reporter told her she deserved the phone and Biney's eyes widened.

2) This is one reason why he is so fawning towards Putin and so eager to please anything Russian.

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Intractable

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difficult to manage or mold.

Synonyms: un malleable

Sentences:

1) "Some seemingly intractable problems," wrote inspectors in an otherwise fairly positive report in 2014.

2) “the most intractable issue of our era”

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Perennial

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describes things that are permanent, constant, or repeated.

Sentences:

1) perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements.

2) To vote or not to vote is a perennial question in Putin’s Russia.

3) Few simple questions are as difficult to answer as the perennial “What did the doctor say?”

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Boorish

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ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.

Synonyms: Rude, impolite.

Sentences:

1) was boorish and insensitive.

2) What others see as boorish or belligerent, Pfrogner, a journalism student, sees as refreshing.

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Discrepancy

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a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions.

Synonyms: disagreement.

Sentences:

1) He says many of the discrepancies involved the incorrect classification of items.

2) She believes this indicated the discrepancy between electoral and popular votes.

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Felicitous

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exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style.

Sentences:

1) a felicitous speaker

2) There's also the possibility of Notes-From-Undergroundium, but it's a little less felicitous to say

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Intransigence

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stubbornly refusing to compromise;

stubborn refusal to change your views.

Synonyms: obstinate.

Sentences:

1) Their intransigence is the sole reason a warning letter is poised for delivery to Coloradans.

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Perfidious

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Deceitful and untrustworthy!

Synonyms: treacherous!

Sentences:

1) It is especially perfidious that this man played on public fears by acting like a terrorist.

2) I’d thought my perfidious memory was the result of chemotherapy, or just of ageing.

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Burgeon

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Grow and Flourish

Sentences:

1) The burgeoning administration.

2) The burgeoning population.

3) The market in the burgeoning Amazon campus near downtown Seattle was the talk of the town.

4) One area of burgeoning research focuses on telomeres.

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Discrete

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constituting a separate entity or part.

Sentences:

1) a government with three discrete divisions.

2) Luo, L. & Flanagan, J. G. Development of continuous and discrete neural maps.

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Fervor

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Intensity and Passionate Feeling.

Synonyms: Ardour, zealot.

Sentences:

1) But President Trump and his allies saw an opportunity to whip up anti-immigrant fervor.

2) Slaves fought with equal fervor over their tiny parcels at their feet.

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Inundate

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fill or cover completely, usually with water.

Synonyms: Submerge

Sentences:

1) “Basically that whole region becomes inundated. . Morgan City is gone, pretty much.”

2) Soon she was inundated with misogynistic comments and her post was deleted by censors.

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Perfunctory

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Carried out with little interest, feeling and effort.

Synonyms: Casual;

Sentences:

1) he gave a perfunctory nod.

2) The coaches swapped perfunctory handshakes a few moments later.

3) Malloy says he received only a “perfunctory” answer on Thursday from the three officials and “nothing satisfactory.”

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Burnish

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Polish and make shiny.

Sentences:

1) It is an image burnished by one of the biggest advertising budgets in the world.

2) Hyperbole is not unexpected from a government keen to burnish its liberalising credentials.

3) Picking up a studio’s rejects might not be the best way to burnish Netflix’s brand.

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Disingenuous

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not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness.

Synonyms: artful

Antonyms: artless

1) “It would be disingenuous of me to say I did not miss it,” McCutchen said.2) “a disingenuous excuse”.

3) Two weeks ago, he accused colleagues of floating a “disingenuous” immigration compromise.

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Inured

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Accustomed to something; generally unpleasant.

Synonyms: Hardened.

Sentences:

1) They experience so much bad work that they get inured to it.

2) our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men.

3) Those longest inured to danger felt that it was an awful moment.

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Permeable

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allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through.

Sentences:

1) permeable membranes.

2) Amphibians, which breathe in part through their highly permeable skin, are vulnerable to these regular pollution dumps.

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Buttress

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Make stronger or defensible

Sentences:

1) Religions buttress that effort through ideologies and practices about individual sin and salvation.

2) buttress your thesis.

3) Several factors are converging to buttress home buying.

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Disinterested

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unaffected by self-interest; unbiased

Synonyms: Impartial.

Sentences:

1) We all want to talk to someone; just disinterested in listening or expending resources to care.

2) Also, as Trump's attorney, it would appear that Mr. Cohen was acting as Trump's agent, not a disinterested private citizen.

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Fledgling

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Young and inexperienced.

Synonyms: Neophyte.

Sentences:

1) a fledgling enterprise.

2) a fledgling skier.

3) It was a perfect serve - and a great pitch for the fledgling sport.

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Invective

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Harsh, abusive or venomous words.

Synonyms: Vituperative.

Sentences:

1) His “fake news” invective is now received as an article of faith by his base.

2) But mostly, the filmmaker took the opportunity to unleash a torrent of unfiltered invective about Moore.

3) True to style, Trump started talks by bellowing invective against the negotiating partners.

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Pervasive

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Spreading and spreading through out.

Synonyms:

Sentences:

1) The corruption is so pervasive.

2) The need to find meaning in random events is human and pervasive.

3) But you realise how pervasive the problem is.

4) “the pervasive odor of garlic”

5) “an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion”

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Cacophonous

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having an unpleasant sound.

Antonyms: harmonious.

Sentences:

1) This year, the traditionally cacophonous celebrations for China’s most important holiday are likely to be much more subdued.

2) But the cacophonous modern world is not good at the middle ground.

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Disjointed

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separated at the joint. lacking orderly continuity.

Sentences:

1) All of a sudden, it’s all a bit disjointed.

2) It will be a major surprise if City are as disjointed there.

3) The city is disjointed several days after Tuesday's earthquake left scores dead and thousands homeless.

4) The concert’s first half was disjointed, shifting styles and attitudes seemingly at random.

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flout

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treat with contemptuous disregard.

Synonyms: Scorn, Scoff.

Sentences:

1) She called for those flouting consumer rules to face sanctions.

2) They did not just break the law – some flouted it ostentatiously.

3) And that flouting of expectations is often as “off the charts” as are the children.

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Irascible

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quickly aroused to anger.

ira - anger.

Sentences:

1) Their fate now dangles before an irascible president and a gridlocked Congress.

2) He is irascible, funny, kind, down to earth.

3) You don’t want to be half an hour late for an appointment with someone as chronically irascible as John McEnroe.

4) an irascible response.

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Phlegmatic

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Showing Little Emotion.

Synonyms: stolid, impassive.

Sentences:

1) a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man.

2) If the emperor was phlegmatic, scores of others are more stimulating.

3) In this apparently calm and phlegmatic country, the wolf polarises opinion.

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Capricious

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Likely to change suddenly. Lacking firmness and steadiness. motivation by sudden whim; changeable.

Synonyms: Fickle.

Sentences:

1) a capricious weather.

2) authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious.

3) a capricious summer breeze

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Dismiss

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bar from attention or consideration. cease to consider;

Sentences:

1) This case is dismissed!

2) I was dismissed after I gave my report.

3) She dismissed his advances.

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Foment

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Stir up public opinion.

Synonyms: agitate.

Sentences:

1) He accused the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia of fomenting tensions in the Middle East.

2) Less obvious is the hand of Russia in fomenting right wing authoritarians.

3) Russia denies accusations it fomented the conflict and provided arms and fighters.

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Irresolute

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uncertain how to act or proceed.

Sentences:

1) the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute.

2) For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute.

3) We will be alarmed at successive deceptions – and irresolute.

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Peity

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righteousness by virtue of being pious.

Sentences:

1) Yet many of them hardly live with the piety they die for.

2) But her beauty often seems at odds with her piety.

3) Or, let us say, their loyalties lie beyond the pieties of clan.

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Castigation

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A verbal punishment.

Synonyms:

Sentences:

1) She called the castigation a denial of the very essence of historical discourse: making connections.

2) He only administered a rather mild castigation, as shall be seen.

3) It was more especially upon the backs of saints that this castigation took place.

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Disparage

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express a negative opinion of;

Dis+ par= not + same = less worth

Synonyms: belittle.

Sentences:

1) She disparaged her student's efforts.

2) Magic publically disparaging Deng, a class individual, is a shot below the belt.

3) It was so unusual that Cicero disparaged the festival as savage and uncivilised remnants of primitive times.

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Forestall

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Keep from happening or arising; Make Impossible.

Fore + stall = in advance + delay!

Sentences:

1) Congress should act now to forestall that completely avoidable, and inexcusable, outcome.

2) Such policies, while still advisable, might not do much to forestall future mass shootings.

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Itinerary

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an established line of travel; a guidebook for travelers;

Sentences:

1) Every day of our itinerary, we hit an archaeological treasure.

2) “But oddly, Israel does not appear on the itinerary,” Mr. Shapiro wrote.

3) I check my itinerary — right time, right place.

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Placate

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cause to be more favorably inclined;

To please;

Sentences:

1) Did worshipers sacrifice their lives bringing offerings to placate a mysterious deity who puffed gasses inside Monte Kronio?

2) It’s not just skeptical South Koreans whom Mr. Moon needs to placate.

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Catalyst

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something that causes an important event to happen

Sentences:

1) “the invasion acted as a catalyst to unite the country”

2) The survey didn’t reveal the catalyst for the changes.

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Disparate

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Fundamentally different or distinct in quality and kind.

Sentences:

1) such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing.

2) Among his clients were Fortune 500 companies in fields as disparate as aerospace and entertainment.

3) a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers.

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Frugality

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Prudence in avoiding waste.

Unwillingness to waste.

Sentences:

1) Publicly, at least, he made an art of making do, demonstrating a frugality that bordered on asceticism.

2) I applaud their frugality, but guys, maybe spring for separate rooms at the next tour stop.

3) “Back-to-school shopping remains driven, in large part, by frugality,” she says.

4) His well-known frugality also extends beyond his personal life.

5) That was taking frugality to the point of obsession, she says.

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Laconic

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brief and to the point; effectively cut short.

Using very less words.

Sentences:

1) the laconic reply.

2) It’s a laconic tale, and under Bill Largess’s direction the chats on the porch over tea and pie are unhurried.

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Plasticity

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the property of being physically changeability.

Synonyms: Malleable.

Remember plastic; all products are plastic.

Sentences:

1) In real life where there are no rules on competition, this is a great example of the plasticity of physiology.

2) If he is right, recovery from long-term symptoms may reflect the time it takes brain plasticity to compensate for lost cells.

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Dissemble

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Make believe with intent to deceive.

Synonyms: act, pretend, feign

Sentences:

1) Instead, the president is quick to try to shift responsibility, deny he ever did something in the first place or otherwise dissemble.

2) “I learned to dissemble without thinking,” he writes.

3) True, the company dissembled until United States regulators put it on the spot.

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Futile

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Producing no result or effect.

Synonyms: ineffective, unproductive.

Sentences:

1) Pouring water into a leaky bucket is futile.

2) “futile years after her artistic peak”

3) County leaders say it seems futile and cruel to rout the homeless.

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Lassitude

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a feeling of lack of interest or energy.

weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.

Synonyms: lethargy; like couch potato.

Sentences:

1) The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude.

2) How will I counteract the lassitude that creeps over my soul?

3) He was filled with lassitude and a sense of peace.

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Platitudes

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a trite or obvious remark.

Synonyms: banality,cliche.

Sentences:

1) “Thoughts and prayers” is a stock platitude that many resort to, as if its invocation is a suitable substitute for action.

2) Even better, it doesn’t pretend to offer easy answers or platitudes.

3) Trump sought to deflect her fears with platitudes.

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Plethora

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Plenty or excessive. Extremely excessive.

Sentences:

1) Its success is testament to the way a plethora of blue-chip songwriters for hire buffed up his songs.

2) Look carefully, and a plethora of details begin to emerge from the 1640 painting.

3) One result of the sharp increase in GM’s number of miles driven is a plethora of accidents.

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Propitiate

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Make peace with.

Synonyms: appease.

Sentences:

1) She was famously jealous and violent, and Hawaiians tried to propitiate her with offerings of pork, fish, liquor.

2) Was it just to tell the date or propitiate some mountain deity?

3) "So we decided to propitiate the monkey's soul to ensure nothing untoward happened in our village."

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Rescind

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Cancel officially.

Synonyms: annul

Sentences:

1) Trudeau’s office said the invitation was a mistake and was rescinded as soon as Atwal was discovered on the guest list.

2) That rule, Auxier said, was rescinded several years ago under his watch.

3) That memo was rescinded by Mr. Sessions on Jan. 4.

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Sporadic

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recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.

Synonyms: occasional, infrequent.

Sentences:

1) a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids.

2) The crisis erupted suddenly after years of tensions and sporadic violence between the communities.

3) “Because I’m a ballplayer,” Murray said of adjusting to sporadic minutes.

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Tractable

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Easily managed.

Synonyms: Compliant.

Sentences:

1) “tractable young minds”

2) "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler

3) Unlike most Middle East conflicts, Hellmann says, the challenges are tractable.

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Plummet

Back 122

Drop sharply

Sentences:

1) The stock market plummeted.

2) Mystery: Why homicides are plummeting in San Diego.

3) The result was that gun homicide rates and suicides plummeted.

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Propriety

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correct or appropriate behavior.

Sentences:

1) At the core of this nihilistic and largely empty style of politics is a rejection of the unwritten rules of political propriety.

2) “Savage” doesn’t care about convention, parameters or propriety.

3) I've always been very aware of modesty — not even modesty, but propriety, backstage.

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Resolution

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a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner.

he always wrote down his New Year's resolutions.

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Stigma

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a mark of shame or discredit

Synonym: brand for infamy

Sentences:

1) There's a social stigma attached to receiving welfare.2) the stigma of slavery remained long after it had been abolished

3) bore the stigma of cowardice

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Stint

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supply sparingly and with restricted quantities.

an individual's prescribed share of work.

Sentences:

1) her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her.

2) Her campaign involved hunger strikes and a three-week stint in jail.

3) Illinois wrapped up a stint of playing four games in eight days.

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Transgression

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the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

Sentences:1) “the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father”.

2) Alsop was allowed such a transgression because he was one of the nation’s most influential and widely read political columnists of the time

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Proscribe

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Forbid or command against.disallow

Sentences:

It’s time for Democrats to match them with their own brutal—but constitutionally proscribed—tactics.

2) The far-right organisation was added to a list of proscribed groups in 2016.