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<IIII> - the magazine that debunks claims of the paranormal
- comedy takes delight in debunking heroes |
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the church should not be exposed to gossip and contumely |
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- now that you've heard the accusations, have you a rebuttal? |
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!!!!!!- Lisa was rankled by his assertion
- the casual manner of his dismissal still rankles |
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- <IIII>a man of facile and shallow intellect
- he achieved a facile victory
- he was revealed to be a facile liar |
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- I had demeaned the profession
- no man demeaned himself so honorably |
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- her legendary volubility deserted her |
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- the decision was made to scrap the entire fleet - the station scrapped plans to televise the contest live
informal: - the older boys started scrapping with me - the talk-show producers are scrapping for similar audiences |
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- he for a time vacillated between teaching and journalism |
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- religious strictures on everyday life
- his strictures on their lack of civic virtue
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!!!!!!- dire consequences
- dire warnings about breathing the fumes |
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- <IIII>wood has a tendency to warp
- your judgment has been warped by your obvious dislike of him
( worp ) |
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- he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions |
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!!!!!!- a contentious issue
- the socioeconomic plan had been the subject of contentious debate
- a contentious amateur politician who has offended minority groups |
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!!!!!!- she had to contend with his uncertain temper
- "the local team should contend for a division championship
- he contends that the judge was wrong |
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- after much deliberation, we arrived at a compromise
- he replaced the glass on the table with deliberation |
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- an act of sheer folly
- the follies of youth
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<IIII>!!!!!!- tangential thoughts
- the reforms were tangential to efforts to maintain a basic standard of life |
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- dispensing his money with such largesse
- the distribution of largesse to the local population |
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<IIII>-- I had a spur of paronomasia to create this video of humorous play. |
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- fortified with ditches and bastions
- the last bastion of male privilege |
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- the nexus between industry and political power
- the nexus of all this activity was the disco |
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<IIII>!!!!!!- he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion - they have been embarrassed by indiscreet friends
- we made some discreet inquiries - speech sounds are produced as a continuous sound signal rather than discrete units - indiscrete ?? |
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- the clarity and permanence of the dyes |
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- she proclaimed that what I had said was untrue
- the decor proclaimed a family history of taste and tradition |
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<IIII>- the project is bankrolled by wealthy expatriates |
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- scouts reported the enemy's position - a scout for a major-league team
- I returned from a lengthy scout around the area
- American companies are keen to scout out business opportunities |
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- an identical sum was bequeathed by Margaret
- he is ditching the unpopular policies bequeathed to him |
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- the stream was spanned by a narrow bridge
- their interests span almost all the conventional disciplines
- her waist was slender enough for him to span with his hands |
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- a legacy from a great aunt
- the legacy of centuries of neglect
- The clearest evidence of this bottleneck is also its main legacy: humankind’s remarkable genetic uniformity. |
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- objectives should be clearly set out so as not to duplicate work and inflate costs
- numbers have been grossly inflated by the local press |
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!!!!!!- the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants
- the decade spawned a bewildering variety of books on the forces |
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- it is not difficult to see why Edward is enamored of her |
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- the eclipses portend some major events |
- presage |
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-<IIII> The subject was anything but frivolous |
flippant, skittish |
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- in the locker room the players donned their football jerseys |
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- flowers aswirl with bees |
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- What is clear is that something made over our species |
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<IIII>!!!!!!- a fervent disciple of tax reform |
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- it was an innocuous question |
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<IIII>- a tentative conclusion
- he eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room |
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- these children have been inured to violence
- a release given to one of two joint contractors inures to the benefit of both |
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- he found his boss's utterances too cryptic |
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<IIII>- the huge increases in unemployment were the corollary of expenditure cuts
another meaning? |
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<IIII>- a family in which alcohol consumption is discountenanced/countenanced
- Amanda was not discountenanced by the accusation |
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- a man with long, disheveled hair |
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- the figures are better, but there are no grounds for complacency |
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- I say this with some diffidence |
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<IIII>- the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic
- his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details |
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- she would sorely miss his company
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- sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down
- the economy is mired in its longest recession since World War II |
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- a culture of dogmatism and fanaticism
- fanatical revolutionaries
- he was fanatical about security at night |
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<IIII>- it was his air of knowing all the answers that riled her |
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- incontrovertible proof |
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- she answered with a faint air of boredom
- a meeting in which long-standing grievances were aired
- the window sashes were lifted regularly to air the room |
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- you exhibit remarkable modesty and decorum
- he had no idea of funeral decorum |
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<IIII>- the relentless heat of the desert
- a patient but relentless taskmaster |
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- he had long held a morbid fascination with the horrors of contemporary warfare
- he treatment of morbid obesity |
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- the event was recorded by a contemporary historian - - the tension and complexities of our contemporary society
- he was a contemporary of Darwin |
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- Secret intelligence agency of America (C.I.A) has stopped espionage in Pakistan by using polio teams |
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- so many irredeemable mistakes have been made |
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- they huddled together for warmth
- the watchman remained, huddled under his canvas shelter
- selection committee members huddled with attorneys |
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<IIII>- they concoct relish from corn that is so naturally sweet no extra sugar is needed
- they concocted a preposterous but entertaining story |
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<IIII>- she was at pains to correct unthinking prejudices |
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- I just said that to Charlie to needle him |
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- the dog whined and scratched at the back door
- the waitress whined about the increased work |
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<IIII>- he was moody and petulant |
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- Margulis liked to tell me, pandas and polar bears were biological epiphenomena |
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- feeling like someone whining to Copernicus about why he couldn’t move the earth a little closer to the center of the universe. |
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<IIII>- these objectives have to be promulgated within the organization
- in January 1852, the new constitution was promulgated |
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- I have rafted along the Rio Grande
- the stores were rafted ashore
- great rafts of cormorants, often 5,000 strong |
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- Great rafts of pumice filled the sea and drifted almost to Antarctica. |
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- behaviorally modern people charged so fast into the tephra that human footprints appeared in Australia within as few as 10,000 years |
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- Stay-at-home Homo sapiens 1.0, a wallflower that would never have interested Lynn Margulis, |
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<IIII>- the pullulating family
- the supertowers of our pullulating megalopolis
(paul lu late) |
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<IIII>- a swarm of journalists
- protesters were swarming into the building
- the place was swarming with police
- the bees had swarmed and left the hive |
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- the vessel has been ballasted to give the necessary floating stability
- the film is an entertaining comedy with some serious ideas thrown in for ballast
- Solenopsis invicta was transported to the United States, probably in ship ballast, which often consists of haphazardly loaded soil and gravel. |
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- the Confederate incursion into Mexico |
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- the company has monopolized the market
- he monopolized the conversation
- the bigger teams monopolize the most profitable sponsorships and TV deals
- Sophie monopolized the guest of honor for most of the evening |
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- the rapacity of landowners seeking greater profit from their property |
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- I pruned the roses - prune back the branches
- success achieved by working harder or pruning costs - Elliot deliberately pruned away details |
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<IIII>- an emerald and gold cross was salvaged from the wreck
- it was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal |
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- a ragged child
- the ragged discipline of the players |
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- Rescue comes at last in the form of a shipful of ragged mutineers, who plan to maroon their captain on the supposedly empty island.
- a novel about schoolboys marooned on a desert island |
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<IIII>- the gaggle of reporters and photographers that dogged his every step
- flock of goose :P |
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- they booed and hissed when he stepped on stage
- Boo!” she cried, jumping up to frighten him |
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- this is a blatantly implausible claim
- a plausible explanation
- a plausible liar |
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- I was staggered to find it was six o'clock - meetings are staggered throughout the day - stagger the screws at each joint - he staggered to his feet, swaying a little - the council staggered from one crisis to the next |
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- - (!!!!)she made a precarious living by writing
- a precarious ladder |
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- he thundered against the evils of the age |
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- suffrage for women is not yet a universal condition
- But one of the most important was the power of ideas—the voices, actions, and examples of suffragists, who through decades of ridicule and harassment pressed their case. |
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- Rose did not press the point - when I pressed him for precise figures, he evaded the subject - he pressed dinner invitations on her - I'm very pressed for time - they may be hard pressed to keep their promise - among the press of cars he saw a taxi |
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- she was overcome with horror at the ghastly spectacle
- we had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses
- he always felt ghastly first thing in the morning - a ghastly pallor |
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- the stigmatizing catch-all term “schizophrenia
- early modern Europe’s wars were so fast and furious that historians simply gather them into catchall titles |
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<IIII>- (!!!!)the institution was stigmatized as a last resort for the destitute - People should not be stigmatized on the basis of race. - the stigma of mental disorder - the stigma of bankruptcy |
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-(!!!!) the charity cares for destitute children
- towns destitute of commerce |
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- St. George slew the dragon
- a man was slain with a shotgun
- you slay me, you really do |
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- tonight, an unheralded young playwright has become a lion - they considered the first primroses as the herald of spring - the speech heralded a change in policy - the band has been heralded as the industrial supergroup of the '90s - shouts heralded their approach |
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<IIII>- a propensity for violence
- his propensity for giving long speeches |
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- she was stalling for time
- stall him until I've had time to take a look
- her car stalled at the crossroads |
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- fish cooked à la meunière
- afternoon talk shows à la Oprah
(aaaaa la) |
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- sate your appetite at the resort's restaurant |
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- she spoke slowly and without inflection
- inflection point?? |
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<IIII>- he would never forswear the religion of his people
- I swore that I would lead us safely home and I do not mean to be forsworn |
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- the government took the unprecedented step of releasing confidential correspondence - there are substantial precedents for using interactive media in training - the decision set a precedent for others to be sent to trial in the US - a precedent case
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- well done, one and all! |
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- the government has drawn back from attempting reform |
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<IIII>- a rope led down into the dark abyss
- the abyss between the two nations
- teetering on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout |
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- he had a voracious appetite
- his voracious reading of literature |
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-(!!!!) Isabella offered to renounce her son's claim to the French crown
- the Assembly denounced the use of violence
- some of his own priests denounced him to the King for heresy
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- (!!!!) Huss was burned for heresy
- cutting capital gains taxes is heresy
(haere see) |
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- he relinquished his managerial role to become chief executive |
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- I am too much of a gentleman to divulge her age
(di vulge) |
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- she would earn a paltry $33 more each month
- naval glory struck him as paltry
(pol tree) |
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- the station gradually fell into disrepair |
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- - (!!!) every year valuable gardens start the slow slide to dereliction
- What you did was a grave dereliction of duty. -a grave situation - The old railway station was in a state of dereliction. |
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- a tale of wickedness and depravity |
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- he paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way
- a bleak midwinter's day
- he looked around the bleak little room in despair" - a bleak and barren moor |
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- a last-minute reprieve - a mother who faced eviction has been given a reprieve - the threatened pits could be reprieved - the project has been reprieved - under the new regime, prisoners under sentence of death were reprieved |
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<IIII>- those on the cusp of adulthood |
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- the script was both deft and literate |
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- orchestral playing of great finesse
- his third shot, which he attempted to finesse, failed by a fraction
- a clever finesse |
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<IIII>- a poignant reminder of the passing of time
- they read aloud the poignant letters written by the victims' children |
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<IIII>- powerfully evocative lyrics |
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- he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter
- she lamented the lack of shops in the town |
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- - he poignantly describes the self-absorption of love as:
(poi neee unt) |
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- critics derided the proposals as clumsy attempts to find a solution |
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- there is a dearth of evidence
(dur-r--r-r-thhh) |
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- a capricious and often brutal administration |
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- his reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time
(un pro peeshious) |
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<IIII>- (!!!) they fight and squabble like fractious children
- the fractious coalition of Social Democrats
- the boys were squabbling over a ball |
asd uncontrollable |
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- the halcyon days of the mid-1980s, when profits were soaring
(hell see yun) |
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- - (!!!) the seemingly inexorable march of new technology
- the doctors were inexorable, and there was nothing to be done |
irrevocable inevitable implacable |
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- a mawkish poem
(mo kish) |
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- his responses were remarkably candid
- candid shots |
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- Umair told his story of Fulbright interview with bravado, that was really appreciated by the listeners.
(bruh vaaado) |
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- by glorifying the acts of violence they achieve the paradoxical effect of making them trivial |
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- (!!!) he was an implacable enemy of Ted's
- the implacable advance of the enemy
(im plaque able) |
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- she's an incorrigible flirt
(in corridge able) |
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- his days of truculent defiance were over
- The protesters blocking the entrance to the offices remained defiant this morning.
- The CEO was in a defiant mood as she entered the board room. |
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- the mellifluous sound of the cello
(meleee fluu ous) |
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- The accident was the inevitable consequence/result/outcome of carelessness.
- Eventually the inevitable happened and he had a heart attack.
(in evee table) |
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- Closing the factory would irrevocably alter the character of the local community for the worse.
(ir revaac ably) |
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- She's so fickle - she's never been interested in the same man for more than a week!
- Fickle winds made sailing conditions difficult. |
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- the ineluctable facts of history
- his ineluctable fate |
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- her room was stark and bereft of color
- his death in 1990 left her bereft
- Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope. |
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- the ridge formed a stark silhouette against the sky - his position on civil rights is in stark contrast to that of his liberal opponent
- It was a stark room with a bed and chair as the only furniture. |
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- He was trying to drum up some enthusiasm for the project.
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- a nifty piece of work/footwork - a nifty little gadget |
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- the wine was decanted about 40 minutes before being served |
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- his report gives a distorted view of the meeting
- a grimace distorted her fine mouth |
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- Schoenberg saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic schoo |
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- a huge wave swamped the canoes (ken ooooh)
- feelings of guilt suddenly swamped her |
inundate deluge |
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-(!!!!) Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage |
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- he slams the door behind him as he leaves - the car mounted the sidewalk, slamming into a lamppost - his efforts to slam the president destroyed his own campaign - a stellar 12 months saw her win two slams and two Olympic gold medals, and retain the number one ranking" |
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- a stellar cast had been assembled
- his restaurant has received stellar ratings in the guides
- an estimate of stellar ages |
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- a stock market apocalypse |
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- the fabric stays taut without adhesive
- a taut text of only a hundred and twenty pages |
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- attacking players can scythe through defenses
(saieeeth) |
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- (!!!!)department officials scoffed at the allegations
- she scoffed down several chops |
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- She had a high temperature and was delirious.
- The team arrived home to a delirious reception from its fans. |
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- she began to lug her suitcase down the stairs |
sadasd |
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- this talisman has been in our family for more than twelve generations
(talis men) |
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- I rode tandem to Paris
- my father is in tandem with him |
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- his erstwhile rivals |
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-(!!!!) quondam dissidents joined the establishment |
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- His perspicacious grandfather had bought the land as an investment,guessing that there might be gold underground. |
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(!!!!!!)- the book is full of recondite information |
arcane profound |
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- the large ax his father used to cleave wood for the fire
- Rose's mouth was dry, her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth
- they were cleaving closely to the British empire |
sad autoantonym |
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- an impregnable wall of solid sandstone
- the case against Hastings would have been almost impregnable |
unassailable |
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- London's leading theatrical impresario
(imp pra saa rio ) |
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- in the far distance a machine droned
- he reached for another beer while Jim droned on
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- After our busy day, we both sat and nodded off in front of the TV. |
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- I hope he didn't think I was being impertinent when I asked him about his private life. - an impertinent remark/question
- Chapter One is pertinent to the post-war period - a pertinent question/remark |
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- she remarked apropos of the initiative, “It's not going to stop the abuse.”"
- the composer's reference to child's play is apropos
(ap ro po) |
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- the area is dominated by guerrillas in cahoots with drug traffickers
- A banker and a government minister were in cahoots over a property deal.
- It's reckoned that someone in the government was in cahoots with the assassin. |
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- an institution whose raison d'être is public service broadcasting
- Her job is her raison d'être.
(raise on date raw) |
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- She really drove home the message that we need to economize.
- It doesn't make sense to let things that happened in the past drive a wedge between us now
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- the presumption of guilt has changed to a presumption of innocence
- he lifted her off the ground and she was enraged at his presumption |
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- The nurse saw him falter and made him lean on her.
- The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.
- I c-c-can't,” he faltered" |
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- I did not think it politic to express my reservations
- It would not be politic for you to be seen there. |
canny shrewd astute |
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-(!!!!) the meals here are invariably big and hearty
- a hearty and boisterous character - the boisterous conviviality associated with taverns of that period - the boisterous wind was lulled" - |
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- The motion of the car almost lulled her to sleep. (loul)
- Most exercise classes start gently, lulling you into thinking that you're in good shape. - Their promises lulled us into a false sense of security - conversation lulled for an hour |
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- an unseemly squabble
- their unseemly behavior at Donna's baby shower
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- the storm suddenly abated - nothing abated his crusading zeal |
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- he strode across the road'
- he crossed the room in a couple of strides
- "great strides have been made toward equality |
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- a hearty meal cooked over open flames
- a hearty and boisterous character |
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- a harrowing film about racism and violence
- Todd could take it, whereas I'm harrowed by it
- For many women, the harrowing prospect of giving evidence in a rape case can be too much to bear. |
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- he anglicized his name to Goodman
- She married Norwegian immigrant Niels Larsen, who later anglicized his name.
(angleee sized) |
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- it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter
- His perspicacious grandfather had bought the land as an investment,guessing that there might be gold underground. |
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- -(!!!!)it is hard for logic to prevail over emotion
- an atmosphere of crisis prevails
- she was prevailed upon to give an account of her work |
coerce coax |
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- his statement had more than a modicum of truth |
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- salary will be commensurate with experience |
sdfdsf |
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- a night of drunken reveling
- Bill said he was secretly reveling in his new-found fame |
savor |
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-- they have to tolerate each other's little foibles
- We all have our little foibles. |
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- a protracted and bitter dispute
- he had certainly taken his time, even protracting the process |
fsd |
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- a timorous voice
- My horse is a bit timid and is easily frightened by traffic. |
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- the fence had been trampled down
- a drug-testing device that doesn't trample on employees' civil liberties |
sdfs |
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- the Bill of Rights was intended to secure basic civil liberties |
fdgd |
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- transitory periods of medieval greatness
- the transitory nature of life |
fsdf |
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- no prudent money manager would authorize a loan without first knowing its purpose |
dsfs |
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- -(!!!!)the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where |
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- no other party risked ignominious defeat
- an ignominious defeat/failure/retreat
(igno mean eeeus) |
sdsad |
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- the affluent societies of the western world |
fdgfdg |
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- a cursory glance at the figures
- His smile was perfunctory.
(per funk tary) |
fdgdfg |
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- a tweed sports jacket and beanie |
asd |
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- -(!!!!)moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her
- the officials were conferring with allies |
asddsa |
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- -(!!!!)this method yields the same results - the Western powers now yielded when they should have resisted - they might yield up their secrets
- I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky - vast swaths of countryside |
capitulate |
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- elaborate security precautions
- You want a plain blouse to go with that skirt - nothing too elaborate.
- he made an elaborate pretense of yawning |
asdsad |
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- -(!!!!)his anger is masked by a pretense that all is well - he asked me questions without any pretense at politeness
- before the age of two, children start to engage in pretense
- he was absolutely without pretense - she had dropped any pretense to faith |
asdsad |
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- the lights were at amber |
sad |
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- she was heartened to observe that the effect was faintly comic
(hart ened) |
asdad |
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- -(!!!!)"his death has prompted an industry-wide investigation of safety violations - a demonstration by 20,000 people prompted the government to step up security" - And the picture?” he prompted - the actors needed prompting |
sadd |
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- his expression sobered her
- that coffee sobered him up |
dasd |
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- The newly affluent will not want their ancestors’ gruel. |
asdasd |
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- Joe's a real peasant
- Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants. |
asd |
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- -(!!!!)the engines were at full throttle
- she was sorely tempted to throttle him
- The reduction in funds is throttling the development of new programmes. |
asdasd |
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--(!!!!) a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework - a radical American activist - These people have very radical views. - We need to make some radical changes to our operating procedures - She has had to undergo radical surgery - Cervical cancer may be cured with radical surgery when it is confinedto the pelvis or regional lymph nodes. |
dasd |
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- a joint enterprise between French and Japanese companies
- success came quickly, thanks to a mixture of talent, enterprise, and luck
- a state-owned enterprise |
asdads |
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--(!!!!) some people are daunted by technology |
apprehensive |
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- his smile made him look more hideous than ever
- the whole hideous story |
dasd |
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- -(!!!!)agricultural development is considerably constrained by climate
- children are constrained to work in the way the book dictates
- he was acting in a constrained manner |
auto |
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- the Mediterranean has been overrun by tourists
- he mustn't overrun his budget
- |
kjashd |
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- Elaine!” she shouted, heedless of attracting unwanted attention |
asd
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- I feel fenced in by all the rules and regulations at work. |
d |
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- his accent was a peculiar mixture of Cockney and Irish
- |
asd |
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- fear is hardwired in our brain |
saddas |
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- -(!!!!)passersby grappled with the man after the knife attack |
dasd |
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- from my vantage point I could see into the front garden |
dsd |
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- the legislature's insistence on overriding his budget vetoes
- you can override the cutout by releasing the switch
- this commitment should override all other considerations |
dfdfg |
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- the president vetoed the bill
- the legislature would have a veto over appointments to key posts
- his veto on our drinking after the meal was annoying |
fghfh |
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- he primed the gun
- the sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge
- |
fsdf |
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- the results cannot be extrapolated to other patient groups
- attempts to extrapolate likely human cancers from laboratory studies |
dfgdfg |
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- we have finished hauling and hewing timber
- a seat hewn out of a fallen tree trunk
- some artists took photographs that hewed to more traditional ideas of art |
autoantonym |
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- immediate action was imperative
- the bell pealed again, a final imperative call |
sdfsf |
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- He was snapping his fingers in time with the music.
- Aquifers cannot be recharged with a snap of the fingers. |
sadad |
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- -(!!!!)I also like to shadow from more colloquial sources of speech rather than more academic sources. |
jhgjg |
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- -(!!!!)"the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression |
jkhjh |
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- committed a major faux pas
- I made some remark about his wife's family, and then realized I'd made a serious faux pas.
(fou paaaaaa) |
dfgdg
gaffe indiscretion |
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- a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the war dead
- a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea
- it was a night commemorated in a song |
fsf |
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- there was a brief hiatus in the war with France
- The company expects to resume production of the vehicle again after a two-month hiatus. |
sdfs |
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(!!!)- they veered between apathetic torpor and hysterical fanaticism
(tor per) |
sadad |
|
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- hysterical laughter
- her attempts to teach them to dance were hysterical |
fsdf |
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- apathetic slackers who don't vote |
dfgdg |
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- the pound is expected to depreciate against the dollar
- the computers would be depreciated at 50 percent per annum
- she was already depreciating her own aesthetic taste |
sdfsf |
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- he was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests
(punk till ious) |
painstaking sdfsdf scrupulous |
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- heating is regarded as a basic amenity
- the exertion of amenity toward the boss |
dsf |
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- she sounded ebullient and happy |
peppy |
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- the advent of television |
ASDA |
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- the town offers alluring shops and restaurants |
fsf |
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- the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail.
- she's too scrupulous to have an affair with a married man |
etret |
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- (!!!!)the plan allows for the partial remission of tuition fees
- ten out of twenty patients remained in remission
- the remission of sins |
sdfsf |
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- the refugee encampments will provide some respite from the suffering - respite from debts - the execution was only respited a few months
(res pit) |
sdfsdf |
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- matters were held in abeyance pending further inquiries |
fsf |
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- a permanent diminution in value
(deeee minution) |
sdfsf |
|
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- a level of moral culpability |
sadsa |
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- the bracing sea air - the posts were braced by lengths of timber - she braced her feet against a projecting shelf - both stations are bracing themselves for job losses |
invigorating |
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- he was a vociferous opponent of the takeover |
clamorous vehement |
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- a veracious and trustworthy historian
- he had a voracious appetite
- his voracious reading of literature |
fsdfsf |
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- the loss was particularly galling
- he knew he was losing, and it galled him
- the straps galled their shoulders |
vex |
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- there were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead
(oum inous) |
- unpropitious
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- the similarity between the paintings may not be simply fortuitous
- from a cash standpoint, the company's timing is fortuitous
(for tui tous) |
dfdf |
|
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- in captivity, tigers are prolific breeders - he was a prolific composer of operas - a prolific home-run hitter - mahogany was once prolific in the tropical forests |
asdad |
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- profligate consumers of energy
- "he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle |
asdd |
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- A low score in mock test of GRE produce dysphoric state of mind. |
asd |
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- "their movements were strictly monitored and circumscribed |
asd |
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- his mercurial temperament
- She was entertaining but unpredictable, with mercurial mood swings.
- a mercurial mind/wit |
asdasd |
|
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- the issue engendered continuing controversy |
asdsa |
|
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- he was a popular and gregarious man
- gregarious species forage in flocks from colonies or roosts(congregate) |
congregate |
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-(!!!!) drape individual plants with nets, pegging down the edges
- we decided to peg our prices
- the catcher pegs the ball to the first baseman
- He thinks we're all taken in by his charm, but I've got him pegged. |
asdsad |
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- (!!!!)his name became a byword for luxury
- “Small is beautiful” may be the byword for most couturiers. (KO teuu ray) |
asdasd |
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-(!!!!) the girl spun around in alarm |
sada |
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-(!!!!)St Theresa’s writings were part of the tradition of Christian mysticism
- police said they arrested ten self-styled anarchists
- |
so called |
|
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-(!!!!!) a secret society to study alchemy and the occult
- She claims to have occult powers, given to her by some mysterious spirit.
(Ahh cult) |
asd |
|
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- a utopian vision - utopian aims |
asda |
|
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- (!!!!!)Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old days
(lawn innn) |
asdad |
|
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- (!!!!!)a wistful smile - I thought about those days in Spain and grew wistful. |
asdasd |
|
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- The school uniform is quasi-military in style
(kuwaa -- zai) Us (kuwiiii -- zai) Uk |
asd |
|
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- (!!!!!) * He was also a respected and long-serving member of his local Freemasons fraternity, an exclusively male society. |
sadad |
|
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- an egalitarian society - The party's principles are basically egalitarian. |
asdsad |
|
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- (!!!!!)He's always boasting about his sexual prowess.
- athletic/sporting prowess |
asddsa |
|
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- (!!!!!)Christian hope is concerned with eschatology, or the science of last things
(eska--- tology) |
asdasd |
|
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- (!!!)He has been behaving with great singularity.
- he believed in the singularity of all cultures - his singularities
- maybe the singularity just happened, and we didn't notice |
asdas |
|
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- He was a benevolent old man and wouldn't hurt a fly.
- a benevolent fund |
sadad |
|
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- one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance
- a computer nerd |
asdad |
|
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- (!!!)Hollywood's dearest dream of small-town nirvana
(nir vaaa na) |
asdasd |
|
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- an attractive hotel in an idyllic setting
(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii - dilic ) |
halcyon
(hell cccc yun) |
|
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- in the interim I'll just keep my fingers crossed
- an interim arrangement |
ewrwer |
|
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- wild rabbits can be tamed
- the battle to tame inflation |
sadasd |
|
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- (!!!)so long as the band kept the beat, what they played was immaterial
- we have immaterial souls |
dsadad |
|
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- (!!!)High blood pressure is an insidious condition which has few symptoms
- The disease begins insidiously and progresses relentlessly. - sexually transmitted diseases can be insidious and sometimes without symptoms |
asd |
|
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- (!!!)These last-minute changes have skewed the company's results.
- the paper had a working-class skew
- the car had skewed across the track |
asdd |
|
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- He just sat there making banal remarks all evening. -- banal pop songs |
asdasd |
|
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- (!!!)He doesn't mouth platitudes about it not mattering who scores as long as the team wins.
- she began uttering liberal platitudes |
dsad |
|
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- Starkey attempted a sardonic smile |
derisive |
|
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-(!!!) her cynical attitude - most residents are cynical about efforts to clean mobsters out of their city - he gave a cynical laugh - a cynical manipulation of public opinion |
asdsad |
|
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- tales of a savage beast - they launched a savage attack on the budget - a savage landscape - she'd expected mud huts and savages" - "the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages |
asdasd |
|
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- His first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics. |
sadad |
|
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- "it's very hard to quantify the cost
- It's difficult to quantify how many people will be affected by the change |
asddas |
|
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- professional tax preparers abhor a flat tax because it would dry up their business
- I abhor the taste of liver |
dasd |
|
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- It is reductionist, worships efficiency and utility, and abhors ambiguity and complexity.
-(!!!) Frege was also a harsh critic of psychologism in logic: the view that logical truths are truths about psychology.
- He lived in Paris 1910-14 and was influenced by the Expressionistic naturalism of Rodin |
sadasd |
|
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- time-lapse photography shows the moon waning
- confidence in the dollar waned" |
asdasd |
|
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- the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime
- he had an authoritarian and at times belligerent manner |
sadasd |
|
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- a bull-necked, belligerent old man
- belligerent nations |
dasds |
|
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- In the 1920s, short hair for women became the vogue.
- The postwar vogue for tearing down buildings virtually destroyed the city's architecture.
|
asdd |
|
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-(!!!) virtually all those arrested were accused |
asdasd |
|
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- he has a penchant for adopting stray dogs |
sadasd |
|
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- he extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples |
sadsa |
|
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- paragons of virtue
- your cook is a paragon |
epitome |
|
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- she started to harbor doubts about the wisdom of their journey
- he was suspected of harboring an escaped prisoner |
asdsad |
|
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- they provided considerable empirical evidence to support their argument |
asd |
|
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- the ontological argument for the existence of God |
sada |
|
|
- Her interests are in the realm of practical politics.
- The matter was hotly debated in all the towns of the realm. |
sadd |
|
|
(!!!) - epistemology ??
- The turn from epistemology to ontology was taken before Heidegger by Nicolai Hartmann
(ippiii stemology)) |
asda |
|
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- I was entranced by a cluster of trees that were lit up by fireflies
- Orpheus entranced the wild beasts
- |
asdas |
|
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- (!!!)does this sound like a lampoon of student life
- the senator made himself famous as a pinch-penny watchdog of public spending, lampooning dubious federal projects |
asdasd |
|
|
- the federal government's empty coffers
- government/party coffers |
sadad |
|
|
- (!!!)the secret nature of his work precluded official recognition
- his difficulties preclude him from leading a normal life |
impede |
|
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- They still cling to many of the old shibboleths of education. |
sdfsd |
|
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- the company has a proprietary right to the property
- proprietary brands of insecticide
-(!!!) he looked about him with a proprietary air |
sdfsdf |
|
|
- The police officer said that he had placed the man under arrest and that a scuffle had ensued.
- Two police officers were injured in scuffles with fans at Sunday's National League contest. |
dsadd |
|
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- the language of political discourse
- a discourse on critical theory
- she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe |
asdsad |
|
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- into a honeycomb of blooming, buzzing confusion. |
sadas |
|
|
- the harsh lights and cameras were hardly conducive to a relaxed atmosphere |
asdsad |
|
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- (!!!)a detailed contract that attempts to provide for all possible contingencies |
dasd |
|
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- the society was instrumental in bringing about legislation |
hkjhjk |
|
|
- The influence of Freud is pervasive in her books.
- a pervasive smell of diesel
- Reforms are being undermined by the all-pervasive corruption in the country. |
asdasd |
|
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- civil liberties were further curtailed |
asddsada |
|
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-(!!!) His accountant had aided and abetted him in the fraud.
- Solutionism’s power to shape contemporary thinking will be reduced if we curtail its principle abetter/abettor, internet centrism |
asdasd |
|
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- parity of incomes between rural workers and those in industrial occupations
- (!!!)very high parity (six children or more) |
sadsa |
|
|
- The table held a veritable cornucopia of every kind of food or drink you could want.
- |
sadasd |
|
|
-(!!!) the early 1970s witnessed a veritable price explosion
- My garden had become a veritable jungle by the time I came back from holiday.
(very table) |
bonafide |
|
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- (!!!)they decried human rights abuses |
asasd |
|
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- he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter |
asdas |
|
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- (!!!)Who should arrive at the party but the prime minister, no less!
- no less than eight people died |
asdsad |
|
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- we sat ruminating on the nature of existence
- |
asdasd |
|
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- a deliciously inventive panoply of insults -There is a whole panoply of remedies and drugs available to themodern doctor.
(paenap---lii) |
dsad |
|
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- the restaurant attracts discerning customers
-(!!!)I can discern no difference between the two policies
- she could faintly discern the shape of a skull |
no same words |
|
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-(!!!) the report attempted to educate the public and allay fears
- some stale figs partly allayed our hunger |
saddas |
|
|
- the chairman denied his authority was being undercut
- these industries have been undercut by more efficient foreign producers
- the firm undercut their rivals |
dsadas |
|
|
(!!!)nominalist approach? |
dsadsa |
|
|
- the witness had corroborated the boy's account of the attack |
asdasd |
|
|
- he announced his credo in his first editorial
- |
sadad |
|
|
- the outcome of the game presaged the coming year
- But still the economy is not showing signs of any of the excesses thatnormally presage a recession. |
sadsad |
|
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- ambient conditions/lighting/noise/temperature |
aasd |
|
|
- My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
- Ecological problems usually require holistic solutions. |
qweq |
|
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- water trickled down the grooves
- (!!!) his thoughts were slipping into a familiar groove |
asdad |
|
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- a totalitarian regime
- |
asdasd |
|
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- economic disparities between different regions of the country |
dasdsa |
|
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-(!!!) they accused him of fomenting political unrest
- |
asdasd |
|
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- one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material
- when the transmitter pack is turned off, no extraneous noise is heard
- other insects attach extraneous objects or material to themselves |
sdfsdf |
|
|
(!!!) - With the advent of Karl Marx, socialism became a science. -You don't seem to know the difference between capitalism, communism and socialism |
sadsad |
|
|
- (!!!) * According to this theory there was no difference between social democracy and fascism.(fashh ism) |
jh |
|
|
(!!!)
his views are highly subjective * Things are even more difficult when probabilities are subjective and individual beliefs may differ. |
gdg |
|
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- perhaps today’s über ideology.
(oohh ber) |
fghfh |
|
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- she began to mull over the various possibilities |
dfgdg |
|
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- the program did have a tremendous evangelical effect, proselytizing many
- Davis wanted to share his concept and proselytize his ideas |
sdfsf |
|
|
- It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism
- As a philosopher she reacted to existentialism and logical positivism with a deep belief that philosophy should be about freedom and morality and love and God. |
dffdf |
|
|
- Gamification, in Morozov’s view, is a form of behaviourism that undermines moral agency. |
hfgh |
|
|
- he rushed out in a very bad temper
- Drew had walked out in a temper
- their idealism is tempered with realism |
dfgdg |
|
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- epistemology is about issues having to do with the creation and dissemination of knowledge in particular areas of inquiry.
- |
asda |
|
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- a study of two groups who seemed to instantiate productive aspects of this" |
sada |
|
|
- he was a member of the apostolic generation
(aapos lic) |
fdgdfg |
|
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- Lanier now repents of his earlier faith, though not in the humanistic potential of technology |
jkhk
|
|
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- Off-the-books payment of wages in cash still happens in some smallbusinesses. |
jhgjh |
|
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- Moreover, he was something new in this state with an historic taste for populism - a centrist populist. |
fdgdg |
|
|
- he peddled art and printing materials around the country
- he criticized his fellow candidate for peddling risky ideas |
dads |
|
|
- that’s a philosophy that needs to undergird retailers' business plans this year |
asadsad |
|
|
- The individual's needs are subordinate to those of the group.
- Her personal life has been subordinated to her career. |
asddsa |
|
|
- As a matter of expedience, we will not be taking on any new staff this year. - I think this government operates on the basis of expediency, not of principle. |
asdasd |
|
|
- art was being demarcated from the more objective science |
sadsad |
|
|
- Lindi has achieved her comfortable life only after years of hard toil.
- I was toiling up the hill with four heavy bags when he took pity on me. |
asdadasd |
|
|
- a situation that entails considerable risks |
asdasd |
|
|
- a financial wizard
- the wizard cast a spell over them |
dasddasd |
|
|
- movie/media/industry moguls
- |
dsadasd |
|
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- They sell dried fruit and nuts, and other kindred products.
(kin--d-red) |
asdasd |
|
|
- Local people were stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane
- He showed a stoic resignation towards his fate. |
dasd |
|
|
- Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor to help pay for college and Harvard Law School. |
asdda |
|
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- Many religious texts legitimise keeping wayward women under control through the use of physical violence. |
asdad |
|
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- The study should be conducted by a firm that has no axe to grind. |
sadad |
|
|
- a self-confessed con artist and charlatan |
asdad |
|
|
- a state law vested the ownership of all wild birds to the individual counties
- he was completely vested after five years with the company
- executive power is vested in the president
- the Speaker vested him with a rich purple robe |
sadadd |
|
|
- the Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature
- these plots are posited on a false premise about women's nature as inferior"
- the professor posits Cohen in his second category of poets |
sadsad |
|
|
- This is an excellent car—second to none. - Her suggestion was second to none, and the manager accepted it eagerly. |
asdasd |
|
|
- his conduct was appalling
- bankers are appalled at the economic incompetence of some officials |
asdasd |
|
|
- witch hazels are the harbingers of spring |
asdasd |
|
|
- the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters |
asdasd |
|
|
- a smell of stale cabbage pervaded the air
- the sense of crisis that pervaded Europe in the 1930s |
dsadasds |
|
|
- the deserts of inland Australia
- the path turned inland and met the road |
asdsad |
|
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- the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves
- about one-third of California was built up by accretions
(akh reetion) |
asdas |
|
|
- the conservative holdover from the Eisenhower years |
kjhkh |
|
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- his name had been inadvertently omitted from the list |
kjh |
|
|
- they caviled at the cost |
gfghf |
|
|
- a battery of heinous crimes
(hey - nous) |
hghjg |
|
|
- a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure |
fdsfs |
|
|
- Over 60 of its members, including its leader, were arrested and accused of espionage, subversive activities and other crimes.
- subversive literature
- a dangerous subversive |
yutut |
|
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- his most forthright attack yet on the reforms
(fourth right) |
ghfhgf |
|
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- she was spoiled outrageously by her doting father
- she doted on her two young children
(doding) |
gjg |
|
|
- She's continually gloating over/about her new job.
- I know I shouldn't gloat, but it really serves him right.
- His enemies were quick to gloat at his humiliation. |
fdsdfs |
|
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- music of an almost otherworldly beauty
- celibate clerics with a very otherworldly outlook |
dgfdgfdq |
|
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- an intricate network of canals |
dsdfsds |
|
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- forlorn figures at bus stops
- a forlorn attempt to escape |
gfdgd |
|
|
- he could be brash, cocky, and arrogant
- I like brash, vibrant flavors
- the cafe was a brash new building |
asdasd |
|
|
- "I used to call her Miss Mouse because she was so meek and mild |
qwewqe |
|
|
- a series of audacious takeovers
- an audacious remark |
asdsadas |
|
|
- Unions claim that the management continues to maintain an intransigent position.
- the regime remained intransigent in its opposition to wider participation in the political process
(in tran sigent) |
asdsad |
|
|
- He's a very stolid, serious man
- The college is a stolid-looking building with no lawn. |
kjhkjh |
|
|
- the forest fire was exacerbated by the lack of rain
( exace - - bate) |
asdasd |
|
|
- He sent a grovelling note of apology.
- I was grovelling under the sofa, trying to find my contact lens.
- she was groveling on the floor in fear
- everyone expected me to grovel with gratitude |
asdsad |
|
|
- songs with banal, repeated words |
dasdsad |
|
|
- they were served by obsequious waiters |
servile |
|
|
- she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tou
- I don't want to carp about the way you did it |
asdasd |
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- He's used to hard physical work - this is a walk in the park to him. |
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- The president is predisposed towards negotiation and favours a peaceful way of resolving the crisis.
- Researchers have discovered that the children of these patients aregenetically predisposed to cancer. |
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- commingle sth between sth The schools regularly commingled funds between accounts. |
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- I've been thinking recently about onomatopoeia: the sound words we use to describe actions. - |
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- These louts personify all that is wrong with our society today.
- In Greek myth, love is personified by the goddess Aphrodite.
- She played a character who was the personification of evil. |
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- Her novels are packed with literary allusions.
- The film is full of allusions to Hitchcock. |
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- * Just look at (and, preferably, listen to) his use of assonance - repeated vowel sounds throughout a section. |
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- "Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran" uses alliteration. |
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- it behooves any coach to study his predecessors
- It ill behoves you to (= you should not) speak so rudely of your parents. |
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- she is not the person she purports to be
- I do not understand the purport of your remarks
- the purport of the attack |
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- Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey
- Augustine's "City of God" is an allegory of the triumph of Good over Evil.
(alee gery) |
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- "The mind is an ocean" and "the city is a jungle" are both metaphors.
(meta four) |
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- It's one of those old Hollywood epics with a cast of thousands.
- an epic journey/struggle |
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litotes? (lie tow teees)
- you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad - a not inconsiderable amount of money (= a considerable amount of money |
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- The blurb on the back of the book was full of the usual hyperbole - "enthralling", "fascinating", and so on. |
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- The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical treasures.
- She's just finished editing "A Miscellany of English Cookery". |
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- They're in (the depths of) despair over/about the money they'velost. |
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-She spent the day fretting about/over what she'd said to Nicky.
- the bay's black waves fret the seafront |
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- It is a tenet of contemporary psychology that an individual's mentalhealth is supported by having good social networks. |
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