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ACUPUNCTURE
Louis, he sat on the plane with his injured foot propped and acupuncture needles in his scalp.
• Anyone who has actually experienced acupuncture, or several other complementary therapies, will agree on this.
• These could include anything from acupuncture, herbal remedies and nutritional supplements to, yes, a petition to a
higher power.
• All those around were greatly impressed by the power of acupuncture.
• She believes that acupuncture can be very helpful in returning this balance.
• All of these factor into the correct placement of the acupuncture needles.
• Reichian therapy, acupuncture and many other healing techniques have as their basic principle
the concept of energy flows in the body.
• He teaches that essential oils can also be used to balance the subtle energy forces in the body similar to acupuncture.

2. ABERRATION
• The losses this year are an aberration, and the company will continue to grow.
• The Tories regard it as an aberration that would be catastrophic for Britain's system of government.
• That last kiss had been a mistake, an aberration.
• In light of his often-brilliant and incident-free 1995-96 season, the previous year was quickly ruled an aberration.
• This psychoanalysis of the Enlightenment obviously concentrated only on its darker side, its errors, aberrations and
absurdities.
• The implication was clear: to discuss Article 6 would be an irresponsible aberration.
• And any such aberration includes a nervous disposition toward
children.

3. ABNEGATION
• In the ensuing confusion the Catholic community locally and nationally saw this as an abnegation of the
1944 Education Act.
• If the Court holds fast to its abnegation of this traditional role, it could mark a sea change in federal-state relations.
• The sticking point in faith for me was abnegation.

4. ABSOLUTION
• I do not offer Brock absolution.
• And, despite what he answered, Pope Leo gave him absolution.
• Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
• Its promise of absolution moved her to believe that her most private, unshared agonies might be lifted.
• He watched them awhile, and then, temporarily, he granted his own absolution.
• Does this mean that absolution by the patient is ineffective in relieving the doctor of his duty?
gave ... absolution•
He heard confessions of sins by his parishioners and gave absolution as he saw fit, enjoining a suitable penance.
• And, despite what he answered, Pope Leo gave him absolution.

5. ACCLIMATIZE
• We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize.
• Those that were able to acclimatize might have survived long enough for hereditary processes to
be invoked and adaptation to occur.
• I had also managed to artificially acclimatize myself.
• Individuals acclimatize to cold, for example, by adjusting physically, physiologically or psychologically following
cold exposure.
acclimatize yourself (to something)•
I had also managed to artificially acclimatize myself.

6. ACCOLADE
• Dale received all the attention and accolades, and Link settled for a few extra bucks on his royalty checks.
• Indeed, as some traditionalists complained, the more outrageous the art, the more likely the critical accolade.
• There is not greater accolade than that.
• Cole grants them a grudging accolade.
• She received a Grammy Award, the highest accolade in the music business.
• As star producers they were used to receiving public accolades and acknowledgment of their achievements.

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• But, in truth, he is the one management thinker who genuinely deserves the accolade.
• Britain's role in the Berlin air-lift earned her the accolade of a staunch and like-minded ally.
• He probably accepts that the ultimate accolade for the county cricketer will now remain inaccessible.
• Already, the program has won accolades for bringing investment to poor neighborhoods of Knoxville.
ultimate/highest/supreme etc accolade•
All the gardens have been chosen by local inspectors, and 80 have been awarded the highest accolade of a two-
star rating.
• He probably accepts that the ultimate accolade for the county cricketer will now remain inaccessible.

7. ACCRUE
• I do not see how those people can accrue a second pension.
• The accrued interest will be paid annually.
• To him will accrue the credit for overthrowing the conventional wisdom and for installing the new ideas.
• Over two years, let us say, £100,000 of income may have accrued to the settlement.
• Similarly, they share the risks and the profits or losses which may accrue to them.
• Economic returns can accrue when ambulatory nutrition care contributes to reducing the need
for costly medical care.
• If significance is supposed to accrue with each repeated conjunction, it fails to do so for me.
ac‧crue /əˈkruː/ verb [intransitive, transitive] formal1if an amount of money accrues, or is accrued, it gradually
increases over a period of time The tax falls due at the end of the month, and interest will accrue from that date.2if
profits or benefits accrue to you, or are accrued, you have the right to receive them If profits are insufficient, no
additional rights accrue to the holder of the bond. Your employer cannot withhold your benefits accrued from
mandatory contributions.

8. ACQUIESCE
• The Court, in a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Chase, acquiesced.
• The other ashram women followed her in acquiescing.
• Instead, I acquiesced in her authority and I quietly did as I was told.
• Before 1979 the Conservative party had effectively acquiesced in most of the public ownership measures of
earlier Labour governments.
• The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.
• We imagine that the white race, at least, would not acquiesce in this assumption.
• Sound-particularly music-comes to stand for a regional refusal to acquiesce to imperial or metropolitan power.
acquiesce in/to
• Tom acquiesced to all her suggestions, though he never expected to see her again once they got off the ship.
• Then the Air Force could hardly acquiesce to an honorable discharge.
• Instead, I acquiesced in her authority and I quietly did as I was told.
• Sound-particularly music-comes to stand for a regional refusal to acquiesce to imperial or metropolitan power.
• At some point she had acquiesced to the fact that I was taking Janir away.
• By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest.
• This is a dead draw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before acquiescing in the inevitable.
• The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.
• City officials eventually acquiesced to the protesters' demands.

9. ACTUARY
• An actuary, assuming no casual connection, might calculate the odds against such a coincidence.
• As actuaries we are professionally trained to make forward projections so we should also look at the future for our
own profession.
• A developing issue for actuaries has been the question of the possible use of professional
certification of reserves for general insurance.
• He accepted the arguments of an independent actuary that policyholders' realistic expectationthey
should benefit from inherited estates was limited.
• Indeed investment management is an area where many actuaries play a very active role in insurance companies.
• Nowadays, actuaries are spearheading the revolution which is taking place in the pensions field.
• The statistical, financial and projection skills of actuaries are of particular relevance to this work.
• Family Assurance Society may vary these charges if so advised by their actuary.

Actuary

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/ˈæktʃuəri-tʃueri/ noun (plural actuaries) [countable]someone whose job is to calculate risks, in order to
advise INSURANCE companies or PENSION FUNDs Such information needs to be made available to actuaries,
insurers, and those advising employers.

10. ACUMEN
• He was more remarked on for his love of cricket and helicopters than for his business acumen.
• The point is not my poor business acumen, but that lawyering is a relationship, not a commodity.
• Usually they pool their financial resources and their business acumen.
• I respect her business flair, her acumen.
• Mr. Schwartz has received considerable praise in recent years for his acumen in building Loral through
a series of strategic acquisitions.
• It has now been matched by his political acumen.
• Van Leer inherited some of his father's acumen but none of his money and certainly none of his love for money.
business/political/financial etc acumen•
He had settled in Ireland many years ago and through his shrewd business ability and financial acumen he had become
very wealthy.
• Requests from group spokesmen illustrated varying degrees of preparation and political acumen.
• I've never possessed any business acumen.
• Beyond his financial acumen, Grigsby knows how to stroke business and political movers.
• It has now been matched by his political acumen.
• He was more remarked on for his love of cricket and helicopters than for his business acumen.
• Not that she wanted his love even now; she did not-just his advice, just his financial acumen.
• The point is not my poor business acumen, but that lawyering is a relationship, not a commodity.

11. ADDLE
• A few cocktails later, enough to addle my memory, I found myself in bed with Bob.

12. ADMONITION
• And when the rector took to the pulpit he delivered sermons brimming with moral admonition.
• When adults believe in their children, they are not as likely to give reminders to do or admonitions for not doing.
• Le Corbusier's admonitions echo much of nineteenth century morality in terms of emphasis on order and health, and
by inference cleanliness.
• I enunciated carefully, hoping that Barney Lewis's admonition about clear speaking would now have
some magical effect.
• Many illiterates can not read the admonition on a pack of cigarettes.
• But when ears were deaf what use were admonitions?

13. ADROIT
• The subdivision of stock into subject groups calls for flexible and adroit administration.
• They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
• Self-defeating organizations are nothing if not adroit at minimizing the costs of their destructive
or ineffectual actions.
• They were remarkably adroit in their cultivation of the foreign press.
• In the long run, however, adroit its marketing, takeover may be the only solution.
• Employing such devices is a fine test of sheer writing skill, of careful and adroit manipulation of language.
• Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker.
• One reason is that Clinton is a far more adroit politician than Dukakis.

14. AFFECT
• It is annoying when she tries to affect a British accent.
• We know little about the way in which workers' motivations are affected by the creation of a powerful market test.
• Emergency relief will be sent to the areas most affected by the hurricane.
• We were all deeply affected by the news of Sonia's death.
• It affects him like a smell, like a chime.
• The new tax law doesn't affect me because I'm a student.
• The impact of this capacity is expected to start affecting revenue growth in the second quarter of 2000.
• The disease affects the central nervous system.

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• Scientists are investigating the ways in which climate changes affect the ozone.
• The speed of the computation affects the sampling size and speed of updates.
• The explanation of this is that the sun is not the only agent that affects the temperature of the colonies.
• Such considerations affect the way the courts decide on what sentence to pass on the accused.
• The reasons for selling can vary enormously and will affect what the vendor sees as the key issues.
affect ... lives
• It's still affecting their lives 18 months later.
• Technology has, it seems, transformed entirely academic discussions concerning idealizedcomputing devices into
matters which directly affect all our lives!
• The environment calls the tune and the strategic behaviour of individuals is a response to the circumstances affecting
their lives.
• They see it as a gut issue that affects their lives.
• We then consider the way in which housing structure and design affect women's lives.
• Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions
that affect their lives and property.
• Look, who should be the leaders, the individuals who make the decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people?
• These upheavals have shaken and shaped the twentieth century, and in countless ways they affect our lives still.
deeply affected
• The death of the child deeply affected both of them.
• The rest of us have precious little influence over the global economy, though our lives are deeply affected by it.
• Brian Simpson was also deeply affected by the incident - he committed suicide the following year.
• There are signs of emotional instability in those who have been deeply affected by the literature.
• The family in particular, as the basic unit of society, is deeply affected by the media environment in which it lives.
• Distant though it is from the Gulf, the Maghreb has been deeply affected by the war.
• They are more deeply affected than most citizens because they know more about what goes on inside government
than most citizens.
• And others were so deeply affected that they withdrew from the community, shutting themselves away in their
homes.

15. ALACRITY
• No wonder that theism is abandoned with such alacrity by so many of these new philosophers.
• They imitated the coolness and courage of their predecessors, going forward with the utmost alacrity and firmness.
• When Gary Paget reappeared, offering his services again, Helen accepted with alacrity.
• Then he turned with a flop, his belly following with alacrity, losing his only good angle.
• Startlingly intuitive, she sums up his life situation with alacrity, reducing his Hamlet-size dilemmas to something he
can laugh at.
• He took with alacrity and never looked back.
with alacrity
• Packages are delivered with alacrity.

16. ALTRUISTIC
• You can't expect a large corporation to be altruistic.
• Some, like dreams of providing a great service, are altruistic.
• The political concern is not altruistic.
• Second, an animal might direct altruistic acts towards genetic relatives of those with which it was raised.
• Companies that donate books o r equipment to schools that collect their tokens are not being entirely altruistic - after
all, you have to buy the products to get the tokens.
• Their motives were partly altruistic and partly economic.
• Given that annuity markets are imperfect, people may leave substantial estates even though they have
no altruistic feelings towards their heirs.
• But what constabulary safeguards do those altruistic groups maintain?
• He has to give up his egocentricity and develop the beginnings of a more altruistic point of view.
• These are not purely altruistic ventures.

17. AMELIORATE
• Older women in the developed countries suffered unnecessarily from diseases that could have
been ameliorated, cured, or even prevented.
• Government has assumed the responsibility for ameliorating income inequality in our society.

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• Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect.
• In a warm room the nose discharges and fills up which ameliorates the headache; a thick, fluent, yellow discharge.
• At the same time we had to cut our costs and reduce the numbers to at least ameliorate the losses.
• Such policies either ameliorate the worst conditions that might provoke violence or provide certain classes
with advantages over classes below them.
• Confidence was increasing that men, through foresight and effective action, could ameliorate their existence and
even prolong their lives.
• Correction of the acidemia will often ameliorate this problem.
• Measures to ameliorate working conditions have had little effect.
18. AMORPHOUS
• These solids are said to be amorphous.
• Led by some bishops, we have replaced spirituality with an amorphous concern for the material needs of others.
• The molten rock hardens into amorphous forms.
• Aspiration cytology of the neck mass showed only amorphous, necrotic material.
• This master curve is typical of those obtained on a number of amorphous polymers and to be found in the literature.
• In her later works, large, amorphous shapes seem to float on the canvas.
• From the sundeck one could see a hillside with growths of ponderosa and scores of sparkling
amorphous swimming pools.
• Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are
so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.

19. ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK


• The most severe allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock, can kill through suffocation.
• Whether it was anaphylactic shock from a unique allergy or asphyxiation from catching the peanuts in the throat, this
is unknown.

20. ANGINA
• Carcinoma, methadone, diabetes, depression, miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as
the weather.
• It's for what the doctor calls angina.
• I was hospitalised for angina and my care was excellent.
• Poppers were initially manufactured as treatments for angina pectoris, a painful heart condition.
• In the early 1960s the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota researched exercise therapy as part of the treatment for patients
suffering from angina.
• It was then shown the correct diagnosis in each case, broken into five categories, ranging from flatulence to angina.
• Sophia has unstable angina and is refusing surgery from which she might benefit.

21. ANOMALY
• Pohnpei is an anomaly - it's a Pacific island without a beach.
• He was an anomaly down to his very genes.
• The contradictions and anomalies in the 1954 scheme were obvious.
• One such charming and dated anomaly is that a school like Burleigh can be bought.
• When corrections are made to take account of these differences in crustal density the magnitude
of gravity anomalies is significantly reduced.
• Whenever observations emerged that did not fit the mechanistic model, they
were dismissed as insignificant anomalies.
• But on one such mission they came across a startling anomaly.
• There would be a return to all the anomalies that the old rating system caused.

22. ANTAGONIST
• Yet, on the whole, the rich man remains the natural antagonist of the poor.
• In the fluctuating combination and recombination of groups, old friends and old antagonists come across one another
in shifting social contexts.
• In recent years the relationship has become complex, but in the early years of each they were antagonists.

23. ANTIBODY
• They reported that half of depressed patients studied had borna antibodies, compared to 1 percent in normal controls.
• Also in patients with inflammatory bowel disease antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies have been detected.

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• Anyone who is antibody positive will find it impossible to get life assurance, should they apply for it.
• In addition the monoclonal antibody showed weak cross reactivity with epithelium.
• The production of a visceral-specific anti-peptide antibody should permit a further investigation of
its expression in smooth muscle cells.
• The labeled antigen and the antibody are part of the reagent system.
• Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris, 1987.
• Traditionally, that has meant injecting people with a weakened or killed version of
the virus itself, triggering antibodies.

24. APPREHENSION
• The Department of Agriculture was apparently unconcerned about the growing apprehension.
• Diplomats watched the events with growing apprehension.
• Moving to-ward them, he felt a chill of apprehension, and panic.
• He noticed that the veins were standing out on Michael's forehead and against his will felt a surge of apprehension.
• The discussion centered on our apprehension of the nature of God.
• I felt a peculiar apprehension, and sensed the woodland spirits of which Mme Guérigny lived in awe.
• Dad has some apprehensions about having surgery.
• What is important to me is the apprehension of the person or persons who killed our son.
• No evidence emerged to justify the apprehension of the authorities, but this did not trouble the court.
• She has repeatedly emphasized that her novels are linguistically self-conscious explicitly in order
to translate the apprehension of the problematic area of language.
• Authorities then use the profiles to identify suspects and to attempt to elicit confessions after their apprehension.
• A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to apprehension of the killer.

25. AQUAPLANE
• In wet weather cars sometimes aquaplane when you brake heavily.
Related topics: Other sports
aquaplane2 noun [countable] British English a thin board that you stand on while you are pulled over the water by
a fast boat

26. ARBITER
• The Houses of Parliament are also the final arbiters of the tenure of office of judges of the Supreme Court.
• That was the key - the final arbiter of success or failure.
• The real arbiters of fashion at the Super Show are the retailers.
• The best sort of customers were important in themselves but they were more important as
the arbiters of social fashion.
• Once again the United States seemed to be the arbiter of war and peace in the Middle East.
• Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
• Many a western arbiter of taste frowned upon the above paintings when in the form of gilt-framed reproductions.
arbiters of taste
• The haute bourgeoisie saw themselves as the arbiters of taste and the artistic heirs of the system of patronage.
the final arbiter
• The Houses of Parliament are also the final arbiters of the tenure of office of judges of the Supreme Court.
• Who will be the final arbiter?
• But he is, none the less, the head of the family, the final arbiter.
• Science is the final arbiter and a self-correcting process in the development of trustworthy knowledge.
• The party has the right of appeal to the Secretary of State who is the final arbiter.
• That was the key - the final arbiter of success or failure.
arbiter /ˈɑːbɪtəˈɑːrbɪtər/ noun [countable]1a person or organization with the authority to decide how something should
be done The Food and Drug Administration is the final arbiter of food labeling.2a person or organization that tries to
find solutions to disagreements Businessmen here often hire freelance arbiters to settle disputes.

27. ARBOREAL
• The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today.
• In addition, a decrease in size seems to have accompanied adaptation to an exclusively arboreal life.
• This arboreal lizard is a formidable predator.
• Orangs are the most arboreal of the apes.
• The orang is by far the most arboreal of the great apes.

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• It was gone from view within seconds, swallowed up by the stark arboreal sanctuary.

28. ARCANE
• Anecdotes of legal excess reflect the world we see around us and add a human dimension to an
otherwise arcane issue.
• It is not exactly arcane knowledge.
• the arcane language of lawyers
• The arcane language of the Treaty of Tlatelolco needs a little clarification.
• They evoke romantic images of humming orchard hives and summer sweetness, presided over
by veiled eccentrics steeped in arcane lore.
• Merely reading what some one has written is less commendable than saying the same thing for arcane reasons.
• They wore helmets suggestive of the heads of flies, and their
black silks were embroidered with arcane silver hieroglyphics.
• They noted that he was a master of arcane tax jargon, not an area that gets the blood racing.
• Written on the boxes is all manner of strange titles, fantastic claims and arcane technical terms.

29. ARCHIVE
• the Pacific Film Archive
• We found that some last only 10 to 30 years and that's not enough for archives of historical material.
• There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo.
• Apart from the odd newspaper archive, almost always free.
• Reprinting items retrieved from the archives are for personal use only.
• Click on it, and Clean Sweep unpacks the archive, so you can use the program again.
• The archive still left a good deal to be desired.
• Then the picture that will go into the Windsor archives was taken - while Charles disappeared from
the historic scene, nattering.
Related topics: Computers
archive2 verb [transitive]
1 to put documents, books, information etc in an archive2 to save a computer file in a way that uses less space than
usual, because you do not use that file often but may need it in the future—archiving noun [uncountable] electronic
archiving systems→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
archive• NOAA will analyze and archive data from satellites.
• At first the wealth of scratchy film archiving the revolution's birth was riveting.
• Major record companies archive their own stock only.
archive1 /ˈɑːkaɪvˈɑːr-/ verb [transitive]to make a permanent copy of information held in a computer or to store the
information so that it cannot be changed or lost Once a month the files will be archived.—
archiving noun [uncountable]the scanning and archiving of paper documents onto optical disks electronic archiving
systems→ See Verb table
archive2 noun [countable]the part of a computer or computer system where information is stored in such a way that it
cannot be changed or lost You could rebuild your hard disk’s contents from this archive.

30. ARTIFICE
• This is not wild, uncontrolled nature, but greenery as artifice and symbol.
• Though he deceived the beholder into taking his artifice for reality, Zeuxis practised an idealist art.
• What is now considered natural is the result of learned artifice.
• However, there is no copying, no artifice.
• Not that she seeks pedestals; there seems no artifice about her.
• These works, in some way, seem timeless and devoid of artifice.
• Marsha Hunt and Thulani Davis have no need for this kind of artifice.
• The documentary highlights the difference between Warren's real life and the artifice of her stage shows.
• Mrs. Tucker was a marvelously candid lady, not given to artifice.

31. ASCETIC
• At the same time, however, the Church also honored an ascetic ideal.
• They belonged to an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes
• Louis became an extremely devout and ascetic man.
• The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.
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• Like the ascetic movement of which it was an outgrowth, monasticism had its origins in the Middle East.
• Other forms of holiness - that of the virgin and the ascetic - were assimilated to martyrdom.
• Counterbalancing this ascetic wunderkind is his brother, Charles Solomon.

32. ASPERSION
• Despite this, Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King's character.
• Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that
score.
• Another implication of the artisanal loaf is the aspersion it casts upon systematic production baking.

33. ASSIMILATE
• The result is usually lucid and easy to assimilate.
• Thus, during this period, the infant assimilates all stimuli through the reflex systems.
• As a child assimilates and accommodates, all of his or her schemata are elaborated.
• An organism assimilates another organism when it makes the latter into something like itself, as food into the body.
• What appears to be contrary can always be assimilated as evidence of repression, or as a defence mechanism.
• Brubeck began to assimilate classical influences into his jazz performances.
• But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions, they applied in a specifically Judaic context.
• When a child is learning something new, they try to assimilate it in terms of what they already know.
• The person we are looking for must be flexible, creative, and able to assimilate new ideas.
• Those Illyrians who did not assimilate probably moved to the less hospitable mountainous areas, but little is known
of their fate.
• Rather than oppose it, they shrewdly assimilated the stories into the folklore of Christmas and Saint Nicholas.
assimilate into• Many ethnic groups have been assimilated into American society.

34. ATROPHY
• In the end, in the final few days, the Labour campaign atrophied.
• Indeed, in most we find it's atrophied.
• Something in her that had, at first, revolted in anger and frustration at her own helplessness,
now shrivelled and atrophied.
• The muscles in her eyes have not atrophied.
• His muscles had atrophied after the surgery.
• Whatever character or vision he might have had atrophied along the way.
• What had begun with good will was atrophying for the want of language to nourish it.
• A gregarious single woman in her mid-thirties, she came to me feeling atrophied in her position with
a major insurance company.
• The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without
irreparably damaging them.

35. ATTIRE
• Gentiles are often confused about proper behavior, gifts, and attire.
• He glanced uneasily at his own evening attire.
• Women use pieces of attire ... to rein scribe themselves in the patriarchal system ...
• Performing will be rockers Ash Black and Thrust, accompanied by the latest in rubbery attire provided by Hydra.
• But swimsuits are the attire of the brave and very slim.
• His attackers were beneath his notice, and their attire conveyed their ungoverned emotions, if not
their ungovernable selves.
• Their attire was a mixture of the sombre and seaside wear.

36. AUDACIOUS
• His plan was audacious, and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination.
• It makes it less audacious and less entertaining than the Eye, of course, except for the literary and dramatic reviews.
• Why, I will be asked, did women form this audacious avant-garde?
• It did so with a stunning range of creativity and a solidly audacious grace.
• a brilliant, audacious play
• In 1996, President Clinton made an equally audacious promise.
• It was a breathtakingly audacious solution to an intractable problem, and the results were to be breathtaking as well.
• Their imaginations are eager to go rather more than half-way to meet the audacious writer.

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37. AUSPICIOUS
• That historic meeting in November 1977 was hardly auspicious.
• It was an auspicious beginning to her career as an author.
• Served with a spicy-sweet mustard sauce, this was an auspicious beginning to our meal.
• It was not an auspicious beginning.
• Not just because of the extraordinary value it represents, but because of
the unique qualities our auspicious holiday retreat has to offer.
• It is my honour to toast the bride and groom on this auspicious occasion.
• The baseball season got off to an auspicious start with two good wins for the Tokyo Giants.
• The beginnings with him were not auspicious, though.
• Usually, auspicious times for Hindu weddings are ascertained by Brahmin priests who are paid to consult the stars.
auspicious start/beginning
• It is not exactly an auspicious start!
• It was not an auspicious beginning.
• Last night's programme did not have an auspicious start.
• Parent representation on governing bodies under the 1986 Act did not have an auspicious beginning.
• No party could have hoped for a more auspicious start to an election campaign.
• It was not an auspicious start to my career.
• Served with a spicy-sweet mustard sauce, this was an auspicious beginning to our meal.
• It had not been an auspicious start to the year.

38. AVID
• His ballgame companion, Marge Locke, is just as avid a fan.
• Tim's father is an avid collector of old blues and jazz records.
• Factors fueling the avid interest in e-commerce run the gamut of the business process.
• As a keen writer and avid newspaper reader, Jenny had always wanted to be a journalist.
• He took avid notes as Father Campbell outlined the program for the week.
• His own father had been an avid ornithologist, so his aunt had told him.

39. BALK
• At first, officials in both countries balked.
• They are likely to balk at antiabortion legislation.
• And then only because he, Veris of, had balked at further appeasement.
• And last month, he balked at submitting to an examination by government-appointed psychiatrists.
• People may well balk at this and never return to your site again.
• As it was he balked, both forefeet thrust stiffly in front of him, jarring me to the bone.
• Industry executives balked for years at the idea of program ratings, fearing a loss of advertising dollars.
• He balked slightly at that, then he tucked the tenners down his gauntlet and handed it over.
• Their strategies to balk the enemy had failed.
balk at
• Several of the managers balked at enforcing the decision.

40. BARBARIC
• Wine was carefully mixed with water, because drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric.
• We consider the death penalty to be barbaric.

• Is the Buddhist practice any less barbaric?


• Attack and reprisal-increasingly barbaric and brutal by turn-have marked the conflict since then.
• This procedure, as barbaric as it is, is not done by governments.
• Until recently, the great objective was to free the peasants from the barbaric constraints of Nature.
• a barbaric custom
• The river was despotic and barbaric, ruling over its subjects without mercy.
• the barbaric treatment of civilians in the concentration camps
• the barbaric treatment of women prisoners
• Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.

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41. BASILICA
• The plan is that of a cross-domed basilica with nave, aisles, eastern apse and western atrium.
• Twin quakes on Sept. 26 killed 10 people and severely damaged the basilica in Assisi.
• Mass was celebrated in the basilicas of San Francesco and Santa Chiara.
• I try to picture the basilica and the beautiful little medieval town of Assisi, tucked into the side of Mount Subasio.
• Though still standing, the basilica itself has sustained terrible damage.
• The basilica beside the columns is very ancient, one of the oldest in the city, founded in the fourth-century.
• The basilica, completed in A.D. 329, was 391 feet long and 208 feet wide.

42. BATTER
• Michael Pearson, 19, of Leeds, battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub.
• His campaign team was battered by a humiliating defeat in Iowa.
• Each year, perhaps 4 million women are battered by their husbands.
• The man she was living with was battering her, Lee-Cruz said, and she called the police.
• The jury heard how Thompson had been maddened by what he saw and battered his wife to death.
• There were reports of soldiers battering prisoners with their rifles.
• Teachers suspect that the child is being battered regularly by his parents.
battered to death
• He'd been battered to death.
• Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death.
• Two days later the bishop was battered to death in his home.
• Mr. Davidson was battered to death while his daughter's eye was pierced with a knitting needle.
• I'd seen it too and it hadn't told me anything except that Moira was battered to death with a tenor sax.
Related topics: Food, dish, Baseball
batter2 noun 1 [countable, uncountable] a mixture of flour, eggs, milk etc, used in cooking and for
making bread, cakes etc Fry the fish in batter. pancake batter2 [countable] the person who is trying to hit
the ball in baseball
Examples from the Corpus
batter• Nick has become as consistent as any batter in the Championship.
• Hell, for Eloise, could well turn out to be full of fish batter, sliced potatoes and boiling fat.
• Keep away from the fried batter and won-ton pastry dishes and ask for steamed or boiled rice.
• The next batter was pinch-hitter Jeffrey Hammonds.
• Stir batter down and bake cakes on a lightly greased griddle, using about cup batter per pancake.
• I could see his fingers working signals behind the mitt so intensely the batter had to have seen too.
• Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon.

43. BEGUILE
• Therefore you can happily build word pictures with which to beguile and captivate an audience.
• All her life she had been beguiled by physical beauty in men and in women.
• That does not suggest the outrage that a perusal of Hansard might beguile readers into expecting.
• They beguiled the hours away on a rowboat.
• The sea had been blue and calm, beguiling the unwary.
• a slick salesman who beguiles unwary investors

44. BELATED
• Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
• The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
• John made a belated attempt to apologize.
• He was given a belated birthday cake with 60 candles.
• I got a belated birthday card from my cousin yesterday.
• a belated birthday card
• Of course I welcome that, but it is a belated conversion.
• her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else
• A belated rush to help is under way, complete with the good intentions and hazards that hasty rescues invariably
bring.
• It was while they were finishing their belated tea that Mrs. Blunt arrived.
• The Revolution certainly marked a belated victory for the policy of Exclusion, and
finally established the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
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• I set him down on the hood of the car and gave him a belated warning about snakes.
belated recognition/realization/acknowledgement•
Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
• Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of
stories.
• The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought
to be so.

45. BENEDICTION
• As the sermon ends he kneels, waves a benediction, and covers his face with his hands.
• Jack Kennedy summoning Robert Frost to deliver an inauguration poem and confer a bardic benediction on the
new administration.
• Second, there is no concluding benediction or chatimah.
• Hughes kept moving at a deliberate pace, turning right and left to give his benediction.
• BRUHche n. From the Hebrew, meaning benediction, blessing.
• I give these children my benediction.
• The priest enjoyed the benediction of the old man in the name of the Great Spirit who made all men.
• BIENTSHn v. To give the benediction after a meal.

46. BENEFICENT
• If she had learnt anything about life it was that no beneficent creator was in charge.
• Many beneficent projects have to be foregone if sufficient funds are lacking.
• Was it a beneficent spell nurtured by our ancestors' good, obviously very good, karma?

47. BENIGN
• If kept in a small cul-de-sac by itself, it will be utterly benign.
• Perhaps the expansion can continue and possibly it will one day taper off in benign fashion.
• There is an hierarchical structure, but managerial authority is respected as a benign guardian of company interests.
• the animal's benign nature
• Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.
• But gifts such as these can not be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most benign of governments.
• The benign old woman wore a big flowered garden hat and tended a magical flower garden.
• a benign tumor

48. BEQUEATH
• Tor Edgar is a giant man peering out shyly from behind glasses bequeathed by John Lennon.
• Inside it should be a will signed by Dickie, bequeathing him his money and his income.
• John Frazer made a will bequeathing his local church $5000.
• He bequeathed his valuable genealogical collections to the Society of Antiquaries, of which he had been
a fellow since 1901.
• Hass generously bequeathed me his idea; it was a book he would never write.
• Their deity, Goddess Vankul Mata ji, rides on a camel and specifically bequeathed the animal to them.
• It was the richest legacy he could possibly have bequeathed to his people.
• He made a fortune from them, which he later bequeathed to the school that was his life.
• Now I feel strangely at a loss in the leaving because I must bequeath what was never mine to keep.
bequeath something to somebody
• The letter was bequeathed to the museum by a collector.
bequeath /bɪˈkwiːD, bɪˈkwiːθ/ verb [transitive]to officially arrange for someone to have money or property that you
own after your death, by writing it in your WILL
bequeath something to somebody Sharp left the museum nothing, instead bequeathing his collection to a charitable
foundation.
bequeath somebody something He bequeathed his wife 514 acres of arable land.

49. BERATE
• She took a shaky step back, mentally berating herself for continuing to react to him in this inexplicable fashion.
• Don't be stupid, she berated herself.
• He berates his then-girlfriend, known only as Jackie, for taking much-needed breaks from caring for him.

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• Just occasionally the tensions spilled over, such as when she berated Moira publicly about the way she
was feeding her first child.
• I seemed always to be berating myself for visiting with friends and spending a Sunday afternoon talking.
• Still, she was able to berate Patsy and Betsy for giggling.
• He berated the White House time and again for not building support for the Bosnia operation within Congress.

50. BLANDISHMENTS
• But he soon learned that such bribes and blandishments would not help his case.
• Forget the smooth, caramelized blandishments of cognac.
• How sensible she had been not to give way to any of his blandishments.
• They introduce into our austerities their Italianate blandishments.
• He mistrusted ravishment by charm, spiritual appeal, force, wit or other blandishments.
• But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of
established society.

51. BLASPHEMY
• Victor's plan for this creature's coming resurrection would be a blasphemy.
• For his blasphemy and irresponsible behaviour, he was doomed to wander about like a sea-tossed ghost, never to rest
again.
• The word itself is sacred, and to suggest otherwise is blasphemy.
• Wilful impediment of the sacred moves was not only ill-mannered, but the worst form of blasphemy.
• They would be joined by the H-P contingent, a cautious lot sensitive to all sorts of blasphemies against previously
held wisdom.
• They are also interpretations that do not tolerate challenges - either in the form of offences against
the king or blasphemy.
• Was he relishing this moment, deliberately prolonging it in anticipation out of bile at the cadet's blasphemy?
• It was too close to blasphemy to be comfortable.

52. BONK
• My mother walked in and caught us bonking.
• Casnoff was bonked by a piece of falling scenery during a performance.
• They said she'd bonked every man in college.
• But she will bonk just about anybody on the crew.
• To have any hope of bonking on the beach, he'd be better off packing something more basic.
bonk2 noun informal 1 [singular] British English the action of having sex – used humorously a quick
bonk2 [countable] the action of hitting someone lightly on the head, or hitting your head against
something3 [countable] a sudden short deep sound, for example when something hits the ground
Examples from the Corpus

bonk• A quick bonk in a lay-by is not my idea of romance.

53. BRAILLE
• The lines of the images stand out from the high quality Montval paper and are accompanied by a braille text.
• A braille option is also supplied and is easily fitted if required.
• Previous evidence has shown that fluent braille involves a number
of subsidiary perceptual, cognitive and manual skills.
• The weights are marked in braille with irregular bumps that to the uninformed would appear to be defects.
• As the letter was in braille it was never broadcast.
• The braille workshop in Gloucester prison is designed to rehabilitate inmates, as well as helping blind and
partially sighted children.

54. BRAMBLE
• He skipped over roots and brambles.
• To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high
nettles and clumps of bramble.
• In a month the indigo bunting will sing and build its nest in the brambles.
• Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat, wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump.
• He rearranged the brambles, got back on his bike, and pedalled round to the mill yard.
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• We turn under the brambles and sorrel, break up the fertile earth, and plant the magic seeds.
• At this time brambles are dormant, the sap is within the ground and the brambles themselves have become dry.
• The fattest rabbits in winter are often found in close proximity to brambles.

55. BRASSY
• He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
• Directly behind him was a huge billboard with her picture looming big and brassy back at her.
• When I reached Denis's, I'd almost forgotten about my brassy hair.
• The men stir earlier in Glasgow; and the women have more brassy outfits.

56. BRAVURA
• Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
• It was simply a bravura display of useless knowledge.
• An austere bravura exhibition for six dancers, it offers a series of solos of ever-increasing technical demands.
• Ware traces their furtive encounters with uncommon detail and considerable bravura.
• A bit more bravura and the butcher would have had him.
• This is primarily a Delightful Precipice album, with much bravura contrapuntal writing and
Django's vision more focused than ever.
• To the very end, the ice bridge of 1899 became a target for acts of bravura.

57. BRAY
• They're a familiar sound - police, ambulance, fire engine; electronic donkeys braying.
• Like a tortured donkey, the klaxon brayed its amplified signal.
• The fisherman brayed laughter, pleased with his joke, and delighted to see the boy had composed himself.
• The modulated, rhythmic braying of that mule fell upon his ears.
• Licensed hawkers were circulating, braying the merits of spiced sausages containing only real animal protein - so
they claimed.

58. BRIO
• And they must be conducted with confidence and brio.
• If we'd needed the final touch of homicidal brio, this would have had to be it.
• At her wedding Phil took spectacularly to the bottle and put the boot in with some brio.
• Nevertheless, Britain's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a
little flair.
• Having told her story with some brio, Miss Breeze burst into tears and was comforted by the motherly Miss
Maitland.
• But on the whole he carries it off with brio and sensitivity.
• Great Groups almost always have this quality of youthful brio.

59. BROADSIDE
• a broadside against abortion• When the Merrimac approached, they delivered broadsides and were then towed back
with promptness.
• After spending 17 years in Congress hurling broadsides at foreign creditors and defending state enterprises, Mr.
Franco has changed course.
• There were numerous illustrated broadsides and woodcuts which carried their message in visual form.
• It printed prose and verse in broadside and chapbook form till its activities were cut short by the War.
broadside2 adverb with the longest side facing something sideways broadside to I brought the boat in broadside to the
beach.

Broadside
• His van was hit broadside by a speeding car.
Related topics: Motor vehicles
broadside3 verb [transitive] especially American English to crash into the side of another vehicle→ See Verb table
broadside• Jerry's car was broadsided by a pickup truck.

60. BUOYANT
• the buoyant 22-year-old dancer• A pilot can make Alvin hover, neutrally buoyant.
• And in comparison with the South-East, the North's housing market looks positively buoyant.

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• In the last decade of his life he grew less buoyant.
• Plymouth have an appalling away record but they must be buoyant after their Roker Park win.
• Sales of bread and sandwiches fell, but were offset by buoyant demand for more expensive sweet lines such
as cakes and doughnuts.
• Cork is a very buoyant material.
• In addition the conquest of the land required a stronger skeleton once the buoyant support of the sea was
finally abandoned.
• Through the doorway Mrs. Beach, buoyant upon her bustle, caught her eye and beckoned.
• Yet Daley remained outwardly serene, sometimes buoyant, while all around him the tension was building.
buoyant /ˈbɔɪəntˈbɔɪənt, ˈbuːjənt/ adjective a buoyant market, economy etc is successful and has a lot
of trading activity, and prices are rising rather than falling There is also a buoyant market for expensive Swiss
watches. Sterling lost ground against a buoyant yen.—
buoyancy noun [uncountable]The trends in consumer spending scarcely suggest a lack of economic buoyancy. the
continued buoyancy of domestic demand, which grew by 7.7% this year

61. CACHET
• They were invited as VIPs, to decorate the crowd, to bring added cachet to a Lasers game.
• Warner Bros. had also chosen to promote the concerts with top rock promoter Ron Delsner to lend the show
added cachet.
• Controller of Nuclear Power has a certain cachet.
• The fact that Aharon had just returned from the Soviet Union gave him a certain cachet among the leftists.
• By the early 1960s, as a consequence, anticommunism had lost its cachet.
• This being so, civilization in the singular has lost some of its cachet.
• It had not the cachet of Oxford, but its teachings were sound.

62. CALIPH
• Shortly afterwards, his defeated opponent Ali reappeared and was in turn acclaimed caliph.
• He was the second caliph to govern after the death of the Prophet. 2.
• The stranger asked permission to approach the caliph, who granted it and invited him to be seated.
• As soon as the city showed signs of disorder, the caliph ordered women to stay at home.
• Several hours earlier the caliph woke feeling very strange.
• Only the violence of the subversive could interact with the violence of the caliph.
• The caliph is the successor to the Prophet, the one who takes his place as governor of the faithful.
• The caliph was veiled because he represented a dangerous concentration of power-the power to kill.

63. CAMBER
• Snicking through St Mary's, a sharpish left-hander with an odd camber and change of surface.
• Ellie leaned back against the school piano, her gray skirt revealing the camber of her thighs.

64. CAMEO
• Iggy Pop has a cameo as a bordello patron named Rat Face.
• Danny DeVito made a cameo appearance as a lawyer.
• Joanna had hoped to play a cameo role ... but pressure of time meant she couldn't.
• But he doesn't want to play a cameo.
• In my time a cameo set in pearls was thought sufficient.
• Little cameos come to mind: The glorious greens of the rolling countryside in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
• His looming cameo proclaims sweet innocence, and through the next two-hours we will endure several sightings of
his ghost.
• From rings she went on to study and catalogue collections of cameos and other jewels from antiquity to the present.
cameo role/appearance
• Dave did make a cameo appearance in his kayak to run it but quickly reverted back to the raft.
• Running back Terry Kirby made only a cameo appearance.
• Joanna had hoped to play a cameo role ... but pressure of time meant she couldn't.
• The villainous Darth Vader also plays a cameo role.
• Numerous cartoon stars make cameo appearances and Kathleen Turner is the voice of Jessica Rabbit.
• Rumours suggesting that Shane MacGowan is likely to make cameo appearances could not be confirmed.
• Today he is more of a celebrity than an actor, making cameo appearances, commercials and turning up at premières.

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• Wilson makes a memorable cameo appearance showing some serious cleavage as a cocktail
waitress who attempts to seduce Guy.

65. CAPITAL
• The company's logo is a large capital "B."
• During the year the bank actually had 12. 18 billion pesetas in capital gains from its fixed-income portfolio.
• Payroll taxes are levied only on wages and salaries-not profits, interest, dividends, or capital gains.
• Some investment managers may compensate by making
a slight switch in emphasis towards capital growth investments and away from high yielding equities.
• The fund manager can, therefore, select the mix of bonds which offers the most attractive yield
and capital growth potential.
• However, cuts in capital investment and fuel supply problems have reduced capacity growth to something around
3% per year.
• The recycling industry is making huge capital investments in equipment.
• In the latter case it will be necessary to work closely with the local authority in carrying out a capital project.
• We intend to lighten the burden of capital taxes and reform the taxation of savings.
capital /ˈkæpətl/ noun [uncountable]1money or property used to produce wealth Countries around the world are
hungry for capital and economic development.→ see also RETURN ON CAPITAL→ CUSTOMER CAPITAL→ HUMAN
CAPITAL→ INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL→ SOCIAL CAPITAL2money from shareholders and lenders that can be invested by
a business in assets in order to produce profits There is a shortage of capital for the purchase of new aircraft. Since the
stock market fall, companies have been prevented from raising capital by selling new stock. The company desperately
needs a fresh injection of capital. The company has bought lots of land over the last few years, which ties up
capital (=makes it unavailable for use) as it waits to develop it.→ AUTHORIZED CAPITAL→ CIRCULATING
CAPITAL→ CORE CAPITAL→ DEBT CAPITAL→ EQUITY CAPITAL→ FIXED CAPITAL→ FLIGHT CAPITAL→ ISSUED
CAPITAL→ LOAN CAPITAL→ NOMINAL CAPITAL→ OPERATING CAPITAL→ ORDINARY CAPITAL→ PAID-IN
CAPITAL→ PREFERENCE CAPITAL→ RISK CAPITAL→ SHARE CAPITAL→ SPLIT CAPITAL→ TIER 1 CAPITAL→ TIER 2
CAPITAL→ UNCALLED CAPITAL→ UNISSUED CAPITAL→ VENTURE CAPITAL→ WORKING CAPITAL

66. CARAPACE
• There are other, less dangerous and difficult ways to shed the cluttered carapace of house.
• How the sly one squeaked, howled, sizzled, hissed, and swelled his hairy carapace!
• Its carapace measured only four inches.
• They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments.
• No one, not even Challenger, would see what lay beneath its stony carapace.
• Between catwalks loomed the stooped carapaces of the Titans.
• The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace, cracking it.
• The carapace of the vent crab is porcelain white suffused with lavender, the claws manicured black at the tips.

67. CAREER
• Like his father, Tommy chose a career in the Army.
• I wanted to find out more about careers in publishing.
• The win was the 250th in Anderson's coaching career.
• Ripley's texts reflect the contradictions of her career.
• Which format a participant should choose will depend upon his or her career stage, work situation
and individual learning style.
• The scandal destroyed his career as a politician.
• Later on in his career he became first secretary at the British Embassy in Washington.
• Will spent most of his career as a lawyer.
• And that is how I saw this new turn in my career.
• It depicts the sad tale of a lavatory attendant, Jim, who reads newspapers to seek a new career.
• The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career.
• Perhaps in no other political career is defeat at the polls so dreadful.
• First investment bankers wanted practical people, willing to subordinate their educations to their careers.
• The closer you come to mimicking the originals, the sooner you can advance your career to the next level.
career structure
• I like to see a career structure in the company I work for 28.
• Teachers will be guaranteed a proper salary and career structure.
• In October he announced negotiations to review all civil service wage and career structures dating back to 1946.

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• Proposed changes in the clinical career structure should make clinical nursing less of
a poorrelation in terms of financial recognition and status.
• Marsh and colleagues found that there was a clear and established career structure among the youths on the terraces.
• There is a shortage of suitable recruits in the diplomatic service, which offers varied experience abroad and a
good career structure.
• These will directly affect the career structure within the banks, causing distortions, blockages and
a recorded division of labour.
• To make a profession out of psychical research was hardly possible, even though by the 1880s there were career
structures in more-established sciences.
career2 verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
British English to move forwards quickly without control,
making sudden sideways movements SYN careen American English
career down/along/towards etc
The truck careered down the hill and into a tree.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
Career
• The car careered out diagonally across the lane, heading straight for the wall on the other side.
• They careered towards it, speeding up the while.
career down/along/towards etc
• And Kenneth Branagh is careering towards an early knighthood.
• The tram was careering towards Dennistoun and was just passing the Eastern District Hospital.
• They careered towards it, speeding up the while.
• In her dream, they were still careering along the road.
• Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of
city centre roads.
• As we careered down towards South Wimbledon, I remembered other trips I'd taken to church.
career /kəˈrɪə-ˈrɪr/ noun [countable]1a job or profession that you have been trained for and intend to do for your
working life, and which offers the chance to be PROMOTED (=move up through different levels)My son is thinking
of starting a career in the medical profession. He has devoted his legal career to defending those facing execution.
You should think long and hard before changing careers. career in I decided to take up a career in
advertising.→ PORTFOLIO CAREER2career soldier/teacher/diplomat etc someone who intends to be a soldier, teacher
etc for most of their life, not just for a particular period of time A career diplomat, she has served with distinction at
posts in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Baghdad, and Kuwait.

68. CARICATURE
• The young man looked like a caricature of a South American polo player.
• Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost
to comic book caricatures.
• Unfortunately, now four years later our original leader has become a cartoon caricature.
• Klein began his career by drawing caricatures of local politicians in the paper.
• Their personalities are easily exaggerated, their foibles ripe for caricature or psychotherapy.
• Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers.
• It's a sort of caricature of a machine.
• We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey.
• Now she added quick caricatures and portraits to her entertainments at Hunnewell parties.
• The caricature is crude, but recognisable.
• Yet all these caricatures are historically misplaced.
• But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials,
acting conveys shades, nuances and inconsistencies.
Related topics: Visual
caricature2 verb [transitive] to draw or describe someone or something in a way that makes them seem silly caricature
somebody/something as something Scientists are often caricatured as absent-minded professors.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
Caricature
• Many celebrity customers have been caricatured and hung on the restaurant's walls.
• As such its history can be caricatured as having had three stages.
• And we allowed ourselves to be caricatured by our opponents.
• Economic gurus tend to think of themselves as hard scientists, while caricaturing educators as limp, at best.
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• It is less understandable when the union is caricatured in more seriously researched publications.
• And even if there is a deal, Mr. Clinton will try to caricature Republican reforms as monsters from the deep.

69. CARTOGRAPHY
• It is a book about cartography, archaeology, anthropology and several other things, as well
as exploration and imperial lust.
• In this chapter, hardware for automated cartography has been described.
• In this chapter the hardware and software aspects of automated cartography are described.
• The production of block diagrams and other representations of spatial data in graphical form is also part of
automated cartography.
• Digital cartography promised a more efficient and flexible way of doing this kind of work.
• From the late 1730s he began to develop a more ambitious career in cartography.
• This is the sharp end of modern cartography, a revolution in processing geographic data for practical uses.
• The effect of computer mapping techniques on traditional cartography has already been considerable.

70. CAST
• But his style casts a dark shadow over the material, rendering it claustrophobic.
• This sent them on their way without having to trouble too much over casting about for tracks.
• The same approach can be used where the shade is cast by a wall, fence or building.
• After the artist's death 28 examples were cast in bronze, only 11 of which now remain in private hands.
• In the tomb they found a statue of a horse cast in bronze.
• The meat industry complained that the nutrition chart cast its products in an unfavorable way.
• Sparks leaped as more wood was cast onto the fire.
• Phil Gramm of Texas have now cast their lot with Buchanan.
• You see everybody casts their tuppence worth into the pool but nobody details the route to a better future.
• Participants will be helped to identify their own angry inner bums, and cast those barriers aside.
• Cast your line across the current and upstream
.cast a look/glance at somebody/something
• Betsy cast a look at her dad.
• Taking a break from singing an ear-splitting aria, Chang Yaohua casts a glance at the odd building in
the background.
• John le Grant sat with the others, casting a glance at the pitcher as he passed. cast ... in the role of
• Where else will you be cast in the role of a dolphin?
• The Falcons have been cast in the role of curtain-raisers and will open the show on both days.
• Doctors such as geriatricians and psychiatrists have been cast in the role
of fixers and gatekeepers to protect the institutions.
• In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model.
• Once cast in the role of Guardian of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, a scientist ceases to be scientific.
• Deronda resents being cast in the role of listener and mentor.
• No longer are local authorities cast in the role of protectors of unpopular, run-down schools.
cast• Why don't you have a cast?
• Mandy has to have her arm in a cast for six weeks.
• Films like 'Ben Hur' were made with a cast of thousands.
• Given a great script and cast, Steven Soderbergh is unsurpassed as a storyteller.
• The entire cast of the play deserves praise for this performance.
• The granite columns give a pinkish cast to the base of the building.
• McIntosh's work consists of plaster casts of the artist's own face.
• The recipes come from an all-star cast of contributors, each a specialist in his or her own right.
• And the cast is fairly strong.
• Combined with the near-sleepwalking tendencies of the cast, this rendering offered few hair-raising moments on
the vocal Richter scale.
• The cast includes Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith.
all-star cast
• The recipes come from an all-star cast of contributors, each a specialist in his or her own right.
• An all-star cast includes Orson Welles and George Sanders. Make ... cast
• Reaumur was concerned also with trying to make cast iron less brittle.

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71. CATALYST
• The town acts as a catalyst for social development producing new cultural orientations among its residents.
• Forbes, speaking by telephone, promoted his flat tax plan as a catalyst for economic good times.
• John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure.
• It would usually start with three or four of the top players serving as catalysts.
• But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt.
• That training was the catalyst bringing together many of the negative elements of the law as practiced today.
• The catalyst for her new ensemble was undoubtedly her 1987 marriage to her fellow troubadour Mr. David Stewart.
catalyst for
• The women's movement acted as a catalyst for change in the workplace.

72. CATHARSIS
• The same note of emotional catharsis was sounded by the Romantic poets in general, after the desiccation of late
neoclassicism.
• Provide for catharsis - release of interdepartmental or interpersonal conflicts of long standing.
• Barney was an advanced thinker, a believer in catharsis.
• The sociologist Scheff is probably the social scientist who has attempted the
most thoroughgoing analysis of catharsis in social life.
• This revolt is a kind of catharsis.
• Music is a means of catharsis for them and they say they like to do things in extreme.
• What we witness is not an aesthetic spectacle bringing with it the catharsis which the ritual of the theater can
produce.
• This is the Neds venting their frustrations but finding order through catharsis - a chaotic way of feeling better.

73. CAULK
• You may need to make other repairs, such as repointing or replacing damaged wood, siding or masonry before
you caulk.
• The trouble was that the company that would eventually caulk and waterproof the building had not yet
been appointed.
• As a favor, the masons at the test site had said they would do the caulking of the mockup.

74. CENTENARY
• In a society that values freedom above all, the obvious way to celebrate a centenary is just to keep driving.
• Please help us raise funds now so our four-legged inmates can celebrate our centenary in 1992.
• When Einstein's centenary came along in 1979 there was a flurry of publishing activity.
• An event such as a school centenary can often produce a wealth of material from the local community.
• I wish to produce the brochure in time for its issue to
have maximum circulation and impact to ensure a successful centenary.
• Part of the programme included talks prepared by the cadets on the subject of the centenary.
• The centenary of I von Hitchens' birth is commemorated by several exhibitions of his work.
• By extreme good fortune, Black pool can celebrate its tramway centenary with one of its original ten cars of 1885.

75. CHASTISE
• The traditional whipping-stick the accusation of being photographic used to chastise artists was now extended to
include cinematography.
• Tom chastises her for her past recklessness but agrees.
• Juditha Brown sent a personal letter to the judge chastising her for her ruling.
• Just a flirt, she chastised herself, and probably a married flirt for all that.
• Fool! she chastised herself, giving herself a shake as the buzzer on the microwave announced that
the chicken was ready.
• Coleman chastised the board for not taking action sooner.
• Then some old women placed themselves at the front of the mob, alternately calming the children and half-
heartedly chastising them.

76. CHIMERICAL
• The corollary to this is the claim that bureaucracy in police stations is chimerical.

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77. CHIVALRY
• As chivalry required, I obeyed.
• For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
• Had she really been sent to him by the spirit of True Valiance himself, to test his chivalry and honour?
• The Courts established concepts of chivalry and honour; each knight was to choose and serve one lady.
• Nor is this the first instance of chivalry in the midst of frenzy.
• Semi-official and unofficial collections include rolls of arms, armorials, ordinaries, work books
and papers relating to orders of chivalry.
• To the knighthood, or chivalry, of the Middle Ages war had long given a sense of purpose.
• If you want a lot of nonsense about Southern chivalry, go to Gettysburg.

78. CHUTZPAH
• His reputation, along with luck and chutzpah, helped him get unique access to Ames.
• His was a lifetime spent on the borderline between chutzpah and hubris.
• And who else would have the happy chutzpah to seem so natural doing it?
• This is chutzpah on rye bread with a side order of pickles and sour cream.
• And the resolution to this scene is exquisite in its chutzpah and farcical bad taste.
• It took a lot of chutzpah to quit your job like that.
• Had word of Hanson's interest leaked to the market, the stockbroker's chutzpah could almost
have bankrupted the firm.
• But you can't help admiring the chutzpah.
• No one else has the chutzpah to claim that.

79. CLAMOUR
• We approached the east landing cautiously and the cliffs awoke with bird clamour which was to assail our ears until
we left.
• This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up.
• Then the familiar clamour of bickering voices that will last for months began.
• Just then the raucous clamour of alarm bells sounded from all over the house and from the basement area ahead of
him.
• Guildford returned leading a large company of masked figures who marched into the hall to the raucous clamour of
tambour and fife.
• The station was filled with the clamour of shouting voices and movement.
• The clamour reached a crescendo last year when the full extent of the problems relating to
the Solicitors Indemnity Fund emerged.
public clamour
• But there is no public clamour for the war to end nor any sign that the Kremlin is ready to back down.
• He suggested the basic reason for the public clamour over strikes reflects their political repercussions rather than
any direct economic impact.
Clamour
• The result is sometimes desperation prose, each individual phrase clamouring for attention.
• With local elections due in April 1991, the party knew that its candidates would be clamouring for lots of vote-
winning enticements.
• That is why environmentalists have often clamoured for regulation, as the best way to conceal the true costs
of policy.
• This was leaked to the media, who began to clamour for stricter control.
• Carolyn had always resented being left behind, and clamoured for the shops with their sweets, toys and new clothes.
• Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service, which is expected to launch later this
year.
clamour to do something•
Although it was the size of a pantry, they endlessly clung to the bars and clamoured to be let out.
• Parents will naturally clamour to get their kids into schools at the top of the performance tables.
• Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service, which is expected to launch later this
year.

80. CLARET
• I don't suppose you know much about claret but this Chateau Margaux 1875 is nectar.
• And now for something completely different: cheap and cheerful claret.

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• He thought she looked maddeningly attractive, and emboldened by the fine claret, pressed his knee against hers
under the table.
• The Abbe Gerard was a compassionate, charitable man but one who liked his claret.
• Hope smiled and mimicked the Colonel's previous gesture including the picking up of his claret.
• He even puts in the occasional bottle of claret.
• Not a night of vintage claret.

81. CLASSIC
• Professor Carey wrote the classic account of early explorations in Africa and Asia.
• a classic blue suit
• the classic Bogart version of 'The Maltese Falcon'
• a classic car
• The invention of the X-ray was a classic case of discovering something by accident.
• The Coca-Cola bottle is one of the classic designs of our century.
• The misunderstanding was nobody's fault and was a classic example of bad communication.
• Orson Welles directed the classic film "Citizen Kane."
• The historic and beautifully renovated Alex Theatre is a live venue also known for its screenings of classic films.
• From 1880 to 1914, the classic gold standard also applied internationally to offset trade surpluses and deficits.
• He bought cars, a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle, boats, travel trailers and expensivepickups.
• He also was influenced by the emerging Craftsman movement and the classic Mission style he found in California.
• She made the classic mistake of trying to drive away without releasing the hand brake.
• 'Jane Eyre' is Bronte's classic novel of courage in the face of despair.
• The current classic paddle strokes are fine in certain circumstance but there are other occasions when
different techniques are needed.
• Sarah falls into the classic professional bracket.
• the classic rock music of the sixties
• 2001 is a classic science fiction movie.
• This is a classic search argument.
• The Rolling Stones produced a string of classic singles in the mid 60s including 'Satisfaction' and 'Brown Sugar'.
classic example/mistake/case etc
• Ashmore, in Cranborne Chase, is a classic example, and there are many similar villages in the Yorkshire Wolds.
• Take the classic case, catatonic schizophrenia-okay?
• A classic example is a capacity to store water in their feathers.
• A classic example of a directory is the telephone White Pages, which allows us to locate people and telephone
numbers.
• Graphite is the classic example of a substance with a layer structure.
• A classic example of cognitive processes is that of animal memory and the demonstration of subsequent decisions
based thereon.
• But such an approach is a classic example of treating symptoms of organizational dysfunction, rather than
its root causes.
classic cars
• Seems they were part of a Model taking place in Lake County that drew 102 of the classic cars.
• The Sunday Times carried half a page of ads for classic cars.
• Since the bottom fell out of the market for supercars and classic cars, hot-rods have taken over.
• They were there for a motoring festival, with more than two hundred million pounds worth of classic cars on show.
• He is a devout Catholic who loves classic cars, stodgy puddings and paintings.

Classic
• My band saw is a classic made in about 1960 by Robinsons.
• Tuesday night's game against the Clippers was a classic.
• My marriage was a classic of its time.
• Hernan said that he was getting by primarily on Cliff Notes and movie versions of the assigned classics.
• a collection of literary classics
• The smallest category comprises those that have actually become minor classics.
• Movies like "Paris, Texas' have become modern classics.
• It was a match to rank with the Lord's classics of 1953 and 1963.
• Saskia also draws from the classics for her language.
all-time/modern/design etc classic

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• The liquid engineers A modern classic.
• A favourite of many and an all-time classic you can't afford to be without.
• Puzznic is destined to become an all-time classic in the Tetris/ Klax mould, and no serious puzzle-player should be
without it.
• This really is the prize of a lifetime: nearly £2,000 worth of modern classic.
• Both offer unexpected views of Evans, swinging mightily through standards, modern classics and originals.

82. CLOSE
• The first shock was that the mill closed.
• The legislation closes a lot of loopholes in the tax law.
• Close all applications before shutting down your computer.
• The pension fund was broke, the mines were closed, and it looked like the moon.
• Most of the stores close at 6:30.
• It's closing down ... declared a fire safety risk ... only a few years after it was reopened.
• After 85 years, the local newspaper closed down last month.
• Ann closed her book and stood up.
• When he finishes his supper, the boy tucks the lunch box back into a shopping bag and closes his eyes.
• The hotel is closed in the winter.
• Anheuser-Busch even threatened to close its St Louis plant if the tax measure passed, though nobody believed that.
• The special offer for tickets closes June 3.
• The play opens Monday and is scheduled to close March 20.
• WalMart shares closed only 4 cents down.
• The door closed silently behind Mariko.
• Hundreds of timber mills have been closed since World War II.
• Close the curtains - it's getting dark.
• She took the necklace out of the box and closed the lid.
• Do you mind if I close the window?
• What time does the mall close tonight?
• The cut should close up within a few days.
• The novel closes when the family reunites in Prague.
• Okay, close your eyes and make a wish.
closed ... eyes
• He put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes.
• Hitched horses in front of the saloons shivered and closed their eyes.
• I got into bed and closed my eyes.
• She hit the other one, and then sat stock-still; tears ran from her closed eyes.
• He closed his eyes and groaned.
• He pulled his awkward cloak about his shoulders and closed his eyes, emptying his head of preoccupations.
• If she closed her eyes she could see again those glittering lights and hear the gay, entrancing music.
• I closed my eyes, trying to make the chaos outside a dream.
closing remarks
• Mr. Brooke I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his remarks, and not least his closing remarks.
• Mr. Brooke I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for his kind closing remarks.
• In his closing remarks , Merrill said that the plan "reflects the hard work of many people."
close up/down
• The stock rebounded somewhat today, closing up 1 / 4 at 54 12.
• Adventure giants Atlas, alas, have closed down.
• It was very kind of you to look at me when you were ready to close up.
• The stock prices of both airlines closed down Monday.
• Imprinting and cell differentiation both involve the closing down of genes but the mechanisms are evidently distinct.
• The service will close down on 5 September and will be replaced by a metered service.
• Cinder blocks have closed up the door and windows.
• Or maybe they had closed down the Project and abandoned him.
close the gap
• He never had a chance, and he never closed the gap.
• Over the final 40 metres Louise closed the gap and was just first to the touch in 1.14.55.
• Like Schüssler Fiorenza, Phyllis Trible seeks to close the gap between past and present.
• Gretna, meanwhile, are hoping to close the gap on leaders Murton by beating Ferry hill at Raydale Park.

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• But it has closed the gap slightly.
• Moors are closing the gap steadily on the leading teams, and three points today could lift them three places into fifth.
• Boughton Hall closed the gap with an eight wicket triumph at Huyton.
• Finally the research vessel began to sidle sideways towards us, using its bow thrusters to close the gap with Hsu Fu.
closed ... borders
• Neighbouring countries have closed their borders.
Close
• Dad and I have always been very close.
• The grocery store on Victory Boulevard is closer.
• We haven't finished remodeling the kitchen yet, but we're close.
• My sister and I used to argue a lot, but now we're very close.
• Our job requires close contact with the sales manager.
• What we need now is closer cooperation between the sales and marketing staffs.
• On closer examination of the facts it became clear that the boy was innocent.
• We have always been a close family.
• It turns out that Julie is a close friend of my cousin Kelly.
• Is there some one he would listen to, such as a close friend or relative?
• Rosen has worked politically for Kennedy since his 1980 presidential primary run and developed
a close friendship with the senator.
• It is important that the close link with the local authority remains.
• Take a close look at this photograph.
• Mom and I are a lot closer now than we were when I was a teenager.
• The school encourages close partnerships between teachers and parents.
• Bormann followed the simple principle of always remaining in the closest proximity to the source of
all grace and favor.
• Snowden's close reasoning and unerring instinct for words were allied with Maxton's humour and Churchill's daring.
• Federal Trade Commission officials would not comment on the deal, but are expected by industry experts to give
it close scrutiny.
• But the Gulf of California is closer than you think, and currently under assault by everything
from pollution to poaching.
• She was never very close to her stepmother.
• I'm still very close to my parents.
• Are they in good condition, especially those close to the house?
• Our birthdays are close together.

close to
• The government spends close to $100 billion a year on education.
• Inflation is now close to 6%.
• We drove close on 500 miles Saturday.
• It was close on midnight by the time they got home.
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• There must be close to a hundred people in the hall.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• Barnes was close to death.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
• By the time we left, it was close to midnight.
• I'm very close to my brothers.
• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• Which of them is close to shops?
• Do you have any shoes that are closer in color to the bridesmaid's dress?
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• Amy's house is close to the school.
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
close to
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.

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• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• Which of them is close to shops?
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
close to doing something
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• Which of them is close to shops?
close to
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• Which of them is close to shops?
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
close to
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• Which of them is close to shops?
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
take/have/get a close look (at something)
• Clare Moynihan takes a closer look.
• I cautiously take a closer look.
• I picked up the binoculars to take a closer look.
• The killer whale was in motion, swimming slowly around the raft to take a closer look.
• Three or four weeks later, you can take a close look.
• They probably took a closer look as its shares fell to just over $ 1 last month.
• Take a closer look at the warning labels surrounding you on a daily basis.
• When he took a closer look he was horrified
.close to
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• Which of them is close to shops?
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
a close second/third etc
• An irresistible attraction to destructive men ran a close second.
• Etzioni and Ward a close second and Nisbet and Fontana less promising in these selected books by them.
• Business is a close second in its neglect of children, leaving workers without sufficient family time.
• Sea bream, with shallot and red wine sauce, comes a close second in the restaurant.
• Uncle Nick came a close second, Robin and Jenny joint thirds; thinking of them all, Ruth ached with homesickness.
• Neil Young, whose eccentric recording diversions have made him a marketing nightmare, is a close second, though.
• Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids' top ten of moral panics.

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• Put to the test, we suspect the anti-bat vote would be a close second to the anti-rat faction.
that was close
• Hoffman threw a 1-0 pitch that was close, but West ruled it a ball.
• The three space directions and imaginary time would form a space-time that was closed in on itself,
without boundaries or edges.
• The guard began to search the pile of leaves where we were hiding, but then got distracted by a noise from the house.
"Phew, that was close!" said John. "C'mon, let's get out of here!"
• In addition, I called an agency that was close to landing me a job and informed it that I was employed.
• She looked from Wycliffe to Lucy Lane and back again with apprehension that was close to panic.
close to
• This activity was close to a couple of shops which sold animal furs.
• She also has remained close to another ex-Cardinal, Lasers center Anita Kaplan.
• He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
• Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
• Which of them is close to shops?
• He jogged rapidly keeping close to the hedgerows and avoiding the open fields.
• Of these, Corinne came the closest to the Rooseveltian ideal.
• Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
close links
• There were close links between the alchemists and the gnostics, and for the gnostics the picture was bleaker still.
• Mercator's career exemplifies the close links which existed between mathematical theorists, teachers, and
instrument-makers at this time.
• He is exploring closer links with Diocesan and other denominational youth bodies which overlap in their aims.
• The Centre aims to maintain a strong focus on those questions affecting the voluntary sector and to maintain close
links with it.
• This is formally independent of the Labour Party, but has close links with its leaders.
• More recently, philosophy has had very close links with mathematics and artificial intelligence.
• A new view of war, albeit one which had close links with past ideas, was gradually emerging.
Close
• She was holding her baby close.
• The police questioned him closely about his involvement in the robbery.
• For that, you would sit behind the basket, seeing half the game up close.
• Close by a couple were kissing, holding each other close to ward off the cold wind that had sprung up.
• There were close to a hundred.
• Living close to overhead electric power lines causes health hazards.
• Anyone who works close to the darker side of human nature can not help taking on board some of the pain.
close by
• Her parents live close by.
Close
• Exactly when the Gingrich case will come to a close has become a matter of bitter dispute.
• John Champagne and Bob Guadiana grabbed their chance to lead the way as 1991 drew to a close.
• Several hours later, the meeting drew to a close and the board members filed out of the room.
• Fran lives at 37 Appian Close.
• Since then, Service Corp. stock has zipped up from 44 to 47 at the close of trading last week.
• At the close of trading on the stock market, Ciena shares were up to $37.
• The beginning of April usually marks the close of the skiing season.
• I remember the close of each of those weekend nights as a prolonged farewell.
drawing to a close
• With the announcement of Daimler, the 77-year existence of Fokker appears to be drawing to a close.
• Adam began to move restlessly in his chair, assuming that the proceedings were now drawing to a close.
• But because the moon is eclipsed, the stage drawing to a close is an ultra-important one.
• Her own menstrual cycle, including its uncomfortable drawing to a close, had been strictly her own affair.
• It was six o'clock and at Larksoken Power Station, the weekly interdepartmental meeting was drawing to a close.
• But a change was in the air, a season was drawing to a close.
• My time with Stark was drawing to a close.
• The government had published the employment White Paper, and the war was drawing to a close.
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close5 /kləʊs $ kloʊs/ noun British English 1 [singular] used in street names for a road that has only one way in or
out Take a left turn into Brown’s Close.2 [countable usually singular] the area and buildings surrounding a cathedral
Examples from the Corpus
Close
• Lying in a cradle close by are two babies.
• I remember the close of each of those weekend nights as a prolonged farewell.
close1 /kləʊzkloʊz/ verb1[intransitive, transitive] (also close down) if a company, shop etc closes or someone closes it,
it stops operating permanently We have reluctantly decided to close the factory. Banks are closing down branches by
the hundred.2[intransitive, transitive] if a shop or building closes or someone closes it, it stops being open to the
public for a period of time The shops close at 6.3[intransitive] if a share or currency closes at a particular value, it is
worth that amount at the end of the day’s trading on a particular market Amazon shares closed down at $29.56 on the
NASDAQ. The pound closed up slightly at $1.90130.4[intransitive] to finish on a particular date Special offer closes
June 3.5 close a deal/sale to reach the point in a deal or sale where everyone involved agrees to it The objective of the
negotiation phase is to close the deal. He had to lower his price in order to close the sale.6 close an account to stop
having a particular account with a bank Mr. Samuels agreed to close the account and transfer the money to a company
account.7 close the books to calculate the financial results at the end of a particular accounting period On Friday the
company closed the books on its fiscal first quarter.8 close (out) a position if an investor or dealer on a financial
market closes a position, they buy or sell the stocks, shares, currencies etc that they have agreed to buy or sell, even if
this means that they lose money If a dealer buys a futures contract and its price declines, he buys another at a lower
price rather than closing out his position.→ CLOSE SOMETHING → OUT

83. COAST
• By 1914, they had set up a system of relaying messages from coast to coast.
• At this rate, she will never make the north coast by nightfall.
• Next is the coast from La Spezia to Pisa.
• The tallest Western species is the coast redwood, which I described in an earlier chapter.
• Only 10 percent of the coast was said to be in excellent condition.
• A power station, which can operate on coal or oil, is being built on the coast near Hadera.
on the coast
• Some wanted campsites on the coast, but were given spaces inland instead.
• The idol had the shape of a large rock stretched out at Flat on the coast in the vicinity of Jidda.
• The government has argued that commercial fishing on the coast has declined dramatically.
• Waxholme is on the coast and suffers badly from coastal erosion.
• Yeah, it was kind of a freakish accident over on the coast when they were over there.
• Being right on the coast, there are special considerations.
• I enjoy bicycling along the Three Capes Route on the coast of Oregon.
• South, on the coast, are two interesting cathedrals at Amalfi and Salerno.
Coast
• She used to be an honor student, but now she's just coasting.
• But this is hardly a place for coasting.
• The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after
a string of tipsters recommendations.
• Laura was a bright kid and she could coast along at school without too much effort.
• I had to coast along until I stopped.
• So there's no scope to coast at all and not pick the strongest team.
• By now we were close to my farm, coasting down off the ridge, the headlights turning the gravel road white.
• You begin by coasting down the log flume, which makes you laugh.
• If you feel that you've been coasting in your job, perhaps it's time for a change.
• In 1994 he coasted to re-election.
coast down/around/along etc
• The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after a string of tipsters
recommendations.
• They rise up out of nowhere, coast along in the rearview mirror.
• The end result is that both start coasting along in the same direction in which the box was originally moving.
• By now we were close to my farm, coasting down off the ridge, the headlights turning the gravel road white.
• Not long ago, this team coasted along on the road to resurrection.
• You begin by coasting down the log flume, which makes you laugh.
• The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments.
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coast to/through
• The Cowboys promptly made their strongest statement of the season, coasting to a 29-10 victory over Miami.
• The bow dropped and the boat gurgled in idle and coasted to a stop at a nameless address.
• Gloucester seemed to be coasting to an easy 2 points.
• Moving a carrier from one coast to another is no simple task, Roulstone said.
• They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian, from the east coast to Dunedin.
• Elsewhere in Contra Costa County, incumbents coasted to re-election in most municipal races.
• Wilson coasted to victory in the election.
• Then they soared into the sky as one, to make flight north as a pair along the coast to Wrath.

84. COBBLE
• Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives.
• It is not that difficult to cobble together a budget that could at least appear to be balanced within five years.
• Whitehall mandarins have discreetly voiced hopes that the party leaders will cobble together an agreement rather
than face a second election.
• In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make
them compatible.
• Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones
of pink, ochre and yellow.
• In Bloomington, Ill., police use a variety of gang definitions, cobbled together from various state and local edicts.
Cobble
• Each of us spotted a different line of cobbles extending across the plain, perpendicular to
the prevailing gradient of slope.
• Lyn walked across the cobbles and over the Old Town bridge.
• A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls.
• Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad's boots on the cobbles.
• To his left Corbett heard a slithering on the cobbles.
• Once he stumbled on the cobbles.
• Quietly they huddled together on the cobbles of the drive.
• Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.

85. COCCYX
• Too much to expect a new pair of arms to grow out of her ribs, or her coccyx to elongate so enormously.
• Pain like this after a fall on the coccyx.

86. COERCIVE
• This exercise of economic power could be coercive, in the sense that A
might prevent B from enjoying certain economic benefits.
• Petitioner contends that the coercive nature of this program is evident from the degree of success it has achieved.
• A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of
others.
• The police may have used coercive tactics to get confessions.
• Non-cooperation and civil disobedience, as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercive threat in
this sense.
• Direct Actions 6.1 Ecological expropriation comes down to the coercive transfer of nonpublic land to
public owners in the name of conservation.
• The elite and class approaches are based on a coercive view of society.

87. COLLAGE
• It's a collage of delirious sound things you understand.
• The effect is often more of a complex aural collage than a medley of covers and originals.
• Scrap materials can be used for three-dimensional collage as well as model making.
• The importance of this kind of collage to Surrealist art was stressed by Ernst.
• Make a spring collage with pictures from magazines of animals and flowers.
• For all of them, collage is the most direct way of disrupting the ordered world of published images.
• Despite the disputed authorship of photomontage, its source, as with collage, was undeniably in the popular arts.
• Its decor is magical, the walls covered with photos of artists, actors and musicians, and tables covered with collages.

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88. COMATOSE
• He is barely alive; his breathing is very slow and shallow, and he is comatose.
• Next morning he was found comatose and taken to hospital.
• We just sat comatose in front of the TV.
• They are using a type of magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate consciousness in comatose patients.
• Since then, there has been a running drug scare, complete with pics of comatose teens and tales of deathbed agonies.

89. COMELY
• Perhaps she was never glamorous, nor did she care for make-up, but she was deliciously plumpand comely.
• The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young, comely and a temptation to coachmen.
• The very name of this comely and quite small village which is situated to the east of Kingston
upon Hull attracts attention.
• A doctor and the comely Miss Montague were standing over him.
• For Lexandro sported no scars whatever on his comely, olive-complexioned face - only a rubyring through
his slim right nostril.
• Though not comely, she possessed a lively mind and exuded a kind of sparkling charm.

90. COMMISERATE
• In several of their letters, Hartley and Burns, commiserated about the problems of old age.
• The programme was filmed in front of a live audience who had to clap, laugh and commiserate in all
the appropriate places.
• 'Poor Alistair!' she commiserated. 'Let me buy you lunch.'
• When he failed his driving test, I called him up and commiserated with him.
• I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening, in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in
the Lobby.
• I just wanted to commiserate with you.

91. COMMUTE
• One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.
• Kendall commutes into the city every day from Waltham.
• Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
• I don't mind commuting on the train as long as I have a good book to read.
• Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office.
• He had moved to Penzance in Cornwall, commuting to London for work.
• With such equipment, staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices.
commute to/from/between
• Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office.
• Her batting average there: five stays of execution, one commuted to life in prison, and two men freed completely.
• In particular, many people have moved to the Wirral peninsula and they commute to Liverpool through the
Mersey tunnel or by ferry.
• With such equipment, staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices.
• The rules to make it through the obstacle course of a day's commute to school are carefully laid out.
• The nearly completed four-lane route will help shorten the commute to the remote site, roughly 24 miles northeast of
downtown.
• I have to complete my contract and teach for a semester, which means commuting to upstate New York every week.
• I lived in Boston and commuted to Worcester.
Commute
• Now, my father has a tiring job, a long commute, and a house to rehabilitate besides.
• Traffic congestion during peak commute hours is terrible.

92. COMPACT
• The apartment was ideal for the two of us - small but compact.
• Official sketches show a small warren of rooms, lit by artificial lights and stuffed with compact biological systems.
• I feel certain the purpose of the slimness stems from the natural instinct to shoal in a compact body.
• a compact car
• The compact circuit, purpose-built with the betting shop service in mind, has surprised owners Ladbrokes with
its robust evening trade.
• There is a compact dining area, which feels cozy rather than cramped.

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• It made compact discs easier to display.
• The Federals, on the other hand, could look forward to operating on compact interior lines of communication.
• It packs all its power into a compact, low-profile configuration - occupying 30% less desk space
than comparable 486 systems.
• Look for plants with healthy leaves and a compact shape.
• Plus the most significant restyling since the Cherokee debuted as a compact sport utility vehicle in 1984.
• The Power Shot is a compact unit that weighs less than 11 ounces and fits easily in your pocket.
• The dormitory rooms are very compact, with a desk, bed, and closet built in.
• It was similar to an indoor meeting because the stadium is compact, with the crowd close to all the action.
Compact
•a two-door compact
• One tribe, the Hualapai, closed its casino last year but still has a gaming compact.
• Opening her compact, she checked her appearance, and dabbed at her hair.
• Claudel stooped, too, and was startled to see her brush a powder compact sideways, sending it under the cab.
• So beware the curved top compacts.
Compact
• It was compacted again and loaded into a trailer hauling 25 tons to the landfill.
• The dirt trail has been compacted from years of use.
• It compacts my spine, and yellow spots dance before my eyes.
• Progressively increase the pressure to compact the surface.
• It then swells-for the nuclear material is highly compacted within the sperm-and so becomes a pronucleus.

93. COMPATIBLE
• The very fact that one can choose, however, shows that the two figures are compatible.
• This is a double responsibility: two responsibilities which sometimes are not compatible.
• In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make
them compatible.
• The two businesses have compatible aims, and a merger would be to everyone's advantage.
• Certain kinds of drug are not compatible and should never been taken together.
• Compatible couples generally share the same values and have similar lifestyles and goals.
• Quite often they have to be compatible, however, with paintings or with full-size sets or even with location shots.
• The success of a relationship depends largely on how compatible two people are and how well they communicate.
• It is functionally compatible with 24-pin generic array logic devices and functions at the same speed as the
16V8 above.
• Unfortunately he bought a printer that was not compatible with his computer.
• Liver biopsy, performed in 10 patients, showed changes compatible with sclerosing cholangitis in non-AIDS patients
in five cases.
• Recipes accepted as great and sacrosanct are not always compatible with sense.
• To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery.
compatible with
• The project is not compatible with the company's long-term aims.
Compatible
• The first is that there are no systematic entailments between sentences differing only in respect
of compatibles in parallel syntactic positions.

94. COMPLACENT
• We've been winning, but we're not going to get complacent.
• As long as the presence of doubt is detected anywhere, neither faith nor knowledge can ever be complacent.
• But people do it; then things blow up; then people are careful for a while; then people get complacent.
• I would have been insufferably snobbish and complacent.
• The 4-0 Vikings had one this week to allow Warren Moon to tell all his young teammates not to get complacent.
• He said that we have become complacent about child labour, and that the situation is much worse than it appears.
• Happy but not complacent - our aim must be 100% Good to Excellent.
• She can cook for hours and feel almost complacent, she says.
complacent about
• The nation cannot become complacent about the quality of our schools.

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95. CONCERTED
• Against concerted action by local authorities the individual librarian would be fighting a very hard and probably
losing battle.
• But the most concerted challenge was manifest in struggles waged by the unemployed around the poor law.
• By October 1989, therefore, the time was right for a concerted diplomatic initiative against drift-net fishing.
• She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
• The Government reiterated its intention to introduce a prohibition on anti-
competitive agreements and concerted practices.
• There should be a concerted programme to change the knife-carrying ethos in schools.

96. CONDONE
• According to numerous opinion polls, they
solidly oppose the kinds of discrimination that Cardinal Ratzinger condoned.
• The state has managed both to condone and to condemn prostitution.
• While Miss Lidgett showed some appreciation of the woman's circumstances, she was unable to condone her course
of action.
• I'm not condoning his behaviour, but I can understand why he wanted revenge on his daughter's attacker.
• Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
• The state appears to condone police brutality.
• Some parents feel that making birth control available to teenagers somehow condones sexualactivity.
• To appear to condone the Confederacy is to appear to condone slavery.
• She most certainly at no time condoned what had happened to her daughter.
• Don't get me wrong, I don't condone what he did in the Widnes-Castleford game.

97. CONCILIATORY
• It could not otherwise have achieved its conciliatory aim.
• Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.
• As a conciliatory gesture, the restaurant was built like a large shack, so as not to be too obtrusive.
• American intelligence flights over Cuba had been stopped as a conciliatory gesture.
• But why did he always seek the conciliatory path?
• She used her conciliatory skills to get along with her remote grandfather, who provided so little company for
her grandmother.
• The tone of my letter had been friendly and conciliatory, so I was disappointed by the cold reply I received.
• The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.
conciliatory approach/tone/gesture etc
• By mid 1972 Soviet spokesmen adopted a more conciliatory tone.
• I said in a conciliatory tone.
• Pressure on the Shiite community was to continue, despite well-publicized conciliatory gestures.
• Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.
• But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman's signature could make up for that
of Jack Hobbs.
• A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.
• As a conciliatory gesture, the restaurant was built like a large shack, so as not to be too obtrusive.
• The government appears to be taking a conciliatory approach to the indigenous unrest.

98. CONFISCATE
• Advertisers luring people into heavier and heavier reliance on cleansing products would be prosecuted and
their bank accounts confiscated.
• Later the law was amended so that profits from such activities could be confiscated.
• We could equip them with two-way radios, but they would be confiscated at road checks.
• The box was confiscated by the governing body's technical department to undergoinvestigation this week.
• The authorities will confiscate firearms found on a boat or plane if the owner cannot show proof of US licensing.
• The group claims that billions of dollars in property and bank accounts was confiscated from Jewish businessmen in
the Second World War.
• Your vehicle can be confiscated if you are transporting marijuana.
• An increasing number of guns have been confiscated in schools recently.
• I wondered if I should have confiscated the duplicate licenses while I had the chance.
• If it is confiscated the next day, a note will be left behind with information on where the items are.

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• The county has a long-standing policy of reselling confiscated weapons.

99. CONFOUND
• I think they are absolutely confounding.
• Henry Kissinger was also confounded and frustrated by the Communists during his secret negotiations with them.
• Even travel agents are confounded by the logic of airline ticket pricing.
• The traditional monument has tended to confound gender politics.
• The close score after 12 games confounds pre-match predictions that Kasparov would win this time by a
large margin.
• He has utilized the pictorial logic of the photograph to confound rather than to clarify space.
• Dan's speedy recovery confounded the medical experts.
• The simple memory span measure confounds these variables.
• Parental education will be confounded with social class and it is therefore important to consider them jointly.
confound the critics/pundits/experts etc
• Thus did ordinary children confound the experts.

100. CONGEAL
• Josie picked up a plate of congealed egg and beans, and scraped it into the bin.• a puddle of congealed grease
• Abruptly she jerked out of her dream, slime congealing on her skin.
• At least the blood congealing on the asphalt proved that his groundhog was freshly killed.
• The steak was left to congeal on the plate, and Jenny ran down to the stable as fast as she could.
• Where the consumed tentacle had rested a mist seemed to be congealing out of nothing as though the hydra was
already replenishing itself.

101. CONGRUENT
• Yet their values are not congruent.
• Moreover, female well-being was defined in terms congruent with both women's reproductive
function and ideal feminine behaviour.
• He simply asserts that their perceptions are congruent with his own view that the family is the important unit.
• This partisanship is reinforced when parents' preferences are congruent with the influences to be identified below.
• The retreat design was also congruent with the power styles of Tom Rice and the consultant.
• But all of those societies had political and social ideologies that were congruent with their economic realities.

102. CONTEMPORARY
• The cafe's decor is clean and contemporary.
• Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
• It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being
energetically pursued.
• I'm not very impressed by the works of many contemporary artists.
• Contemporary Indian cinema has its roots in folk culture.
• Composers like Philip Glass have made contemporary music more popular.
• Thus, contemporary ontological debates relating to the photograph are divergent.
• It is arguably the greatest source of violence and death in the contemporary political world.
• The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as
the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed.
• the declining importance of religion in contemporary societies
• To put the same observation in more contemporary terms, families learn about what marriage means from their
experience of marriage.
• This latter was especially troublesome because the contemporary theory dismissed it as self-correcting
.contemporary music/art/dance etc
• Its street entrance was transformed into a gallery designed to display contemporary art.
• One characteristic of contemporary art history has been its extensive use of non-art-historical texts.
• What is your opinion of the current state of contemporary art, in this country and internationally?
• There was a lot of contemporary art on the walls, not exactly her taste but not overly crude and jarring.
• Mass Media: As of yet, there is no national contemporary music paper in the Soviet Union.
• With contemporary art, there is not always a right or wrong answer.
• Particularly if it means introducing contemporary music to Angelenos.
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• This, they suggest, can be seen in the Tagar culture, a contemporary of the Pazyryk tombs.
• The following portrait sketches by contemporaries are, there-fore, of special interest.
• Atkins is still working, long after many of his contemporaries have retired.
• To most of his contemporaries Blake was a nutter or simply inept.
• The problem was considered particularly vexing because, as the research of contemporaries showed,
it affected middle class women most.
• More than almost any of her predecessors or contemporaries, Pires underlines this generic relationship.
• The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler, adds atmosphere and reinforces the
strong protest against tyranny and persecution.
• But this was not clear to contemporaries.

103. CONTIGUOUS
• The dorsal arm plates are slightly bell shaped or fan shaped, they approach but are not quite contiguous.
• The dorsal arm plates are triangular to fan shaped; the first 2-3 dorsal arm plates may be contiguous.
• The dorsal arm plates are wider than long, rectangular and contiguous.
• The ventral arm plates are not contiguous.
• The ventral arm plates are pentagonal with the distal edge rounded and contiguous at least proximally.
• The ventral arm plates are pentagonal with a wide distal edge, and contiguous on proximal arm segments.
• Cattle are contiguous only for want of similarity, racehorses similar only for want of contiguity.
• The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped to rounded triangular and contiguous proximally.

104. CONTRAVENTION
• All innovation is a contravention of the order of things.
• This was a contravention of section 57 of the Act.
• Similarly prosecutions relating to water pollution and contravention of planning notices are dealt with in
the Magistrates' Court.
• It was a clear contravention of EU regulations.
• Section 4 makes it an offence to carry on investment business in contravention of section 3.
• Many shops and bars stayed open, in contravention of the Sunday trading laws.
• In particular, Geest is accused of stripping trees along watercourses, in contravention of the law.
• Mere passive knowledge will not be sufficient: actual involvement in the contravention must be established.
• Can the reversal of the result of the contravention be regarded as a step taken to remedy the contravention?
in contravention of something
• In particular, Geest is accused of stripping trees along watercourses, in contravention of the law.
• Section 4 makes it an offence to carry on investment business in contravention of section 3.
• Development carried out in contravention of a stop notice constitutes an offence.
• Publication in contravention of this provision is an offence punishable on summary conviction with
a fine not exceeding £1,000.
• The company apparently shipped arms to the regime in contravention of the U.S. trade boycott.
• Sometimes these resulted in contravention of an Authority rule about foreign ownership or conflict of interest,
and further sales followed.
• Using a vehicle in contravention of the relevant statutory provisions constitutes a criminal offence.

105. CONTRIVE
• They spoke of trading and contriving.
• The lawsuit says oil companies contrived a gasoline shortage in the early 1970s.
• He contrived a meeting between his mother and her ex- husband.
• Richter contrived a scale to measure the force of an earthquake.
• In the play Amos contrives a scheme to make Paul pay back the money he owes him.
• They can not be urgent if they must be contrived for him.
• In as tactful a way as she could contrive she asked Shildon to hurry up with what he wanted to say.
• Fortunately this morning Rose had contrived to rid himself of Naseby's services.
contrive to do something
• But in spite or all that, Naples contrives to be wonderful, in the real sense of that over worked word.
• Or has he contrived to bring you out - given you an in-tray and an out?
• Parmenter would contrive to get document blanks from the Records Branch.
• The chef contrives to keep the fresh taste of the vegetables.
• I by contrast contrived to leave my grammar school in the Midlands without A levels.

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• It sounds contrived to me, Holmes.
• But Ember contrived to nudge her reassuringly and a gravity-shift bounced her high and maybe it was all possible
after all.
• Mr. Clark and Mr. Chrétien may indeed contrive to rebuild national unity on a new set of compromises.
• Visiting Buffalo, he contrived to see her but again did not express his feelings for her.

106. CONTUSION
• You have dry blood in your nose and contusions on your forehead and nose.
• Death was due to fractures of the skull and severe cerebral contusion.
• Initial word from the training room was a lower leg contusion.
• The next Saturday, there was another temporal lobe contusion patient.
• In these accidents the air-bag punch-out forces caused a ruptured aorta, rib fractures, severe myocardial contusions,
etc.
• I was a mosaic of contusions.
• Small contusion on the right cheek as well.
• Police questioned what Sheppard claimed was a spinal contusion.

107. COQUETRY
• Claudio was easily caught in her web of coquetry and lies.

108. CORKED
• There is, however, an issue over the alarming number of corked wines being experienced in the market.

109. COROLLARY
• Surprisingly, environmental improvement has been a corollary to economic growth.
• She is remembered largely for her pioneering ` dancing modernism, a corollary to abstract expressionism.
• Of course, a basic corollary of the theory is that deep drilling should uncover a portion of
these massive methane resources.
• I refer to the federal corollary.
• One important corollary of this new integration Nietzsche had not mentioned in his letter to Rohde.
• A rapid increase in population would be a natural corollary of any such changes in the birth control program.
• The government has promised tax cuts, but the corollary of this is that there will be a reduction in public services.
• At 81d is the corollary that souls partially pure remain in the visible world.
• Huge increases in unemployment were the corollary of the government's economic policy.
• The corollary is that acquiring an addiction is tantamount to relieving oneself of personal responsibility.
• The corollary was just as true: elimination of nuclear weapons would require a return to National Service.
corollary of/to
• Here it is necessary to look at it briefly as a corollary of ahi.
• One such condition is a corollary of the Principle of Contradiction, and may be stated as follows.
• The biological corollary of this is that blocking antibodies against ICAM-1 have been shown effectively
to prevent allograft rejection.
• Thus the following theorem is a easy corollary to Lemma 3.
• One important corollary of this new integration Nietzsche had not mentioned in his letter to Rohde.
• The parliament was, in fact, the religious corollary of the White City.
• Thus was violence established as the corollary of dissidence.
• The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products.

110. CORPUSCLE
• There is not a corpuscle to spare between her lean, muscular frame and her black Diesel pants.
• Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us
as sentient beings.
• Primary qualities belong not only to observable substances such as gold, but also to the minute corpuscles which
make them up.
• They result from their real essences, the arrangement of corpuscles which make them up

111. CORROBORATE
• In this way the results of characterisation studies can be corroborated by alternative,
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• Professor Carling's findings have been corroborated by more recent research.
• Her statements were corroborated by the doctor's testimony.
• No doctor would order surgery on the basis of a single test result, without corroborating clinical evidence.
• There was no one to corroborate her story about the disturbance in the lounge.
• He said he and other remote viewers have corroborated important information about extraterrestrials and their
interest in humans.
• We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in density surface of the
salinity minimum.
• A recent parenting study corroborates the benefits of such role reversal.
• Employment trends corroborate the dismal economic picture.
• The subject of the appraisal should be given time to prepare and the opportunity to corroborate the report.
• The results corroborate the role of these proteins in pheromone transport and elaborate the structural basis of
ligand binding.
• Levine claims that a third car was involved in the accident and witnesses have corroborated this.

112. COSSET
• No one in the family gets as much cosseting as that cat!
• It is designed to cosset its crew.
• The media say that 120,000 people in Moscow cook, clean, drive for and otherwise cosset the bureaucracies.

113. COTERIE
• Directly below the king was a coterie of intellectuals possessing mind of the highest order.
• Normally it comes from what she likes to call her coterie of friends and advisers.
• Yet what our little coterie suffered was, I believe, disproportionate to our vices.
• His loyal coterie of fans crowded the stage.
• My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers.
• That coterie would also act, as they did for the 1991 event, very much as a think tank.

114. COVERT
• Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids.
• The chief investigator resigned, amid allegations of covert and probably illegal operations.
• A covert investigation was conducted to catch the drug-smuggling ring.
• But the media are not Rasputin with a covert or overt political agenda.
• Controlled studies to date of the effectiveness of covert sensitization offer mixed results.
• Because of the substantial practical advantages, the bulk of this chapter will be devoted to covert sensitization.
• In my own research, some covert use was made of a micro-recorder and tapes were later transcribed.
• The abuse of residents in the home was confirmed by covert video surveillance.
Covert
• Red of juvenile, both on crown and under tail coverts, is rather pale.
• White eyestripe and under tail coverts.
• Like a miniature short-billed Water Rail, with unspotted underparts, barred under tail coverts and green bill.
• Lack of red on under tail coverts distinguishes from all other black and white woodpeckers, except Three-toed.
• The only waterfowl with both red forehead and habit of constantly flirting white under tail coverts.
• Plumage grey-brown, darker on underparts, with white under tail coverts.
• He was helped by Athena to drive them out of their coverts, and as they flew up he shot them.

115. COVET
• How can Willy plant seeds, a simple act he covets?
• If it can retain its customers' faith it could achieve the leadership position it covets by 1997.
• The Finance Minister post was one of the coveted cabinet jobs.
• The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour.
• Gatlin covets my job, which he has been in line for twice before.
• The most coveted prize is empties.
• But in times of tight elections these unsung regions become political hubs, and their votes are coveted prizes.
• He might have known the Great Enchanter personally, and will almost certainly covet some of
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116. CRASS
• He is wincing in a 1940s fleapit auditorium where they are showing a crass adaptation of one of his books.
• The primary motive is to free the self from a life that is necessarily rendered crass and degrading by society.
• But this isn't just another crass commercialisation of a fictional character.
• The materialism was crass, everyone's expectations had been aroused, and few people had been satisfied.
• We live in a time of crass materialism.
• a crass remark
• How did birthdays become less like Thanksgiving and more like the crass side of Christmas?

117. CRAVEN

It was more than Wexford's life was worth to admit his craven fear of the lift.
• For a craven moment she was tempted to go back and throw herself on the mercy of the landlady.
• That was why he had voiced this craven option; so as to witness it vanishing.
• At times like this the back row inclined to craven panic.
• And most are simply too craven to steal.

118. CRESCENT
Estate land swings round in a crescent to the east, up to the A19.
• Turn left into Badgerly Crescent.
• Instead, everywhere the eye could see, were tiny glimmering half-moon crescents.
• A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.
• Guy Sterne's magnificent villa stood alone, on its own private crescent of beach.
• The moon was a slender crescent, and a few tattered clouds shuffled across the perfect dome of blue-black sky.
• Then he smiled a sunny smile which turned his mouth and eyes to crescents.
• He blew through his lips, his eyes were narrowed to crescents.
• Saw the white crescent, tipped earthward.
crescent moon
• The sun has dipped beneath the horizon, leaving behind a pink glow joined by a crescent moon.
• The flare of its passage is as bright as-10. 5 magnitude, comparable to a crescent Moon.
• A high wind frayed the sails of clouds until a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold.
• A crescent moon showed occasionally which helped.
• About frangipani blooms and crescent moons.
• A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.
• Now I am passing an area where the crescent moon flag flies over shops, bakeries and mosques.
• A thin crescent moon will appear to the left of Venus the evening of July 6.

119. CRITERION
• A criterion of reasonableness or rational basis is obviously a narrower standard of review.
• The merit of the project in relation to each criterion is assessed in terms of the five classes, ranging from very good
to very poor.
• The main criterion for subdivision of the detrital rocks is grain size, given as the diameter of the grain in millimeters.
• This difference of criterion as to the character of the conflict was reflected in the way power was handled on each
side.
• Their utilitarian contribution to our welfare should not, in other words, be our criterion as to whether they survive or
not.
• The company's criterion for success is high sales.
• The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested.
• Other researchers use less strict criteria and claim to find competence where Piagetians, using their criterion, do not.
• Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and
so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
sole criterion
• But many borrowers choose an appealing discount deal as the sole criterion when they take out a loan.
• A criterion of instant and obvious utility can not be the sole criterion for the inclusion of items in the
school curriculum.
• Thus age should not be the sole criterion for withholding aggressive treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in
older patients.
• Assertions that intention is the sole criterion of validity are few, suspect, and found only in post-classical texts.

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• The sole criterion is the market price of the land.

120. CUE
• He was irritated when a cue to speak interrupted his imagining.
• There are cues that signify congestion.
• Use the leash to give the dog cues about what you want him to do.
• The woman takes her cue from the guy eventually.
• Black, taking his cue from the darkness, stands up from his spot and extends his hand to Blue.
• Some people can cope with hearing loss by using other cues to meaning.
• The idea is to see if the terms on which bargainers settle can be influenced by such cues.
• The audience will take cues from you.
• Thus the cues of subordinates, peers, supervisors, family and friends become important triggers to arousal.
• The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
somebody’s cue to do something
• He was irritated when a cue to speak interrupted his imagining.
• However, they are probably too infrequent to provide hearers with cues to ethnicity.
• I took my cue to go, and left without a backward glance or wave.
• It was hard to tell whether Greene was giving cues to the crowd or taking them from it.
• Nice touches include steam vents that cast lingering clouds over the courses and new audio cues to warn of danger.
• The children are encouraged to use frustrating experiences as a cue to employ the turtle reaction.
• The system involves classifying lip-patterns which look alike and providing cues to disambiguate them.
• The words sounded like an impending cue to announce his lecture, but Stafford had only spoken for twenty-
eight minutes
.miss your cue
• As soon as anyone misses their cue they return to number one and all those below the number move up one.
Cue
• Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners.
• It takes a trained and sensitive therapist to cue in to your personal needs.
• I didn't have a solid grasp of myself - I depended on other people and surroundings to cue me.
• The child's behaviour may then cue the adult as to how successful was the initial interpretation.
• It was still 1-1 after extra time, so cue the dreaded penalty shootout.
• When the sun goes down, the eyes cue the gland to start pumping melatonin.
• This will cue the waiter to refill it.

121. CYGNET
• This cygnet has a broken leg.
• Next stop Goring, with plenty more unsuspecting cygnets to find along the way.
• A pair of swans cruised, with cygnets, and swallows were zipping to and fro above the water.

122. CYNICAL
• I think movie stars just do charity work to get publicity - but maybe I'm too cynical.
• Indeed, without specific performance consequences, most of us quickly grow cynical.
• Since her divorce, she's become very cynical about men.
• But even the most cynical agree that good fortune is the mark of every top-flight politician.
• They're using sex in a cynical attempt to sell more books.
• Labour's agnostic compromise was too clumsy and seemed more like cynical calculation to voters.
• a cynical journalist
• Even if Robbie had been in the mood for laughter, it would have been a cynical mirth.
• The most cynical of men could not repudiate what had physically happened in front of thousands.
• I do not mean to appear fatalistic, self-pitying, cynical, or maudlin...
• This is a clear indication of the effectiveness of the cynical propaganda used by political and military leaders.
• an author with a cynical view of life
cynical about
• Voters have become cynical about the influence of interest groups on politicians.

123. DALE
• Below the wood, a curlew started from the grass and winged beneath us, its mate calling from across the dale.
• A rough-coated collie called Tip, he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip.

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• As I climbed higher, the dales of Walden and Wensley began to appear below.
• She is concerned publicity and gossip in the dale has spurred others to take their lives.
• At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale.
• Five of the dales of the Yorkshire Dales National Park have been designated as environmentally sensitive areas.
• Mrs. Thwaites and I followed the path made in the snow by the animals and managed to get out of the dale all right.
• Half an hour's drive north will take you to the moors and to the west the dales.

124. DAM
• He was absolutely convinced that building a dam in Yosemite Valley was the proper thing to do.
• A dam had saved the lake and its fish.
• A high dam would end their migration, irrevocably.
• the Hoover Dam in Nevada• Big, long icicles hanging from the eaves are not necessarily a sign of ice dams.
• Work on the dam began in 1983 but was held up by economic and environmental objections.
• The dam was finished and in service by September of 1941, an unbelievable sight.
• The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term.
Dam
• In 1933, the Columbia was by far the biggest river anyone had ever dreamed about damming.
• The Northwest had plenty of smaller rivers, much more easily dammed.
• The Stanislaus River is dammed fourteen times on its short run to the sea.
• The East Branch River was dammed in 1952.
• Kidneys clog with protein from damaged muscles, damming up toxins in the blood.

125. DAPPLED
• Blue-winged dragons o'er dappled Cam skimming, Forked tailed martins, dipping and winging.
• He put his head next to mine, as we looked up at the few small, dappled clouds.
• At first it appeared to be empty, but then, on the dappled ground, I saw a rock python.
• The dappled night shadows, the inky blue trees sway lightly in the breeze.
• But it does best in the dappled shade you get under shrubs or woodland trees.
• Plant soft-leaved species, susceptible to sun-scorch, in dappled shade.
• The golden, spotted coat mirrors the dappled sunlight of the forest.
• By and large, roses are for open situations and full sun, not dappled sunlight or shade.

126. DARK HORSE


• Patterson, winner of the Euro 250 race at Mondello Park, could be the dark horse in these races.
• Beware the ventriloquist, the dark horse, whose thrown voice juggles the truth.
• And then there was the dark horse in the field.

127. DEBILITY
• The two main causes are lead and nitrates which can bring about debility, heart weakness and cancer.
• These include trauma, sunlight, high fever, and general debility.
• Illnesses, including chronic muscle debility, herpes, tremors and eye infections, have come and gone.
• But no - for I am not a cripple, I have no debility, and something other than myself is doing this.
• Supporting that sound of debility and failure there were orchestrated snores.
• Perhaps it was not surprising that he complained of physical debility.
• The woman's debility softened her.

128. DEBUNK
• In her book she debunks a lot of the claims made by astrologers.
• And it debunked and later destroyed the reputation of a great sea captain, a good friend of my father.
• The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now
been debunked as myth.
• But as Sulloway was plugging away, other scientists were busy debunking birth order.
• Hence, the spate of was-the-risk-exaggerated, debunking stories.
• Payton wants to debunk the myth that economics is a science.
• The study debunks the myth that men are better at math than women.
• Fortunately, the Internet itself provides a good way to debunk these hoaxes.
• In both poems, Leapor attempts to debunk unreal expectations of marriage.

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129. DEBUT
• Hall, in his directing debut, has created an effective mix of comedy, drama and action.
• "Little Man Tate" was Jodie Foster's directorial debut.
• Charlie Chaplin made his film debut in 1913.
• As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team, and went on to appear on
Broadway.
• This is his debut for his new club, Manchester United.
• He made 45 on his debut against Sefton and then 82 against Liverpool.
• Nobody seemed to have any doubt that Pencader would trounce his rivals on his debut at Newbury last month.
• No film technician arranging the special effects for an adventure film could have created a more spectacular debut.
• Both players will be making their debuts.
• Their debut album was recorded in 1991.
made ... debut
• Aloysia made her debut in Vienna the same year, and in 1780 she married the court actor and painter Joseph Lange.
• Keown started as an apprentice at High bury, but made his debut while on loan at Brighton in 1985.
• In 1934 he made his Warwickshire debut, and quickly caught the eye as a hard-hitting middle-order batsman.
• Wainwright is fifth choice at Bramall Lane and only made his debut for the reserves on Wednesday.
• This came straight after Tamara Rojo, another outsider, made her debut in the role.
• G John Smith made his debut speech as the Labour leader in Black pool.
Debut
• To keep pace with the popularity of skating, Collins is debuting a 15-show winter mini-tour at East Coast venues on
Wednesday.
• The show debuts at 8 p. m. on Feb. 23 and runs through March 3.
• The show will debut Monday night at 8 p.m.
• She also debuts on the collectors' Web site, www. barbie. com.
debut /ˈdeɪbjuː, ˈdebjuːdeɪˈbjuː, dɪ-/ noun [countable]1the first public appearance of a product or service, or the first
time that it is available to buy The new machines will mark the debut of the next generation of memory
chips.2 an occasion when a company ISSUEs (=makes available and sells) shares, bonds etc for the first time Bangkok
Land made a notable debut, accounting for about 32% of the exchange’s total trading volume.—
debut verb [intransitive, transitive] American English When MP3 players first debuted, there was a low take-up by the
public. Intel has debuted its latest desktop Pentium D processors, launching the chip family as the 9xx series.

130. DECANT
• Ordinary madeira has no sediment and does not need to be decanted.
• Today it is usually decanted against an electric light or white background.
• Never decant diluted household and garden products into lemonade or orange-juice bottles.
• A special bus ramp behind the store even allows tour coaches to decant eager customers directly into the store.
• Never quite stationary, the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel.
• She had been so angry she had decanted her with her suitcase at Waterloo to finish her trek to school by train.
• It is, of course, important that no particles are lost during each process of decanting the water after washing.

131. DECELERATE
• Between the bow shock and the magnetopause the solar wind is greatly decelerated.
• Alpha particles are just high-energy 4He nuclei; after decelerating and picking up electrons, they become atoms of
4He.
• An underpowered helicopter will rapidly decelerate as soon as you apply any control input and the model will come
to a dead stop-probably inverted.
• Steeply, noses high, the whole flight rapidly decelerated for the landing.
• I have an aggravating whine coming from my gearbox every time I decelerate in fourth gear.
• Only four steps are required to decelerate the motor, as the load torque contributes to the decelerating torque.
• Then, with a single powerful engine burn, the spacecraft can decelerate to a soft landing on the lunar surface.
• Our flight continued to decelerate to about 70 knots.

132. DECORUM
• These events will most likely be models of decorum, friends who are planning them said Wednesday.
• Chauvin lacks a sense of decorum in professional matters.
• Despite the foulest weather, the Traction acquitted itself with perfect decorum.
• The ladies were in the middle doing their social best to preserve decorum.

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• Most days are lost in the decorum of trying, lost in the lanes of the almost known.
• They nourish the spirit in a way decorum never could.

133. DECRY
• Thus fortified, the Webbs decried both Owen and Marx for depending on the labour theory of value.
• Others may decry competitions for their tendency to emphasize technique over artistry, conformity over originality.
• In organizations with scarce resources political activity is inevitable and only the naive decry it.
• Loisel decried the election results.
• Whatever may be said about Ecclesiastes - and many things have been said about him -
he decried traditional wisdom.
• And baseball will certainly have more critics ready to decry well-heeled owners buying pennants.

134. DEFERENCE
• His manipulation of impudence and deference was too assured for that.
• So educational achievement rather than nepotism offers a background to the
respect, status and deference accorded to elites.
• Visiting officials were treated with great deference.
• But everyone erupted into giggles and bolted down the street as free of deference as the wind.
• In partial deference to that pOtential backlash, current incumbents did not actively seek committee endorsement.
• And yet, I overstated the barber's deference and this made me misunderstand, crucially, Waugh's novel.
• At least for a short time, schoolmates often showed deference to their fallen peers.
• Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference, and Omi paid it with
subtle superiority.
• They are also used to unquestioning deference to their own leaders, be they family, clan or tribe.

135. DEER
• A deer makes tracks in the snow.
• They're deer-stealers - I saw a dead deer in their car.
• The Qawrighul people hunted deer, wild sheep and birds, and fished.
• We still have lots of deer, very little water and not many open spaces.
• I heard wild turkeys gobbling and saw white-tailed deer.
• Normally he's in charge of the deer, but all the staff double as guides.
• It is framed by gentle hills that look down on oak groves that abound with deer, bobcats and golden eagles.

136. DELEGATE
• Mississippi will choose 33 delegates, Oklahoma and Tennessee, 38 each.
• Arizona has 39 delegates in a winner-take-all primary.
• Delegates from 50 colleges met to discuss the issue of financial aid.
• What was not predictable, however, was the extreme stand taken by delegates from the University Reform Front.
• I sat next to the Canadian delegate.
• On July 7 the congress heard replies by politburo members to questions from delegates.
• He conceded that the size of the holding was still modest by the standards of most Oxford delegates.
• Some local branches have refused to send delegates to the national conference.
• Southern delegates to the Continental Congress expressed unwillingness to use their militiasoutside their
own borders.
• On Aug. 9 over 90 percent of the delegates voted in favour of recognizing the right of Quebec to self-determination.
• The US delegate to the committee announced a grant of $75 million to help third world countries.
Delegate
• New managers often find it difficult to delegate.
• McGee says it was illegal for the department to delegate its authority to then-Mayor Robert Markel.
• Know every detail of your business-but delegate more responsibility to others.
• We then invent criteria to back up the choice, delegating our responsibility to professional specialists.
• Whatever the varying demands on her time, Laura was determined not to delegate print research.
• Plus Collinses are executives, they know how to delegate responsibility.
• If you're so busy, why don't you delegate some of your work?
• He behaved as a benevolent autocrat, but was reluctant to delegate, suspicious, and secretive.
• Corinne delegated the details of the nursery to Aggie as she pursued her varied interests in town.
• First, always delegate to the lowest level possible in the organization

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.delegate something to somebody
• McConnell delegated authority to the department heads.
delegate somebody to do something
• We were delegated to represent our club at the state conference.

137. DEMOGRAPHICS
• the changing demographics of Southern California

138. DEMURE
• Lovely, simple, and demure.
• He is as good as his name, as wild, eccentric and ebullient as Keane is demure and disciplined.
• I wore jeans or the demure dresses approved of by the school authorities.
• But the demure look toward the floor, the disclaimer with the hands often as not look faked when seen.
• The deceptively demure Meredith was led outside by the masked Lucenzo.
• Her maids carried them upstairs and demure Penelope retired with great contentment in her heart.
• When they become possessed by their spirits, these demure, purdah-confined ladies undergo a remarkable change.
• She looked almost demure, she thought disparagingly, glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the
mirror's fault.

139. DENOMINATION
• They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination.
• Christians of all denominations attended the conference.
• Here at home there are denominations which, while they may boast a doctrinal
comprehensiveness, manifest a cultural exclusiveness.
• She is an expert in exchange rates, with her cheques in many different currency denominations.
• Now they number many millions drawn from almost every nation on earth, and almost every denomination too.
• More favoured here was the use of promissory notes and bills of exchange in large volume and down
to low denominations.
• Minimum denominations are $ 10,000.
• The same applies, of course, to other denominations and has been recognised in Britain
as qualifying for state support.
• Consultation with the religious denominations was promised before new laws were adopted along the lines of
the legislation of 1928.

140. DESICCATED
• However, don't feed your feathered friends very dry bread, desiccated coconut or salty food.
• Scratched into this desiccated earth is an environmental warning.
• Mixing it with water, wind, and memory, I reconstitute the desiccated fact as a full-blown experience pulsing with
life.
• Haemoglobin iron can be taken on its own or with desiccated liver.
• I suspect that some readers will recoil from Jaynes' chilly, offhand assessment of his desiccated marriage.
• Looking back towards the Pan-Americana, the huge mud complex appeared ringed with peaked
and desiccated mountains.
• Marriage, that desiccated, pedantic, self-satisfied prude.

141. DEUCE
• This was seen to notable effect at 3-3 and deuce on Chesnokov's serve in the second set.
• His opponent, Mr. Jones wins each of his three games off the first advantage from deuce.
• In a nail-biting last game, Lau just edged home in deuce 22-20 to put Pinewood into their first cup final.
• The last game before the first drizzle arrived saw Rafter taken to six deuces as he wrestled to hold his serve.
• It is like an endless, exhausting game of tennis, deuce after deuce.
• Alba said you wouldn't have me, though how the deuce she knows anything-!
• It lasted 32 points, 13 of them deuces.

142. DEVIOUS
• His relationship with the universe becomes more subtle and devious.
• Or was it as devious as that?
• He was raucous, sentimental, hot. tempered, practical, simple, devious, big, and powerful.

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• He might be devious, but he was not without principles.
• Their method of collecting money was devious, but not illegal.
• In the film, he plays a devious defence lawyer named Richard Adler.
• Opportunism is a devious kind of self-interested behaviour.
• She says we have devious minds!
• You have to be pretty devious to be successful in that sort of business.
• He infuriated his allies with his arbitrary decisions and devious ways.

143. DIFFIDENT
• The voice at the other end was light, gentle, diffident.
• Joe was humble and diffident about his own success.
• He seemed diffident, even shy.
• Her former classmates say she was shy and diffident in school.
• The Neanderthals seemed unexpectedly gentle and diffident people.
• From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes
painfully overbearing extrovert.
• Shaun became noticeably diffident when the conversation turned to the subject of his promotion.
diffident manner/smile/voice etc
• Despite a shy and diffident manner, Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience.

144. DIFFIDENT
• The voice at the other end was light, gentle, diffident.
• Joe was humble and diffident about his own success.
• He seemed diffident, even shy.
• Her former classmates say she was shy and diffident in school.
• The Neanderthals seemed unexpectedly gentle and diffident people.
• From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes
painfully overbearing extrovert.
• Shaun became noticeably diffident when the conversation turned to the subject of his promotion

diffident manner/smile/voice etc


• Despite a shy and diffident manner, Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience.

145. DILIGENT
• As a pastor he was diligent and although iconoclastic, he defended the clergy against outside attack.
• As an example of unconscious wealth Ely cited an obedient, diligent, and faithful son.
• They have a powerful cultural drive to achieve, which makes them extremely diligent, effective and reliable workers.
• It took some curious and diligent minds, and sometimes even some courage.
• It is uncharacteristically diligent of a minister to seek precisely to understand what money spent will accomplish.
• I know all of you are hardworking, diligent people, and I respect you for that.
• After years of diligent research, he had concluded that this was the only copy still in existence.
• The book required ten years of diligent research.
• Tony is a very diligent student.

146. DILIGENT
• As a pastor he was diligent and although iconoclastic, he defended the clergy against outside attack.
• As an example of unconscious wealth Ely cited an obedient, diligent, and faithful son.
• They have a powerful cultural drive to achieve, which makes them extremely diligent, effective and reliable workers.
• It took some curious and diligent minds, and sometimes even some courage.
• It is uncharacteristically diligent of a minister to seek precisely to understand what money spent will accomplish.
• I know all of you are hardworking, diligent people, and I respect you for that.
• After years of diligent research, he had concluded that this was the only copy still in existence.
• The book required ten years of diligent research.
• Tony is a very diligent student.

147. DISCOURSE
• In many cases, the conventions of academic discourse force researchers to make these assumptions even
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• the restraints of diplomatic discourse
• Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself, we can investigate the effects of placing it in
variously elaborated discourse contexts.
• However exciting his paper, his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into
a conventional historical discourse.
• Legal discourse and scientific discourse often sacrifice the maxim of quantity to the maxim of quality.
• Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of
political discourses around the working class.
• Rational discourse on public policy is vital to a democracy.
• The prototype of non-reciprocal discourse is a book by a dead author.
• Simply combining methods associated with femininity and masculinity, does
not challenge the discourses of gender which support these associations.
discourse on/upon
• Should I launch into a discourse on why I didn't value male above female children?
• Blackwell's radical ideas point to the tentative beginnings of a discourse on active female sexuality.
• The book opens with a discourse on the environment.
• Sherman had heard Gene Lopwitz discourse on that subject.
• He shot 3-for-9 and then resumed his ongoing discourse on the march to the playoffs.
• Explicit presidential discourse on policy issues was exceedingly rare.
• Morry Taylor, a businessman, gave rambling discourses on the need to employ business tactics in government;
and Rep.
• The quest for greater knowledge was underpinned by a highly gender-specific discourse on sexuality.
• What is more depressing is the way this escape from the facts is beginning to creep into Western discourse
on Kosovo.
Discourse
• He went on to discourse at length on the nature of fat.
• Iris was discoursing with animation, her hands describing sweeping patterns in the air, her whole
attention focused on her subject.

148. DISCREPANCY
• Whenever he works out his accounts there are always discrepancies.
• Truth-telling can help an organization close or eliminate discrepancies between the reality and the perception of
its collective performance
.• Sound organizational training is designed to remedy a specific performance problem or knowledge discrepancy.
• When the data for census tracts are observed a marked discrepancy can be seen within East Allegheny.
• She always refused to discuss the discrepancies in her biography.
• Marked also was the apparent increase in the discrepancy between revitalising and deprived areas both between and
within North Side neighbour hoods.
• Apparently there were discrepancies between police reports taken from the same witnesses at different times.
• He knew there were discrepancies, messed-up dates.
discrepancy between
• An employee noticed a discrepancy between the two signatures.

149. DISCRETION
• Absolute discretion is required from everyone working for the Royal Family.
• The governors will often give the chairman discretion to act on their behalf.
• Can junior managers be trusted to exercise discretion when making decisions?
• So the court has full discretion over litigation costs incurred in proceedings between mortgagorand mortgagee.
• TV commentators have shown great discretion, glossing over the problems in her personal life.
• The president could use his constitutional powers to move troops about at his discretion.
• The hotel has built a reputation on its discretion for the past 25 years.
• It concerns the whole matter of judicial control over ministerial discretion.
• Kasich said children might better be served through streamlining Medicaid and giving governors
more discretion on coverage.
• You can tell Martin anything -- he's the very soul of discretion.
• Latecomers are admitted at the discretion of the manager.
• I leave it to your discretion as to whether you should tell your colleagues.
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• In this case I am satisfied that Booth J. did have a discretion to take into account the interests of the children.
• S 91 of the Law of Property Act 1925 gives the Court discretion to order the sale of a mortgaged property.
• It was also within the Special Commissioner's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the
question before him.
• This relief is mandatory, and charging authorities have the discretion to increase this relief.
• The court said federal officials have the discretion to decide whether an adjustment is needed.
• What is unfair can not sensibly be subject to different standards depending on the source of the discretion to exclude
it.
• Any such tribunal does however possess the discretion to allow the individual to be assisted by such an adviser. 4.
• Moderators may request, in borderline cases, and otherwise at their discretion to see
student's marked coursework assignments.

150. DISDAIN
• Communist disdain for the environment made matters worse.
• The most obvious: His expressed concern for the environment and his disdain for technology.
• Now the carbon-dioxide snow gleamed white beneath the icy disdain of the stars.
• They remained aloof from the front row out of disdain and from the back row out of a sense of responsibility.
• Predictably, the international media circus, with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.
• The Shah had sometimes shown disdain for many such people.
• His father noticed them too but regarded them with disdain.
disdain for
• They expressed disdain for Western pop culture.
Disdain
• But such simple fare he knew full well would be disdained.
• I could see her proudly carrying on her head an amphora to a well and disdaining all admirers.
• From boyhood he disdained an easy life.
• He disdains New York and the art that is produced there.
• In fact, Roy disdains the cowardice of anyone who plays the easier shot.
• Along with his peers on the Board, Stark disdained them.
• I disdained to consult a medical dictionary, however.
• Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign.
• Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc
nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.

151. DISINGENUOUS
• And all he gets are these one-liner and bum steers and cheerful shrugs that may or may not be disingenuous.
• On the more general point, charges of corruption were disingenuous.
• This is not to say that those who signed the majority Report were disingenuous.
• This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.
• But it was disingenuous of me.
• It's disingenuous of politicians to blame journalists for leaks that appear in the press.
• The public events in Washington this past weekend have also had their disingenuous side.
• Yentob is being slightly disingenuous when demanding parental control.

152. DISSENSION
• Any dissension over transactions occurring before the treaty date would be decided by the president of
the United States.
• Recent defeats had caused dissension in the army ranks.
• The most dissension may come from competing rivals for higher office.
• However, even here there are signs of dissension within the ranks.
• There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.
• Already, the dissension is limiting his flexibility in negotiations.
• The missionaries were not always aware of the dissension they sowed or of their part in the flowing of blood.
• Had they stood behind him, the General Staff would have suppressed the dissension within its own ranks.
internal dissensions
• Unti1 1939 the Labour Party was bedevilled by internal dissensions on this issue.

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153. DISSENT
• If dissent is voiced, self-appointed mind-guards apply verbal and non-verbal pressure to isolate dissenters.
• No dissent from or criticism of Kim Il Sung, his tenets, or his decisions was permitted.
• And the entire team were warned about their over-enthusiastic appealing and shows of dissent.
• Bodie ignored the sounds of dissent.
• During the Prime Minister's speech there were several murmurs of open dissent from the crowd.
• Chapter 5 looks at attempts to explain violent political dissent and the surge of revolutionary movements.
• The Communist authorities have done nothing less than silence all public dissent.
• At no time, however, did they use such draconian measures to stifle dissent.
• Ministers might justly argue that in this case the dissent is also politically ambiguous, given the diverse support for
the amendment.
• Anti-war dissent was increasing by the time Nixon took office.
voices of dissent
• Although voices of dissent are being heard, there is no sign of the supermodel phenomenon abating in
the near future.
• He said there would always be some voices of dissent.
• The voices of dissent were effectively smothered.
Dissent
• The decision was supported by almost everyone. Baldwin was the only one to dissent.
• The barrister member, Miss Anne Rafferty, dissented.
• I respectfully dissent and would reverse.
• Romer L.J., at p. 652, did not dissent but expressed a doubt.
• We do not dissent from that proposition.
• Another dissented from the final figure, holding out for a lower award.
• No one dared dissent from the official party line.
• That ratification depends on Parliament only dissenting in legally ambiguous ways?
• Justice Frank Murphy dissented separately and voted to affirm the conviction.
• Blair would be wise to listen to some of the dissenting voices in his party.
dissenting voices
• There were only a couple of critically dissenting voices.
• With dissenting voices now silent, it became easier to bomb than to talk.
• Very few dissenting voices were heard on the left.

154. DISSENTER
• A later residence in Northampton shire was licensed in 1673 for dissenter meetings, in spite of his earlier
bad reputation there.
• But in practice, if most countries want to go ahead with something, they may well ignore a lone dissenter.
• Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
• It even published the minority views of dissenters.
• Soviet dissenters were persecuted more actively and severely in 1980 than had been the case in 1976.
• They did not honor the dissenters.

155. DISSONANCE
• Revelling in colour and contrast, drama and dissonance, boldness and individualism, it was the
architectural legacy of Romanticism.
• We will now add a lower part which will turn the consonant effect into one of uniformly relaxed mild dissonance.
• a choral piece full of dissonance and odd rhythms
• The party faithful might be willing to put up with such dissonance among their candidates.

156. DIVULGE
• She hinted of an important secret still to be divulged.
• There also are secret ingredients that she will not divulge.
• The contract forbids employees to divulge details of this work to anyone outside the company.
• Yet the Committees can not force ministers and civil servants to divulge information.
• A spokeswoman for the company would not divulge the salaries paid to top managers.
• The other three companies refused to divulge their plans.
• I thought - I thought the case would be solved without my needing to divulge this information.
• She would never divulge to Mattie that she had been second choice when Judge Tembleton could not do it.

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• I'm afraid I cannot divulge what Jameson said to me.
divulge what/where etc
• But he declined to divulge where he would slash spending.
• However, Roeser refused to divulge where the Clippers will play next season.
• Even the Pentagon don't know or won't divulge what type of plane it was.

157. DOCENT
• At the J Paul Getty museum in Malibu, a docent was giving her usual tour.
• The inside is completely restored, and visitors can sit in the old desks while a docent explains early school days.
• The twice-a-week free tours are narrated by museum docents.
• He had been offered the position of docent at the University of Warsaw.
• She's a volunteer docent at the Smithsonian Institution.

158. DOTE
• On my advanced age, I dote.
• This is typical of the celebrity worship sites erected by doting fans.
• Gloria had an old Studebaker that her doting father had given her.
• I was born six months later and immediately became the darling of my doting grandmother.
• No doubt the woman thought him a concerned, doting husband.
• Telbis-Preis developed a secret friendship with the diplomats, who would often dote over her young son, Nicolae.

159. DOWNY
• The undersides of the leaves are slightly downy.
• On the right, nearest his father, Hubert, best-suited school-leaver with a downy boy's face and sharp cheek-bones.
• And on the branch beside it is a downy chick.
• Outside, a light snow had begun to fall, whitening the streets with downy flakes.
• On his head was a fuzz - a fluff of pale downy hair, almost transparent.
• a baby's downy hair
• Consider instead the delicate beading of perspiration on a downy lip.
• These leaves, too, were curled around the edges, and their undersides were covered with a downy tan fuzz.
• In the mixed hardwood forest, I come across a number of hairy and downy woodpeckers.

160. DROLL
• Not much of the bridge's history is as droll.
• The diary of this trip is Jaynes' droll and artfully composed memoir.
• But these flourishes never distract from the droll human dramas that Wong has so astutely and amusingly worked
out.
• Yes, very droll, no doubt.
• And his own unique brand of droll self-mockery had his audiences in stitches.
• Although they're full of droll talk and amusing mannerisms, they are still necromancers.
• Other cartoons are lifeless; plenty of sitcoms offer droll toddlers and clever menials, bringing down their betters
with disparaging asides.
• Mrs. Fanning rolled her hips in a droll way like some one trying to keep up a Hula-Hoop.

161. DULCET
• All pluck and pomp, it rang throughout the hall in dulcet tones as never before.

162. DUNCE
• But women could be dunces too, in McCarthy's eyes.
• And this, for golfing dunces, is one of the joys.
• But because they looked like such retarded dunces, and women saw right through them.
• He was still the school dunce.
• My flaky judgments were modest by comparison-but numerous enough to keep
me hopeful of regaining the dunce cap this year.
• It shows just what dunces the Tories are when it comes to education.

163. DUPLICITY
• My life developed into a duplicity.

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• I saw it most in our native duplicity.
• Creatures have no duplicity, like man.
• Nor will I tolerate any lying or duplicity.
• It was uncomfortable having to keep up a false front, and we regretted the distance our duplicity created.
• What was it to her if he chose to conduct himself with duplicity?

164. EFFECT
• Storni's use of rhythm creates an effect of tension in her poems.
• All my efforts to persuade them were beginning to have an effect.
• However, the establishment of cause and effect in education is notoriously difficult.
• Any increase in fuel costs could have a bad effect on business.
• the harmful effects of radiation
• Patients with renal failure are, in effect, undergoing an osmotic diuresis since
solute load per remaining functioning nephron is increased.
• In effect, a personalized automated trading system can be created without having to go to any financial institution.
• The death of a parent can have very serious and long-lasting effects on a child.
• I tried using bleach to remove the stain, but without much effect.
• I saw her later in my office because the Hyper. 30 had no effect.
• I've been taking these pills for three days, but so far they've had no effect.
• But they are concerned about the psychological effect the experience may have on the girls.
• Sleeping on a contoured pillow will achieve the same effect if you prefer sleeping on foam rather than feathers.
• At the same time, materials scientists launch an extensive search for other materials that might have similar effects.
• I was starting to feel the effects of two nights without much sleep.
• Gail was still recovering from the effects of her operation.
• The study measured the effect of fertilizers on the size of crops.
• The exploration of the effect of unconscious associations between words and ideas certainly takes eighteenth-
century criticism into a new field.
• The effects of the oil spill were devastating for wildlife.
had ... effect
• All had suffered devastating effects from the war.
• Damage to a visual area in the brainstem, the superior colliculus, had the reverse effect.
• The collapse of the Labour government had little effect on the Party's isolation.
• But the public protests have had a profound effect on Adobe.
• The evidence demanded a long time for Earth processes to have had any effect in carving
mountains and accumulating sediment.
• But he was wrong when he said it had no effect on him.
• This annoyed the surgeon, who began to cut before the local or the sedative had taken effect.
• That word-we-had a potent effect.

Effect
• But you can never effect a total kill.
• There is no question that Clinton was the leader of the Great Group that effected his victory.
• He proposed to make the army-the dependable support of the Constitution rather than the pawn
of politicians to effect its overthrow.
• The differentiation was effected, rather, by a different body of linguistic rules.
• Fatigue is another factor that can effect the pods causing the end plates to bend or crack and lose contact.
• But there is nothing to preclude a charge being brought under section 5 even though the arrest was not effected under
the section.
effect1 /ɪˈfekt/ noun1[countable, uncountable] the way in which an action, event, or person changes someone or
something Inflation is having a disastrous effect on the economy.→ DEMONSTRATION EFFECT→ HALO
EFFECT→ HAWTHORNE EFFECT→ IMPACT EFFECT→ INCOME EFFECT→ PRICE EFFECT→ SUBSTITUTION
EFFECT→ WEALTH EFFECT
2put/bring something into effect to make a plan or idea happen It won’t be easy to put the changes into effect.
3come into effect/take effect if a new arrangement, law, system etc comes into effect or takes effect, it officially starts
The new tax rates come into effect in April.
4with immediate effect/with effect from starting to happen immediately, or from a particular date Mr. Hoskins is
appointed manager, with immediate effect.

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5effects [plural] formal the things that someone owns Insurance also covers personal effects required during travel on
company business.

165. EFFERVESCENT
• Her shoulder was stinging, but Maria couldn't help laughing at his effervescent antics.
• Likewise, those that thought they were too ephemeral and effervescent, began to appreciate them.
• The effervescent eschatology of sunshine and wealth had gone flat.
• Wind is whistling around the frameless doors, too, but it's pure uplifting, effervescent fun.
• Tamburlaine's effervescent personality and self-confidence are also echoed throughout the play.
• We asked our effervescent typist what she might have been thinking at the time, but she only blushed.
• He has his care-free, pretty, effervescent wife back for the moment.

166. ELECTROLYTE
• Net absorption of water and electrolytes was calculated using standard formulas.
• Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in
a dose dependent fashion.
• The decreased secretion of aldosterone will affect body electrolyte balance and extracellular fluid volume.
• Even sports drinks may not contain enough electrolytes -- or the body may not absorb them well enough --
to prevent problems.
• Are the electrolyte levels consistent with this? 3.
• Whether these are actually present is then determined by considering
the electrolytes and arterial blood gas measurement.
• A porous polymer membrane bag seals the electrolyte, allowing water vapour, but not the acidsolution, to pass.
• Many of the birds are being hydrated with electrolytes via a catheter and kept warm on heating pads to
treat hypothermia.

167. ELICIT
• He or she is doing a certain thing and we interpret it in a certain way which elicits a given emotion.
• Behavior eliciting a negative response decreased in frequency.
• Short questions are more likely to elicit a response.
• He, at least, was successful in eliciting an answer.
• Her strength was her ability to elicit and inspire confidences rather than fear in the people she befriended.
• Single conspicuous targets in the half-field contralateral to
the lesion could elicit fixations, implying detection and orienting by a subcortical system.
• The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.
• She also elicited the views of the students about the way ward organisation helped them to learn.
elicited ... response
• Calls to dozens of independent agents elicited similar responses.
• It is not entirely surprising that Wagner's gift of the Tristan poem elicited no response.
• Slightly tentative, it warmed her eyes and elicited response.
• Behavior that elicited a positive response from the environment increased in frequency.
• When that elicited no response she opened it and peeped in.

168. ELUCIDATE
• The cellular mechanism of action of ethanol, however, remains to be fully elucidated.
• His statement confused more than it elucidated and satisfied almost no one.
• The role of the courts in the constitution was further elucidated in the following cases.
• The studies elucidate the history of alcohol problems in men.
• Finally, we attempt to elucidate the infrastructure of current and projected associations that supports this picture, and
consider its significance.
• He formulated the notion to elucidate the particular problem of how scientific ideas
become represented in popular consciousness.
• Understanding the movement of neutrophils and the mechanisms through which they mediate
tissue injury is fundamental to elucidating the pathogenesis of relapse.
• This is the beginning of an explanatory mechanism which elucidates the relationship between social
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169. ELUSIVE
• A cure for the disease has proven to be elusive.
• The nature of things was to be elusive.
• Even a relatively modest addition to the liberal framework, universal health coverage, remainselusive.
• I can find the Big Dipper, but the North Star can be elusive.
• The fox is a sly elusive animal.
• The gray fox is a very shy elusive creature.
• Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equitycard is attainable.
• the elusive key to corporate success
• We repeatedly tried to contact the manager, an elusive man who was never in his office.
• The team came within one game of the elusive state championship.

170. EMBED
• The remark just goes to show how embedded age-related stereotypes are.
• The making of personal portraits was part of this popular aesthetic, firmly embedded in commercial practices.
• Her feelings of guilt are deeply embedded in her personality.
• This mythology is in part embedded in our history.• This denial is deeply embedded in politics.
• Personal photographs are embedded in the lives of those who own or make use of them.
• A punishment stake had been embedded in the turf opposite the west door of the church.
• The blastocyst will now implant or embed itself in the endometrium, losing its membrane.
• One solution is to embed your neural network in an expert system.
be embedded in something
• Their techniques are embedded in a view that unusual energy is accessible to us all.
• Personally, we would not consider delivering a neural network unless it was embedded in an expert system.
• For most people, time is embedded in language, and the sense of time is a function of this fact.
• Ageism is embedded in our attitudes and social structures.
• Microscopic examinations show that crystals of zinc are embedded in the eutectic mixture.
• It has also made clear that these problems are embedded in the overall trade-offs between the various methods
of comparison.
• Cold was embedded in the ruddiness of her wind-pressed cheeks.
• This is because they are embedded in what I have called a teleology of the oppressed.
deeply embedded
• It very nearly is us: as personal and as deeply embedded as childhood memories of Christmas or school terms.
• Minded by corpulent nymphets with wings and frowns, in reticence they guard their deeply embedded doubts.
• Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him?
• What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences.
• This denial is deeply embedded in politics.
• Our roots are deeply embedded in polluted soil.
• They were all so deeply embedded in themselves there was no love or support left for her.
• Personal experience, if it happened, would have left them with a deeply embedded memory of an
acutely unpleasant incident.

171. EMBLAZONED ON/ACROSS


• One is selling T-shirts, with Versace emblazoned on the front.
• The dark interior of this little shrine is dedicated to the Lobkovic family whose name is emblazoned
on the red lacquer screen.
• To hir, the grandiose promises of Utopia emblazoned across the screen were not only unconvincing but nauseating.
• The bonus to the restaurant was that its name would be emblazoned on the side of the bins in smart gold letters.
• It was white, emblazoned on the sides in red.
• The 747 was waiting on the runway, in pristine white livery, the Virgin name emblazoned on the tailfin in red.

172. EMBLEMATIC
• When politics invades religion, legality becomes merely emblematic.
• The central relationship in the novel between Serena and Stella is emblematic of the contrast
between adaptation to convention and rebellion.
• But the murrelet and the owl are merely emblematic of the effects of clear-cutting the remaining Ancient Forest of
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• The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-
war Britain.
• The strangeness of the whole situation comes across very strongly, together with a certain emblematic quality.
• Grown-up in his own fisherman's kingdom, his cruelty brands him an emblematic villain.
• It is not only a matter of those galleries buying great emblematic works of art.
emblematic of
• The cowboy is emblematic of not only an era, but a nation.

173. EMBOSSED
• These artists manipulate paper pulp to make sculptures, reliefs, embossed and two-dimensional work.
• They came in tooled leather, they came gilded and embossed and with special paper made in Florence.
• These are chairs with embossed backs.
• It was resolved to purchase silver and bronze medals, and an embossed certificate of merit.
• Second, you could nail up corner blocks, those square blocks of pine with a an embossed circlein the middle.
• And you must notice in this new first smoker the seats and backs are fitted with embossed crimson leather.
• It was composed on light blue stationery with a strip of embossed gold running along the top margin.
• Here passengers ate delicacies prepared by a master chef under an arched ceiling of embossed leather and
oil paintings.

174. EMPATHY
• And, of course, empathy creates a closeness between you and your child.
• Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines.
• Any practising industrial chemist will have great empathy with this and many other of the author's sentiments.
• But the same ability to inspire and persuade through empathy and trust can be and should be present in
all organizations.
• Barriers to empathy are created by some social structures and divisions, such as those of race, religion and class.
• One goal in the end is to develop victim empathy.
• As you increase the limit setting, you need to increase your empathy.
empathy with/for
• They could combine their compassion and empathy with being helpful.
• Communication that demonstrates empathy for the listener will produce highly favorable reactions.
• They feel empathy for what he felt.
• Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines.
• Any practising industrial chemist will have great empathy with this and many other of the author's sentiments.
• I felt a very real empathy for it.
• Perhaps arising from the close personal comradeship of those war years was Basil's empathy
with ordinary working folk.
• He concludes, not by committing himself to atheism but showing empathy with it.

175. EMIT
• But soon after lunar sunrise, it emitted an extremely powerful blast of radio energy.
• The ratios change over time as potassium undergoes radioactive decay and emits argon gas.
• Sounds emitted by the dolphins were recorded with an underwater microphone.
• An average car emits five lungfuls of poisonous carbon monoxide gas per mile.
• Sleep becomes very deep as your brain emits high, wide delta waves.
• It emitted less than a tenth as much radiation.
• When minerals such as quartz are heated, they emit light.
• The Earth emits natural radiation.
• He knew he had acquired an object which emitted other noxious gases - Pitfall Number One - but that wasn't all.
• The machine emits regular bleeps which indicate the heart rate.

176. EMULATE
• There is much in Cheng's work that we can admire and emulate.
• Inventors like Edison, Westinghouse, and Bell were popular heroes, to be emulated by younger men.
• Developing countries often try to emulate experiences of developed countries, but this is not always a good idea.
• Denis hung back, unsure whether he dared emulate his superior.
• The narrator's wish to emulate that even-heartedness was Sebastian's own.
• Davis was encouraged to emulate the style of trumpet player Bobby Hackett.

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• He then tries to emulate this so-called late-hit position.
• Procomm can connect with and emulate virtually any computer terminal.
emulate ... success
• Without both elements, evolutionary computing will struggle to have sufficient power to emulate the
success of biology.
• He proposed opening a second restaurant in the park to emulate the success of the Beach Chalet.
• Why they haven't emulated the success story of the good but overrated Ride remains a mystery.

177. ENCUMBER
• To be human is merely to encumber the turning of the wheel.
• Why should we encumber them with cultural constraints they do not need?
be encumbered with something
• Belarus' economy is still encumbered with inefficient state-owned factories.

178. ENCYCLICAL
• If only Miss Manners had promulgated, like the pope, an encyclical on proper gay conduct.
• The great majority of those who still practiced their faith disregarded the encyclical.
• A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.
• Tom believed that the encyclical was poorly reasoned, but his objections were more pastoral than they were
doctrinal.
• The combination of fallout from the Council and disillusionment with the encyclical was more than
many priests could bear.

179. ENHANCE
• This image can then be enhanced and electronically analyzed.
• To some extent it is pOssible for parents to enhance certain aspects Of infant intelligence.
• But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with
it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
• We're using technology to enhance our levels of service.
• But what specific actions can we take to enhance our satisfaction while at the same time reassuring our
new acquaintances?
• Low lighting and soft music enhanced the atmosphere in the room.
• You can enhance the flavour of most dishes with the careful use of herbs.
• All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
• He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which enhances the sound quality.
• When water is running it enhances the village aspect and in spring flotillas of ducklings can be seen on it.
• Harmaline only serves to enhance this behavior { 28 }.

enhanced ... reputation


• It certainly helped to enhance the reputation of our province at this level.
• It is an uncontrolled shot and one which will definitely not enhance your reputation in the clubhouse!
• On road and off, the new Shoguns will enhance their reputation here.
• Pictures showing unruly behaviour or empty benches might not enhance the reputation of the House.
• Quite apart from enhancing its reputation, it also reassures other agents that they will not be forgotten.
• Throughout most of those countries the universal view is that Britain should do more to enhance its reputation
through the fund.
• When you help colleagues to produce more, you enhance your own reputation.
• Zahedi enhanced this reputation and London society had a taste of the party giving that was to hit Washington ten
years later.

180. ENNUI
• Apparently, sophistication and ennui can be easily applied with a brush.
• She swam slowly out into the sea, waiting for the ghastly ennui to pass.
• She asks what she can do to dispel her ennui, and he advises that she concern herself with matters outside herself.
• When they fail to do this, ennui is not far behind.
• Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
• The Dream Teamers, as individuals, are not bogged down with ennui.
• Joseph is a disgruntled Brooklyn teenager who, when he doesn't get into Columbia, fills up with ennui.

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181. EPICENTRE
• Its epicentre was in the sea 19 miles from the town of Maumere, with its 70,000 inhabitants.
• A star marks the epicentre of the atomic bomb dropped in 1945.
• Worse still, the epicentre of labour militancy was the capital itself.
• The epicentre of the nation's in decision encompasses a group of states in its heartland, around the Great Lakes.
• The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire, but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area.

182. EQUIVOCATE
• He knew of course that Theo would equivocate.
• Wilson continues to equivocate about what action he will take.
• The courts continue to equivocate as to whether the traditional approach should be maintained.

183. ESCHEW
• To eschew detail is to float in the clouds above the wood.
• Aside from these two ` laws' of political science, the bulk of comparative research eschews making such strong
claims.
• And they stuck to subject matter in their classes, eschewing propaganda.
• In school, Crowell stood out as the girl who eschewed the blandness of fashion in favor of personal style.
• Wick eschewed the spotlight before Christmas last year.
• Embryos have their own logic and all too often eschew tidiness; there is an element of all
three mechanisms involved.
• Quintera was a man who eschewed violence.

184. ETHIC
• the Judeo-Christian ethic
• At the time, Gingrich said a speaker should step aside when questions about his ethics are being investigated by
in Congress.
• Either that, or a different investment ethic prevails there.
• Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic, not the work ethic but the breeding ethic.
• Furthermore, he admitted to having given the ethics panel untrue information when it investigated those projects.
• This insight into the ethics of international trade comes from the Geneva-based World Economic Forum,
a research organization.
• It was my introduction to the ethics of science.
• Perhaps worse, where it does give lip-service to ethics, it is to an ethics divorced from moral sensitivity.

185. EVANESCENT
• This perception strikes one as promising, but the impression may be evanescent.
• Talk is evanescent but writing leaves footprints.
• If Western women remember how they once approached equality, they remember it as an evanescent dream that died
unborn.
• They were like a new kind of creature: light, evanescent, frivolous and absolutely predatory.
• She spoke to Frankl who guided her to what is eternal and evanescent in life.
• Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame.

186. EVASIVE
• When we asked him where his wife was, O'Hare suddenly became evasive.
• And these narrative solutions are invariably negative or evasive.
• Courtroom observers described him as alternately charming and evasive.
• It had been a strange conversation: Riverton was nervous, evasive.
• She's quite vague, even evasive about it.
• an evasive answer
• All their questions were met with vague, evasive answers.
• And the bird's standard evasive tactic is ill-suited to the airport.
• Blood had been spilt this time despite all the evasive tactics and diplomacy.

187. EVOCATIVE
• It was one of the last of his evocative flights of homespun philosophy.
• An ageing leaf, suggested by random blobs upon a shape evocative of a leaf.

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• The painting was evocative of all the sun and bright colours of Provence.
• There are certain forms of display - such as toys and period interiors - which are particularly evocative of nostalgia.
• Some representations of St James the Greater are evocative of Sucellus.
• His photographs, which are also held in Edinburgh, are stunningly crisp and evocative of the places and people he
visited.
• It is woven into our souls and has an evocative quality.
• The lost Wolfprince - dear me, there's a very evocative ring to it, don't you think?
• The air was full of evocative smells of flowers and freshly cut grass.
evocative of
• Tuyman's drawings are strangely evocative of the paintings of Egon Schiele.

188. EXCAVATE
• The site, needed for a parking lot, was entombed without being excavated.
• Archaeologists are excavating a Bronze Age settlement on the outskirts of the village.
• The turtle excavates a hole in the sand and then lays its eggs in it.
• The stone-lined privy pit was excavated a year ago by an archaeology field class from City College.
• As on land, ocean impact explosions excavate huge craters.
• The mosaics excavated in 1989 have now been fully restored.
• For a time he worked with archaeologists from the University of California excavating ruins near Kayenta, Arizona.
• Work is under way to excavate the ancient city.
• Workers had already begun excavating the foundations for the house.
• A very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel.
• Until recently new pits were continually being excavated while others are being filled with refuse.

189. EXECRABLE
• In drunken lunacy we had two execrable hamburgers and three orders of cold, greasy fries at the refreshment stand.
• Who would know how to decipher Canon Wheeler's execrable hand?
• execrable wine

190. EXHORT
• Ishmael is firmly committed to this experience, but here he exhorts against it.
• It exhorts employers to give workers a better balance between home and working lives.
• He would also exhort his children to read it, and laid great stress upon the utility of information.
• The Corporation considered the £2,400 price was simply an attempt by the company to exhort public money.
• Other players pumped their fists or otherwise exhorted the fans.
• Bind tight and keep shoving, he exhorted them.
exhort somebody to do something
• He exhorted the workers to end the strike.

191. EXONERATE•
I certainly have no intent of exonerating anybody.
• But he was not exonerated either.
• But the signature of all his creditors was needed to exonerate him.
• Sometimes he punished himself when others were inclined to exonerate him.
• However, there was no attempt to exonerate the reputation of the dead man.
exonerate somebody from/of something
• Ross was exonerated of all charges of child abuse.

192. EXPLOITATION
• The worst period of their poverty and exploitation in the United States seems to have occurred after the end of our
period.
• On the contrary, their recollection is embittered by the cruelty, exploitation and official oppression which they recall.
• These attributes clearly
included immense potential for societal and cultural modification in relation to economic exploitation of
the environment.
• Other Hawaiians have claimed that geothermal exploitation disrupts their worship of the goddess, Pele.
• The steady inexorable process of exploitation, with great cost to the environment, has gone on and on.
• But who is at the centre of the worldwide web of exploitation?

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• They are working to control the exploitation of the rain forests.
• The company was fined for the exploitation of its immigrant workers.
• They were significantly overrepresented in the underground economy, where they were prey to exploitation.

commercial/economic exploitation
• Instead of recognising a commercial exploitation, we're invited to see male lust as the corrupting force.
• Sometimes this consciousness developed into a critique of middle-class morality and economic exploitation.
• Much of it is therefore being focused on new developments for commercial exploitation in industry.
• Subscription to the list is absolutely free and there is no commercial exploitation or hidden costs.
• Human ecology includes a vast complexity of social elements, themselves functioning in relation
to modes of economic exploitation in varying regional ecologies.
• So it should be for the commercial exploitation of the public spectrum.
• The alternative to economic exploitation is simply stated: we leave them alone.
• These attributes clearly included immense potential for societal and cultural modification in relation to economic
exploitation of the environment.

193. EXTEMPORANEOUS
• She also has a distaste for policy debates, interviews, extemporaneous speeches and many
other traditional obligations of a national leader.

194. EXTRAPOLATE
• The figures are wildly optimistic, and could only have been extrapolated from a short trial of about 10 operations.
• Like carbon and oxygen, what is known has been extrapolated from reductionist experiments in the lab and
computer modeling.
• You're extrapolating from your own feelings to mine.
• Generally Helen would extrapolate on one of the more testing programmes coming out of her department.
• Worsley and his colleagues have extrapolated these effects of the Super continental Cycle back into the Precambrian.
• How far is it reasonable to extrapolate these results to the non-poor is a highly debatable point.
• These cost data were then extrapolated to a 200 megawatt plant using various scale factors.

195. EXTRICATE
• A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
• It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos.
• They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.
• Gao Yang had an unobstructed view of the man extricating his foot from the pot.
• At the same time he arranged for Burgess to be sent home to extricate Maclean before the net closed.
• It took firemen almost an hour to extricate the driver from the wrecked car.
• By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run; some sections, and platoons from these
companies extricated themselves at nightfall.
extricate yourself/somebody from something
• He had good taste and was most helpful in extricating one from awkward situations.
• I helped Professor Cousins extricate himself from his chair.
• This one is about the difficulty of extricating oneself from Internet entanglements, and specifically about bringing e-
mail exchanges to an end.
• He can speak eloquently of the need to reduce the size of government and extricate it from our private lives.
• They can also help a floundering organization extricate itself from the depths of a self-inflicted malaise.
• A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
• It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos.
extricate somebody/yourself from something
• I helped Professor Cousins extricate himself from his chair.
• He can speak eloquently of the need to reduce the size of government and extricate it from our private lives.
• Then he turned, extricating himself from the clutter round his feet, and went, with great dignity, downstairs.
• It is easiest to extricate rabbits from the nets if you kill them first.
• Gao Yang had an unobstructed view of the man extricating his foot from the pot.
• A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
• It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos.

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196. EXTRINSIC
• Together, intrinsic and extrinsic ageing will determine apparent age.
• The gastric mucosa resists the corrosive effects of peptic hydrochloric acid secretion and noxious extrinsic agents.
• These inducements are both extrinsic and intrinsic.
• Hygiene factors are essentially extrinsic and motivators are intrinsic.
• The neural abnormalities that could induce a tachygastria include loss of intrinsic inhibitory innervation
or lack of extrinsic autonomic inhibition.
• Cyclic fluctuations in vole populations have been variously interpreted as the result of intrinsic or extrinsic factors by
different workers.
• Some teachers believe students need extrinsic rewards to motivate them to learn.
• The aim of his study was to explore why people took part in activities that yielded no extrinsic rewards.
• Certain actions of football fans, for example, are quite clearly directed by factors extrinsic to their group.
extrinsic rewards
• The aim of his study was to explore why people took part in activities that yielded no extrinsic rewards.
• But what when these extrinsic rewards are in short supply?

197. FABRICATE
• I wonder sometimes, wonder how much is fabricated and how much is truth.
• The president has denied the allegations, which he said were fabricated by his political opponents.
• It was a very entertaining, albeit fabricated, film.
• The woman said she fabricated her testimony because she thought she was going to get a $10,000 reward.
• At their small workshop, they fabricate parts for jet engines.
• The gable wall structure consists of a series of fabricated steel mullions at 3.6m centres.
• Officials were accused of fabricating the evidence that was given at the trial.
• Branson later admitted that he had fabricated the whole story.
• Even the brush or other instruments could be employed freely, the whole image fabricated to convey a sense
of handling
.fabricating evidence
• They accused the law enforcement authorities of violating their civil rights by, among other things, fabricating
evidence.

198. FACILE
• A fifth mistaken approach is the facile assertion that opponents are being inconsistent.
• During a given project, the collaboratory notices and remembers which of us are good, even facile, at which tasks.
• Every society must be protected from a too facile flow of thought.
• The senator is known for making facile judgments on current issues.
• It muddles facile loathing of a parody bureaucracy with the great issues of statesmanship.
• A crude or facile narrative technique will inevitably fail to achieve the desired ideological objective.
• Munro never lets you get away with a facile, one-dimensional take.
• It is facile to attribute all childhood problems to poor parenting or social circumstances.
• It is facile to employ cost of living indices or indices of neo-natal mortality without knowing how the figures
are calculated.

199. FACILITATE
• The government was, he said, prepared to facilitate and fund the work of researchers into the matter.
• Piaget identified social interaction as one of the major variables that facilitate cognitive development.
• Both centers are electronically linked to facilitate communication.
• Dividing students into small groups usually helps facilitate discussion.
• Legislation is urgently needed to facilitate police counterterrorist operations.
• Manufacturers would be required to maintain dossiers in a standard format on each product,
a measure designed to facilitate safety checks.
• Internal representation and language development facilitate the development of truly social behavior and spark social
learning.
• The managers research, collect, and maintain special education materials and facilitate their distribution within
a region.
• Bodybuilders use mental imaging to facilitate their physical development.

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200. FATEFUL
• There were to be extraordinary inconsistencies in the description of that fateful call by the main participants.
• To go no further back than the nineteenth century, we have had the fateful dates1815,1871,1914.
• Years later, all that she would remember of that fateful day were two things.
• Whether to try cotton again is a potentially fateful decision for Valley farmers.
• In just these few days the name had taken on a resonance, a sense of fateful event.
fateful day/night/year etc
• Tony is one of two silent victims of that fateful day.
• Then in mid-July, shortly after his requested transfer to the U. S. Army finally came through, the fateful
night arrived.
• Wish art thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet.
• The scores of journalists who had descended on New Madrid for the fateful day ended up reporting on one another
instead.
• One fateful day, he was sitting on his horse when a stunt went awry in a John Ford picture.
• The first delivery of post came and went on that fateful day, no letter.
• Years later, all that she would remember of that fateful day were two things.
• The least valued attribute may come to the rescue on some fateful day when that very quality is required.

201. FAWN
• Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle, only to die within a few months.
• Colours were brutal and depressing; dank shades like dung and army-blanket fawn.
• She has two young calves that look remarkably like fawns without spots.
Related topics: Colours
fawn2 adjective having a pale yellow-brown colour
Examples from the Corpus
Fawn
• Her hair was a thick glossy bush of pale fawn brown, not quite shoulder-length.
• A fawn jacket over thetop.fawn3 verb [intransitive] to praise someone and be friendly to them in an insincere way,
because you want them to like you or give you something fawn on/over I refused to fawn over her or flatter her.—
fawning adjective→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
Fawn
• Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.
• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.
• The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.
fawn on/over
• Now she's fawning over her mistress again and whatever plans Horatia has, you may be sure Connell will help her.
• People were fawning over him, hoping for tickets.
• With just a few honourable exceptions, congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town.
• She, poor woman, had at last found a grown-up man, and showed her pleasure by fawning on Porua.
• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.

202. FEASIBLE
• Barrington suggest transporting the supplies by air. This of course is perfectly feasible.
• This is more costly and is not ideal but it is nevertheless feasible.
• Solar heating is technically and economically feasible.
• A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with
the project team was feasible.
• Steady advances in digital memory technology are making mass-storage devices technologically feasible and
increasingly cost-effective.
• The members thought that it was technically feasible and, under the right conditions, could benefit the region.
• The expansion of human civilization into space is feasible because of the availability of vast a steroidal and
planetary resources.
• We agreed on a feasible plan and within a week we implemented it.
• Da Silva considered it feasible that uranium could be produced on an industrial scale.
• For a time it seems feasible to escape this task.• Text is so efficient over the Internet that it is feasible to give away
this kind of service.
• It is not feasible to have security cameras in every part of the building.
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economically/technically/politically etc feasible
• But experts say such a proposal would not be technically feasible.
• Conventional wisdom in the United States had it that this is not economically feasible.
• Many may argue that such a precise level of customer communication is not commercially viable or technically
feasible.
• The members thought that it was technically feasible and, under the right conditions, could benefit the region.
• FLEX the name of both the machine and its language-was not technically feasible at the time.
• There was no question that a tunnel was technically feasible, but 1 wanted to know what the economics would be.
• The determination of whether or not it will be economically feasible to make this purchase.
• The bottom line: Taking time now to plan is a wise investment toward a more enjoyable and economically
feasible vacation.

203. FECKLESS
• The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and
the feckless.
• The spending may have been great but it was not being devoted to thousands upon thousands of undeserving
and feckless claimants.
• Partly, no doubt, the figures include at least some wilful or at least entirely feckless credit misusers.
• Doubtless, some are feckless individuals who could do better but simply don't trouble.
• Market forces remain free because of public imagery about the feckless, the idle and the deviant.
• a feckless young man

204. FELICITOUS
• Not a term I would use myself, since I do not find it particularly felicitous.
• This wide disposition yielded felicitous effects of colour and tone which always fell pleasingly on the ear.
• On reflection the chess metaphor is not a felicitous one.
• Overnight, it seems, my felicitous situation ended just as quickly.
• Lincoln's felicitous words about government

205. FELICITY
• The aim was to surround lithe John with domestic objects and so turn his mind to conjugal felicity.
• She made you feel that you were an expected felicity to her.
• This must be a human felicity as high as any that is possible.
• It is a book full of minor felicities.• He demonstrated a concern for the felicity of his children.
• In these works Traherne expresses his vision of the felicity for which mankind was created.
• With this felicity of thinking, they easily bridged the physical and social sciences,
from biology to psychology to sociology.

206. FERAL
• An Inside Job A local authority was called out to a feral cat problem at the local prison.
• Interbreeding with feral cats is probably the biggest threat to the wildcat.
• a pack of feral dogs
• His voice had moved down the register until it came forth as a kind of feral growl.
• The feral kid, by the way, is now said to be working as a jeweler in downtown Sydney.
• He had light brown hair and a feral quality about him that made people do what he wanted.
• Martin, eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl.
• Yes, I know a large chunk of the child population today is virtually feral, untended
and untutoredby responsible parents.
• A feral world of backbiting malice, veiled threats, liars and blackmailers.

207. FERMENT
• If the temperature is too low the beer will stop fermenting.
• It is much faster to ferment, effectively raising capacity.
• At the beginning of the season, when the vegetation within is actively fermenting, it may overheat.
• Kikkoman Soy Sauce takes a full 6 months to naturally ferment, just like a fine wine.
• Given an adequate amount of glucose, the ethanol content of a fermenting liquid rises until it reaches about
12 percent.
• Pesso means to bake, ripen, ferment or digest.

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• Set the bucket in the position where you intend to ferment the beer.
Ferment
• The reformulations are there because there is a ferment of thought in process, demanding words.
• Yet there is a great religious fervor and ferment evident among not only young people but old and middle-aged as
well.
• And like the Hill, here people of such different backgrounds were tossed together into one grand ferment.
• Not all the banlieues are in ferment, of course.
• Town-planning ideas were in ferment from another direction too.
• Thirteen others arrested during the ferment are being brought before the courts in two batches.

208. FILIGREE
• Ahead of me was a chancel screen, a filigree of Gothic tracery.
• The delicate gold filigree, the massive red gems.
• She had the diamond, which is surrounded by small white diamonds in a yellow-gold filigree setting, made into
a stickpin.
• There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree, running downwards helter-skelter.
• Bold blue cones surmount an extravagant collar of prickly blue bracts with filigree appendages.
• It can be engraved, embossed, covered with filigree wire, enamelled, patinated and plated.
• The melody was free of clutter, without filigree, stripped to its barest line.

209. FLORID
• We count the florid banknotes and hand them over across the desk.
• florid cheeks
• Alexei Volkov had the unkempt beard, florid complexion, and wild eyes of a survivalist.
• But for all his jaundiced egoism and florid cynicism, Rice is not a bad man.
• He was a handsome person in his florid, full-fed way, ruddy and brown-haired and aware of his consequence.
• A darkly florid officer with black moustache walked briskly through the debris, gazing round as though looking for
some one.
• From the flute is eminently suited to quiet melodic work, florid or otherwise.
• I hope he will find time to read it and provide a florid quotation for the dustjacket.
• a florid romance novel
• You get upset in the most florid ways, the most extreme hyperbole.

210. FLUX
• Today, the world of government is once again in great flux.
• Their television deal is in flux, and only two home games are scheduled to appear on the tube.
• The universe offers no such categories or simplifications; only flux and infinite variety.
• Anything less is not a change but only a continuation of the flux.
• All this leaves business ethics in a state of unhelpful flux.
in a state of flux
• It show-cased a band in a state of flux.
• The audience are caught in a state of flux.
• It is alive and ever changing, constantly in a state of flux - and often flowing away from us.
• The world economy is in a state of flux.
• These disciplines are, at present, in a state of flux and agitation.

211. FOP
• This isn't even pop about pop, this is fop about pop.
• The bored wives of old men and burgesses often found happiness in the arms of some court dandy or noble fop.
• For another, what you got here is a city full of fops and only one dry cleaners.
• Dustin Hoffman as Hook looked more like a Regency fop than a serious kidnapper.
• His actual identity is Sir Percy Blakeney, who at home safeguards his secret by acting the trivial society fop.
• Edek was nothing more than a Warsaw fop.
• Who was the young page, and the mysterious young fop who had trailed them?
• That young fop ... Perhaps it had been the Prince or Gaveston?

212. FORSWEAR
• Both sides agreed to forswear all acts of terrorism.

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• And it will force Nico to forswear any use of my statement to Molto.
• It is currently fashionable to forswear flesh eating in the interests of animal rights or a lower cholesterol level.
• But to do that he had to forswear his ... abilities.
• It was the Biblical apple with which man was seduced to forswear his innocence in order to gain
knowledge and sexuality.
• Secondly, Hu suggests that the Fed should forswear intervening directly in equities or equity derivatives.
• His refusal to forswear moonshine, however, mocked her with the most painful failure of all.

213. GABLE
• Ridge, hip and gable tiles are commonly displaced by gales, causing accumulation
of debris in gutters, valleys and junctions.
• Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.
• In the high front gable a plaque says 1857.
• Then voices would cry in the falling sigh of wind around its gables.
• Attractive stone built houses in the centre of the town have decorated timber surfaces under the gables and half-
hipped roofs.
• The gable wall structure consists of a series of fabricated steel mullions at 3.6m centres.
• Many of the houses were eighteenth century or earlier with steeply sloping red-tiled roofs and half-
timbered gables painted white or pale green.

214. GALVANIZE
• He galvanized his congregation, as admired for his campaigns to students or country towns as for his
commemorative services.
• He wants the kid to help galvanize his right-wing religious movement.
• The girl's disappearance has galvanized residents to begin a neighborhood watch program.
• This gave the protest movements plenty of time to galvanize support.
• The news, naturally, galvanized them.
galvanize somebody into (doing) something
• The hoarse urgency of his voice galvanized them into action before their minds had taken in what was happening.
• But attempts to galvanize Chiang into action were largely futile.
• This poem refreshes perhaps because the element of hatred has galvanized the yo into action.
• Feminist criticisms have galvanized psychology into making more, and more positive, studies of female subjects.

215. GAMBIT
• At other times it is a gambit to extract the maximum price concession from the seller.
• Still, this was a tidy, interesting account of a clever gambit from the University of Florence.
• There are few conversational gambits in discussions or meetings.
• His exit, when he truly is on his last legs, is his most effective gambit.
• a political gambit
• Nobody knew whether or not it worked but we derived a certain pleasure from the savagery of the gambit.
opening gambit
• Warwick's opening gambit is to blur the line between consciousness and intelligence.

216. GARNISH
• Remove fruit from cavity and use as a garnish.
• Serve the fish with a garnish of lemon.
• A final garnish of capers adds a pleasant salty note.
• Fresh parsley is often used for garnishes.
• Remove from oven and sprinkle fete cheese and herb and pine nut garnishes over top.
Garnish
• She garnished her built-up Trifle with strips of bright currant jelly, crystallised sweetmeats or flowers.
• Before serving the pie, add a little parsley to garnish it.
• The state began garnishing my wages to pay for the parking tickets.
• Garnish the salad with tropical fruits and sautéed wild mushrooms.
• To serve, garnish with onion or fresh cilantro.
• When serving greens, garnish with radishes.
• Scatter the Mozzarella over the pizzas, then garnish with the chopped sun-dried tomatoes.
• Ladle over the sauce, garnish with the fried pork and Sichuan peppercorns and serve at once.

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garnish something with something
• Place the turkey on a large platter and garnish it with parsley and orange sections.

217. GAUDY
• I didn't like the decorations - they looked rather gaudy.
• On the walls, pictures of Mecca and General Zia mingle with gaudy Alpine scenes.
• The men who tended the garden were well aware that to modern eyes this planting scheme was gaudy and banal.
• Another one put washing on to a line, gaudy bedclothes and sombre shirts.
• The beautiful lion fish belongs to this gaudy category and is therefore much easier to avoid.
• She smelled of cheap perfume and wore gaudy clothing and fake costume jewellery.
• Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe.
• Not only was it gaudy in appearance but the smell wafting from the kitchen was distinctly malodorous.
• a gaudy neon sign
• Within this area, several males - smaller and less gaudy than the females - establish much smaller territories.

218. GENOCIDE
• Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples.
• In recent history, the existence of prejudice has led to violence and genocide.
• Answer to above: from Mark Fritz Sure, I think organized population transfers make sense, if
the alternative is genocide.
• The only word that applies is genocide.
• What is going on is not just war, it is genocide.
• The fugitives, two of whom have been recaptured, are accused of genocide, mass murder and other crimes.
• Several of the military leaders have been accused of genocide.
• There is, after all, a long history of wife-beating and of genocide, but that does not make them excusable.

219. GESTICULATE
• He was gesticulating and laughing, talking to some one.
• After gesticulating at each other, they both fell silent and looked at their drinks.
• Their whole way of speaking and gesticulating changed when they were by themselves.
• When, in his most characteristic gesture, he presses a gesticulating finger to his forehead, his hand trembles.
• As soon as he spotted her, he began gesticulating frantically.
• Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.
• He mouthed and gesticulated - what did he mean?
• Jane gesticulated wildly and shouted ``Stop! Stop!''
• Last July, in peak form, pirouetting on his toes and gesticulating wildly, he was wickedly funny and
amazingly indiscreet.

220. GILD
• The skulls were gilded and taken out for yearly veneration.
• If it was a time of science and silks and gilded barges, it was also a time of pox.
• There was the altar, with its gilded borders and red sheen that absorbed the glazed white bowls and cups.
• Wind and sun had gilded her arms and legs honey-brown, hiding the last of the fading bruises.
• Now, naked, simmering with annoyance, the deepening light gilding him, he was no less imposing.
• She simply knows that icons, even the most gilded of them, are made to be hung on a wall.
• When Joe inquired about these details, the duke said that gilded window frames were economical because they
required no repainting.
• Even the horn was of a much lighter colour than usual, although it had been gilded with silver.

221. GLAUCOMA
• His views on the nature of astigmatism were important and he improved the treatment of acute glaucoma.
• This class of drug is also contraindicated in narrow-angle glaucoma.
• Amongst these are glaucoma and nystagmus.
• The more serious effects include acute confusional states, tachycardia, urinary retention, and aggravation
of glaucoma.
• Those on moderate or low doses of inhaled steroids showed no increased risk of glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
• For Hazel Rodgers, a 78-year-old glaucoma sufferer who credits marijuana with helping to save her eyesight.
• She was also undergoing tests for suspected glaucoma.

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• Andrew Miles was born blind in his left eye and lost his sight completely at 26 due to glaucoma.

222. GLAZE
• By the second chapter, your eyes begin to glaze.
• We later learned that the dishes had not been properly glazed.
• Temperatures fell suddenly, glazing all highways in the region.
• When a pot is glazed it typically undergoes two firings.
• Their faces glaze over as if in a trance.
• Beyond that point, unless her interest is awakened, Mrs. Thatcher's eyes glaze over.
• The rolls are glazed with egg before they are baked.

Glaze
• Far out, the bay had a glaze like celadon.
• Add the sherry to the pan, and stir until it has been reduced to a glaze.
• However, one obvious difference between glazes and glasses is that glazes are made specifically for
their attachment to pottery surfaces.
• Most new wood comes with a finish called a mill glaze.
• Thus the composition was blocked in on a warm basis, over which he would lay a series of glazes.
• Brush with tamarind glaze, turn, brush top with glaze, and cook until done, 3 to 5 minutes.
• The unpredictability of the glaze means that each pot is unique.
• Spoon the glaze over the kiwi fruit.

223. GLIB
• I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel.
• The doctor made some glib comment about my headaches being "just stress."
• All of those glib egotistical talk show hosts annoy me.
• Some of them, sadly, are glib, glossy reports which do the client companies few favours.
• We're being rather glib here.
• This is a false and counterproductive approach; it is to true open-mindedness what glib moral relativism is
to genuine tolerance.
• When women do confront sexism, the glib reply is often that it is a joke.

224. GLUCOSE
• Six subjects did not consent to a glucose tolerance test and tolerance
was determined from fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentrations.
• Insulin therapy is started if blood glucose levels remain elevated despite following these measures.
• When audits have gone beyond counting activity alone they have focused mainly on blood glucose concentration as
a proxy measure of outcome.
• For known diabetics the blood glucose can be rechecked four-hourly for at least the first 48 hours.
• In the Cardiff trial 14% of community care patients received regular general practitioner reviewand only 5%
received yearly blood glucose estimations.
• The subjects had a continuous infusion glucose tolerance test.
• The activated lymphocytes are able to use up glucose extremely quickly.
• Food could be turned into energy via respiration, in which glucose is either derived from food or
from photosynthesis.

225. GRADIENT
• Climbing back up the one in 4 gradient requires extraordinary reserves of stamina as well.
• Here, the continuing water diuresis may have washed out the medullary concentration gradient and led to a
protracted concentrating defect.
• Instead we guess that the shrimp are detecting gradients of light.
• I am sure this must be the steepest natural gradient of temperature on the surface of our planet.
• They can also provide the spontaneous formation of gradients.
• The route has a ruling gradient of one in 49 with one section at one in 29.
• He widened it, evened out the gradients and put in sweeping curves.
• The gradient in the horizontal size ratio is referred to as differential horizontal perspective.

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226. GRAPEVINE
• That is because commercial grapevines are propagated from cuttings and are genetically identical clones.
• If a collector had acquired the ancient cross, Wartski's experts might have heard of it through the dealers' grapevine.
• In the Northern California wine country at harvest time, we favor soaked grapevines added to the coals for
our fuel source.
• He had heard as much on the grapevine around the office.
• In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, the wild roses, the grapevines, the grass, would be back.
• We have also had great success with grapevine cuttings and herb sprigs, such as basil and thyme.

227. GREEN
• Go! The light's green.
• They are not mere repositories of geographic information, they are yellow, red, brown, green and blue.
• green bananas
• Finally, this leads me into green disciplining.
• A government committee is considering a proposal for a green energy policy.
• I looked into the mirror, my green eyes looking back out at me showing no emotion, no excitement at all.
• green eyes
• rolling green fields
• More money needs to be invested in developing greener fuel sources.
• There are lots of green groups in Portland and Seattle.
• Even when I was 21 I was so green, I had no idea that my best friend was on drugs.
• Then he reached under the counter for his slim green ledgers.
• The green light surrounding them now seemed to be imparting a sick lifeless pallor.
• Paint the arch white, green or black.
• a conference attended by representatives of all the Green parties of Europe.
• Pike was a grizzled combat veteran in charge of fifteen green recruits.
• The term green shrimp refers to all or any uncooked shrimp.
• Framed photographs of Manningham swinging a club decorated the lime green walls.
• George turned greener with each rock of the boat.

dark/light/pale/bright green
• The creature was dark green and about seven metres in length.
• It included Gale, evergreen Veratrum with flowering buds, dark green and striped-leaved Pyrola and
a pretty Lycopodium.
• It was high, and thick, and of a bright green colour.
• Alternatively, reverse colours, using dark green in feeder 1 and white or pastel colour in feeder 2, as illustrated.
• In a diffused light of sufficient intensity the same varieties form exquisite growth of long bright green leaves.
• But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.
• Cabled zip cardigan, £54, in leaf green, mustard, dark green or navy.
• Kip drew his eyes down from the luminous dark green peaks that ringed Long Tieng.
Green
•Parkas worn over close-fitting body pieces leap from the gloaming in acid greens, violent oranges, purples
and cardinal reds.• Flesh varies from green to orange and is juicy and refreshing.
• The Big Nurse got him clear across the room, right through his greens.
• Add a small amount of oil if greens begin to stick.
• It is similar in hue and transparency to phthalocyanine green, but perhaps slightly less brash.
• The second and seventh greens 1908.
• We get automatic two-putts on temporary greens.
Green
• The infestation, described as the worst for 20 years, follows record rains and the greening of normally arid expanses.
• Earth Day advocates were busy greening up the city's parks.
green /griːn/ adjective connected with protecting the environment or harming it as little as possible These revelations
will damage the company’s green image. Voters see very little difference between the main political parties on green
issues.

228. GRIDLOCK
• In the new Washington fewer laws will be passed, and gridlock will be a frequent problem.

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• Demanding that opposition victories in Nov. 17 municipal elections be respected, the protesters
created deliberate gridlock.
• If gridlock was a hallmark of the Legislature during this era, so was corruption.
• The average commuter spends the equivalent of 3.5 days in gridlock every year.
• The United States faces years of indecisive government, with Washington paralysed by score-settling
and legislative gridlock.
• Outside, the Talbot Horizon was cooling its smug self after bunny-hopping me through the north London gridlock.
• Only better public transport, according to the new consensus, can save the city centres from the threat of gridlock.
• The gridlock that characterized the Lamm years was about to end.
• Any car that stopped received a honking as if this were New York gridlock.

229. GUILELESS
• Distressing, precisely because it was so genuine, so guileless.
• If Cynthia Coppersmith were nothing else, she was guileless.
• Thorny presents sugar lumps in a plastic bowl and smiles; she expects something sinister in the smile but it
is guileless.
• Urquhart is a manipulative murderer who could outfox Machiavelli, while Richardson seems utterly guileless.
• I was guileless and awkward in sports.
• His thoughts were in turmoil and his open guileless face reflected the chaos in his mind.
• She was totally guileless, honest, with a mordant sense of humour and sardonic wit.

230. GUISE
• Some rumours, he says, have survived for centuries, merely by mutating and reappearing in a different guise.
• Joanne Tearle finds that the blue chip loan comes in many guises and choosing one may be your greatest problem.
• But the approach itself is never questioned, so the abuses simply resurface later in a new guise.
• He may also appear in the guise of a small grey water-horse or a lamb, always with an unusually long tail.
• Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints.
• Quietly, under the guise of equipment problems, he tried four weeks, then five.
• For the rest he has persisted in wearing the guise of a vassal before his overlord.
in/under the guise of something
• Third, price discrimination may appear in the guise of loyalty bonuses, rebates, and discounts.
• Firstly, he arrived in the guise of a brewery representative come to check the electrics.
• Eat a clove of garlic in the bathroom in the guise of brushing your teeth.
• Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints.
• In Britain the merging together of the banking and securities business in the guise of financial
conglomerates has rekindled this debate.
• The four reporters passed the checkpoints in the guise of U.S. soldiers.
• She stirs up antagonism, bullying members of other departments in the guise of working on my behalf.
• The dinner guest arrived early and came marching into the kitchen to inspect the proceedings, under the guise
of offering assistance.

231. GULL
• What a relief to have that weight of womanhood rise like a gull and fly away.
• The few gulls, mewing aimlessly, circle in, alighting.
• A noisy crew of black-headed gulls is wheeling below the bridge, feeding on the river's detritus.
• The herring gulls are local resident birds, and great opportunists, able to change their feeding habits to whatever
is available.
• The severed heads of gulls, rabbits, crows, mice, owls, moles and small lizards looked down on me.
• Nah man, thass some sea gulls.
• You could hear the sea gulls.
• I walked around the lake three times, looking for the gull.

232. GURU
• In walks a skinny, intense, angry little guy, obviously the boss guru.
• More often, we opted for the quick fix or the solution offered by the management guru of the month.
• Peter Drucker, the management guru, has just published a new book.
• a nutrition guru
• But a quasi guru, given he refused to accept any such role.

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• Twenty-five years ago he was enthroned as the guru of the avant-garde; today he is isolated, some would
say megalomaniac.
• Could it be that the guru of the environmental left had been wrong?
• It soon became apparent that Colin was the guru of the whole department.
• The guru or the spiritual director will have to tell the novice when he has reached the limits of his ability.
• Years ago in Manchester, my husband was taught to meditate by a Yiddishe guru in Didsbury.
guru /ˈgʊruː/ noun [countable] informa zl fashion/management etc guru someone who knows a lot
about fashion, managing businesses etc, whom people consider to be a leader in their area and whom they go to for
advice Management gurus have looked at world-class firms in the hope of finding the magic formula for success. a
computer-science guru

233. HACKLES
• The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for
the Republican presidential nominationis raising hopes and hackles.
• She felt defensive hackles rise on the back of her neck.
• Both sexes may erect hackles on neck when alarmed, to form prominent whiskers.
• I think documenting would only get his hackles raised further.
• But something has happened to raise our hackles.
• In the United States, the mere idea raises hackles.

234. HAIL
• She raised her hand to hail a cab but the Paris traffic was zooming by at its usual break-neck pace.
• Rachel left the office and ran out on to Des Voeux, hailing a taxi to take her home.
• Two decades later, it was home to more than 100 boys and was hailed as a model facility for troubled youth.
• Induction cooking has been hailed by many as the cooking revolution.
• The 2-hour meeting was hailed by some as the beginning of the end of the crisis.
• Only these taxis should be hailed in the streets.
• Some would prefer to be hailing New Jersey Sen.
hail a cab/taxi
• At the third attempt I gave up and hailed a taxi.
• He wanted it all to go smoothly right down to hailing a taxi.
• He hailed a cab and went to the Montrose.
• She raised her hand to hail a cab but the Paris traffic was zooming by at its usual break-neck pace.
• Cab Charge customers can phone or hail cabs displaying a distinctive blue decal.
• McCready waited ten minutes, strolled to the cab rank on Tunistrasse and hailed a cab for Bonn.
• Converse walked the several blocks to Pasteur Street and hailed a taxi, taking care not to signal with
the Offending Gesture.
• Rachel left the office and ran out on to Des Voeux, hailing a taxi to take her home.
Hail
• Hail the size of golf balls fell in Andrews, Texas.
• He advanced again, but was driven back by a hail of blows.
• She ran him off in a hail of pellets.
• Houses collapse, hail shatters windshields, lightning fries golfers.
• She conducted me from the hail.
• A distant cousin had once ended up in the hail.

235. HARANGUE
• The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard.
• He'd thrown the receiver off the hook, but she was haranguing the empty line, demanding he reply.
• Teachers can't teach when they have to harangue the kids about good behavior.
• He walked round and round his small chamber, haranguing the walls.
• Once we were harangued to eat protein, and heaven help the poor water buffalo who ambled past me at mealtime.
• However, after haranguing us and making me mop up his uniform, the outraged policeman indicated a couple of
wash-basins.

236. HAWK
• And when a hawk meets a hawk?• California growers have found that enlisting the aid of hawks and owls is
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• On this argument, the hawks have found an unlikely ally: the Clinton administration.
• The past is the hawk, flying higher; its talons are stronger, its wings wide and majestic.
• I knew how the mouse felt when the hawk seized it.
• The hawks in the government would never permit any talks with the enemy.
• the hawks in the President's cabinet
• The hawk was sacred to her, and was used to depict her symbolically in art.
• More fundamental were his experiments with hawks, in which he fed them meat contained in small cages.
Hawk
• It swoops low, hawking, across the hillside, over the fort and out into the mists of Corve Dale.
• Most people know that they hawk and feed on other flies.
• The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.
• Gregarious, flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics.
• Bob Hope, for instance, came on the J. C. Penney shopping channel to hawk his new book.
• A man on the corner was hawking T-shirts and souvenirs.
• Contraceptives are hawked through the print media and on billboards.
hawk1 /hɔːkhɒːk/ noun [countable]a politician or official who believes in using force or firm action when dealing with
problems, rather than a more peaceful approach Mr. George has a reputation as a hawk on inflation. He has always
been a deficit hawk (=a politician who wants to reduce the amount of money the government
owes).→ compare DOVE —
hawkish adjective hawkish political leaders
hawk2 verb [transitive]1journalism to sell an ex-athlete who now hawks exercise equipment2disapproving to try to
make people interested in something or to try to make them buy something He’s been on every chat show hawking his
new movie.

237. HECTOR
• Women everywhere, unless hectored by feminists, tend to turn to men for leadership.
• Brooks had hectored employees who refused to work overtime.
• And then Georg had closed in on her, a grumpier, more disapproving, hectoring Georg.
• Doubtless when it reopens, its current hesitancy will give way to the customary hectoring manner.
• Never preach, hector or bully.
• He didn't hector people or tell them he was going to fight, as Gore did.
• Alain Gebrec was standing at the entrance to one of the outhouses, hectoring some one inside.
• Another gull swoops down and begins to hector the first one for its food.
• She doesn't hector us about giving up things.

238. HEINOUS
• For agents, the new concern is that the heinous activity may be directed at them.
• What purpose is served by such senseless and heinous acts?
• The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special, draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime.
• We not only face the heinous crimes dead on, we face our fellow viewers.
• The way he had misled her, Blanche thought, was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country.
• Gough has not committed a heinous sin in Kurunegala.
heinous crime
• For Mankins, seeing Harris die was simple retribution for a heinous crime.
• The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special, draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime.
• We not only face the heinous crimes dead on, we face our fellow viewers.

239. HERBICIDE
• Spot spraying with a herbicide may work.
• So, if you still feel herbicide resistance is to blame, this is the season to test for it.
• That will allow changes in herbicide susceptibility within a population to be monitored, he explains.
• This is supposed to reduce the amount of herbicide used in spraying fields, but in practice the converse happens.
• Goddam, I think next spring I maybe oughta get in there with some herbicide, get them cleaned out.
• However, although there was no damage to the crop, the herbicide was almost totally ineffective in killing the weeds.
• But before jumping to that conclusion it is worth pondering whether the weed is more resistant to husbandry practice
rather than the herbicide.
• Hares are killed when licking fur with the herbicide.

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240. HERCULEAN
• To attempt such a thing would be herculean and quixotic.
• This herculean task falls to the street environment services division of the Department of Public Works here.
• This would appear to be a herculean task for the relatively efficient and an impossible one for everyone else.
• The area will face a herculean task if it is to find a new occupier for that factory.

241. HERMETICALLY
• The would-be island, now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists, is full of noises.
• Space and time can not be regarded as hermetically sealed domains.
• Insiders are hermetically sealed from the intrusion of outsiders by the assumption of zerolabour turnover.
• Racism is the product of impenetrable or hermetically sealed minds.
• I think we need to be theoretically and politically clear that no single culture is hermetically sealed off from others.
• The two approaches, therefore, are not hermetically sealed units, impenetrable to each other.
• Each is a hermetically sealed universe, bumping off the others with very little cross-pollination.

242. HETEROGENEOUS
• We have already made the point that most political cultures are heterogeneous.
• Both antibodies are a largely heterogeneous family.
• In the first stage, we primarily dealt with homogeneous networks, then moved to inter-networks that
are heterogeneous in nature.
• Young next to old, doing-well next to down-and-out: a heterogeneous mass present for its own
mutually exclusive reasons.
• The U.S. has a very heterogeneous population.
• Services is simply too heterogeneous to be an interesting category.

243. HIATUS
• They obscure a hiatus in the expansion of Merovingian power.
• Gumbel responded by taking a three-day hiatus.
• In fact, Robinson was newly married at the time of his hiatus from coaching.
• MacDowell is enjoying a long hiatus from moviemaking.
• What might Johnnie say after such a long hiatus, looking upon this transformation?
• And oddly enough, they were discussing the hiatus too.
• After a one-year hiatus the Honeywell Bracknell Half-marathon is back with a new route and a new date, June 7.a
brief/short/long hiatus
• What might Johnnie say after such a long hiatus, looking upon this transformation?

244. HOLISTIC MEDICINE/TREATMENT/HEALING ETC


• Finding a therapist to help you Many complementary therapies exist which are concerned with holistic healing.
• The concepts of self-defense and self-repair are central contributions of holistic medicine.
• She sent him books on holistic medicine and nutrition.
• Herbalism: a holistic treatment involving the use of herbal remedies specifically chosen and blended for different
conditions.
• Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider.
• The second axiom of holistic medicine is that each person is unique and each program must be individualized.
• It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
• In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes
pectoral muscle exercises.

245. HOMEOPATHY
• Almost two in three of the 897 housewives surveyed in June believed homeopathy and acupuncture were effective.
• Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not.
• Molly was a believer in homeopathy and underwent her last operation and subsequent treatment in
the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
• Brenda has started a practice in homeopathy an alternative medical system growing in popularity.
• We also look at acupuncture, Shiatsu-do, naturopathy, homeopathy and many more!
• The philosophy of homeopathy is based on the holistic idea that the mental and physical realms are inseparable.
• As always with homeopathy, the choice of acute remedy depends on your child's symptoms.

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246. HONE
• So things were changed, honed down, made to appear not quite so militaristic.
• It was during this period that Bush honed his diplomatic skills.
• The student has to hone his skills to develop the power and speed to push the material past that limit.
• Mark accepted this and used the waiting period to improve relationships and hone his skills.
• It honed in on the prototypical shape that was behind all the degraded images.
• An election could come at any time, and policies across the board were being honed in readiness.
honing ... skills
• It suited my wandering nature, my penchant for traversing the neighborhoods of San Francisco, honing my skills as a
boulevardier.
• I left for school before most kids were up, honing those high-achievement skills early.

247. HUE AND CRY


• The bill has raised a hue and cry from the gay community.
• Limping across the courtyard he was noticed by the sentry who promptly raised a hue and cry.
• He had the right to arrest all poachers found within his bailiwick, and to raise the hue and cry upon them.
• When foresters raised the hue and cry, the men of the neighbouring townships were bound to come and help them.
• The hue and cry started for you, but you could not be found.

248. HUMANE
• He represents the { new morality } founded on the natural goodness of man; he is tolerant and humane.
• First thing first: a humane agreement between two peoples who must live side by side.
• This has both humane and practical interest.
• No one would deny that music can embody great humane and religious themes.
• There the master is a humane aristocrat possessed of a fine library, progressive opinions and a patrician kindness.
• Animals are now raised in more humane conditions.
• What is now plain is that the best work has a deep capacity for humane, even spiritual insight.
• Imprisonment is not a humane form of punishment.
• French revolutionaries considered death by guillotine to be a more humane method of execution.
• Time passed and more humane, non-invasive methods of measuring blood pressure were devised.
• There was a humane royal government, Tudor or Stuart, to slow the thing down.
more humane
• Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster, more cost-effective and more humane.
• Whitehall's obsessive secrecy may have a more humane base than generally allowed, though that seems
rather unlikely.
• He had a more humane kind a approach.
• The design trend called New Urbanism or Neo-Traditional development argues for a more humane, pedestrian-
friendly approach.
• White women say in the polls that they want more humane politics.
• And the Communists were no more humane toward their prisoners than their oppressors had been toward them.
• It was also the result of mounting pressure from the late 1870s for more humane treatment of the aged.
• This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems.

249. HYDRA
• But the regenerative powers of the corporate hydra were insidious.
• He drew the sliver of light across that limb of the hydra as if slicing cheese.
• Quite quickly the whole corridor filled to the brim with the substance of the hydra.
Hydra
a snake in ancient Greek stories with many heads that grow again when they are cut off→ hydra

250. HYPERTENSION
• Against this backdrop come this week's studies of hypertension, antihypertensive drugs, and cancer.
• Recently Hadengue etal reported a higher prevalence of 2% in 507 patients with portal hypertension.
• Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
• Therefore it appears that hypertension has an additive deleterious effect on overall prognosis in the diabetic.
• Its best known application is Cardizem, for treating hypertension.
• In the Preston studies shortness at birth was associated with hypertension and raised plasma
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• This may, however, worsen hypertension by increasing the peripheral vascular resistance.

251. HYPOTHERMIA
• The survivors were all being treated for hypothermia after being picked up by helicopters and coastguards.
• At first the police treated his death as suspicious, but a postmortem has now revealed he died from hypothermia.
• Health Most families, especially the young and old, were always at risk from hypothermia in the winter.
• Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or
a combination of both.
• No way do you feel the urge to cut and run before suffering the onslaught of hypothermia.
• All six were taken to hospital suffering hypothermia.
• Many of the birds are being hydrated with electrolytes via a catheter and kept warm on heating pads to
treat hypothermia.
• Indeed, according to his son Robert, Taylor paid a lasting price for his brush with hypothermia.

252. IDEALIST
• Cavalier, arrogant, mendacious, and whatever else he was, Mike Straus was also an idealist.
• Bazarov is an idealist and a brave man, and his aims are rational.
• But at heart he remained an idealist about social issues.
• By bribery - all men are corruptible - and by removing permanently any so-called idealists who stand in our way.
• Paine, like many idealists in a hurry, was probably impatient of the slowness of legal remedies for existing abuses.
• Gatting, the street fighter; and Gower, the idealist.

253. ILK
• Anything is possible, because the political allegiance of Jennifer and her ilk is up for grabs.
• The level of presentational skills used here is of the highest ilk - totally absorbing.
• To Jody, this is all Jurassic Age thinking, and Rich and his ilk are dinosaurs.
• The fish of the day, a grilled sole, was of the same ilk.
• And that means it also had authentic city fathers other than New World Homes and their ilk.
• Kromko noted lawyers and their ilk are fond of worthless boiler-plate.
• Encryption systems and their ilk are technologies of disconnection.
of that/his/their etc ilk
• Comments of that ilk came from residents of other communities affected by the 1997 flood.
• There, with several farmers of his ilk, he quaffed pint after pint of good Berkshire ale.
• Their quarry was at Roxburgh, three miles ahead, Heiton of that Ilk informed them.
• He mocks death, laughs in its face, and others of his ilk laugh in a chorus all around him.
• Environmentalists, feminists, and others of that ilk regularly try to drive shows like this off the air.
• Others of his ilk were not so sentimental, however.
• Desserts ($5) were of the tiramisu, creme brûlee, chocolate torte ilk.

254. ILLICIT
• And he was tender, and he was mighty, fuelled by an illicit afternoon with one of his students.
• High-powered investigations of intelligence agencies in the wake of Watergate
had revealedmuch evidence of illicit and unconstitutional behaviour.
• The official reason given for the committee's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution
and illicit dealings with foreign powers.
• Illicit diamond exports are said to be worth over $200 million.
• Marijuana remains the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.
• Also, watch your intake of alcohol and illicit drugs like marijuana.
• illicit drugs
• There is a strong tradition of smuggling, illicit goods being brought from nearby Flookburgh on the coast.
• an illicit love affair
• Many such drugs were, in fact, illicit now.
• Meanwhile the Commission also pursued its efforts to force the return of illicit state payments to industries.
• They also smashed up the peasants' illicit vodka stills
.illicit drugs
• As a health officer I am opposed to the use of illicit drugs.
• One-third of girls and almost two-fifths of boys admitted having used illicit drugs.

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• The declared goal of Washington's policy is to staunch the flow of illicit drugs.
• They had taken away his clothes and his luggage, no doubt to search for illicit drugs.
• This study primarily related to stress and to the use of alcohol and illicit drugs.
• Some will argue that all illicit drugs are too dangerous to legalize.
• One-third of eighth-graders report the use of illicit drugs, including inhalants.
• Also, watch your intake of alcohol and illicit drugs like marijuana.
illicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/ adjective not allowed by laws or rules, or strongly disapproved of by society Officials are hoping
prosecution of certain gun dealers will curb illicit sales. They were convicted of racketeering and were ordered to
repay $100 million in illicit profits.

255. IMAM
• The Najadat were in agreement that in fact the people did not really need an imam.
• People tended to make way for you in bus queues when you were an imam.
• A just imam must follow the road already laid out which leads the community to happiness on earth and in
the Beyond.
• These two phenomena have given birth to a monstrosity: the all-
powerful, unchallenged, unchallengeable media imam.
• But according to the ideal, the imam is just only because he is vulnerable and changeable.
• Passing over in silence what the people think of the imam is a priority in that writing of history.
• The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
• The imams condemn them, but they stand firm.

256. IMMOBILIZE
• This argument is both diversionary and, at length, immobilizing.
• For this he was relieved of his world title and, like Johnson, was involuntarily immobilized.
• The virus has immobilized around 6,000 computers linked to the Internet.
• Then he found himself immobilized for two weeks.
• Doctors put on a cast to immobilize her ankle.
• They are immobilized in almost every sense we can imagine.
• Standing dumb and immobilized in Doyle's hands, Jinny felt the last grains of fight trickle out of her.
• Another use for the sequestering agents is to immobilize metals that might cause difficulties in processing.
• Immobilization of nitrogen occurs in both types in both sites but phosphorus is immobilized only in the fern litter.
• Kingsley sat immobilized, only the muscles of his jaw pulsing.
• Demonstrators immobilized tanks using gasoline bombs.
• Kendrick had only a few minutes to immobilize the aircraft.
immobilize /ɪˈməʊbəlaɪzɪˈmoʊ-/ (also immobilise British English) verb [transitive]1 if a company immobilizes
its capital, it uses it to buy CAPITAL GOODS (=machinery and equipment that is used to make other goods)2if
something immobilizes an organization, machine etc, it prevents it from working A miners’ strike has immobilised all
power plants.

257. IMMOLATE
• A suicide squad was formed of women ready to immolate themselves if the pageant went ahead.

258. IMPEDIMENT
• He has dropped homosexuality as an impediment to security clearances.
• On education, Mr Gore's thralldom to the teachers' unions strikes us as an impediment to innovative thinking.
• But Nails did not consider his lack an impediment to his plans.
• It's not a disease, it's an impediment.
• Another impediment arose during a second round of testing.
• Shortage of money was not the only impediment to higher education.
• a speech impediment
• A speech impediment did nothing to stop him from preaching.
speech impediment
• He had a nervous twitch and a speech impediment.
• He also had a speech impediment.
• Communicating: problems experienced by handicapped people or those suffering from lack of confidence or
a speech impediment. 9.
• A speech impediment did nothing to stop him from preaching.

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• I kept silent, thinking that he might have an embarrassing speech impediment.
• Jerry's worked hard to overcome his speech impediment
.impediment to
• The country's debt has been an impediment to development.

259. IMPENDING
• Extra troops were usually a sign of an impending attack.
• Further impending changes in government legislation may make the pressure experienced during
the social security changes seem almost normal.
• An index with cards for species brought order to impending chaos.
• This tendency to associate - designed to warn us of impending danger-can in fact work against us.
• Nothing, she told herself, could be worse than this uncertainty, this sense of impending disaster.
• She met with her husband to discuss their impending divorce.
• We were sorry to hear about Arlene's impending divorce.
• warnings of an impending ecological disaster
• When they want to see fees generally jacked up, we get talk of impending evictions.
• Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage, news of which she now shared with Taheb.
• The first the trainer knew of the impending purchase was when a fax from Minton was found in
his office last Wednesday.
impending danger/doom/death/disaster etc
• And my pounding heart served to give me a feeling of impending doom.
• His life was the voyage of a curious man, even as he anticipated his impending death.
• It lasted about a minute before fading and they both sensed a feeling of impending danger.
• It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him, which warned him of a new impending danger.
• No one wants to be the bearer of bad tidings, or the herald of impending doom.
• Nothing, she told herself, could be worse than this uncertainty, this sense of impending disaster.
• Unless, like most of us, you can not take your eyes off an impending disaster.
• It looked as if a bull had been turned loose, and a sense of impending doom gripped her.

260. IMPETUOUS
• Williams was wild and impetuous.
• As you said, it is in the nature of young men to be foolhardy and impetuous.
• He says she's impetuous and emotional.
• For Fowlkes, leaving would be impetuous and misguided.
• He is too impetuous and owing to a desire to lead everything, he fails of his goal.
• Just don't be too impetuous and put too much pressure on the object of your desires.
• an impetuous decision to get married
• As Akbar and Tundrish opened fire with bolts, Yeremi lunged to drag the impetuous, or hallucinating, fool back.
• The impetuous Wallace quickly agreed and decided to wire a memo of recommendation to Roosevelt.
• It was just his usual brusque, impetuous way of speaking.
• If you weren't so impetuous you wouldn't have lost your job.

261. IMPETUS
• Gathering research data has an impetus of its own and this part of the research procedure was carried through
reasonably smoothly.
• The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.
• Press criticism has been the main impetus behind the government reforms.
• A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.
• The Surgeon General's speech will give new impetus to the anti-smoking campaign.
• Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.
• During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came
largely from individuals.
• She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.
• The impetus for change in the industry was provided by a new management team
.impetus for
• The Surgeon General has provided the impetus for health prevention programs.

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262. IMPINGE
• The proposed fencing would impinge on a public bridleway which traverses the field.
• Except, of course, where they directly impinge on me, that is.
• Or, indeed, the reverse, how does our understanding of Ireland currently impinge on our reading of Spenser?• They
rarely study natural events, and only in so far as they impinge on the human world.
• Certainly little awareness of Manhattan and its skyscrapers seemed to impinge on the people working on
the Worldwide Plaza brick.
• It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them.
• A person responds only to a small part of the stimuli impinging upon him.
• It does not tell historians what to encode in a given source and thus impinge upon interpretation.

263. IMPLACABLE
• That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
• What I miss, however, in Charles Dance's Coriolanus is a sense of implacable danger.
• Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another
man indicted.
• Iraq is one of Israel's most implacable enemies.
• While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.
• Love is the one thing we have against the implacable tyranny of time.
• He was frightened by the dank smell of the earth and the implacable weight of matter
.implacable opposition
• The implacable opposition of employers had forced wages down despite the most determined efforts of the trade
unions.
• While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.
• Against the implacable opposition of its lord, Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in
1554.
• Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its confrontational tactics and its implacable
opposition to abortion under all circumstances.
• Papinian's divergent decision seems to rest on more implacable opposition to infringing freedom of testation.

264. IMPREGNABLE
• The conventional wisdom having been made more or less identical with sound scholarship, its position is
virtually impregnable.
• The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories' favour is that their hillcrest position seems
ultimately impregnable.
• The problem invariably is that the enemy is simply inflexible or impregnable.
• The case Starr builds must be as impregnable as Fort Knox.
• And Andrus would be untouched, impregnable behind his rigid simplicities.
• Occupying fairly impregnable clifftop villages, they prospered in the practice of agriculture.
• Subject, verb, object: the unadorned, impregnable sentence.
• Grant was still mired in the mud before impregnable Vicksburg.

265. IMPROVISE
• Use these recipes as a guideline, but feel free to improvise!
• You can't play jazz unless you can improvise.
• Throughout it all, an expanding group of change leaders at McKinsey continued to improvise.
• You had to sing; you had to dance; you had to play an instrument; you had to improvise.
• I left my lesson plans at home, so I'll have to improvise.
• It was difficult to believe that the whole sketch was improvised.
• Jazz musicians are good at improvising.
• Mike improvised a little farewell song at the end of the evening.
• I improvised a sling for his arm out of a strip of cloth.
• They had improvised an alarm, using string and empty cans.
• If you've improvised and made a tie yourself, undo it and retie.
• Modern jazz players like to take a theme and improvise around it.
• Kids were improvising games with a ball and some string.
• Robin Williams likes to improvise his comedy.
• Keynes improvised the answers, and changed them as he went along.

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• Solov had given Holder sixteen bars of music to improvise to, and the dancer grabbed at the opportunity.
• The reality of improvising your way through change demands revising specific strategies over time.

266. IMPUTE
• And it would be outrageous to impute motives for such stereotyping.
• For the most part the later sonnets of celebration of the Friend impute no such extraordinary motives to the Poet.
• The problem is that each of those imputing personality to the state entertains a different idea of what it is.
• Did he dare to impute such motives to her as he clearly had himself?
• Certainly they impute to the accused a degree of mystical malevolence just like that implied in witchcraft charges.
• At no time must he impute unworthy motives to them.
impute /ɪmˈpjuːt/ verb [transitive]1 to suggest that someone or something is the cause of a particular situation, or
is responsible for a particular action, especially something bad The court ruled that the newspaper report did impute a
criminal offense.2 to calculate the value of something which cannot easily be measured in the usual way by giving it a
value based on similar things The Inland Revenue imputes a set amount of taxable income according to the size of a
company car’s engine.
impute something to something Cable West imputes to its costs an amount for connection to its exchange.
3be imputed to something if the interest on a loan is imputed to the loan agreement, the interest is calculated
at market rates, even though the actual rate of interest paid may be lower than the market rates

267. INCARNATE
• He thus challenged authority simply by declaring that he was al-haqq, truth incarnate.
• With their mix of male and female imagery, snakes are sexuality incarnate.
• The mental vibrations are also expressed in the aura which every incarnate being has around it.
• Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
• And he is incarnate in us all whenever we are in converse with each other, instructing or mercifully helping.
Incarnate
• Like the sort of heterodox culture which Mapplethorpe incarnated.
• The Church asserts that human beings are incarnated spirits: souls in bodies.
• Truly great leaders such as Oppenheimer seem to incarnate the dream and become one with it.
• She incarnates the innocence that makes "Don Giovanni" such a moving story.
• Then you must incarnate what others incarnate.

268. INCENTIVE
• There is a clear incentive to move to larger countries.
• Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive.
• That probably depends on what financial incentives the United States might provide.
• The school gives incentives such as more play time to kids who work hard.
• The granting of individual landownership rights improved incentives,
and facilities for credit and investment improved.
• Taxes are too high, investment incentives missing.
• Low prices give the farmers little incentive.
• When prices are so low, farmers have little incentive to increase production.
• Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
• The new plan will provide strong incentives for young people to improve their skills.
• Problems have also been experienced with providing cost-
centre managers with sufficientincentives to manage resources economically, efficiently and effectively.
• Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.
• The government is offering special tax incentives to people wanting to start up small businesses
.added incentive
• And he may have acquired an added incentive for wanting to make a good showing.
• As an added incentive, two complimentary tickets for the evening's disco are being offered for the winning entry.
• In many cases, that has given the family an added incentive and advantage.
• Rejects from London have an added incentive for putting their talents on show.
• A course available specifically designed for their needs at which they will meet others of their own age is an added
incentive.
• The fact that it was the area's second highest summit added incentive.

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incentive /ɪnˈsentɪv/ noun [countable]something which is used to encourage people to do something, especially to
make them work harder, produce more or spend more money tax incentives for first-time home buyers The company
proposed a package of incentive-based pay raises.→ SALES INCENTIVE→ TAX INCENTIVE

269. INDIGENT
• Poverty was merely the lot of the indigent.
• Was this some indigent artist he had picked up with in Paris?
• Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered
by Medicaid.
• Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to indigent people with no money.
• Nevertheless, in fact as well as in fiction, even those almost totally indigent retained their pride.
• They hardly imagined that there were so many indigent, yearning, crooked, canny inheritors on the earth.
indigent /ˈɪndɪdʒənt/ adjective formal not having any money or possessions Hospitals continue to provide
uncompensated care for the indigent.

270. INERADICABLE
• Poverty seems an ineradicable fact of the human condition.

271. INERTIA
• The group helped me overcome my inertia and lose weight.
• the inertia and bureaucracy of large companies
inertia /ɪˈnɜːʃə-ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]a tendency for a situation to stay the same for a long time He believes that
suppressed demand after years of inertia will lead to a housing recovery this year.

272. INFALLIBLE
• Banks claim their cash-dispensing computers are infallible.
• Computer spell checkers are useful but far from infallible.
• Having been divorced three times, Aden admits he's far from infallible.
• Juries are not infallible. Innocent people are convicted, and guilty people go free.
• DNA testing is an almost infallible method of identification.
• There is no infallible way of predicting exactly what the weather will be like.

273. INFUSION
• What the department needs is an infusion of new ideas.
infusion /ɪnˈfjuːʒən/ noun [countable, uncountable]the act of putting a lot of money or something else that is needed
into a company, organization etc infusion of Most Japanese acquisitions have been followed by an infusion of capital
or technology. Despite a $65 billion government cash infusion, the big banks are not expected to turn decent profits
for several years.

274. INHERENT
• the uncertainties that are inherent in the research and development process
• Surgical procedures have many risks inherent in them.
• Money is unfortunately an inherent part of politics.
• Dance is also an inherent part of the culture.
inherent in•
They discussed the risks inherent in starting a small business.

275. INNOCUOUS
• The producer dismissed the comment as quite innocuous.
• innocuous chemicals
• The murder suspect was an innocuous-looking man with wire-framed glasses.
• Someone stood up and asked the professor an apparently innocuous question about his laboratory work.
• The interviewer only asked boring, innocuous questions.

276. INNOVATE
• Their ability to innovate has allowed them to compete in world markets.
innovate /ˈɪnəveɪt/ verb [intransitive]to design and develop new and original products He accused the company of
being conservative and reluctant to innovate.—

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innovator noun [countable]Portman became famous in the 1960s as an innovator in hotel design.

277. INOCULATE
• To be sure, scientists have created disease by inoculating animals with brain tissue from infected animals.
• She had been inoculated April 21 with the Cutter vaccine, along with almost four-hundred Clearwater County first-
and second graders.
• His dark throat lay inoculated beneath that hollow of wrinkled skin.
• By mid-November 1953 plans were in place to start inoculating children on February 8,1954.
• Still, the day after the announcement in Ann Arbor, communities started inoculating children.
• And Isle of Muck had inoculated his tenants against the smallpox at a cost of two shillings and sixpence per head.
• I sometimes think that the principal function of professional training in education is to inoculate teachers against
books on education.
• Net fluid transport was measured 18 hours after inoculating the intestine with the bacterial strain.

278. INORDINATE
• a man of inordinate ambition• Scientists have been criticized for devoting an inordinate amount of time
to research on animals.
• an inordinate number of meetings
inordinate amount
• Either keeping personal creditors accounts or making sundry creditors adjustments can consume inordinate
amounts of administrative and accounting time.
• In the Soviet context an inordinate amount of attention has been paid to the willed aims of Bolshevik leaders.
• That is why the social anthropologists are justified in devoting such an inordinate amount of attention to
the field of kinship.
• But the Minnesota Timberwolves, who own the fifth pick, have shown an inordinate amount of interest in Nash.
• But in reality, seat-side service is only feasible for those with teeny appetites and an inordinate amount of patience.
• They devote an inordinate amount of time, effort and resource to developing high-calibre managers.
• We found ourselves spending an inordinate amount of time in the chariot, chasing hither and yon.
• We were spending an inordinate amount of time sending people to different meetings and not knowing what was
going on.

279. INQUISITION
• The detectives have turned the investigation into an inquisition.

280. INSCRUTABLE
• She looked for some response, but Jean's expression remained inscrutable.
• He handled the questions with the inscrutable face of a diplomat.
• The inscrutable gaze of the palace guards made me a little nervous.

281. INTER
• Crusaris-inter-city multiple-units.
• Histological examination Day 3: The biopsies showed moderate to severe inter and intracellular oedema.
• Fieldmice and hawks are interred at Buto.
• They were unable to answer the question why they were interred here.
• The unfortunate gents are then unceremoniously interred in the sisters' basement.
• Eve's ashes are interred under a great oak at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire.
• Visions of dreamers were too frequently interred with their spirits
.inter- /ɪntə $ -tər/ prefix between or involving two or more different things, places, or people → intra-, intro-
interdepartmental (=between or involving different departments in a company, government etc) an interstate (=a road
that goes between states)
Examples from the Corpus
inter-
• the Internet
• to intermarry

282. INTRANSIGENT
• For many years the South African government remained intransigent,
despite mounting world opposition to apartheid.
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• The Church has been criticized for being intransigent on the issues of abortion and birth control.
• Conservatives have maintained an intransigent position on the war.

283. INTRINSIC
• Parents need to teach children the intrinsic value of good behavior
.intrinsic to
• Flexibility is intrinsic to creative management.

284. IRREFUTABLE
• Such irrefutable evidence is often impossible to provide at that moment.
• There was irrefutable evidence of his guilt.
• Mr. Meacher I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence.
• I'd say that until you uncover irrefutable proof of his innocence, you've got your man.
• There was irrefutable proof that words and numbers were the perfect commodities for export.
• In the physical sense, Birth, Survival and Death are irrefutable realities of existence.
• They had no families, and it was irrefutable that elders should be surrounded by those they had raised.
• Plato was positing an ideal body of irrefutable truth which stands eternally existent far beyond our mortal ken.
irrefutable evidence/proof/facts
• Mr. Meacher I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence.
• Further, he offered to provide Judge Ireland with irrefutable proof from his personal contacts at the
highest level in London.
• Such irrefutable evidence is often impossible to provide at that moment.
• I'd say that until you uncover irrefutable proof of his innocence, you've got your man.
• There was irrefutable proof that words and numbers were the perfect commodities for export.

285. ITINERANT
• Three or four centuries ago a group of itinerant actors had asked for the protection of some traveling Raika.
• Most local news directors are transients, moving from market to market like itinerant baseball players.
• itinerant farm workers
• The use of itinerant magistrates gradually increased, making prosecutions more convenient.
• Farmers fled to work as itinerant merchants; the amount of cultivated grain land shrank from 12,350 acres to less
than 5,000.
• From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher.
• Shunned, he remained an Episcopalian but in 1772 turned itinerant to add a six-hundred-mile circuit to
his regular charge.
• The pickers came every summer when the hops were ripe: families of itinerant workers who moved about
the island like gypsies.

286. JADED
• After two years of the same routine I was feeling jaded.
• Mick Jagger arrived at the airport looking jaded after almost a year of touring.
• She felt jaded and in need of emotional uplift.
• New York musicians are jaded and tough.
• I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin.
• Its vistas leave a warm and timeless imprint on even the most jaded memory.
• In Sly's jaded mood she seemed to be a living embodiment of freshness and vitality.
• His limpid style and flashes of wit overcame Labour heckling, tickled the press and brought a smile
to jaded Tory backbenchers.
• The beauty of St. Petersburg will impress even the most jaded tourist.

287. JARGON
• In addition, coworkers may be as caught up in the company jargon as you are.
• It is protected from public scrutiny by the technicality of its jargon.
• I hate all this management jargon about 'upskilling' and 'downsizing'.
• military jargon
• When you first learn about computers, there is a whole lot of jargon to understand.
• And he was the creator of a new police jargon.
• Make certain that ideas are clearly delineated and most of all, avoid the use of professional jargon.

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• They kept details of programs in their heads, and always explained procedures in highly technical jargon.
• I love their daring, their looks, their jargon, and what they have in mind.
• Many of us find it hard to navigate this jargon.
• From the outset a policy was adopted which aimed at eliminating unnecessary jargon and
the mystique normally associated with computers.
technical/scientific/legal/medical etc jargon
• Sophisticated equipment, white coats and medical jargon serve to make most lay people feel ignorant and less
important.
• They kept details of programs in their heads, and always explained procedures in highly technical jargon.
• All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical
jargon.
• A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer.
• Using legal or scientific jargon to dazzle.
• Critics of legal drafting often complain that lawyers are fond of using legal jargon.
• The managers spoke in cryptic, allusive utterances, using technical jargon that was opaque to her.
• There was more, but it was technical jargon about his physique, state of health, last known meal and so on.

288. JELL
• Plenty of talent on display, but the whole does not jell.
• Because of their high pectin content, quinces jell much more quickly than almost any other fruit.
• But when the loose ends begin to jell, Smith is back on track with an interesting story.

289. JEOPARDY
• It would put his career at risk, but that was already in jeopardy, so what had he to lose?
• Yet without fairly radical surgery, the long-term health of the company might have been in jeopardy.
• This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.
• Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy.
• J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
jeopardy /ˈdʒepədi-ər-/ noun in jeopardy in danger of being lost or harmed We will not do anything that will put our
business in jeopardy.

290. JETTISON
• Neighbours, the show that was her launch pad, might have to be jettisoned.
• Since career development is mandated by state and federal categorical funds, the program is impossible to jettison.
• By doing so they have jettisoned a solidarity that could have united them against the invader alien to them both.
• The rockets fire for two minutes at launch before they are jettisoned from the shuttle to parachute into the sea.
• One crew member accidentally jettisoned half of the plane's fuel.
• He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time.
• Berger jettisoned much of the original movie plot.
• When the time came to jettison the launch escape tower and the boost cover the charges would fire, breaking
the bolts.
• Even the propeller and engine are jettisoned when the sperm meets the egg; only the nucleus travels farther.
jettison /ˈdʒetəsən, -zən/ verb [transitive]to get rid of something quickly or completely because it is not good enough
Some Wall Street firms will jettison unprofitable businesses.

291. JIG
• Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over.
• For this I use a fairly simple jig and accurate setting of the saw.
• But I know if I ever get married, the jig is up.
• Also, you can use this jig if you are taking your posts down and placing them on sawhorses.
• Fish the northern side of Bird Island with jigs tipped with minnows at dawn for best results.
• If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily.
Jig
• Long black leather chairs invited you to lay back, headphones on, and just jig about to music of your choice.
• You keep a straight course, let him jig around you.
• Dexter jigged his toes on the floor of Blanche's office, impatient for the night to slip away quickly.
• Margaret Trudeau jigging in rolled-up slacks.
• No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor's door, feeling around mentally to jig it open.

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• Under the table his feet jig on their soles.
• The houses joined in, sluggishly flirting their bellies at him, growing blacker as he jigged onward.
• In the second operation the cross truss frames, having been previously jigged together, were assembled in the frame.

292. JINGOISM
• Only the most narrow jingoism can allow us to deny this.
• Many were religious authorities forced to take part in the movement by military men and were inhibited by the
barracks-room jingoism.
• They deliver a newscast that lacks the jingoism of its many competitors.
• The War threatened to sweep away such fears in the uninhibited jingoism that greeted the outbreak of hostilities.

293. JOCULAR
• Moreover, once the cases were distributed to each member, the reactions were jocular.
• To those ballads he added a substantial leavening of others that were complimentary, jocular, and satirical.
• At the turn of a switch, an emotional tirade could become jocular chit-chat.
• His attention and trust gave her jocular ease with men and what acceptance she had of her own forceful character.
• I was appalled to hear his jovial, jocular style.
• a jocular tone

294. JOURNEYMAN
• Neill's had 109 women and only 37 journeymen compositors.
• Francis Place, remembering his days as a journeyman tailor, endorsed this view.
• Most householders were probably employees rather than employers, men who worked
as journeymen or casual labourers.
• When he refused, all his journeymen quit.
• Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen.
• Following a tremendous start to this term, the one-time journeyman has pronounced his determination to go for
the title.
• One day a young journeyman white-washing the inside of the houses ran his brush over the toad's back.

295. JUBILEE
• He had a polished wooden peg that went tap-tapping every Tuesday night along jubilee Road.
• The highlight of Gibson's later years was the Polyethylenes 1933-
83 golden jubilee conferencein London in June 1983.
• If she knew Danny Crompton had been pestering him in jubilee Road she'd want to know all the details.
• The Essoldo was at their end of jubilee Road and Henry went straight past.
• There'd been a murder on jubilee Road.
• As Milton Keynes celebrates it's jubilee, the arguments will continue long into the next century.
• On October 10,1986, the silver jubilee of the parish was celebrated.

296. JUDICIAL
• However, the better judicial and quasi-judicial appointments generally go to barristers.
• Given the context, a reasonable person could only conclude that the threat of judicial power was plainly implied.
• There is no right of appeal against the Commissioners decision, but the possibility of judicial review is available.
• The applicant then applied to the High Court for judicial review of these decisions.
• Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect.
• In Court their barrister Ian Glen asked for a judicial review.
• Those classifications would be free from exacting judicial scrutiny.

297. JUDICIOUS
• You have to be very judicious about how you spend the taxpayers' money.

298. JUNCTURE
• the juncture of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers
critical juncture
• Incumbents and candidates alike see this as a critical juncture in the history of the district.
• The war was at such a critical juncture that some weeks was too long.
• While this must remain conjecture, it should be remembered that 1949 was a critical juncture.

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• At each critical juncture an assessment should be made regarding the correct dose,
correct equipment, product activity etc.

299. JUNKET
• Rennet is added too, which makes the milk clot and set firmly into a junket.
• Noland offers an amusing peek at 40 exciting junkets.
• Had he come home alive, some reporters would have no doubt trashed the trip as a taxpayer-paid junket.
• On this particular junket to Xiamen he was shopping for real estate.
• When she came in with the junket, the row had obviously developed.
• So we have to use junket rennet.

300. JUNTA
• When the group who has taken power is from the military, this council-type group is called a junta.
• The guard was outfitted like a junta general.
• The country was ruled by a military junta from 1974 until 1982.
• On 6 March the junta ordered the chiefs of staff to make detailed preparations.
• All the opponents of the junta have been murdered or imprisoned.
• Civil servants' wages and social services have been cut, while the junta has spent more on defense.
• The junta that overthrew the old Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 brutally eliminated the tiny, rich
and greedy elite around him.

301. JUSTIFY
• No matter what the circumstances, street violence cannot be justified.
• Torcuato is a murderer, but his crime can be justified.
• How can you justify a 200% pay rise!
• How can you possibly justify charging four pounds for a glass of beer.
• I don't think anyone can justify spending so much money on weapons.
• There is not enough evidence to justify such accusations.
• People try to justify the breakdown of their marriage by blaming their spouse.
• The issue is whether the benefits justify the costs.
• How can you justify the expense?
justify yourself
• I gather the decision has barely justified itself.
• Why should we try to justify ourselves according to the breeder standards?
• Governments interested in publicity and propaganda have published much under the impulse of the urge to justify
themselves and vilify their opponents.
• An economic system justifies itself by pointing to the wealth it produces, and an educational
establishment to skills and knowledge.
• And what do I usually do but justify myself, like a fool.
• Why was she justifying herself so, I wondered.
• I won't have staff justifying themselves to me.
• Speakers also justify themselves to those who might be perceived as being similar to the self.

302. JUXTAPOSE
• Saladino's bedroom juxtaposes antiques with modern furniture.

303. KILN
• And now I could feel my face getting hot, like I was working around a kiln.
• The 300 or so brick kilns of Juarez are just part of the problem.
• Come and see the hop kiln, Mike said.
• In a pit kiln the fuel is placed below and above the pottery and not clearly separated as in updraft kilns.
• It then passes through the kiln chamber holding the pottery and is vented through an exterior chimney.
• Another shape of updraft kiln is square in plan.

304. LAMPOON
• Trudeau regularly lampoons the president in his comic strip.

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305. LATENT
• Police experts found latent fingerprints on the glass.
• The virus remains latent in the body for many years.

306. LATHE
• Murdoch had turned his hat on a lathe, thereby inventing a method of turning oval objects.
• A piston destined to shuttle back and forth within a cylinder will be made on a lathe.
• It was Bert's private workshop, complete with a lathe and other skilled men's paraphernalia.
• And it comes first for one simple reason: civilization rolls on wheels, and lathes make wheels.
• It was not a retrofit, though it was more of an adaptation of a copying lathe than an original design.
• Swarf from lathes lay thick on the floor below.
• Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs' legs.

307. LAUD
• Honig lauded his wife's charity work.

308. LEMMING
• Coniferous forests, often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings.
• The tundra is widely grazed by mammals, especially voles and lemmings that burrow in the undergrowth.
• His shoulders were shaking, and tears were scrambling down his crumpled cheeks like lemmings.
• John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried
about job security.
• I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water
below.
• Tundra and high northern moorland, feeding mainly on lemmings and birds the size of Ptarmigan and Oystercatcher.
• Investors are not children or lemmings.

309. LIGAMENT
• An arm came loose and fell off, revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament, bone and
muscle.
• The damage was so severe that doctors repaired the tattered left knee with a cadaver ligament.
• Contortionists who are double-jointed have ligaments around their joints that are more elastic than normal.
• Flanker Len Dineen received a broken ankle, and no.8 Victor Donnelly knee ligament damage.
• I've had ruptured knee ligaments and hernias in the past.
• Because these abnormalities are in the bones or ligaments connected to the bones, muscle exercises will not work.
• Hostetler rejoined the lineup Sunday, after missing two games with strained ligaments in his right knee.
• The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood, as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones.
tore ... ligament
• While appearing with them in Berlin in 1937 she tore a ligament and had to give up further hope of dancing.

310. LINEAGE
• In this respect at least, the procedures reflected those of a lineage or tribal meeting of elders and shaikhs.
• Advertising lineage at the Journal has declined 16 percent.
• With his ancient lineage, his three-hundred-year-old title, and the long-dead Gabriella still representing his only true
love?
• Jean de la Moussaye can trace his lineage back to Louis XIV.
• There is no lineage of sailors in my ancestry.
• A woman is born into one lineage but is transferred to her husband's lineage as soon as she is married.
• This was largely because of the influence of Salha Mahmud, from Salah's own lineage.

311. LIPID
• In the first type the diet is high in alcohol, protein, and lipids.
• Likewise, no chart recorded either a blood lipid profile or any laboratory test relevant to diabetes.
• Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids.
• It also plays an important role in lipid, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism of adults.
• The Catalina skeleton on the seafloor is slowly releasing its lipids.
• All other lipids were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co.

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• Such lipid accumulation frequently leads to mental retardation or progressive loss of central
nervous system functions.
• Museum curators know this because whale bones stashed on archival shelves will weep lipids for decades.

312. LISSOM
• the girl's lissom figure

313. LITTER
• Our cat, Elsie, just had a litter of six kittens.
• If we were to introduce a new toy to a litter of puppies, they would play with it.
• The gutter between the sidewalk and granite slabs is cleared of leaves and litter.
• a picnic area with large wooden tables and litter bins
• Therefore, it pays a hungry hamster or a weak deer to miscarry a male-biased litter and retain a female-biased one.
• People who lived and worked near the building complained of crime, litter and other problems associated with
the feeding program.
• You can be fined £100 for dropping litter.
• There is litter on the seats of the train I take to Westminster.
• The vet asked how many litters the dog had had.
• These streets are full of litter.
• Never throw litter into ponds or streams. 10 Protect wildlife, plants and trees.
• I am tired of picking up litter thrown by other people.
• The vacant lot across the street is filled with litter
.drop litter
• We disturb wildlife, pollute air, drop litter and literally wear out the footpaths.
• Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter 9 Help to keep all water clean.
• But what if they drop litter?

Litter
• The sign says, "Please do not litter."
• Shreds of plastic, old iron, glass, animal bones littered both sides of the path.
• Dirty plates littered the kitchen.
• Although telephone lines to the city remain severed, a Sarajevo radio reporter said corpses littered the pavement next
to the town hall.
• Although the pet database is littered with a cat entry here and there, cat registration is not required in San Francisco.
• The breeze fanning in off the ocean was dense with brine and the beach was littered with debris.
• The yard in front of the cottage was littered with discarded buckets, an old bath, a mangle and a pile of driftwood.
• Stirling himself took over his brother's flat again where the floor would be littered with maps and bits of equipment.

314. LITURGY
• Intoning a liturgy, he tilted that silvered glass so that reflected light sprang at the skeleton, bathing it.
• One month later Snyder and a few supporters began standing throughout every liturgy as a form of protest.
• Its liturgy director rewrites prayers and Scripture readings to make the language more inclusive.
• People spoke with their neighbors in the church before the liturgies.
• The question of music in the liturgy was addressed.
• But his hopes of superseding the liturgy with any such matter were doomed to failure.
• Two follow-up meetings have been arranged for all young people interested in producing Mass tapes and
the youth liturgy.

315. LUCID
• Reach out: what is not included in this lucid air?
• a lucid analysis of the situation
• At the moment, Peter is lucid and quite talkative, but his condition is becoming worse.
• Miranda Seymour's lucid biography arrives as the general reader's guide to Mary
Shelley's ascent to academic cult status.
• Though small and frail, he was a powerful and lucid debater.
• Church land's Matter and Consciousness is an equally lucid introduction to the philosophy of mind.
• If the doctor thinks the patient isn't sufficiently lucid or mature, then the decision should be ignored.

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• After finishing, she became lucid, recognized Jung, and greeted him.
• You have such a lucid style.

316. MACRAMÉ
• You could even cover a cone with macramé for a really exciting special flower holder.

317. MAGNANIMOUS
• This might seem excessively saintly and magnanimous.
• In a magnanimous fit of estate planning, Cook elects to divide the farm between his three daughters.
• A magnanimous gesture from the founders of the Open Software Foundation is needed now
to heal any lingering breeches in the industry.
• It was a magnanimous gesture on their part.
• Mr. Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr. Major.
• Mrs. Aquino now has to decide whether she should be magnanimous in victory or punish those behind the mutiny.
• It was representative of the whole day: accomplished speakers chased answers to magnanimous questions.
• At second hand we could have enjoyed the thrill of dangerous living or shown magnanimous sympathy with
the victims of oppression.
• Instead he was extremely magnanimous towards Anna which irritated her further, and made her repulsed by
everything to do with him.

318. MAGNUM
• He receives £750 and a magnum of champagne.
• If someone gets hit by a magnum bullet, he is dead.
• You are the most extraordinary and wonderful woman I have ever encountered, and I shall make it a magnum of
champagne.
• Delaney went in, and pulled up as if he had been hit with a magnum at close range.
• As she began to tick them off, a manservant rushed up with a magnum of champagne.
• These small cerebellar projections - we call them the tonsils - have been compressed against the bony rim of the
foramen magnum.
• The wine was Beaune Clos de Mouche 1982, in magnum.
• That magnum has a kick like a field-gun.

319. MALEVOLENT
• Burns and other officials said the issue is not whether Scientology is good or bad, benign or malevolent.
• Later, when my mind is rearranged, their expressions will come to seem contemptuous; even malevolent.
• Then you saw evil - soulless, malevolent evil.
• I have the feeling that all the malevolent forces in the world have turned on me.
• the story of a malevolent ghost
• What credence can we give to his story of some malevolent person waiting in a window alcove?
• Looking at the pompous, malevolent priest in his humiliation, Jane knew he would never forget what she had done.
• It seemed that a malevolent spirit was out to get me
.malevolent look/stare/smile etc
• He had a nervous twitch which jerked at a muscle at the corner of his thin-lipped mouth and a malevolent stare.
• The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness.
• But Theda stayed where she was by the door, meeting Araminta's malevolent stare with a fast-beating heart.

320. MANEUVER
• The defense has tried a number of legal maneuvers to reduce the charges.
• basic skiing maneuvers
Maneuver
the US spelling of MANOEUVRE

321. MANICURED
• They were too perfect, too well manicured.
• Both progressed smoothly from sun-lanced church to manicured crematorium.
• Her perfectly manicured finger points to a name on the Illinois roster.
• Perfect manicured fingernails, dark and shapely, ladylike.
• A spacious patch of manicured grass for crowds to gather.

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• It's the sound of perfectly manicured hands striking crisp Gucci polo shirts.
• A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns to the portico of the imposing Edwardian house.
• A combination of homely suburbs and hot sunshine; unblemished beaches and boundless bush; manicured parks and
tropical shrubbery.
perfectly manicured
• The foot, like Bishop Jon, was large, well formed, and perfectly manicured.
• Her perfectly manicured finger points to a name on the Illinois roster.
• It's the sound of perfectly manicured hands striking crisp Gucci polo shirts.

322. MANIFESTATION
• Manifestation of the disease often does not occur until middle age.
• The recoil of a gun is also a manifestation of momentum conservation.
• At the time he probably seemed instead a manifestation of resurgent royal authority.
• Some men feel that showing their emotions is a manifestation of weakness.
• The riots are a clear manifestation of growing discontent.
• This latest outbreak of violence is a clear manifestation of discontent in the city.
• After the initial manifestation of gout, patients will often remain asymptomatic for several months to years.
• I hope this book will encourage readers to recognize the resurgence of the real in all its manifestations.
• The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation.
• I saw food take flight from its physical manifestation, turning into light that shot through my body.
• There was no physical manifestation of this, he just couldn't remember anything.
• The physical manifestation of his manhood, as always in repose, appeared a shrunken, insignificant part of him.

323. MATRICULATE
• And it was Morrill who went to Clay three years ago and asked that Ezra be allowed to matriculate.
• At school they shared truancy escapades, which developed a more interesting potential once they had matriculated.
• He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1670.
• At fifteen, he matriculated at the University of Leipzig, where he continued his independent
approaches to knowledge.
• Donnellan likes to say she matriculated at the University of Mars.
• Cecil matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 16 July 1621 but did not proceed to a degree.
• He matriculated in 1711 at Cambridge, where he was admitted as a pensioner to Clare Hall on 2 July.

324. MAUSOLEUM
• Their new flat was a mausoleum to future prosperity.
• And there was Papa in this great mausoleum.
• When full, Singing Hills will accommodate 30,000 underground burials and an additional 20,000
in mausoleums and crypts.
• It was his building, Lewis's. It was like his tomb or mausoleum, almost airless.
• There would be thousands of them gathered in the mausoleum square the day Baker arrived.
• The cemetery is so densely occupied that in many of the mausoleums, coffins are piled up to 10m high.
• After touring the mausoleum, the peasant returns and again asks where he can find Mao alive.

325. MAVERICK
• He made it clear that he wanted to do it properly and not jump into the primary as a maverick.
• A gadfly, a maverick, a treasured pain in the posterior.
• Narendra was some kind of new thing, a maverick, rooted in the traditional but open to new ways of being.
• Pat Young is one of the province's best known fashion mavericks.
• In the morning, he sharply criticized Jones for maverick marketing policies and accused him of trying to tear down
the league.
• Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when, in 1924, he joined the Labour party.
• Programmers are often thought of as the mavericks of the computer business.

326. MEAN
• She's kind of irritable, if you know what I mean.
• Do you know what "ambidextrous" means?
• He said Sarah was a very close friend, but I'm not sure what he meant.
• High interest rates and high inflation mean a recession is not far away.

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• It says "not suitable for children", which means anyone under 16.
• The strength of the pound means bikes are much cheaper to buy on the continent than over here.
• "Poultry" means chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.
• In practice this means for men.
• Does this mean I can't go to the wedding?
• I mean it - I'll scream if you don't let me go.
• Just because it's red doesn't mean it's cherry-flavored.
• His new responsibilities at work mean Leroy will rarely see his children.
• Cloudy water from the taps usually means problems with your storage tank.
• If A is false, does that also mean proposition B is false?
• Dark clouds usually mean rain.
• Her car's not there, so that must mean she's gone to pick him up.
• Frank's surgery residency means staying in Albuquerque another five years.
• "Downsizing" simply means that firms are tending to buy smaller computers to do jobs which used to require big
ones.
• Bush's tax cuts and the slowing economy mean that Pentagon policy choices will have to be made this year.
• Since the amount of information to be conveyed remains much the same this means that the signal-to-noise ratio will
be worse.
• I meant that we would have to leave early, that's all.
• A free economy does not mean the absence of any economic control.
• Oh, you mean the blue shorts.
• It is much quicker, and it means the same, if we say Yes I do or Yes I think so.
• That was the point Henry Hyde meant to make about opinion polls.
• Similarly, some words which are meant to stir can leave others unmoved.
• And I meant what I said about you at the start of this.
• I meant what I said, I never want to see you again.
mean (that)
• It means accepting power as natural and necessary to decision making regardless of formal structure.
• In terms of the Chart this means controlling the order in which hypotheses are taken off the Agenda and added to
the search space.
• Maybe Claire means it's all right, she only needs one more hanky.
• You talk of family and you mean one ruthless and callous renegade.
• It's not a problem, it just means that we can't use this information.
• In the home this usually means the telephone line, which is fine for voice but excruciatingly slow for data.
• Their life tenure means they defy patronage.
• But that means you have to fight so damn hard to get even with the system.
• I mean, you've heard all his New Age stuff about them being soul mates destined for each other.
I know what you mean
• But I knew what he meant.
• I saw the way Rohan looked at you. I knew what it meant.
• Looking for family-right, Aunt Marie, I know what you mean.
• Now I knew what they meant.
• Oh, I know what you mean.
• She didn't say which few, but I knew what she meant.
meant it for the best
• I only meant it for the best.
mean (that)
• It means accepting power as natural and necessary to decision making regardless of formal structure.
• In terms of the Chart this means controlling the order in which hypotheses are taken off the Agenda and added to the
search space.
• Maybe Claire means it's all right, she only needs one more hanky.
• You talk of family and you mean one ruthless and callous renegade.
• In the home this usually means the telephone line, which is fine for voice but excruciatingly slow for data.
• Their life tenure means they defy patronage.
• But that means you have to fight so damn hard to get even with the system.
• I mean, you've heard all his New Age stuff about them being soul mates destined for each other.
mean something to
• But she couldn't let him see that it had meant something to her.

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• He is willing to extend his generosity to people who mean something to him or are of the same religion.
• It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him.
• Old Eddy meant something to him.
• But it means something to them.
• We love that we meant something to them.
• It did mean something to us.
• It dawned on me I really meant something to you, you know.
really mean
• How far away that really means.
• However, when business schools say that they can effectively teach entrepreneurial skills, what do they really mean?
• People kept asking us: What does it really mean?
• That sounds like motherhood and apple pie until we examine what full employment really means.
• This really means cutting in angled sweeps, allowing the double blade to cut on the forward and return arc.
• Anna hadn't really meant here, but she felt she'd better not say anything.
• And it really means nothing if you don't beat a Michigan team that you should.
• Whatever that phrase really means, Tuesday's program Twentieth-Century Landscapes showed how
freely composers exploited sound in the past century.
meant something
• In these quiet, comforting moments the promises they made meant something, and gave him hope for the future.
• But until 1800 it meant something different from what it does today.
• One life? as if it meant something special.
• But she couldn't let him see that it had meant something to her.
• The name meant something to me.
• We love that we meant something to them.
• Second, I wanted a school noted for its education, or a degree that meant something where I wanted to live.
• I was one of the last fortunate people because winning still meant something.
mean (that)
• It means accepting power as natural and necessary to decision making regardless of formal structure.
• In terms of the Chart this means controlling the order in which hypotheses are taken off the Agenda and added to the
search space.
• Maybe Claire means it's all right, she only needs one more hanky.
• You talk of family and you mean one ruthless and callous renegade.
• In the home this usually means the telephone line, which is fine for voice but excruciatingly slow for data.
• Their life tenure means they defy patronage.
• But that means you have to fight so damn hard to get even with the system.
• I mean, you've heard all his New Age stuff about them being soul mates destined for each other.
Mean
• There's no reason to be mean.
• We soon found out that our new teacher could be real mean.
• Now with Sam gone Helen will get meaner and meaner to me like always.
• Rick's so mean he never even buys his wife a birthday present.
• He's so mean, he won't even buy his wife a birthday present.
• The mean labelling indices did not change significantly over time regardless of whether or not there
were recurrences.
• The mean length of stay in the hospital is 11 days.
• The disparity between solar noon and mean noon widens and narrows as the seasons change, on a sliding scale.
• It was mean of you to disturb her when she was having a rest.
• My father was a mean old man who resented every penny he spent on us.
• In the garden grey airs blow moist, but the mean sky holds on to its water.
• I never thought he was capable of doing such a mean thing to his brother.
• Sharon and the others were really mean to me at school today.
• He was mean to those who worked for him and generous to those who he hardly knew.
• That was a mean trick.
• She hated him for being so mean. Why was he stopping her from seeing her friends?
• Marsha has always been mean with her money.
mean to
• Mom, Laverne is being mean to me.
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•As for the rapists, I bet they are unsuccessful in attracting females, and so resort to desperate means.
• But success was by no means guaranteed.
• By no means, Watson; even now quite a few scientists continue to doubt.
• The poorer ones lack the means to get out, and keep getting caught.
• In some of the other states, the usual means of locomotion was still a horse and wagon.

327. MEDLEY
• Dennis told me to cheer up and threatened to sing me a medley.
• The suspect has little opportunity for demonstrating his or her innocence against any one of
a medley of permissive street powers.
• Sometimes they pipe out a medley, filling the woods with a cacophony of avian lechery.
• This passes a medley of buildings before commencing a steady climb, fringed by trees, to Twisleton Hall, a farm.
• Let me present a medley of these edifying yarns.
• a medley of popular Christmas carols
• If you want a taste of Torme as the consummate show stopper, Rhino offers you his classic, 15-minute
Gershwin medley.
• Unseen in all this great medley of hidden activity the verderers were riding.
• He finished fourth in his best event, the 200-meter individual medley, at the trials in March.
• a delicately prepared medley of vegetables

328. MENIAL
• Today they are qualified for only the most menial employment.
• Belknap was unable to find anything but menial labor.
• Even well-trained women were forced into menial labor.
• I had acquired the true menial mentality.
• Ten workers performing the most menial tasks imaginable were picked at random from the processing line.
• But hiring such people means that you have to pitch in and be willing to do the menial tasks yourself.
• She performed her duties faithfully, reserving to herself the most menial tasks.
• This mournfully bright menial Val wore high heels and a black beret.
• The outcome of this educational vacuum is low-paid, menial work.
Related topics: Occupations
menial2 noun [countable] someone who does menial work, especially a servant in a house
Examples from the Corpus
Menial
• As such, they were treated as menials, on a level with cooks, footmen and other servants.
• Other cartoons are lifeless; plenty of sitcoms offer droll toddlers and clever menials, bringing down their betters
with disparaging asides.
• To the notables and the men of affairs, Sergeant Janeway was a picturesque menial at the vestibule of inside dope.
• They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
menial /ˈmiːniəl/ adjectivemenial work needs little skill and is badly paidHe worked his way through college by taking
menial jobs in the vacation.

329. MENTOR•
You can have a mentor, call it whatever you will as semantics are irrelevant here.• Second, you need
a mentor to guide you along the way.• Joe was the forerunner and mentor in foreign reporting, but Stewartaided
by abundant letters of introduction from Joe was learning fast.• Auden later became
a friend and mentor.• The key feature of effective mentor schemes is a genuine consistent interest on the part of
the mentor for the young person.• The program paired a group of female mentors with seventh and eighth-graders
from Everett as an athletic version of Big Sisters.• On 16 October he wrote for advice to his mentor,
Ritschl.• My mentors were people I read about, such as Richard Byrd, the explorer, rather than people I knew.
mentor2 verb [transitive] to be someone’s mentor Now she mentors undergraduates who are training to be teachers.
mentor /ˈmentɔː-tɔːr/ noun [countable]an experienced person who gives advice to less experienced people to help them
in their work He now runs his own company and is a mentor to other young entrepreneurs.—
mentoring noun [uncountable]She believes that companies should create programs to encourage mentoring and career
development.—
mentor verb [transitive]Only one of the four trainees she mentored last year has found a permanent post.

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330. MERITORIOUS
• It has absolutely not one thing about it that is meritorious.
• Competition is keen and a good honours degree or meritorious performance in an ordinary degree is normally
required.

331. MESA
• They'd lope out to a mesa two miles away and walk back.
• There was a mild breeze twisting up the canyons, switching back and forth across the mesa.
• Off the mesa, the setting sun was more apparent.
• The last hundred feet of elevation form a near-vertical cliff, effectively turning the mesa into
an imposing dark fortress.
• That was because of this little mountain, this mesa outside Big Spring.

332. MESMERIZE
• Audiences will be mesmerized by the film's dazzling photography.
• He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame, letting it mesmerize him into memory.

333. METABOLISM
• Women also have different metabolism rates than men, causing medicine to affect their bodies differently.
• Physiological changes that normally accompany the aging process alter absorption, distribution, excretion,
and drug metabolism.
• Many polar species have clearly originated in this way by adaptations of metabolism, form and lifestyle.
• On the other hand, many scientists are certain that gigantism must preclude elevated rates of metabolism.
• The way out of this predicament was to alter their own environment through their own metabolism.
• It also plays an important role in lipid, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism of adults.
• Why should we think that metabolism is controlled, but not the vortex?
• After about age 30, your metabolism slows down and you start to gain weight.
protein/carbohydrate/alcohol etc metabolism
• It also plays an important role in lipid, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism of adults.
• These studies of whole body protein metabolism, however, simply reflect an average of events occurring in
all individual tissues.
• It has also been suggested that genetically based differences in alcohol metabolism may play a role.
• It is probably due to the accompanying impairment in protein metabolism.
• Thiazide diuretic agents might adversely influence carbohydrate metabolism in several ways.
• Previous investigations of protein metabolism in these clinical disorders have centred on measurements of whole
body protein turnover.
• The vast majority of alcohol metabolism occurs in the liver.
• The principal product of alcohol metabolism is acetic acid, which is useful in many ways.

334. MICROCOSM
• The state has become a microcosm of the economic change that has gripped the nation.
• New Hampshire is hardly a microcosm of the United States.
• The family is a microcosm of social existence for which our young are pre-adapted.
• The wall is a microcosm of a city where art well and truly thrived.
• It was a fantastic microcosm, full of humour and savagery.
• The final game was the series in microcosm.
• In the beginning, ecologists built simple mathematical models and simple laboratory microcosms.
in microcosm•
Harris' production company is starting to look like an empire in microcosm.

335. MILITATE
• Even the humdrum tasks are varied enough to militate against a sense of monotony.
• The very size would seem to militate against action on closure, with the point of non-viability being some way off.
• The two approaches are not mutually exclusive, though efficiency does tend to militate against combinations.
• Equally, the extension of the traditional practice of periodic redistribution of the land between households continued
to militate against individual initiative.
• These provisions are likely to militate against repeat applications and unduly long orders except where
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• Sufficient they must take; but too many would be counter-productive and
would militate against surprise and secrecy.
• These fundamental dissimilarities will surely militate against the two communities coming together.

336. MIRTH
• Our companions in this journey should be mirth, tranquillity and enthusiasm and we will never be bored.
• A wonderful, joyous mouth that could laugh and grin and smile in a hundred expressions of precious, life-
giving mirth.
• Athelstan just glared at her but still she could not control her mirth.
• Anyway, fashions in mirth change.
• Lili was taken by a fit of mirth and lay with a cushion pressed to her nose.

337. MISAPPREHENSION
• Now, on the eve of the formation of the congress, is a good time to clear up any misapprehensions.
• It was not that she had signed under some induced misapprehension as to the nature or character of what she was
signing.
• He accepted that the complainants were under no misapprehension about the nature of the acts they had engaged in.
• But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even
in mediaeval times.
• Stevens recognized Mr. Graham's misapprehension.
• Nicholas, on the other hand, was labouring under several misapprehensions.
• The battalion's officers, under the misapprehension that such an equipage must contain a senior officer, saluted.
under a misapprehension
• Well, dear Rex was either lying or labouring under a misapprehension.

338. MITIGATION
• Apart from mitigation, these actions can include some adaptation and response measures, preparation of
National Communications, and capacity building.
• In mitigation Michael Rayner said his client had been deeply depressed in the days leading up to the incident.
• In mitigation Ronald Coia said his client was suffering from deep depression because his business had failed.
• Even with that lesser verdict there was plenty of mitigation.
• Or the landowner could propose some mitigation.
• Production can not be an incidental to the mitigation of inequality or the provision of jobs.

339. MODISH
• It has emerged from the realms of sub-culture into the mainstream, and may yet, via Viz, be modish.
• She sits there, nearly crushing the spindly, modish bench some twee designer has deemedappropriate for business
chitchat.
• Moral virtues were a cunningly indirect alibi for modish economic vices.

340. MONOLITHIC
• Secondly, none of these ethnic categories are monolithic.
• monolithic corporations
• The equally monolithic image of the male saint, Demetrios on his charger, is not really for us either.
• Secondly, there is the problem of the Northern catholic community, which tends to be taken as
a monolithic nationalist community.
• monolithic office buildings
• The primacy of monuments and monolithic sculpture in the new Communist epoch was acknowledged and debated.
• The West now viewed his government as a satellite in a monolithic Soviet empire.
• These divisions are helpful because the not self is rarely confronted in monolithic terms.
• Constituting 23 percent of the voting electorate, this community tended to deliver a monolithic yea or nay.

341. MONOTHEISM
• But for much else in polytheism and monotheism it is of more limited value.
• The compulsive drive towards a mystical mode of religion is particularly interesting in the
three faiths of historical monotheism.
• By the Edict of Milan, promulgated in 313, he forbade persecution of all forms of monotheism in the Empire.

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• Pure monotheism was by then securely established in the Second Temple of Jerusalem, but
remained shaky elsewhere.

342. MONTAGE
• In another life, your team must have been a montage.
• In short, this film of which I dreamed was not a montage of standard scenes and stock characters.
• It played these roles thanks to impeccable photographic skills, including montage and front-projection.
• a photo montage
• The proportions alter according to the final placement within the montage.
• This montage involved a combination of movement which progressed from a short solo
performance to interweaving by the sextet.

343. MOOT
• Even if Proposition 559 passes, it will become moot if the Supreme Court says it's unconstitutional.
• It is a moot point whether hierarchies exist outside our own thought processes.
• It's a moot point whether this is censorship.
• Quite how long Lord Young was proposing to delay publication is a moot point.
• Whether the law should be this is a moot point.
• Whether they have appeared as part of the C. and A.G.'s audit is a moot point.
• Whether this input has made a significant impact on the pattern of activity is a moot point.
Moot
• A final version has already been mooted.
• Misha F is against pets in principle, but admitted to having three cats and mooted a Chekhov sequel, Three Cats.
• Such is the Delors-led demand for uniformity that even this was mooted as a possibility.
• As Jubilee 2000 draws to a close next month, climate change has been mooted as a possible successor issue.
• Paris was mooted but when Henrietta could not find her passport they eloped to Edinburgh.
• A new approach was being mooted in the heaving undergrowth of ultra-left literature.
• It was mooted the association could offer a unique police view of current problems.
• Once the trip was mooted, there were weeks of indecision about who would go and when.

344. MORASS
• the state's budget morass
• Some genuinely want to help him out of the current morass.
• The legal system flounders in its own morass of indefensible defendants, incoherent witnesses,
and injudicious jurists.
• And a newly recognized disorder serves to show how one comes to be recognized amid the psychiatric morass.
• Sara felt slightly sick, but there was no point in wading deeper into the morass.
• The morass in Washington has gained even greater attention as bond investors have little economic news on which
to focus.
• Art historians have generally been reluctant to venture into this morass of styles and terms.

345. MORATORIUM
• The suggestion for a moratorium on nuclear testing, with its overtones of propaganda, was old and unexciting.
• In 1992, Mr. Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.
• But his environment colleague, Finnin Aerts, wants a moratorium on further nuclear plants.
• Each side accused the other of renewing the fighting and of breaking the air moratorium.
• He was furious with Khrushchev for breaking the moratorium, but he refused to be stampeded into a
new series of tests.
• Two years later the moratorium was confirmed, although it has never become a formal agreement.
• The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses
to grow.
• The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-
level radioactive waste.
• a one-year moratorium on interest payments
moratorium on
• The amendment would put a moratorium on offshore drilling for oil.
moratori‧um /ˌmɒrəˈtɔːriəmˌmɔː-/ noun (plural moratoria /-riə/ or moratoriums)[countable usually singular]1a period
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US moratorium on the production and export of landmines2 (also debt moratorium) a law or an agreement that gives
countries, organizations etc more time to pay their debts Banks have helped out several big property concerns on the
verge of insolvency by offering debt moratoriums or other refinancing options.
moratorium on
When a business finds itself seriously short of cash, it can ask its creditors for a moratorium on debt payments.

346. MORDANT
• But the play's compassion and mordant comedy make for compelling viewing.
• She was totally guileless, honest, with a mordant sense of humour and sardonic wit.
• He showed his willingness to trade his mordant wit for the required political cliches.

347. MOSAIC
• The novel's quest-story takes us into a mosaic of texts, parodies, translations, allusions and fragmentary quotations.
• Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks and elegiac music.
• Portal sculptures, wall paintings and mosaics created in each church a pictorial record of the Bible stories
and teaching.
• The apse mosaics have a gold background and are of early type, being stiff and formal in design.
• These discrepancies are better highlighted by the difference mosaic shown as Fig. 11.
• She clumped across the star-patterned mosaic towards the walk-in cupboard where the ski-gear was kept.
• a Roman stone mosaic floor• It is difficult to believe therefore, that one of these mosaics was not influenced by the
other.
• In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province.
mosaic of
• Planted last fall, the garden is a mosaic of colors.
Related topics: Religion
Mosaic adjective relating to Moses, the great leader of the Jewish people in ancient times the Mosaic law
Mosaic
• Spyglass, of Naperville, Ill., is best known for its Mosaic browser software for the Internet.
• Eric Hahn will replace Marc Andreessen, the 26-year-old wonder boy who helped to write the Mosaic browser.
• Kathleen Kinder has written a book on Mosaic Knitting which is a particular form of striped slip.
• To interpret his significance they turned to the Hebrew sacred books, the Mosaic law as well as
the prophetic writings.
• To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final.
• Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it.
• The pillars are no exception to the general style. Mosaic pictures cover every inch of wall.

348. MOSEY
• Not just any El Nino, but the biggest, baddest El Nino to mosey up the coast in 150 years.

349. MOTE
• She screamed, half terrified, half ecstatic, feeling like a mote of dust tossed on an endlessocean.
• It is hardly necessary to dignify that vile canard by saying there is not a mote of truth to it.
• Booth agreed that there was a mote in the eye of ministerial beholders preventing them reading
the timetable properly.
• Beauty was communication, each mote of light shaded with one nuance of meaning and each meaning had a colour.
• Shame filled the air like motes of dust.
• But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
• No matter how small, these motes of humanity following our orders are not to be sacrificed lightly.
• I completed tidying the loft, sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust.

350. MOTIF
• The second level, that of poetic or dream symbolism, is inherent in all folk-tales, traditions and motifs of
regeneration.
• The use of these various processes may have provided the vehicles for the transmission of decorative motifs,
by copying.
• She was wearing a plain white T-shirt with a fish motif in blue and green.
• Sylvia chose a set of china with a floral motif.
• Such an interpretation is probably possible, but two of the major motifs of Walden argue against it.

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• Between these two mosaics, however, there are few obvious similarities of motif.
• In this case we find a classic call-refusal motif.
• Who, what, when, why, and how, the reportorial motif?
• an action movie with a revenge motif
• Tolkien however used the play for both more and less than motifs.

351. MOTLEY
• A motley bunch of students, ex-convicts and unemployed artists worked together to repair the building.
• The party is not a motley collection of ageing hippies, but an arm of a wealthy and complex organisation.
• If so, is what you have put together really just a motley collection with a messy clash of styles and materials?
• These confiscated nets were a very motley collection.
• The people who travelled with us to Mexico were a motley crew.
• a motley fleet of aircraft• They were an entertaining and very motley gang.
• One seemed to be humans dressed in black, the other was a motley group of exters.
• Gaz slowly gathers a motley group of losers.

352. MOUNTEBANK
• Politically, Mr. Ashdown is a mountebank, not a moralist.
• He hated being the object of public attention and ridicule like some fairground mountebank.
• Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin?
• She was to marry this mountebank, this hypocritical toad of a Sir Thomas.

353. MUMBO-JUMBO
• You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.
• legal mumbo-jumbo
• Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.
• Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
• His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.
• All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty.

354. MURKY
• Water that was clear and alive with wildlife as recently as the late 1940s is now murky and almost lifeless.
• the murky and ambiguous world of spying
• He walked from there, up barren gray streets, streetlamps painting the sidewalks a murky bronze.
• The fact that the definitions of these terms are extremely murky can in part be traced to
the notion of pertinent effects.
• Video: This is the murkiest field for the new company.
• There is an eerie stamp of disaster about this wind-thrown entanglement in the murky half-light of night water.
• The committee is struggling to sort out the facts on a number of murky issues.
• Determining motivation in any human endeavor is a murky matter, but two motives stand out: making money and
making law.
• By afternoon the atmosphere seems translucent blue, like some murky view must have looked through a Silurian sea.
• A single sinuous shape, shedding milk light, moved in the cold, murky water overhead.
• murky water
murky waters
• A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters.
• I would be chary of anything caught in these murky waters.
• Multi-dimensional scaling can help to clear the murky waters.
• People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky
waters.
• This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters.
• To venture into such murky waters claiming scholarly privilege, the scholarship must be beyond reproach.
• A fish that comes from slow-moving often murky waters is unlikely to appreciate bright lighting
or turbulent filtration.
• But then our conversations took a dive into the murky waters of sexuality and jealousy.

355. MUSE
• How different things seem with a little light on the subject, I mused.

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• What a doleful and mocking funeral, Ishmael muses.
• A number of key executives mused aloud on the prospect of early retirement.
• Three cheers for Nantucket, he muses, and the Devil do what he will with me.
• Otherwise, Shamlou mused, he resembled a photographic negative.
• Repeating the title, we muse over what the book will probably be about.
• "I wonder why she was killed, " mused Poirot.
• Perhaps, mused the pundits, he is needed now - at the very top.
muse on/over/about/upon
• It ends with her musing about buying a pink scarf because her granddaughter likes pink.
• I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side.
• Louis and I would go out for walks and muse about Ibsen.
• He mused over it, thinking about Blackbeard's sweat and his icy rage.
• Keeler has been musing on the nature of weediness and the likelihood of it evolving among engineered crops.
• In its aftermath, he muses on the sort of films he should be making.
• Maybe a goodbye photo, I mused on the way over.
• Newland Archer, as he mused on these things, had once more turned his eyes toward the Mingott box.
Related topics: Arts
muse2 noun [countable] 1 someone’s muse is the force or person that makes them want to write, paint, or make music,
and helps them to have good ideas SYN inspiration Rossetti’s wife and creative muse2 (also Muse) one of the
nine ancient Greek goddesses who each represented a particular art or science the Muse of Histor
muse
• She still puts in occasional appearances, Graves concluded in all sincerity, as a muse to poets like himself!
• It is profitable, but it leaves the comic muse high and dry.
• Soon she is up in the studio mixing his paints and dreaming of becoming her master's muse.
• At times like that do you despair, turn to drink to try and coax back the muse?
• Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.

356. MUST
• The $55 passport fee must accompany your application.
• The longer-term affect of television on the House must await further research.
• Identification must be carried at all times.
• Elsa must be furious with her.
• To create these things, we must begin by remembering that we are all in this together.
• You must come and visit us in Houston.
• And he must eat some salad.
• The capital asset of the farms had little importance for most yet in some areas the value must have been substantial.
• This stereo must have cost a lot of money.
• Cox must have forgotten all about our appointment.
• Certainly it must help them locate a mate and induce a feeling of social togetherness.
• As a prior step, however, we must look at the second general form of political behavior, political actions.
• We must make every effort towards peace.
• The plants must need watering by now.
• Production costs must not exceed $400,000.
• Poor Madame, I thought, how deeply she must resent my usurping her place.
• I must stop by sometime and thank her for all her help.
• I must thank Gene for showing me his method of flashing.
Must
• Citronella candles are a must at an outdoor do.
• Goggles are a must for skiing while it's snowing.
• The site covers several kilometres, so good walking shoes and a hat are a must.
• These friendly classes are so popular, numbers are restricted and booking is a must.
• Come dessert time, the fresh guavas in cream or the not too sweet, ultra creamy flan is a must.
• In the absence of a hood a good cover glass is a must.
• But, before leaving the Thatcher phenomenon, a glance at the Falklands War and what preceded it is a must.
• It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
• Another must is the excursion to Hallstatt and Gosau, two of the most beautiful spots in the Salzkammergut.

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357. MYRIAD
• Likewise, the myriad consumer products we savor and benefit from, if poorly made and haphazardly serviced, can
present hazards.
• Mr Wahid has tried to compensate for his economic shortcomings by surrounding himself
with myriad layers of advisers.
• The Bruins committed myriad mistakes and the Avalanche grabbed their 3-0 lead on only nine shots.
• Health care and myriad other services that people in most countries have to pay for are free.
• Also featured daily is a savory filled pastry, an option with myriad possibilities.
• There were myriad purple finches, goldfinches, red polls, and pine siskins.
• Experiments like this opened geophysicists' eyes to the myriad ways this boundary layer could look.
• Both offer myriad ways to configure automatic searches.
• There are myriad ways to help children learn to read.myriad2 noun → a myriad of something/myriads of something
Myriad
• Armour is beautifully made from a myriad of tiny metal scales making it lightweight and very flexible but stronger
than steel.
• Chris Hankins, reporting from Las Vegas, catches a glimpse of the future and the myriad of products on show.

358. NICHE
• A niche, for the purposes of practice management software, is any combination of a client and a location.
• What better niches could there be for Woodhead, who has cast the last fig leaf of impartiality to the wind?
• Van Meer's magazines are aimed at two growing niche markets: Internet users and seniorcitizens.
• But the manufacturers of meat substitutes say vegetarians are a small niche in their target market.
found ... niche
• Love is the Devil found a niche, but there was less room for the films of Ken Loach.
• Andrew McCarthy has found a comfortable niche in the direct-to-video market.
• We were fortunate, however, to have found a niche that no one else cornered.
• Luch found her hidden niche before anyone noticed her.
• It's found a niche. in the luxury end, and Cowley is central to that push.
• After a spell at Tie Rack, she found her own niche in socks.
a niche in the market
• It is a harsh reminder that there are no prizes for discovering a niche in the market.
• It clearly concentrates the information in a commendable format and fills a niche in the market.
• Liveseys' had a niche in the market, with no serious competition.

359. NUANCE
• In a developing country, however, a number of additional nuances may exacerbate these issues.
• They now rely less on naff novelties and more on structure and nuance, while still retaining an Alec Gilroy-sense
of showbiz.
• Television has no time for nuance or subtlety.
• The vivisystems I examine in this book are nearly bottomless complications, vast in range, and gigantic in nuance.
• We shall see how much or how little of local nuances it succeeded in conveying to the top authorities.
• There are layers of nuance and humor in her writing.
• Beauty was communication, each mote of light shaded with one nuance of meaning and each meaning had a colour.
• Yet the rich nuances of the voice clearly convey the message none the less.
• His voice is measured, but I invent my own tones, the nuances of criticism.
subtle nuances
• But there are more subtle nuances in that story.
• Scientists now understand the subtle nuances of its genetic machinery.
• These additional flavor layers offer greater opportunities to marry the dish with the subtle nuances of a fine Cabernet
Sauvignon or Merlot.

360. NUCLEAR FAMILY


• Second, the extended family counts for relatively less and the immediate nuclear family for relatively more.
• Religion and the nuclear family went hand in hand.
• To return from conjecture to fact: the nuclear family left Lewis in 1944 when I was five years old.
• The relationship of the nuclear family to wider social forms has troubled the historian for a long time.
• I have been anxious to show that the nuclear family may lead not to satisfaction but
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• The result of this dramatic change was the nuclear family.
• Three also stands for the relations within the nuclear family, and efforts to ascertain where one fits in there.

361. OBEISANCE
• When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
• Victory is both a felicitous dip of the head and a glorious obeisance towards the changed life that will surely follow
it.
• The grail itself was sin, none other than sin itself; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all?
• Alexei completed his obeisance, then sat up.
• We all make obeisance to it.
• In the meantime, let's not forget that icons are not for passive obeisance.
• Was she about to make some obeisance to it?
• Joseph saw Tran Van Hieu and his father make their obeisance gravely beside other high-ranking Annamese.
make/pay obeisance (to somebody/something)
• We all make obeisance to it.

362. OBLITERATE
• Especially that part she wanted to obliterate.
• Who among us is so righteous that a sane society would entrust her with the power to obliterate a city?
• Frequent flooding eventually obliterated all traces of the community that used to live there.
• His productivity and avidity for life could not obliterate an inner malaise.
• Soon the screen was obliterated by the fuzz of burning light behind Ari's eyes.
• Entire sections of the city were obliterated by the repeated bombing.
• Large areas of the city were obliterated during World War II.
• In addition, an AR-IS semiautomatic rifle with an obliterated serial number was found abandoned on the riverbank.
• The thick smog hung in the air, obliterating the hills from view.
• Perhaps he could obliterate the signature?
• I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.

363. OBSEQUIOUS
• The waiter was polite and efficient, but not obsequious.
• In fact, the letter is almost obsequious.
• Mrs. Bay, thighs clasped close against her body, displayed a shamelessly obsequious air as she watched
the mystical deliberations.
• The salesman's obsequious manner was beginning to irritate me.
• We strive like obsequious morticians to provide consolation by enshrining a corpse.
• In a court in which obsequious obedience to the monarch was the rule.
• Their obsequious praise demands a rebuttal; because really, Mimic is pretty mediocre, even for a B-movie.
• All this obsequious praise for his actions is enough to make most normal people sick.
• As it was, he was forced to his usual obsequious tolerance.
• Perhaps television was just too obsequious towards leaders to be revealing.

364. OBSTREPEROUS
• Some children placed on the drug became more subdued, less obstreperous.
• Out of power, he has been just as obstreperous, if somewhat less visible.

365. OBTUSE
• He is a renowned and honourable man, but with regard to this matter he is either being naive or obtuse.
• How today's youngsters are obtuse!
• Heather tried to be as obtuse as she could.
• Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I don't understand what you're so upset about.
• Even the deeply obtuse can be seized by kamikaze zeal.
• The oral shields is a rounded pentagonal with an obtuse or slightly rounded proximal angle.
• The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
• The ventral arm plates are wider than long, pentagonal with an obtuse proximal angle and a slightly convex distal
edge.

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366. ODOMETER
• Alternatively, some bicycles have an odometer on them which you could use in the same way.
• One hundred and thirty-one miles on the odometer.
• They had sold a car with the wrong mileage recorded on the odometer.
• Ten years ago he restored the engine and replaced the tires, had a friend roll the odometer back to zero.

367. ONEROUS
• In practice this may not be onerous as very limited factual information is contained in the typical advertisement.
• Such a responsibility can prove onerous because a child who comes from an introverted home is likely to be
introverted her/himself.
• But this does put an exceedingly onerous burden on women who are required to bear, rear and look after
the offspring.
• To disqualify one of the prosecutors with three weeks to trial would be an onerous burden.
• Their onerous errand completed, the men resumed their jobs.
• In the western part of the country, onerous taxes
have depressed investments and slowed the introduction of modern technology.
• The owner of a patent does not have the unfettered right to make an invention available only on onerous terms.
onerous task
• The preparation of a Management Plan need not be a onerous task.
• You have a self-disciplined and energetic approach to life now that should help you get even the
most arduous and onerous tasks done.
• But Lind's claim to the prize, relying on the more onerous task of comparing different individuals, remains the
stronger.
• He will have the onerous task of reviving low morale.
• They need to know that the onerous tasks they are performing are done correctly and are appreciated by
line managers.
• Father Conlin combined all these many onerous tasks with great efficiency but above all
with constant good humour and kindness.

368. ONSLAUGHT
• The purge soon spread to an onslaught against oppositionists within the party itself.
• And would its spiritual aura survive the debasing onslaught of materialism?
• The city was in ruins after a prolonged onslaught by enemy warplanes.
• a massive propaganda onslaught
• However, this great satirical onslaught on the Royal Family came to an abrupt end.
• The extent of that secret onslaught needs to be put on the record.
• So startled was he by this sudden onslaught, Ryker momentarily froze, rooted to the spot.
• Hearing the onslaught of criticism, the state Department of Education is showing some signs of flexibility.
• The legal question is how far the trust can be respected in the face of the onslaught of creditors.
• It certainly wasn't the band's strongest single to date and yet, in the commercial world, their weakest onslaught.
onslaught on/against
• The purge soon spread to an onslaught against oppositionists within the party itself.
• In 471 Euric launched his first onslaught against Clermont.
• Not just one hand now but two were enforcing his onslaught on her senses.
• A renewed onslaught against the mutuals seems likely, which could bring windfalls for millions
of borrowers, savers and policyholders.
• In 508 Theuderic continued his father's onslaught on the Gothic south, in tandem with the Burgundians.
• However, this great satirical onslaught on the Royal Family came to an abrupt end.
• Are we to assume then, that the similar onslaught on Peter Mandelson was purely for homophobic reasons?
• The other is the onslaught on the mind by mass junk entertainment.
under the onslaught of something
• The system of sharing broke under the onslaught of Western individualism.
• A couple of bullets split the heavy oaken door, before it shook under the onslaught of the enemy ram.

369. ONYX
• Augle took that easily with his big onyx blaster.
• Madeleine pushed a green onyx ashtray within his reach.
• He ruminated on the idea and nervously plucked a cigarette from the green onyx box beside the telephone.

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• Sumerian gem-cutters also took advantage to a limited degree of another way
of exploiting the banded structure of onyx.
• He had stopped her as she was walking solemnly round the small onyx coffee tables, among the guests.
• It means that I need a stone as good as the onyx.
• The onyx was shipped to Tijuana to be fabricated into bookends, chessmen and other tourist kitsch.
• The pink speckled beans looked like tiny onyx eggs.

370. OPAQUE
• As the liquid cools it becomes cloudy and opaque.
• Actual blindness occurs only after years and years, and is caused by infestation of the cornea - which eventually
becomes opaque.
• It was a foggy, chilly day, without sunshine so the sea was murky and opaque.
• By late afternoon the sky was completely opaque and a thick gloom hung over the ocean as if night had fallen
prematurely.
• The windows are opaque, and the curtains you can see on the second floor are light gray.
• Virtually all the large bottles here are of thick, opaque blue glass.
• huge opaque clouds• Keep herbs and spices in opaque glass bottles to protect them from sunlight.
• If I had my way it would be opaque Lycra tights every day of the week.
• Wullschlager tackles the crucial but opaque question of
Andersen's sexuality with tact, resistingpsychoanalytic facilities.
• a dry opaque writing style• Cats aren't so easy - more opaque, you could say.

371. OPPORTUNE
• It makes it all the more opportune.
• The publication of this Guide to Exporting is indeed opportune.
• her opportune arrival
• The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course.
• Most opportune investments in other states have been done.
• Meanwhile, he would take up the matter with Archbishop Perier at an opportune time.
• The announcement Tuesday may have come at an opportune time.
• To her now he was just a young fellow who happened to be in the house at an opportune time.

372. OPTIMUM
• The absence of a crater is expected for an explosion at the optimum burst height.
• Under optimum conditions, as many as 50 meteors per hour may be seen.
• Likewise, on Mars carbon monoxide is easy to make but is not necessarily the optimum fuel.
• We know exactly how to change their feed day by day to produce optimum growth.
• Consumption of food relieves the discomfort and lowers his arousal level back towards its optimum level.
• Thus maintenance can make an important contribution to containing machine running costs as well
as ensuring optimum machine availability.
• Here trials are used to establish the concentrations necessary to achieve optimumperformance.
• How do you know what the optimum setting for your modem is?
• Winter squash needs plenty of moisture to reach the optimum size.
• The optimum temperature for producing steel is around 1200C.

373. ORB
• A few days before the midair save, another orb had been successfully recovered after a gentle landing in the sea.
• When the daemon's defeat was revealed in his black orb of seeing the Witch-King was enraged.
• a bright orb on the horizon
• This hulking Atlas is carrying the universe upon his shoulders, a hollow orb ringed with the constellations of
the celestial sphere.
• We were shown a bullet-ridden orb, lying on the ground, that had once decorated the church spire.
• A large ship climbed from the orb of Karkason.
• You unpack the orb from the heavy-duty insula-tion stuffed around it.
• The orb at the top of the rod symbolizes this ideal condition.
• On the night stand was a translucent orb atop a triangular clock.

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374. ORTHODOX
• Articles were written which could be construed as orthodox, but still interpreted by sympathisers in
their intended subversive sense.
• Orthodox Christianity teaches that Jesus was raised to life three days after he was crucified.
• Harassment of religion will only tarnish the orthodox church's reputation,
while steeling the resistance of persecuted faiths.
• The monks of Valaam could be regarded as the future of the orthodox church.
• orthodox communism
• Women from orthodox families told me that they were not allowed to wear them.
• An orthodox Hindu must not touch an untouchable or anything an untouchable touches.
• This interpretation of Karma is rejected by orthodox Hindus.
• orthodox historical research
• The Almoravids attempted to bring Africa back to orthodox Islamic practice.
• orthodox methods of treating disease
• The first, and most orthodox, of these was the 11-18 comprehensive school.
• Lacan soon found himself in conflict with more orthodox psychologists.
• This difference in approach constitutes the fundamental difference between the homoeopathic and orthodox systems
of drug use.
• He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support
is absent or inadequate.

375. OVERDRAFT
• When he left college, he had a $3000 overdraft.
• Imagine now that a customer of an individual bank applies successfully for an overdraft.
• As one example, the bank would begin charging interest the day a kibbutz incurred an overdraft.
• An overdraft offered more flexibility but higher cost.
• They had been given borrowing and overdraft facilities.
• I've already got an enormous overdraft.
• As a result, the groundwater overdraft, instead of being alleviated, has gotten worse.
• I want to go on farming, but I will have to see if my overdraft can take it.
• Answer guide: The cash is needed in the business, see overdraft situation, it will need to be left in.
• Keep within the limit and you will not pay the penalties that come with unauthorised overdrafts.
overdraft facility
• The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000.
• Mr. Tucker agreed to allow an overdraft facility of £60,000 for one month.
• This has implications for free banking and overdraft facilities.
• They had been given borrowing and overdraft facilities.
• We also provide interest free overdraft facilities in the first year of study.
• You may want a permanent overdraft facility.
• As the overdraft facility is used, however, two things begin to happen simultaneously.
• When the overdraft facility is fully used, the composition of assets will have changed.

376. PAD
• a bachelor pad
• Changing the subject slightly the brake pads and linings are showing no signs of any wear after over 24,000 miles.
• Cover the wound with a cotton pad.
• Each pad has an identifying number, and each check is numbered consecutively.
• Though the night was cold, I had a foam pad, a blanket and a down bag.
• I had to sleep on a foam pad on the floor.
• He picked up his pad from beside the chair.
• a lily pad
• The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system.
• His knapsack and sketch pad and sleeping bag lay on the floor, candy wrappers scattered around them.
• The Boots range also includes specially designed briefs, some of which are ideal for use with Staydry pads.
• Wipe the pad over the surface until the wood starts to shine.
• He fanned the coals with the pad till the ashes rose up the chimney and the flames jumped.
knee/elbow/shin/shoulder pad
• Among the items scientists have unearthed are four-inch clay figurines depicting men wearing hip and shoulder pads.

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• Another time it was a blond streak and shoulder pads.
• Gardener's knee pads are a good idea: kneeling on joists can be very uncomfortable.
• Cut two little strips to decorate the front of the shoulder pads and press on.
writing/sketch/memo/legal etc pad
• Police sources revealed earlier that the three-page ransom note had been handwritten on paper from a legal
pad found in the home.
• Instead, he pulls a legal pad and a calendar from his briefcase and heads for the phone.
• Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table.
• Susan was already off the window scat, looking for a place to tuck her sketch pad.
• Topping the heap at 36K is Memo Pad which gives you a scratchpad facility.
• Now it's Dominic who hovers self-consciously, scribbling busily on a yellow legal pad.
launch/landing/helicopter pad
• Here the air-lock doors of a cargo bay; there a communications nacelle, a launch pad, a service hatch.
• Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete.
• Neighbours, the show that was her launch pad, might have to be jettisoned.
• But there are signs that the protest may be the launch pad for a powerful and broadly based opposition.
• The fully fuelled Saturn V sitting on the launch pad had a total mass some 56 times that of the Apollo spacecraft.
• He walked past the helicopter pad and along a sandy road that led toward the church spires.
• Such excerpts are important because they provide a highly visible launching pad.
Pad
• Unless I see at least a hint of contour, I assume a crotch has been padded.
• Rhoda padded across the hall into her sister's room.
• His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down.
• Michelle got out of bed, and padded across to the window.
• For the movie, he has to pad his body to make himself look 25 pounds heavier.
• His first instinct was to pad on back to his room.
• The last chapter is padded out with an extract from an earlier report.
• Don't pad out your answer to make it seem impressive.
• The cat came padding softly across the kitchen floor, and jumped onto my lap.
• They realized their lawyer was padding the court fees.
• The A's padded their lead with two more runs.
• He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise.
• They are all padded with foam or sponge.
pad across/through/along etc
• On the right and the left of my track, padding along in parallel silence were bears.
• She might under some circumstances be submissive, like these dreary girls you see padding along in
the moccasin tracks of hippies.
• Nigel in his best jeans and sneakers padded along like a puma.
• He padded across the floor and under the huge tarpaulin where Jekub lived.
• Polly got out of bed and padded across the room towards it.
• We padded through those quiet, leafy roads in utter silence.
• His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down.
• There was complete silence as we padded through two more streets with walls so bitten away that they looked
like lace.

377. PADDY
• Uncle Vernon had flown into a paddy on account of the seven lessons left outstanding.
• The building of irrigation systems and paddy fields is costly in terms of time and effort.
• Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle.
• There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land.
• In other letters he wrote about the great beauty of the country, the paddies and mountains and jungles.
• Water buffalo pulled plows or wallowed in the paddies.
• It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying.
• The paddy fields have turned a feathery yellow.

378. PALATABLE
• Every charcuterie in town had been ransacked in order to provide something palatable.
• There was certainly an ample amount of food, and it was all reasonably palatable.

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• Barley straw is soft and palatable, and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle.
• The food is now palatable, and the medical treatment first-rate.
• Dinner was sardines and stew, made palatable by two lots of vodka.
• The new invention was nutritious, palatable, cheap and simple to make.
• A docudrama can remedy unhappy or unjust conclusions by packaging them in palatable forms.
• If there was no numbing and if the item was reasonably palatable, then they'd take another small bite and swallow.
• a palatable wine
make ... palatable
• Stannard's books have a teaching element, but the story telling is strong enough to make this quite palatable.
• The figures were made no more palatable by a spate of published tables listing Britain's richest people.
• Dinner was sardines and stew, made palatable by two lots of vodka.
• If this is making atrocities palatable for not a few concerned citizens the aftertaste is a bit too much.
• Mycoprotein made from fungus cultures can be textured to make a very palatable form of non-meat food.
• His scepticism and irony make his musings palatable to a Western ear.
• No; ambition must be linked to ` progress' to make it palatable to the enlightened.
• Other factors have also forced a rethink on the left, making it more palatable to Washington.

379. PALAVER
• Budget palaver and acute short-termism seem to go hand in hand.
• Will they view it as an opportunity to attack their opponents or deliver empty palaver?
• There's been a lot of palaver about feminist oversensitivity to language.
• Can't have this sort of palaver going on, not here.
• Between them all, they managed to get Liam to the house, the twins being much amused by all the palaver.
• For all the palaver about men playing full parenting roles, fathers desire, seek, contrive and protect their anonymity.
• If you can't be bothered with any of this palaver, buy a whole fillet of beef.

380. PALPITATIONS
• But this makes me unable to sing, I get such bad palpitations.
• Palmeiro and his teammates still were experiencing palpitations after surviving to play another day this season.
• It turned out that she had had palpitations in the past but had forgotten about them.
• The patient may or may not have palpitations or chest pain associated with the attack.
• Well, a few of my sweet old ladies are going to have palpitations.
• Typically, the episode begins with heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and a sense of choking.
• This patient had experienced several episodes of palpitations although she was otherwise well.
• Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations.

381. PAMPAS
• Oil tanks hide behind pampas grasses and dried-up clematis.
• He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures.
• A quite awful vase in one corner, full of dried pampas grass.
• An important trade is concerned with the exploitation of the great grasslands variously known as prairie, pampas,
savannah, etc.
• Slowly Perdita was trying to absorb the immensity of the pampas.
• Then she became conscious of a vast blood-red sun warming the pampas.

382. PAN
• Place cups in large baking pan.
• Cover pan and simmer slowly until rabbit is tender, about 20 minutes.
• It is pan of the history we are building for this program and this group of kids.
• an oil pan
• In same pan, lightly brown shallots, garlic, and onions in oil remaining in pan.
• Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and keep warm.
• They drank coffee and ceremoniously tipped the contents of the pan into a large casserole which went into a
side oven.
• Cook for about 2 minutes, shaking the pan until the yams are lightly browned. 3.
• Return the mince to the pan.
Pan
• The camera panned back as he prepared to play.

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• The camera panned back to the cat sitting in the corner.
• The movie was panned by all the critics.
• Moving the mouse near the edge of the screen makes it pan in that direction.
• Barnes panned the show in Thursday's "Times."
• He panned towards a piano, saw her saunter over to it.
pan for
• Henkins moved to the Sierras to pan for gold.
pan-
• the Pan-American highway
• Pan-Arabism

383. PANDEMIC
• Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic.
• Not the real thing, of course, but rather a pandemic of stories about anarchists and conspiracies and such.
• One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic?
• And history teachers could set their pupils researching the influenza pandemic of 1918, a grim but fascinating topic.
• Jasper and I stopped playing in 1982, before the pandemic was well along, before the virus had been isolated.
• It has backfired because those worst hit by the pandemic, black people, are paying the price.
• The intelligence estimate portrays the pandemic as the bad side of globalisation.
• Clearly it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic

384. PAR
• Abdullah was the equivalent of a constable, the most junior career rank, almost on a par with conscripts.
• In the nineteenth century the wines of Pierry were considered on a par with the best wines of Aÿ.
• On a par with Mom's, the flaky pie goes down smoothly.
• Oritz needed only a par to win the tournament.
• On the second day 47 players beat par with another 18 again scoring in the 60s for the first time.
• He knocked it on to the fairway, hit his third shot on to the green and then two-putted for par.
• The stock's par value decreased from $3.14 to 31 cents.
• The card reads 6,330 yards, par 68: that's without a par-5.
• At 6,352 yards, par 71, it already offers a stern test of technique without being physically onerous.
at/above/below/under par
• The first score is 1 under par, the second 11 under.
• Gary Orr was also under par with a 71.
• The bonds are callable at par on Nov. 15,2004.
• That's what got me under par today.
• Call option at par on Feb. 13,2001.
• He certainly seemed below par in the few mid-season matches last year, but the whole team looked poor in those.
• Three under par and only three shots behind the leaders, Woods took a triple-bogey six.
par /pɑːpɑːr/ noun [uncountable]1 the par value of a bond, share etc is its stated value when it is ISSUED (=sold for
the first time). This is not necessarily the actual price paid for it. Bonds, for example, may be sold slightly above or
below this value. The par value of bonds is used to calculate YIELD (=their profitability to the investor) SYN FACE
AMOUNT, FACE VALUE, NOMINAL VALUE at/above/below/under par The notes are trading at 10% above par,
or $1,100 for each $1,000 face amount. If the bond is trading below par, the issuer is likely to repurchase the bond in
the market. The bonds, which carry a coupon of 5.5%, were trading at about 97% of their par value.2below/under
par (also not up to par) to be less good than usual or below the proper standard SYN SUBPAR The casinos are not
performing up to par because the entire economy is suffering.3be on a par (with) to be at the same level, value, or
standard The free trade agreement between the US and Turkey would be on a par with the one the US has signed with
Canada.

385. PARADOX
• The recent attacks, in which 17 people were killed and 28 injured, are a paradox for many.
• Isn't it a paradox that the airline with the lowest fares is the one with the most customer satisfaction?
• There's a paradox in the fact that although we're living longer than ever before, people are
more obsessed with health issues than they ever were.
• Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.
• The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.
• Solving the infective dose paradox might lead to new strategies for elimination of this preventable pneumonia.

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• The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
• Being defined in terms of tension or paradox, ambiguity's potential diversity was restored to
some sort of unitary wholeness.
• To explain this seeming paradox, let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory
psychology textbooks.
• It is this paradox, according to Brooks, that is the main point of the poem.

386. PARAGON
• The royal family could be relied upon as paragons of etiquette.
• They, or at least the Quakers who lived in our town, had become paragons of propriety.
• What did our long-suffering paragon of good grace do?
• It sometimes came as a slight shock to Wycliffe to have this paragon of the modern virtues working under
his direction.
• I will actually allow you to see and speak to this paragon of beauty-not to mention good taste-in person

387. PARAMEDIC
• Four days after paramedics recommended Brown be hospitalized, he was transferred to the state mental hospital.
• But when I came to retrieve her, my way was blocked by paramedics and fire trucks.
• After police used pepper spray to subdue the man, paramedics were called because he was
having difficulty breathing, police reported.
• Mr Lennon was treated at the scene by a team of paramedics before being taken by ambulance to
Wigan Royal Infirmary.
• Ambulances, each staffed by one paramedic and one emergency medical technician, must arrive within 12 minutes
under the new standards.
• In the ring paramedics gave Ingle emergency treatment.
• By the time the paramedics arrived, he knew his wife was dead.

388. PARAMETER
• Here, current rather than potential is the estimated parameter.
• No other morphometric or laboratory parameter showed such a constant trend at the individual level.
• They would also give rise to a smaller Schwarzschild mass parameter, and hence greater curvature on the horizon.
• Values of the solubility parameter for simple liquids can be readily calculated from the enthalpy of vaporization.

389. PARCEL
• He will bear a parcel from the mysterious, lovely, no-place-jacketed Carolina.
• a parcel of farmland
• He believes this 11-acre parcel will set the tone for the other 100 acres of undeveloped land also in the area.
• Or suppose the president owns a great parcel of land.
• That afternoon, Isabel finished packing her parcels, upstairs in the attic.
• In fact, it is modern technology at work in the world of overnight parcel deliveries.
• Every child had a gas mask and a suitcase, or paper parcel.
• A Weekly investigation last year showed that similar parcels sold for thousands of dollars less per acre around the
same time.
• Now she understood why Angel had brought a strange parcel with him.
Parcel
• They parcel images score through secretive drawing and glaze Conté with hissing fixative.
• Theorists have found it difficult to wrap and parcel me in a neat compartment.
• Am I in bondage, that you think to parcel me off as you see fit?
• It would be absurd to parcel out equal sums of research money to everyone.
• Thatcher also used to parcel out jobs to representatives of different interest groups in the party.
• Many companies parcel out portions of their profits to stockholders in the form of cash dividend payments.
• If you really want to make an impression, decorate a basket or box to parcel them in.
• He requested her to parcel up most carefully in an oiled cloth his other gun and have it sent to him.

390. PARE
• The rest could be pared away.
• The problem with the Journal is that we are a small society trying to pare costs to the minimum.

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• But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials,
acting conveys shades, nuances and inconsistencies.
• Mr Hall has pared down the bebop style and you are left with the spirit, minus the meaning less
displays of technique.
• In our quest for experiencing the ultimate New York hotel bar, we must pare down the prospects.
• The banking industry is aggressively paring its ranks, and the current wave of megamergers simply means more
layoffs.
• Pare one small apple and then dice it.

391. PARLOUS•
His priority is his own increasingly parlous situation at home.• Derbyshire is probably in the most parlous state of all
the first-class counties.• But it still didn't stop me having a perfectly valid opinion on the parlous state of contemporary
kits.• the parlous state of the country's economy• The mill was relegated to storage for many years, and by the 1960s
was in a somewhat parlous state.• The death of Vial left his widow in parlous straits. parlous state• The mill was
relegated to storage for many years, and by the 1960s was in a somewhat parlous state.• Derbyshire is probably in the
most parlous state of all the first-class counties.• But it still didn't stop me having a perfectly valid opinion on
the parlous state of contemporary kits.

392. PAROXYSM
• With Omar gone, the house seemed to coil up in a paroxysm of eerie energy.
• Or had she cut her wrists in a paroxysm of guilt?
• Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter, spluttering wildly, her emaciated limbs rolling about under the
covers.
• If one trespasses beyond the limits, he quietly corrects the fault in a plea, never a paroxysm.
• We disappear into the darkness, where nobody can see that we're not rolling around the floor
in paroxysms of ecstasy.
• There had been no mad paroxysm of love, with the inevitable bathos.
• The house of his father contained all the acquisitiveness and greed that promised the paroxysm of class war.
paroxysm of
• paroxysms of coughing

393. PATHOS
• The opera's mixture of comedy, pathos, and desire will break your heart.
• The concentrated pathos of her narration, and the clarity with which she conveys its crippling effects on Blanche,
is breathtaking.
• Adjani is unrivalled when it comes to expressing violent pain without lapsing into pathos.
• It was a venue of pathos and prayers, a wretched place for passengers concerned with their welfare.
• Drenched in the pathos and the rhythms of the blues, this wonderful production is at once mournful and exuberant.
• But Phillips' gift is in deftly leavening bathos with pathos.

394. PATISSERIE
• A good market patisseries and restaurants can all be found in this pretty town.
• What I see is a Soho patisserie, where Rainbow, awaiting Naomi, stares into her coffee.
• What the sahib and memsahib brought from the patisserie, those tarts.

395. PEDESTRIAN
• On a single day, Sept. 17,10 pedestrians were struck, including one fatally.
• The man lost control of his car, killing a pedestrian.
• But won't it lead to confrontation between drivers and pedestrians?
• Take particular care when entering or leaving the tracks, and watch out for both pedestrians and traffic.
• Banning traffic from the shopping areas has made life much more pleasant for pedestrians.
• Often, cars turning on to California or Pine would block the crosswalk, forcing pedestrians to weave between cars.
• Then, without warning, a tremendous blast smote the city, knocking pedestrians to the ground.
• Cyclists are asked to be aware of pedestrians and ride considerately.
• It claims bikes cause too much pollution and can upset pedestrians.
• Given the trees, wide sidewalks filled with pedestrians and the Muni vehicles, the view is poor to mediocre.
Pedestrian
• But Dreyfuss finds ways around the triteness of the screenplay and the pedestrian direction.

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• The adumbration of pedestrian figures by a kind of blurred notation seems to be entirely new in art.
• It will become a pedestrian mall during the games, wooing visitors with the now-
ubiquitous coffee franchises and sushi bars.
• He admired the sycamores, rising like important ideas from pedestrian plots of short grass.
• On the main wall was a rather pedestrian portrait of his wife.
• The other, Portland, has five employees in its pedestrian program.
• Where pedestrian volumes were heavy, walkers should have special pedestrian routes.
• He is a very pedestrian writer and Ovid is far from that.

396. PEERLESS
• B.B. King's peerless blues guitar playing
• A peerless champion of his own era, he had been reduced to an ineffectual has-been by the modern gunslingers.
• Great perils lay before them, and some of them paid with their lives for drinking that peerless elixir.
• No wonder the prose is not so peerless in our morning newspapers.
• Through its peerless network of contacts the firm obtained a pre-broadcast copy of the series.
• I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for
your peerless wit.

397. PENDING
• The victim's identity is being withheld pending notification of relatives.
Pending
• Funeral arrangements are pending.
• Sir Antony revealed a number of bids from interested parties were under consideration and a
Sola announcement was pending.
• Conditions on the granting of bail may be imposed by the magistrates' court on defendants against
whom charges are pending.
• I think that I am right in saying that regulation 3 provides that the changes will not affect pending
applications for review.
• His suit, still pending, elicited howls from farmers and sugar-cane growers.
• A pretty grey-eyed woman was being held, pending enquiries.
• Relevant proceedings are pending if they are in progress at the date the application for a care or supervision order
is filed.
• News of the Romans and the pending invasion was probably brought in by the merchants.
• More employees are likely to lose jobs in the pending merger.
• At the time of the list's publication, business was still pending over three of the son-in-law's colleagues.

398. PENINSULA
• When you own a peninsula, you own the very essence of the Chesapeake country.
• The Army and the police remained under intense pressure in the Jaffna peninsula where
many camps and stations were under siege.
• This provided for the withdrawal of federal forces from the strategic Prevlaka peninsula overlooking Dubrovnik by
Oct. 20.
• But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
• Although the rebel numbers are small, there are known to be many infiltrators and sympathisers on the peninsula.
• Fewer people make it out to the peninsula.
• One resident of that city purchased five hundred rifles for shipment to the peninsula.
• The Mayan civilisation flourished in the Yucatan peninsula between 300AD and 900AD.

399. PERFIDIOUS
• The air was thick with paranoia as the conversation turned to the perfidious question of appearance money.
• a perfidious scheme

400. PERFIDY
• On trips organised for food writers, public perfidy is a popular lament.
• Anyway, they've seized on this legal brouhaha as an example of Albion's perfidy, so to speak.
• After dinner, they lined the bar, talking loudly about the perfidy of Highlanders and bemoaning their ten-mile,
fishless walk.
• Young Zuwaya talked with anger and shock, lips and hands trembling, about the perfidy of the Magharba.

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• When the Seminoles and blacks responded to this perfidy by refusing to cooperate in their removal,
Jesup renewed warfare.
• But can you live with your perfidy?

401. PERFUNCTORY
• a perfunctory apology
• I could probably live with it, but really this perfunctory business belongs out of sight.
• You put in a coin, a wand twirls, and a brief selection of perfunctory destinies is on offer.
• Rochford did it with an almost perfunctory efficiency.
• If the national government had seemed perfunctory in its response to the threats against Baker, it seemed oblivious to
his death.
• Thomas's mind seemed to be elsewhere, and there was no perfunctory laugh in return.
• A 6-3 third set lasted only 26 perfunctory minutes.
• Rick is assigned a perfunctory review of the Cindy Liggett case.

402. PERIMETER
• a perimeter fence
• The road continues past the buildings and after ¾ mile the trail runs off through the trees to the forest perimeter.
• We had dug in that night on perimeter, and it started raining.
• A secure perimeter fence should be at least two metres high.
• Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.
• But the perimeter was small and surrounded by forest.
• By the year 2001 the tracks will circle the perimeter of the short-term parking garage roof in the middle of the loop.
• The men ate in a large tent outside the perimeter of the fence.
• Security guards patrol the perimeter.
• When the nine pins were in place, Brown joined up the perimeter of the area they bounded.
• the perimeter of the airfield
perimeter fence/wall
• Three men wearing balaclava-type masks dragged him to a perimeter fence where the attack took place.
• The inner Zones 1 and 2 are enclosed by a 19-mile perimeter fence.
• She too looks like a retired person, retired from the turbulence beyond the perimeter wall.
• There was no exit in the perimeter fence and the gates in the side fence were locked.
• Keeping the perimeter fence a few yards away on his left, Angel One loped silently along until he reached its north-
western limit.
• Centred in East Anglia, the Snowball Campaign involved a symbolic cutting of the perimeter fence at air-
force bases around the country.
• His eyes roved to the perimeter fences where the lights still shone as if in defiance of the coming day.

403. PERIPHERAL
• It is a society in which women's rights and concerns are still treated as peripheral.
• But Mrs Clinton has said they prove that her involvement was peripheral.
• Stan plays a peripheral character in the series.
• Although a definition of central information was attempted, no clear description of
the types of peripheral information available was previously offered.
• But those were the peripheral ingredients to the Bruins' second nonconference home loss in the past 46 games.
• During the recession some larger companies recognised a need to dispose of peripheral interests
and apply the proceeds to their core businesses.
• So the first step in treating peripheral neuropathy is maintenance of tight control of blood glucose levels.
• Too much money is being spent on peripheral programs when our kids can't read or do basic math.
• The U.S. State Department had only a peripheral role in the negotiations.
• The romance was peripheral to the movie's main plot.
• Why, some might question, is there such an emphasis on something which is so peripheral to the New Testament?
peripheral to
• activities that are peripheral to the organization's educational goals
Peripheral
• The two pieces of add-on hardware, called peripherals, are pricey.
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• Soon preschoolers will get their shot using new peripherals and software developed jointly by Compaq Computer
Corp. and Fisher-Price.
• The seven Super Compstation 10 models are each offered with a range of options for storage, monitors and
other peripherals.
• But harmonization will now concentrate on the essentials - the peripherals will be left to
a process of mutual recognition by states.
• These peripherals also come with their own software, so the accompanying bundle is better than most.
• There are also various peripherals at competitive prices too.

404. PERIPHERY
• As the wave reaches the cell periphery, enough calcium may diffuse across to activate the neighbouring cell.
• Nor was this simply on the eastern periphery.
• Rural development in the Western Isles periphery depends heavily on finance from the mainland centre.
• Moss moved on the broken trees at the periphery of the golf grass.
• There would be clashes on the periphery but none between the major powers.
• That's always a very easy thing to do on the periphery.
• The Ministry of Economic Warfare hung on the periphery and stirred the witches' brew.
• This would argue for considerable community organization and official control of the division and leasing of land on
the urban periphery.
periphery of
• stores on the periphery of downtown

405. PERMEATE
• Many lively strains were present in that hybrid, and they permeated all religious practices.
• Money values permeate every aspect of our existence.
• Water is a primal element; it permeates everything, including us.
• Smoke from smouldering sandalwood permeated everything.
• The rain had finished, leaving in its wake a vast, permeating leakage, the river noise of runoff.
• Sunlight streamed into the church and through the stained glass windows, and a smell of grass
and flowers permeated the air.
• Soon the gas had permeated the entire area.
• There is a culture of racism that permeates the entire organization.
• The smell of smoke permeated the house.
• There is evidence that the same trends have begun to permeate the private sector.
• Toxic chemicals may permeate the soil, threatening the environment.
permeate through/into
• Toxic vapors can permeate into the plaster and wood.

406. PERMUTATION
• Formulations are varied because there are three ways of achieving the
same capability with combinations and permutations.
• And, of course, such fragments have been made to convey many permutations of these uses.
• The 14 different dinners are mostly permutations of beef, chicken, noodles, and rice.
• This work organised the known theory of permutation groups and its relationship with Galois Theory.
• In one permutation, Panetta would not challenge Feinstein if she ran for governor.
• It has been estimated that there are 26 possible permutations of step-family formation.
• The permutations were many and varied.
• And that was not the end of it, for there were permutations.

407. PERORATION
• Equally sudden a peroration of chatter from a local mockingbird broke the silence.
• And so when Drabik delivered her marvelous peroration on Shakespeare, I had to wonder how many students got it.
• However his ringing peroration struck most of those present as being ridiculous, and many laughed aloud.
• There was not much else on offer in the leader's peroration to feed the faithful.

408. PERPETUATE
• The myth of a woman taking the blame to protect the male foible should not be perpetuated.
• This new book perpetuates all the old myths about the Kennedy assassination.

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• The proposed law will perpetuate existing economic and class inequalities.
• His view is that the welfare system helps to perpetuate failure and poverty.
• This is perpetuated in modern weaning during the oral stage and finds an equivalent in manic-depressive and
paranoid-schizophrenic disorders.
• But despite the well-meaning ring of colorblind ideals, you can not demand sameness of language
while perpetuating segregated education.
• We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.
• Public aid to the needy and even public sanitation tended to perpetuate the more vulnerable members of the race.
• She was launched in 1965 to replace the Vincent and named Vigilant to perpetuate the traditional name.
• They gave such lyrical names to almost every place they seized, thus perpetuating their memory for ever.
• She carried with her the values of the eastern seaboard, sought to perpetuate them, and succeeded.

409. PERSEVERANCE
• Captain Benson praised his men's courage and perseverance in dealing with a very dangerous situation.
• All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
• Then I look for imagination and perseverance, steadfastness of purpose.
• A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake.
• It requires great tact and perseverance to make some people accept a coaching atmosphere.
• Despite the prediction, Dole recovered because of his perseverance and determination.
• Stories about hard times teach the value of perseverance and hard work.
• The event demanded the most stringent virtues before it even began: patience, perseverance, reverence.
• The job requires perseverance and, above all, patience.
• Some of the girls did not have the perseverance to train to his standards of precision.

410. PERSPICACIOUS
• Towards the end of the infantile period the child is becoming more perspicacious.
• a perspicacious critic
• Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would
become Special Pensioner Khrushchev.

411. PHLEGMATIC
• He was rational, relaxed, phlegmatic.
• Though normally phlegmatic, Jan was beginning to get alarmed.
• His driver, a phlegmatic man in middle age, evinced no surprise.
• Eager to work and leave their mark, the Volunteers seethed at the phlegmatic nature of the program.
• Robbie was surprised and relieved to find Fen his usual phlegmatic self next morning.
• His letters confirm a highly inquisitive mind regarding natural and scientific phenomena and suggest
a phlegmatic temperament and a dry humour.
• Cézanne was phlegmatic, timid, at times virtually dumb.
• Midwesterners, naturally phlegmatic, would be stirred only if they considered that something was really wrong.

412. piety
• Next came the inaugural luncheon and a new round of insincere bipartisan pieties.
• They lived under constant threat of exposure and extermination at the hands of the Inquisition,
which monitored Christians' piety.
• Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to
the household head.
• Nu might have been a village schoolmaster, or a teller of tales, respected for his piety.
• In this strange mix of piety and bawdiness, they directly recall the world of Dargah Quli Khan and the Muraqqa'-e-
Dehli.
• Isabella never let her own piety give her simple ease.
• I approve the deadly seriousness, the piety, the need for something sacred in your life.
• It was a city where piety and the hard sell met.

413. PILASTER
• Outside are pilaster strips and there are also arched corbel tables.
• The entrances are marked by pilasters or engaged columns supported on a triangular gable.

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• The external walls of the churches are decorated simply by pilaster strips and corbelled stringcourses with arcading,
as in Lombardy.
• At least three pitched stone supports along the inside may have supported engaged pilasters or a bench.
• He describes its every blind arched chimney and fluted pilaster.
• The top storey has no openings and the order is in pilaster form.
• It is simple, decorated only with flat, low pilasters in brick, and has a belfry and pyramid above.
• The royal hunting-lodge of Falkland in Fife was transformed into a Renaissance palace, ornate
with pilasters, medallions and allegorical statuary.

414. PLACATE
• Rory reflected gloomily as Candy sat down again, her momentary anger placated.
• Their manager has no doubt reached the point where he feels the fans must be placated.
• The noise control law could placate airport neighbors, who oppose growth because of the noise.
• Her brooding sense of unease wouldn't be placated by his explanation.
• Maybe by the time I was born, my parents had no need to pretend unhappiness to placate jealous spirits.
• He used laughter as a way of placating persecution in advance.
• And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win
over voters.
• Herrera endeavored to placate the opposition by making preliminary defense preparations and by
sending additional forces to the Rio Grande.

415. PLAGUE
• Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door, as a plague of field-mice infested the estate.
• There are now three people dead - it's like a plague that's struck the whole Lossie complex.
• Though relatively healthy animals, state health officials warn that they are notoriously susceptible to bubonic plague.
• His speech carried a surprising pledge to end by March a nationwide plague of salary arrears.
• an outbreak of plague
• AIDS has been called a sexual plague.
• I was not comfortable talking to kids, particularly boys, and I avoided the older ones like the plague.
• The plague spreads: more atoms split, and then yet more.
• Yet the final image of him working with plague victims transforms him into a heroic character.
Plague
• Elway has been plagued all season by back problems.
• Nevertheless the Republicans, plagued by continuing
factional disputes over strategy, tacticsand supply, proved unable to recapture lost territory.
• Wanda Kaczynski is plagued by guilt.
• Fires continued to burn elsewhere in the West in states plagued by one of the worst droughts of the century.
• The area is plagued by soil erosion and flooding.
• Louka is also plagued by the police who are very suspicious about his bogus marriage.
• Some say these were sent by the Witch King to plague him.
• Price inflation plagued the distribution of imported goods and was aggravated by bottlenecks in ports like
Khorramshahr and beyond.
• Perhaps the most noticeable earnings problem has plagued the semiconductor group, the hottest sector through the
first three quarters of 1995.
• Heavy rains continue to plague the state.
• Social problems plague these low-income communities.
• Frederick was plagued with one illness after another throughout his childhood, mainly suffering from asthma and
other breathing problems.
be plagued by/with something
• Diem was plagued by chaos throughout the summer.
• Early versions were plagued by clogged print heads, blurry prints and a tendency to smudge.
• They've got to learn that this business is plagued with fantasists and people with grudges.
• Wanda Kaczynski is plagued by guilt.
• The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
• Frederick was plagued with one illness after another throughout his childhood, mainly suffering from asthma and
other breathing problems.
• Yes, we defeated the United States, but now we are plagued by problems.
• But hardly had it reached our screens last July than it was plagued by troubles and controversy.

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plague somebody with something•
The kids have been plaguing me with questions.

416. PLATONIC
• But she made it clear their relationship was to be platonic.
• Colleagues of Gilbey have always maintained that his relationship with the princess is strictly platonic.
• Their relationship was strictly platonic, even though she was living in his apartment.
• Lovely platonic evenings, the odd kiss and fumble?
• And her diary reveals claims that her request for a purely platonic friendship had been loosely interpreted by Gerald.
• When I talk about love affairs, I also include platonic love affairs.
• In the novel, Edward and Susannah present a perfect model of platonic love.
• They would visit places she had never even dreamt of and, as he said, it could be platonic or otherwise.
• After the marriage, though, she wants to breathe life into their dry, platonic relationship.
• Is it a parody of the platonic republic, where politics, art and philosophy come together?

417. POMP
• All pluck and pomp, it rang throughout the hall in dulcet tones as never before.
• Prestige, if nothing else, demanded that it be entered into with due pomp and circumstance.
• The people responsible for pomp and circumstance recognize this.
• No amount of display or pomp is going to increase it, or lack of it detract.
• All that space, all that pomp, for just a bit of food.
• He chafes at the pomp and security that has descended on him with his new post.
• General Meade cared but little for the pomp and parade of war.
pomp and circumstance
• Prestige, if nothing else, demanded that it be entered into with due pomp and circumstance.
• The people responsible for pomp and circumstance recognize this.
• An illustration of this can be found in the funerals of very famous people conducted with great pomp and
circumstance.
• The queen was welcomed with great pomp and circumstance.
• The Royal Family is all about serious responsibilities: pomp and circumstance, figureheads for the land of hope
and glory.
• The real question is, though, does all this pomp and circumstance result in a superior loaf?

418. PORTMANTEAU
• Her shabby appearance and the battered portmanteau had weighed heavily against the genteel tone of her voice.
• Large green canvas portmanteau containing the personal effects of the late Victor Zenobia.
• Instead he took a sheaf of glossy photographs from his portmanteau and pushed them across the table towards the
Corsican.
• The old man had disappeared outside again without a word, having set Theda's portmanteau down in the wide hall.
• The balancing slower growth was supplied by the portmanteau of miscellaneous services.
• Presently the port was gone and the fire gone and Tuppe had gone to sleep in the portmanteau.
• He shut the door, turned and tripped straight over the portmanteau.
• The portmanteau can't be found.

419. PORTRAY
• Their music portrays a lifestyle that no longer exists.
• In the movie, Burg portrays a real-life Holocaust survivor.
• This is the only example portraying a Roman Emperor which has survived intact from such an early age.
• The recommendation was a surprise because census officials previously have portrayed adjustment as
a solution to chronic undercounts.
• All along, the Owens River had been portrayed as a matter of life or death to the city of Los Angeles.
• This again portrays Cassius as a hero, and Caesar as a feeble old man in comparison.
• We are all given T-shirts that portray Erap as a crocodile, gobbling money.
• Leonard Baskin has been chosen to portray F.D.R.'s first inauguration and, in the final room, his funeral cortège.
• Instead, she portrayed herself as a philanthropist, eager to help old friends down on their luck.
• Fink is not the only writer portrayed in the film.
• Two portray large dramatic faces that do not look particularly human.

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420. POSTULATE
• Enlightenment philosophers postulated a social contract to which rational, independent men could
be expected to agree.
• This idolatrous crowd postulates an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is
perfectly understandable.
• The relationship he postulates is not one-way traffic; it is dialectical.
• It has been further postulated that pouchitis represents a recurrence of
ulcerative colitis in reservoirs with colonic metaplasia.
• To begin with, it postulates that the hero of your story is in danger.
• Darwin postulated the modern theory of evolution.
• I agree with Mr. Park that in the case postulated the will would have been validly executed.
• Again, inhibition of suppressor cell activity was postulated to be responsible.
postulate that
• Hence, we postulated that adaptive cytoprotection maintains a physiological equilibrium between duodenal
mucosal resistance and luminal acidity.
• For instance, theorists of social representation have developed Durkheim's postulate that collective representations
should have theoretical primacy over individual representations.
• It has been further postulated that pouchitis represents a recurrence of ulcerative colitis in reservoirs with colonic
metaplasia.
• From his experience Keller postulates that such abuse is quite common.
• With this philosophy in mind, we postulate that the divergent process is the worst possible.
• To begin with, it postulates that the hero of your story is in danger.
• It has been postulated that the symptoms of gonorrhoea have diminished since the introduction
of effective antibiotic therapy.
• It would be reasonable to accept any postulate that would make it more probable.

Postulate
• It is, at best, a postulate.
• But a postulate in a Euclidean system must be accepted in order to maintain the integrity of the whole.
• So many false starts, blind alleys, postulates which decayed before the end of the argument.
• It would be reasonable to accept any postulate that would make it more probable.
• Because even an idiotic postulate needs to be disproved by scientific means.
• a proof of Kepler's mathematical postulate
• For instance, theorists of social representation have developed Durkheim's postulate that collective representations
should have theoretical primacy over individual representations.
• Proving Koch's postulates would of course be unethical and controversy is fuelled by this lack of scientific certainty.
• Here Moscovici is offering a universal postulate about social psychological processes.

421. POTABLE
• The fact that a water is potable does not, however, necessarily make it suitable for textile purposes.
• This provides for a supply of very good quality water to the main river, which itself is used as potable supply.
• There is no potable water, except what you carry with you, and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity.
• But sewage systems are not the only non-potable water systems cross-connected to the potable water supply.
• Bread, it would appear, is an indispensable foodstuff, as necessary to life as potable water.
• Reconstituted and recombined milk and milk products are those that result from the recombining of
milk constituents with potable water.

422. POTPOURRI
• The rest of the Standard's hardware is a potpourri of virtually every guitar that Mr. Carlton has been associated with.
• a potpourri of religious ideas
• Some of the athletes in this international potpourri, like Kaila, McGuirk and Thomson, hold dual citizenship.
• He presented these treasures plainly; without even a bowl of potpourri on a table top.
• For a week six bubbles were filled with boxes full of potpourri which had become infested with moths.
• All round, the rich stink of sweat, urine, spilled ale, even a trace of potpourri.
• Use them in herbal teas or potpourri.
• Forget the potpourri of herbs and spices.

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423. PRECIPITATE
• Both countries claimed the same area, precipitating a border war.
• For this reason, an increase in population density often precipitates a round of emigration.
• An attack on the country could precipitate a world war.
• Butsy was sixteen and aware that the trip had been precipitated by a crisis.
• What world historical events were precipitated by incidents that occurred then?
• Tetany may be triggered by hyperventilation or precipitated by vomiting or by pregnancy and lactation.
• Thus differences in 18 O/ 16 O ratio may be expected between water and calcite precipitating from it.
• The 1929 stock market crash precipitated the collapse of the American banking system.
• Ironically, in view of what had happened fifty years earlier, it was now the School's success which precipitated the
next crisis.
• Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators,
which precipitated the November revolution.

Precipitate
• I producing fixed capital, there would be a precipitate decline in those sectors.
• Sedimentary rocks show stratification and form by settling of erosional debris and chemical precipitates.
• This inhibition is caused by the formation of insoluble precipitates of calcium, phosphate, and bile acid micelles.
• When the solution becomes turbid the mixture is warmed until the precipitate dissolves.
Precipitate
• I have much sympathy with those who warn against precipitate novelty in the food industry.

424. PRÉCIS
• Later a short term job educational précis, took him to London's technical libraries.

425. PRECLUDE
• Lack of evidence may preclude a trial.
• It must also dole out a level of punishment so severe that it precludes any further response.
• Blake returned to London a hero in the eyes of MI6 but the secret nature of his work precluded any
official recognition.
• But while public provision does not preclude charitable giving, the existence of the profit motive in any service
usually does.
• These regulations may preclude newspapers from publishing details of politicians' private lives.
• While these could be used on the Promenade, their length and awkward entrances precluded their use around town.
• Jehovah's Witnesses' religious beliefs precludes them from undertaking compulsory national service.
• The many complications seem to preclude this even though the importance of success is as great as ever.
• The requirement under consideration precludes this, since there is no threat of violence towards another person
involved in such conduct.
• The slow kinetics of antigen-antibody dissociation,
unfortunately, precludes using antibodies in reversible sensors for continuous monitoring.

426. PRECURSOR
• We repeated the experiments with a precursor for protein and found that an increase in
protein synthesis occurred also.
• This correlation argues for the possibility of synthesis of platelet activating factor precursors in cells sensitive to
gastrin stimulation.
• Basic education remains a necessary precursor to behavior change, especially for the young and those just becoming
sexually active.
• Its overthrow was a necessary precursor of, and possibly stimulus to, the theories Charles Darwin was developing
a century later.
• Many gay men today cringe at the thought that this was a major component of the sexuality of our precursors.
• Many of these animals, rather than being simple precursors of sophisticates yet to come, were quite unlike anything
ever seen elsewhere.
• The abacus was the precursor of the modern electronic calculator.
• The Office of Strategic Services was the precursor of the CIA.
• The precursors of lowered self-esteem and poor coping will also be examined.
precursor of/to
• Human nature often requires conflict as a precursor to truth.

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• This is the first treatment designed to specifically target insulin resistance, which is a precursor to diabetes.
• Legal reform was a prerequisite for social change, but not automatically the immediate precursor of it.
• Many of these animals, rather than being simple precursors of sophisticates yet to come, were quite unlike anything
ever seen elsewhere.
• But for Jenks thought was always the precursor to action.
• Some, the precursors of fungi, could only survive in the dark.
• The Office of Strategic Services was the precursor of the CIA.
• His parents, he says, were precursors to the counter-culture.

427. PREDATORY
• But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time, they have remained essentially predatory.
• Forest boy, like Forest girl, had found out too soon about the predatory appetites of the fully grown.
• This area of Falkirk has always had a resident population of these handsome but predatory birds.
• The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too.
• This behaviour is typical of many predatory mammals - and indeed birds.
• His smooth face was slashed open by his predatory mouth, as if an invisible hatchet were biting into fruit.
• predatory sales practices
• While Hyacinth awarded marks, others, just as predatory, were giving her the eye.

428. PRE-EMPTIVE
• Both are meant to decide on the basis of dependent reasons and their decisions are therefore pre-emptive.
• The defender launches his pre-emptive counter-attack a split second after the attacker prepares to strike.
• Perhaps general anaesthesia should be combined with pre-emptive local and regionalanaesthetic blocks more often.
• The procedure whereby the pre-emptive offer is to be communicated to the shareholders is laid down in section 90.
• It still leaves the state Legislature with massive pre-emptive powers to override local decisions.
• Right then, apparently, she put away any pre-emptive right to either Augusta or Thomas.
• The elective resolution procedure does not apply to the pre-emptive rights since a special resolution procedure
is available to change the articles.
• The US says it is prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike with nuclear weapons if it is threatened.
• That is what is known as a pre-emptive whinge.
pre-emptive strike/attack
• Apparently spooked, Univel cut its prices attempting what it called a pre-emptive strike.
• But it never got that far because Kasser fired his pre-emptive strike.
• To prevent them being expressed, you stage a pre-emptive strike.
• He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.
• It was a pre-emptive strike against attempts to rewrite and water down his proposals in the months ahead.
• Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength.
• This diminishes the chances of accidental war or pre-emptive strikes motivated by unfounded fears.

429. PREMISE
• This section too starts with a premise, which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.
• The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else.
• I believe his whole argument is based on a false premise.
• The first premise is that humans are wanting animals whose needs depend on what they already have.
• The important thing is the premise, the theoretical first step.
• American justice works on the premise that an accused person is innocent until they are proved guilty.
• But so far, the first two episodes have been bogged down with setting up the premise and too many location scenes.
• The Prime Minister I agree with the premise underlying my hon. Friend's question.
• The underlying premise of the global market ideology is that every country will earn most of
its income from exports.
premise that
• And the action premise that completes this credo may seem totally ridiculous in these troubled times.
• His question is old-fashioned, rational and optimistic in its premise that technology should be at the service
of enlightenment.
• But the original premise that all statements are either empirical or analytical is itself in neither of these categories.
• The program is based on the premise that drug addiction can be cured.
• The present research is based on the premise that family style of emotional expression is a key factor in this respect.
• If that many did indeed die, I would question the premise that most of them were innocent.

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• The model of the post-heroic leader that we discussed earlier is certainly based upon the premise that individuals
will respond to encouragement.

430. PREMONITION
• Even then I had a premonition of danger, of menace.
• She had a premonition that she would die in a plane crash.
• She had a premonition that she was going to die, and she did so peacefully.
• About six months after Mr. Reynolds' first premonition, he experienced unexplained noises,
mainly thumping and banging.
• He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too.
• For Kadare, history is not knowledge but illness, and Gjon falls sick with the premonition of
an ominous planetary shift.
• In the 1972 single-handed Transatlantic yacht race, a number of hallucinations and illusions were experienced, some
of them premonitions.
• He was sitting in the new, renovated bathroom with the unmistakable premonition that now he was going to be sick.
had ... premonition
• A silent, peaceful place but he had a premonition of something terrible.
• He had a premonition that the enemy might be waiting for them.
• Even then I had a premonition of danger, of menace.
• It was illogical, but she had a premonition that Officer Hassan's instinct would prove correct.

431. PRELATE
• Primates and prelates exercised political power most effectively when they were moving in support
of magnate opposition; against united barons they were impotent.
• The newly elected prelate still needed ecclesiastical consecration before he could exercise his pastoral functions.
• In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.
• The court of Gascony, composed of prelates and barons, was to be consulted to this end.
• The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king.
• Much of the blame for the schism is generally attributed to Nikon, the overbearing prelate elevated to the
Patriarchate in 1652.
• The prelates were concerned, as explicit statements show, primarily to defend the church's liberties.
• The line of the living began with prelates in grand clothes, the Pope leading.

432. PREVAIL
• Fortunately, in this case, common sense has prevailed.
• Baby, baby, who's got the baby might be the prevailing motif in this work
that entertains and intrigues simultaneously.
• But it has been further seen that strong justification is needed for adopting a system at variance with
prevailing medical views.
• His weaknesses were exposed by his Republican rivals in the primaries, but he prevailed because their weaknesses
were even worse.
• It is doubtful that Stilwell could have prevailed even if he had managed a better performance.
• If they prevail in court, they could receive up to $100,000.
• But Clinton would sign the Kennedy-Kassebaum version, which is thus likely to prevail in the end.
• She seems to think that animal rights should prevail over everything else.
• In every case the draftsman should consider whether the plan is to prevail over the verbal description or viceversa.
prevail in/among etc
• Only a very stubborn man could have believed that reason would prevail in a case such as this one.
• They also prevail in an era where travel abuses pale in comparison to those of earlier years.
• Such comparative differences prevail in most developed and developing countries and in both rural and urban areas.
• To what degree does big business prevail in our economy?
• In concrete operations, reasoning and thought acquire greater stability than prevails in preoperational thought.
• But Clinton would sign the Kennedy-Kassebaum version, which is thus likely to prevail in the end.
• Russet and grey still prevail in the recently gale-thrashed boughs.
prevail over/against
• By 1900 his radicalism had prevailed over his loyalty to his employer.
• In yet another scenario, group rights prevail over individual rights, but the global economy is depressed, resulting
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• All the gold stars of school could not prevail against it.
• The ruling will make it more difficult for First Bank to prevail over rival Wells Fargo.
• They recognize that no laws can prevail against the dissolution of
the social connections and personal motivations that sustain a civilized polity.
• In the interventionist state the executive is likely to prevail over the legislature.
• Despite the Bougainville crisis a general optimism prevailed over the long-term prospects for the mineral sector.
• In every case the draftsman should consider whether the plan is to prevail over the verbal description or viceversa.
prevail /prɪˈveɪl/ verb [intransitive] formal1if someone or their arguments, views etc prevail, they finally win an
argument after a long period of time The company is hoping to prevail in a court challenge to the water board ruling.
prevail over Kimberly-Clark is asking for a ruling that its patent should prevail over the one issued to P&G.2if
an attitude or belief prevails, it continues to exist in a particular situation Pessimism and gloom have continued to
prevail about Britain’s economic expectations.
prevail in/among
Slow holiday trading prevailed in the Treasury market yesterday. the new spirit of caution that now prevails among
Japan’s car makers

433. PREVALENT
• This belief is more prevalent among men than women.
• The guidelines are geared toward three groups of people based on their ages and the most prevalent causes of death.
• Flu is most prevalent during the winter months.
• Depression remains one of the most prevalent health disorders in the US.
• Everyone knows that crime is more prevalent in big cities.
• The disease is prevalent in temperate areas with high rainfall.
• What specific social problems are prevalent in the area and what support can you expect in trying to prioritise for
special need?
• Obesity was found to be prevalent in women, particularly blacks.
• Drug abuse is the most prevalent problem among patients in the hospital.
• In many cases, they are distinguished from the prevalent structural range by their degree of architectural pretension.
• Just how prevalent these are has been demonstrated in a new survey by the Urban Institute.
• The most prevalent trees are sycamores: There are 915 of them in the city inventory.
• How prevalent was the use of adobe as a building material?
prevalent in/among etc
• Feeding problems are more prevalent among low birth-weight babies.
• The cynicism and materialism already so prevalent in our culture are given the imprimatur of policy.
• It explodes the myth prevalent among pupils at school that history graduates mainly become history teachers.
• Low pay is not only prevalent in some sectors of manufacturing industry.
• Compared with peptic ulcer, these diseases are rare and not particularly prevalent among the oldest in the population.
• Although eschewing the analysis prevalent in the traditional psychological novel, Sarraute's work
nevertheless combines representation with reflexivity.
• Menopause could be the reason heart disease is more prevalent in women over 55 compared to younger women.
• Obesity was found to be prevalent in women, particularly blacks.
prevalent /ˈprevələnt/ adjective frequent or common at a particular time or in a particular situation Sexual harassment
is prevalent in the workplace. the most prevalent mistakes made by individual investors

434. PRIG
• Yet he was not a prig.
• They informed him that he was a prig.
• Hugh was a City prig of exemplary emotional repression.
• I became an insufferable prig, too.
• I used to be such a smug little prig.

435. PRIMAL
• He rose and then dived within her, starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum.
• Rubber wetsuits they regarded with distaste as contraceptive sheaths that would interfere with the primal experience.
• The tableau is no longer primal feasible and one further pivot as shown. is required to achieve an optimal tableau in
which.
• They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again, back into the original primal seed.
• Looking at snakes, we seem to be looking backwards in time and deep into our own primal selves.

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• I begin with the recovery of primal speech.
• The moment I read it I knew I had found the traces of the primal spirituality I was looking for.
• the primal truths of human existence
• What primal urge makes these men want to ride the bull?
• To others it is the wavy symbol of the primal waters attached to the cross of matter.

436. PRIVATION
• In so doing, it distracts its members from the drudgery and privation of daily organizational life.
• Not only will there he material improvement for the average man, but an end to poverty and privation for all.
• The President realized that there would be sacrifices and certain privations.
• She experienced a lot of pain and perhaps always would; her privations may have damaged her health permanently.
• My privations were few-cold showers, and electricity for only four hours each day.
• He had endured times of privation as a boy, but he never dwelled on it.
• Among other privations, energy rationing had been introduced for the first time in the capital, Havana, in mid-April.
• The agony of the wilderness represents not just the awful physical, mental and spiritual privations.

437. PROCURE
• He returned briefly to the Commonwealth's service, but retired when
the Restoration became inevitable and procured a royal pardon.
• Or try vinegar, which can be tricky to procure, but complements many of the dumplings.
• Alice offered pamphlets and books, which she would procure for him.
• He therefore persuaded a friend to procure him a ticket without disclosing his identity.
• They had been procured in the early years of the century through a carefully orchestrated city campaign.
• Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births.
• If the borrowing member does not produce a basic valuation, then the building society must procure one itself.
• The circumstances of their procuring silk stuffs at a cheap rate is favourable to this propensity.
procure something for somebody
• The money will be used to procure medicine and food for local orphanages.

438. PRODIGIOUS
• It was designed by the prodigious bridge-builder, Thomas Bouch.
• And as we all know from the great chemical fire of 1994, an unhappy Sprewell is a prodigious bummer indeed.
• This was written in 1824 when the prodigious composer was only 15.
• He fell in love, via a prodigious email correspondence, with another academic whom he had met fleetingly at
a conference.
• Building the bridge was a prodigious feat of engineering and finance.
• He scored a try, dropped a goal and controlled the game with some prodigious kicking mixed with some
beautifully balanced running.
• The building was a prodigious limestone parthenon done in the early thirties in the Civic Moderne style.
• He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
• Fund-raisers used fears of destruction to raise the prodigious sums that fueled the entiremachine.
prodigious amounts/quantities of something
• A major tsunami will deposit broken trees near the high-water mark and move prodigious amounts of sediment.

439. PROLIFIC
• Papworth was both a prolific and multifarious designer.
• The discovery well produced a prolific flow of 19.4 million cubic feet of gas from depths of almost 300 feet.
• Strawberries are prolific in the area.
• The family was one of the most prolific in the parish, but in the end the male line withered.
• As an artist, Benton was prolific - more than 1,900 drawings were found in his studio after his death.
• The have a great offensive line and a prolific runner in Terrell Davis.
• Since then, Hull has become hockey's most prolific scorer.
• These mixtures are earlier growing and more prolific than meadow-grass, and can be more difficult to make into top-
quality hay.
• Ansle is a prolific writer of more than 200 romances.
• Bracy Clark was a prolific writer.

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440. PROPONENT
• While all proponents of a flat tax tout its simplicity, many elements are being debated.
• The protocol was accepted by proponents of provocation testing, and clinicians who used this method participated in
the study.
• But even proponents of the lone gunman theory acknowledge the wealth of interests served by Kabila's removal.
• It will not surprise you to learn that Eugene Wigner has been a leading proponent of this view.
• Faircloth was the leading proponent of transferring authority away from Barry and to the control board.
• For many proponents of a flat tax, this is mere dithering.
• Moreover, these capital transactions have not always been stabilizing in the manner assumed by
some proponents of floating exchange rates.
• The initiative needed 433,269 signatures of registered voters; proponents gathered 800,000.
leading/main/major proponent
• It will not surprise you to learn that Eugene Wigner has been a leading proponent of this view.
• Edward J.. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and leading proponent of the bill.
• The success of a system is often bound up with the success of the state that is its main proponent.
• Its main proponent has been Martin Kane and I give some attention to his work in chapter three.
• Now you know why our big financial institutions are the major proponents of this.
• In fact, he had all the mannerisms of the major proponents of the sport but few of their skills.
• Faircloth was the leading proponent of transferring authority away from Barry and to the control board.

441. PROSCRIBE
• The reasons for the ban were multiple, and certainly there are other pesticides today that should also be proscribed.
• She therefore proscribed all religious, philosophical, or psychological books for village libraries.
• Many Shiite clergymen maintain that birth control is proscribed by Islam.
• It should be remembered, however, that Gaelic was proscribed by the authorities for many years.
• Even the space inside the narrow arenas is narrowly proscribed, especially for singers.
• Political parties Following a 1973 ban on political activity, political parties were constitutionally proscribed in 1978.
• Ten groups in all were now specifically proscribed in Northern Ireland.
• It prescribes and proscribes the behavior and even the thoughts of its population in virtually
every domain of existence.

442. PROVIDENT
• She might be proud, but she had learned to be provident!• We have to be vaguely provident, but no
real sacrifices are demanded.
• A blessed miracle of provident design?

443. PROVOCATIVE
• Many, of course, are carefully staged, clearly presented, and very provocative.
• These were a survival from his army days and, therefore, some way from being sexually provocative.
• It was detailed, provocative and refreshingly easy to read.
• a provocative bikini
• The magazine is full of pictures of partially dressed women in provocative poses.
• The book's provocative statements have led to it being banned in some schools.
• A fascinating and provocative timetable spanning nearly 200 million years has emerged.
deliberately provocative
• Roman, as always, was being arrogant, deliberately provocative.
provocative images
• Nor does he worry about offending people with his provocative images.
• There is a lot of provocative images and statements that are made that we want people to challenge.

444. PROWESS
• But more surprising than his lack of academic prowess was his failure to make any other sort of impact.
• athletic prowess
• He was instantly celebrated as a possessor of breathtaking quickness and ball-handling, a deft-
shooting touch and suffocating defensive prowess.
• Heroes represent individuals of exceptional prowess and courage.
• Growing up where I did, I understood and admired physical prowess, and there was an abundance of muscle here.
• He was better trained than anybody in our section, and the Corporals admired his physical prowess.

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• The researchers cautioned that the study only predicts the likelihood that a child will be predisposed to
physical prowess.
• It shamed me to be evaluating the prowess of a man whom I would not ordinarily desire.
• All through the ages men have had names which recognised their prowess at arms or through some
physical attribute.

445. PRUNE
• The state has pruned $275 million from this year's budget.
• It can be found in baking a cake, pruning a tree, or holding a children's party.
• Miniature roses do not need much pruning and are ideal for planting in pots.
• What's the best time of the year for pruning apple trees?
• Heavy pruning can promote vigorous new growth, which can increase susceptibility to the disease.
• He has ruthlessly pruned his original plans for a quick dash to the top.
• Major pruning is done in late winter.
• Time also has worked wonders, pruning many of the bad investigative reporters and retaining many of the good
ones.
• In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous
genetic material is pruned out.
• Red dogwoods should be pruned regularly.
• Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen.
• The role of government in macroeconomic management had to be pruned to a bare minimum.
Prune
• One of the most important discriminators between plums and prunes is what their age means to them.
• Besides, it has prunes in it, did you know that?
• Deep lines grooved her prune of a face.
• Put the prunes in an earthenware oven dish, with the wine and enough water to cover them.
• An image that captures the dichotomy of possibilities in getting older is the plum versus the prune.
• The prunes were good but with three extra stones in the juice Christopher wondered who might have been there
before him.

446. PURCHASE
• If this product does not give complete satisfaction, please return it to the manufacturer stating when and where it
was purchased.
• Healthy specimens should be active and the body should be slightly convex and fish that show flat flanks should not
be purchased.
• Expect to hear information about purchasing an Alaska Pass for independent travel.
• For example, beer and cigarettes may both be purchased as recreational products.
• See Table 9-5 for how the decision to purchase corn might be accomplished.
• Sterile eye drops can be purchased for this purpose.
• Under counter-trade a sale of good is contractually linked to an obligation to purchase goods or resultant output from
the same country.
• Foreign investors are not permitted to purchase land.
• There was also evidence that Drew had visited several other tobacconists, purchasing pipes to send to friends.
• PepsiCo entered the restaurant business in 1977 by purchasing Pizza Hut.
• Ogburn purchased the property in 1989.

447. PUTRID
• The air settled for sundown, the house again putrid and airless.
• Poisoned wells, putrid car cases slung over the walls.
• Random flashes of light: putrid green, violent orange, hellish red, shot through the swarming darkness.
• It is a putrid pink colour.
• a putrid smell
• Just another scheme from the putrid sore of the northwest.
• Gao Ma knew that the lane beyond the southern wall dead-ended at a noodle mill alongside
a ditch of putrid stagnant water.

448. QUADRICEPS
• I feel the rush of panic, my quadriceps flexing for flight.

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• Their leading scorer, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, suffered a bruised right quadriceps against Seattle
on Wednesday and missed the game.
• Front squats also place more emphasis on the quadriceps.
• Everyone can see this muscle on the thigh, the quadriceps.

449. QUAGMIRE
• In early April it becomes a quagmire where people challenge their four-wheel-drives in the mud.
• Torrential rain was quickly turning the building-site into a quagmire.
• Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of
political, emotional, financial and legal issues.
• Constant rain turned some of the walkways into quagmires.
• For the U.S., the war in Vietnam was a moral and military quagmire.
• But the prospect of hostage-taking opens up a new quagmire.
• It may also distract its members from the present quagmire with legends of a storied past or promises of
an ecstatic future.
• Indeed, the inter-connections of this penal trinity of population, capacity and conditions form the heart of
the reform quagmire.
• There is little more that we can do about this quagmire.

450. QUARTER
• The article is about two and a quarter pages long.
• It's valued at a quarter of a million pounds.
• Group profits slumped by 40 percent to £16.9 million last year, of which houses contributed three-
quarters and development, a quarter.
• We rented a house in the Creole quarter of New Orleans.
• The town was a cluster of different quarters, all living in fear of massacre.
• The company's profits rose in the first quarter of the year.
• Houston was ahead by 15 points at the end of the first quarter.
• He sprinted 83 yards for the decisive touchdown in the fourth quarter.
• Cut into quarters and arrange around brioche slices.
• Cut the sandwiches into quarters.
• The Dahdah palace is in the old Jewish quarter of Damascus.
• Maybe a couple hours of quarter slots.
• There were 327 children on the list on April 1, an increase of just two on the previous quarter.
• The temple of Hera was built in the second quarter of the century, clearly under mainland influence.
• She was back in Michigan in time to teach spring quarter.
a/one quarter (of something)
• There was a tributary creek that ran about a quarter of a mile from the encampment.
• He was about a quarter of an inch long.
• But violent crime has dropped by almost a quarter in the past three years.
• A long-standing illness, disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter.
• It isn't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year.
• One could hear it running for a quarter of a mile away because it was summer and the windows were all open.
• The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies, of which perhaps a
quarter are potential customers.
• Altogether, these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses.
a quarter of an hour
• About a quarter of an hour later, traveling at the speed of light, that pulse would reach its destination.
• He and co-driver Anthony Showell completed the nine-thousand seven hundred mile journey just a quarter of an
hour ahead of the field.
• I gave them a quarter of an hour's start, then got down and spent a little time looking for Rose.
• If it normally takes you a quarter of an hour to shave, make it take you half an hour.
• Pondering this would occupy a quarter of an hour, if not more.
• They made a judgement on me in just over a quarter of an hour.
• They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour.
• We got there a quarter of an hour early, around nine in the morning.
the first/second/third/fourth quarter
• They lost because they simply gave away the third quarter in a thorough display of immaturity and sloppiness.

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• Some one apparently did get to the Raiders, who soared out to a 10-point lead in the third quarter.
• Atriom Build will be available on Sun Sparc platforms in the fourth quarter, no prices given.
• Pyramid said its cash flow remained positive in the fourth quarter.
• It ships in the third quarter.
• The Economics Ministry said today gross domestic product probably shrank in the fourth quarter of 1995.
• In the first quarter of 1993, however, the company saw consolidated sales drop 14%.
• In the third quarter, Radja went in for a layup and missed.
the first/second/third/fourth quarter
• They lost because they simply gave away the third quarter in a thorough display of immaturity and sloppiness.
• Some one apparently did get to the Raiders, who soared out to a 10-point lead in the third quarter.
• Atriom Build will be available on Sun Sparc platforms in the fourth quarter, no prices given.
• Pyramid said its cash flow remained positive in the fourth quarter.
• It ships in the third quarter.
• The Economics Ministry said today gross domestic product probably shrank in the fourth quarter of 1995.
• In the first quarter of 1993, however, the company saw consolidated sales drop 14%.
• In the third quarter, Radja went in for a layup and missed.
Quarter
• In the last few years Janir had quartered my involvement in sports, music and writing.
• Quarter two large apples.

451. QUEASY
• The sway of the boat made passengers queasy.
• In fact, she felt decidedly queasy.
• You notice a funny feeling in your stomach, in fact it feels a little queasy.
• Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.
• She looked rather queasy, and very anxious.
• Opponents who once mocked Mr. Berlusconi's tactics as kitsch have turned queasy as opinion polls show them to be
working.
• That queasy asthmatic sensation in your chest, all that smoke and nothing, nothing but smoke.
• If all this studying is making you a bit queasy, count your blessings.
• Already I felt numbed by the heat and the smoke, queasy in the stomach.
feel queasy
• But when I looked straight down I felt queasy.
• Georgina's civility made her feel queasy.
• I said, feeling queasier and queasier.
• So far rage had propelled her here; now she'd arrived she felt queasy inside.
• The alternative, spending the time until her trial in gaol, made her feel queasy just thinking about it.
• I said I'd felt queasy suddenly.
• He felt queasy when he hung up.
• I felt queasy with fright for his teeth had been filed down as sharp as dagger points.
felt queasy
• But when I looked straight down I felt queasy.
• His stomach still felt queasy and he was grateful for the fresh air.
• I still felt queasy from Martha's tutorial.
• So far rage had propelled her here; now she'd arrived she felt queasy inside.
• I said I'd felt queasy suddenly.
• He felt queasy when he hung up.
• I felt queasy with fright for his teeth had been filed down as sharp as dagger points.

452. QUERULOUS
• To compensate, and, anxious to preserve his patriarchal status, he may become querulous and demanding instead.
• They go in for querulous and disputatious argument.
• That might seem to be precisely the sort of querulous argument which the Left has familiarly
been scorned for posing.
• Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.
• a querulous voice
• The car screeched around the corner after him in a burst of fumes and querulous voices.

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• Mr. Lorrimer's voice, frail and querulous, was bleating at the other end.
querulous voice
• The car screeched around the corner after him in a burst of fumes and querulous voices.
• Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.

453. QUEUE
• The women who were waiting outside the toilets began to form a queue.
• There was a queue of about fifteen people at the bus stop.
• Before long, lengthy queues began to form before opening time.
• There was a long queue for the toilets.
• Three girls lost two weeks for talking in the medicine queue whilst waiting for doses.
• If you're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays, how can you beat the queues?
• Meredith, recalling her brief conversation with Deanes in the queue, felt compelled to defend him.
• Excuse me, are you in the queue?
• I joined the queue for a taxi.
• Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive.
• Credit-checking agencies, credit-card processors and other heavy telecoms users have been at the front of the queue.
• At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile.
• The queue went right round the block.

be/stand/wait in a queue
• No-one walked the corridors or stood in queues and the Headmaster almost seemed friendly, if this
is possible to believe.
jump the queue
• Why not save money - and jump the queue today.
• Rayleen helped too, or rather her uniform did, giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the
queue.
• We can not jump the queue.
Queue
• One of the other passengers who was queueing to get on the train suddenly had a heart attack.
• The Caf Gandoplhi is Glasgow's cooling stream bit, assuming you don't mind queuing.
• They are just queuing at the door, waiting to be let in.
• We had to queue for hours in the rain.
• Everyone would be trying to use the lift at that point - probably queuing for it.
• He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.
• Thousands queued for tickets to see the final.
• Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours.
queue (up) to do something
• Kylesku was notorious, and approaching cars raced to be in the front of the queue to avoid a frustrating wait.
• After the show, there was a queue to buy the clothes and last year's total was doubled.
• People are queuing up to join the voluntary scheme.
• Cars stack up behind every bus, while passengers queue to pay their fares.
• The Khan boys were queuing up to play me.
• For days the queue to sign the Condolence Book in the embassy lobby had stretched twice around Grosvenor Square.
• There's even a queue to stroke the police horse.
• Sometimes they were queuing to telephone him.
queue up to do something
• But, like turkeys looking forward to Christmas, industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action.
• But don't fantasise about everyone at a party queuing up to chat to you.
• Manufacturers queue up to claim their machines are upgradeable; but some stand out as truly modular.
• People are queuing up to join the voluntary scheme.
• The Khan boys were queuing up to play me.
• Canteen antagonisms ... getting heavily antagonized while you're queuing up to purchase a doughnut.
• There is a long catalogue of people who will queue up to write the Secretary of State's epitaph.

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454. QUORUM
• Other members count votes before items reach a public meeting or talk as a quorum of a council subcommittee.
• It is also likely that the investors will not insist on their own presence to constitute a quorum at board meetings.
• On this committee, any three members of the Odiham Society were to form a quorum.
• Do we have a quorum?
• The proposal was blocked when some deputies stayed away to prevent a quorum.
• With the appointments the board retains a quorum, and Mr. James is looking for two more members for the team.
• Stuart put forward this compromise suggestion with full confidence, and was surprised by its rejection by the rest of
the quorum.

455. RADIANT
• Her face tipped up, radiant.
• She looked a picture, radiant, all in white.
• For years and years they crossed rivers and oceans to find the Simorgh, that fabulous creature, radiant and dazzling.
• But Gabby was so healthy and radiant and strong.
• a radiant bride
• She looked at him with radiant eyes.
• Photographs showed it to consist of twenty or more radiant pieces in a straight line, embedded inside
an extensive bright cloud.
• radiant rubies and diamonds
• She announced, with a radiant smile, that she was going to have a baby.
• They were radiant when they returned.
• He was radiant with excitement when he came off the stage.
• With each step, they are becoming more and more radiant with light.
radiant smile
• Passing the window, he saw Olivia Davenport, muffled in fur, approach Hoppy with a radiant smile.
• The nurse brought Michael a cup of tea and he thanked her, giving her one of his radiant smiles.
• Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant
smiles and cheerful banter.

456. RAKISH
• I don't think I should have risked anything quite so rakish.
• A man stood, rakish and upright, and stared at the fences.
• A black, felt bowler sits on his head, tilted slightly forward at a rakish angle.
• There was Philippa Mannering looking avid in a beautifully cut check suit and a brown beret at a rakish angle.
• Saker always has paler crown and is less slender and rakish, but may otherwise be hard to distinguish.
• Brothels, bars, gambling, rakish clothes and tough-guy postures became his style.
• What a rakish figure did I cut.
• a rakish suit

457. RAPACIOUS
• Gregory regarded these claims as being marks of particular wickedness, and he saw the Merovingians as being, for
the most part, rapacious.
• Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious.
• The principle of rapacious egoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal.
• In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order
to advance itself.
• They haven't done anything about the rapacious exploitation of the poor in the ghetto.
• These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat,
the rapacious landlords.
• rapacious real estate developers
• It was a horrendous, rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system.

458. RAPPORT
• He has developed a rapport with Desmond, which so far does not exist between the proprietor and the Express.
• Before you do business with someone, it is important to establish a rapport.
• The other one thought the most important thing was good communications and rapport.
• There seems to be a better rapport between players and officials now than in the past.

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• Alison and Johnny had an easy rapport that was clear to everyone.
• You are lucky to have such a good rapport with your boss.
• His rapport is instantaneous: this big, good-looking black man, kind of funny, kind of smart.
• Many a time he commented upon the mental rapport he found with his most intelligent animals.
• Third, and most important for the success of
the networking, concerned the establishment of personal rapport between fieldworker and informant.
• There were larger things to worry about than rapport.
rapport with/between
• He has developed a rapport with Desmond, which so far does not exist between the proprietor and the Express.
• It is also important that the presenter be appropriate for the specific audience and be able to establish a rapport
with them.
• Therefore he felt a rapport with Ramsey.
• He established a good rapport with his students.
• He seems to have a good read on his players and good rapport with them.
• Melissa detected a growing rapport between them, and rejoiced.
• Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as
well.
• She formed a instinctive rapport with many patients, her efforts giving her a real sense of achievement.

459. RAZE
• Since January, the city has razed 13 houses for building and zoning code violations and billedthe owners, Khalil said.
• But Vargas said the strengthened designation might make a judge more reluctant to order the cross razed.
• The old theater will be razed and replaced with housing.
• It occupies the site of a former school that was razed by fire.
• It says that the company razed forests, polluted rivers, retarded crop growth and caused birth defects.
• In typical Atlanta fashion, it was razed in 1977 to make room for the new Atlanta-Fulton Public Library.
• They buy up an entire slum block, raze it and erect a castle containing theaters, concert halls and restaurants.
• A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
• Many other important buildings were also razed to the ground.
razed to the ground
• He handed over the keys to Angoulême and Montignac and their walls too were razed to the ground.
• Many other important buildings were also razed to the ground.
• One of the three supermarkets looted was razed to the ground.
• The towns of Kohlizt and the Temple of Sigmar at Nachtdorf were razed to the ground.
• Her house had been razed to the ground and her husband killed.
• If their Josie was planning on being a second Maria, then the school could well be razed to the ground by now.
• Milan challenged the new ruler and for its troubles was razed to the ground in 1162.

460. REACTIONARY
• And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government
to seekand obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament.
• This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general, ahistorical terms.
• The seventy year old president has been condemned as reactionary by his radical opponents.
• In a reactionary decade there are many who will not be hesitant to use such state-ments
to confirm their former views.
• We realise today that this reactionary generation grew up to be the most materialistic the world has ever known.
• But the reactionary left rejected change, to the present detriment of those it claims to represent.
• Reactionary politicians voted against the proposal.
• Cultural attitudes to women were more reactionary than in most of Western Europe.
• He is known for his reactionary views on immigration and the reintroduction of the death penalty.
• Elated by their first opportunity to serve as Guardians of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, they weighed in with
equally reactionary vigor.
Reactionary
• The damage was two-fold, for within months of Kiselev's departure a reactionary took his place.
• That Ptolemy was a conservative, even a reactionary in certain respects, is undeniable.
• The fact is that Berlioz, who invented the modern orchestra, was a fervent reactionary throughout his life.

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461. RECAPITULATE
• This Republican coup recapitulated a pattern that had been in operation since the beginning of the 1990s.
• To recapitulate, all development rights and values were vested in the state.
• To understand why this is so let us recapitulate for a moment.
• And just to sketch in the background, could you recapitulate for us?
• Now, Darwin at this time is explicitly taking each organism's ontogeny to recapitulate its phylogeny.
• It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.
• The growth of the human embryo recapitulated the history of animal life as revealed by the fossil record.
• It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes.

462. RECIPROCAL
• I now know that the anger is reciprocal.
• Harmony and collective company effort is portrayed as a reciprocal bargain.
• Senior officials from both countries make regular visits on a reciprocal basis.
• On culture, student exchanges would be increased and reciprocal cultural and information centres opened in
Washington and Moscow.
• There is open access to undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well
as reciprocalfacilities in Science and Social Science departments.
• Iran's leaders expected a reciprocal gesture of goodwill.
• In countries which do not have reciprocal health agreements with your own, you will need to take out
health insurance.
• All discourse is more or less reciprocal, if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers.
• Always confirm that it was overhead by calling until a reciprocal is received.
• The relationship between City College and its students was actually a fairly reciprocal one.
• The French students come to our school in November, and we then make a reciprocal visit to theirs.
reciprocal relationship
• Control, in short, is regarded as a reciprocal relationship.
• When we see existence itself as the divine body we create a more reciprocal relationship.
• Case studies show that there is a reciprocal relationship between calcium and phosphorus.
• The reciprocal relationship between pamphlet and newspaper insertion was only one way in which reformers used
both the London and provincial press.
• He even hints that there may be a reciprocal relationship between the metaphoric and proper components of
his schema.
• The reciprocal relationship embodies two-way communication, with each open to be influenced by the other.
• In a bilateral system comprising a network of reciprocal relationships the entity against which claims are made
is evident.
reciprocal /rɪˈsɪprəkəl/ adjective a reciprocal arrangement or relationship is one in which two people, countries etc do
or give the same things to each other, usually so that each is helped in some way.

463. RECLAIM
• A message arrived from a local farmer who had found and secured it until it could be reclaimed.
• An alternative could be high coupon gilts as the tax can be reclaimed.
• A British woman is waiting to hear how she can reclaim a family estate inside the former Soviet Union.
• In each case £20 million to £30 million of government money was spent reclaiming a site for flowers and
later development.
• Nature can reclaim an entire farm in 14 years and leave nothing behind but the masonry.
• The organization is trying to reclaim desert land for farming.
• China reclaimed Hong Kong from Britain in 1997.
• The Inland Revenue permits us to reclaim tax and pay dividends gross.
• You can reclaim tax if you find you have paid too much.
• What they learn in school about writing helps to preserve and reclaim that heritage.
• The radio was reclaimed the next morning.
• The golf course will use reclaimed wastewater to water the grass.

464. RECLUSE
• Hudson became a recluse after her husband's death.
• He had been a recluse, completely isolated from the world, for the last ten years.
• If you don't get out more, you're going to turn into a recluse.

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• She turned into a recluse or something?
• I became more and more of a recluse, avoiding our old haunts for fear of running into him.
• They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse.
• He was a natural recluse who found all human relationships difficult.
• Many people become human relations victims over and over again without
becoming hardened, insensitive or recluses.
• Old Mr. Grimes was a bad-tempered recluse, rarely seen in the town.
• The recluse is shy, only biting when threatened.

465. RECONNOITRE
• Lampard sent Dunn and Trooper Peck in a jeep to reconnoitre.
• One of the duke's groundsmen advised me to reconnoitre a nearby converted abbey which has recently been turned
into a hotel.
• As the outriders can only move so fast, their ability to reconnoitre ahead is limited.
• This time, however, she was so late that she could not reconnoitre first.
• He sent two men to reconnoitre the approaching dark.
• One night in August 1969, therefore, the two men drove to Hallington to reconnoitre the line.
• Lampard would not raid without reconnoitring the target first.
• M, the title's hunter, has rented a room at an isolated house from which to reconnoitre the wilderness beyond.

466. RECTIFY
• Variances may often reveal weaknesses in control systems which should be rectified.
• This must be rectified because a higher phosphorus level will interfere with calcium absorption in the
horse's gut creating further problems.
• A number of steps have been taken to rectify the error.
• Regional unemployment and regional recession are an economic loss to the whole nation and they will
not rectify themselves on their own.
• Mercifully, circumstances now allow me to rectify this faux pas.
• Attempts have been made to rectify this problem with the industrial sector.
• Any defects found have to be rectified without delay.

467. RED HERRING


• According to Mattel, antitrust issues were a red herring.
• Meg's determination not to see her; her red herring about the mysterious proposal of marriage.

468. REDOLENT
• Here we are, by a redolent log fire, in a world which has slipped from sight.
• The air was redolent of cannabis.
• Karpov's play in game 17 was a text book model of strategy, redolent of his very best days.
• Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than
a classless society.
• Incredibly, the minister was redolent with baby powder.
• The portrait is an endlessly interesting example, a theme redolent with social connotations and artistic references.
• It was hot and jammed and the air was redolent with the sickly sweet smell of cheap champagne.
• The two awaited her return in a kitchen redolent with the smell of home baking.
redolent of/with
• Incredibly, the minister was redolent with baby powder.
• The air was redolent of cannabis.
• Slightly spicy and redolent with cilantro,
the velvety soup also contained chopped tomatoes, corn, carrots, celery and onion.
• a sauce redolent of garlic
• Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a
classless society.
• The portrait is an endlessly interesting example, a theme redolent with social connotations and artistic references.
• A creamy green sauce, redolent of sweet pea and butter, provides the final touch.
• Decisions still emerge which are redolent of the pre-1964 era, such as those which manipulate
the distinction between rights and legitimate expectations.
• It was hot and jammed and the air was redolent with the sickly sweet smell of cheap champagne.

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469. REGIME
• His Gaullist successor, Jacques Chirac, publicly condemned Vichy as a criminal regime and called
for reparations.• the region's military regime
• The military regime refused to recognize the elections.
• There are at least four crucial differences between the new regime and the old.
• The line between party and state was washed away under the old regime and has not been redrawn.
• Baker was part of the Reagan regime.
• During the last weeks of 1688 James's regime began to disintegrate.
• The secretiveness of the regime and the often seemingly wilful disinformation provided by
its opponents makes matters worse.
• But recently the regime seems to have lost the trust of the people.
• Within this, the regime was heavily dependent upon the civil administration.
• It is time the regime proved how much it loves its country and how much courage it has in embracing change.
• The US supported several right-wing regimes in central America.
military/totalitarian/fascist regime
• In a totalitarian regime, the definition of res publica becomes total.
• There is still concern that a military regime would be reluctant to prosecute its own kind.
• The political legitimacy of military regimes is frequently suspect and originates in their exclusiveness
and monopoly of force.
• When Mr Cerezo, before his election, stood up against successive military regimes the rightists tried to kill him.
• We have had the collapse of the totalitarian regimes.
• The classic study of the forces underlying totalitarian regimes.
• Human-rights groups may carp at foreigners for dealing with an unpleasant military regime.
under a regime
• But under a regime of monogamy there are limits.
• To live under an effectively working constitution is not the same as living under a regime of moral laissez-faire.

470. RELEGATE
• Shankly was assistant manager to Andy Beattie when Huddersfield were relegated.
• She had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less.
• Featherstone, relegated last season, coasted to a 34-15 win at Huddersfield.
• Our team were relegated to a minor league.
• Carlo has been relegated to a more junior position in the company.
• In many places, it has been relegated to a reform of vocational education.
• Monetary policy was relegated to the fairly minor role of preventing excessive fluctuations in interest rates.
• Race, relegated to the periphery, can intrude into the most ordinary evening out.

471. RELIEF
• relief supplies• Mary says it's a relief to have someone to talk to at last.
• It was such a relief to see Liz looking healthy again.
• What a relief to finally get away from the office.
• What a relief! We were so worried about you.
• Tears of joy and relief ran down Nina's cheeks.
• A white envelope lay on the mat. Holmes felt considerable relief.
• These commitments amount to considerable progress, which should offset some of the disappointment felt
over debt relief.
• Shaw cross raises these questions within the context of disaster relief but they have a broader setting.
• She was ashamed, but I felt enormous relief.
• It was a great relief to know that the children were safe.
• Ensign Korn turned over the watch to his relief.
• The decision, announced on Thursday, came as a huge relief to the factory's 300 workers.
• Edwards commented that the convictions give him a feeling of relief that he hopes the victim shares.
• When the plane finally landed, we all felt a tremendous sense of relief.
• You could hear the students breathing a collective sigh of relief when the final bell rang.
• She breathed a sign of relief when he finally answered the phone.
• To our relief, the deal went through without any problems.
• The company has played a leading role year in promoting tax and electric rate relief for Massachusetts businesses.

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• To Greg's relief, nobody asked to check his ticket.
• For some time she had felt a curious weightiness, then sudden relief.
• tax relief
• The rains came this weekend, much to the relief of tomato growers in Florida.
• the relief of Khe Sanh
• To her own surprise, she began sobbing with relief.
with relief
• Alice turned with relief from the messy kitchen.
pain relief
• Objective assessment of pain in necessary to ensure adequate pain relief.
• Particular care needs to be taken over: i. accidents or surgical procedures where anaestheticsand appropriate pain
relief must be given.
• So, next time these problems come along, you can be sure of fast, effective pain relief with Calpol.
• Guidelines are suggested for pain relief and should be tailored to the individual patient's needs.
• Such forecasts are like aspirins: they have no long term effect but do bring immediate pain relief.
• Give drugs regularly and let the doctor know if you think more pain relief would be helpful.
• The advantage of this approach is that pain relief may be obtained without causing disturbance of sensation over the
face and cornea.
• It takes about 20 minutes to work and can give almost total pain relief.
relief effort
• In a regional disaster such as a flood or earthquake, there was no way to coordinate relief efforts.
• Another issue highlighted in the report was the alleged importation of toxic maize as part of a drought relief effort.
• This factor, together with the severe damage caused to the roads and power supplies, greatly hampered relief efforts
.• A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort.
• But the escalating crisis may now force Western leaders to use military air power to protect relief efforts.
• The Soviet relief effort is also employing aircraft.
• More tremors hit Cairo More earth tremors have hit Cairo impeding the relief effort following the major earthquake.
• But sending out supplies is just part of the relief effort.
on relief
• Once people get on relief it is hard to get off.

472. REMEDIAL
• His control in these cases is such that he alone decides whether or not to sample, whether or not
to demand remedial action.
• She enrolled at a Colorado community college and discovered how inadequate her educationhad been when she
tested at the remedial level.
• Not surprisingly, Dale had to entoil in a remedial mathematics course when he arrived on campus.
• They are not liable in negligence for the cost of remedial measures caused by a defect in the building's construction.
• Its profits plunged 60 percent to £31 million, though Sir Robert said remedial measures were now in place.
• We must complete full investigations prior to commencing remedial repairs.
• During these periods I was either to observe or else to go out and do remedial work with other classes.

473. RENOVATE
• This was their temporary bedroom while the house was being renovated.
• These are primarily to help buy, extend or renovate a surgery or consulting rooms.
• Recently it was completely renovated, and now looks brand new.
• The old theatre has been completely renovated and re-fitted.
• Now the buildings are being renovated into 41 apartments, mainly for families earning less than $ 30,000 a year.
• We decided to buy an old house and renovate it ourselves.
• It will take over a year to renovate the historic hotel.
• The next step is to raise yet more money to renovate the other side.
• He renovated the place and made it so successful that he also bought the second shop where he had worked!
• There were about 500 construction workers renovating the tower when the fire broke out.
• He bought six old bicycles and renovated them.

474. REPUTE
• Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person.
• Are you acquainted if only by repute with a Mr. Landor who is a poet?

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• Irene was sent to a house of ill repute, but remained pure.
• This repute seemed to give the new managers the confidence to approach their bosses as resources.
• Both universities have medical schools, hospitals, clinics and research centers of worldwide repute.
of good/high/international etc repute
• Furness wool was of good repute.

475. RESONANCE
• It was interesting to note a complete change in the timbre and resonance when the bird moved to another song-perch.
• The movie had a special emotional resonance for me.
• When the last resonances of the symphony had died, all that was left was an electronic whine.
• Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus, are central figures in a Gospel story with
particular resonance for Catholic women.
• It had a certain peaty resonance.
• the powerful resonance of Jessie's voice
• Though it no longer has the same resonance, it remains an important criterion.
has ... resonance
• The right to dress as one chooses is one of those perks that seems minor but has great resonance.
• And, unlike a lot of recent period movies, Ridicule certainly has resonance in our time.
• Though it no longer has the same resonance, it remains an important criterion.
• Celtic music has a resonance, a tradition that somehow speaks to people of all nationalities.
• Only that which is precise has resonance, he wrote.

476. RESOUND
• Raymond's huge laugh resounded everywhere we went.
• The A, resounding from the back of the mouth, is said to represent waking consciousness.
• As he fell, his scream resounded through the canyon.
• Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe.
• Aeroplanes resound to the deafening rasp of anorak pen-pockets when passengers are told to fill in
their landing cards.
resound through/around etc
• Here was the central event of the play, the mystical chord that resounded through the audience.
• Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole
universe.• A blinding flash illuminated the darkness, and the terrible discharge of musketry resounded
through the woods.

477. RESTITUTION
• The defendant was ordered to pay $350,000 restitution to the victims.
• Many also consider restitution unfair on the grounds that everybody suffered under Communism but
only property owners will receive compensation.
• The exclusion of properties expropriated before 1949 from restitution was inevitable.
• He agreed to pay a $ 375,000 fine and make restitution to his victims totaling $ 625,000.
• And it is but right that until I can make restitution, my kinswoman's expenses should fall upon me.
• The amount of restitution will be decided by the arbitrator.
• Fry has agreed to provide restitution of $ 3. 8 million to his victims.
• Opinion polls repeatedly showed that restitution was unpopular.
make restitution
• He agreed to pay a $ 375,000 fine and make restitution to his victims totaling $ 625,000.
• The Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that convicted criminals can avoid making restitution by declaring bankruptcy.
• And it is but right that until I can make restitution, my kinswoman's expenses should fall upon me.
• He made restitution last summer and was eligible when practice began Oct. 15.
• Such a person may be ordered to make restitution in whatever way the court thinks appropriate.

478. RESUSCITATE
• She had been resuscitated and her condition improved.
• Officers tried to resuscitate him but he did not regain consciousness.
• They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor hadn't remembered his diagnosis.
• Again the dwarfs resuscitated Snow White.
• Meanwhile, Farini had been hired to resuscitate the failing fortunes of the Royal Westminster Aquarium.

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• The doctor examined her, found a faint pulse, and immediately swung into action to resuscitate the patient.
• We can only resuscitate, we can't resurrect.

479. RETRENCH
• These recent proposals reflect Moscow's current priority to retrench economically and militarily in the Third World.
• The hospitals would be left to retrench naturally, while community services would remain patchy and slow to evolve.
• At this stage, the Government began to retrench on its nuclear programmes.
• Pru-Bache is to retrench to Bache's old strength of retail stockbroking.

480. RIFF
• He rode to fame on the mambo and cha-cha craze of the Eisenhower years, dazzling audiences with his frenetic riffs.
• Berry's guitar riffs inspired several generations of bands.
• M., and opens with a lot of squiggly guitar riffs as the full-motion video kicks in.
• The next example is the catchy syncopated intro riff taken from the single Teaser.
• No hooks, no memorable riffs.
• When our buckets are full, we top the tour with a skidding riff of singing sand.
• The serious climbers would not be seen dead with such riff raff.
• Blackbirds trade riffs with each other through the trees.

481. ROBUST
• Life on Earth is enormously robust.
• Though he was over seventy, he was still robust and active.
• In contrast this very basic technique is robust and computationally simple.
• Compact Flash memory is about the most robust digital film.
• Mrs. Lutu is a robust, energetic mother of four.
• Commendable to see such robust energy at work.
• On the night the estimation within the political class was that Gore had consolidated a robust if narrow lead.
• He was a robust little boy, with curly dark hair.
• He wore a tweed jacket over a dark blue turtle-necked jersey and he had a robust mod mustache.
• Liz had a more robust notion of the self, and took another line on the individual's place in the structure.
• Less robust persons might need a siesta, but Eva worked right through from dawn till dusk.
• Use robust plants, rocks and bogwood, and include some floating plants for this surface swimmer.
• Paul travelled north to visit his parents, who he found less robust than before.
• The chair was more robust than it looked.
• Retail sales have been robust this year.
• "I plead not guilty, " Zhivkov stated in a robust voice.

482. ROSTER
• We organized a roster for cleaning the house.
• The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual.
• Williams took Carney's place on the Miami Dolphin roster.
• I noticed that my name was not on the night duty roster.
• Here is the duty roster for all the members of the scout troop.
• An informal survey of current major league rosters reveals nearly 50 athletes who once viewed themselves
somewhat different defensively.
• Nor was the record roster to be spared.
• The nightclub's roster has always featured young punk bands.
• The conference coaches will vote on the remaining seven roster spots for each squad.
• Heavy losses from the roster may damage him, but heavy-handedness will hurt more.
• Each cell has its own location and time of appearance in the roster of cell divisions.
• And when the roster was called on evacuation, he was missing.
• Towers said Arias, 25, likely will be promoted to the Padres when the rosters expand in September.
on a roster
• Each day, congress leaders have attended court, apparently on a roster.

483. RUDDY
• In the kitchen, Jonathon and Victoria, ruddy and brilliant with cold water, sat before untasted bowls of porridge.
• His bearded, ruddy face looks out in all manner of advertising, barroom testimonials, shirts and other tourist items.

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• Laz pumps my hand in a blustering manner that sends his straight hair bobbing over his ruddy face.
• What a ruddy nightmare the whole blasted show is, he thought.
• Mine itches the very moment I see the ruddy school letter.
• In his late forties he was tall and spare, with a ruddy skin and bright blue eyes.

484. RUE
• As Jim Smith rued afterwards, the game was there for Portsmouth to take.
• In the women's race, Joyce Smith was ruing her luck.
• They never cursed the instrument or rued its long rule over their lives.
• She rued the day she ever took up with Remi.
• Maja Nagel rues the day when she had to leave a castle in the East for a cramped little studio in Berlin.
• Why do I already rue the day?
rue the day
• Why do I already rue the day?
• Well, whether he was crazy or not, she'd make him rue the day he chose to cross her.
• She rued the day she ever took up with Remi.
• Indeed, more than one ground commander rued the day the helicopter was invented.
• Maja Nagel rues the day when she had to leave a castle in the East for a cramped little studio in Berlin.

485. RUMINANT
• Under the new regulation, the tissue from ruminant animals could not be used in the feed of ruminant animals.

486. SAGACITY
• Jane was cheered by his sagacity and quick eye for the ridiculous - a welcome change from pompous people like the
Pyglings.
• When we were in difficulties his sagacity and sangfroid were beyond doubt, as was his kindliness to his colleagues.
• Not that he was unconscious of his sagacity.
• He was a man of great political sagacity and formidable resolution.
• By acquiring an elephant's head, Ganesa also assumed the elephant's sagacity and became the patron of literature.
• Perhaps with society more dominated by the old, there will be more respect for wisdom, sagacity.

487. SAMPLER
• A&M have left them to it, stumping up the money for recording and a sampler along the way
.• A sampler commemorating the birth of a new baby also makes a marvellous present for the proud parents, or
even grandparents.
• Stephens collected samplers done by young ladies from prominent Eastern families who attended female academies.
• The chef made up a dessert sampler platter for us.
• At the show, a souvenir booklet was given away, as well as free sampler 455 featuring album cuts.
• The samplers have become prized not only for their visual delicacy but also as
important sources of genealogy and demographics.
• You can elaborate on this sampler idea by putting the words inside another design.

488. SANATORIUM
• All I had to do was make like a patient in a sanatorium.
• Although he returned to the School staff after the war, he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium.
• Thinking of the frail figure sitting in the gloomy room at the sanatorium, trusting the great Bonanza.
• I see her picture in the paper, then I holler copper and tell them this is the dame from the sanatorium.
• If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward, it has equally kept him from the sanatorium
• By inventing this yarn about the time Connie left the sanatorium, you've tied yourself right in this thing.
• Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day.
• The sanatorium was opened only in 1941.

489. SANCTITY
• Numerous miracles were proof of his sanctity.
• Monolithic notions of sanctity reveal a startling reliance on hierarchical thinking.
• In the great temple of Osiris at Abydos the tangible sense of sanctity has often been noted.
• As almost everyone except himself perfectly understood, these fasts were a ruthless exploitation of the power of his
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• They re-affirmed the sanctity of the family, and the rights of parents and children in the home.
• He was a Confucian and believed in the worship of spirits and the sanctity of the ancestral land.
• What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning
the sanctity of marriage and personhood.
• For she had learned how difficult it was to uphold the sanctity of human life without alienating women in trouble.
• I will not violate the sanctity of that union!

490. SANGUINE
• Guterson, 39, seems sanguine about his remarkable success.
• However, some other forecasters are more sanguine about inflation.
• Simon was not always sanguine about the population issue.
• Jody is not sanguine about the prospects.
• We stopped believing in the four humours, but we remain bilious, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic.
• a sanguine complexion
• Such a sanguine conclusion may seem odd at a time when furious arguments are no doubt raging behind the scenes.
• His close colleagues were rather less sanguine in private.
• This is not to say that Brown miller has written a sanguine portrait of sisters locking arms in struggle.
• Traders are taking a sanguine view of interest-rate prospects.

491. SARONG
• He wore homemade sandals and a sarong that fell from his waist to his bony knees.
• I wonder how I look in a sarong?
• She wrapped it round herself, like a sarong, under her arms, and stepped out of the water.
• Then he dropped the parang to fumble in his sarong.
• She wears traditional dress: a white, high-necked blouse and a dark ankle-length sarong with
an embroidered band around the hem.
• The air hostesses on the flight to Bangkok wear pink and purple sarongs with gold borders, western eye-
makeup, smiles.

492. SATIATE
• Every year 40 or 50 idols appear to satiate pre-teen musical tastes.
• This potent recipe seems to satiate the hunger of both shrubs and herbaceous subjects.
• It appears to be almost impossible to satiate those seeking recognition in large doses.
• More than 27 shops and nine restaurants will satiate your appetite for consumption.

493. SATIRE
• This bawdy academic satire, with its potentially offensive laddish point of view, turns out to be
a traditional romantic narrative.
• My services were much in demand, not only for sentimental verses, but for expressions of angerand
rather cruel satire.
• Euripides' satire on the paranoia of the idealist has always been the cult play of the Atticrepertoire.
• Stevenson sometimes stumbles too far into academic minutiae and her satire can be flat-footed, but
her London is beguiling.
• One genre it mostly ignores is satire and humor.
• It's not satire exactly, since Hayworth has too kindly an eye for the human condition.
• a political satire
• This is her first serious novel; up till now she has only written political satires.
• Political satire is a tricky thing; it's only as strong as its target.
• Ballard's satire, however extreme, is always convincing, because its governing ideas inhabit every detail.
• Gelbart is a writer of comedy and social satire.
• The film is a stinging satire on American politics.
political/social satire
• The line between reportage and fiction, between social satire and sentimental snapshots, was blurring.
• Mayle, who now divides his time between Long Island and Provence, earns chuckles with his gentle social satire.
• This hilariously funny collection of political satire is one of the best Private Eye annuals to date.
• Simon Regan, founding editor of political satire magazine Scallywag, has died at the age of 58.

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494. SCAM
• She and her boyfriend were involved in a scam to get $5 million from the company.
• The offer of a "free" vacation to Florida sounds like a scam to me.
• I spent more than $4000 before I realized the whole thing was a scam.
• What are some ways to recognize phony charity scams?
• The law and order section is a prime target for every kind of scam.
• He liked to play scams too much
.• Then the scams will be uncovered.
• However, these scams are not connected to the mainstream offshore financial services community, which continues
to offer good products.
• The welfare scam was costing the federal government hundreds of thousands of dollars.

495. SCEPTIC
• For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic.
• Why did I introduce myself as a sceptic about values but not about facts?
• But he's a dual personality, sceptic and optimist in one.
• Any self-respecting sceptic might be tempted ... It's certainly easy to be sceptical about the Earth Summit.
• It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for
.• It maintains that what the sceptic takes to be his strength is in fact his weakness.

496. SCORE
• Scores on standardized tests have been steadily falling over the past ten years.
• After two hours and twenty minutes of play, the final score was 3-2.
• The final score was 2-1 to Juventus.
• The final score went up on the scoreboard, and the crowd let out a roar.
• Individual scores were then aggregated to derive shift, department, division, and plant totals.
• a jazz score
• We provide parents with reading and math scores and high school placements.
• These words would all have the same or a very similar score and would combine exponentially into word paths.
• Average test scores have fallen in recent years.
• Students at King elementary generally have the highest test scores in the city.
• At the end of the game, the score was 32-15.
• With only nine seconds left to go, the score is tied at 82.
• What was the score?
• Williams has written the score for many of Spielberg's movies.
• The score of 87 represents low or below-average academic aptitude.
• The score at half-time was 12-18.
• Before, archery was a series of flights of shooters aiming at a target and counting up their scores.
• On this score they were identical to the preceding game: slow starters with a propensity to give away
simple penalties.
• Rentokil's total score was 71.33 out of a possible 90 points.
keeping score
• They are keeping scores of officials under house arrest in the hotel.
• Maynard Bolster, wintering from Kalispell, Mont., is in his customary seat, dutifully keeping score.
• It became obvious from a number of research studies that employees enjoyed keeping score.
• The number of records sold was a way of keeping score.
• Now lobbyists sit right in the Committee room keeping score.
• For those keeping score, that's rock bottom in 6 of 10 categories.
test scores
• One widely cited study has suggested that piano training at age 3 may improve some academic test scores.
• The demands for higher test scores seem to emphasize speed and coverage,
not depth of understanding or commitment.
• However, test scores for 14-year-olds have remained constant at 55 per cent.
• Teachers are under pressure to improve test scores.
• I would want people to look not only at my test scores hut at my entire application.
• This may simply involve calculating correlations between two sets of test scores.
• It refers in general to the confidence the tester can attach to decisions based on the test scores.
• Standardized testing for all students on a yearly basis, with test scores to be reported in the media.

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• They spend ever more on public education, yet test scores and dropout rates barely budge.
Score
• He scored 12 points and grabbed 14 rebounds.
• In the meantime lets be thankful Speedy and Macca are scoring!
• Dr. John scored a huge hit with his cover of "Makin' Whoopee."
• AC Milan scored a record number of goals this season.
• If a Skeleton manages to score a wounding hit on an adventurer, something quite hideous happens.
• Van Zandt has scored again with this enjoyable film about young urban types.
• Woolley, Callaghan and Peacock scored bursts on the two-seater.
• Students who listened to Mozart scored higher on IQ tests than students who took the test in silence.
• Did you score last night?
• The test was difficult, and no-one scored more than 45 points.
• Participants will be scored on their performance in each event.
• In Scrabble you score points by making words on the board.
• Life is lived for dope, and the whole world circles around scoring, shooting up and scoring again.
• The scoring system works like this.
• Tottenham scored the first goal of the game.
• Kobe looks to score too much rather than get his teammates involved.
• San Francisco scored twice in the last ten minutes of the game.
• Anyone who scores under 70 percent will have to retake the exam.
• Then, the Pistons beat Dallas when Allan Houston scored with less than two seconds remaining.

score a goal/point/run etc


• When he is good, like he was against Detroit, their offense can score points.
• Within the first minute he scored a goal, and another a quarter of an hour later.
• Then I know it is my duty to score goals and to bring something to the team.
• Even when scoring points at an astonishing pace, no opponent has been knocked out of a game.
• It's a simple strategy; score a goal at one end and hope Big Tommy saves you at the other end.
• To score runs they had to put bat to ball - a realisation which came all too late.

scored ... success


• Extreme right-wing parties scored more pronounced successes.
• It is good therefore to be able to record that at least one such effort scored a stunning success.
• Unkind historians today doubt if they really scored a notable success.
• In November 1991, the Jet project scored a major success in its search for a waste free nuclear power.
• Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4
percent.
Score
• These words would all have the same or a very similar score and would combine exponentially into word paths.
• The score of 87 represents low or below-average academic aptitude.
• On this score they were identical to the preceding game: slow starters with a propensity to give away simple
penalties.
• Individual scores were then aggregated to derive shift, department, division, and plant totals.
a score of something
• Provisional qualifying requires a score of 5,350.
• A score of 5 was awarded for 100 percent presence of the variable and a score of 1 for a minimal presence.
• Gilchrist replaced him and made quite a debut-six dismissals and a score of 81.
• Smoke from a score of chain-smokers wreathed its funereal patterns.
• Aluminium smelters are only one of a score of industries which now pollute the
total environment with fluoride emissions and solid wastes.
• Only a score of people work at any one time.
• We passed about a score of Portosan toilets, which seemed to be all that had been brought in.

497. SCORN
• The limits of convention were hers to scorn.
• Hell hath no fury like a user scorned.
• Marry as I order you or I brand you as wanton for everyone to scorn.

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• Skinner's ideas were scorned by many American psychologists.
• Admired by the young and scorned by the old.
• Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of
the independent chart.
• My kids used to scorn my politics as right-wing selfishness.
• It is too valuable a document of human heartbreak and muddle to be scorned or dismissed.
• Many young people scorn polite behaviour as insincere.
• As they undressed and put their worn-out shoes beneath their beds, they again scorned the efforts of the soldier.
• Where glues are concerned, I, personally, would not scorn to wear both a belt and braces.
Scorn
• Rosie said with that upper lip twisting in scorn.
• Who stare at us with incredulous scorn.
• But remember my scorn for the so-called airtight argument!
• I vacillated between the false potency of scorn and feelings of ineptitude.
• Wrong to fear fitzAlan's impatience or scorn.
• But Washington last night poured scorn on Mr. Chretien's veto claim.
scorn for
• He could barely disguise his scorn for her.

498. SCRUPLE
• He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
• In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
• She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
• He overcame his scruples and by 1846 took thirty-five wives, eight of them widows of Joseph Smith.
• They are passive, we are told; moral scruples don't come into it.
• I respect your scruple, scour; but in this case I believe true delicacy requires you to do as I ask.
had ... scruples
• He could not say that he had scruples of conscience for not joining in the military training.
• Crell in particular had no scruples about playing on his countrymen's cultural nationalism for the development of the
fatherland's chemistry.
• But when the celebs paraded for Reagan 20 years ago, Republicans had no such scruples.
Scruple
• Dumont does not scruple to show the naked corpse, left on the edge of a ploughed field.

499. SCRUTINIZE
• For example, unlike the United States, mergers should be very closely scrutinized.
• There were predictable objections from departments which did not want to have their own
policy advice scrutinized by outside experts.
• The coach's assistants stood along the field and scrutinized every move we made.
• The Tests themselves have been carefully scrutinized for balance and consistency to ensure they are reliable time and
time again.
• We fussed over Janir, scrutinizing his every move and expression
.• But one thing is certain, they will be the most scrutinized players in franchise history.
• Detectives scrutinized the area, looking for clues.
• The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing the proposed merger of the two companies.
• This would carry with it a responsibility on their part to help devise the tests, or at least to scrutinize their content.
• One by one, they scrutinized them, inside and out, and compared the left and the right hands.

500. SCUTTLE
• They found a boat in San Remo, scuttled.
• A loud bang sent all the crabs scuttling across the sand.
• The pigeons wheel and scuttle around us.
• Something scuttled away into some dark recess.
• Corbett threw him a coin, raised his sword, and the beggar scuttled away.
• The scuttled boat in San Remo had never been found.
• I let out a terrified scream and scuttled down the stairs.
• He spotted a cockroach as it scuttled out from under a bin bag.
• Surely millions more have been spent on scuttled plans by companies around the world.

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• The offices were small, and apparatchiks scuttled round between rooms.
• The senator did his best to scuttle the tax increase.
Scuttle
• An old coal scuttle to the side of the fireplace holds a can of paraffin, almost full.
• She wished her to dust the furniture, burnish the coal scuttle, and clean the windows.
• We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar.

501. SEAR
• It was sensuality sharp and searing as fire, burning the soul to tinder.
• Her glance seared his hard, angular face.
• Another bolt of lightning struck behind him, and Eugene felt the air seared into ozone on either side of him.
• The soft yellow light which looks so gentle to you but which sears my guts.
• He struggled to his feet, but was no sooner standing than a searing pain tore through his ankle.
• The pain was searing, so that I fell backwards, and though I struggled, I could not stand up again.
• The hot fat sears the bottom and gives a nice flavor to the bread; the cool pan gives a softer bottom.
• Brush fires seared the hillsides.
• If you sear the outside of the meat, you get rid of any other bacteria.

502. SEC
• Jim Boyd finished in 36 mins. 13 secs.
• Catherine Allsopp ran an intelligently-paced race in the 800 meters, finishing third in 2 mins 11.36 secs.
• His time of 3 mins 59.4 sec had left him exhausted to the point of collapse.
• Berger crossed the line, his fuel reading zero and Schumacher just 0.7 secs behind.
• Hold the phone there, a sec, Dex.

503. SEDATE
•Everybody downtown agreed that, if anything, Chicago had become even more sedate.
• The authors are intensely polite and agreeable, rendering the discussions somewhat rehearsedand far too sedate.
• Overall, the wedding was a sedate affair.
• So while a Hilfiger presentation can sometimes transform into an unruly party, a Nautica show remains sedate and
serious.
• She watched his black, angular figure move at a sedate, clerical pace, across the grass.
• Still, I was fairly sedate compared to the man sitting a couple of seats away.
heavily sedated
• He observed that his daughter was heavily sedated and that her breathing was extremely laboured.
• On her deathbed the heavily sedated Ann snatches back her past.
• She was heavily sedated for the pain.

504. SEDIMENT
• sediment in the wine
• Or, what were the source rocks of a sediment?
• These later die and so the carbon dioxide eventually finds its way to the sea floor as sediment.
• A filled-in marsh is a sluice for sediment.
• The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on
the continental slope.
• However, a shift in the type of sediment from weathered to unweathered material is noted at this level.
• This suggests that the sub ducted sediment somehow survived as a chemically and physically distinct region large
enough to avoid obliteration by diffusion.
• Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.
• Coral species vary in their ability to cope with sediment.

505. SEGMENT
• An ant's body is divided into three distinct segments.
• Their stories are bountiful in this engagingly mounted documentary, running Sunday night in three one-
hour segments on the History Channel.
• Microprocessor sales represent one of the largest segments of the chip market.
• There is also a list of the next segments to be tried in the lattice.
• For the dragonflies, mould small curved lengths and mark on segments with a cocktail stick.

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• The diagram has one segment filled in; pupils could fill in the others themselves, working either in groups or
individually.
• Decorate the cake with orange segments.
• orange segments
• Each sales team targets its efforts at a particular segment of the general population.
• The program included a short segment about pet owners.
• In this segment of the nephron, reabsorption is all isotonic, and no contribution to dilution is made.

segment of
• A large segment of the population regularly takes vitamins.
Segment
• The average Vadinamian looks like an over-sized larva, boneless and segmented.
• A semantic constituent which can not be segmented into more elementary semantic constituents will
be termed a minimal semantic constituent.
• Consumer markets are usually segmented on the basis of geography, demography and buyer-behaviour.
• Routers allow companies to departmentalize and segment their networks so that a problem on one segment does not
bring down another department.
• The tape, shot on February 25, will be shown in five-minute segments this week.
• Doug prefers expensive Trojan silver fish, segmented to twist and swivel realistically.

506. SEMINARY
• Lacor is a Comboni Fathers Roman Catholic mission, comprising a seminary, schools and the 600-bed hospital.
• It came from a seminary friend who hand recently divorced her abusive husband.
• Mugezi eventually engineers his own expulsion from the family home and into another dictatorialregime, that of a
Catholic seminary.
• Few seminaries and hardly any universities are equipped to help students enter into a mystical
quest or spiritual journey.
• Choirs, pipe organs and the teaching of music in seminaries were all encouraged.
• I ask what is being taught in our schools, and in our seminaries?
• The works of Shakespeare, deemed licentious by the seminary staff and students, enchanted her.
• They destroyed the seminary, arrested Pigneau and shackled him in an eighty-pound wood and iron frame.

507. SENSIBILITY
• The important question is not how popular cultural sensibilities shift but why they do.
• There is the fallible narrator, escaping his past, indulging his dandified sensibilities,
inevitably sucked into danger beyond his understanding.
• From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility, and I admire you very much.
• Correspondence is, for me, a luxury which stirs my sensibilities, especially if it be with an old friend.
• Trust your own palate and your own sensibility.
• His secular, rationalist sensibilities created an ideal of liberalism based on the individual pursuit of self-interest.
• Very few people have the refined sensibility needed to appreciate these paintings.
• But the anti-army writers also showed a need to appeal to the sensibilities of their Tory allies in Parliament.

508. SEPTIC
• Hot flesh pressed close; the septic flesh of his companions.
• So the sewage goes septic, giving off hydrogen sulphide which corrodes the pipes and makes a nasty smell.
• These become hairless and develop septic sores.
• If you have a septic system, where is the drain field?
• Everywhere, it was like an over-flowing septic tank or something rotting.
• It was just a septic tank.
• It was in virgin wilderness up north where septic tanks are forbidden.
• A tree gone septic where we gouged our initials.
• a septic wound

509. SHRAPNEL
• Many civilians suffered burns and shrapnel wounds.
• Hissing shells searched the dark thickets through, and shrapnel swept the road along which we moved.
• Trouble is, Piper, some people do not appreciate good music, especially when they are dodging flying shrapnel.

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• Both animals had huge shrapnel wounds on their hindquarters.
• A month later he took a half pound of shrapnel in the lower back and thighs.
• As soon as the shrapnel flew by, we would immediately jump up.
• Even if the shrapnel misses, the concussion will knock you down.
• Nowhere to be seen when the shrapnel was flying.
• A bomb missed the Southampton by the breadth of the Admiral's Barge, and another showered the Edinburgh
with shrapnel.
shrapnel wounds
• He said 56 people had treatment at the hospital, mostly for shrapnel wounds.
• Both animals had huge shrapnel wounds on their hindquarters.
• She incurred shrapnel wounds as well as third-degree burns.
• Ainslie, 56, suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs.
• I suffered shrapnel wounds in the buttocks and one arm.
• The other victims-five women and two men-suffered shrapnel wounds.

510. SIDLE
• Washington hurried dutifully to her side as befitted his lover's status,
then remembered his invidious position and sidled away again.
• At dawn, they sidle back under the sea's edge.
• The road led nearly to the cliff, and then sidled right.
• It was sidling towards the edge of the table.
• Finally I sidle up to her and ask straight out.
• While I did so, the Newspaper Boy sidled up to our table.
• She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions.
sidle up/towards/along
• So I sidled up, slipped my arm around him and gave him a kiss.
• There was a figure there, sidling along stealthily with its back against one wall.
• She sidled along the drive after her husband and up to the front door.
• It was sidling towards the edge of the table.
• I managed to sidle along the gardener to try to get past him.
• A., 4-H, even Boy Scouts sidle up to a few doors and whisper a carol or two.
• Finally I sidle up to her and ask straight out.
• While I did so, the Newspaper Boy sidled up to our table.

511. SIESTA
• Paquita worked but came home for lunch and a siesta.
• Follow the locals, when abroad, and have a siesta indoors.
• At one, in the stifling heat, we took a siesta.
• He was going upstairs for his siesta.
• His habitual amount of sleep had been five to seven hours a night, with a half-hour siesta in the afternoon.
• Mondano was as deserted as a ghost town, wrapped in the silence of its siesta.
• In the second half, the Oregon defense takes a prolonged siesta, allowing the opponents to score forty-two points.
take/have a siesta
• Follow the locals, when abroad, and have a siesta indoors.
• If I did have a siesta it was always a very short one.
• Everyone pretended Clarisa was simply taking a siesta.
• At one, in the stifling heat, we took a siesta.

512. SILHOUETTE
• She looked up to the skyline, where Scathach's tall form was a silhouette.
• Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons.
• The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness, gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.
• We could see her silhouette through the curtains.
• I could see from his silhouette in the starlight that he was hanging his head.
• Throwing up her hand, Tabitha glimpsed a figure in silhouette rising up from the floor at their very feet.
• Lauren's fall collection includes wool suits with a new, narrower silhouette.
• All this for a fleeting ten second flash of silhouette on the Big Screen.

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• One can easily imagine how such warm, living illumination would bring forth spontaneous silhouettes, as it were
from another world.
• I saw the silhouette of someone waiting under the streetlight.
• It threw a red glow round their silhouettes as they walked away.
• The trees were silhouettes in the morning fog.
in silhouette
• The 321/2 stamp depicted a woman in silhouette.

513. SINGE
• The rug was singed by a piece of burning coal that had fallen from the fire.
• The heat was so intense that it singed our hair.
• The flames were hot enough to singe your eyebrows.

514. SKEPTICAL
• Even the stock market is becoming skeptical.
• He was humane and yet skeptical.
• I, too, was skeptical.
• He is skeptical about estimates that some may pay more than $ 100,000 to rent his home.
• It will take a lot to convince the increasingly skeptical American public.
• I really should have had an accountant to act as a buffer, and filter all money issues through his skeptical gaze.
• Others are skeptical of that interpretation.
• But others, more skeptical, put her age at fifty.
• The three faiths all taught profoundly skeptical views of human existence.

515. SKEW
• We feel that this may skew any long-term investment planning for sport.
• Nationalist politics often favor local companies over outside media giants, skewing competition for new licenses.
• Politics can often skew decisions that should be taken on their merits.
• As 1968 dawned and events accelerated Jones's politics began to skew from those of his co-founders.
• He said evidence was stored and handled improperly, potentially skewing results.
• Some samples were handled improperly, which could have skewed the results.
• The insurance aspects of Social Security also skew the returns.
• For one thing, especially if the sample is relatively small, unlikely events can skew the sample.
• Is television scaring our kids, engendering violent behavior, skewing their morals and
generally eroding the aesthetic standards of Western civilization?

516. SKITTISH
• Any pack animals the adventurers have may get restless and skittish.
• And if Apple falls apart, software developers could get even more skittish about sinking money into
writing programs for Macs.
• Institutional investors such as mutual funds are more skittish and can bail out after a few quarters of soft earnings.
• Cranston's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold.
• At the heart of the problem is this: Bighorn sheep are skittish animals.
• My horse was skittish, I could not settle him.
• As it is, the thundering herd is likely to prove a skittish lot.
• At work she was a supremely confident executive; with her first child she was a skittish novice.

517. SNIDE
• But those first weeks my voice could be snide.
• I did not think my remarks were particularly snide.
• As she uttered these words she realized they sounded snide and insinuating.
• She makes a snide comment, you look her in the eye and... smile.
• Her lively, often snide commentary tickled me.
• The teacher kept making snide comments about my pronunciation, which really embarrassed me.
• There had been lawsuits, staff problems, snide editorials.
• But he often makes these snide remarks about Graham.
• Alderman Keane, an instinctive gut fighter, went on television and made snide remarks about the divorce.
• We flew back to Heathrow; it had not been a happy trip for me, full of niggling and snide remarks.

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snide remarks/comments
• We flew back to Heathrow; it had not been a happy trip for me, full of niggling and snide remarks.
• But he often makes these snide remarks about Graham.
• Alderman Keane, an instinctive gut fighter, went on television and made snide remarks about the divorce.

518. SOJOURN
• The morning after, Jim Bob bears the scars of a sojourn in the mosh pit.
• Their background knowledge of an institution is typically and corporately small, and sojourn within its walls brief.
• The film is about only a very brief sojourn in Gauguin's otherwise racy biography.

519. SOLVENT
• Now the question is how to keep the business solvent.
• They are happy merely to be solvent.
• Companies need to know that those with whom they are trading are solvent and can pay for goods and
services supplied to them
• We've been financially solvent for the last 5 years.
• It has to be emphasized that Equitable is still solvent with very substantial assets irrespective of
some recent withdrawals.
stay/remain/keep solvent
• Most people, even with the added burden of credit commitments, manage to remain solvent.
Solvent
• His torturers poured a solvent down his nose that burned his throat.
• The sensitivity can be improved and interference from other ions diminished by extracting the red colour with
a solvent.
• But a few may become heavy and frequent solvent misusers.
• Their wastes include solvents, fuels, mine tailings, radioactive wastes, and unexploded bombs and shells.
• Each layer is then subjected to a number of extractions with the other solvent.
• Last year 15 year old Joanna Hughes died from burns, after fumes from the solvent she was sniffing caught fire.
• Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent.

520. SOPHISTRY
• But Pascal, under the influence of Jansenism, was fundamentally hostile to the Jesuits and their notorious sophistries.
• It involves no recourse to sophistry, and it demystifies and strips of sensationalism the termination of the use
of artificial support.

521. SPA
• Residents will be banned from filling swimming pools and spas, washing their vehicles at home
and operating ornamental fountains.
• They all went individually to a Los Angeles spa called Ynessa.
• Available at a small charge and with special supervision given, the spa can provide you with a healthy breakaway in
Amsterdam.
• And while many of the spa services seem geared to women, not all are.
• For more information, consult your travel agent; once aboard, talk to the spa and salon managers.
• The spa is a perfect complement to cruising.

522. SPECIOUS
• The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.
• In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopular neutrality.
• So a dangerous tolerance of error and a specious attitude of humility towards truth has arisen.
• There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.
• All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.
• specious logic
• Even so, the size-and-weight-of-head argument is a rather specious one.
• In the history of ideas, it is always specious to divide matters into a before and an after.

523. SPECTER
• How does a specter go about making his confession?
• I wish you could have seen the faces of the jury as the awful specter of the future unfolded before them.

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• They figure this was a puritanical overreaction to a handful of innocent pictures and claim it raises
the chilling specter of censorship.
• The buildings were only specters glimpsed through the thick white veils the air had become.
• Opponents painted a more apocalyptic picture, warning of foreign landowners and even invoking
the specter of civil war.
• Failure in Chechnya raises the specter that other independent-minded regions could become problems once again.
• Potentially problematic was the specter of defense witnesses placing John Doe No. 2 in
the conspiracy and confusing jurors.
• The specter, north and south, of the black face, real and corporeal, owing nothing to burnt cork.

524. SPLOTCH
• Most people would not find a brown splotch at all mysterious.
• The French fries leave big greasy splotches on the paper bags they're served in.
• The islands rose sheer out of a millpond sea, pillars of white limestone with ochre splotches capped in crinkly green.
• Great pale splotches appeared on the once-shining parquet floor where water had leaked in and stood in puddles.
• One was young with a cupid face dotted with two splotches of rouge, and long brown hair.
• Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame, painted and framed by a local artist.

525. SPURIOUS
• This authorization could, of course, be spurious and be disguising condoned truancy.
• Experiments involve a spurious association between the novel food and the illness which is
usually induced chemically or by X-rays.
• A jury has rejected the spurious claim that the police created evidence.
• We now know that the strength of that original relationship contained a spurious component.
• It is sensitive to slight movements of the camera, subject or reference strip and will
sometimes trigger spurious diagnostics.
• But for all the spurious emphasis on homogeneity, there are also moments when everyone becomes a gaijin,
an outsider.
• As a label it conveys a sense of purpose and purveys an often spurious impression of coherence and integrity in
working relationships.
• Because the novel is written mainly in dialogue, a spurious impression was given that it would be easy to adapt.
• a spurious smile
• Also it would permit additions, such as image processing, with a prospect of eliminating spurious subject material
in software.

526. SQUANDER
• England squandered a golden opportunity to score, seconds before the final whistle.
• And that weakness was further underlined last Sunday when enough chances to win
several matches were squandered against Limerick.
• Howard was a terrible gambler, and had squandered away the family fortune.
• He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.
• His family felt he had squandered his musical talent.
• Here's £50 but don't just go and squander it on beer!
• However, what better excuse for squandering my own cash on expanding my catfish collection?
• Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
• For them, as for me, there is an overwhelming sense of squandered opportunities.
• I had about seven dollars, five of which I foolishly squandered that night.
• In less than three years he had squandered the entire family fortune.
• There was no money to pay the rent. They'd already squandered the little that they had.
• There is no time to squander your charms on men who are professional flirts.
squander something on something
• She has squandered nearly $41 million of the family fortune on bad investments.

527. STALWART
• Perhaps he could count on Paul Quinn, a stalwart of the 9: 15 liturgy planning team.
• a stalwart of the Democratic Party
• My being hemmed in by well-armed stalwarts, was part of the plan.
• A lucky stalwart might gain the patronage of some powerful upper-hab clan or even of a noble.

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• So what if movement stalwarts fought with one another? asks Nicosia.
• However, if policies are changed, party stalwarts will complain that traditional principles are being forgotten.
• The party stalwarts toe the presidential line and shout down those who disagree.
• The stalwarts of the Hunters ton Cycle Club are taking to the road again in the name of charity.
Stalwart
• Goldman typically has shied away from risky startups, preferring to stick with more stalwart institutions such
as Chevron Corp.
• She could see the lake behind the motel through the stalwart line of trees.
• Fritz was maid, butler, and errand boy, the stalwart ninny who never spoke a word of complaint.
• Only the stalwart, the dedicated, or the mad, remain.

528. STANCH
• And at first I tried to stanch my panic by telling myself it was only that: a show of freedom.
• The lack of scientific basis for many of the worries doesn't stanch the flood.
• In shock, I tied my sock around the worst-cut foot to try and stanch the flow of blood.

529. STATIC
• Unfortunately, the high divorce rate remains static.
• There have been no problems in staffing the committees and the membership has remained relatively static.
• To start with it's interactive not static.
• Secrecy sang in the static air, like an old valve radio with the volume turned down.
• Above all the setting from within which family care might be provided is not a static one.
• In the five-phase machine, for example, the highest peak static torque is obtained when two or three phases
are excited.
Static
• That's my final decision, so don't give me any static.
• To clear static, persevere by taking drastic steps to fight all interference and distraction.
• He held the receiver, hooked up with the general static.
• Ask yourself: does yours have the capacity to override the terrestrial static that interferes with
radio reception sometimes?
• Like bursts and blips against the static of the radio.
• The telephone line from San Antonio to Boston is crackling with the static of an ideological rift.
• The static over the intercom was terrible.
• Again there was static, a warped sound.

530. STAY
• How long are you staying?
• I say it's a trick to persuade him to stay.
• Lobbies were unheated and so if you hung your coat up wet then wet it stayed.
• Are you sure you can't stay a little longer?
• I was having such a good time in Paris that I phoned my mother to say I was staying another week.
• I stayed at my brother's house for a couple of weeks.
• John only stayed at the party for a couple of hours.
• I've stayed at the same company for seven years, and I'd like to stick around for a while longer.
• He often told Lennie to stay away from Curley and his wife.
• He stayed behind after class to ask the teacher a few questions.
• Let's just stay calm and try to figure out what to do.
• It will stay cold for the next few days.
• Are you staying for a drink, or do you have to go?
• However, Lucy managed to convey that she intended to stay for several days, or perhaps for even a week.
• After what she said, I don't think we can stay friends.
• I'm coming too. I'm not staying here on my own.
• Do you think she'd stay if we offered her a raise?
• Alice has never stayed in the same job for more than a year.
• Don't go so soon -- can't you stay just a little longer?
• She is staying on campus for a while longer.
• Got one up on Jackson Hill and the other one stay on Lombard Street.
• Some travel agency offices normally closed on Saturdays will stay open if there is a strike.

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• The chocolate will stay soft for hours after baking but will eventually harden again into chips.
• Is it all right if I stay the night?
• Are you staying to watch the game?
• I didn't want to stay with Jordan's all my life -- I wanted a real career, one with a future.
• He stayed with the baby until she fell asleep.
• He stayed with the company for over thirty years.
stay in
• I've got to stay in and look after my sister on Friday night.
stayed the same
• Sixteen people lost an insignificant amount, and nine others gained weight or stayed the same.
• The location has stayed the same.
• I've stayed the same as I was before but now it's all right to be what I was before.
• Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture, and it became clearer as it approached.
• One of the tricks of this war was that nothing ever stayed the same, he thought.
• Even if the price stayed the same, he would buy and eat more.
• It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size.
stay at/with
• So the prospect of her stay at Balmoral loomed large in Diana's mind.
• So she demands that you stay with her for the night.
• Jazz's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes.
• Can those who stayed at home achieve as much?
• He always liked staying at the Carlton.
• He stayed at the deanery and talked far into the night about the needs of Durham and its diocese.
• I got out, Kaiser stayed with the ship.
• Patrick stayed with them until Doctor Stevie's match came along.
• You're welcome to stay with us till you find a place of your own.
Stay
• In psychiatric hospitals, the countywide average stay has plummeted from 22 days five years ago to 13 days now.
• Their average stay in a corps was only two years.
• In short, they have done everything in their power to ensure a comfortable corporate stay in the city.
• Cash was treated for pneumonia during a two-week hospital stay in October 1999.
• The four inside stays are now being assembled, two are complete and the other two are well advanced.
• I met her during my stay in Venice.
• The length of stay and conditions have been cited as key factors behind a recent surge in violence, escapes and riots.
• a short stay in the hospital
• The stay at Oxford spoiled me, I guess.
• So how was the rest of your stay?
stay in/at
• He stayed in hospital for three-and-a-half weeks, and then spent several more convalescing in the country.
• I have been off for a while, but I stayed in shape while I was away.
• Two troops deployed nearby to the west, awaiting a short stay at camp.
• Now let them stay in their territory.
• They may have to save before they marry, and both may need to stay in work for as long as possible.
• What happens if her father is unwilling or unable to stay at home with her?
• Bardot took the overdose on Saturday while staying at her villa near St Tropez with Bernard and friends.
• And he can not do this while staying in the same inertial frame.
stay of execution
• In the event a stay of execution was granted on March 6.
• Consequently, she feels she must work for a stay of execution.
• Sceptics suggest the Minitel's relaunch is little more than a stay of execution.
• Her batting average there: five stays of execution, one commuted to life in prison, and two men freed completely.
• There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties.
• The stay of execution was intelligent politics.

531. STENTORIAN
• His stentorian approach and his commanding presence have been influential on the good order of the Assembly.
• Perhaps Harriet had been roused by Pringle's stentorian cry.
• He frowned and in stentorian fashion summoned a doctor.

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532. STEPPE
• Wheat descends from three grasses that hybridized on the Anatolian steppes.
• Galloping horses, endless deserts and grassland steppes.
• Farmland, especially among growing crops, open grassland, steppes, semi-deserts.
• Salt coats was made up of lumpy steppe.
• In 376, however, the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns, an Asiatic people from
the steppes.
• In the steppes and the Caucasus they knew the dead could rise again, and how they could be stopped.
• Their linguistic legacy is still to be found in the major river valleys of the steppe and forest-steppe.
• They settled the steppes so successfully that their numbers grew to forty-five thousand in less than a century.

533. STILTED
• Conversation seemed rather stilted and for some time Charlie himself seemed unable to speak at all.
• Consequently they sound stilted and reluctant and rob what they say of much reward value.
• The dialogue was stilted and robot like.
• She stole their golden hearts and gave the lakeside people garlands, linking their stilted arms like dancers.
• Formerly it was stilted, boring, narrow in approach and poorly laid out.
• In one of the evening's best performances, she recounts a recent audition in a hilariously stilted delivery.
• Flashbacks to stilted junior-year productions started whizzing by faster than you can say Grosse Pointe Blank.
• What was it that was happening, with this stilted mist hanging, obscuring the view of all but
the immediate path ahead.
• A stilted walkway led through a gate to the sand.
stilted conversation
• I watched her shuffle, wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives.
• And all too soon the stilted conversation ran out.

534. STIPULATE
• Form K15 also requires the county to be stipulated.
• By the mid-1970s stipulated military needs could only be financed by cutting investment in the productive base as
a whole.
• The Constitution stipulated that a general election must be held within 120 days, i.e. no later than April 8,1992.
• This stipulates that emissions of sulphur dioxide must be cut to 10 million tonnes below 1980 levels by the year
2000.
• But Rebecca Hall insisted the challenge stipulated that five people must squeeze in together.
• The initial draft had stipulated that mining could begin only if all signatories agreed.
• It stipulated that neutrality should be guaranteed by banning them from accepting party political
positions or speaking publicly on behalf of political parties.
stipulate that
• But Rebecca Hall insisted the challenge stipulated that five people must squeeze in together.
• The decision stipulated that gold traders must adhere to the state-set gold price, and deposit their earnings in
the State Bank.
• It stipulated that neutrality should be guaranteed by banning them from accepting party political positions or
speaking publicly on behalf of political parties.
• Several of them she had given to Scarlet, stipulating that she must pluck and draw them herself.
• A court agreement stipulates that the Oilers must play home games in the Astrodome through the 1997 season.
• Modern men also stipulate that they mustn't be boring, without seeing any contradiction in that thought.
• I think most reasonable people will stipulate that this field is mined with them.

535. STOICISM
• Inside the mansion, the hostages have displayed gallantry, solidarity and stoicism.
• No more angry stoicism, or prideful unexpressed resentment.
• While this view could equally have generated stoicism, in Mum's case it led to self-pity.
• Nearing the second term at Sandown Park, Barons should get some recognition for its stoicism and tenacity.
• Storni addresses this woman, upon whom the burden of stoicism sits heavy.
• With almost supernatural inner strength, Washington's Carter retreats into a defiant yet defensive shell of stoicism.
• And yet, underneath that veneer of stoicism there lay a devious imp.
• From the stoicism of a Bogart, we entered a world where male menace no longer was potential.

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536. STRATAGEM
• A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.
• As soon as things get tough our enemies have a clever stratagem.
• His stratagem was to cross Riverside Drive and enter the first building, as if he lived there.
• Actually, neither stratagem is likely to do much.
• As a partial solution, Combined Fleet decided to resort to a special stratagem that had already worked successfully
once before.
• They fell for the stratagem and the plot was resumed.
• A summary of acute therapeutic stratagems is provided in Table 3-4.

537. SUBDIVISION
• In more than one case entire housing subdivisions have been sold before the first unit was constructed.
• He turns the plane toward a mountainside subdivision and grabs more papers from behind the cockpit.
• Normally, in order to maintain control over the use of subdivisions, each combination of main heading
and subdivision must be approved.
• They have named the subdivision Renaissance.
• The subdivision of stock into subject groups calls for flexible and adroit administration.
• Topic subdivisions are subject subdivisions, for example, Engineering - Research 3.

538. SUCCUMB
• Both times, however, he succumbed.
• Lewis succumbed to cancer in 1985.
• Reacting to Maj. Botha's statement anti-apartheid groups said they believed that he had succumbed to
government pressure to protect Buthelezi.
• It might have been true once - and she was glad now that she had never succumbed to Hugh's importuning.
• Will Stansted succumb to major expansion?
• People would succumb to temptation and revert to familiar if inefficient form.
• We can not, we will not succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere.
succumb to
• The country has not yet succumbed to international pressure to stop nuclear testing.

539. SUPERFICIAL
• But Pittsburgh women are not silly or superficial.
• He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels.
• As a reader I think there is too much superficial cricket autobiography and biography already available.
• Barlow was treated for a superficial gunshot wound to the leg.
• To Ahab, the White Whale represents the impossibility of going behind the superficial layers of nature or reality.
• The head and snout alone bear some superficial likeness to those of that familiar creature.
• Debbie kept canceling our dates for superficial reasons.
• The landscape bore a superficial resemblance to England's green and pleasant land, and each house had a
small suburban garden.
• a superficial understanding of physics
• The people are friendly, but only in a superficial way.
superficial examination/study etc
• After he'd made a quick and fairly superficial examination I locked the door.
• Searches are restricted to superficial examination of outer clothing.
superficial resemblance/similarity
• But that is a superficial similarity.
• Genesis 1 has often been compared with the Babylonian account of creation to which it bears a superficial
resemblance.
• There were, it was true, any number of superficial similarities.
• I shall suggest that, although they capture some superficial similarities between the two issues, they are
ultimately misleading.
• The superficial similarities might make a lesser man than Mikhail Gorbachev tremble.
• The variety underlying the superficial similarity of idiom is enormous, even within the work of a single composer.
• But such arrangements bear only a superficial resemblance to classic design.
• They claim that despite superficial similarities with shamanism, something very different is going on.

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540. SUPERFLUOUS
• Idem, my tie, conservative enough with its narrow bands of maroon and white, but here superfluous.
• Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines superfluous.
• We're cutting out superfluous layers of managers.
• I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are superfluous once centralcommittees have approved a
multi Centre project.
• But the human personality of a particular body is not superfluous when we fall in love with some one whose body it
is.
• Nature abhors the superfluous, yet is constrained to produce the seemingly extravagant.

541. SUPPOSITION
• The only other things she had were guesses and suppositions.
• My supposition is not without basis.
• The report will be based on fact, not supposition.
• Our literary canons have largely been constructed on such Renaissance suppositions.
• When Agenda 2000 comes into place, the supposition is that the set-aside rate should fall to zero.
• So long as these suppositions were taken seriously, they were not only reassuring, but frequently effective.
• Although research has modified this supposition, it is none the less true that males are
generally seducers and females the seduced.
• Eichenbaum and Orbach share this supposition.
supposition (that)
• All his reservations were based on intuition, supposition.
• My business interests are declared, but, contrary to some popular media suppositions, I am not connected with the
Lonrho organization.
• Our literary canons have largely been constructed on such Renaissance suppositions.
• Police are acting on the supposition that she took the money.
• Take the doctrine as you will, the supposition of such a cause is both useless and contradictory.
• These suppositions are rejected because there is little evidence to support them.
• Although research has modified this supposition, it is none the less true that males are generally seducers and
females the seduced.
• Eichenbaum and Orbach share this supposition.

542. SURPLICE
• Mr. Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to
their presence.
• Our table is graced by a single chorister - salt in a fluted surplice.
• The elderly cleric was standing in the doorway in his surplice to welcome them.
• Chapter Three Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector's imperfectly ironed surplice.
• The vicar insisted that it would mean wearing the uniform his people would recognize, and that included
the surplice.
• In his billowing white surplice he looked like a disheveled old bird struggling to take off in a high wind.
• Even more successful in this purpose is the white surplice which happily hangs from Anglican shoulders.

543. SURREALISM
• Indeed, Lacan was much influenced by surrealism, and Bowie compares his writing to Finnegans Wake.
• The artist portrayed images of daily life in his native town of Ocotlan
with vivid colors, surrealism and magical realism.
• Sometimes Doogan abandons her classical re-visions altogether and heads into surrealism.
• We will find here, in the case of surrealism, a not dissimilar state of affairs.
• Much the opposite with postmodernist surrealism and pop art.
• Not that we should over-emphasise Lorca's surrealism.
• M'ARS specialise in a distinctive form of traditionalism, close to surrealism.

544. SURREALISTIC
• It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.
• Our best guess is that the earthquake takes on a surrealistic aspect; it is certainly trivialized.
• If the Marx Brothers had made a surrealistic comedy while on downers, this would be it.

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• Earlier, an almost surrealistic comic chaos attended royal occasions.
• The pupils thought he'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with
more surrealistic pieces.
• A parody, a surrealistic sculpture in green slime.
• And the rooms pull a few surrealistic tricks with their architecture.

545. SWIVEL
• Kovitsky swiveled around to look at her.
• These cover a wide field of view without having to swivel as human eyes do.
• These swivel freely and act as weathervanes.
• As Agnes looked down Granny's eyes sprang open and swivelled from side to side.
• Ralph swivelled in his chair and looked directly at Meg.
• His eyes seemed to be trying to imitate a lizard and swivel in opposite directions.
• When there was nowhere to go in that infernally small space, one could always swivel in the other direction.
• The satellite has difficulty swiveling its antenna toward Earth.
• Mr Tench swivelled round in astonishment as the men burst through his office door.
• He swivelled the camera on the tripod to follow her as she crossed the yard.
• She swivelled the computer screen around so that I could see it too.
Swivel
• Affixed to the wall at a considerable height is a small television on a swivel, facing the bed.
• She looks around her with a swivel of her huge head.

546. SYCOPHANTIC
• But he is angriest at and reserves his strongest denunciation for the intelligentsia, whom
he accuses of sycophantic devotion to Yeltsin.
• There was his clique of sycophantic friends, many of them middle-aged, who were too fawning and deferential.
• Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help
the citizens of a nation.
• It has never been the intention of Guitarist to augment dealer ads with sycophantic reviews, either.
• The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of
the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
• It's hard to envisage the usual knighthoods for sycophantic tabloid editors, several of whom pointed out his failings.
• You get very fed up with people being sycophantic, toadying to you, as a symptom of success.

547. SYMBIOSIS
• Raisins and walnuts form a symbiosis that makes an indelible mark on so many recipes.
• Nothing reveals the originality and spirit of a people better than this astonishing symbiosis.
• Despite these differences between Convention law and Community law they possess a certain symbiosis.
• The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis...
• In effect, a cultural symbiosis forms between fanciful, driven club owners and inveterate clubgoers.
• Control of the sea and of sea-routes was crucial to the economic symbiosis established within the Angering Empire.
• In fact the sovereign courts at Turin seem to have lived in satisfactory symbiosis with the government.

548. TABOO
• Society leads you to believe that certain things are taboo.
• But confusion and anger and fear are taboo.
• Like Stanley Feingold before him, he had violated the taboo against discussing the limits of the remedial process.
• A still photographer and a video cameraman followed him in there, which is taboo and off-limits and
strictly verboten.
• In the '50s it was taboo for co-workers to date each other.
• Sex before marriage is no longer taboo in western countries.
• It is a taboo subject, and the marriage ceremonies are performed in secret.
• Death is still a taboo subject for many people.
• On all counts - a taboo subject.
• Rape is an equally taboo subject.
taboo subject
• As unemployment rose in 1992, redundancy ceased to be a taboo subject.
• By this time - the early seventies - homosexuality was no longer a taboo subject.

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• However, almost nothing else was considered a taboo subject.
• On all counts - a taboo subject.
• Rape is an equally taboo subject.
• It is a taboo subject, and the marriage ceremonies are performed in secret.
• This should certainly not be a taboo subject, but nor should it be used to flagellate the mass of teachers.
• By talking about this taboo subject in prayers, sermons and Sunday-school lessons.
Taboo
• Until a few years ago, there was a taboo around the subject of divorce.
• Sickness may be considered to be a punishment inflicted for neglect of certain taboos.
• Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect, so long as a few taboos were respected, especially the role of
the Soviet Union.
• At other times, converse sets of taboos could be quite useful.
• It is given to some presidents to break political taboos for all time.
• The rules are formally protected by supposedly powerful religious taboos, breach of which will result
in supernatural punishment for all concerned.
• Through his work, Freud realized that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than
was acknowledged by society.
• Farce likes to tinker with such taboos.
• But, of course, if you wanted to write seriously, then the taboos were difficult to avoid.
taboo about/on/against
• There has long been a taboo on the eating of fresh oysters during the months May through August.
• Their main problem was breaking cultural taboos about women attending market sun
accompanied and trading alone.
• There seems to be nothing taboo about the subject: everyone agrees excision no longer happens.
• There is a strong taboo against marrying outside the group.
• What is the taboo on life and liveliness inside the family?
• Like Stanley Feingold before him, he had violated the taboo against discussing the limits of the remedial process.
• These taboos against women as polluting to male sacred space are very ancient.

549. TACTILE
• a tactile animal
• A 102 key tactile keyboard has keys that give out an audible click when depressed.
• Pretty soon she and her friend were regulars in the tactile kinesthetic volunteer group.
• What is most notable about the exhibition is its tactile quality.
• a tactile sensation
• The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug, though of course his tactile sensations
aren't blunted.
• Visual size is not tactile size, visual extension and motion are not tactile extension and motion.
• Combining his interest in bird-watching with his tactile skills, Fetchero started carving bird models in 1972.
• Willingness to try new tactile stimulation strategies does sometimes turn up in unusual places, however.
tactile sensations
• The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug, though of course his tactile sensations aren't
blunted.

550. TANK
• She had never seen a tank close to.
• He opened up the lid of what must have been a fish tank holding their live catch.
• Other options include 150-gallon fuel tanks, a nod to the thirst of the Shamu-size vehicles.
• Only then could the swop, from one tank to another, take place.
• In smaller tanks it is useful in corners and in larger tanks as a center piece.
• Its creeping stock branches very quickly and rapidly make a thick green carpet completely covering the bottom of
the tank.
• My brackish water tank is built into a wall.
• The hot water tank is leaking.
• Anti-static absorbent cloths are available for use with tank cleaning preparations, and Quick Wipes for tank interiors.
gas tank
• Others squeeze their bodies into gas tanks.
• This will also entail moving the gas tanks which feed over 200 point heaters in the station throat.

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• Find something to eat and fill up the gas tank and see what the day brought.
• Then fill up the gas tank.
tank of
• When I left the house, the car only had a half tank of gas.tank2 verb
Tank
• But I was still getting hired to do movies, even though the films all appeared to be tanking.
• Car buying tanked as Saturn's first car rolled off the assembly line.

551. TARIFF
• Third, the results clearly show the non-equivalence between tariffs and quotas in the presence of oligopoly.
• Secondly the lowering of trans-ocean communications tariffs may make global data pipelines nearly
as cheap to operate as national networks.
• No one had risked more for tariff reform than he had in 1923.
• As a non-GATT member its goods generally faced higher tariffs and other trade barriers in world markets.
• Their customs union, known as Mercosur, took the final step last year toward eliminating most tariffs.
• Banana group Geest jumped 11p to 365p, boosted by recent tariff changes.
• The aim of the organization is to reduce tariffs and promote free trade.
• So Musser raised the tariff to $ 3.

tariff on
• Some representatives recommended higher tariffs on imported goods.

552. TAXIDERMY
• Herman's taxidermy was inexpert, but Ma Katz was desiccated rather than rotten.

553. TELEPATHY
• Psychic gifts, such as clairvoyance and telepathy.
• When do insight and discernment slip over into clairvoyance and telepathy?
• They lead students through introductory experiences in telepathy and techniques of
subspace communication and energy manipulation.
• Elements of telepathy and reincarnation weaving through the whole thing?
• A strange closeness developed, a shorthand, a kind of telepathy.
• Every few cases some preclear may try to palm off telepathy as an aberrative factor.
• It could be argued that telepathy is a desirable characteristic for the subordinates of such a person!
• The telepathy is working and extra singles are being clocked up.

554. TEMPERANCE
• I found my way to a temperance hotel advertised in the guide-book and found it a homely house.
• Antislavery, temperance and other favourite evangelical reform endeavours became an everyday part of evangelical
activity.
• A mature student, a former temperance lecturer had a problem of overcoming his style of eloquence in speaking.
• He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
• John, your present temperance is admirable but, selfishly, I am comforted by your inclusion of that awful tale.
• In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal, and concerned himself with
the temperance movement and local government.

555. TENACIOUS
• The approach is as persistent and tenacious as it is conventional and unimaginative.
• Lung cancer is one of the more aggressive and tenacious forms of cancer.
• He further obliterates his own identity behind a pair of mirrored sunglasses, whose glassy surface deflects even the
most tenacious gaze.
• Even she was surprised at Gedge's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him.
• Then it came to the attention of Edward Hooper, an unusually tenacious man.
• He was the most tenacious politician in South Korea.
• They were saved only by their tenacious solidarity.
• As she pulled out the last tenacious staple, a cassette tape fell out into her lap.
• As a reporter, David was tougher and more tenacious than the other three.
• Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be.

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556. THERAPEUTIC
• The world news might not be therapeutic.
• As with other therapeutic approaches, family therapy includes several phases.
• therapeutic drugs
• No doubt writing this book had therapeutic effects for its author.
• The always therapeutic intake of champagne helped.
• A summary of acute therapeutic stratagems is provided in Table 3-4.
• It is an unfortunate fact that Klein has almost no sociological theory, and that Marcuse has no therapeutic theory.
• Quinn and Strelkauskas explored various psychologic and immunologic effects of therapeutic touch.
• The treatment has little therapeutic value.

557. TINGE
• For the first time since her pregnancy I felt a tinge of worry about other men.
• The thought touched me with a tinge of sadness, at the same time that the scent touched me with happiness.
• It had a blue tinge to it.
• The light had a cold bluish tinge and the air was cooler too.
• It was slowly taking up the pink tinges of the rising sun.
• It has a very long neck like a duck, and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge.
• The red maples, at the edge of the clearing, have a reddish tinge.
• There was a yellow tinge to their skin.
tinge of
• She had a tinge of sadness in her voice.
Tinge
• It tinged the air with a smell of herbs and whisky.
• His flashes of light-hearted humour were commonly tinged with an awesome critical irony.
• Amelia called out cheerily to Jake, who remembered grinning, a grin tinged with anxiety.
• This hope is tinged with anxiety.
• Was our modern age of triumph destined from the start to be tinged with despair?
• The golden crown of a sugar maple tinged with orange can startle you with its luminescence.

558. TORPID
• Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.
• In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box.
• A lime-green chameleon, stretching from fence to shrub in torpid motion, beguiled us.
• By 1976, the union had become torpid, old, and bureaucratic.
• For nearly half-an-hour nothing happened, no sound broke the torpid silence of the village citadel.
• The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.

559. TRACTION
• The rigidity and traction of the EBs was far superior to spongy plimsolls.
• Bigfoot gets better traction off the line and vaults the moguls, arriving first at the turn.
• Rubber soles give the shoes better traction.
• Centre-stage of the final weekend's events were two grand locomotive cavalcades each day
which combined both steam and diesel traction.
• The line ran several combinations of preserved diesel traction over its tracks during the two-day event.
• It is important to keep the wheels rolling; rolling wheels have traction.
• The practical result is improved traction and vehicle handling on slippery roads.
• Locked-up wheels have no traction and slide.
• Your front wheels are sliding; you must regain traction, grip.
in traction
• He was in traction for weeks after the accident.

560. TRANQUIL
• For a few weeks, the atmosphere on the Street was quiet, almost tranquil.
• If you are calm, it will be tranquil.
• Thick with trees and sparse with homes, this tranquil area 50 miles north of Houston could be a slice of heaven.
• The mind is tranquil but alert, its consciousness commanding the body's movements.
• Their tranquil dreams broken, they were united in their resolve to repair the damage.

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• Efforts are being made to make life more tranquil in Japan's noisy and overcrowded cities.
• a tranquil mountain community
• But in this tranquil, often overlooked part of the country, the signs of outside intervention are clear.
• In summer, the normally calm, tranquil streets fill with crowds of tourists.
• If I was so tranquil, why was this happening?

561. TRANSCEND
• She doesn't worry about transcending anything, or tuning in to universal themes.
• Others see it as impersonal, transcending gender.
• The mystic is seeking to transcend his ego and acquire a disciplined compassion - a crucial virtue in all religions.
• Who at this point remembers a single moment in
the Whitewater hearings that transcendedhyperventilating partisanship?
• Many of the partnerships transcended school district boundaries because companies operate regionally, but they all
had strong community roots.
• According to the ancient wisdom, spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make
way for the Self.
• This is role playing at its worst; we must transcend these roles.
• We must somehow transcend this and create an atmosphere at our meetings which is welcoming to people from all
types of background.
• The beauty of her songs transcend words and language.

562. TRANSIENT
• With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.
• They list possible side effects as mild to moderate and transient.
• Elevations of serum transaminase are usually transient and dose-related, but occasionally
can indicate severe hepatotoxicity.
• The grandchild's more numerous social connections are shallower, more transient and imbued with
less moral content than the grandfather's.
• The cause is not transient but structural and deep-seated.
• The transient nature of speech does not permit editing of the speech signal.
• transient pleasures
• Phoenix has a very transient population.
• The essentially transient regime left behind little but resentment and destruction.
• Once the transient sleep problem has passed, stop taking the sleeping pills.
Transient
• He had been living as a transient in San Diego for several years before his arrest.
• Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.
• Empty houses attract drug users and transients.
• The king decreed that anyone who attempted to feed or house the eighty-six-year-old transient would be punished for
their efforts.
• On Wednesday, Brown apologized for his outbursts and vowed to get tough on park transients.
• In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient.

563. TRANSMUTE
• Anthony Storr shows how these depressive fears were magically transmuted in the literary sphere.
• Sienra's paintings show humans transmuting into animals.
• Her mixed media watercolors show humans transmuting into beasts, in strange landscapes full of foreboding.
• And that became transmuted into its converse: he survived because he was special.
• Ultimately the wooden drum was transmuted into the body of the membrane drum.
• Art is about creativity, transmuting the humblest subjects into the sublime.
• The second was that its atoms of uranium were transmuting themselves into atoms of a
different element whose atomic mass was lower.

564. TREACLE
• They were buying Eccles cakes and treacle tart and currant buns and iced tarts with bright-red cherries on top.
• As he took it off he remembered the sausage and treacle tart in his pocket.
• The output is an evil treacle, black and vile.
• They pour into the backstage car park like expensive treacle and come to a halt at the crack of a whip.

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• But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere.
• It is a socially conscious film that does not turn into treacle.
• This has been a duff year for him: the runs have flowed like treacle, and Dame Fortune has turned sour.
• It was like wading through treacle just to order a meal.
• Her hair and spectacles were plastered in white treacle.

565. TREPIDATION
• Some of this apparent trepidation is due to overwhelming self criticism of the proposal.
• I open my home with some trepidation and humility.
• It was a day that should rightly be viewed with some trepidation, but not in the time of Amos.
• It was with some trepidation that I slid a 5-pound chicken with peeled, quartered potatoes into the 500-degree oven.
• I threw in my entire savings toward the down-payment and, with trepidation, agreed to manage the building.
• When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.

566. TRIFLE
• Alas, they are just a trifle over life size.
• A tall man of military bearing, who I fancied looked a trifle uncomfortable in civilian clothes, stood on the threshold.
• But such a trifle was not worthy of being brought by such a gentleman as you seem to be.
• At first, the difficulty he had in opening the door of his room seemed no more than an irritating trifle.
• Buying a house is no trifle for middle class families.
• His antiquarian temperament has made him a greater snapper-up
of unconsidered trifles of archaeology, architecture and literature.
Trifle
• I was in no mood to trifle.
• Ferry captains have no time to trifle with inept sailors blocking the channel.
• How dare you trifle with me, he might have said; and worse, why should I care?
• I loathe men who trifle with women's affections.

567. TRILOGY
• I think a writer who's as much in love with words as you are has a trilogy in him.
• Say a trilogy about magic, the power of words.
• In fact, the dance-opera is the last of what he thinks of as a Cocteau trilogy.
• A fantasy trilogy, that's what you said.
• Coppola was also the director of "The Godfather" trilogy.
• Language and the nature of narrative imagination thus become central subjects of the trilogy.
• The trilogy will include previously unreleased footage as well as new visual effects and an enhanced soundtrack.
• Eno describes David's first adventure into the world of cybernetics and the making of their trilogy of albums.
• The other two works in the Volkogonov trilogy, on Lenin and Trotsky were later published by HarperCollins.

568. TUSSLE
• Oxford will have a tussle on their hands at the Manor.
• a tussle for control of the party
• After a boardroom tussle at Paramount, its studio chief, Frank Mancuso, quit.
• More agile, and much stronger than I, Kip got the bottle away from me after the briefest tussle.
• The first tussles of the 1848 revolution took place here when it was the military headquarters.
• Alton Bass Reserves winning a midfield tussle.
• The tussles in the coming months between the White House and the Republican Congress will be crucial.
• The two women got into a violent tussle in which Joan was thrown to the ground.
• Bad blood remained from the previous weeks tussle and national expectation weighed heavily on
everyone's shoulders.
Tussle
• The yeoman's wife would tussle for a good place to set down her stool.
• They were tussling, in their cute little MBA-zombie way, over who would get which cool movie poster.
• There were kids tussling on rafts of planks and plastic drums; couples in rowing boats; powerboats limping, out of
charge.
• Raider and hunter tussled, strength against strength, the one pulling up, the other down.
• One day, a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily.
• Her dolls or action figures may always kiss and hug, but never fight or tussle with each other, for example.

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• Shea tussled with the doorman when he was not allowed in the club.
• I tussled with the fish for a bit, a strong and lively fellow, and persuaded it to the boat.
• Now he was, spasmodically, totting up some figures - in the intervals between tussling with
the Telegraph crossword clues.

569. UNCANNY
• It was the quietness that was so uncanny.
• He has an uncanny ability to guess what you're thinking.
• And he has this uncanny ability to synthesize concepts from a few isolated observations.
• In one of the tales of the Arabian Nights the sovereign has the uncanny experience of meeting himself.
• He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer
Tracy.
• The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
• Republicans concede that the president has an uncanny rhetorical talent that he has used effectively to put
congressional leaders on the defensive.
• Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of
his intended victim.
• He had an uncanny way of making me feel simple.

570. UNDULATE
• It differs from the similar E. macro phyllus in its smaller, more rounded leaves and the leaf margins not
being undulate.
• The grass rolled in waves, glistening and gleaming as it undulated.
• I saw various ridges to my right and left, undulating over the huge and imposing landscape that now was exposed.
• The run culminated in open, undulating slopes towards the Mer de Glace.
• But though Rechtauk had disappeared and the forest been hewn down, the land was still soft and undulating,
still green.
• By undulating this, it drives itself forwards - or, with equal ease, backwards.
• Joey Meeson watched as Lizzy danced, her body undulating to the thumping rhythm of the acid house music.
• As the land undulated, waterfalls appeared and disappeared.

571. UNMITIGATED
• To an outsider this seemed a quite natural progression, but within the West Indies it was
not greeted with unmitigated delight.
• The first day of the offensive broke with cynical summer loveliness on a scene shortly to be one
of unmitigated horror.
• He must have been an unmitigated nuisance to Kasturt in the household.
• How did the Metropolitan Grill became an unmitigated overnight sensation?
• Dinner, however, was an unmitigated triumph.

572. URBANE
• Hyde, House Judiciary Committee chairman, is an urbane conservative respected by members of both parties.
• And yet Penzias makes a good case for the new golden age, and his urbane discourse is
both enlivening and instructive.
• She had barely recognized their cool, urbane general manager in the seedy, vengeful man who had made
such wild accusations.
• With its vintage cable cars and cosmopolitan restaurants, the city is brimming with urbane sophistication.
• The sketches paired macho athletes with their more urbane, suave counterparts.
• Robert the next day seemed urbane, sure of himself, even, she thought, pleased with himself.
• By day, this urbane, well-educated man mastered complex problems in a high-tech consulting firm.

573. VALE
• Meandering paths lead among dirt hills into odd little vales and over small bridges.
• Great granite fortresses sprang up in the misty vales and from
them Dragon Princes rode the thermals over sullen volcanoes.
• The economy of the vale was founded on livestock.
• The best view of the vale is from the hills surrounding it; it looks like a map spread out.
• We all know what next occurred-and here we all are, in this vale of tears.

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• Something marshy in the fogs of the wide vale of York seemed tonight to poison the gathering vapour

574. VANQUISH
• But this was not a night for Lewis to look down upon the vanquished.
• This spirit often turned the victors into the vanquished.
• She wouldn't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feel good Saloon.
• The narco manages to stay alive, elude capture, get his drugs across the border, and vanquish authorities.
• Victor and vanquished, he was beginning to think, came together in art and were one and the same.
• The City was close to surrender when, after five weeks, government troops vanquished the rebels around Aylesbeare.

575. VASCULAR
• To introduce the postoperative medical and nursing care of patients with peripheral vascular disease. 6.
• Most of the patients studied were free of clinically detectable vascular disease.
• This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in
the development of vascular disease.
• Moreover, ICAM-1 participates in the transient adhesion of leucocytes to the vascular endothelium and mediates, in
part, granulocyte extravasation.
• The device uses radiation to destroy tumors and vascular malformations with pinpoint accuracy.
• Intermittent Headache Headaches separated by period of days or weeks usually fall into the vascular or muscle-
contraction categories.
• In the fundus and corpus of the stomach an increase in superficial vascular pattern was visible.
• vascular tissue
• An auto-immune disease ensued, with destruction of nervous and vascular tissue.

576. VEGETATE
• When I retired I didn't want to just vegetate.
• After frittering away her fortune, she vegetated alone in her Paris flat.
• Either you vegetate and look out the window or you get busy and try to effect change.
• Resting, sleeping and generally vegetating are obvious ways of unwinding.
• If I must vegetate, I'd rather do so at home, in spite of the undoubtedly superior ménage here.
• It is specially important not to let him vegetate in front of the television for long periods.

577. VENAL
• Ezra can be mistaken - more thoroughly mistaken than most people - but he has never been venal.
• He was not to mention the matter of money to the press: that would be too venal.
• The law courts are venal and can take decades to decide a case.
• a venal tyrant

578. VENDETTA
• One of the gang members began a vendetta against her after she testified.
• When she testifies against them, one begins a vendetta against her.
• Sure, I have a vendetta against him and he has one against me.
• It was a vendetta, any child would have seen that.
• West Yorkshire police emphasized yesterday that no evidence had emerged to link the killing to
any vendetta or previous trouble.
• Ellis claims he is the victim of a conspiracy with a personal vendetta against him.
• The lure of mutual profit wiped out, at least temporarily, their personal vendetta.
• The recent bombings may be a sign of a renewed vendetta between rival separatists.
• The killing was the result of a long-standing vendetta over gambling profits.
political vendetta
• In closed-door sessions with House Republicans, Gingrich blamed his ethics problems on a Democratic political
vendetta.

579. VENEER
• So they have to find their way into the international financial system, where they can be given a veneer of legality.
• I hope the unity will be more than a veneer by the end.
• By this he means acquiring a thin veneer of knowledge to mask his corruption.
• I was afraid alcohol would eat through the thin veneer of self-control.

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• Suddenly your grown-up veneer gives way to a childlike sensitivity that causes you to feel-within minutes-
wonderful happiness and acute distress.
• walnut veneer
walnut/maple/oak etc veneer
• The label is in fact not paper, but a maple veneer - a classy touch.
• The saloons had perforated plywood benches like the Milnes cars, maple veneer ceilings with lighting along the
sides only.
• In the old days before the First World War, Papa had traded in the walnut veneer business.
• The oak veneer top was so warped it resembled the surface of the sea in a moderate chop.

580. VENERABLE
• Break spear was both more venerable and less ostentatious than most colleges.
• Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock, many venerable crafthave been pensioned
off.
• This is what he's done to the venerable game of golf and our conception of what is and isn't possible.
• a venerable New York City law firm
• While the church was burning, congregants pulled out venerable objects, including a safe where the books were
housed.
• In December 1994, for example, the venerable retailer had a same-store sales increase of 7. 3 percent.
• As for Deanes, there's an old and venerable tradition of the holy fool.
venerable tradition
• In this, they followed a venerable tradition.
• The pageantry surrounding the court is a feast of spectacle and venerable tradition.
• As for Deanes, there's an old and venerable tradition of the holy fool.

581. VENOMOUS
• Doctors and hospitals, although locked in increasingly venomous combat with insurers, also are mostly opposed.
• a venomous debate over health care
• Mrs Saul it is gave the soldiers a venomous look and soothed and patted Parslina protectively.
• She began mouthing words in venomous silence; she clenched her fists in rage.

582. VENTRICLE
• Spiralling leg fractures, cysts, ventricle failure also saw her whisked into the operating theatre.
• Enlarged ventricles have been found in an identical twin who develops schizophrenia, compared to the one who does
not.
• It had penetrated the chest wall from the front, and pierced the left ventricle of the heart.
• There was a lot of excitement about the ventricles during the Renaissance.
• Just the usual cavities that everyone has-those big reservoirs of cerebrospinal fluid we call the ventricles.
• In the latter painting we stare straight into the ventricles of a human heart, the veins spreading out like branches.
• Compressed air oscillates the ventricles, circulating blood around the body.
• Clark's implant, which replaces the two ventricles - bottom pumping chambers - is made
of polyurethane and aluminum.

583. VERACITY
• This proposition has been the subject of much empirical debate, but at present there seems
no overwhelming consensus as to its veracity.
• There is no way in which he could emphasize the veracity of his testimony except by literally asserting it.
• The first is whether we tend to accept too readily the veracity and accuracy of media reports.
• They relate to his stock portfolio and to the veracity of statements he made to Congress.
• When the Mod was the sole source of information, the press could only speculate as to the veracity of its statements.

584. VERTEX
• Just like the cube standing on a vertex, discussed in Chapter 7.
• Each vertex may have a number of edges emanating from it.
• Burning in vertex of head with coldness in the forehead.
• A is the vertex and F is the focus.
• This locates the vertex of both tractrix and catenary and their vertical axis of symmetry can be erected.

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• That portion of the epicranium which lies immediately behind the frons and between the compound eyes
is termed the vertex.
• The vertex passes through O and the focus is on the y axis at & a /4;.
• The feet, eyes, ears, nose, throat, vertex of head, stomach, chest all burn.

585. VERVE
• That the evening could still be counted a success was partly down to the attack and verve of the
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir.
• When he died at 70 in 1970 Jeanson had lost none of his verve or punch.
• Clearly the criterion for survival has little to do with narrative verve alone.
• He was amazed to experience his old verve this morning, enough to give him something more than just gumption.
• Pat has a remarkable verve for life.
• Bartolo, sung by baritone Jamie Offenbach, was one of the few roles sung with verve.

586. VIABLE
• They are in favour of the program, but they want strong assurances that it is viable.
• These approaches produced successes, and the subfield of expert systems became commercially viable.
• Nuclear energy is the only viable alternative to coal or gas.
• This leaves criminal prosecution as the only viable option.
• These are the kinds of decisions on which viable performance improvement is ultimately based.
• Do you think this is a viable proposition?
• The only viable route to a future of growth is to allow these basic human activities free rein.
• The investment remains beyond reach for many, but the choices today are much broader and more viable than 10
years ago.
• Response to radiotherapy was assessed and further laser treatment performed if a viable tumour was identified.
economically/commercially/financially viable
• Nuclear power has never been economically viable.
• Two other developments have helped to make mains signaling commercially viable.
• With a minimum wage this nursery would no longer have been financially
viable.• They've devised a series of guidelines that will enable the beauty spot to stay both commercially
viable and beautiful.
• In recent years coal gasification has become increasingly economically viable due to technological developments.
• What was once an economically viable privilege becomes an economically unviable entitlement.
• The growth of competition put paid to repeated attempts by the railways and the
political authorities to establish a financially viable railway.
• A number of grants and incentives are available for projects which are socially desirable, but not commercially
viable without support.

587. VINTAGE
• With its vintage cable cars and cosmopolitan restaurants, the city is brimming with urbane sophistication.
• While you are waiting for your private audience with the king of the Magic Kingdom you can
watch vintage cartoons.
• They lunched on lobster and strawberries, accompanied by a fine vintage champagne.
• "A lot of people have never been in an open car, " says Mike Jacobsen, a computer programmer, who has
four vintage convertibles.
• Best when aged 2 to 4 years from vintage date.
• The latest film has a vintage Disney charm.
• Be suspicious of vintage kosher wines that are older than comparable nonkosher wines.
• And over the weekend there's the usual chance to see the traditional display and run of vintage machinery.
• The 1960s vintage subs would require substantial refitting.
• The vintage wine had anointed his tongue with new and seductive language.
vintage•
Some of his competitors are still selling their 1993s, a good vintage but one that should be consumed without delay.
• Hodges finally sits, and I munch on sour dough bread in between sips of the luscious vintage.
• But their stardom is of a more recent vintage.
• My thanks to all for a superior vintage.

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588. VIRULENT
• Occasionally, a virus is created with a combination of genes that makes it especially virulent.
• a virulent critic of the United Nations
• When Robert was twelve and I seven, both my parents and Ann were smitten by a particularly virulent flu germ.
• He had developed a vaccine using virulent forms of polio that were then killed with formaldehyde and injected.
• That lofty notion spread like a virulent germ into every law school in the nation.
• While companies talk about sustainable agriculture, they create plant varieties that can withstand being sprayed by
their most virulent herbicides.
• The least resistant hosts and the least virulent parasites were killed in each generation.
• He tried to organize a debate, and invited the most virulent protesters to come on stage and put their case.
• a more virulent strain of HIV

virulent form
• Alana was diagnosed April 5 with acute myeloid leukemia, type M-7, a particularly virulent form of cancer.
• Restoring culture can just as easily lead to a new and virulent form of fundamentalism as to
a revival of cultural diversity.
• He had developed a vaccine using virulent forms of polio that were then killed with formaldehyde and injected.
• But particularly virulent forms of strep have come and gone throughout history.

589. VISTA
• Beginning next month, more Crissy Field buildings will be taken apart, opening
more Bay vistas to hikers and bike riders.
• There was only one small patch of disappointment in his vista of happiness.
• He stood gazing off into vistas, legs apart, arms folded across his chest and thought deep thoughts.
• The castle commands a magnificent vista of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
• a spectacular mountain vista
• In front a simple porch offered a spectacular vista of coconut-fringed beach, lagoon, and open sea beyond.
open up new vistas
• The information, at first, had seemed to open up new vistas.

590. VOCIFEROUS•
The most vociferous critic among this latter group was W.. Edwards Deming.
• vociferous demands
• His approach has won keen admirers and vociferous detractors in the United States.
• However, there is vociferous disagreement over how that investment might be made.
• William Bennett, a former drug tsar, was a vociferous foe, as is Louis Sullivan, the health secretary.
• As long as globalization is synonymous with economic imperialism it is worthy of the most vociferous opposition.
• Evelyn was just about the most self-deluded person she had ever met, a vociferous pseudo-feminist.

591. VORACIOUS
• He has a voracious appetite for knowledge about what is happening around every corner in New York City.
• Walburga once suppressed the voracious appetite of a child by having her consume three ears of grain.
• It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100-200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks
of infection.
• Thus a dragonfly and its larva are both voracious eaters of their fellow creatures.
• Caterpillars are voracious leaf-eaters.
• It was a dorado or dolphin fish, a voracious predator which feeds mostly on flying fish.
• A voracious reader, Vea is adamant about the pursuit of writing excellence.
• a voracious reader
voracious appetites
• Children have voracious appetites for authenticity, but in drama we should never intimidate them
with factual information.
voracious reader
• Academic staff are voracious readers and inveterate talkers.
• A voracious reader, Vea is adamant about the pursuit of writing excellence.
• He was a voracious reader with a compulsion to finish everything he started.

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592. VORTEX
• Earlier migrants were drawn into the vortex as well.
• This increases the magnitude of the vorticity, but because of continuity also reduces the cross-section of
the vortex tube.

vortex of
• His statements helped calm the vortex of emotions surrounding the case.

593. WAN
• Angela looked wan and tired.
• Instead, I forced my features into a wan imitation.
• Amanda turned, caught Jean's eye and smiled, a thin, wan smile.
• Relieved that he had an airplane at all, Branson received the news with a wan smile.
• The policeman attempted a wan smile.

594. WHEEDLE
• In contrast, his manner is ingratiating, even wheedling.
• I am going to see an operation if I can wheedle anybody into letting me.
• In such ways the devil wheedles his way into human relationships with highly damaging effects.
• He likes me to wheedle, the brute.
• Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to
Gesner?
• The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.
wheedle something from/out of somebody
•Wexler tried to wheedle the information out of him.

595. WOOF
• I began to understand our pattern was set and that there was a warp and woof to the larger world.
• I could hear the warp and woof of his life.
• One of them was the mountain chicken, emitting a discreet, woof.

596. WRY
• Knowing this, Googol tried to be wry about his own feelings and eschewed any dandified garb such as Jaq now
sported.
• Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake
.• A dash of wry cynicism might have helped another woman, but that was not Franca's way.
• She relaxed and told Jay about her life, with the wry humour of a survivor.
• And he retains the sense of wry humour which he reckons every newspaperman needs, if only to keep him sane.
• This is a delicious comedy full of wry observations and delightful fun-poking at the world of movie-making.
• Somehow, he derived a strange, wry satisfaction from this thought.
• a wry smile
• In spite of herself, Lisa smiled a wry smile.

597. XENOPHOBIA
• This sense is often identified with nationalism and patriotism which can be dangerously close
to racism, chauvinism and xenophobia.
• Was it an outburst of fanatical xenophobia led by monks and friars?
• In an atmosphere of growing xenophobia many foreigners were deported or even imprisoned.
• Emmen's result indicates that the process is institutionalizing xenophobia.
• Finance is again king, cemented by romanticism about retaining political sovereignty over the pound and laced with
not a little xenophobia.
• We ourselves were unaware of the dimensions of this new xenophobia.
• Money was a less direct factor here: high unemployment and reliable xenophobia were sufficient justifications.
• One form this took was xenophobia.

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