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That could prove in all too many ways to be eminently counterproductive. an eminently sensible plan. That use has since slipped into obsolescence, as has the word's use to mean "conspicuously"

These may have been similar to crepuscular rays on Earth. crepuscular activities in the city that never fall asleep. crepuscular insects adjusted they style of foraging for preventing the attacks of predators during daylight.

Coordinate care inside and outside carceral settings.

dilatory, tardy in paying bills. He can’t be blamed for the agency’s dilatory response to problems at the plant.

immutability. Lincoln vigorously disagreed, affirming the existence of universal truths, that all men are created equal and that certain moral principles are immutable.

commuting foreign currency to domestic. The periodic payments may be commuted into a lump sum. commute a death sentence to life in prison

abrogate a treaty. The company's directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities.

They arrogate to themselves the power to punish people.

don't derogate your achievements. few instances of inaccuracy or mediocrity can never derogate from the superlative merit of Homer. The title of the book derogates the people it is about.

The witness's affidavit was presented to the court as evidence. and an affidavit is always a sworn written document.

The scene devolved into chaos. streams devolving from the mountains. the estate devolved on a distant cousin

The fire died down, marked only by a brief effulgence of a glowing ember. Dawn was near and the stars had lost their effulgence.

Bombinate sounds like it should be the province of bombastic blowhards who bound up and bombard you with droning blather at parties—and it is

For most basketball fans, that joy will transmogrify into disappointment, sadness or even fleeting anger once their favorite team is eliminated.

custom -made. While factory-made furniture is almost always less expensive, nothing beats the charm of a bespoke, hand-carved chair or table.

Residents of the dorm agree to abide by the dorm's rules. I just can't abide such blatant dishonesty

Left the company of one's volition. Do something voluntarily means that you do it of your own volition.

the house stood kitty-corner across the square. applied to the four-dotted side of a die—a side important in several winning combinations in dice games.

the city's run-down waterfront was occupied mostly by disreputable places frequented by drunkards and rapscallions. that little rapscallion kept hiding my shoes and making me go look for them

a gauche turn of phrase. it would be gauche to mention the subject

bilious commentary her bilious humor. the bilious weather with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow

the good news augurs well prosperity for all our neighbors. It augured well for the future. the fortune-teller augured nothing but a series of calamities for me

the congressional resolution has symbolic value only, as it relates to a matter governed by the states and is thus nugatory. the book is entertaining, but its contributions to Shakespearean scholarship are nugatory. a monarch with nugatory powers

the rubber-faced, loose-jointed comedian is a master of knockabout farce. the recall of a duly elected official for a frivolous reason is not democracy in action but a farce

He lived a knockabout life in the city. a knockabout game of football in the mud. The knockabout during the tennis match is fast. This party was so knockabout that they called the police.

Then, in the ISIS years, the US chose to ally with the Iraqi/Syrian Kurds to extirpate ISIS. endangered species that have been almost entirely extirpated, shows signs of reoccurrence on the western coast of the island.

We've got to vamoose until they get over that dining- room.

it's not a sole impetus for human language development, however it is certainly something that has left a mark, which is nothing to sneeze at

sanctimonious hypocrite

wheedle one's way into favor. In the final scenes, when Lucia and Mia wheedle their way into his suite for a threesome, Dom can’t hold onto his guilty conscience.

Consider quintessence, a synonym of the “essence of a thing” meaning of quiddity, and quibble, a synonym of the “trifling point” use. And let’s not forget about quirk: like quiddity, quirk can refer to a person’s eccentricities

are raiding the Treasury and sandbagging the government. He claimed he was playing badly because of an injury, but I think he was sandbagging.

her newest screenplay is a lachrymose drama exploring the effects of loss late in life. tended to become lachrymose when he was drunk

celerity of movement is vital in war

It's about time we made Congress act efficiently and expeditiously. We will work with them to resolve these issues in an appropriate and expeditious manner."

the spirit that imbues the new constitution. imbue students with intellectual curiosity

How are you doing, compadre? they're longtime compadres who have been through a lot together

He has a delightfully irreverent sense of humor. irreverent behavior during church services

a fiduciary relationship a bank's fiduciary obligations

a morass of traffic jams. a legal morass. the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass

The putative cause of a death, for example, is the one widely believed to have caused it, even when it hasn't been proven or made certain. However, one does not say "the cause was putative.

an ineluctable fate. a word often used to describe fates that one cannot squirm free from, whether due to something as cosmic as the Fates themselves or as corporeal as a headlock

my father and grandparents were proud observers of my nativity

gestational the gestation of new ideas The book has been in gestation for a long time.

a tortuous conspiracy. a tortuous path. Be careful not to confuse tortuous with torturous. These two words are relatives but tortuous means "winding" or "crooked," whereas torturous means "painfully unpleasant

precocious puberty. precocious child. Robert was almost eight now, and precocious for his age.

She was a late bloomer as a writer.

delegate authority delegated the task to her assistant. She goes to the summit as a delegate. I delegated my duties and I have a night off.

from a cost standpoint, the company's timing is fortuitous. The “lucky” use has been disparaged by critics, but it is now well established. Irregardless (cough), employing this sense in sterner company may be considered chancy.

religious beliefs disparaged as superstition. depreciate

Another conundrum is why women have less body hair than men. He is faced with the conundrum of trying to find a job without having experience. Why didn't the lost hikers starve in the desert? Because of the sand which is there.")

volumes in which he has garnered the fruits of his lifetime labors

a charlatan willing to do and day virtually anything to remain in the spotlight. Impostors may try to put themselves over, but these quacks will not last.

opposes the partition of Germany, and holds that the economic consequences of Balkanizing the country would. now pop culture has been balkanized; it is full of niches, with different groups watching and playing their own things

The city's financial crisis came to a head in 1975.

My stay in Warsaw laps with yours, we can meet. The cat lapped up the milk very fast. The waves lapped against the side of the boat. Your elbow is bleeding, you should lap it!

problems endemic to translation. the self-indulgence endemic in the film industry

I'm absolutely knackered, so no pub-crawling for me tonight. I'm absolutely knackered, so no pub-crawling for me tonight

wangled a way to get free tickets to the show. We wish we could wangle conclusive evidence to support this theory, but alas!

Doctrinaire, however, describes someone who is rigidly and impractically devoted to a doctrine

At one time, weal and wealth were synonyms; both meant “riches” (as in “all their worldly weal”) and “well-being. Before presenting the bill to the legislature, the senator spoke of her devotion to the common weal.

The paper was poorly researched and fraught with errors. Today, campus life is much more stressful, fraught, time-stressed and anxiety-ridden. originally, something that was fraught was laden with freight

If you’re looking to give your speech a gentle, formal flair, don't give acquiesce the silent treatment

Why did he not forbear when this end was accomplished?

a gossipy, vapid woman, obsessed by her own elegance. Then away goes the brisk and pleasant Spirits and leave a vapid or sour Drink

magniloquent boasts. Euripides: The famous tragic poet, whose mythical heroes often appear on stage in shabby dress, he is a frequent target in later plays and he appears here as a magniloquent hoarder of disreputable costumes.

was divested of his rights divesting herself of all her worldly possessions encouraged the university to divest itself from fossil fuels. Christmas trees divested of their ornaments. We may have to divest assets to raise capital.

signs enjoin attendees from photographing the event. they enjoined us to secrecy.

how insolent of late he is become, how proud, how peremptory. a peremptory call. peremptory disregard for objection. a peremptory call

an onerous task onerous regulations an onerous mortgage. the onerous task of cleaning up the mess. Environmentalism poses stark issues of survival, for humankind and for all those other tribes of creatures over which we have exercised our onerous dominion

a relationship tantamount to marriage. His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt. They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.

With the release of The Mandalorian season 3 just over six weeks away, after a two-year hiatus, Lucasfilm dropped a new trailer on Monday, giving us a glimpse of what’s next in the adventures of Din Djarin and Grogu.

Another German word for "Ersatz-" is Surrogat (surrogate). By the time World War II came around, bringing with it a resurgence of ersatz products, ersatz was wholly entrenched in the language.

When contretemps first appeared in English in the 1600s, it did so in the context of fencing: a contretemps was a thrust or pass made at the wrong time, whether the wrongness of the time had to do with one’s lack of skill or an opponent’s proficiency

The existence of horror is inevitably proximate to the existence of wondrous possibility."The proximate cause of the student protests was the firing of a popular professor, but there had been murmurings of unrest all year.

The president lauded the work of the association. There is much to load when it comes to our doctor's engagement during classes. Thank you for your laudable work teaching all of us about security over the years.

Now and then they said appropriately laudatory things to her.

Since the advent of film, television, and, touchscreens, a new sense also appears to be developing, as tactile is increasingly used to suggest that something visual is particularly evocative or suggestive of a certain texture. tactile, sensory enrichment

courtiers fawning on the king. fawns over the etymology

The season finale of Andor does a brilliant job of tying together all the disparate plot threads, but there is still more story left to tell." I have collected the data from a wide variety of disparate sources.

a cavalcade of natural disasters. The cavalcade arrived at the hotel. a cavalcade of antique cars. was used specifically to refer to a procession of horseback riders or carriages, especially as part of a special occasion, whether joyous or funereal.

Google had asked that the Justice Department recuse Mr. Kanter from cases against the company, citing federal rules and an executive order by the Biden administration around possible conflicts

a belated apology They did make a belated attempt to reduce the noise. Belated birthday greetings!

the pen is mightier than the sword. admired their teacher despite his foibles ... talent is always balanced by foible

The food was nice enough but the service was somewhat lackadaisical. half-hearted

make somebody's hackles rise. Stop playing the drums. you are mercilessly raising my hackles. the issue raised some hackles

They made a contraption that one professor put on his head. I'd have no idea how a contraption like this could be put together.

took measures to undergird the ship. facts and statistics subtly undergird his commentary. Both sides are girding for battle. Morality had to undergird those laws.

He told us his dolorous story.

That behavior was reprehensible, Meyer said, and potentially devastating to the flowers everyone was clamoring to see.” commit a reprehensible act

The band's eponymous debut album received critical acclaim. Most of the time, though, we see eponymous describing a thing named for a person—for example, an eponymous brand named for a designer, or a band’s eponymous album titled with the band’s name.

Several students importuned the professor to extend the deadline of the lengthy essay assignment until she finally relented. As a tourist, you are importuned for money the moment you step outside your hotel.

the camera moves on a fixed fulcrum, either horizontally (panning) or vertically (tilting). he is ... the reader's eyes and ears and the fulcrum of his judgment

An unctuous individual may mean well, but the person’s insincere effusiveness can leave an unwelcome residue—much like that of some ointments. But when you are dealing with a narcissist ... you can never be unctuous enough.”

Her latest book has engendered a lot of controversy. policies that have engendered controversy. It’s a step toward fostering engagement and engendering responsibility. If we say we are listening, students are more likely to speak.

a mob of maudlin rummies ... sing hymns. would crack open another beer and become maudlin. He became maudlin and started crying like a child.

a loquacious spokesperson. Such loquacity doesn’t come cheap, not just in terms of paying your writers and cast but also in capturing actors’ performances.

Times Square is the nexus of the New York subway. Another example is the nexus between poverty, population growth, and the environment. center, hub, an additional, modern meaning

that tore the house Targaryen asunder. Something inside him suddenly felt as if it had been sundered. In time, this man will sunder the woman's previous relationship. Their lives were torn asunder by the tragedy.

sheen has been removed. Britain's number-one tennis player gave a disappointingly lacklustre performance.

The paintings, filled with fantastical imagery conjured by the artist's imagination, have a compellingly oneiric quality. oneiric, enchanted, with language that surprises and clauses that seem to magnetically adhere."

The organization ended up with a surfeit of volunteers who simply got in each other's way. Pet owners can have a tougher time finding apartments because of the surfeit of landlords who don't allow dogs, cats or other animals in their buildings

Jacob was discomfited by the new employee’s forward, probing questions. Their strategy was to discomfit the competition.

We live in the light of Churchill's pugnacious performance under fire.

The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin