= 100 Sentences

* *We become more defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.*
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| affirm | deliberate | empirical | flatter 
| genuine | intuition | portray | profound 
| superiority | inferiority | despise | disdain 
| scorn | contemn | humiliate | insult 
| lash | offend | reproach | underrate |
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* *Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.*
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| brisk | divine | formidable | retrospect 
| sober | solemn | unpretentious | vibrant |
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* *Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed. Mail-box keeps the spammer out of our inboxes.*
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| clumsy | incorporate | intricate | liable 
| notwithstanding | prosperous | reciprocal | resort
| reveal | utilize | venture | whip |
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* *At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity.*
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| unleash | adverse | averse | aggravate
| casualty | disperse | scatter | dissipate
| emission | emit | enclosure | evacuate
| precaution | quench | pile | elevated |
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* *As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.*
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| cloak | commodity | deputy | disgrace 
| pursue | recruit | turbulent | conform 
| consent | weld |||
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* *Everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.*
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| deficit | discard | fluctuate | impair
| impetus | momentum |  strive | endeavor
| headstrong | unbending | submissive | surge
| surpass | textile | undermine | intensify |
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* *It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.*
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| articulate | grasp | abrupt | aerial 
| antenna | consecutive | continuity | intensity
| marvelous | metaphysical | overhear | plague
| sensual | sonata | implicit | prevail |
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* *Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.*
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| distinct | shaky | entitlement | ethic
| lapse | sprout | stem | vermin |
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* *A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama English society.*
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| morality | satirize | intricate | panorama 
| backdrop | bleak | installment | plunge
| reputation | conceal | imprison | reform
| steward | wound | extrication ||
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* *Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.*
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| retain | enviable | rural | coherence 
| alongside | dweller | endorse | meadow
| pasture | mead | lucrative | renewal
| renovation | sensible | sentiment | spectrum
| bait | barn | ditch | famine
| fell | fertile | flock | irrigate
| orchard | ore | peasant | plough 
| reservoir | ripe | trench | entrenched |
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* *Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.*
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| profit | disposable | lucrative | turnover
| virtue | courtesy | diligence | painstaking
| forgiveness | norm | criteria | intricate
| ethics | bribe | bully | intimidate
| bluster | vicious | debase | deceit
| fraud | trickery | imposter | gamble
| notorious | disreputable | strain | superficial
| vice | versa | concede | confess |
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* *We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.*
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| hail | extol | emigrant | promotion
| proclaim | refugee | rigid ||
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* *The issue of voluntary past-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.*
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| decent | divert | erect | meditate
| subordinate | transcend | exceed | underlie
| vacant | reap | retake ||
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* *Firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug's efficacy.*
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| correlation | agitate | discrepancy | futile
| genetics | innovation | monopoly | preliminary
| renovate | symmetry | synthesis | photosynthesis |
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* *Dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.*
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| paralysis | reluctant | bruising | concession
| illiquid | vastly | appall | coward
| dismay | dread | startle | timid |
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* *He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully".*
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| humbly | concisely | hazy | submissiveness
| inferior | badge | pendulum | rim
| fringe | rpd | scrap | shaft |
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* *Many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.*
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| canon | bulletin | embark | enroll
| faculty | holistic |||
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* *Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.*
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| sparing | anxious | extravagant | incentive
| lottery | obsession | scarce | wage
| coupon | hospitality | diminish | curtail
| miniature | trifle |||
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* *These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.*
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| benefactor | distort | inevitable | unintentional
| prestige | recipient | scatter | indict
| dictator | captivate | beguile | intrigue
| lure | entice | allure ||
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* *Perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.*
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| faint | intangible | wasp | physique
| persuasion | ethical | impinge | scent
| odor | slender | stylish | uplifting
| amiable | arrogant | cocky | humble
| blunt | bluff | eccentric | egp
| hypocrisy | hypocritical | hysterical | imperial
| queer | eccentric | slippery | sly
| sympathetic | sympathize | tame | temperament
| vanity | vicious | savage | weird |
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* *The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879, where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.*
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| elaborate | stencil | marquetry | escort
| squire | invasion | maneuver | militant
| raid | siege | besiege | cunning
| delicate | exquisite | aisle | bolt
| compartment | overleap | tilt | incline
| lean | tuck | waterproof | wedge |
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* *The researchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.*
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| ornate | ceremonial | antique | clue
| engrave | epoch | excavation | pinpoint
| primitive | savage | barbaric | barbarous
| settlement | systematic | terrain | enormous
| grave | immense | ingenious | lofty |
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* *It may be said that the measure of worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience, but this effect is not a part of its original motive.*
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| aboriginal | appetite | crush | deviate
| directive | disposition | disrupt | drawback
| enslavement | entity | essence | gratify
| hatred | headway | incidental | industriousness
| instill | overrule | overthrow | perpetuity
| resent | thrift | tuition | uproar |
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* *Our mental health doesn't really go anywhere, like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable being restored in an instant.*
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| inflict | afflict | conscience | immune
| innate | instinct | mend | shatter
| sigh | exterior | interior | intermediate
| inverse | lateral | mutual | oriental
| rear | bump | creep | linger
| procession | scramble | disorder | stagger
| astound | stroll | wander | |
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* *No boy who went to a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.*
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| ignorant | decay | dignity | disguise
| farcical | inhabitant | interval | monologue
| prosper | repertoire | sarcastic | hollow
| medieval | metaphor | orthodox | renaissance
| renewal | satire | decline | verse |
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* *The most loyal customers would still get the product they flavor, the idea, and they'd feel like they helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.*
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| enterprising | blunder | cease | sustain
| commonplace | counterpart | nostalgia | tremendous
| enormous | auxiliary | avail | endow
| bequeath | facilitate | salvation | deliverance |
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* *But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.*
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| anticipation | apt | prophesy | foretell
| imminent | calamitous | distress | appoint
| ballot | bureau | bureaucracy | eloquent
| ethnic | municipal | nominate | forerunner
| sanction | senate | veto ||
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* *Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots" concepts as community sport associations.*
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| alumnus alumni | bruise | cruise | commemorate
| gymnasium | intimate | obesity | parachute
| pedal | pledge | saddle | spectator
| bystander | thrive | trial ||
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* *While few craftsmen or farmer, let alone dependents and servants, let literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.*
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| craftsman | intellectualized | attach | civility
| clergyman | decisive | earnestness | emigrate
| frustration | puritan | sermon | theological
| virtuosity | accountant | butcher | carpenter
| clergy | cop | cripple | missionary
| mistress | mob | throng | swarm
| pilgrim | priest |||
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* *While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.*
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| amongst | desirable | forge | parcel
| profoundly | undue | bail | culprit
| detain | petition | testimony | cardinal |
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* *Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.*
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| intimacy | projection | exaggerate | factual
| imperative | prevalent | scandal | defer
| eternal | cursory | fleet | expeditious
| initiate | instantaneous | postpone | coinstantaneous
| coincident | contemporary | transient ||
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* *According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and likeability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.*
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| access | compliment | formal | radiant
| trivial | analog | seduce ||
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* *Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the invention of a few, especially gifted peoples that, according to diffusionists, they spread to other cultures.*
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| virtual | anatomy | anthropology | coincide
| metallurgy | ritual | imply | solidarity
| concord | incur | induce | deduce |
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* *The upside is the possibilities constrained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were expect in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.*
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| erroneous | evoke | invoke | provoke
| revoke | exploitation | delusion | elusion
| inferiority | ponder | contemplate | likelihood
| oath | meditate | rationalization | sobering
| utmost | weaver |||
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* *If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.*
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| cascade | propagate | anecdotal | compel
| cursory | derive | intuitively | minority
| plausible | presence | dense | excess
| redundant | superfluous | excessive | scanty
| redundancy | saturate | drench | soak
| saturated | saturation | suffice | surplus
| collide | counteract | counterbalance | defy
| protest | rebel | rebellion | disobedience
| rebellious | refute | confute || 
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* *In a workplace that's fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work - and how your work defines who you are.*
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| allegiance | devotion | dispute | explicitness
| irony | transmission | prompt | religious
| coarse | dubious | dubiety | reckless
| impetuous | prudent | vulgar ||
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* *Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.*
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| infirm | intensify | avert | cohesive
| dull | jolt | pretext ||
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* *Researchers measured people's cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.*
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| cortisol | refuge | blur | lag
| canteen | cradle | cylinder | drip
| elastic | foam | furnace | odor
| rack | crevice | sack | sham
| shrug | slack | tan | weary
| worship | wreath | yawn ||
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* *While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.*
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| distaste | socioeconomic | bedrock | boredom
| grim | objectionable | repel | revolt
| tiresome | compromise | hamper | massacre
| overwhelm | persecute | spur | conspiracy
| strife | traitor | treason | hostility |
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* *When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it's not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers - but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.*
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| hypothesis | brim | dean | mood |
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* *The Industrial Revolution didn't go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living standards and created more jobs than it destroyed.*
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| loom | contaminate | taint | defile
| preach | remnant | revive | revitalize
| stimulant | vapor | cultivate | turbine
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* *The ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.*
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| stake | transaction | hedge | punch
| ascend | augment | escalate | intensify
| hoist | spiral |||
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* *Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers' unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.*
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| clamp | imply | patrol | pension
| unionize | vigorously | averse | frown
| copious | lavish | multitude | plenteous
| profuse | swarm |||
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* *Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers.*
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| chromosome | inherit | kinship | martial
| paternal | paternity | prescription | saliva
| swab | censor | scrutiny | inquiry |
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* *Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs.*
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| bipedal | withstand | limb | alternation
| brace | choke | coil | fling
| flip | toss | gallop | grin
| grope | heave | hurl | inhale
| snatch | sniff | stir | stoop
| stride | stumble | tumble ||
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