= 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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* *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 | | |
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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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