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100 Sentences

• We become more defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.

affirm	deliberate	empirical	flatter
genuine	intuition	portray	profound
superiority	inferiority	despise	disdain
scorn	contemn	humiliate	insult
lash	offend	reproach	underrate

• Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

brisk	divine	formidable	retrospect
sober	solemn	unpretentious	vibrant

• Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed. Mail-box keeps the spammer out of our inboxes.

clumsy	incorporate	intricate	liable
notwithstanding	prosperous	reciprocal	resort
reveal	utilize	venture	whip

• At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity.

unleash	adverse	averse	aggravate
casualty	disperse	scatter	dissipate
emission	emit	enclosure	evacuate
precaution	quench	pile	elevated

• As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

cloak	commodity	deputy	disgrace
pursue	recruit	turbulent	conform
consent	weld

• Everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.

deficit	discard	fluctuate	impair
impetus	momentum	strive	endeavor
headstrong	unbending	submissive	surge
surpass	textile	undermine	intensify

• 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.

articulate	grasp	abrupt	aerial
antenna	consecutive	continuity	intensity
marvelous	metaphysical	overhear	plague
sensual	sonata	implicit	prevail

• 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.

distinct	shaky	entitlement	ethic
lapse	sprout	stem	vermin

• A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama English society.

morality	satirize	intricate	panorama
backdrop	bleak	installment	plunge
reputation	conceal	imprison	reform
steward	wound	extrication

• Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

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

• Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.

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

• 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.

hail	extol	emigrant	promotion
proclaim	refugee	rigid

• 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.

decent	divert	erect	meditate
subordinate	transcend	exceed	underlie
vacant	reap	retake

• 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.

correlation	agitate	discrepancy	futile
genetics	innovation	monopoly	preliminary
renovate	symmetry	synthesis	photosynthesis

• 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.

paralysis	reluctant	bruising	concession
illiquid	vastly	appall	coward
dismay	dread	startle	timid

• 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".

humbly	concisely	hazy	submissiveness
inferior	badge	pendulum	rim
fringe	rpd	scrap	shaft

• Many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

canon	bulletin	embark	enroll
faculty	holistic

• 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.

sparing	anxious	extravagant	incentive
lottery	obsession	scarce	wage
coupon	hospitality	diminish	curtail
miniature	trifle

• 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.

benefactor	distort	inevitable	unintentional
prestige	recipient	scatter	indict
dictator	captivate	beguile	intrigue
lure	entice	allure

• 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.

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

• 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.

elaborate	stencil	marquetry	escort
squire	invasion	maneuver	militant
raid	siege	besiege	cunning
delicate	exquisite	aisle	bolt
compartment	overleap	tilt	incline
lean	tuck	waterproof	wedge

• The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

ornate	ceremonial	antique	clue
engrave	epoch	excavation	pinpoint
primitive	savage	barbaric	barbarous
settlement	systematic	terrain	enormous
grave	immense	ingenious	lofty

• 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.

aboriginal	appetite	crush	deviate
directive	disposition	disrupt	drawback
enslavement	entity	essence	gratify
hatred	headway	incidental	industriousness
instill	overrule	overthrow	perpetuity
resent	thrift	tuition	uproar

• 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.

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

• 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.

ignorant	decay	dignity	disguise
farcical	inhabitant	interval	monologue
prosper	repertoire	sarcastic	hollow
medieval	metaphor	orthodox	renaissance
renewal	satire	decline	verse

• 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.

enterprising	blunder	cease	sustain
commonplace	counterpart	nostalgia	tremendous
enormous	auxiliary	avail	endow
bequeath	facilitate	salvation	deliverance

• 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.

anticipation	apt	prophesy	foretell
imminent	calamitous	distress	appoint
ballot	bureau	bureaucracy	eloquent
ethnic	municipal	nominate	forerunner
sanction	senate	veto

• 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.

alumnus alumni	bruise	cruise	commemorate
gymnasium	intimate	obesity	parachute
pedal	pledge	saddle	spectator
bystander	thrive	trial

• 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.

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

• 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.

amongst	desirable	forge	parcel
profoundly	undue	bail	culprit
detain	petition	testimony	cardinal

• 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.

intimacy	projection	exaggerate	factual
imperative	prevalent	scandal	defer
eternal	cursory	fleet	expeditious
initiate	instantaneous	postpone	coinstantaneous
coincident	contemporary	transient

• 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.

access	compliment	formal	radiant
trivial	analog	seduce

• 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.

virtual	anatomy	anthropology	coincide
metallurgy	ritual	imply	solidarity
concord	incur	induce	deduce

• 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.

erroneous	evoke	invoke	provoke
revoke	exploitation	delusion	elusion
inferiority	ponder	contemplate	likelihood
oath	meditate	rationalization	sobering
utmost	weaver

• 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.

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

• 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.

allegiance	devotion	dispute	explicitness
irony	transmission	prompt	religious
coarse	dubious	dubiety	reckless
impetuous	prudent	vulgar

• 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.

infirm	intensify	avert	cohesive
dull	jolt	pretext

• 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.

cortisol	refuge	blur	lag
canteen	cradle	cylinder	drip
elastic	foam	furnace	odor
rack	crevice	sack	sham
shrug	slack	tan	weary
worship	wreath	yawn

• 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.

distaste	socioeconomic	bedrock	boredom
grim	objectionable	repel	revolt
tiresome	compromise	hamper	massacre
overwhelm	persecute	spur	conspiracy
strife	traitor	treason	hostility

• 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.

hypothesis

brim

dean

mood

• 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.

loom	contaminate	taint	defile
preach	remnant	revive	revitalize
stimulant	vapor	cultivate	turbine

• 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.

stake	transaction	hedge	punch
ascend	augment	escalate	intensify
hoist	spiral

• 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.

clamp	imply	patrol	pension
unionize	vigorously	averse	frown
copious	lavish	multitude	plenteous
profuse	swarm

• 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.

chromosome	inherit	kinship	martial
paternal	paternity	prescription	saliva
swab	censor	scrutiny	inquiry

• 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.

bipedal	withstand	limb	alternation
brace	choke	coil	fling
flip	toss	gallop	grin
grope	heave	hurl	inhale
snatch	sniff	stir	stoop
stride	stumble	tumble