English/100.adoc

= 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 ||
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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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* *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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