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insight
insight
/ˈɪnsaɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
- Power of acute observation and deduction
- Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
- Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
- An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
- An individual’s awareness of the nature and severity of one’s mental illness.
Synonyms: discernment, penetration, perception.
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stubborn
stubborn
/ˈstʌbɚn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Stubbornness.
- A disease of citrus trees characterized by stunted growth and misshapen fruit, caused by Spiroplasma citri.
2. Adjective
- Refusing to move or to change one’s opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
- Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
Synonyms: adamant, contrary, disobedient, headstrong, insubordinate, obdurate, obstinate, rebellious, undisciplined, unyielding, wayward, willful, enduring, perseverant, persistent.
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dedication
dedication
/ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
- A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.
- A ceremony marking an official completion or opening.
- The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.
Synonyms: devotion, diligence, consecration.
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abundance
abundance
/əˈbn̩.dn̩s/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A large quantity; many.
- An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
- Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
- Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
- A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
Synonyms: copiousness, exuberance, overflow, plenteousness, plenty, heap, load, affluence, riches, wealth.
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incidence
incidence
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of something happening; occurrence.
- The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
- The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
- The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
- A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
- The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
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cohesive
cohesive
/koʊˈhiː.sɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A substance that provides cohesion
- A device used to establish cohesion within a text
2. Adjective
- Having cohesion.
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groundbreaking
groundbreaking
/ˈɡɹaʊndbɹeɪkɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction.
- The point at which construction begins.
2. Adjective
- Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before.
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unsuspecting
unsuspecting
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Not suspecting; without any suspicion.
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fake
fake
/feɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- A trick; a swindle.
- A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
Synonyms: deke, feint.
2. Verb
- To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
- To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
Synonyms: pass off, pose, adulterate.
3. Adjective
- Not real; false, fraudulent.
- (of people) Insincere.
Antonyms: authentic, genuine.
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sophisticate
sophisticate
[səˈfɪstɪkeɪt]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A worldly-wise person.
2. Verb
- To make less natural or innocent.
- To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
- To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
- To make more complex or refined.
3. Adjective
- Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
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jurisdiction
jurisdiction
/d͡ʒɝɪsˈdɪkʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
- The power or right to exercise authority.
- The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
- The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
- The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
Synonyms: oyer and terminer, soc and sac, power.
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chronicle
chronicle
/ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
Synonyms: annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version.
2. Verb
- To record in or as in a chronicle.
Synonyms: record.
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intricate
intricate
/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
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hinge
hinge
/ˈhɪndʒ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
Synonyms: har, quartile.
2. Verb
- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (with on or upon) To depend on something.
- The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- To bend.
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aspiration
aspiration
/ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
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divert
divert
/daɪˈvɝt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To turn aside from a course.
- To distract.
- To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
- To turn aside; to digress.
Synonyms: offlead.
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laborious
laborious
/ləˈbɔːɹiəs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
- Mentally difficult; painstaking.
- Industrious.
Synonyms: painstaking, toilsome, worksome.
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distracted
distracted
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To divert the attention of.
- To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
2. Adjective
- Having one’s attention diverted; preoccupied
- Distraught
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misperceive
misperceive
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To perceive erroneously.
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innovator
innovator
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
- An early adopter.
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seemingly
seemingly
/ˈsiːmɪŋli/
Meaning:
1. Adverb
- As it appears; apparently.
- In a seemly manner; decorously; with propriety.
Synonyms: at first blush, ostensibly, prima facie, becomingly, proprietously.
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verse
verse
/ˈvɝs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- Poetic form in general.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
- A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Synonyms: poetry, stanza.
2. Verb
- To compose verses.
- To tell in verse, or poetry.
- To educate about, to teach about.
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prospective
prospective
/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
- A perspective glass.
- (often plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
2. Adjective
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- (of research) A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
- (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
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slide show
slide show
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A presentation of a series of photographic slides, usually with a spoken or recorded explanation.
- Any sequence of images, shown one after the other (not simultaneously).
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