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PLAY STH OUT - realise sth, respond

1) I didn't know how to play my card out when he had gone all-in.
2) If you know how to play it out, you will win.

NONETHELESS - nevertheless

1) Nonetheless, we achieved something extraordinary in our simple life by going there.
2) Nonetheless, it was worth to go there.

BEARING - direction

1) If you lose your way with no sense of bearing, you will be in big troubles.
2) Having no sense of bearing in a forest means that you gonna have a bad time.

CAPACITY - ability (to learn for example)

1) My capacity to learn new things connected with IT is pretty good.
2) His capacity of mastering characters in League of Legends is really at low level.

SEAMLESS - without interruptions

1) Seamless learning is all I need to pass an examination.
2) Seamless data transfering at rush hours is something that rarely happens.

FROM WAIST UP - from a waist to head

1) Being naked from the waist up is common thing while being examined by a doctor.
2) He was seen naked from waist up while going to a bathroom.

POP INTO - coming in suddenly with momentum

1) I popped into a party and drank 2 shots.
2) Having popped into a classroom, he made an excuse for being late.

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HUMUNGOUS - huge, tremendous

1) I've just consumed a humungous meal.
2) Humungous dinner is all I need today.

DIGITIZE - change to digital signal

1) I dignitized my books so as to make them more available to students.
2) A dignitized book isn't as good as traditional one.

POKE - nudge

1) I poked him since he was trying to steal butter from a shop.
2) People are constantly poking me in trams.

LARGE-SCALE - widely-ranging

1) It was a large-scale investition conducted by Spanish government.
2) Our products are being sold large-scale currently.

PREAMBLE - introduction, introductory information

1) He started his speech with an awesome preamble.
2) Preamble data is now being exposed on his screen.

TINY - small, little

1) He is such a tiny man. He's only 150.
2) She was able to hold tight heavy weight in her tiny hands.

INHERENTLY - by nature

1) He is demonstrative inherently
2) Dogs are inherently pacific.

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LOOK STH UP - look for something, search

1) I will try to look this word up in a dictionary.
2) I need to look it up in order to check if I am right.

RATTY - messy

1) Our hotel room was really ratty.
2) Ratty places make me sad.

ODD - weird

1) He is very odd. He buries money in his socks.
2) Although she is odd, I like her.

CROSS-REFERENCE - link, referent

1) There was a cross-reference between these two murders.
2) A cross-reference between these 2 people seems weird.

OBSOLETE - dated, old-fashioned

1) I got rid of some of my obsolete clothes.
2) This furniture is really obsolete.

COVERAGE - report, tale, dispatch

1) I prepared a coverage concerning my project.
2) He was given a coverage while going to work.

SHOW UP - come into sight, occur

1) They showed up suddenly and startled me.
2) All unclear proofs were shown up.

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QUERY - a request that is sent to database

1) Our server is full of queries now.
2) Query that has been sent to our database was incorrect.

LATENCY - delay

1) A latency is a word connected with IT that stands for a delay between sending and receiving packets.
2) A server's latency is really inadequate to users' demands.

ENDEAVOUR - effort, ambition, labour

1) He endeavours to get a job in Google.
2) Our endeavours to prevent him from commiting a crime were purposeless.

CLUSTER - get together

1) we clustered near my house and started talking.
2) People are clustering because the local authority prepared free lemonades for everyone.

TOOLBAR - a tool that helps us using a pc or a web.

1) Microsoft shared a toolbar that is very irritating.
2) The Google toolbar in browsers is very useful.

LAUNDRY - a place in which you can wash your clothes

1) I didn't wash clothes on my own. I gave them to a laundry.
2) Laundry van arrived and guys took my dirty clothes.

TREMENDOUS - great, huge, colossal

1) He made a tremendous effort to climb that mountain.
2) It is a tremendous building. It looks like it reached skies.

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UNLEASH - prompt, trigger

1) I unleashed my emotions when they started asking about my dead dog.
2) Unleashing prisoners was one of terrorists' demands.

POP UP - appear

1) Pop-up advertisements are really annoying.
2) It suddenly popped up and bothered me.

PARATROOPER - a person who jumps from a plane using parachute

1) If you want to become a paratrooper you have to go through difficult exams.
2) Paratroopers risk their life but it gives them rush of adrenaline.

TYPE - to write

1) I have been typing for 2 hours.
2) Typing fast requires a lot of practice.

COURAGEOUS - brave

1) My friend is very curageous. He fought against 2 stronger guys to protect his wallet.
2) There are fewer and fewer courageous people in the world.

INEVITABLE - unavoidable

1) A defeat was inevitable.
2) An inevitable disaster is going to happen soon.

COMPASSION - pity, sympathy

1) He didn't unleash compassion to their victims.
2) There is no compassion while fighting in a war.

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PERVASIVE - spread widely

1) This pervasive idea made people think about this case in a completely different way.
2) The smell of his coffee was pervasive.

KNEE-JERK - automatic

1) I created a robot who answers knee-jerk.
2) I did it knee-jerk because I got used to it.

PEDESTRIAN - passer-by

1) A lot of pedestrians makes it harder to drive fast
2) Many pedestrians disturb drivers by their reckless behaviour in the street.

LOBE - a part that comprise a brain

1) Four different lobes comprise a brain.
2) One of my lobes isn't working properly now because I have problems with moving.

ABYSMAL

1) Our situation is abysmal. We have just lost our job.
2) I had to restart my computer due to abysmal error.

CRINGING - mousy, obsequious

1) He couldn't reveal that secret because he was cringing by mafia
2) I have three cringing girls in my house who cook for me.

DOABLE - sth that can be done

1) It is all doable if we work as a team.
2) Exe files are double.

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URGENT - high priority, the most important
1) Providing food during a famine is an urgent need.
2) An urgent task they were asked to do was constructing a bomb.

COUNTER-INTUITIVE - conflicting with our intuition
1) His behaviour towards me was counter-intuitive.
2) My belief about that issue was counter-intuitive.

CRINKLE - ripple, fold
1) I crinkled my eye to show that I was not talking seriously.
2) Old people have got many crinkles on their skin.

BE ON THE VERGE - be on the edge
1) I am on the verge of being depressed.
2) Being on the edge of success doesn't mean you can celebrate it.

BLISSFUL - delectable, lovable
1) Ignorance is bliss.
2) Wedded blissful is a crucial thing in our life.

WRING - squeezing, clenching something
1) I wrung his hand strongly to show who is the boss here.
2) I will wring his neck when I see her.

EPIC - full of adventures
1) 'The Lord of the Rings' is said to be an epic movie.
2) I made an epic win against opponents' team yesterday.