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- Feelings of confidence and pride 154
- styleless 71
- To emphasize what you are saying 132
- Turning points and important stages 126
- To take something away from someone 83
- Describing types and forms of verbs 106
- get out of bed on the wrong side 99
- get up on the wrong side of the bed 80
- have the courage of your (own) convictions 118
- To cover something with a specific substance 60
- there is more to someone than meets the eye 80
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- electron microscope 196
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- Krill 8
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- Downing Street 181
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- the Far East 114
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- congestion charging 155
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- humble yourself 49
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- direct tax 228
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- down the drain 111
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- on the horizon 60
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- foreign exchange 201
- alimentary canal 227
- capital punishment 265
- would that ... 36
- driver's license 132
- evening primrose 173
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- general practice 228
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- remodel 185
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- intensity 778
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- neurologically 110
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- forward-looking 153
- glass ceiling 219
- whizz through 78
- self-regulatory 226
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- crowd pleaser 172
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- overcome 859
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- doozy 169
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- synecdoche 112
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- panhandler 67
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- Trophy 318
- lifesaving 164
- eon 216
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- faulty 680
- Rein 349
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- good-tempered 189
- bowling green 190
- perfectionist 321
- establish 887
- well-mannered 275
- even though 118
- strong-minded 139
- rather than 185
- scent blood 20
- conceptualize 466
- curtain rod 132
- discount rate 251
- semi-finalist 236
- opportunistic 113
- sterilize 378
- Accommodation 441
- circumstance 782
- disparage 324
- overvalue 138
- prepossessing 126
- parascending 123
- encyclopaedic 39
- encyclopedic 222
- weightlifting 141
- crotchety 236
- swung 151
- housemistress 112
- group therapy 183
- anachronism 329
- over-achiever 337
- geostationary 153
- discreditable 169
- opportunist 148
- fellow feeling 158
- User-friendly 232
- present arms 130
- good evening 184
- council of war 201
- off Broadway 316
- as a whole 168
- double fault 217
- generation gap 195
- suggestible 139
- clock-watching 142
- Louise, Lake 66
- beauty queen 194
- traditionalist 145
- trickle down 110
- traditionalism 96
- dogging 79
sedentary
Word family
sed·en·ta·ry /ˈsedəntəri $ -teri/ adjectiveadj
Examples from the Corpus
sedentary• Quite simply, like millions of other people, we had become sedentary.• America's young people are too sedentary.• The exercise program was aimed at men in their fifties and sixties who were previously sedentary.• By their mid-40s, more than 40 percent of males and more than 80 percent of females are sedentary.• I tend now to the sedentary, and when I walk in the city I prefer to amble.• People with sedentary jobs generally need to eat less than those in very active occupations.• Is being fat dangerous, or is it the sedentary lifestyle that often goes along with being fat?• health problems caused by a sedentary lifestyle• People with sedentary lifestyles have a greater risk of heart attacks.• In our civilization at present, many of us have sedentary or semi-sedentary occupations.• a sedentary population
sedentary life/job/lifestyle etc• A sedentary lifestyle also spells bad news for hips and thighs: increase your circulation by taking more exercise.• A sedentary lifestyle is now seen as being a very important risk factor for heart disease and other conditions.• Poor eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle learned in her youth are often responsible.• Is being fat dangerous, or is it the sedentary lifestyle that often goes along with being fat?• Most tissues of the body contain scattered macrophages, which lead an inactive, sedentary life until stimulated by encountering foreign debris.
(1500-1600) French sédentaire, from Latin sedentarius, from sedere “to sit”
sed·en·ta·ry adjectiveadj
Chinese
Syllable
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sedentary
Not moving: still, static, stationary...
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