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Convo | Interesting

verb | special

Week 4 | week 3 | week 2 | week 1

Week 4

If they want to keep their license they will toe the party line.
Tourists sunbathe and frolic in the ocean.
This period is often referred to as the "anabolic window," when your muscles are most receptive to protein and nutrients for recovery and growth.
If you wait until the next day, it won't entirely negate the benefits, but you might miss out on the optimal recovery period.

drudgery.
copulate, copulation.
atrium, patio, stairwell, courtyard
on par, below par.

coquette
Has anyone ever told you what a drag you are?
I'm basically squealing like a birthday girl.
No one can truly turn over a new leaf.

icky.
Hops serve to embitter beer.
To reveal it would be to embitter her life.
He hated her with a cankered, shameful abhorrence.
The amort relationship was like a black hole, and it's been cankering my soul.
rugged.
That may seem anticlimactic.
The conclusion of the movie was anticlimactic.
Your statement doesn't jibe with the facts.
The truth is that the risks of the euro splintering really have mounted.
stylus.
lorry driver, lorry crane.

Ah, like now, I'm feeling loopy and I don't really know how to express myself.
Although, if I stand next to a powerful array of magnets, I do get pretty loopy.
rebound guy.
what a dork, am I right?

kneading dough.
Knead the lame muscles.
Soften the plug by vigorous kneading, form it into a ball (no elongated shape!) Seal the opening of the ear canal with gentle pressure.

He fears the implicit reproach to himself, because in Putin's Russia you get jailed for 15 years just bc of calling an invasion invasion.

I asked a favour of him, but he refused point-blank.
mustard

Some children have more finely trained perceptual skills than others.
Douglas was a complex man, thoughtful, gallant, and generous.
self-aware.
lash out.

Top Harris adviser says Sun Belt’s back in play.
scour, scourge, scrounge.

the reek of stale tobacco smoke.
the putrid smell from the slaughterhouse.
The 81-year-old president's speech ran past midnight Eastern time as the DNC was behind schedule.

I have to embellish your misery on these fake torture reports.
Patreon should call Apple on this bluff. I don’t think they could lose.
Joe had a low, guttural voice with a Midwestern accent.
She wiped her floury hands on her apron.
parking apron

Week 3

modish
ambit.
insouciant
eucharist
plush.
rec room.
tater tots.
Divvy it up between us.
arid area/region/climate

slovenly, sloppy, clumpsy,

It is a bicameral body, meaning it has two separate chambers.
Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges.
The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending.

squabble.
spigot, faucet
plumage
she was exasperated by all this havering.
mordant, corrosive
He should lighten up a little.
They accepted without demur.

Polish billionaire Rafal Brzoska wins an injunction temporarily banning Meta from publishing fake ads that use images of him or his wife.

Monetary inflation spirals inexorably on.
the seemingly inexorable march of new technology.
china's rise has long appeared inexorable.
tempered steel/glass.
quenched and tempered steel.
She gets very bad-tempered when she's tired.
It's a wild riff for saxophone.
overture, prelude, interlude, crescendo, climax, climactic, epilogue
dub
tenuous, precarious
pseudonymous vs anonymous
inane dialogue and mannered acting.

Week 2

endogenous vs exogenous.
Crypto bounces back, are we in the clear?

clarion??
rendition.

prelude.
oratory.
pillory
grubby
grumpy

He was a vociferous opponent of Conservatism.
The chance to that is slim to none.

explicate, expound, elucidate, dissect.
musty, muster

autograph.
ascorbic acid.
But for Americans it's a moot point. The State Department says, don't travel to India.
malarkey, baloney.
entrapment.
Mercurial thermometer.
kibitz.
The beautiful and dolorous memory.
Her eyes were puffy from crying.

mundane, juejune, banal, monotonous

Palliative care.
And covers herself in rubies, emeralds, and sapphires.
He swore never to divulge the secret.
drivel.
peevish.

Week 1

The fallacious case for abolishing the rich. -- Arguments for caps on income and wealth are simple, rousing and wrong.

The demise of an iconic American highway.
California’s Highway 1 is among the world’s truly magical stretches of road.

So developed markets holding it as a reserved asset is pretty far along the line of success.

Is it possible for me to keep the car until mid-September if you decide to take it? My move-out date is at the end of September, so I will still need a car to get around.

She began blathering on about spirituality and life after death.
now stop your blathering and get back to work.
you might say, "His hands were grubby after working in the garden." It's a fairly common term used to describe physical dirtiness or a disheveled appearance.
rote learning, rote memorization.

tax rebate, export tax rebate.
Catherine gave a gurgle of laughter.
gurgle, guggle.
edamame.
The crowd pelted the mayor with angry questions.
pelted each other with snowballs.
two little boys pelted him with rotten apples.
Once we remove our pelts, we're mostly human.

clear-cut
suds
lumbar spine/vertebrae.

When he arrived here, he was positively rapturous.

Oh, sweetie, guests don't normally wear corsages to a wedding. That's more of a prom thing.
Crisper.
modicum.
pagan, heathen, infidel, heretic.
heretical, heresy
maim.
explicate, expound.
He was released on bail pending committal proceedings.
non-committal.

Everything is hearsay until the Thai government releases the details.

The latest figures affirm the strength and resiliency of the U.S. labor market over the last year, handily beating analysts' forecasts.
expound, expunge.

His paintings are contrived and formulaic.

Could we just get a temp, please?
So, you've been temping for us for a year now, and we want to bring you aboard permanently.

muck, manure, mulch.
coquette, croquette.
amicable, amiable, affable, personable
effable, ineffable
ins and outs, nitty gritty.
salve, suave.

It would be a presumptuous mistake for me to cloud the picture with my own judgments and give opinions about what others (whose shoes I am not in) should do.
John Gruber, co-creator of Markdown and the raconteur behind Daring Fireball, offers trenchant insights on tech.
It was a masterstroke.

lounge, lobby, hall, living room
marshy meadow, Marshy Landscape.
marshy waste land.

Too much sweet food cloys the palate.
She has a discerning palate.
to my uncultured palate most of the wines were good.

Conversation

Happened in real life or audio/video that I can resonate with a scene/context.

Bits and Bytes can wait, people can not.

This file contains a compendium of all of the highest impact events from your life.

The meeting you just blew off? Isn't it important.
Nothing short of the approval of Peterman himself will save you this time.

I'm cutting it close.

Although, if I stand next to a powerful array of magnets, I do get pretty loopy.

Has anyone ever told you what a drag you are? - Yes, everyone, constantly.
Can't you tell I'm basically squealing like a birthday girl.
No one can truly turn over a new leaf.

rebound guy.
what a dork, am I right?

I have to embellish your misery on these fake torture reports.

Lighten up a little.
A foot in the door.
He fears the implicit reproach to himself, because in Putin's Russia you get jailed for 15 years just bc of calling an invasion invasion.

Nothing really interesting there, kind of a let down.

Interesting

vivid, absurd, "outrageous", hilarious expressions.

Tipping Non-Public Information.
At work, you found out that Walmart is parting ways with a major food supplier, and you own stock in that supplier’s company.

For the longest time, they wouldn't fess up to it, it was something the community and people had to dig into to find out.
The claim of achieving over 400k TPS over this time period was categorically false.

Never in my life have I seen someone interview in shorts.
I mean that all glitters is not gold.

Because surely if the Democrats had actually stolen the election, the Republican leadership wouldn't have let themselves just be walked over.

He was down in the dumps after losing his job.
The FED in the US taking a backseat, their options become constrained by what's going on on the fiscal side.

If they want to keep their license they will toe the party line.

As I grow, I'm more inclined to adopt a "roll with the punches" attitude.
So when do you really know it's time to call it quits?
Patreon should call Apple on this bluff. I don’t think they could lose.

slovenly, sloppy, clumpy,
The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending.

overture, prelude, interlude, crescendo, climax, climactic, epilogue
Crypto bounces back, are we in the clear?
And covers herself in rubies, emeralds, and sapphires.

The fallacious case for abolishing the rich. -- Arguments for caps on income and wealth are simple, rousing and wrong.

Soften the plug by vigorous kneading, form it into a ball (no elongated shape!) Seal the opening of the ear canal with gentle pressure.