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When something bad or painful abates, it becomes less strong or severe.
When something attenuates, it lessens in size or intensity; it becomes thin or weakened.
A copious amount of something is a very large amount of it.
If you cull items or information, you gather them from a number of different places in a selective manner.
When there is a dearth of something, there is a scarcity or lack of it.
When something is diffuse, it is widely spread out and scattered.
A diminution of something is a reduction in the size, number, or importance of it.
If you ensconce yourself somewhere, you put yourself into a comfortable place or safe position and have no intention of moving or leaving for quite some time.
When you extricate yourself from a difficult or unpleasant situation, you manage to escape it.
To imbue someone with a quality, such as an emotion or idea, is to fill that person completely with it.
If you are impervious to things, such as someone’s actions or words, you are not affected by them or do not notice them.
Something that is latent, such as an undiscovered talent or undiagnosed disease, exists but is not active or has not developed at the moment—it may develop or become active in the future.
Something luxuriant, such as plants or hair, is growing well and is very healthy.
A macrocosm is a large, complex, and organized system or structure that is made of many small parts that form one unit, such as a society or the universe.
Something that is omnipresent appears to be everywhere at the same time or is ever-present.
A pandemic disease is a far-reaching epidemic that affects people in a very wide geographic area.
A paucity of something is not enough of it.
When a substance permeates something, it enters into all parts of it.
If something is pervasive, it appears to be everywhere.
A plethora of something is too much of it.
A profusion of something is a very large quantity or variety of it.
To rarefy something is to make it less dense, as in oxygen at high altitudes; this word also refers to purifying or refining something, thereby making it less ordinary or commonplace.
Recondite areas of knowledge are those that are very difficult to understand and/or are not known by many people.
If something, such as food or drink, satiates you, it satisfies your need or desire so completely that you often feel that you have had too much.
A scant amount of something is a very limited or slight amount of it; hence, it is inadequate or insufficient in size or quantity.
Sporadic occurrences happen from time to time but not at constant or regular intervals.
If something, such as warmth, color, or liquid, suffuses a material, it gradually spreads through or covers it; if you are suffused with a feeling, you are full of that feeling.
Something tenuous is thin, weak, and unconvincing.
Something is thematic when it is related to a particular theme, that is, a carefully developed message or central idea.
When something is transfused to another thing, it is given, put, or imparted to it; for example, you can transfuse blood or a love of reading from one person to another.
If something—such as power, influence, or feeling—wanes, it gradually becomes weaker or less important, often so much so that it eventually disappears.
If you winnow a list or group, you reduce its size by getting rid of the things that are no longer useful or by keeping only the desirable things.
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Context
Lately it seems that everyone I see has a smartphone—their use has become ubiquitous. The ubiquitous sight of people everywhere on phones in public bothers some, but not me. I don’t care if everyone I see is on their phone; who cares if their use is ubiquitous or all over the place? Complaints about tuning out the outside world while using phones have become ubiquitous too, but those universal complaints seem to stop once the complainers get one of the devices for themselves!
Quiz:
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If Starbucks coffee shops are ubiquitous, what does that mean?
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They are on seemingly every street corner.
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They are popular with people all around the world.
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They all look the same from the outside.
Memory Hook
Biscuits "R" Us You thought Toys "R" Us was big? Wait until I open Biscuits "R" Us! Biscuits "R" Us will be ubiquitous for all of us who love biscuits, so we can go there wherever we live! Everyone loves biscuits! Biscuit mania will be ubiquitous! Go biscuits!!
Examples
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Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.
— Michael Bennett, American lawyer and politician, Senator from Colorado
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This is one strategy the Commission formally recommends to close the digital divide and make the personal computer and access to the Internet as ubiquitous as the telephone and television.
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The Washington Post
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With the audacious new contest comes a much bigger prize: up to $25 million, paid for by Google, the ubiquitous Internet company.
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The New York Times
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Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous in the past three decades, used in smartphones and electric vehicles—including automobiles from the likes of Tesla and Volkswagen, as well as buses from BYD—and to store renewable energy from solar or wind plants.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
Word Ingredients
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possessing the nature of |
Anything ubiquitous seemingly possesses the nature of being everywhere.
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