Vocab-ability–158 (nihil, nil = nothing) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)
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MY VOCAB PRACTICE
Sammy believes that the world will continue to be broken and miserable to humans until we annihilate all borders.
Sammy rejects religions and laws, but he has taken to believing in nihilism.
Sammy is quiet odd, when he counts down he doesn't say ZERO instead he says .... five, four, three, two, one, nil.
The problem with Sammy's thought, about borders, is that some people believe that our government should be Christian, some people think Muslim and the nihilist, rejecting all laws, think we should have no government.
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Sammy has a point, but really, there are worse things than borders. Such as, border-ignoring transnational corporations!! UGGGHHHHH!
Your first sentence would be more accurate if you said "Sammy believes that the world will continue to be broken and miserable for humans until we cancel/remove/do away with all borders"
Annihilate implies enormous force being used against an enemy/territory/opponent. Borders are somewhat abstract concepts that don't resemble enemies/territories/opponents.
"MY VOCAB PRACTICE"
I hope the ministry of Agriculture has to fin ways to annihilate all pests and disease this economic year.
My account balance in "banco de Venezuela" was nil starting with the new month.
I think the opposition is a total nihilist community.
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MY VOCAB PRACTICE
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MY VOCAB PRACTICE.
1-Annihilate-:He hated himself and used booze., drugs and violence to try to annihilate himself.
2-Nihilism-:The rebels urged the people to grab hold of nihilism and remove all government officials from office.
3-Nil-:The possibility of escape was nil so secure was our twelve foot square cell.
4-Nihilist-:Years before they had both been involved with Nihilist movement.
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MY VOCAB PRACTICE
The enemy squad was annhilatd by us.
Hippies embraced nihilism in 1970.
My steemit steem balance is nil.
Nilhists are greedy of power.
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MY VOCAB PRACTICE
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Annihilate
Usain bolt annihilated his competition whenever he was running.
Nihilism
The young radical evangelist preached nihilism to his new converts.
Nil
The match between Chelsea and Stoke ended with a scoreline of 2-nil in favor of Chelsea.
Nihilist
I am a nihilist.
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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:
Annihilate:
When I think of the horror vacui, the fear of empty space, my parents come to me in my dreams with their visions of what is right for me to do.
Nihilism:
If I recall correctly, Schopenhauer believed in nihilism while his student, Nietzsche believed in asceticism.
Nil:
The score reads nil to one-hundred and twenty.
Nihilist:
The thought crossed my mind that a libertarian might fall in line with a nihilist's point of view (then I read your example sentence and busted out laughing!).
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I sometimes think that libertarians might be better off if they adopted nihilism.
MY VOCAB PRACTICE.
The next mission in the game that Joe was playing, was to annihilate all the zombies.
Practicing nihilism is a huge mistake when you are in front of the judges who are going to give you the verdict.
The profit earned after selling so many different things was nil.
He's a nihilist by nature. He got it from their parents who were bad people.
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