Vocab-ability–165 (optim = best) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Optimize
    Since finding #vocab-ability by @majes.tytyty, I've optimized my time on SteemIt by practicing sentence writing.

  2. Optimism
    Some people are optimists, some are pessimists but, all the groovy kats are dudeists.

  3. Optimist
    I'd rather be an optimist, than a nihilist; hope is better than nothing.

  4. Optimal
    I'll grant, hope isn't optimal; after all, blind hope is delusion.


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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. I need to optimize my efforts to see good result.

  2. Optimism is always inspiring and uplifiting .

  3. Be optimistic about your future to avoid depression.

  4. Optimal condtions are required to show one's potential.


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"MY VOCAB PRACTICE"

  1. Optimize:
    I really had to optimize the use of my chemistry textbook if I really had to make an "A" in the exam.
  2. Optimism:
    We cannot loose optimism if we want to always have best results in the future.
  3. Optimist:
    I on many cases consider myself an optimist whenever I look at how far my work life has gone.
  4. Optimal:
    I found selling text books and novels optimal during my stay in Berlin.


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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Optimist.
    Her passion in doing research made her an optimist in deciding and choosing a career as a scientist.

  2. Optimize.
    She needs to apply her knowledge as well as learning and adapting new ones to optimize all the skills required to be in that profession.

  3. Optimism.
    Her optimism relies on her expertise, developing, and learning different ways to solve complex problems.

  4. Optimal.
    She needs to gather samples and conduct hypothesis to obtain an optimal result that will prove her theory.


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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Optimize the use of materials in the industry, provides the best and eco-friendly result.
  2. The excess of optimism can often be detrimental to the understanding of reality.
  3. Even so, I continue to be optimal, and I know that one day the problems in my country will end.
  4. Decisions well-founded, could create the optimal solution to many social problems.


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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Optimize: I've to optimize my time to work, study and take care of my family.
  2. Optimism: I think optimism is the key to personal and professional success.
  3. Optimist: A very popular phrase that I like is "The optimist always has a project in mind; the pessimist, an excuse".
  4. Optimal: The conditions weren't optimal, but Katy gave birth without complications.


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Nice quote. I'd never heard it before.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. Optimize:
    How could I better optimize my homeless position?

  2. Optimism:
    I had so much optimism when I gave the con-artist my money that I missed the red flags.

  3. Optimist:
    The optimist is a person who will deny that anything bad will happen when the evidence points to the facts that the world is falling apart due to what humans have been doing to it for the last one hundred and fifty years.

  4. Optimal:
    The optimal way to run a country would first be to kick out the people consumed by their greed.


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I'm still an optimist, even though I am certain that the current world is fucked. Is that possible?

As for #4 ... YEAH!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Use the Metro to optimize your commute to work.
  2. The community that was ravaged by the natural disaster was filled with optimism when they saw the red cross trucks arrive.
  3. My pastor is an optimist about there being a place for me in heaven.
  4. Use cruise control for optimal miles per gallon on long trips.


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MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. My father bought a 48" riding mower to optimize his time when he mows the yard.

  2. Ricky always tells me you have to believe in the power of thinking with optimism when you are in a rough patch.

  3. Charity organizations like to hire optimists to work with their clients because they impart a sense that everything will be ok.

  4. The optimal way to pluck a chicken of it's feathers is to dunk it in scalding hot water first, it makes the feathers easier to pull.


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My Vocab Practice:

  1. In order to optimize high-throughput analysis reactions in sub-micromolar conventrations, many consecutive trials are required.

  2. Optimism can be seen as a defence mechanism ones brain deploys in order to reduce stress.

  3. It is frequently implied that to be an optimist is to be devoided of reasoned thinking.

  4. When culturing a strain of bacteria one ought to employ an optimal temperature, humidity, and oxygen concentration on the top of providing sufficieny growth medium.


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