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Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of acolyte.
Examples
“Some of the acolytes, that is to say guests, like psychologist Phil McGraw, heart surgeon Mehmet Oz, Food Network star Rachael Ray, and interior designer Nate Berkus, became the anointed.”
“What kills me about Stern acolytes is the fact they talk about how oppressed and hounded Howard is.”
“While LaRouche himself is surrounded by long-term acolytes and low-level politicians seduced by offers of support, it is his LaRouche Youth Movement that most worries observers.”
“While Kaufman and his entitled acolytes enjoy fine dining and shopping and carry on as if nothing ever happened, the poor people immediately outside live in chaos and squalor.”
“The Bronx native might not have achieved the commercial renown of the golden era's biggest stars, but his technique endures, both in his prolific (but spotty) solo material, and in the bugged-out antics of major-label acolytes Ghostface Killah and Lil Wayne.”
“Chavez and his Latin American acolytes appear to be Cold War warriors from the Left.”
“Does that mean that all of his acolytes are anti-Semites?”
“There are stars, and they have acolytes, which is pretty much the relationship we have with them on TV, or in magazines: they talk, we listen.”
“Most science education takes a boot camp approach or is set up to train acolytes.”
“One of his acolytes is the current front-runner, a knock-kneed, unemployed Latvian schoolteacher named Georgs Jermolajevs, who has already pounded out 1,312 miles, each at about a 13-minute pace.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘acolytes’.
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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words to know
proselytising, proprioception, qualia, indelibly, eristic, mellifluous, perspicacious, concilience, inure, tendentiousness, topos, parochial and 118 more...
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English
vorciferous, vituperative, vitriolic, vitiation, vitiated, virulent, venerate, vanguard, viands, unimpeachable, unctuous, unanimity and 398 more...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words used in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
decadence, emancipation, nostalgia, abounded, modernity, revolution, famine, conservative, privy, vied, nascent, correspondence and 211 more...
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Jword's Words
superfluous, sojourner, exogamy, jeremiad, epistemological, elucidation, consummately, diabolical, draconian, apotheosized, elide, elysian and 70 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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Vocabulary Unit 11
Second Semester; Anderson
perusing, extant, cozening, acolytes, fledgling, exculpated, junta, demurred, pilioried, propitiated, xenophobe, inveigling and 3 more...
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Discovered Words
Words I've recently discovered and haven't quite soaked into my being yet.
perfidy, ignominy, vilify, specious, probity, calumny, acolytes, contrition, lugubrious, glockenspiel, bucolic, sesquipedalian
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bilby After participating in spiritual exercise, remember to replenish your acolytes. Nov 26, 2008