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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of construct.
Examples
“A grand public staircase could be constructed from the overlook down to Maine.”
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“It was nice because his character was more “good” than the rest of us so it provided a suitable foil (no one else really minds when I have a Muppaphone constructed from the heads of our dead opponents).”
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“Müvbox is constructed from a standard 20-foot shipping container and has been retrofitted with a modern kitchen and seating for 28 people.”
“Last year's Eighth Floor was not even a story, just a series of Christmas-themed tableaux, and those were constructed from the remains of previous years 'tableaux from actual stories -- if you'd been to the Eighth Floor a lot you could spot the dwarves from Snow White as elves, and the plum pudding from Mary Poppins, and like that.”
“It is a complex idea, constructed from the idea of a horse and the idea of a horn, both of which are born from our impressions of horses and horns.”
“It lead to what appeared to be a cabin, again constructed from petrified wood -- a motley assortment of branches and sheets.”
“The contraption I had my camera attached to was a clampod, a makeshift monopod constructed from a laboratory ring stand (with a ring visible at its base) and a couple of clamps.”
“The reason that the schools have been constructed is because the local school districts were willing to increase the property taxes to a tremendously high figure -- in my opinion, almost to the point of diminishing returns in order to sustain these schools.”
“Once past the entrance, Parkway looks like many other solidly built, red-brick Arlington neighborhoods constructed from the early 1940s to the early 1960s.”
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“Interestingly, comparison of the observed 2009-2010 winter to the analogs that have been constructed from the earlier period show a significant difference in temperature for our region and across much of the Northern Hemisphere.”
The Washington Post: The winter of 2009-2010: Could it have been colder?
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Words that describe themselves.
polysyllabic, sesquipedalian, common, supercilious, brief, english, erudite, abstraction, awkward, desuete, esoteric, recherché and 16 more...
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Neoclassicism
Words to describe Neoclassicism
square, triangle, Pompeii, Athens, Greece, Rome, morals, form, strength, pillar, perfect, academic and 36 more...
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semantics, syntax, parataxis, metonymy, ekphrasis, lyric, subjectivity, objectivity, referant, signifier, conjunctive, phrase and 39 more...
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