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Her spontaneous decision to take a road trip led to one of the best weekends of her life.spontaneous = sudden and unplanned
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Spontaneous plant growth after the fire surprised the researchers.spontaneousness = naturally arising
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The reaction was spontaneous, requiring no added heat.spontaneous = happening automatically without external action
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The group broke into spontaneous laughter.spontaneous = sudden and unplanned
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.† (source)
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Then she turned and left the stage, left him there alone, standing and facing the crowd, which began spontaneously the collective murmur of his name. (source)spontaneously = happening or arising without plan
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It is too well executed to be spontaneous, because it happens in complete unison. (source)spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
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She had this horrible sense that she really was going to spontaneously morph back into her seventh-grade self. (source)spontaneously = suddenly without apparent cause
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Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day. (source)Spontaneity = happening or arising without plan
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He was a face on a pole, a man not yet out of his thirties who carried something stale and unspontaneous, an inward tension that kept him apart.† (source)unspontaneous = behavior or action that does not happen naturallystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unspontaneous means not and reverses the meaning of spontaneous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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"Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. (source)Spontaneous = happening without apparent external cause
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Spontaneously several voices cried out. (source)Spontaneously = happening without plan or forethought
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The fifth time they met, under the spell of Rosa's youthful spontaneity—halfway through a heated discussion...—Litvinoff surprised himself by proposing they go hear a concert together. (source)spontaneity = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
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Then Pallas struck The suitors with delirium; wide they stretch'd Their jaws with unspontaneous laughter loud; Their meat dripp'd blood; tears fill'd their eyes, and dire Presages of approaching woe, their hearts.† (source)unspontaneous = behavior or action that does not happen naturally
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Fiery, spontaneous, passionate—as he imagined most artists to be. (source)spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
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Blink is concerned with ... those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that spontaneously arise whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under conditions of stress. (source)spontaneously = naturally (without plan)
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