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How to pronounce “tortuous”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tortuous with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Real speech example
- Climate Progress Isn’t a Sprint — It’s a Marathon
the path to get there will be really tortuous,
- Definition summary
- (often figurative) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
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How to pronounce tortuous
Climate Progress Isn’t a Sprint — It’s a Marathon
the path to get there will be really tortuous,
Example Sentences
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (often figurative) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
- (astrology) Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
- (obsolete) Injurious; tortious.
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