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π Ocular, adjective.
π /ΛΙkjΚlΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of or connected with the eyes or vision.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ocular trauma
2. Other symptoms of polycythemia vera include headaches, transient neurologic or ocular complaints, and paresthesias.
3. A high index of suspicion can preserve vision and prevent further ocular complications.
4. In high concentrations, the smoke causes ocular and upper respiratory tract irritation in health care personnel.
5. Patients with suspected ocular disease should be referred to an ophthalmologist for a full dilated ocular examination.
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π Groaning, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘rΙΚnΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Heavily laden with things.
❗️ Examples:
1. A groaning table of rich food
2. The groaning shelves of novelty Christmas releases
3. He might rejoice in his groaning store cupboards, but the labour is out of his hands.
4. In Premier Bookshop, the groaning shelves have their own tale to tell.
5. Of all the offerings on the groaning vegetable stalls, sweetcorn will be the first into the pot.
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π Heist, verb.
π /hΚΙͺst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Steal.
❗️ Examples:
1. He heisted a Pontiac
2. When thieves heisted a car rented to cricket-star Brian Lara and the perpetrators discovered his bat in the vehicle, they returned it.
3. The brothers who own the house became part of the city's nouveau riche when they heisted a bank during the looting.
4. Disguises are assumed, safes are blown, millions of dollars are heisted according to a completely new and clever scheme, but this is pure escapism.
5. USA Today essentially heisted a big chunk of the Journal's travel-related ad revenue between 1986 and 1996, Fortune reports.
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π Depression, noun.
π /dΙͺΛprΙΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system.
❗️ Examples:
1. Hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions
2. Rainfall in the savannah region usually arrives between November and April in heavy bursts from monsoonal depressions or tropical cyclones.
3. The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions.
4. Cyclonic weather with a depression centred over the UK can cause unsettled conditions in both winter and summer.
5. Frontal systems associated with depressions traveling eastwards across the ocean have a significant influence on the weather in southern South Australia during this season.
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π Balance, verb.
π /Λbal(Ι)ns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Establish equal or appropriate proportions of elements in.
❗️ Examples:
1. They are struggling to balance work and family life
2. The process of ensuring a weapon system is fully supportable includes appropriately addressing, integrating, and balancing each of these elements.
3. Feng shui is the art of aligning complementary opposites to coexist, balancing the five elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal.
4. It balances all of these elements perfectly, and leaves you wanting more.
5. Food needs to be balanced with the appropriate vitamins and minerals which are not present in our food.
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π Favour, noun.
π /ΛfeΙͺvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing such as a badge or knot of ribbons that is given or worn as a mark of liking or support.
❗️ Examples:
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π Patois, noun.
π /ΛpatwΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The dialect of a particular region, especially one with low status in relation to the standard language of the country.
❗️ Examples:
1. The nurse talked to me in a patois that even Italians would have had difficulty in understanding
2. Thus, a Frenchman who spoke Breton and French would not be considered bilingual because Breton is of low status and considered a patois rather than a language.
3. Today I wanted to talk about Bajan as a dialect or language or patois or whatever you wish to call it.
4. Corsican was designated as a patois, a provincial dialect.
5. It is reflected in the islanders' Catholicism, in their French-based patois, and in such customs as its Flower Festivals.
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π Snap, verb.
π /snap/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Break suddenly and completely, typically with a sharp cracking sound.
❗️ Examples:
1. Guitar strings kept snapping
2. Dead twigs can be snapped off
3. The door staircase suddenly snapped off the foundation and soared up into the clouds, suddenly being torn apart by flying shrapnel of glass and metal.
4. Twigs were snapped off trees and one twig broke free from its limb and and flew straight at Spot and took his eye right out.
5. We don't have a car any longer simply because we were fed up with having wing mirrors snapped off, windscreen wipers broken or paintwork scratched.
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π Render, verb.
π /ΛrΙndΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Process (the carcass of an animal) in order to extract proteins, fats, and other usable parts.
❗️ Examples:
1. Animal carcasses were rendered to provide a protein supplement
2. The animal was then rendered, precluding any subsequent tests.
3. Fresh killed carcasses were then railed to Wellington for freezing and processing or rendered down on the site for tallow.
4. Those animals may be rendered in turn and fed to cattle.
5. No one knew in advance that feeding livestock rendered meat and bone meal would cause an epidemic of mad cow disease, but it did.
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π Evil, adjective.
π /ΛiΛv(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a smell or sight) extremely unpleasant.
❗️ Examples:
1. A bathroom with an ineradicably evil smell
2. One of these, when I knew it many years ago, was black, splattered with pigeon droppings, subjected to dense fogs, evil smells, filth everywhere.
3. Speight's putsch has the evil smell of a South Pacific Kristallnacht.
4. Borne along by the flow of traffic, she passed through the forum arch into a stew of noises, colors, and evil smells.
5. It also seemed to have been taken for granted that it was the source of the evil smell that lingered in the room.
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π Find, verb.
π /fΚΙͺnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Discover or experience to be the case.
❗️ Examples:
1. The majority of staff find the magazine to be informative and useful
2. She found that none of the local nursery schools had an available slot
3. It was a great surprise to buy a copy by chance and find the Evening Press is now lively and informative.
4. When James I succeeded Elizabeth, he found his new kingdom at war with Spain in support of the Dutch.
5. Well, we find also that air quality has an impact on the size of the raindrops.
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π Sack, verb.
π /sak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Dismiss from employment.
❗️ Examples:
1. Any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot
2. To deny a person employment or to sack them on such grounds is an abuse of natural justice and due process because they have already received the legally appropriate penalty.
3. The Prime Minister has come out in support of Dr Hollingworth's decision not to sack someone from their employment despite enormous impropriety.
4. Geetha, another sacked female employee, also attempted suicide after she was dismissed.
5. What can now be said is that the youth workers' employer has sacked the woman involved after an investigation into her conduct.
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π Thrust, verb.
π /ΞΈrΚst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Push suddenly or violently in a specified direction.
❗️ Examples:
1. She thrust her hands into her pockets
2. Howard was thrust into the limelight
3. He thrust at his opponent with his sword
4. It was only through the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, that, suddenly, she was thrust into the limelight, and became our Queen.
5. An empty, demanding hand is thrust at us, and we press money into it.
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π Pint-sized, adjective.
❓ Definition: (especially of a person) very small.
❗️ Examples:
1. A pint-sized child star
2. It wasn't that I was bullied - it was just that I was pint-sized compared to the Canadian kids, who came quart-sized.
3. My lips quivered, inches away from my pint-sized patient's, his hot, bourbon soaked breath washing over my face.
4. The pint-sized heroes return for the final instalment of an entertaining trilogy and they face their biggest adventure yet.
5. Instead of machine guns, these pint-sized criminals rub each other out by hurling cream pies.
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π Fear, noun.
π /fΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A mixed feeling of dread and reverence.
❗️ Examples:
1. The love and fear of God
2. The Table is a place of feasting and refreshment, but also a place of mystery tinged with reverent fear.
3. At the centre of it all is a shallow self-centred consumerism, coupled with a debilitating absence of fear and reverence for God.
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π Tandem, adverb.
π /ΛtandΙm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: With two or more horses harnessed one behind another.
❗️ Examples:
1. I rode tandem to Paris
2. I had an American Trotter part of the time, and also drove tandem, it was all great fun.
3. I drive tandem and unicorn too, which involves 4 reins in your left hand, whip in the right, plus right hand support, I only have two hands and nothing spare to grab on with.
4. The mules are harnessed tandem to two long ropes or lines attached to the bow of the boat.
5. The carriage had a team of 4 horses harnessed tandem.
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π Superior, adjective.
π /suΛΛpΙͺΙrΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Higher in rank, status, or quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. A superior officer
2. The new model is superior to every other car on the road
3. They were certainly physically superior to me.
4. And sometimes, US drama is superior to the UK equivalent.
5. Determining which is the superior choice for residential applications depends on whom you ask.
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π Marxism, noun.
π /ΛmΙΛksΙͺz(Ι)m/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis of communism.
❗️ Examples:
1. In reality, he lost any connection to Bolshevism and Marxism many decades before he died.
2. It is based, of course, on a complete rejection of Marxism and genuine socialism.
3. That strategy was essential for the growth of socialism and Marxism in Scotland.
4. It also provides an accessible introduction to an under-explored area in the development of Marxism.
5. That turned people my age to more social issues, to reading books, to more radical ideas, to Marxism.
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π Favour, noun.
π /ΛfeΙͺvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small inexpensive gift given to guests at a party.
❗️ Examples:
1. Physicians are often enticed to attend these CME programs with free meals and other favors and gifts.
2. When you're preparing the baby shower supplies, gifts and favors, the shower theme will practically tell you the best ideas to pick up.
3. The tricky thing is to draw an appropriate line between a token gift or favor and a more substantial one.
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π Best, noun.
π /bΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The finest aspect of a person or thing.
❗️ Examples:
1. He brought out the best in people
2. They were fond of each other, and observers of his early work often say that she brought out the best in him.
3. They also brought out the best in communities who battled past the point of exhaustion against the rising waters.
4. He now enjoyed a sustained spell of supremacy which brought out the best in a determined York defence.
5. She was regarded among her pupils as a fair teacher who brought out the best in her young charges.
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π Bygone, adjective.
π /ΛbΚΙͺΙ‘Ιn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Belonging to an earlier time.
❗️ Examples:
1. Relics of a bygone age
2. It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance.
3. So once again Europe was simply recalling the glories of the ancient bygone age on behalf of the natives.
4. The Colonel is a self-fashioned sleuth who seems to belong to a bygone era.
5. The traditions and proceedings of the Commons are largely derived from a bygone age and none more so than it's adversarial nature.
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π Dump, verb.
π /dΚmp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Sell off (assets) rapidly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Investors dumped shares in scores of other consumer-goods firms
2. Investors dumped the shares in August after it revealed a-close-to $20m revenue miss.
3. Jittery investors dumped it as a result, sending its shares down 5.6 per cent.
4. They dumped those shares four years ago after what it calls a pattern of labor problems.
5. Reports claim investors dumped him because they were concerned over his desire to expand into jet services.
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π Claim, verb.
π /kleΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause the loss of (someone's life)
❗️ Examples:
1. The attacks claimed the lives of five people
2. She was subjected to a sustained knife attack which almost claimed her life when she stopped her car and went to help another woman who was being attacked.
3. He is believed to have planned two of the attacks, which claimed the lives of 31 people.
4. A man is accused of taking part in a vicious attack which claimed the life of a former church organist.
5. Chloe lived with asthma for more than two years until a severe attack claimed her life.
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π Pit, verb.
π /pΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Sink in or contract so as to form a pit or hollow.
❗️ Examples:
1. The skin becomes swollen and puffy, and pits on being pressed.
2. My skin pits when pressed.
3. It is distinguished from other swellings by pitting under pressure.
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π Rough, verb.
π /rΚf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Produce a preliminary and unfinished version of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The engineer roughed out a diagram on his notepad
2. Woke this morning with the grim realization that I had not polished the column - in fact, I'd just roughed it out, sketched out the basic ideas.
3. Working with the comp and some basic reference colors, the understructure of the ship is roughed out.
4. In the beginning, we would sit together at a computer in New York or Chicago and rough things out, which was a lot of fun but extremely unproductive.
5. One day in March I was roughing out a scene in the script in which the off-screen voice of my aunt was introducing the action in the laundry room of a typical Argentine house.
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π See, verb.
π /siΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Meet regularly as a boyfriend or girlfriend.
❗️ Examples:
1. Some guy she was seeing was messing her around
2. They had a summer of champagne, discreet suppers and walks by the Seine, but after that they saw each other less regularly.
3. She accepts, and before long they are seeing each other regularly and falling in love.
4. While we saw each other regularly, our lives changed and we grew apart.
5. She's still not seeing Lonny, the boyfriend she broke up with two novels back, but aches for him anyway.
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π Senile, adjective.
π /ΛsiΛnΚΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a condition) characteristic of or caused by old age.
❗️ Examples:
1. Senile decay
2. Being blessed with many long-lived ancestors - nonagenarians all over the place - I am resigned to seeing Senile Decay as the rather monotonous cause of death.
3. In our case, the senile degeneration of connective tissue is suspected to be the occasion of comedo formation.
4. Could either of these tests predict future disability and senile weakness?
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π Nab, verb.
π /nab/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Catch (someone) doing something wrong.
❗️ Examples:
1. They recently nabbed a burglar inside the house he was ransacking
2. Why announce his arrest to the world before actually nabbing him?
3. That is why when Delhi Police nabbed him on June 9 on charges of violating the Official Secrets Act, fellow journalists were amazed.
4. He was nabbed by members of the Garda National Drugs Unit in December 1998 when he was caught sneaking into the country and jailed for a year.
5. But he was nabbed in Denmark so the royal trust fund is safe.
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π Ball, verb.
π /bΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Squeeze or form (something) into a rounded shape.
❗️ Examples:
1. Robert balled up his napkin and threw it on to his plate
2. She balled her fist so that the nails dug into her palms
3. The fishing nets eventually ball up and sink
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π Advance, noun.
π /ΙdΛvΙΛns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A forward movement.
❗️ Examples:
1. The rebels' advance on Madrid was well under way
2. The advance of civilization
3. The advance of the Red Army into eastern Europe produced a different outcome there.
4. This was a unique terrain for warfare, where rapid advances and swift movements of armies were extremely difficult.
5. Strategy and tactics were based on easily coordinated and controlled movements - advances, encirclements, or envelopments.
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π Acclimatize, verb.
π /ΙΛklΚΙͺmΙtΚΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Respond physiologically or behaviourally to a change in conditions in the natural environment.
❗️ Examples:
1. This guard cell response to CO 2 acclimatizes to the environmental conditions on the transfer of plants between the two environments.
2. B. napus inflorescences were unable to acclimatize to the increased temperatures as seed production was inhibited throughout the HTS periods, regardless of the duration of the stress.
3. Several new studies point to evidence that some organisms with limited capacities to acclimatize to thermal or hydric change may be limited in their ability to survive future climate changes.
4. The first-order rate equation can be used under conditions where micro-organisms become acclimatized to the chemical and can actively use it.
5. Differences between baseline and follow-up measurements could be, in part, due to the fact that the patients may have acclimatized to the conditions surrounding the test during the follow-up visits.
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π Search, noun.
π /sΙΛtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An act of searching for someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The police carried out a thorough search of the premises
2. He plans to go to the Himalayas in search of a yeti
3. In search of answers, they bolted and ran to alternative practitioners.
4. In search of opportunities to fulfil his dreams, he goes away from his caring brother.
5. Systematic literature searches were conducted to assess the evidence for and against the effectiveness of kava extract for treating anxiety.
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π Indulge, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛdΚldΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of.
❗️ Examples:
1. We indulged in a cream tea
2. Their inability to retain possession allowed Rangers to indulge in the passing game they enjoy.
3. I've been enjoying the competition, indulging in brief and largely meaningless intensities of feeling.
4. I will be the only person to know that beneath my business attire, I am indulging in a secret pleasure.
5. So, in effect, you are suggesting indulging in a guilty pleasure, but in a traditional, polite format.
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π Tax, verb.
π /taks/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Impose a tax on (someone or something)
❗️ Examples:
1. The income will be taxed at the top rate
2. Otherwise the profits are taxed at the full rate.
3. This can represent a significant tax saving, compared with an ordinary share option scheme where the option is generally exempt, but the gain is taxed at income tax rates.
4. Profits from unincorporated businesses are taxed at 15 percent.
5. At the end of five years, only interest earned and capital gains are taxed at 23 per cent, in line with the tax treatment of other investment funds.
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π Fanciful, adjective.
π /ΛfansΙͺfΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Over-imaginative and unrealistic.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ever more fanciful proposals were raised
2. Okay, so admittedly that may be a fanciful and unrealistic goal.
3. He is less imaginative or fanciful than Tom, but more practical.
4. He'd always said such things like that, always so fanciful and imaginative with an underlying tone of seriousness.
5. The idea of a team made up of footballers who could play anywhere, moving around the pitch as the game and their colleagues demanded, now seems quaint and fanciful.
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π Glamour, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘lamΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Enchantment; magic.
❗️ Examples:
1. That maiden, made by glamour out of flowers
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π Trap, noun.
π /trap/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A container or device used to collect something, or a place where something collects.
❗️ Examples:
1. One fuel filter and water trap are sufficient on the fuel system
2. Stacking this way also avoids creating a water trap, or gutter, between the bales, which can lead to water entering the bales between the film layers over an extended time.
3. Pitchers are pitfall traps containing enzymes that digest insects and small animals.
4. They contend this might protect them from flood waters from the Burren, but would act as a water trap for flood waters coming off the Mourne Mountains.
5. But the pipeline cannot take the amount of water from the silt trap and hence it overflows into the lake.
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π Ask, verb.
π /ΙΛsk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Say to (someone) that one wants them to do or give something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Mary asked her father for money
2. I asked him to call the manager
3. Don't be afraid to ask for advice
4. If you're asking users to register for a newsletter, ask for only an email address.
5. He wasn't asked to plea during his appearance today and did not ask for bail.
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π Border, verb.
π /ΛbΙΛdΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Provide (something) with a decorative edge.
❗️ Examples:
1. The walls were bordered with carved scrolls and cornices
2. The driveway was dirt with large rocks bordering it, decorating it a bit.
3. The white picket fences were gone but were replaced with bricks and decorative stones that bordered the colorful flower beds.
4. This wall pattern is then bordered with a lassoed Wild West lacing crafted out of human hair, an element common to her art.
5. For example, on concrete frame buildings with in-filled masonry walls, the frame borders the top, bottom, and sides of the masonry walls.
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π High, adjective.
π /hΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a sound or note) having a frequency at the upper end of the auditory range.
❗️ Examples:
1. A high, squeaky voice
2. As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter.
3. Her voice was high and almost childish as she gave the man a playful swat on the arm.
4. The intro was played softly and her voice was high and sweet, singing the melody.
5. Did you know that as human ears age, they lose the ability to pick up high pitches?
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π Slick, noun.
π /slΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An application or amount of a glossy or oily substance.
❗️ Examples:
1. A slick of lip gloss
2. There was an oily slick on top and far too many noodles, flabbily over - cooked.
3. Blot the whole lip area again and top with a slick of gloss.
4. If you do feel your blood pressure starting to rise, simply slap on a slick of stress-relieving peppermint oil lip gloss.
5. A strong, glossy slick of Serra cheese was similar to Vacherin and the marinated sea bass was sharp and fresh and ceviche-like.
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π Harmonize, verb.
π /ΛhΙΛmΙnΚΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
❗️ Examples:
1. We harmonize a scale using only the notes from that particular key
2. At the next lesson Milhaud essentially approved the work after a few comments and suggestions, then requested that Trimble harmonize the melody for the next lesson.
3. Those Antipodeans had the same understanding of rhythmic lyrics, chord progressions and harmonising melodies as Ezio.
4. These melodies were harmonized accordingly and subsequently subjected to extensive thematic development in the paradigm of Western-European nineteenth-century compositional procedures.
5. I suspect that many more organ chorales were accompaniments for hymn-singing than we now appreciate: hymn books with melody were rare, and somehow the organist had to play and harmonise the tune.
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π World, noun.
π /wΙΛld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: One's life and activities.
❗️ Examples:
1. He felt his whole world had collapsed
2. She drove slowly because the sudden collapse of her whole world was affecting the steadiness of her hands.
3. She's the center of his whole world.
4. My whole world has fallen apart and left me feeling hopeless and depressed.
5. This is my small world and the reality of living with chronic illness.
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π Collocation, noun.
π /kΙlΙΛkeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
❗️ Examples:
1. The words have a similar range of collocation
2. If the substituted words have relevant meanings, so much the better; and if the original collocation is archaic or otherwise non-compositional, that improves the chances still further.
3. This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation.
4. Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front.
5. 3 Wright is careful with his words, and so we can conclude that the repeated collocation of the phrases moral bootstraps and Pelagianism is no accident.
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π Reconcile, verb.
π /ΛrΙk(Ι)nsΚΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make someone accept (a disagreeable or unwelcome thing)
❗️ Examples:
1. He was reconciled to leaving
2. Not very confident of India accepting accession, he was reconciled to a state of permanent political exile in India.
3. Representatives of the licensed trade, previously regarded as the most implacable opponents of the ban, indicated that they were reconciled to its eventual implementation.
4. It transcends transience and therefore reconciles us to the most fundamental condition of our existence.
5. I wrote here about the ways in which marriage reconciles us to time and mortality.
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π Set, verb.
π /sΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Provide (music) so that a written work can be produced in a musical form.
❗️ Examples:
1. A form of poetry which can be set to music
2. Mathilde subsequently tried, to no avail, to encourage him to use one of her dramas as the basis for an opera, or at least to set her poems to music.
3. Time and time again I asked myself why I had returned to set religious texts to choral music.
4. This fascinating CD draws on the talents of composers who have set his poetry to music, interspersed with readings from his works.
5. A friend of his asked him to set her poem to music, and he has done so really well!
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π Baldness, noun.
π /ΛbΙΛldnΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The condition of having a scalp wholly or partly lacking hair.
❗️ Examples:
1. We cannot cure baldness, nor restore hair to denuded scalps
2. Baldness ran in his family
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π Swallow, verb.
π /ΛswΙlΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Believe unquestioningly (a lie or unlikely assertion)
❗️ Examples:
1. She had swallowed his story hook, line, and sinker
2. The crook-Conservatives lie to the idiot-conservatives who swallow the lies hook, line and sinker.
3. They've realised that Jonathan Swift was close to the truth when he said that all politicians ultimately die of swallowing their own lies.
4. Big media, with a few honorable exceptions, are respectfully swallowing the big lies.
5. Despite evidence to the contrary, many people have swallowed this lie.
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π Hoarder, noun.
π /ΛhΙΛdΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who hoards things.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'm a bit of a hoarder
2. Basically, hoarders accumulate an impossible number of animals - more than they can care or provide for, and far too many for the available space.
3. Anecdotal evidence suggests that a convicted hoarder will almost always collect again.
4. Some animal hoarders report compulsive collecting of strays or shelter animals.
5. Psychics say storing things causes corresponding accumulations in our bodies - a horrifying thought for hoarders.
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π Because, conjunction.
π /bΙͺΛkΙz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: For the reason that; since.
❗️ Examples:
1. We did it because we felt it our duty
2. Just because I'm inexperienced doesn't mean that I lack perception
3. The reason for this is because they had been trying for a baby for the last few years.
4. The reason the party is in this mess is because it has not been honest with the voters.
5. So far the council has sold us down the river each time because it is strapped for cash.
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π Similar, adjective.
π /ΛsΙͺmΙͺlΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Having a resemblance in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical.
❗️ Examples:
1. A soft cheese similar to Brie
2. Northern India and similar areas
3. I think we can expect to hear words very similar to those when the defence sums up its case.
4. Even sinkholes similar to the one last summer have been around since the 18th Century.
5. Spawning takes place between October and December, and is very similar to that of the brown trout.
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π Call, verb.
π /kΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cry out (a word or words)
❗️ Examples:
1. He heard an insistent voice calling his name
2. Meredith was already calling out a greeting
3. Standing up, I cupped my hands around my mouth, raising my voice before calling out his name.
4. You might think I have a lot of nerve calling out this word.
5. He didn't hear the bright, girlish voice calling out his name again and again until his caller stood right before him.
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π Basal, adjective.
π /ΛbeΙͺs(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Forming or belonging to a bottom layer or base.
❗️ Examples:
1. Basal epidermal cells
2. The plant grows huge basal leaves
3. Cells are replaced from a basal layer of proliferating epidermal cells in contact with the basal lamina.
4. These cells originate in the lower epidermis by division of basal cells in the basal layer.
5. Thus, for four of the five treatments, the ratios of basal leaf to root were similar.
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π Lol, verb.
π /lΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Laugh audibly or be amused.
❗️ Examples:
1. I literally LOL'd when the updates popped up
2. I was LOLing at the teeny tiny little sign
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π Touch, noun.
π /tΚtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A musician's manner of playing keys or strings.
❗️ Examples:
1. What makes Jansons unique in his mΓ©tier is the intricacy of his musical touch.
2. Information is included on staccato touches and the two-note slur touch.
3. Piau here has a lightness of touch which sits perfectly with the Mozart.
4. Retention of a naturally compact hand through early release of selected notes and judicious use of staccato touch is a potent technique.
5. The Raindrop Prelude had the requisite lightness of touch.
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π Folksy, adjective.
π /ΛfΙΚksi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Having the characteristics of traditional culture and customs, especially in a contrived or artificial way.
❗️ Examples:
1. The shop's folksy, small-town image
2. The concluding Allegro has a rollicking, folksy character, complete with a drone-like accompaniment.
3. The cold, clipped delivery and bizarre folksy expressions have also contributed to this.
4. Only once did this production stumble - in a folksy, slightly messy character dance performed by the Royal Fathers and Mothers.
5. The folksy image helped Immaculate hit $1 million in sales last year, up 82% over 2001.
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π Bound, adjective.
π /baΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a book) having a specified binding.
❗️ Examples:
1. Fine leather-bound books
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π Denote, verb.
π /dΙͺΛnΙΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Stand as a name or symbol for.
❗️ Examples:
1. The level of output per firm is denoted by X
2. Next, each species or cultivar has a list of nurseries that sell it, with symbols denoting new entries, synonyms, awards of merit, variegation and so on.
3. For the second quarter in a row, the company has had an e placed after its trading symbol, denoting a late filing of accounts.
4. In Courchevel, pay attention to the numbers after the name (which denote the height in metres).
5. X and Y aren't a formula; they're a pair of mathematical symbols used to denote an unknown quantity.
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π Now, adverb.
π /naΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used at the end of an ironic question echoing a previous statement.
❗️ Examples:
1. Mum says you might let me have some of your stamps. Does she now?
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π Buckle, verb.
π /ΛbΚk(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) suffer a psychological collapse as a result of stress.
❗️ Examples:
1. A weaker person might have buckled under the strain
2. Back then he had buckled, begged for his life, done whatever he was ordered to do just to survive.
3. His feet touched the ground and he knees buckled under the sudden weight gain.
4. After two days of damaging headlines he finally buckled and declared he would not challenge.
5. As Leslie admitted yesterday, he had even contemplated suicide as he buckled under the weight of the pressure.
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π Bush, noun.
π /bΚΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel.
❗️ Examples:
1. The cord should enter either through a hole in insulating material or through a properly secured insulating bush.
2. A little red lead and oil applied to the crankshaft shows up the parts in the bush which require the scraping.
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π Bear, verb.
π /bΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be able to accept or stand up to.
❗️ Examples:
1. It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny
2. Sadly, such a picture does not bear scrutiny, especially in the so-called top clubs, where discrimination on the grounds of age and sex is not only routine, but all too often is revelled in.
3. But to shackle the BBC in the pursuit of original journalism would be entirely wrong - so long as the editorial processes bear scrutiny.
4. The idea that the growing number of clubs standing on football's equivalent of death row are somehow the unfortunate victims of a natural disaster does not bear scrutiny.
5. They are keeping quiet until their products are really ready to bear scrutiny.
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π Specify, verb.
π /ΛspΙsΙͺfΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Identify clearly and definitely.
❗️ Examples:
1. The coup leader promised an election but did not specify a date
2. The Claimant is not able to specify the identity of the items ordered for each of the sales listed.
3. Plans did not specify the identity of any tenants in the proposed project.
4. The Secretary of State must identify and specify the relevant law of the United Kingdom.
5. Where a cheque or bill is payable to order, it must specify the identity of the payee with reasonable certainty.
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π Anxiety, noun.
π /aΕΛzΚΙͺΙti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A nervous disorder marked by excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behaviour or panic attacks.
❗️ Examples:
1. She suffered from anxiety attacks
2. They do not seem to know that depression and anxiety can cause eating disorders.
3. As you learn to modify your compulsive behaviour, your anxiety levels should lessen.
4. However, the fact that she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks is less certain of being admitted.
5. Two points need to be made with respect to the diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder.
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π Leopard, noun.
π /ΛlΙpΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A large solitary cat that has a fawn or brown coat with black spots, native to the forests of Africa and southern Asia.
❗️ Examples:
1. The list of the critically endangered include the black rhino and Siberian tiger and the Amur leopard of Asia.
2. But a new survey suggests that the country may now be home to wild leopards, pumas, and other big cats.
3. I have been filming for 14 years now, working with hyenas, leopards, and jackals.
4. The dogs, Anatolian shepherds, live with the livestock on the range and protect them from cheetahs and leopards.
5. In size and marking it looks very much like a leopard, although the jaguar is the much heavier animal, weighing up to 34 kg.
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π Help, noun.
π /hΙlp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of helping someone to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. I asked for help from my neighbours
2. She gives advice, guidance, help, and motivation to her students at City College.
3. All of you provided me with invaluable help and advice that aided me to gain my first year certificate with a Merit pass.
4. The FBI has also been too reluctant in the past to accept help or advice from other security services.
5. So tonight, I ask for your help in encouraging your representatives to support my plan.
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π Trough, noun.
π /trΙf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An elongated region of low barometric pressure.
❗️ Examples:
1. The subtropical highs move from west to east across southern Australia in winter, and further south in summer, usually separated by low pressure troughs or cold fronts.
2. A trough is an elongated area of low atmospheric pressure that can occur either at the Earth's surface or at higher altitudes.
3. The procession of temperate cyclonic vortices continues unabated and their northerly troughs, the cold fronts, progress in tandem.
4. In southwestern Australia, the hottest conditions are normally associated with low pressure troughs that direct east to northeasterly winds from the hot interior.
5. The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial trough, that girdles the earth.
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π Control, noun.
π /kΙnΛtrΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A member of an intelligence organization who personally directs the activities of a spy.
❗️ Examples:
1. He sat with his KGB control as the details of his new assignment were explained
2. The title refers to the time when an outside spy has to come in from the cold and take a sedentary job as another spy's control or even some menial desk assignment until the mandatory age limit forces retirement.
3. Blunt joined MI5, now allowing him to expand his services beyond recruiting and giving him opportunities to transmit secret documents to his KGB control.
4. He detests the amorality of his C.I.A. control.
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π Hamster, noun.
π /ΛhamstΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A solitary burrowing rodent with a short tail and large cheek pouches for carrying food, native to Europe and North Asia.
❗️ Examples:
1. Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
2. Donkeys, dogs, gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, parrots and newts are most likely to get a present.
3. In case you ever have a problem identifying rodents again, hamsters are cute and stuff food into their cheeks.
4. Experiments revealed the same cells that have also been discovered in rats, gophers, gerbils, mice, and hamsters.
5. Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer.
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π Spry, adjective.
π /sprΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially of an old person) active; lively.
❗️ Examples:
1. He continued to look spry and active well into his eighties
2. She is so spry, alert, and enthusiastic that it is difficult to imagine you are talking to a woman in her sixties.
3. James Henry Clark is pretty spry for a man whose caddie career began in the Roaring Twenties and has spanned eight decades.
4. A small, spry woman of about sixty, she works as a home care nurse.
5. Mrs Rendell, who has been a widow for 50 years, is still spry and active, despite a recent leg problem caused by a fall.
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π Recreation, noun.
π /ΛrΙkrΙͺΛeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action or process of creating something again.
❗️ Examples:
1. The periodic destruction and recreation of the universe
2. Most recently these boots have been very grotty, having been present for the destruction and recreation of the living rooms and the continuing demolition of the garden.
3. Shiva the destroyer is a necessary part of the trinity because, without destruction, there can be no recreation.
4. The recreation of the Famine ship took place at Blennerville, near Tralee, Co Kerry, and was completed in 2002.
5. They enjoyed television's recreations of more confident times
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π Change, verb.
π /tΚeΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of the moon) arrive at a fresh phase; become new.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is going to be worse for the next two or three days because the moon has changed
2. The moon is forever changing, and none knows why it is so mysterious.
3. By this time it was nine days since the moon had changed.
4. Mercifully, the moon has changed, which always gives me the strength to crawl out of my funk and count my blessings.
5. Day and night are well implemented and you can even see the moon change as the month progresses.
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π Persuade, verb.
π /pΙΛsweΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a situation or event) provide a sound reason for (someone) to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The cost of the manor's restoration persuaded them to take in guests
2. She explained that the event had finally persuaded her husband to wear his thick glasses in public.
3. His top-rated programme now persuades people to go out and buy satellite receivers.
4. Laurel and Hardy's best performances persuade you that humiliation is not all it's cracked up to be.
5. Nor do I think a slippery slope case would persuade anyone who can see nothing wrong with banning such views.
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π Research, verb.
π /rΙͺΛsΙΛtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Discover or verify information for use in (a book, programme, etc.)
❗️ Examples:
1. I was in New York researching my novel
2. It's a piece of work that's carefully researched, strongly argued, and beautifully written
3. While researching the book he decided to have a drink in every bar that bears his name, and there are plenty of those.
4. We will also be researching the international market and following the trends in color.
5. Her day starts with a round of toast and, if she is not researching the programme, she looks after the show's guests for the day.
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π Muzzle, noun.
π /ΛmΚz(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The part of a person's face including the nose, mouth, and chin.
❗️ Examples:
1. His close-shaven muzzle
2. He looks in the mirror with shock as his muzzle hangs wide open like someone who just discovered what they look like for the first time.
3. Ellen tried unsuccessfully to stop the snort that escaped her muzzle.
4. Chris and Sabrina sat there with their muzzles hanging open.
5. His muzzle dropped open, then he made an elaborate show of wincing.
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π Sprint, noun.
π /sprΙͺnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially in software development) a set period of time during which specific tasks must be completed.
❗️ Examples:
1. Team members discuss issues with each other at the end of every sprint
2. A sprint planning session
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π Sovereignty, noun.
π /ΛsΙvrΙͺnti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Supreme power or authority.
❗️ Examples:
1. The sovereignty of Parliament
2. It was more than a legitimisation of sovereignty by Brahmanical ritual; it was an assertion of supreme sovereignty.
3. Here was the judicial reconciliation of Parliamentary sovereignty with the supremacy of EC law.
4. His life and his death taught all those that knew him of God's wisdom, grace, sovereignty and power.
5. As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people.
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π Repercussion, noun.
π /riΛpΙΛkΚΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An echo or reverberation.
❗️ Examples:
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π Invention, noun.
π /ΙͺnΛvΙnΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Creative ability.
❗️ Examples:
1. His powers of invention were rather limited
2. Yet these are still fascinating questions, questions that provoke us and bring forth all kinds of creative thought and invention.
3. Why unrefined, ill-informed, loose oral expressions seem to displace thoroughness, creativity, innovation, invention and skill.
4. Jan's technical ability, artistic invention, and intellect were universally recognized, by writers and artists in Italy as well as the Netherlands.
5. Produced in the studio, his works are based on his memory and powers of invention.
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π Trust, verb.
π /trΚst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Place reliance on (luck, fate, or chance)
❗️ Examples:
1. I hurtled down the path, trusting to luck that I wouldn't put a foot wrong
2. He gets off the train any old place, trusting to luck, and goes around the platform accosting one person after another, each time mumbling the same syllables: bou bournous…
3. What we have just witnessed is a humble attempt to train the nation to choose and decide, to encourage people to think about their problems, stop trusting to fate and begin asking questions.
4. Sven has no intention of trusting to luck.
5. I'm just plugging in a few keywords and just sort of trusting to luck.
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π Hedge, verb.
π /hΙdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Enclose something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The cathedral is closely hedged in by other buildings
2. And anyway, it will be hedged in with get-out clauses about affordability.
3. When I approached the town I discovered that gardens and orchards hedged it in.
4. Are you hedged in for privacy or open for all the world to see?
5. Dated 10 November 1918, it shows the artist hedged in by the surrounding objects in his studio, as he stands, as though trapped, behind the back of his easel and looks across the darkness at his mirror image.
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π Loot, noun.
π /luΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Money.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ten thousand quid is a lot of loot
2. I have a designated driver for the night and the plans are to receive a lot of loot, get obscenely drunk, and pass out.
3. That's a lot of loot for a pair of companies that have yet to make a dime in profits.
4. And before they suggest that state funding of political parties is some novel form of financing, let's look at the vast amounts of loot we currently give them.
5. Under a subscription or rent-a-tune model, you can listen to a boatload of music for a lot less loot than on a buy-only download site.
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π Red, adjective.
π /rΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting a red light or flag used as a signal to stop.
❗️ Examples:
1. A red signal stops action, and green alerts the player that the coach needs his or her attention.
2. But drivers also fail to stop at red signals because they have misread a signal, or chosen to disregard it.
3. This system automatically stops the train if it passes through a red signal.
4. He grabbed red danger flags and special detonators, used to stop trains, and ran into the path of the train.
5. Cameras were installed but seem to do little except consistently fail to identify speeding motorists who disregard the red signal.
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π Grovel, verb.
π /ΛΙ‘rΙv(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards.
❗️ Examples:
1. He grovelled at George's feet
2. This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing power moves.
3. He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
4. There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming.
5. If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no.
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π Inclination, noun.
π /ΙͺnklΙͺΛneΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The angle between the orbital plane of a planet, comet, etc. and the ecliptic, or between the orbital plane of a satellite and the equatorial plane of its primary.
❗️ Examples:
1. Cometary orbits vary widely in inclination
2. Because of the Mercury's high orbital inclination, it can be seen crossing the disk of the sun only rarely.
3. From that ellipse one can, in principle, determine the inclination of the planet's orbital plane.
4. He's based this idea on a study of the angle, or inclination, of asteroid orbits.
5. First, the relative inclination of the two orbits means their paths do not intersect.
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π Tip, verb.
π /tΙͺp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be or cause to be in a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other.
❗️ Examples:
1. I tipped my seat back, preparing myself for sleep
2. The car had tipped to one side
3. He wore hats, tipped slightly to the side, he had the easiest laugh of anybody, he was fluent in English and Japanese and spoke to me like a peer.
4. He had not awaken when the car almost tipped upon its side and rolled, and he had not awaken when Lucas and Brooke raised their voices earlier.
5. I nodded, wiping my dry mouth on the back of my hand before I bent at the waist to pick up my bag and my text book, tilting my head when it tipped dizzily to the side.
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π Portion, noun.
π /ΛpΙΛΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A part of a whole.
❗️ Examples:
1. A portion of the jetty still stands
2. He could repeat large portions of Shakespeare
3. The analysis of data is based on a portion of the whole survey.
4. It's much nicer to be on a brightly lit television set with an entertainer for a judge in front of you, and the whole nation or a portion of the nation with nothing better to do watching.
5. But when modern societies abolished the stigmas on illegitimacy, divorce, and all the rest, whole portions of the social structure just caved in.
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π Game, adjective.
π /Ι‘eΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Eager or willing to do something new or challenging.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were game for anything
2. Saturday's match saw a good turnout of players eager to get game time prior to the league season.
3. Game for a laugh is Denis, but I digress.
4. If you want others to be game, you've got to also be game yourself once in a while.
5. He was quite game about the issue, and mostly gave straight answers.
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π Consecutive, adjective.
π /kΙnΛsΙkjΚtΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Following each other continuously.
❗️ Examples:
1. Five consecutive months of serious decline
2. Last month's hike is the first following five consecutive months of falling rates.
3. Economists said this ninth consecutive rise would be followed by further increases in the months ahead.
4. He followed up with three consecutive Championship wins and was runner-up three times in succession.
5. This continued for two consecutive weeks; the final total being 504 holes of golf and who knows how many practice balls!
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π Hand over fist, phrase.
❓ Definition: Very rapidly.
❗️ Examples:
1. We were making money hand over fist
2. They are just going to keep losing employees hand over fist
3. Anyone who doesn't bother to check regularly whether they're getting value for money for their current financial products is probably losing money hand over fist.
4. While corporate America would rather be making money hand over fist, Robin argues, the neocons are in search of a fight between good and evil, civilization and barbarism.
5. But four-fifths of broadcast network TV is now delivered to homes by cable or satellite - not free - and NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox are making money hand over fist.
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π Dock, noun.
π /dΙk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A jetty or pier where a ship may moor.
❗️ Examples:
1. Geoff was waiting for him on the rickety wooden dock that stretched out into the river.
2. They all did the required swimming test then headed over to the boat dock.
3. He made his way to a boat dock and pulled himself up onto it.
4. I stood near the wooden dock, though my feet were still on grass.
5. I did indeed sit on the dock of a bay, watching the tide roll away.
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π Negative, noun.
π /ΛnΙΙ‘ΙtΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A word, affix, or phrase expressing negation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Hence the perceived strangeness of They could give a damn, which has no overt negative, but means the same thing as the same phrase with a negative.
2. A penchant for sentences with multiple negatives is one of the things that make jury instructions notoriously hard to understand.
3. Re-reading P G Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters the other day reminded me of the many words in English which are the negatives of words whose positive forms are now obsolete or rare.
4. Other tenses, the various modalities, and of course negatives, would be incompatible with this characterization.
5. So far then: no to adjectives being crucially involved, but yes to positives being used sarcastically to express negatives rather than the other way around.
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π Silence, verb.
π /ΛsΚΙͺlΙns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Prohibit or prevent from speaking.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was silenced by the officer's stern look
2. The team's performance silenced their critics
3. Freedom of the press cannot be silenced by tanks
4. The 4-0 performance was also one Parsley hopes will silence the critics.
5. His answer is as refreshing as it has been, by his account, effective in silencing the critics.
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π Sound, adjective.
π /saΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a beating) severe.
❗️ Examples:
1. Such people should be given a sound thrashing
2. A man finds out his son is using heroin and decides to go punish the dealer with a sound beating.
3. Scotland, for instance, gave them a sound beating in the autumn when they came up here.
4. The Pistons clearly are a shaken team unaccustomed to taking two sound beatings in a series.
5. Cora clenched her jaw as she mentally made a note to hire some guards to give Arlan a sound beating.
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π Egomaniac, noun.
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❓ Definition: A person who is obsessively egotistical or self-centred.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is a raving egomaniac
2. Hockey in this country has suffered more than most at the hands of egomaniacs who have run it to the ground.
3. Why should we be forced to pay million-pound wages to assuage the egos of these egomaniacs, we cry?
4. But it's a good laugh - what sort of an egomaniac puts that rubbish about themself on the internet anyway?
5. Is it any wonder that the public's perception of science is that of a bunch of boring egomaniacs jargonizing endlessly about trivialities?
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π Idiom, noun.
π /ΛΙͺdΙͺΙm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light).
❗️ Examples:
1. India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, and its distinctive words, idioms, grammar, rhetoric and rhythms are numerous and pervasive.
2. Consider the case of idioms which contain a word which has no uses outside the idiom itself.
3. Brewer's aim was to help readers understand the context of the catchphrases, clichΓ©s, slogans and odd linguistic idioms by which the British make themselves understood.
4. My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level.
5. First, one must have a firm command over classical Arabic language including its vocabulary, grammar, metaphors, and idioms.
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π Believe, verb.
π /bΙͺΛliΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Hold (something) as an opinion; think.
❗️ Examples:
1. I believe we've already met
2. Four men were believed to be trapped
3. I have a hard time believing that my opinion would change regardless of who did the work though.
4. He believes that moving to Rochdale Infirmary will add to the already difficult parking problems.
5. It is believed that with one man already convicted of the bombing, there are no grounds to reopen the inquiries.
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π Tight, adjective.
π /tΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of appearance or manner) tense, irritated, or angry.
❗️ Examples:
1. She gave him a tight smile
2. I turned to look at her and she gave me a tight, angry smile.
3. He gives a tough, tight smile as he contemplates his boyhood self, and you can almost hear the schoolchildren of Glasgow breathe a sigh of relief.
4. In his tight, angry face we see a lifetime of struggles and disappointments.
5. She had a tight little smile and two dimples appeared.
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π Rush, verb.
π /rΚΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a student) visit (a college fraternity or sorority) with a view to joining it.
❗️ Examples:
1. He rushed three fraternities
2. He sees a potential avenue to popularity in rushing a fraternity on campus.
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π Guide, noun.
π /Ι‘ΚΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who advises others, especially in matters of behaviour or belief.
❗️ Examples:
1. His spiritual guide
2. So the Evangelical pastors often served as counselors, spiritual guides and confidantes.
3. She said their knowledge comes from the Dreamtime, their spiritual guide which teaches them how to hunt, the different skills they need and where to get food.
4. The former includes meditations on the precious human existence, impermanence, the defects of sasra, the workings of karma and the need for a spiritual guide or guru.
5. I came up with the idea on Saturday, and chucked it around in my head a bit, mentioning it to my spiritual guide Swami Blue Witch.
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