Cambridge Dictionary:
π Interpretation, noun.
π /ΙͺntΙΛprΙͺΛteΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A stylistic representation of a creative work or dramatic role.
❗️ Examples:
1. His unique interpretation of the Liszt Γ©tudes
2. It will be fascinating to see in the future how different interpretations of the role go.
3. Gemma and Laura take great interest in the different interpretations of the same role by each principal.
4. There are videos and displays of still photographs all offering different interpretations of the main theme.
5. It is difficult to imagine what cello music would be without Ma's unique interpretations.
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π Sale, noun.
❓ Definition: an act of exchanging something for money
❗️ Examples:
1. You pay tax on the profits from the sale of buildings.
2. The school raised money from book sales, bake sales, and individual contributors.
3. When I bought this house, there were many, many homes for sale (= available to be bought).
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π Embrace, verb.
π /ΙͺmΛbreΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Include or contain (something) as a constituent part.
❗️ Examples:
1. His career embraces a number of activities—composing, playing, and acting
2. Catholics believe that the full and right ordering of the Church embraces seven sacraments, including the apostolic and sacramentally ordained ministry.
3. This message embraces all creations, including the unborn.
4. His stellar career embraces comedy and drama and crosses media from television and movies to the stage and the recording arts.
5. Callaghan's political career thus embraced the entire experience of post-war Labourism.
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π Tight, adjective, adverb.
❓ Definition: Clothes that are tight fit the body closely, sometimes so closely that they are uncomfortable
❗️ Examples:
1. She wore a tight black skirt.
2. These shoes feel a bit tight.
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π Worthy, adjective.
π /ΛwΙΛΓ°i/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Characterized by good intent but lacking in humour or imagination.
❗️ Examples:
1. Worthy but tedious advice
2. All of which contributes to making Sylvia a film which, while certainly worthy in intent, won't have very many people seeking to find out more about the poet.
3. My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
4. Usually it was a long and, I often felt, unnecessarily drawn-out and tedious experience where worthy but dull homilies were addressed to the assembled Gaels.
5. It is hard to evaluate Millet's work; the intention is so worthy and, although without subtlety, so persuasive, but the artistry is so deficient.
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π Hallucinate, verb.
π /hΙΛluΛsΙͺneΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Experience a seemingly real perception of something not actually present, typically as a result of a mental disorder or of taking drugs.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ben began hallucinating and having fits
2. After awhile subjects become disoriented and begin to hallucinate uncontrollably.
3. I had a job as a technician, but I began to hallucinate more and have irrational thoughts.
4. Because of expressive language difficulties, it may not be clear whether an individual with AD is indeed hallucinating or experiencing illusions or agnosias.
5. Immediately I am captivated by this picture-perfect creature before me, and I find myself wondering if he is even real or if I have begun to hallucinate.
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π Nowadays, adverb (B1).
❓ Definition: at the present time, in comparison to the past
❗️ Examples:
1. Who remembers those movies nowadays?
2. Nowadays, I bake my own bread rather than buy it.
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π Concerned, adjective (B2).
π /kΙnΛsΙΛnd/ π¬π§ /kΙnΛsΙΛnd/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: worried
❗️ Examples:
1. I'm a bit concerned about/for your health.
2. Aren't you concerned (that) she might tell someone?
3. He was concerned to hear that two of his trusted workers were leaving.
4. Concerned parents have complained about the dangerous playground.
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π Stooge, verb.
π /stuΛdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move about aimlessly; drift or cruise.
❗️ Examples:
1. She stooged around in the bathroom for a while
2. We stooged around for a while, treading air, then fired the burner, to give us a few hours of heat.
3. As Viola, she delivers the bard's verses with an uncommon fluency as she stooges across the stage.
4. Well, if you couldn't be there in person, celebrating England's triumph over their traditional cricketing foe while stooging around the Caribbean would take some beating.
5. After stooging around our patrol area for the required time and seeing nothing, it was time to return home.
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π Cool, adjective.
π /kuΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to express acceptance of or agreement with something.
❗️ Examples:
1. If people want to freak out at our clubs, that's cool
2. I told Bill that I was going to write the final draft of the script and he was cool with that
3. No, it's cool; I don't mind talking about that.
4. I work hard at things to improve, but I also realize it takes time and I'm cool with that.
5. If that's not your thing, that's cool by me, but know that it's encouraged and applauded in this community.
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π Call, verb.
π /kΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (a particular bid) during the auction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her partner called 6♠
2. A bid can only be overcalled by calling a lower card of the same suit as the original bid.
3. Then the next player calls, and so on until all cards have been called.
4. Betting then commences in a poker style manner, until the bet has been called.
5. So the bidding is won by whoever is prepared to call the lowest card.
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π Acceptable, adjective (B1).
π /ΙkΛsept.Ι.b(Ι)l/ π¬π§ /ΙkΛsept.Ι.b(Ι)l/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: satisfactory and able to be agreed to or approved of
❗️ Examples:
1. Clearly we need to come to an arrangement that is acceptable to both parties.
2. So what is an acceptable level of radiation?
3. This kind of attitude is simply not acceptable.
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π Doughy, adjective.
π /ΛdΙΚi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of food) having a thick, malleable consistency.
❗️ Examples:
1. Doughy white bread
2. A soft, doughy pizza base
3. A pasty, doughy, chubby white kid from the suburbs
4. Sagging, doughy skin
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π Beat, noun.
π /biΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An area allocated to a police officer and patrolled on foot.
❗️ Examples:
1. His beat was in North London
2. It's important to have cops on the beat
3. 28 per cent said that they had never seen a police officer on the beat in their area.
4. Police are putting extra patrols on the beat in Grimsby after a racist attack left an asylum seeker with serious facial injuries.
5. I would put more police on the beat instead of driving round in cars or sat behind a desk.
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π Even, adverb.
π /ΛiΛ.v(Ι)n/ π¬π§ /ΛiΛ.v(Ι)n/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: at the same time as
❗️ Examples:
1. I tried to reason with him, but even as I started to explain what had happened he stood up to leave.
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π Drive, verb.
π /drΚΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (something abstract) to happen or develop.
❗️ Examples:
1. The consumer has been driving the economy for a number of years
2. We need to allow market forces to drive growth in the telecommunications sector
3. It is clearly the bosses, the bankers, the stockbrokers and the generals who are driving the budgetary process.
4. It lacks narrative forms, is not reducible to conventional proverbs, and is driven by grievance against God and the world.
5. For well over its first century, American foreign policy was a partnership between government and business, driven by efforts to keep markets open for exports and investments.
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π Concisely, adverb.
❓ Definition: in a short and clear way that expresses what needs to be said without unnecessary words
❗️ Examples:
1. The information was presented clearly and concisely.
2. He covers concisely our current understanding of the biosynthesis of proteins.
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π Hold, verb.
π /hΙΚld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Refrain from adding or using (something, typically an item of food or drink)
❗️ Examples:
1. A strawberry margarita, but hold the tequila
2. Add a slice of cheese to your sandwich, but hold the mayonnaise.
3. As more Americans hold the cream and cut the carbs, Starbucks has been forced to respond.
4. Would Steve McQueen have been a skinny latte man? Does Sean Penn ask them to hold the fries and the bun when he orders a burger?
5. When she ate there, once or twice a month, she asked them to hold the cheese on her burger and give her a salad instead of fries.
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π Paddle, verb.
π /Λpad(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of bird or other animal) swim with short fast strokes.
❗️ Examples:
1. The swan paddled away
2. The pond was filled with wildlife, as there were red and yellow goldfish swimming about, ducks paddling about on the surface, meddling with the herons.
3. The woman, boating three miles off of the Gulf of Mexico, found this little kitten paddling furiously and meowing loudly.
4. Sure enough, the turtles paddled in different directions when exposed to different magnetic fields.
5. Nine inches long and screaming at the top of its lungs, the cat was paddling furiously.
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π Avow, verb.
π /ΙΛvaΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Assert or confess openly.
❗️ Examples:
1. He avowed that he had voted Labour in every election
2. He avowed his change of faith
3. I don't think it's impermissible for the judge to openly avow that that Constitution is morally praiseworthy, that the United States is morally praiseworthy.
4. It is best explicable as an index of old-fashioned attitudes and its correlation with racism simply shows that it is now old-fashioned to avow openly racist attitudes.
5. After openly avowing that his soul was bound with hers, William could not but be impatient with Elizabeth for refusing to make up her mind.
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π Stagnant, adjective.
π /ΛstaΙ‘nΙnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a body of water or the atmosphere of a confined space) having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.
❗️ Examples:
1. A stagnant ditch
2. Wade had a large clay pot with a big chip in the top in which he kept stagnant water, weeds, and any bugs that intrigued him.
3. The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects.
4. If your water has been stagnant for some time, treat it before you drink it.
5. Plants can't breathe if their roots are immersed in stagnant water.
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π Feel, verb.
π /fiΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Examine or search by touch.
❗️ Examples:
1. He touched her head and felt her hair
2. He felt around for the matches
3. Mac ran a hand over his short hair, then gently felt the bump on the back of his head.
4. I felt around under the bed for some kind of weapon: if they made one more move on him it'd be their last.
5. I felt around and found some old newspapers and tried to cover myself.
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π Presence, noun (B2).
π /Λprez.(Ι)ns/ π¬π§ /Λprez.(Ι)ns/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: the fact that someone or something is in a place
❗️ Examples:
1. She was overawed by the presence of so many people.
2. The presence of pollen in the atmosphere causes hay fever in some people.
3. He's usually quite polite in my presence.
4. The document was signed in the presence of two witnesses.
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π Board, noun.
π /bΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The provision of regular meals when one stays somewhere, in return for payment or services.
❗️ Examples:
1. Board and lodging
2. Room and board, a small monthly stipend and unlimited access to studio space are provided.
3. Room and board are the student's responsibility, as is the financing of tuition.
4. He also highlighted that the asylum seeker does get meals and board.
5. They get board and lodging in return for training newly arriving students in literacy and other skills.
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π Sunday, adverb.
π /ΛsΚndeΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: On Sundays; each Sunday.
❗️ Examples:
1. The programme is repeated Sundays at 9 p.m
2. Services take place Sundays at 1:30 pm in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
3. Although there is every possibility that folks will be bored and want to play odd games, the regular, reliable game will be Sundays at 4pm.
4. During the school year I work Saturdays, so I have to play Sundays.
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π Redeem, verb.
π /rΙͺΛdiΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Gain or regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment.
❗️ Examples:
1. Statutes enabled state peasants to redeem their land
2. Equally important, the Dictum offered rebels deprived of their lands the opportunity of redeeming them, for sums calculated in proportion to their involvement in the rebellion.
3. The disposal of the clan land to strangers without the consent of the clansmen is subject to the fiat that any other clan member can redeem that clan land on payment of the purchase price to the purchaser.
4. In any case, the decision to redeem the land makes no practical sense.
5. Furthermore, the crofters on both crown and private land also lacked incentives, as they were not given an opportunity to redeem the crofts and related cultivated land for themselves.
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π Intoxicated, adjective.
π /ΙͺnΛtΙksΙͺkeΙͺtΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Drunk or under the influence of drugs.
❗️ Examples:
1. Officials are reporting an increase in the number of intoxicated students requiring medical attention
2. He was so intoxicated that he could barely walk
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π Jump, noun.
π /dΚΚmp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Extreme nervousness or anxiety.
❗️ Examples:
1. You get the jumps—you feel like J. Edgar Hoover's on your tail
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π Spend, verb.
π /spΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Use or give out the whole of; exhaust.
❗️ Examples:
1. She couldn't buy any more because she had already spent her money
2. The initial surge of interest had spent itself
3. She put her hands on her hips and watched as the can spent itself.
4. The lightning spent itself and the coach fell to the ground unconscious.
5. The last drops of the rainfall spattered heavily against the cobblestones as the storm spent itself and shook itself off.
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π Weakness, noun.
π /ΛwiΛknΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A disadvantage or fault.
❗️ Examples:
1. You must recognize your product's strengths and weaknesses
2. You know, we all have our strengths and our weaknesses, our faults and our abilities.
3. We know each other's faults and weaknesses and complement each other.
4. There are actually numerous ways to intercept packets in Windows, each with their own disadvantages and weaknesses.
5. You need to make sure that the system responds adequately to any faults and weaknesses that have been reported.
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π Gamble, verb.
π /ΛΙ‘amb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take risky action in the hope of a desired result.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was gambling on the success of his satellite TV channel
2. There are no glamorous high-tech stocks, even though it is always tempting as an investor to gamble on risky firms, he writes.
3. Investors began gambling on future returns and more patterns emerged.
4. Contending teams with high picks and clubs with multiple first-round picks willing to gamble on him hope that's not all he is.
5. He has gambled on a team that he hopes will result in his third general election win.
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π Verb, noun.
π /vΙΛb/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
❗️ Examples:
1. This could be a preposition, a verb, or a noun which does not in fact count as the possessor.
2. Kanji are used in writing the main parts of a sentence such as verbs and nouns, as well as names.
3. We typically identify powers with a certain standard locution, employing the infinitives of verbs along with verb phrases.
4. The first and second words could be either plural nouns or singular-inflected verbs.
5. Many English words can be nouns or verbs, with the exact same English spelling.
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π Statement, noun.
π /ΛsteΙͺtm(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An expression of an attitude or belief that is made by means of actions or appearance.
❗️ Examples:
1. The hope is that they will fill the stands and terraces to make a statement about the importance of this club
2. A tattoo can be more than just a fashion statement–it has potential medical value
3. Some people who were buying a fur said they never thought to buy a fur, but they felt a compulsion to make a statement.
4. By sending a thank you letter to anyone who refers a customer to you, you've not only shown your appreciation, but you've made a statement about the way you do business.
5. Those who condemn this movie on the ground that it "promotes impure thoughts" are making a statement about themselves.
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π Brawn, noun.
π /brΙΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Physical strength in contrast to intelligence.
❗️ Examples:
1. Commando work required as much brain as brawn
2. Their strength and brawn have always put Tipp off a bit.
3. I suddenly saw these guys around me gaining this muscle, strength, and brawn.
4. On exams that measure brawn and physical aptitude, your score is not fixed - it can improve over time.
5. And you have the intelligence of a T-rex by the way, all brawn and no brain.
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π Immaculate, adjective.
π /ΙͺΛmakjΚlΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in the Roman Catholic Church) free from sin.
❗️ Examples:
1. We will not go into the difference between the immaculate conception and virgin birth.
2. That's why we're convinced that the pregnancy was an immaculate conception.
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π Take, verb.
π /teΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Achieve or attain (a victory or result)
❗️ Examples:
1. John Martin took the men's title
2. No Republican has ever won the White House without taking Ohio; Democrats have only done so twice.
3. Both campaigns believe that whoever wins two out of the three will probably take the White House.
4. No Republican president has ever made it to the White House without taking Ohio.
5. William Hurt took best supporting actor for his role in A History of Violence.
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π Eager, adjective.
π /ΛiΛΙ‘Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person's expression or tone of voice) keenly expectant or interested.
❗️ Examples:
1. Small eager faces looked up and listened
2. Kit nodded and leapt to her feet, an eager expression appearing on her face as she did so.
3. Bridge leaned over and glanced at the maps with an eager expression on her face.
4. Ryne flinched at the overly eager, overly loud voice that greeted his arrival back home.
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π Gain, noun.
π /Ι‘eΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An increase in wealth or resources.
❗️ Examples:
1. The pursuit of personal gain
2. Shares showed gains of up to 21 per cent
3. Ruthless pursuit of personal gain is venerated.
4. Technically, water remains a public resource, but water license holders can now sell the rights to a public resource for personal gain.
5. The company said circulation revenues continue to show solid advances on 2002, reflecting the impact of both cover price increases and market share gains.
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π Sincere, adjective.
π /sΙͺnΛsΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Free from pretence or deceit; proceeding from genuine feelings.
❗️ Examples:
1. They offer their sincere thanks to Paul
2. Hence, we try to make our supplication sincere, free of any thoughts that may not please God.
3. Wouldn't a prayer or period of quiet reflection be more genuine and sincere?
4. The club has extended a sincere thanks to all that support the weekly lotto.
5. The committee wishes to express sincere thanks to all those who supported it and donated prizes.
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π Gain, verb.
π /Ι‘eΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Reach or arrive at (a destination)
❗️ Examples:
1. We gained the ridge
2. Many people found it difficult to justify the near 88,000 Allied men lost for every one mile gained in the advance.
3. A huge bear was gaining on him with every stride
4. I was gaining on the lead Corvette before I was obliged to execute the drive through penalty Chris said.
5. Within a second, he had gained on me enough to only have to take a step closer to kiss me.
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π Relentless, adjective.
π /rΙͺΛlΙntlΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Unceasingly intense.
❗️ Examples:
1. The relentless heat of the desert
2. More in the crowd ask for food and water as the sun continues to cover the area with relentless heat.
3. Success follows relentless pursuit of something you absolutely believe in.
4. So he searched, and sought shelter from this relentless heat, bearing in mind the past.
5. He followed her, settling his weight on top of her in a most possessive way and not allowing her any room to escape from his relentless pursuit.
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π Properly, adverb.
π /ΛprΙp(Ι)li/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Thoroughly; completely.
❗️ Examples:
1. On the first day she felt properly well, Millie sat out on the front steps
2. The learned District Judge failed to take that fully and properly into account when she considered her order.
3. Nor, I suggest, are we in this court in a position to explore it properly.
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π Claim, verb.
π /kleΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make a demand for (money) under the terms of an insurance policy.
❗️ Examples:
1. The premiums are reduced by fifty per cent if you don't claim on the policy
2. She was also accused of faking three burglaries to claim insurance money.
3. If it ever breaks down, call your local computer geek, or set fire to it and claim the insurance money!
4. What a tragedy it would be to be burgled and not have time to claim on your insurance policy.
5. Still, it's lucky it's a proper illness as you'd be less likely to claim on your tour insurance for a stage-fright cancellation.
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π Glassware, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘lΙΛswΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Ornaments and articles made from glass.
❗️ Examples:
1. Other artefacts uncovered include a silver bowl, glassware, pottery, coins and a jet brooch.
2. Look in the back streets for coffee pots, pottery, gold and silver jewellery, and glassware.
3. They also stock beautiful glassware, a pewter range of mugs and ornaments and mantle clock in various designs.
4. Traditional Dutch crafts include pottery, tile work, glassware, and silver.
5. Some crystal or fine glassware has a gilt design or edge on the rim of glass or as a decorative design or a patterned glass dish.
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π Test, noun.
π /tΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use.
❗️ Examples:
1. Both countries carried out nuclear tests in May
2. Four fax modems are on test
3. Indeed, many of the assemblies have already passed reliability and quality tests needed to achieve FDA approval.
4. All their Mercedes Benz engine parts have passed rigid quality tests for durability and performance as well as all the other car parts.
5. On test there was certainly very little buffeting or wind noise.
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π Name, verb.
π /neΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Give a particular title or epithet to.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was named as Student of the Year
2. During the 1994-95 Ashes, he picked up 32 wickets and was named man of the series.
3. An awards ceremony will be held in January, when one individual will be named Employee of the Year and receive the Achiever of the Year Award.
4. The college is named Institute of Technology of the Year.
5. She has been named Employee of the Year by the education catering specialist.
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π Test, noun.
π /tΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An examination of part of the body or a body fluid for medical purposes, especially by means of a chemical or mechanical procedure rather than simple inspection.
❗️ Examples:
1. Researchers developed a test for the virus
2. Eye tests
3. After an ultrasound test and a physical examination, ovarian cancer was diagnosed.
4. The initial investigations are a sensitive pregnancy test and ultrasonography.
5. The thyroid gland itself may be checked using a test called scintigraphy.
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π Name, verb.
π /neΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Specify (a sum, time, or place) as something desired, suggested, or decided on.
❗️ Examples:
1. The club have asked United to name their price for the striker
2. Householders can, in effect, name their own sum assured, and hence dictate the level of premium they are asked to pay.
3. I think I should take further advice before naming a sum.
4. Isaac names a sum, and all deem it fair but the Prior, who must now name the price of Isaac's freedom.
5. Once I had explained the situation to him, speaking with only a small strain in my voice, Deron named a place that we could meet.
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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 Love, noun.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf.
❗️ Examples:
1. Give her my love
2. Big Hugs to Tamsin. I'm sending all my love and best wishes to Tamsin who goes in for her operation today.
3. We also send our best love to you and the children all wish that they were going on the same ship as their Father.
4. Now, I don't know her, but my heart goes out to her, and I'm sending my love.
5. We send our love to a wonderful woman and all the best for a speedy recovery.
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π Monopolize, verb.
π /mΙΛnΙpΙlΚΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an organization or group) obtain exclusive possession or control of (a trade, commodity, or service)
❗️ Examples:
1. They instituted press censorship and monopolized the means of communication
2. That's free enterprise, not a violation of antitrust law, which is defined as a group monopolizing trade or commerce through unreasonable methods.
3. Company ships armed to fight pirates also defeated trading rivals and monopolized foreign trade.
4. This will contain sworn affidavits from a number of the country's largest cement wholesalers claiming that a small group of cement groups monopolises the Mexican market.
5. The resilience of its merchant groups in deflecting the European efforts at monopolizing the carrying trade in the Indian Ocean was impressive.
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π Line-up, noun.
π /ΛlΚΙͺnΚp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A line or queue of people or things.
❗️ Examples:
1. Hour-long line-ups are common during peak periods
2. Marvel at the line-up of shabby kids in a line across the old Syke on Fellside, where smoke billows across the rooftops and cats prowl the cobbles.
3. The actual border crossing station between Jordan and Iraq looks like most other terminals between nations, with long line-ups and crowds in the various offices.
4. Witnesses will be spared the anguish of having to see the suspect in the flesh, even through a one-way screen, in traditional line-ups at police stations.
5. It uses the latest technology to hold a virtual line-up on a laptop computer, with the help of video images from a national database of volunteers.
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π Godless, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘ΙdlΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not believing in God.
❗️ Examples:
1. A sceptical, godless society
2. Fr Tirwomwe is one of a growing band of missionaries from Africa, Asia and America who are flocking to Britain to convert a nation they believe has slipped into godless secularism.
3. Even John Calvin, that great exponent of Christian liberty, famously forced his godless opponents to burn their own books publicly in order to escape execution.
4. The victory against godless communism gave rise to the feeling that anything was possible: something many fellow-travellers had not felt since the defeat of the Shah (and, by extension, the US).
5. Also, the only foreign power that we were hostile to - and feared - was Hitler's enemy, the Soviet Union, the exporter of godless and atheistic communism.
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π Flurry, noun.
π /ΛflΚri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A sudden short period of activity or excitement.
❗️ Examples:
1. There was a brief flurry of activity in the hall
2. Some 50,000 tons are landed in a few short weeks, a flurry of activity which in itself is enough to keep the island economy afloat.
3. This period also saw a flurry of construction activities in Bangalore.
4. There's been a sudden flurry of activity related to the Northern Bank heist.
5. All of a sudden there's a flurry of activity here because the decorators are in.
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π Love, noun.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A friendly form of address.
❗️ Examples:
1. It's all right, love
2. It's alright my love you are safe with me.
3. It's alright my love, what you want to know I'll tell you. Ask me.
4. It's alright my love! I'm here! Everything will be just fine!
5. It's alright my love. We're all feeling emotional.
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π Claim, verb.
π /kleΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Assert that one has gained or achieved (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. His supporters claimed victory in the presidential elections
2. It set out do something, only to achieve nothing and then claim a victory.
3. The UK government is claiming some kind of victory out of a Common Fisheries Policy negotiations which everyone, in the cold light of dawn, admits is the management of extinction by committee.
4. His supporters, having claimed victory, were celebrating in the streets Thursday night.
5. The bitterest military conflict in late twentieth-century Latin American history came to an end with all sides claiming a measure of victory.
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π Stop, noun.
π /stΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A consonant produced with complete closure of the vocal tract.
❗️ Examples:
1. A bilabial stop
2. Stop consonants
3. Taiwanese has final consonant stops, and Mandarin doesn't.
4. Many varieties of Chinese, including both Mandarin and Cantonese, do not distinguish voiced and voiceless stops and affricates.
5. For example, the aspirated series of stops and affricates are written by adding a horizontal stroke to the letters for the plain series.
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π Jazzy, adjective.
π /ΛdΚazi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of, resembling, or in the style of jazz.
❗️ Examples:
1. A jazzy piano solo
2. Stephanie Biddle and the Paradise Band ring in the New Year in jazzy style at Montreal's landmark jazz 'n' ribs joint.
3. That jazzy vocal style is just supposed to make you feel chilled.
4. But Darrin loves her jazzy style of singing and gorgeous looks.
5. Its a beautiful jazzy tune in a style Sarah hasn't really explored before.
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π Love, noun.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in tennis, squash, and some other sports) a score of zero; nil.
❗️ Examples:
1. Love fifteen
2. More so in the second set where Jones held four out of five service games at love.
3. To come back from two sets to love and win it is an awesome feeling.
4. The running tennis score of each of the games is expressed in a style peculiar to tennis: score in a game from zero to three points is represented as zero (or "love"), fifteen, thirty, and forty correspondingly.
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π Brand new, adjective.
π /brand ΛnjuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Completely new.
❗️ Examples:
1. Graham's uniform was brand new
2. A brand-new Oxford dictionary
3. He loved it, that smell of fresh paint and brand new equipment and furniture.
4. These girls are so young, so fresh and clearly brand new to what's ahead of them.
5. As the stadium is brand new the facilities for the audience will be superb.
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π Test, verb.
π /tΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Examine (a substance) by means of a reagent.
❗️ Examples:
1. The cells were also tested with nitrogen dioxide, a by-product of gas cooking, which may reach levels of 1000 parts per billion or more in kitchens.
2. But CAA spokesman Bill Sommer said until a sample of the green and brown substance had been tested it was impossible to tell if it was from an aircraft or some other source.
3. To avoid these troubles, the substrate must be tested for alkalinity, water vapor and moisture emission.
4. Among the gaseous emissions, samples we tested for included hydrogen chloride, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen fluoride, isocyanides, and styrene.
5. The quality of lipids was tested by thin layer chromatography.
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π Stop, verb.
π /stΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Abandon a specified practice or habit.
❗️ Examples:
1. I've stopped eating meat
2. The British charity has gone on the offensive to persuade British people to stop eating meat.
3. I doubt that you became allergic to dairy and meats because you stopped eating them.
4. Anyway you can't just suddenly stop eating meat like that, it's hard.
5. At one point I wanted to stop eating meat, but my parents wouldn't let me because you had to eat meat.
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π Claim, verb.
π /kleΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. If no one claims the items, they will become Crown property
2. If he does, tradition demands that he can claim a seat on the Treasury bench.
3. She remained the moving spirit behind the scenes for a long time after she stopped claiming any formal roles or titles.
4. Some householders then claim compensation from the council, and the council demands the builder repays that compensation.
5. The laws apply to anyone who claims asylum once in Britain, instead of at a port of entry.
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π Dog, noun.
π /dΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing of poor quality.
❗️ Examples:
1.
a dog of a film
2. Move too early, and you might end up backing a dog of a technology.
3. If he understands that it's a dog of a deal, why do you think he'd consider supporting it?
4. With a lead clenched less than firmly in his sweaty palm, he then contrived to play a dog of a game in the middle of the second set.
5. There is also an ugly betrayal of Cammie's trust, and, as befits a dog of a play, a shaggy-dog ending.
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π Hobnob, verb.
π /ΛhΙbnΙb/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Mix socially, especially with those of perceived higher social status.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was hobnobbing with the great and good
2. A president who used VIP status to hobnob with movie stars would be laughed out of office.
3. While occasionally posturing as a friend of the working man, Kelly climbed the social ladder and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful.
4. He drove a company Jaguar, had a $10,000 stereo system in his office and jetted around the region to hobnob with recording stars and entertainment executives.
5. He can't sit still, flitting from place to place around the globe to make speeches and hobnob with celebrities.
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π Flexible, adjective.
π /ΛflΙksΙͺb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Able to be easily modified to respond to altered circumstances.
❗️ Examples:
1. Small businesses which are dependent on flexible working hours
2. The report argued that management practices should be more flexible to allow laboratories to be more responsive to market forces.
3. I think the notions of international comity are sufficiently flexible to allow a development in that direction.
4. The waitresses said another reason they are happy at Hooters is that their work schedules are very flexible.
5. The hospice's very flexible approach to providing care and support to the entire family is working well.
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π Regime, noun.
π /reΙͺΛΚiΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A coordinated programme for the promotion or restoration of health; a regimen.
❗️ Examples:
1. A low-calorie, low-fat regime
2. Bladder instillation therapy regimes are described in Table 1.
3. Thus, all patients get all drugs, making medical regimes complex and costly.
4. She has a chart for a typical patient's eight-week therapy on various regimes.
5. Vocal critics abound and many new dietary regimes suggest limiting grain products rather than encouraging them.
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π Movement, noun.
π /ΛmuΛvm(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An act of moving.
❗️ Examples:
1. A slight movement of the body
2. The free movement of labour
3. I support the free movement of capital but not the free movement of labour.
4. I noticed her slight body movements to approach her shoulder bag.
5. And in the slightest of movements, she kissed him back.
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π Stride, noun.
π /strΚΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting or relating to a rhythmic style of jazz piano playing in which the left hand alternately plays single bass notes on the downbeat and chords an octave higher on the upbeat.
❗️ Examples:
1. He's a noted stride pianist
2. Here was stride piano playing of the magnificent variety!
3. Moran intersperses breathtaking flights of improvisation with vamps, ostinatos, and stride techniques.
4. James P. Johnson was the prime innovator of stride piano. He embellished basic ragtime syncopation, beginning with a general increase in tempo.
5. If you love stride, blues and jazz piano but haven't found a definitive collection, look no further.
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π Test, noun.
π /tΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The result of a medical examination or analytical procedure.
❗️ Examples:
1. A positive test for protein
2. On the other hand, there may be potential adverse psychological effects from a positive test.
3. Potential harms from screening include the consequences of false positive tests, but evidence regarding these is lacking.
4. All patients were atopic, as defined by two or more positive skin prick tests to common allergens.
5. If the HPV test is positive for the high risk type, then the patient warrants a closer look.
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π Love, noun.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person or thing that one loves.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was the love of his life
2. Their two great loves are tobacco and whisky
3. By the end of the trip I knew she had two loves; her son and her carpets.
4. This tale of country folk, their loves and hates, their customs, is like a prescription for our troubled age.
5. The prolific writer spent his life combining his two great loves - writing and the Lake District.
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π Mannerism, noun.
π /ΛmanΙrΙͺz(Ι)m/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving.
❗️ Examples:
1. Learning the great man's speeches and studying his mannerisms
2. While Kaufman only met the real Orlean at the end of the shoot, method actor Cage spent time studying his subject's mannerisms.
3. This involved studying the mannerisms of the cartoon version of Daphne.
4. The guy who does the voice of the French Colombo is a legend in his own right, taking what Peter Falk says and adding his own mannerisms and characteristics.
5. Countless phrases and mannerisms have made their way from the show into my speech.
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π Shun, verb.
π /ΚΚn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution.
❗️ Examples:
1. He shunned fashionable society
2. Because if society shuns them and refuses to hire them, then what are they left with besides more crime?
3. It's a case of the more you attempt to avoid a public or shun publicity, the more it makes you enigmatic.
4. He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight.
5. The further that respectable society shuns the children, the more they follow the only route open to them and fulfil all negative expectations.
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π House, noun.
π /haΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A college of a university.
❗️ Examples:
1. He studied at the Castle, one of four teaching houses of the university which offered two year Arts degrees based almost entirely on the teachings of Aristotle.
2. College House is New Zealand’s oldest and most traditional University College, and is home to 152 students at the University of Canterbury.
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π Reachable, adjective.
π /ΛriΛtΚΙb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Able to be reached; accessible or achievable.
❗️ Examples:
1. All the wires were easily reachable
2. A lush tropical island only reachable by seaplane
3. Make sure that you set goals that are reachable
4. The tower contained a single apartment above a storage chamber, reachable only through a trapdoor.
5. Other waterfalls are in deep forests, reachable only by vigorous hiking.
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π Jiggle, verb.
π /ΛdΚΙͺΙ‘(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move about quickly from side to side or up and down.
❗️ Examples:
1. The car jiggled on its springs
2. So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line.
3. The first layer is ready when it is golden brown, or when it does not jiggle / move when you take it out of the oven.
4. The fat that jiggles when you move, on the hips, thighs and tummy, isn't the problem.
5. I snorted back a giggle at the way the ring jiggled when he moved his eyebrow like that.
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π Sound, adjective.
π /saΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) tending to sleep deeply.
❗️ Examples:
1. I am a sound sleeper
2. I knew it was loud and sounded awful, but at least my family members were sound sleepers.
3. She forgot that he was such a sound sleeper and there was no way that a knock would wake him up.
4. So if we take a look at the brain of an insomniac do we find anything different from the brain of a sound sleeper?
5. Ive always been a sound sleeper, but the condition is intensified by sleep deprivation.
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π Get, verb.
π /Ι‘Ιt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Tend to meet with or find in a specified place or situation.
❗️ Examples:
1. For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock
2. You get kids throwing bricks at windows all the time, but you don't go out and kill them.
3. If you say anything to them you get abuse thrown back at you and it's becoming a disgusting area.
4. We still get people who have no interest except that they are having something for free.
5. There are certain forms of weather we get here that are foul - pointlessly mean, surly for no reason, vindictive.
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π Dog, noun.
π /dΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A horse that is slow or difficult to handle.
❗️ Examples:
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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 House, noun.
π /haΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat.
❗️ Examples:
1. DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house
2. We were influenced by electro, hip-hop, house music, jazz-funk, reggae, everything really.
3. I mainly listen to minimal techno house, mostly because that's what I play out.
4. Next door, was a cafe run by a former ska musician with a love for house and techno.
5. He moved to the USA to teach in the Eighties, but hip hop and house passed him by, as he immersed himself in world music.
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π Gruesome, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘ruΛs(Ι)m/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Causing repulsion or horror; grisly.
❗️ Examples:
1. The most gruesome murder
2. To anyone who thinks of an abattoir as a place of gruesome horrors, this might sound like good news.
3. The gruesome murder shocked and revolted the nation, igniting a debate on the killers' future.
4. Why such gruesome murders are happening again and again is really a thought-provoking question.
5. Though the gruesome murders happened a decade ago, it seems that time has stood still.
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π Fuck, verb.
π /fΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of two people) have sexual intercourse.
❗️ Examples:
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π Cry, noun.
π /krΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A loud excited utterance of a word or words.
❗️ Examples:
1. There was a cry of Silence!
2. Impassioned cries of: We will shed blood to save the Datta Peetha were raised.
3. It was like you see in the films - you hear the whistle and the bang, there's a cry of incoming and everybody gets down on the ground.
4. It's the hub of village life and when you go there at night, expect some of the elderly worse-for-wear locals to greet you with cries of Hello, my brother when they discover you're Irish.
5. Local residents danced in the streets celebrating the decision with cries of Execute the vile meditators!
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π Plain, adjective.
π /pleΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not decorated or elaborate; simple or basic in character.
❗️ Examples:
1. Good plain food
2. Everyone dined at a plain wooden table
3. She was surrounded by a simple, plain room with a wooden wardrobe and desk.
4. Their rich, sumptuous food contrasted with the simple and plain food prepared by the ordinary people of Nepal.
5. I wanted to photograph the United States in its most basic, plain, everyday sense.
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π Drug, verb.
π /drΚΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take illegally obtained drugs.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was convinced he was out drinking and drugging
2. The action opens with Vince drinking and drugging his way through an evening in a drab Michigan motel room.
3. She was convinced he was out drinking and drugging it up, trying to lure her son into a life of crime.
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π Dick, verb.
π /dΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Waste time; mess around.
❗️ Examples:
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π Sexy, adjective.
π /ΛsΙksi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Sexually attractive or exciting.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sexy French underwear
2. It's not that I don't find the new generation of female actresses attractive and sexy.
3. These t - shirts, with their wry references to power tools, are at once sexy, attractive and cool.
4. He liked her when she was angry; she was attractive and sexy as hell.
5. I still find him sexy and am attracted to him, but I can't tell what he is thinking.
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π Snooze, verb.
π /snuΛz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have a short, light sleep, especially during the day.
❗️ Examples:
1. The children play beach games while the adults snooze in the sun
2. And the garden fell silent for a while, with an old grey poet and his cat snoozing softly in the sun.
3. As the rest of the family snoozed in a post-dinner stupor, I sneaked into the front parlour and helped myself to another glass.
4. One of my cats had obviously been snoozing at the edge of my bed without me noticing.
5. Between slightly grumpy and reluctant moves towards the study and my notebook I spent as much time snoozing in the sun as I could manage.
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π Apparently, adverb.
π /ΙΛparΙntli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: As far as one knows or can see.
❗️ Examples:
1. The child nodded, apparently content with the promise
2. The anonymous buyer apparently then consumed the contents of the bottle in one sitting.
3. The less convincing evidence of the first expert had apparently been forgotten.
4. His new apparently softer line may reflect a deal with ministers in the puppet regime.
5. The assailants apparently fled after firing on several homes in the settlement.
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π Gouge, noun.
π /Ι‘aΚdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An indentation or groove made by gouging.
❗️ Examples:
1. The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
2. Regular inspection helps workers to screen for equipment that may have been weakened by corrosion, leakage, pitting, dents or gouges.
3. Old carpet samples or large pieces of cardboard are great for sliding appliances out of position, while at the same time, protecting the floor from gouges or scratches.
4. With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs.
5. Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts.
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π Gold, noun.
π /Ι‘ΙΚld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Coins or other articles made of gold.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her ankles and wrists were glinting with gold
2. The P&O liner Egypt sank in the Bay of Biscay in 1922, loaded with gold, silver and coins worth £36m at today's rates.
3. Dain offers Bilbo as much of the treasure as he wants, but Bilbo carries away only a small chest each of gold and silver.
4. Their necks and chests were glinting in gold and their wrists jangled loudly with even more jewelry.
5. When people fear for their future, they invest in gold; jewelry and coins can be sewn into clothes and smuggled out of the country.
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π Moss, noun.
π /mΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A bog, especially a peat bog.
❗️ Examples:
1. Thanks to the efforts of the fire brigade, he said, the peat below the mosses did not catch fire and damage was limited to the surface vegetation of around five per cent of the mosses.
2. The mosses, managed by English Nature, are classified as a Special Conservation Area and are one of the finest areas of lowland raised mire habitats in Europe.
3. It's been a privilege to watch the wildlife reclaim the moss.
4. An urgent call has gone out for volunteers to carry out an operation to remove willow and birch scrub fringing the moss's shallow pools.
5. It's a favourite with field birds and is on the wildlife corridor that links with the Risley mosses, between Warrington and Cadishead.
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π Mainstream, verb.
π /ΛmeΙͺnstriΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Bring into the mainstream.
❗️ Examples:
1. Vegetarianism has been mainstreamed
2. But he's mainstreaming the fringe while he's at it.
3. These are aimed at mainstreaming intercultural education into the entire curriculum and developing strategies to combat racist behaviour.
4. Lileks suggests that Democrats are mainstreaming the extreme.
5. Similarly, there is a need for mainstreaming considerations of gender, age and occupation in the national nutrition strategy.
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π Throughout, adverb.
π /ΞΈruΛΛaΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: In every part of a place or object.
❗️ Examples:
1. The house is in good order throughout
2. I am grateful for the way in which those who attended the inquiry conducted themselves throughout
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π Tycoon, noun.
π /tΚΙͺΛkuΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A wealthy, powerful person in business or industry.
❗️ Examples:
1. A newspaper tycoon
2. He knew as well as I did that we are up against not just a business tycoon but a powerful politician.
3. Corruption and bribery are rampant in many countries across Asia Pacific, often involving top politicians, government officials, military personnel, and business tycoons.
4. The Democratic Party, which had planned to hold a march to condemn nepotism between the government and business tycoons, postponed its event to Jan.16.
5. The peninsula is home to a surprising range of fine villas and mansions, most of them designed in the middle of the last century for Glasgow's industrial and financial tycoons.
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π Tooth, noun.
π /tuΛΞΈ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Each of a set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most vertebrates, used for biting and chewing.
❗️ Examples:
1. He clenched his teeth
2. Tooth decay
3. The pain is aggravated by eating, gum chewing, teeth clenching, or yawning.
4. Dental caries occur when bacteria destroy the enamel surface of the tooth and cause decay.
5. Some malocclusions cannot be treated successfully without removing permanent teeth, though tooth removal is contraindicated in other situations.
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π Read, verb.
π /riΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a computer) copy, transfer, or interpret (data)
❗️ Examples:
1. It attempts to read a floppy disk without regard to its format
2. Depending on what the charge inside is, the computer reads the memory cell as a 1 or 0.
3. If your computer is constantly reading from your hard disk, it's time to upgrade.
4. Computers read data tracks first, but the data track has to be located at the end of the CD.
5. The fact that it makes no attempt to read the disks does give it some flexibility, though.
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π Hire, verb.
π /ΛhΚΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Employ (someone) for wages.
❗️ Examples:
1. Management hired and fired labour in line with demand
2. If you spend, borrow, set up a business, hire someone or get fired, these are actions that matter.
3. When Scott Wolfe hires someone for a job working a cash register or cutting meat, the odds are, that person was a customer first.
4. The most crucial step in ensuring marketing success is hiring someone to manage and coordinate the effort.
5. Your subordinates are jerks and I think you should hire me to fire them.
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π Vacation, noun.
π /vΙΛkeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in travelling; a holiday.
❗️ Examples:
1. He took a vacation in the south of France
2. People come here on vacation
3. I had seen the movie in Paris while on vacation over the holidays with my partner, Christopher.
4. First, I have not been on vacation, I don't even know what a vacation is anymore.
5. On vacation, I would check in with the office three or four times a day.
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