Cambridge Dictionary:
π New, adjective.
π /njuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Superseding and more advanced than another or others of the same kind.
❗️ Examples:
1. The new architecture
2. His actions make no sense especially in the week when a new range of highly advanced robots is unleashed.
3. I look forward to your cooperation in this new and progressive advance of medical science.
4. The attempts to build new and adventurous architecture in the islands is a positive one.
5. In Chester, that leads to a hard line to all of the duff new architecture which is being thrown up.
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π Hire, noun.
π /ΛhΚΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of hiring someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Car hire is recommended
2. A hire charge
3. Meanwhile, back at the airport, the cost of car hire and charter flights out of Ireland are savage in comparison with our neighbours.
4. It is the cheapest of the respectable car hire firms and recommended.
5. However, could it be that these registrations are going into car hire fleets?
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π Shortly, adverb.
π /ΛΚΙΛtli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: In a short time; soon.
❗️ Examples:
1. The new database will shortly be available for consultation
2. The flight was hijacked shortly after takeoff
3. Details of these will be made available shortly before the summer launch.
4. Again and again we saw those pictures of the television presenter shopping in London shortly before her death.
5. I had tried a number of times to get back into writing shortly after the funeral but I soon gave up.
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π Guide, noun.
π /Ι‘ΚΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A structure or marking which directs the motion or positioning of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The guides for the bolt needed straightening
2. Find a large, clean surface with room to lay out a rag, your tools and the removed wheels and bolts, axle guides, and heel brake where they'll stay put and in sight.
3. The wire guide directs the paper into a drive roller and idler set which pulls the paper from the printer and drives the paper downward so that it drops at about the center of the stack.
4. On the other hand, black wet glazed plug is caused by the burned oil leaking past the piston rings or valve guides as well as burning in the cylinder.
5. The interchangeable synthetic bar guides with mechanical locking and oil bath system can produce up to 35 parts per minute.
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π Read, verb.
π /riΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Habitually read (a particular newspaper or periodical)
❗️ Examples:
1. Now, I know what my reputation is—I read the papers
2. Ireland is no madder than England - as anyone who reads English tabloid newspapers will know.
3. In print advertising, you are looking at everybody who reads the magazine or newspaper.
4. He reads newspapers and law journals, and would like to improve Grahamstown's public amenities.
5. Mr Nairn is described as living in Ireland, but clearly reads the Scottish newspapers with a diligence they do not always deserve and has a tendency to keep cuttings of congenial opinions.
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π Sand, noun.
π /sand/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A stratum of sandstone or compacted sand.
❗️ Examples:
1. The land is on a sand and gravel aquifer, several hundred metres from a reservoir that supplies drinking water to 650,000 homes in Dublin.
2. The geology at Grimes Graves comprises a number of flint layers lying below sands and clays and interspersed between chalk.
3. The most complete fossil was that of an adult male skull lacking a lower jaw found embedded in ancient cemented sands.
4. OPEC's foot-dragging developing the 76% of world oil reserves under its sands and swamps is the biggest problem.
5. Century-old photographs show the dignified ruin of the memorial to one of ancient Egypt's few female rulers, a building then recently excavated from the sands.
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π Paradigm, noun.
π /ΛparΙdΚΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.
❗️ Examples:
1. And of course to do that, you do in fact need to learn all those paradigms of verbs and nouns, the amo, amas, amat stuff.
2. Reformers rejected the teaching of modern languages through grammatical paradigms, specimen sentences, and word lists.
3. Chinese has no case distinctions or gender distinctions in the inflectional paradigm of its third person singular pronoun.
4. But derivatives of ferre come from three different words and the paradigm is highly irregular: fero, ferre, tuli, latum.
5. This has forced Jaeggli and Safir to weaken their hypothesis to a one-way implication: if null subjects are allowed in a language, the paradigms in that language must be morphologically uniform.
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π Abrupt, adjective.
π /ΙΛbrΚpt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Brief to the point of rudeness; curt.
❗️ Examples:
1. You were rather abrupt with that young man
2. Having said that, I do not think I deserved the very abrupt and curt way in which I was treated by Mr Hutchinson on trying to explain the situation to him.
3. Deron's expression showed nothing, though I knew he must be surprised by the abrupt rudeness of it.
4. They were quite abrupt and offhand, says Elliot, who is now 39.
5. Howard Dean was often brusque and abrupt with the press.
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π Major, noun.
π /ΛmeΙͺdΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A major organization or competition.
❗️ Examples:
1. The majors have swept up the smaller independent companies in licensing deals
2. It's not unreasonable to believe someone can win all four majors
3. The oil majors had a profit bonanza
4. So it is that, while Faldo outnumbers him six to five in terms of majors won, it is the man from Pedrena whom history will anoint the more significant.
5. Most of the low-cost airlines leave the majority of business travelers to the majors.
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π Lacklustre, adjective.
π /ΛlaklΚstΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lacking in vitality, force, or conviction; uninspired or uninspiring.
❗️ Examples:
1. No excuses were made for the team's lacklustre performance
2. Janis Joplin is the only artist at the top of her game; most of the other groups give lackluster and bland performances of their songs.
3. It's better to have loved and lost than to be in a lacklustre and uninspiring relationship for the rest of your life.
4. Duncan Smith's uninspiring leadership and his lacklustre shadow cabinet failed to make any initial impact on the electorate.
5. We've even used it at our Shape recipe taste tests - to spice up a lackluster frittata and an uninspired sandwich.
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π Steam, verb.
π /stiΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a ship or train) travel somewhere under steam power.
❗️ Examples:
1. The 11.54 steamed into the station
2. The ship held two memorial services, one at dawn in Seychelles harbour and one at sunset as the ship steamed on the journey home from distinguished service in Operations Slipper and Falconer.
3. Families and guests enjoyed the views of Sydney harbour and coastline as the ship steamed for Broken Bay, positioning at the starting line off Barrenjoey Head.
4. During almost ten years in commission, the ship has steamed nearly 110,000 miles and visited 81 ports in 14 countries.
5. Since leaving the UK at the beginning of the year, the ship has steamed 42,000 miles, discharged 60,000 tonnes of oil, and refuelled ships 95 times.
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π Dog, noun.
π /dΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to refer to a person of a specified kind in a tone of playful reproof, commiseration, or congratulation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Your historian is a dull dog
2. You lucky dog!
3. He got up with his hand wrapped around her little waist… that lucky dog!
4. If that next race is the bottom of the new grade, this lucky dog might have a chance of stumbling into the money again.
5. It's true - I'm a lucky dog.
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π Dispute, verb.
π /dΙͺΛspjuΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Argue about (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. The point has been much disputed
2. He taught and disputed with local poets
3. Not a weekend has gone by where some, or all, of the teams are not discussing or disputing these regulations.
4. Officers also impounded the motorcycle as disputed property and all three were charged with possession of a class 5 illegal drug.
5. Not knowing how to argue in Mandarin, it is very difficult to dispute any bill or when you think you have been overcharged.
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π Pier, noun.
π /pΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A breakwater or mole.
❗️ Examples:
1. The 1.1-acre site has access to a small bathing area and harbour enclosed by a concrete pier and a breakwater.
2. The harbour entrance itself was guarded by two breakwater piers of heavy sandstone construction for most of their length.
3. The trunnions and all the operational machinery are housed within the superstructure of the carina piers.
4. In the 19th century the greatest engineering addition to the bay was the construction of the Harbour with its two-tiered breakwaters or piers and wonderful granite stonework.
5. We have to extend both piers with new breakwaters to the east and then curve them towards each other.
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π Red, adjective.
π /rΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of wine) made from dark grapes and coloured by their skins.
❗️ Examples:
1. A glass of red wine
2. These three grape varieties produce red wines which go lighter with age.
3. As well as being the source of red Burgundy wines, it is also a backbone of Champagne blends.
4. The principal grape used in the red wines of this region is Syrah.
5. It is home to very luscious and exotic red wines, principally Cabernet Sauvignon.
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π Spread, verb.
π /sprΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lay (a table) for a meal.
❗️ Examples:
1. On November 25, 2003, we sat down with family and friends around a table spread with food we grew and said thanks.
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π Lacklustre, adjective.
π /ΛlaklΚstΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lacking in vitality, force, or conviction; uninspired or uninspiring.
❗️ Examples:
1. No excuses were made for the team's lacklustre performance
2. Janis Joplin is the only artist at the top of her game; most of the other groups give lackluster and bland performances of their songs.
3. It's better to have loved and lost than to be in a lacklustre and uninspiring relationship for the rest of your life.
4. Duncan Smith's uninspiring leadership and his lacklustre shadow cabinet failed to make any initial impact on the electorate.
5. We've even used it at our Shape recipe taste tests - to spice up a lackluster frittata and an uninspired sandwich.
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π Administer, verb.
π /ΙdΛmΙͺnΙͺstΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Deal out or inflict (punishment)
❗️ Examples:
1. Retribution was administered to those found guilty
2. And the old English common law treated the servant as a member of the family and that's why the master could administer corporal punishment for example.
3. But I'm not sure I agree with police being able to administer corporal punishment!
4. A curious person in court then wanted to know if the man had anything to say while he was administering the punishment.
5. Her mother and elder sisters administered these punishments.
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π Red, noun.
π /rΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A red light.
❗️ Examples:
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π Fuck, noun.
π /fΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A sexual partner of a specified ability.
❗️ Examples:
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π Stroke, noun.
π /strΙΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The sound made by a striking clock.
❗️ Examples:
1. The first stroke would belt out from the clock
2. Erik closed the door softly behind him as he entered, but it sounded like the stroke of a clock moments before death.
3. There was a strong stroke and a weak one, like a sound and its echo.
4. A clock chimed in the distance, its final count ending at eleven strokes.
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π Bear, verb.
π /bΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Give birth to (a child)
❗️ Examples:
1. She bore sixteen daughters
2. His wife had borne him a son
3. I myself had never had sisters or brothers - my mother had lost the ability to bear children at my birth.
4. In 1851 he married Fanny Lucy Wightman, who was to bear six children, three of whom predeceased him.
5. Herschel will leave nothing behind him because his late wife refused to bear children.
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π Miss, verb.
π /mΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Fail to hit, reach, or come into contact with (something aimed at)
❗️ Examples:
1. A laser-guided bomb had missed its target
2. He shot twice at the cashier, but missed both times
3. She lashed out at him now, her arms and legs flailing wildly, her kicks and punches missing their target by a considerable margin.
4. But unfortunately for him, the bomb missed the target and exploded on the street.
5. Even if a Japanese bomb missed its target, it was likely to find something worth blowing up.
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π Masquerade, noun.
π /ΛmΙΛskΙΛreΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A false show or pretence.
❗️ Examples:
1. I doubt he could have kept up the masquerade for long
2. Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant.
3. Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
4. If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end.
5. Dr Watson was seldom in danger of seeing through any of these masquerades.
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π Bear, verb.
π /bΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Turn and proceed in a specified direction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Bear left and follow the old drove road
2. The path bears right again to curve round under the summit.
3. Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco.
4. The wide forest trail begins to bear west and continues Westerly to the 5K mark which is 100m before the minor trail junction (which leads to the summit road).
5. Bear left when the road forks onto Lacey Drive, and then get over on the right.
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π Churn, verb.
π /tΚΙΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Break up the surface of (an area of ground)
❗️ Examples:
1. The earth had been churned up where vehicles had passed through
2. He added grass verges in the area were churned up and were disgusting and wanted to know what Colchester Council was spending taxpayers' money on.
3. Mr Langton said: The weather is so bad at the moment that if we try to move the car, it will churn the field up and make a real mess of the pitch.
4. The shelling churned the landscape into a sea of mud and craters.
5. The whole of the Market Place has been revamped at vast expense and if it were churned up now it would be quite appalling.
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Cambridge Dictionary:
π Key, verb.
π /kiΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be the crucial factor in achieving.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ewing keyed a 73–35 advantage on the boards with twenty rebounds
2. Kaczowka keyed the offensive attack with 21 points and nine rebounds, while point guard Dani Langford contributed 15 points and eight assists.
3. Charleton's 23 points and Neufeld's 22 points keyed SFU's offensive attack.
4. The run was keyed by the re-entry into the game of forward Mike Sovran, a fifth year co-captain, who scored seven points in that span.
5. The Clan attack was keyed by Jessica Kaczowka and Teresa Kleindienst.
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π Promise, verb.
π /ΛprΙmΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Assure someone that one will definitely do something or that something will happen.
❗️ Examples:
1. He promised to forward my mail
2. She made him promise that he wouldn't do it again
3. I'll bring it straight back, she promised
4. He promised her the job
5. The reduction in my expenses in a certain way was something that I definitely promised to do if I got this money.
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π Bog, verb.
π /bΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Go away.
❗️ Examples:
1. I told him to bog off
2. Everyone in the PR department had bogged off to a winery for the evening.
3. As for my bogging off, I can not oblige until such time as Melissa bars me.
4. If she wants champagne she can bog off to the living room.
5. This is because Bromley is more than six miles from Charing Cross, and once you are outside that line, a cabbie can tell you to bog off.
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π Grand, noun.
π /Ι‘rand/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thousand dollars or pounds.
❗️ Examples:
1. He gets thirty-five grand a year
2. No one in their right mind is going to pay a grand for the console.
3. The victim was given a few grand to keep quiet and the manager kept his job.
4. You could make a good living doing this: taking a few grand to draw up plans, then blowing out the budget by such a preposterous amount that your client simply wants you to go away.
5. And that fact that he's made a few grand is kinda cool.
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π Consensus, noun.
π /kΙnΛsΙnsΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A general agreement.
❗️ Examples:
1. There is a growing consensus that the current regime has failed
2. A consensus view
3. The general consensus of opinion has it that love is not a good thing for professional sportsmen.
4. The general consensus is that they are in public life for what they can get out of it.
5. The general consensus is that faith in an afterlife is a positive psychological state.
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π Pen, noun.
π /pΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A covered dock for a submarine or other warship.
❗️ Examples:
1. U-boat pens
2. Massive submarine pens were built near Bordeaux and the impact they had can be seen from the following figures.
3. His main aim was a breakthrough to the coast of Belgium so that German submarine pens could be destroyed.
4. The Allies could now bomb factories and submarine pens with great frequency and accuracy.
5. The attacks by day and night utterly destroyed the towns surrounding the submarine pens but did virtually no damage to the targets themselves.
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π Appeal, noun.
π /ΙΛpiΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A serious, urgent, or heartfelt request.
❗️ Examples:
1. His mother made an appeal for the return of the ring
2. An urgent appeal went out on Radio 3 for the missing four.
3. This is an urgent appeal for drivers to deliver meals on wheels.
4. An urgent appeal has now gone out from the small group asking for others to help out to keep the festival alive.
5. And police in Lancashire issued urgent appeals for drivers to stay at home last night after a series of accidents.
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π Meet, verb.
π /miΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Fulfil or satisfy (a need, requirement, or condition)
❗️ Examples:
1. This policy is doing nothing to meet the needs of women
2. If something doesn't meet your needs and requirements then there will be another tradition around the next corner.
3. Anaemia is a condition in which the blood cannot carry enough oxygen to meet the body's needs.
4. St David's Cathedral already meets the requirements of health and safety regulations but many other churches don't.
5. What is needed is a more flexible health insurance system to meet the needs of the modern world.
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π Pop, noun.
π /pΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Commercial popular music, in particular accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music.
❗️ Examples:
1. Their quasi-psychedelic pop is pleasantly uplifting and danceable
2. From The Smiths to Nirvana, much of the best pop and rock music has been made by fans.
3. Red Stage near City hall will feature pop and rock music with Thai Luk Thung.
4. Alarm clocks were going off, playing rock, Christian pop, jazz or reggae.
5. Because polyphony is restricted pop and rock music demonstrates limited harmony and use of counterpoint.
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π Metric, adjective.
π /ΛmΙtrΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to or composed in a poetic metre.
❗️ Examples:
1. The public recitation of metric, rhyming verse
2. Humor raises no such difficulty, for it is a purely formal device, more akin to the metric pattern of verse than to that of a trope.
3. I opted for freedom, though on many occasions continuing to use familiar metric forms, but rejuvenated within the iridescent world of metaphor.
4. Also painfully absent is any discussion of the poetry, of the metric and formal characteristics of these texts, their historic or social changes, or their regional idiosyncrasies.
5. In a previous lesson, Flint introduced the concept of metric feet (rhythmic modes), since she knew Nadan was studying poetry.
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Cambridge Dictionary:
π Key, noun.
π /kiΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An explanatory list of symbols used in a map, table, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. In fact, as will be obvious to any reader who has ever used an index, the symbols in the key refer to the chapters in which the characters appear.
2. References within the tables themselves are listed in a key below each individual Appendix.
3. There is extensive use of place names without accompanying maps throughout the book, and many of the maps provided lack keys and scales.
4. For the reader who is not familiar with Soviet map symbols, there is a key in the back of the book.
5. References to pertinent illustrations are noted within the keys to help the user visualize and clarify the plant anatomy in question.
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π Brainwave, noun.
π /ΛbreΙͺnweΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An electrical impulse in the brain.
❗️ Examples:
1. There were systematic changes in brainwaves with sleep
2. The machine records brainwave patterns
3. They hooked me up to an ambulatory EEG, a recent technology that can record brainwaves for three days and nights.
4. An individual's capacity for such visual working memory can be predicted by his or her brainwaves, researchers funded by the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health have discovered.
5. My first specific criticism occurred in Chapter One, when the authors describe their own research regarding brainwaves of clients during hypnosis, counseling, or a control situation.
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π Stealth, noun.
π /stΙlΞΈ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (chiefly of aircraft) designed in accordance with technology which makes detection by radar or sonar difficult.
❗️ Examples:
1. A stealth bomber
2. But while one of these electro-optical sights will see a stealth aircraft, a radar would not be able to point it in the right direction.
3. THE JSF is intended to set new benchmarks in affordability, availability and supportability for a high-performance stealth aircraft.
4. In fact, given our advantage in manned aircraft and stealth technology, no enemy is likely to challenge us directly in those areas.
5. The same flight control radar systems are used in helicopters, low-flying private planes, light aircraft and stealth bombers.
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π Smoke, noun.
π /smΙΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A cigarette or cigar.
❗️ Examples:
1. You're going to buy some smokes of your own
2. Chandler pulled out his pack of cigarettes and lit his smoke, after leaning me against the building so I didn't fall over.
3. I heard a voice say hey youngfella, have you got a smoke. I gave him one and we start talking. I ask him how long he has been here.
4. "I came to smoke and talk with my cousin," said Slim Coyote, "so give me a smoke while I'm waiting. He won't mind, he's my cousin."
5. The smokes are made with tobacco specially processed to reduce nitrosamines, among the most abundant and powerful toxin in cigarettes.
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π Sable, noun.
π /ΛseΙͺb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Black.
❗️ Examples:
1. Colours are orchestrated in dark tones, such as sable, olive and black accented with flashes of ultramarine.
2. They say he's tall and handsome, and that his hair is as black as sable.
3. Shar-Pei come in just about every colour there is - black, red, red-fawn, fawn, black-pointed cream, sable and blue.
4. The Tonkinese occurs in four colors: natural, which is also called sable or seal; champagne, also called chocolate; platinum, also called lilac or frost; and blue.
5. Other solid colours include sable, buff, red and chocolate.
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π Name, verb.
π /neΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Appoint (someone) to a particular position or task.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was named to head a joint UN–OAS diplomatic effort
2. He was just named to the position, returning to the race school where he began his career in 1993.
3. The group named him president of the new organization, a position he held for five years.
4. He was named interim dean of the college in September 1994 and appointed dean in May 1995.
5. Australia names its team to play Ireland on Wednesday with the task of whittling down a side which ran in a record 22 tries on Saturday.
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π Blow, verb.
π /blΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Perform fellatio on (a man).
❗️ Examples:
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π Perishable, adjective.
π /ΛpΙrΙͺΚΙb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially of food) likely to decay or go bad quickly.
❗️ Examples:
1. The storage of perishable foods
2. Caviar is extremely perishable
3. Check use-by dates on packaging and pay particular attention to perishable foods, such as vacuum packed smoked salmon or ham and dairy products.
4. The Pot-in-pot system allows perishable food to be kept for long periods.
5. Soon many of you will be going away to school and will have to, for the first, brave the world of perishable food items.
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π Insult, noun.
π /ΙͺnΛsΚlt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing so worthless or contemptible as to be offensive.
❗️ Examples:
1. The present offer is an absolute insult
2. This Minister has introduced a bill that is an absolute insult to the cause he should be serving.
3. He said the charity's grant was an insult to his mother, who had tirelessly raised funds for it before her death.
4. The distraught parents of Adele, who died last year, said the fine was an absolute insult to us and to the memory of Adele.
5. What an insult to every mother in the country that Budget was!
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π Indifference, noun.
π /ΙͺnΛdΙͺf(Ι)r(Ι)ns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Mediocrity.
❗️ Examples:
1. The indifference of Chelsea's midfield
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Cambridge Dictionary:
π Contingency, noun.
π /kΙnΛtΙͺndΚ(Ι)nsi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The absence of necessity; the fact of being so without having to be so.
❗️ Examples:
1. This may provide a way beyond the generalised extremes of homogeneity and heterogeneity in analysing the necessity and contingency in organisational forms of capital.
2. But since contingency and necessity cannot coincide, the moving body has to be different from the principle or source of motion.
3. If biology is ruled by contingency rather than necessity then why do we find duplicated designs?
4. Leibniz, in his discussion of contingency, had already recognized that existence is quite different from ordinary predicates.
5. What this paradox reveals is that Hegel's position on women is neither a product of contingency nor an effect of ad hoc prejudice.
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π Spread, noun.
π /sprΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A large farm or ranch.
❗️ Examples:
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π Unfathomable, adjective.
π /ΚnΛfaΓ°(Ι)mΙb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Incapable of being fully explored or understood.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her grey eyes were dark with some unfathomable emotion
2. Those in the back seat explored levels of cramp unfathomable before this trip.
3. They do not have the same intricate inner workings of women and they are not unfathomable pools of emotions swirling effervescently in a bubbling turmoil of feelings and needs.
4. Fatty stares at me, eyes an unfathomable sea of emotion.
5. This, he says, is one of my most unfathomable displays of emotion to date.
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π Reckon, verb.
π /ΛrΙk(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Rely on or be sure of.
❗️ Examples:
1. They had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy
2. It doesn't take a genius to calculate that if the vendor reckoned on a gross margin of €15, and has not included taxation at source in setting his prices, his margin will be eaten up.
3. He reckons on a traditional repertoire of over 100 poems and a good sense of humour.
4. But he hadn't reckoned on the opposition of the local community and their parish-wide fight to preserve the house as a tourist attraction.
5. The enemy had not reckoned on the resilience of young Americans, whose grit, loyalty, and mordant humor saw them through the worst.
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π Widen, verb.
π /ΛwΚΙͺd(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make or become wider.
❗️ Examples:
1. We should widen the scope of our investigation
2. His grin widened
3. The lane widened out into a small clearing
4. Asked about the move, his slow smile widens into a broad grin that crinkles the sun-wizened features of his face.
5. Further south, and the Shannon takes on a different character as the river widens, and it flows through Lough Derg, its largest lake.
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π Custom, noun.
π /ΛkΚstΙm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Regular dealings with a shop or business by customers.
❗️ Examples:
1. If you keep me waiting, I will take my custom elsewhere
2. It added that they helped regeneration, keeping schools open and providing custom to shops.
3. Management at The Riverside Hotel, Sligo remain vigilant in securing trade or group tour business and Irish custom has compensated any tourist loss.
4. Collectively though, these blue chip stalwarts with their predictable, regular custom should not disappoint at current prices.
5. Instead, banks offer gifts such as plasma televisions to attract custom.
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π Pop, adverb.
π /pΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: With a light explosive sound.
❗️ Examples:
1. The champagne went pop
2. I felt (and heard) something in my wrist go pop as I lifted Fiona out of her car seat.
3. I raised the gun and fired a positively perfect shot - the only problem was that it went pop rather than bang.
4. After the requisite chilling and hearing that satisfying noise of the cork going pop I shall certainly raise a glass to your good health.
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π Dangle, verb.
π /ΛdaΕΙ‘(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Offer (an enticing incentive) to someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. The defence portfolio could be the carrot to dangle before him
2. The offer of further employment is dangled before them like a carrot, if their work is good enough.
3. That is why the tax relief is dangled as an incentive.
4. I get entertained by a talent who dangles outsider clichΓ©s without any idea what to say.
5. So although he admits he hasn't yet begun to write the screenplay and he's bound by secrecy contracts, he can't resist dangling a few teasers.
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π Copy, verb.
π /ΛkΙpi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Send a copy of a letter or an email to (a third party)
❗️ Examples:
1. I thought I'd copy to you this letter sent to the PR representative
2. If it is not doing so, then you should seek an urgent meeting with the head teacher, and, if he or she does not remedy the situation, write to the governing body, copying your letter to the chief education officer in your education authority.
3. She has also condemned the change and has written to county transport bosses - copying the letter to GNER - expressing her concern.
4. And I'm going to copy the letter to the local trading standards office and to the Consumers Association.
5. The email server then copies the email to several different addresses including my personal Hotmail account.
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π Microlinguistics, noun.
π /ΛmΚΙͺkrΙ(Κ)lΙͺΕΛΙ‘wΙͺstΙͺks/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Especially in the terminology of H. L. Smith and G. L. Trager: the branch of linguistics that deals with the analysis of specific linguistic data (e.g. grammatical or phonological phenomena), in contrast with prelinguistics and metalinguistics.
❗️ Examples:
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Cambridge Dictionary:
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 Twirl, verb.
π /twΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Spin quickly and lightly round, especially repeatedly.
❗️ Examples:
1. She twirled in delight to show off her new dress
2. Obviously a boy who appreciates a big stage when he sees one, Jack danced and twirled and spun with abandon, much to the delight of the photographers.
3. From time to time, Russian dancers clad in national costume would pop up to dance between the tables, somehow reminiscent of a doll twirling round and round inside a music box.
4. She looked absolutely radiant with joy in her period dress, spinning and twirling on the floor.
5. She glided over the dance steps smoothly, twirling quickly.
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π Squint, noun.
π /skwΙͺnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An oblique opening through a wall in a church permitting a view of the altar from an aisle or side chapel.
❗️ Examples:
1. The squint in the title of the play at Chelsea Theatre, is mainly one of those narrow slots in a wall in mediaeval churches where people excluded from the service can watch the Mass.
2. There is a blocked squint, of uncertain date, in the north wall just as you enter the chancel around which careful searching will reveal some Civil War graffiti.
3. The squint gave a view of the altar to parishioners sitting in the lost north transept.
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π Trip, noun.
π /trΙͺp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A flock or group of goats, sheep, or other animals.
❗️ Examples:
1. She exchanged her cows for a trip of goats
2. The boy heard some little noise from afar and thought he saw a trip of goats.
3. The fold course is for the small trip of sheep.
4. Hounds are astonished and divided by the sudden appearance of a trip of hares.
5. Like a trip of mountain goats skipping from crag to crag, a fleet of dozers, tractors, and haulers currently is moving from slope to slope.
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π Affliction, noun.
π /ΙΛflΙͺkΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state of being in pain.
❗️ Examples:
1. Poor people in great affliction
2. Many of our sisters and brothers around the world live in sorrow and affliction: in the pain of hunger or the grip of disease, in fear of political reprisals, in poverty so pervasive it saps the spirit.
3. The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery.
4. This is the way mankind will end up, imagines Margaret Atwood: with huge affliction and dismay.
5. What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry?
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π Pass, verb.
π /pΙΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Change from one state or condition to another.
❗️ Examples:
1. Homes which have passed from public to private ownership
2. Iron has the property of readily passing from one valency condition to the other, as connects iron with the rhythmic breathing process.
3. We show that channels pass through a dilated condition with altered selectivity as they are becoming defunct.
4. But if the copyright is not worth even $1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public domain.
5. His paintings pass easily from the public to the private sphere.
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π Worry, verb.
π /ΛwΚri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Annoy or disturb.
❗️ Examples:
1. The noise never really stops, but it doesn't worry me
2. The additional burdens of bureaucracy do not just worry British businesses.
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π Derive, verb.
π /dΙͺΛrΚΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a substance) be formed or prepared by (a chemical or physical process affecting another substance)
❗️ Examples:
1. Strong acids are derived from the combustion of fossil fuels
2. Since olestra is derived from fat molecules, it has similar chemical and physical properties.
3. The reduced form is a thioether and is derived from cysteine, whereas the oxidized form is a sulphate ester and is derived from the sulphonation pathway.
4. It is concentrated in this plant's leaves and is derived from pyridine molecules.
5. It is derived from a substance called permethrin, which was introduced as an alternative to a banned chemical called lindane.
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π Gala, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘ΙΛlΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A social occasion with special entertainments or performances.
❗️ Examples:
1. A gala performance by the Royal Ballet
2. A young virtuoso pianist from Sligo was the star of a gala concert performance held in Dublin on December 11.
3. The Great Northern Brass Arts Festival, which is in its fifth year, began with a five-hour concert, followed by an evening gala performance in front of a capacity audience.
4. The pressure was on a year in advance to come up with stellar costuming worthy of the star-studded gala performance at Wortham Theater Center.
5. In return patrons receive two complimentary tickets for the gala performance on February 4 and are invited to the pre-gala reception.
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π Blister, verb.
π /ΛblΙͺstΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Form blisters on the skin or other surface.
❗️ Examples:
1. The surface of the door began to blister
2. I could feel the skin there beginning to blister.
3. My feet were beginning to blister, and my joints ached, but finally, tired and weary, I reached the final step.
4. The pavement was hot and full of small stones, and his stocking feet began to blister.
5. His smooth, glowing skin began to blister and crack.
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π Excerpt, verb.
π /ΛΙksΙΛpt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take an excerpt or excerpts from (a text)
❗️ Examples:
1. A book excerpted in this week's Time magazine
2. First, my favourite academic Mark Kaplan has added another blog to his roster, this one a Critical Dictionary excerpting informative texts to explain apparently difficult concepts in continental philosophy.
3. The good people at National Review Online have excerpted a chapter from Steven's book, dealing with the insurgents.
4. In a related side-note, I downloaded excerpted chapters from Zeldman's Web Standards Book.
5. When we excerpt full chapters, we often put the book's color jacket online to help increase readers' interest.
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π Befuddled, adjective.
π /bΙͺΛfΚdld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Unable to think clearly; confused or perplexed.
❗️ Examples:
1. Even in my befuddled state I could see that they meant trouble
2. He has an air of befuddled unworldliness
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π Break, verb.
π /breΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Surpass (a record)
❗️ Examples:
1. The film broke box office records in the US
2. The film broke box-office records and won seven Academy Awards.
3. The films, too, have proved a hit with an older audience, breaking box-office records for a foreign film.
4. Irish cinema-goers are breaking box-office records, according to new research.
5. This film broke box office attendance records in Cuba and achieved world-wide acclaim.
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π Enamel, verb.
π /ΙͺΛnam(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Coat or decorate (a metallic or hard object) with enamel.
❗️ Examples:
1. He enamelled the back of the case in the rococo style
2. Mothers or older sisters will love the pretty enamelled jewellery from Les Nereides.
3. Templar links to the local area have been found at the Old Church in Maghera where a bronze enamelled plaque was found in the graveyard.
4. I make enamelled jewellery and run the shop from which it is sold.
5. Ordinary steel is a fairly good conductor of heat, and enamelled steel pans will cook evenly if the base is thick.
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π Stroke, verb.
π /strΙΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Reassure or flatter (someone), especially in order to gain their cooperation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Production executives were expert at stroking stars and brokering talent
2. He had us in the palm of his baby-sized hands and instead of choking us in his usual cynicism, he joked with us and stroked us affectionately.
3. He's a very personable individual, and they like it when they go over and stroke him.
4. If you're not taking care of me, stroking me, anticipating my whims - you must be doing something wrong.
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π Inscrutable, adjective.
π /ΙͺnΛskruΛtΙb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Impossible to understand or interpret.
❗️ Examples:
1. Guy looked blankly inscrutable
2. An inscrutable and incomparably powerful force permeates the Universe and binds it together.
3. It is not some mysterious, inscrutable relation that beliefs bear to facts, whatever they might be.
4. There is something inscrutable about the dragon, something that cannot be understood.
5. But at night when we're on the sofa he sees the inscrutable stories flickering on the box in the corner.
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π Pastel, adjective.
π /Λpast(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of a soft and delicate shade of colour.
❗️ Examples:
1. Pastel blue curtains
2. Outlining the trends of this season, Manu says long and short jacket in pastel shades with light embroidery are in vogue with bright electric ones for the flamboyant.
3. Talia's room, when we reach it and I actually take the time to observe it, is decorated in varying shades of pastel blue, more or less coordinating the curtains and the bed sheets.
4. Her skin was the colour of the morning sky, that light pastel blue.
5. At the demonstration councillors agreed in principle on a white light to enhance the columns outside the arches and a slightly contrasting colour, possibly pastel blue or lavender, for inside the arch.
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π Pass, noun.
π /pΙΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A state or situation of a specified, usually undesirable, nature.
❗️ Examples:
1. If this was what was being taught these days in colleges things had come to a pretty pass
2. It is unlikely that the situation will ever come to such a pass because good sense is ultimately bound to prevail.
3. This marks a sad pass for a brand name that, while dreaded by many parents, spelled excitement to a generation of kids.
4. But don't you see, my poor darling, that loyalty is a silly virtue in the pass we are in?
5. It is a pity though that things have come to a pass where you and others feel this way.
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π Latter, adjective.
π /ΛlatΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting the second or second mentioned of two people or things.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Russians could advance into either Germany or Austria—they chose the latter option
2. The President appoints the Prime Minister and, on the latter's advice, the rest of the government
3. I mention the latter because of what we both saw under a tree some distance from us.
4. If dealer does the latter, a second round of bidding occurs in which eldest hand has the right to name the trump suit.
5. To be or not to be - I'm rubbish at the former, and the latter isn't an option.
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π Handicap, noun.
π /ΛhandΙͺkap/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A condition that markedly restricts a person's ability to function physically, mentally, or socially.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was born with a significant visual handicap
2. Believed to be a handicap, this mental condition is often misunderstood and it is hoped that mainstream films like this one will draw public attention to it.
3. Students requiring additional financial support may have severe behaviour and emotional difficulties, hearing or visual disabilities, autism or have multiple handicaps.
4. Still, she suffers from severe mental and physical handicaps.
5. The girl had been receiving treatment on a ward for patients with serious mental or physical handicaps, according to the hospital.
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π Bail, noun.
π /beΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Either of the two crosspieces bridging the stumps, which the bowler and fielders try to dislodge with the ball to get the batsman out.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Lancashire captain was at full stretch as the wicketkeeper took off the bails
2. The globe is presented in the form of a stylised cricket ball while the columns, styled as stumps and bails, represent the three essential pillars of the game - batting, bowling and fielding.
3. But something was wrong with the picture - the bails remained firmly on the wicket, despite the leaning leg stump.
4. Only then did the umpires march out, remove the bails and stumps, and declare that England had won the Ashes.
5. The ball jagged back viciously to shatter the stumps and send the bails flying.
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π Forbid, verb.
π /fΙΛbΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Refuse to allow (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. I can see why phones were forbidden
2. Until the reign of the iconoclastic Kamehameha II, Hawaiian culture was dominated by a rigid set of kapu, or taboos, sacred laws forbidding things like men and women eating together.
3. The policy, designed to leave families homeless, impoverished and traumatized, is illegal because international law forbids the demolition of houses by an occupying power.
4. They also argued that the FBI violated Russian law, which strictly forbids un-authorized trespass on hard drives.
5. Clearly, the state's role in promoting, allowing, or forbidding social change is crucial.
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π Pooch, noun.
π /puΛtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A dog.
❗️ Examples:
1. He's done a whole lot of paintings of pooches - yappy dogs, poodles, some mutts and a few bulldogs.
2. Sweet smells drifted through the drizzle from the food hall where local producers had set up stall while welly-wearing visitors headed under canvas to the handiwork in the craft tent and the pampered pooches in the dog tent.
3. Dog owners have their pooches swiped on the street, are belaboured about the face and neck, and the whole incident is captured on video phones for the entertainment of witless youths.
4. A whole host of dandy dogs and preened pooches converged on Oulder Hill Community School over the weekend to strut their stuff.
5. Lily the mongrel puppy was one of the first pooches to go online to promote a stray dogs website in North Yorkshire.
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π Start, noun.
π /stΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A surprising occurrence.
❗️ Examples:
1. You hear of some rum starts there
2. It came as a start to realise the image is nearly 30 years old.
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π Glamour, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘lamΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting or relating to sexually suggestive or mildly pornographic photography or publications.
❗️ Examples:
1. A glamour model
2. The other side to Mark's job is the glamour photography, providing pictures of scantily-clad models for a number of men's titles.
3. She is a well-known glamour model who allows her photograph to appear in sex industry advertisements.
4. The photograph was of a well-known glamour model, taken and used with her consent.
5. But now the 18-year-old is becoming a sought-after glamour model - and the money is rolling in.
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π Pedestrian, adjective.
π /pΙͺΛdΙstrΙͺΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lacking inspiration or excitement; dull.
❗️ Examples:
1. Disenchantment with their pedestrian lives
2. In spite of the glowing praise on the back cover, it turned out to be very pedestrian and hum-drum.
3. Halfway through this fairly pedestrian game matters were poised on a knife-edge.
4. The performance is so pedestrian it practically gets run over by a goey-filled truckie.
5. The second half was more pedestrian due to some extent to the pitch cutting up and also to Borris' big lead.
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π Whore, verb.
π /hΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a man) use the services of prostitutes.
❗️ Examples:
1. They had whored and drunk like madmen
2. I wasn't even slightly surprised at Michael's whoring.
3. He liked the young Miss and thought the way Master Charles went whoring around behind her back was awful.
4. The grand irony in this, which was that he spent his own period of military service drinking and whoring around bars in Alabama, was rarely mentioned.
5. Apparently, gambling, whoring, eating and walking around looking at Portuguese colonial ruins were the things to do then as well.
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π Salvage, verb.
π /ΛsalvΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea.
❗️ Examples:
1. An emerald and gold cross was salvaged from the wreck
2. The rescue boat attempted to salvage the smaller vessel yesterday.
3. A number of attempts were made to salvage the ship but when they failed she was dispersed using explosives.
4. Attempts to salvage the ship were hampered by thick fog on Saturday night and the bad weather continued yesterday morning, French coastguards said.
5. Yet when it happens there is a mad scramble to see what is possible in terms of rescue and then what needs to be put in place to avert marine ecological disaster, prior to rescuing or salvaging the vessel.
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π Incident, adjective.
π /ΛΙͺnsΙͺd(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially of light or other radiation) falling on or striking something.
❗️ Examples:
1. When an ion beam is incident on a surface
2. The net effect is the diffraction of the incident radiation by the array of molecules.
3. There is a resonant interaction of the incident light with the surface plasmons on both surfaces of the metal film.
4. The intensity of all monochromatic incident light was kept close using neutral density filters.
5. Further, nitrogen-based defensive compounds tend to increase under both high nutrient availability and reduced incident radiation.
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π Televise, verb.
π /ΛtΙlΙͺvΚΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Transmit by television.
❗️ Examples:
1. The network chose not to televise the opening ceremony
2. That these debates are televised and recorded for posterity are implicit in a democracy.
3. Crowds of 80,000 watched at Wembley and the event was televised for the first time by the BBC.
4. In recent years, their expertise now produces televised cricket in India.
5. Not many literary launches are televised live and few audiences are so euphoric.
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π Living, noun.
π /ΛlΙͺvΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type.
❗️ Examples:
1. The benefits of country living
2. Our councils are already doing a fantastic job of developing lifestyle choices and active living.
3. We then calculated degree of cognitive impairment, function in activities of daily living, and behavioural disturbances.
4. Standards of living and lifestyles also became very similar in rural and urban areas.
5. Indoor living meets outdoor lifestyle on both levels of the house.
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π Jogging, noun.
π /ΛdΚΙΙ‘ΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The activity of running at a steady, gentle pace as a form of physical exercise.
❗️ Examples:
1. Some gentle jogging for a few weeks before the event should prevent any aching or stiffness
2. Jogging bottoms
3. Jogging shoes
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π Taxi, noun.
π /Λtaksi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A motor vehicle licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare and typically fitted with a taximeter.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'll take a taxi from the air terminal
2. A taxi driver wanted five dollars to drive me to my hotel
3. Licensed taxi drivers are not allowed to refuse a smoking passenger although they may request passengers not to smoke.
4. But it was not until her husband Merrick, a taxi driver, returned from work around midnight that police were alerted.
5. After receiving payment, the taxi driver pulls to the left and executes a U-turn, and hits a motorcycle coming the other direction.
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π Zany, noun.
π /ΛzeΙͺni/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A zany person.
❗️ Examples:
1. We are looking for the zany, the serious, the artistic and ridiculous.
2. I love students, what a zany, crazy bunch they are.
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π Bail, noun.
π /beΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Money paid by or for someone in order to secure their release on bail.
❗️ Examples:
1. They feared the financier would be tempted to forfeit the £10 million bail and flee
2. His family today confirmed they cannot pay the five million drachma bail money which has been set by the judges presiding over his case.
3. The great grandson of the famed make-up artist was supposed to be wearing an electronic tracking device while free on $1 million bail.
4. If one of the world's most famous entertainers did not show up in one hour, he would be sent to jail, losing $3 million bail.
5. He is free on £1.87 million bail and at an undisclosed location, believed to be in Las Vegas.
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π Irritation, noun.
π /ΙͺrΙͺΛteΙͺΚn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state of feeling annoyed, impatient, or slightly angry.
❗️ Examples:
1. Much to my irritation, Chris fell asleep
2. And all without the slightest signs of irritation or impatience.
3. The impatience and irritation that was such a marked characteristic of New York is gone, replaced by a rare generosity and calm.
4. Instead, his look of irritation and slight anger remained, making her quickly look back down to the paper.
5. Natalie's emerald eyes flashed with irritation and she sighed impatiently.
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π Dwelling, noun.
π /ΛdwΙlΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A house, flat, or other place of residence.
❗️ Examples:
1. The proposed dwelling is out of keeping with those nearby
2. She would like to see a block or two of typical residential dwellings from each era of the city preserved somewhere in the city.
3. Permission for residential dwellings in a zone designated for industrial use should never have been granted.
4. The planning brief for the site originally envisaged 180 residential dwellings.
5. Naturally the dwellings for the resident Spaniards were modelled on their counterparts in Spain.
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π He, pronoun.
π /hiΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to refer to a person or animal of unspecified sex (in modern use, now chiefly replaced by ‘he or she’ or ‘they’): see usage note below)
❗️ Examples:
1. Every child needs to know that he is loved
2. From the very beginning, love and nurture your child so he can begin to feel connected to others.
3. The student is not an object of the teacher's efforts, he is a partner searching for the ways leading to scientific truths.
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π Indict, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛdΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Formally accuse of or charge with a crime.
❗️ Examples:
1. His former manager was indicted for fraud
2. And a grand jury or the state attorney makes the decision as to whether or not to formally indict you with the charges.
3. This one a Texas grand jury indicting him on a charge of money laundering, also in connection with this case.
4. That means not only making sure there is strong evidence against the defendant before indicting him, but also making sure that he receives a fair trial.
5. Moving on very swiftly, in relation to two charges, you were indicted to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court?
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π Fray, verb.
π /freΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a fabric, rope, or cord) unravel or become worn at the edge, typically through constant rubbing.
❗️ Examples:
1. Cheap fabric soon frays
2. The cloth had frayed at the edges; the tassels had unraveled.
3. That much was true, but I'd overlooked just how much of the fabric has frayed or worn a little bit, exposing the pure-white threads underneath the blue.
4. Cheap thread will fray, break and cause knotting of the thread while sewing.
5. This fabric doesn't fray, comes in a wide array of patterns and solids, and does not need to be hemmed or sewn!
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π Farmland, noun.
π /ΛfΙΛmland/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Land used for farming.
❗️ Examples:
1. The people, farmlands, and farming practices of Asia come to life in this varied collection.
2. In order to enlarge the prison's farmlands, 114 acres of additional land was purchased from Bunn in 1883.
3. That has made mainstream use on America's irrigated farmlands a reality.
4. Thanks to improvements in productivity, less and less land is required as farmland.
5. Already the lowland coconut plantation farmlands of Tuvalu are being swamped by the rising sea.
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π Crawl, verb.
π /krΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be covered or crowded with (insects or people), to an extent that is objectionable.
❗️ Examples:
1. The floor was dirty and crawling with bugs
2. Inside it is crawling with maggot-like insects.
3. In the beginning, the area had been crawling with soldiers and bristling with guns.
4. You know the place is going to be crawling with all those people from the history department you don't like.
5. Its mossy floor was crawling with wildlife, and the tips of the treetops rang with the mindless tittering and singing and chirping of a thousand different night birds.
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π Subterranean, adjective.
π /ΛsΚbtΙΛreΙͺnΙͺΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Existing, occurring, or done under the earth's surface.
❗️ Examples:
1. The terrors and hazards of subterranean exploration
2. This three-dimensional complex of surface closed depressions, subterranean conduits, caves, and springs is known as karst terrain.
3. These drainages envelop the ephemeral wet surfaces and subterranean systems that rarely hold a diverse molluscan fauna.
4. Even after all that, there is still a vast reservoir of subterranean water inside the earth.
5. A large mechanical platform is lowered into the subterranean depths of Purgato.
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π Singe, verb.
π /sΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Burn (something) superficially or lightly.
❗️ Examples:
1. The fire had singed his eyebrows
2. Try not to set your sheets on fire or singe your eyebrows.
3. The inside wall was slightly singed but the fire brigade said I had been minutes away from losing the entire flat, he said.
4. The fire also singed a turret of Holy Trinity Cathedral on Hart Street.
5. The griffin's feathers and fur were singed and much of his tail was black.
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π Frequent, adjective.
π /ΛfriΛkw(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of the pulse) rapid.
❗️ Examples:
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π Accident, noun.
π /ΛaksΙͺd(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had an accident at the factory
2. If you are unable to work owing to accident or sickness
3. He said data from accidents and damage incidents is collected and used to tailor officer and staff training to improve safety and cut down costs.
4. Air accident investigators say the incident was serious and are checking instructions from air traffic control.
5. Each year, more than 37,000 women die from accidents.
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π Win, verb.
π /wΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Gain (a person's attention, support, or love), typically gradually or by effort.
❗️ Examples:
1. You will find it difficult to win back their attention
2. However, he will bring fresh thinking to the party's efforts to win support.
3. However one British expert claimed previous efforts by him to win support for such work had fallen on deaf ears.
4. She also experienced reps regularly taking young doctors out for boozy meals in an effort to win their favour.
5. For this Olympics, Taiwan spared neither money nor effort to win international recognition.
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π Trip, verb.
π /trΙͺp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Release and raise (an anchor) from the seabed by means of a cable.
❗️ Examples:
1. During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
2. The whole of us then commenced heaving the brig short, sending the whale-boat to take her in tow, after we had tripped the anchor.
3. The weight of the chain keeps the pull on the anchor parallel to the bottom, which keeps the forces of wind and tide from tripping the anchor.
4. For running in high seas we put a large square sail forward, tripping the yard along the foremast, much like a spinnaker boom.
5. Should the ship be rolling heavily, care is to be taken that a turn or two of the parrel-lashing be kept fast till perfectly ready for tripping the yard.
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π Sound, adverb.
π /saΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Soundly.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was sound asleep
2. This evening I settled down happy as can be, turned on the TV, and within moments was sound asleep.
3. The very first night I was sound asleep and I woke to the sound of my dad laughing.
4. Every person in the village was sound asleep.
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π Sort, noun.
π /sΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The arrangement of data in a prescribed sequence.
❗️ Examples:
1. Both cache size and sort size affect memory usage, so you cannot maximize one without affecting the other.
2. Another beneficial practice is to perform an exploratory card sort once the content for the website is determined.
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π Burlap, noun.
π /ΛbΙΛlap/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Coarse canvas woven from jute, hemp, or a similar fibre, used especially for sacking.
❗️ Examples:
1. A burlap sack
2. Her large installation consisted of 16 columns made of various fabrics, including canvas, jute and burlap, the edges of which were charred and the expanses of which were often painted.
3. They were made from second-hand jute burlap and scraps of fabric pulled from ragbags and storage bins.
4. Set stakes before filling the planting hole, then tie the tree to the stakes with canvas or burlap strips.
5. We'd bring our apples in burlap sacks, whatever we had, Macs, Baldwins, Spies, some Russets if we were lucky, some wild apples for pungency from the woods and hedgerows.
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π Dispute, verb.
π /dΙͺΛspjuΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Resist (a landing or advance)
❗️ Examples:
1. I formed my line and prepared to dispute the advance of the foe
2. He has disposed of his surplus baggage and commissary stores, placing them out of reach of any descent of a force in this direction, and leaving him free to dispute the advance of the rebel army.
3. At 1:30 p. m. the column is again in motion; no enemy has appeared to dispute the advance.
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π Blow, noun.
π /blΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A sudden shock or disappointment.
❗️ Examples:
1. The news came as a crushing blow to the cast
2. He was dealt a disappointing blow here yesterday when the group failed to justify hefty support.
3. His hopes of springing a surprise were dealt a severe blow before the break when the Captain was forced to retire due to concussion.
4. Given the increasingly run-down nature of these command economies, the oil price shocks dealt a crucial blow to regimes running an already bankrupt economic system.
5. Exhausted by these efforts, he was then dealt a terrible blow by the sudden death in May of his beloved elder sister Fanny.
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π Mush, noun.
π /mΚΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A journey across snow with a dog sled.
❗️ Examples:
1. A twelve-day mush for men and dogs over the frozen subarctic prairie
2. Some families play Monopoly, others watch TV - but one 17 year old and her family mush together.
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π Sift, verb.
π /sΙͺft/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sift the flour into a large bowl
2. Into a small bowl sift together flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
3. Many spend the day knee-deep in water sifting for diamonds.
4. At the end of each session, we removed the seed trays and sifted the sand to recover the remaining millet seeds.
5. Realizing her mistake, she began to sift through the ashes once more
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π Railroad, verb.
π /ΛreΙͺlrΙΚd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (a measure) to be passed or approved quickly by applying pressure.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Bill had been railroaded through the House
2. Another chilling measure was railroaded through federal parliament this week without any noticeable media coverage.
3. This was railroaded through so fast most local governments didn't even know about it.
4. For that reason, they're too important to be railroaded through Congress.
5. The fact is that the decision was railroaded through after normal business and residents were given minimal notice of the street closure.
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π Remit, verb.
π /rΙͺΛmΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Forgive (a sin)
❗️ Examples:
1. God's act of remitting the sins of guilty men
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π Nostalgic, adjective.
π /nΙΛstaldΚΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Feeling, evoking, or characterized by nostalgia.
❗️ Examples:
1. He remained nostalgic about the good old days
2. A nostalgic account of an idyllic childhood
3. The steam locomotive evokes nostalgic memories of a bygone era with its glory and old age charm.
4. In her art, she said she attempts to evoke the nostalgic beauty of another era.
5. Alexei Sayle would adopt a maudlin, nostalgic whine and a watery half-smile as he recalled the glories of the music hall.
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π Grasp, verb.
π /Ι‘rΙΛsp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Comprehend fully.
❗️ Examples:
1. The press failed to grasp the significance of what had happened
2. Here again, the significance of this development can only be fully grasped on the basis of Marx's analysis of the commodity form.
3. The ultimate power of advances such as cable and satellite could not be fully grasped in the 1960s.
4. I know that this state of affairs is not fully grasped by the general public in Europe and North America.
5. It was all so above her understanding, but somehow she knew that they loved each other, in some way that could never be fully grasped.
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π Promise, noun.
π /ΛprΙmΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The quality of potential excellence.
❗️ Examples:
1. He showed great promise even as a junior officer
2. In a statement to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, quoted by Reuters, Pardew described the country as a nation of great promise and potential.
3. Of course, the flip side of such promise is the potential for humiliation.
4. Narratives of progress and development are rooted deeply in the potential and promise of the West's best ideals and traditions.
5. Polley is packed with promise and potential.
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π Baby, noun.
π /ΛbeΙͺbi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A very young animal.
❗️ Examples:
1. Bats only have one baby a year
2. Baby rabbits
3. Three capybaras have been born at the popular animal park and the babies are now delighting visitors as they lap up the autumn sunshine.
4. And he accepted without censure that its impulse to slaughter the babies of other animals was entirely natural.
5. She said a box with a mother rabbit, her four babies and another adult female were found by her husband Mike when making final checks by the main gate at 2am yesterday.
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π Snare, verb.
π /snΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare.
❗️ Examples:
1. The foxes were humanely snared
2. Concerned fishermen put pilchard bait on a rock, snared the bird and cut the nylon away.
3. Paying no attention, other men were trying to snare birds with their shirts.
4. They used a quad bike and a hurling net to snare the pig who had captured the front page readers for the past three weeks.
5. As the pigs continue to avoid capture, a hairy villain by the name of Wolf arrives on the scene to snare the pigs and send them back to the abattoir.
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π Radiant, adjective.
π /ΛreΙͺdΙͺΙnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person or their expression) clearly emanating great joy, love, or health.
❗️ Examples:
1. She gave him a radiant smile
2. She was radiant and she smiled the most when she was with him.
3. The sight of my mother, my beautiful, radiant mother, was more than I could handle while pregnant and without my eldest daughter.
4. I'm fond of Mrs. Johnson, who has a gentle southern accent and a radiant expression.
5. The radiant bride was given away by her brother and attended by a best woman rather than bridesmaids.
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π Concession, noun.
π /kΙnΛsΙΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing that is granted, especially in response to demands.
❗️ Examples:
1. The government was unwilling to make any further concessions
2. In this way, the company is hoping to appease its older workers, drive a wedge between older and newer workers, and thus win the concessions it is demanding.
3. Somebody needs to pick up the baton here and, you know, without kind of waiting for a consensus or without demanding concessions.
4. Since then, the union leadership has capitulated to DaimlerChrysler's demands for wage concessions and other give-backs.
5. Preparations should begin to widen the industrial action until all of the employers' demands for give-backs and concessions are dropped.
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π Precipitate, verb.
π /prΙͺΛsΙͺpΙͺteΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (an event or situation, typically one that is undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely.
❗️ Examples:
1. The incident precipitated a political crisis
2. He said: It appears that the death was precipitated by these stressful events which caused him to collapse.
3. Will our relationship pass the test or will the new situation precipitate a change for the worse?
4. Loss of public confidence underlay the financial and political crisis which precipitated the downfall of a system of government too little changed in its habits and priorities since the days of Louis XIV.
5. Two events had precipitated this change in course.
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π Expire, verb.
π /ΙͺkΛspΚΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Exhale (air) from the lungs.
❗️ Examples:
1. The volume of expired air
2. The vocal cords vibrate when air is expired through the glottis, creating sound waves in the column of air within the pharynx, nose, and mouth.
3. An index of alcohol intoxication was measured with a fuel-cell analyzer in air expired after breath was held for 15 sec.
4. The drug is primarily metabolized by the lungs and expired as carbon dioxide.
5. As the workload increased in the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise, an increase in the quantity of air inspired and expired was observed.
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π Vertical, adjective.
π /ΛvΙΛtΙͺk(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting a point at the zenith or the highest point of something.
❗️ Examples:
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π Louse, noun.
π /laΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A contemptible or unpleasant person.
❗️ Examples:
1. Since his original plan of using leftover roach motels now seems impractical, Jack must devise a better means of sending these unlicensed louses back to where they belong.
2. His characters were cads, letches, and leering louses, but they effectively tapped a bit of that inappropriate urge in us all.
3. All of these characters - if we can indeed call them that - are despicable louses that lie, cheat, and backstab each other in the name of comedy and TV ratings.
4. He said that, among the others using that network, there could be louses looking for their next attack target.
5. The louses are just plain nasty drivers who don't give a damn about anyone but themselves.
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π Dick, noun.
π /dΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Anything at all.
❗️ Examples:
1. You don't know dick about this—you haven't a clue!
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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 Awareness, noun.
π /ΙΛwΙΛnΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.
❗️ Examples:
1. We need to raise public awareness of the issue
2. There is a lack of awareness of the risks
3. Like her male counterpart, she always seems to have an affecting awareness of her sidekick status.
4. The body is an organism with an intense awareness of itself.
5. Let your morality come out of your own awareness rather than out of conditioning.
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π Airway, noun.
π /ΛΙΛweΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
❗️ Examples:
1. He kept the man's airway clear and blood circulating
2. Preliminary studies show these compounds improve the flow of mucus through the respiratory tract, allowing airways to clear more quickly and efficiently.
3. Infiltration of the large and small airways with eosinophils, neutrophils, plasma cells, and lymphocytes is common.
4. In patients with severe trauma, airway compromise is a cause of prehospital death that can be prevented and simple airway manoeuvres can clear the airway to provide vital oxygenation.
5. Moreover, BALF from allergen-stimulated airways was mitogenic for airway fibroblasts.
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π Major, adjective.
π /ΛmeΙͺdΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Greater or more important; main.
❗️ Examples:
1. He got the major share of the spoils
2. Since then, 48 nations have now signed this treaty, including all the major industrialized countries.
3. Dealing with change is one of the major problems in Europe, if not the major one.
4. Huge demonstrations in the capital city of his major ally would not be good for the image.
5. The major share of the party's vote came from two provinces.
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π Squint, adjective.
π /skwΙͺnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not straight or level.
❗️ Examples:
1. The squint bottom edge of the puzzle
2. Only a squint nose - it's been battered over the years - suggests that he's a rugby player.
3. I thought you were laughing at my squint eyes and pronounced limp.
4. We've spent a lot of time measuring everything and I don't think it could be any straighter (note that the lawn has a squint edge so it would be a mistake to use that as a reference).
5. "I'm home!" I shout, stumbling over old Sylvia's gardening boots as I enter through the squint doorway.
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π Duress, noun.
π /djΚ(Ι)ΛrΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Forcible restraint or imprisonment.
❗️ Examples:
1. At the very least, they have been held for months in solitary confinement - treatment that constitutes a form of psychological duress and is thus prohibited under the Geneva Conventions.
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π Rag, noun.
π /raΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A ragtime composition or tune.
❗️ Examples:
1. Composed rags were widely published and became extremely popular among white amateur pianists, though it is likely that the black creators of ragtime would have played in a much freer manner than the written music suggests.
2. It is based on traditions of rag music and social protest lyrics.
3. It definitely puts his performances of Scott Joplin's rags in a different light!
4. Each book contains ballads, blues, Latin pieces and rags.
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π Love, noun.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A formula for ending an affectionate letter.
❗️ Examples:
1. Take care, lots of love, Judy
2. All the very very best to you Tom, and lots of love from Charlie.
3. Hmmm nothing of any import to say so I will sign off again, lots of love.
4. Looking forward to seeing you soon, Lots of love, Grannie
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π Slosh, verb.
π /slΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move through liquid with a splashing sound.
❗️ Examples:
1. They sloshed up the tracks in the dank woods
2. The dirt floor is wet and you slosh in your rubber boots through puddles.
3. Or I could say this: Colin spilled into his common room, and I sloshed after him.
4. She began to shiver in the freezing air and the cold, slimy water, and Nick sloshed his way over to take her in his arms.
5. Men sloshed in the water, while they fixed the damage done to the Jewel.
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π Touristic, adjective.
π /tΚΙΛrΙͺstΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to or popular with tourists.
❗️ Examples:
1. The country has become very popular as a touristic destination
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π Dog, verb.
π /dΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Grip (something) with a mechanical device.
❗️ Examples:
1. She has dogged the door shut
2. Its convex shape and dogging mechanism made it look as though it were an enlarged part of a submarine, scavenged from some terrestrial scrap yard and grafted onto the bulkhead.
3. There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us.
4. She places the child inside the engineering space before stepping through herself and dogging the hatch behind her.
5. Now, as he stood within the hyperbaric chamber of the minisub, he watched as Clark went about dogging the hatches.
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π Baby, noun.
π /ΛbeΙͺbi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing regarded with affection or familiarity.
❗️ Examples:
1. This baby can reach speeds of 120 mph
2. This is the only way you can purchase this baby at a discounted price.
3. That's not his everyday car, it's his baby.
4. I personally would not do it, simply because my laptop is my baby.
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π Favour, noun.
π /ΛfeΙͺvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Overgenerous preferential treatment.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was accused of showing favour to one of the players
2. Both sides of a trial seek bias in their own favour as, according to the film's ads, some cases are too important to be left to juries.
3. His petition to the Scottish parliament accuses government bodies meant to regulate the fish farming industry of being biased in its favour.
4. This pact is utterly one-sided-in Mexico's favor.
5. The dynamic this week has been in his favor consistently.
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π Trigger, verb.
π /ΛtrΙͺΙ‘Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (a device) to function.
❗️ Examples:
1. Burglars fled empty-handed after triggering the alarm
2. The concept of the device is to activate a remote sensor that will trigger the device on the vehicle that will bring it to a stop.
3. If the photon passes through the mirror, it automatically triggers a light-sensing device, which fires the gun and shoots the cat dead.
4. Each time soap was dispensed, the device was triggered to record one count.
5. Each machine contains a high-precision electronic switch which triggers atomic bombs.
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π Cope, noun.
π /kΙΚp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing resembling or likened to a cloak.
❗️ Examples:
1. The outer shell of clay is called the cope
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π Subterranean, adjective.
π /ΛsΚbtΙΛreΙͺnΙͺΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Secret; concealed.
❗️ Examples:
1. The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power brokers
2. Expertly juggling pathos and humour, Baumbach has created a queasy tug-of-war between surface civility and subterranean resentment.
3. Credulous undergraduates fall prey to priestly performers who claim to be initiating them into the subterranean mysteries.
4. In other words, this tradition suggests a subterranean relationship between pleasure and austerity.
5. Most of them are about the experience of girls and women, about the exercise of power and its abuse, and about subterranean aspects of human relationships.
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π Black, adjective.
π /blak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Deeply stained with dirt.
❗️ Examples:
1. The walls were black with age and dirt
2. The workers are black with dirt and perspiration that the four fans on the ceiling do not dry.
3. The walls and ceiling of the room were perfectly black, with age and dirt.
4. Inside the garage door the concrete was stained black with oil and a car was hoisted on a ramp.
5. The decoration on the bridge was spectacular but it was very dirty and black from pollution.
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π Range, verb.
π /reΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of something written or spoken) cover a wide number of different topics.
❗️ Examples:
1. Tutorials ranged over a variety of subjects
2. After the meal, they had sat in the front room and the conversation had ranged over a wide variety of topics.
3. The discussions ranged over a wide variety of subjects, but it was the philosophy of medicine that attracted the largest numbers.
4. Our discussion ranged over a huge array of topics.
5. The hour's conversation ranged over a number of political persons and topics, culminating in the statement, Peggy, never trust a man.
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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 Cope, verb.
π /kΙΚp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) deal effectively with something difficult.
❗️ Examples:
1. His ability to cope with stress
2. It all got too much for me and I couldn't cope
3. All I can say about it is nice people are easy to deal with and unpleasant people are much more difficult to cope with.
4. Urban and rural dwellers have adopted creative survival strategies, that have helped them cope with difficult times.
5. In a police interview the 39-year-old unemployed man, who is not being identified for legal reasons, admitted he found it difficult to cope with the children.
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π Arrive, verb.
π /ΙΛrΚΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an event or a particular moment) happen or come.
❗️ Examples:
1. We will be in touch with them when the time arrives
2. When the Moment of Truth arrives, the user sees the results of a proper double-blind test.
3. After a long and abrasive period of campaigning, the UK General Election has finally arrived.
4. For such a prospect requires that an infinite number of events must have elapsed before the present moment could arrive.
5. As the big moment arrived all assembled in the Square in Rathdowney on a miserable, damp and misty morning.
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π Gouge, verb.
π /Ι‘aΚdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge.
❗️ Examples:
1. The channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water
2. At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth.
3. The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement.
4. Witnesses said the blast gouged a hole in the ground and propelled the car about 30 ft.
5. A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree.
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π Imprudent, adjective.
π /ΙͺmΛpruΛd(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash.
❗️ Examples:
1. It would be imprudent to leave her winter coat behind
2. His logic was that opponents would be deceived by the ship's appearance, and make rash and imprudent mistakes during confrontation.
3. Carrying out the original aim of a quick war with minimal civilian casualties would require taking chances that officers here now deem imprudent.
4. I think in this case, he would not do anything imprudent.
5. Yet while he opposes new program spending, the professor agrees that immediate federal tax cuts would be imprudent.
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π Float, verb.
π /flΙΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a currency) fluctuate freely in value in accordance with supply and demand in the financial markets.
❗️ Examples:
1. A policy of letting the pound float
2. The new system is similar to Singapore's managed basket, band and crawl model in which currency floats within a set policy band.
3. But this is a free trade position, to say that currencies should float.
4. By default, the world's major currencies began floating.
5. Afterward the dollar floated against other currencies, its value determined by the demand and supply of foreign exchange.
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π Sieve, verb.
π /sΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Examine in detail.
❗️ Examples:
1. Lawyers had sieved through her contract
2. At 12 Kelburn Parade, the Vic Accommodation Services sieve through most of the tedious but crucial details for you, plus they have a map!
3. Spot these good bargain shops in any good market, Green Park or in Central Delhi and you cannot miss the young crowd that is seen sieving through the purses, soft toys, perfumes and other items.
4. Specialist officers are sieving through soil trying to find anything that may be significant to the case.
5. Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia.
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π Babysitter, noun.
π /ΛbeΙͺbΙͺsΙͺtΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who looks after a child or children while the parents are out.
❗️ Examples:
1. He couldn't find a babysitter
2. Natalie had worked for her as a babysitter
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π Meaning, noun.
π /ΛmiΛnΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: What is meant by a word, text, concept, or action.
❗️ Examples:
1. The meaning of the Hindu word is breakthrough, release
2. The meaning of life
3. He was an intensely charismatic actor and conveyed the meanings of words as dramatically and sensitively as the music.
4. Possible meanings of words contribute to the meaning of an utterance, which is an act by a speaker.
5. The average reader does not need a glossary for the meanings of all such words, for they are clearly elicited in the context.
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π Speech, noun.
π /spiΛtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person's style of speaking.
❗️ Examples:
1. She wouldn't accept his correction of her speech
2. Each has an idiosyncratic style of dress and speech.
3. She had an excellent ear for accents and individual styles of speech, but otherwise did not alter her voice drastically.
4. His soothing, mannered style of speech and genuine affection for his film kept my attention throughout the duration of the commentary.
5. Television's Mr. Rogers is a good example of this style of speech.
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π Male, adjective.
π /meΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a plant or flower) bearing stamens but lacking functional pistils.
❗️ Examples:
1. The pollen grain is the male gametophytic phase of flowering plants.
2. The path of pollen tubes has not been investigated, as male flowers were not available.
3. Live oaks produce male flowers called catkins that bloom in hanging clusters.
4. Thus, the perianth of male flowers is often larger than that of female flowers.
5. Inflorescences with male flowers only were found in various sequential inflorescences in the six populations.
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π Outfox, verb.
π /aΚtΛfΙks/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Defeat (someone) by being more clever or cunning than them.
❗️ Examples:
1. Holmes outfoxed criminals from the comfort of his armchair
2. Zorro has always been a dashing swashbuckler who outfoxes his enemies in their defeat.
3. They delight in outfoxing people, or seducing them, and they love the riskiness of rule-breaking.
4. One saw a person simply beside himself with the thought that he had succeeded in outfoxing his opponent.
5. They certainly outfoxed the Americans on more than one occasion.
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π Flavour, noun.
π /ΛfleΙͺvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A substance used to alter or enhance the taste of food or drink; a flavouring.
❗️ Examples:
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