Cambridge Dictionary:
π About, preposition.
π /ΙΛbaΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: So as to affect.
❗️ Examples:
1. There's nothing we can do about it
2. The argument now is about how badly we will be affected and whether it is too late to do anything about it.
3. But what caused the cancer in the first place, and what can we do about it?
4. We now have a better understanding as to why the firm is not accelerating in a growing marketplace, and what it is doing about it.
5. Stephanie says that unless she did something about her weight, she would just carry on piling on the pounds.
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π Superior, adjective.
π /suΛΛpΙͺΙrΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Further above or out; higher in position.
❗️ Examples:
1. The upper horns (or superior cornua) meet the back of the hyoid bone, while the inferior cornua are attached to the side of the cricoid, forming a pivotal joint.
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π Skid, verb.
π /skΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause to skid.
❗️ Examples:
1. He skidded his car
2. Just two days after buying his car he skidded it on black ice on a major road and wrote it off.
3. Upon reaching the door Zeo skidded the car to a stop.
4. He skidded the car to a stop at her last words, and she flung herself out of the car and started making her way towards the brush.
5. Just as I began to think that Harvey would only stop when his car ran out of gas, the man skidded his car to a halt at the base of a building under construction.
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π Creep, noun.
π /kriΛp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The tendency of a car with automatic transmission to move when in gear without the accelerator being pressed.
❗️ Examples:
1. Creep can be useful in slow-moving traffic or when parking
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π Pursue, verb.
π /pΙΛsjuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Seek to attain or accomplish (a goal) over a long period.
❗️ Examples:
1. Should people pursue their own happiness at the expense of others?
2. But we must pursue and accomplish our goals of building Inuktitut resources and curriculum.
3. Instead, by letting themselves always yet never fully imitated by the cyborg, the human now pursues a more ambitious goal of taking the place of Being.
4. Last spring, Alexis O'Hara brought her third year of organizing the Montreal Slam to a halt in order to pursue her own artistic goals.
5. The core of feminism is about choice, and the right to pursue one's life goals, whatever those are.
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π Indubitable, adjective.
π /ΙͺnΛdjuΛbΙͺtΙb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Impossible to doubt; unquestionable.
❗️ Examples:
1. An indubitable truth
2. The story has many variants, but all of them reflect an indubitable truth - China-made toys are taking a great market share in global markets.
3. This fact about induction, we are told, is the difficulty that makes science fall short of telling us indubitable truths about the world.
4. If this is so, no judgement, however modest, is absolutely indubitable.
5. All right, Callahan, as fun as this little debate is, it's far too early for me to doubt my existence when it clearly is indubitable.
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π Come, verb.
π /kΚm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Occur; happen; take place.
❗️ Examples:
1. Twilight had not yet come
2. His father waited for a phone call that never came
3. A chance like this doesn't come along every day
4. The sounds are familiar and pleasant, but they belong to another time - a time that has not yet come.
5. It came only after yet another procedural skirmish about the agenda and the debate was quite chaotic and confusing.
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π Tumble, verb.
π /ΛtΚmb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
❗️ Examples:
1. Police and dogs tumbled from the vehicle
2. She saw them tumbling towards her and rushed to help them.
3. India tumbles on uncontrollably to becoming the diabetes capital of the world.
4. They ran up together as fast as they could and tumbled into Ginnys room.
5. Ten minutes late, he tumbles into the room in a kind of flailing pirouette, scatter gunning apologies.
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π Fly, verb.
π /flΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (with reference to a flag) display or be displayed on a flagpole.
❗️ Examples:
1. Vessels which flew the Spanish flag
2. Flags were flying at half mast
3. The flag was flying on the flagpole, meaning that Her Majesty was at home.
4. No one partied harder than the people of Bolton, with flags flying patriotically from flagpoles and bunting between the houses.
5. The flag flew from every public building, from every municipal flagpole, and from every structure of consequence in the land.
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π Ask, verb.
π /ΙΛsk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Say that one wants (a specified amount) as a price for selling something.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was asking £250 for the guitar
2. I would probably have taken half the asked amount just to get the thing off my hands.
3. This isn't a greedy seller asking a ridiculous amount no one will pay.
4. We've noticed that houses are staying on the market longer, and that they are often selling for prices below asking.
5. No, Olympic Plaza isn't Broadway, but then this Guys and Dolls isn't asking Broadway prices, either.
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π Dead, adjective.
π /dΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a glass or bottle) empty or no longer being used.
❗️ Examples:
1. They got all the dead glasses and put them on the table
2. After being served our desert we had to call a waiter to clear all the dead glasses away.
3. The place is covered in empty pizza boxes, dead bottles of booze and cigarette butts.
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π Range, verb.
π /reΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Place oneself or be placed in opposition to (a person or group)
❗️ Examples:
1. Japan ranged herself against the European nations
2. The Italian question ranged Austria against Italy, which claimed the Austrian province of Venetia, and allied with Prussia in April 1866 to get it.
3. He was left to represent himself in court, where he was ranged against council and Barbican Venture lawyers.
4. Britain, Piedmont-Sardinia, the United Provinces, and Austria were ranged against them.
5. By January 1942 the members of the Tripartite Pact were ranged against the Grand Alliance of Russia, Britain and America.
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π Precipice, noun.
π /ΛprΙsΙͺpΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one.
❗️ Examples:
1. We swerved toward the edge of the precipice
2. She followed the sound of her voice until she suddenly found herself on the edge of a steep precipice.
3. Fancy yourself in a car which you do not know how to steer and cannot stop, with an inexhaustible supply of petrol in the tank, rushing along at fifty miles an hour on an island strewn with rocks and bounded by cliff precipices!
4. There are also cliffs and precipices to be negotiated.
5. A series of tragedies forced them to fight the three by-elections that brought them to the political precipice.
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π Pilgrim, noun.
π /ΛpΙͺlΙ‘rΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A member of the Pilgrim Fathers.
❗️ Examples:
1. This is a monument dedicated in 1910 to commemorate the first landing of the Pilgrims in 1620 at Provincetown, where they wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact.
2. The Geneva Bible is the version that would have been most familiar to the older generation of Pilgrims.
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π Help, noun.
π /hΙlp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person or thing that helps.
❗️ Examples:
1. She's been given financial help with travel
2. He was a great help
3. He was asked if the early poll which showed him losing his seat had in fact been a help.
4. It would be a great help for both vendors and occupants or employees of the buildings.
5. For most families with children it is a great help in their daily lives to have a car.
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π Tie, noun.
π /tΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A game in which the scores are level and both sides have completed their innings, as distinct from a draw (a game left incomplete through lack of time).
❗️ Examples:
1. There was another thriller at Rowntrees when the game ended in a perfect tie with each side making 155-8.
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π Read, verb.
π /riΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have the ability to look at and comprehend the meaning of written or printed matter.
❗️ Examples:
1. Only three of the girls could read and none could write
2. There are still people leaving school without the ability to read or write.
3. The ability to read and write, an experience of debate: these are essential to democracy.
4. Most lose or never develop the ability to read and write in their native language.
5. It is clear that higher education is a sector predicated upon the ability to read and write accurately.
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π Grand, adjective.
π /Ι‘rand/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of the highest rank (used especially in official titles)
❗️ Examples:
1. The Grand Vizier
2. She will remain Grand Marshal of the Association until St Patrick's Day 2005.
3. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Sonja of Norway were accompanied by Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and the Earl of Wessex.
4. But it doesn't sit well with Grand Chief Shirley Adamson of the Council of Yukon First Nations.
5. He is also the Great Grand Master of the Omni Healing and the Grand Reiki Master for Traditional Reiki.
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π Arrive, verb.
π /ΙΛrΚΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Reach a place at the end of a journey or a stage in a journey.
❗️ Examples:
1. We arrived at his house and knocked at the door
2. The team arrived in New Delhi on July 30
3. They had recently arrived from Turkey
4. Now safe from harm, he and his parents continued their journey and when they arrived in Timnah the lovers looked at each other and were pleased.
5. The Varley family finally arrived in Shannon on the Sunday afternoon and Tony arrived in Westport just in time to go on stage.
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π Bankroll, noun.
π /ΛbaΕkrΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A roll of banknotes.
❗️ Examples:
1. After showing them his gun, he throws them a large bankroll of cash and invites them to come work for him.
2. When they pulled their bankroll out of their pocket to pay, the only variation he saw in the bills was how clean or dirty they were.
3. He had carefully stashed away his days of retirement, just as he stacked bankrolls of the British sterling all day, in separate wads of months and years.
4. His bankroll allowed him to run campaigns all over the US
5. First, players frequently get panicky when they're betting more per than their bankroll really allows.
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π Reflection, noun.
π /rΙͺΛflΙkΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An amount of light, heat, or sound that is reflected by a body or surface.
❗️ Examples:
1. The reflections from the street lamps gave them just enough light
2. Polarized lenses on sunglasses help to reduce glare by not allowing the polarizations that come from reflections through but allowing other light through.
3. Light reflections off the chrome surface, reflective windows, everything is used to make you believe you're part of the action.
4. The receiving devices samples a plurality of points on the near side of the structure to detect vibrations resulting from reflections of the sound wave from the object.
5. Transparent species are susceptible to detection by reflections from their body surface, particularly at shallow depths.
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π Book, noun.
π /bΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The libretto of a musical or opera, or the script of a play.
❗️ Examples:
1. Keira took out the script book that she hadn't yet returned to the handbag.
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π Fork, noun.
π /fΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one.
❗️ Examples:
1. A fork occurs when one piece attacks two or more enemy units at the same time.
2. Forks are covered in the chapter The Double Attack, although many would consider forks to be a separate species of double attack.
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π Bear, noun.
π /bΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A large, heavy, cumbersome man.
❗️ Examples:
1. A lumbering bear of a man
2. It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day.
3. Did you ever hear someone describe a big, lumbering, warm-hearted bear of a guy?
4. When you spend a good time alone, like a week, without hardly saying a word to anyone, with hardly any phone calls, you tend to retreat into lumbering bear mode.
5. O'Mara, a disgruntled bear of a man, contends that the case rests entirely on the credibility of Hearst, which is shaky at best.
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π Passage, noun.
π /ΛpasΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.
❗️ Examples:
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π Shy, adjective.
π /ΚΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Slow or reluctant to do (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. The wealthy have become less shy of displaying their privilege
2. I wanted to take things slow, and was shy about being intimate.
3. She has never been shy of expressing her feminist opinions.
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π Snook, noun.
π /snuΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A large edible game fish of the Caribbean which is sometimes found in brackish water.
❗️ Examples:
1. The saltwater river harbors prized snook, trout, largemouth bass, redfish, and even tarpon.
2. I also planned to fish the Indian / Banana river and Mosquito lagoon for redfish, snook, sea trout and ladyfish.
3. Yeah, problem was, there literally wasn't anybody to paddle out with, and I could see all the mullet, and the snook, tarpon and sharks feeding on them out there.
4. Redfish, snook, cobia and ladyfish are the main targets at this time of the year and we also took a couple of plaice and sea-trout.
5. We would spend a few days in Maryland then take a flight down to Titusville on the east coast of Florida where we would fish for snook, redfish, sea trout and perhaps get the chance of catching some cobia.
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π Talk, verb.
π /tΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have the power of speech.
❗️ Examples:
1. He can talk as well as you or I can
2. He can only use his right hand and finds talking difficult as his speech is impaired.
3. He talks, but his speech has not developed at the rate it should.
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π Roast, verb.
π /rΙΚst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Subject to good-natured ridicule.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Prince was roasted by Martin—a friendly American custom of insulting a person as a sign of favour
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π Mulberry, noun.
π /ΛmΚlb(Ι)ri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small deciduous tree with broad leaves, native to East Asia and long cultivated elsewhere.
❗️ Examples:
1. In summertime the Ferris hills were a-thrive with greenery; even now, when the sky was bleak, the vivid colours of the maple leaves and the mulberry bush seemed to radiate light.
2. Through the branches, and you reached an overgrown stone path that led to an ancient mulberry tree, falling in the shape of a weeping willow.
3. There's still a tree there, but is it a mulberry tree?
4. Pyramus and Thisbe planned to meet under the mulberry tree, and that is where they died.
5. A magnificent mulberry tree planted 30 years ago by a previous owner - Angus McBean, the renowned theatre photographer - sits squarely in the middle of the long path leading from the house.
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π Fight, verb.
π /fΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Command, manage, or manoeuvre (troops, a ship, or military equipment) in battle.
❗️ Examples:
1. General Hill fights his troops well
2. He fights his vessel well.
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π Help, verb.
π /hΙlp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Serve someone with (food or drink)
❗️ Examples:
1. May I help you to some more meat?
2. She helped herself to a biscuit
3. Everyone helps themselves to some juicy grilled hamburgers, some plump sausages and some plastic covered hotdogs.
4. Dave pours another plastic cup of sherry and helps himself to his 173rd Cadburys bar while ignoring colleagues' pleas of Those were bought for the whole office, you know!
5. He always tries to eat my food and if we have visitors he often gets on to their chair and helps himself.
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π Right, verb.
π /rΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Redress or rectify (a wrong or mistaken action)
❗️ Examples:
1. She was determined to right the wrongs done to her father
2. Treaty settlements - righting the wrongs of the past - have accounted for about 0.1% of total government spending in the past five years.
3. And, let's face it, as well, I think, at that time, I also was attracted to the notion of being a trial lawyer, a courtroom lawyer, going in and righting the wrongs and defending the unjustly accused.
4. Now, 50 years after his death, Emmett Till has inspired a documentary aimed at righting a historic wrong.
5. In righting ancient wrongs, it has created modern tension.
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π Cavort, verb.
π /kΙΛvΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Jump or dance around excitedly.
❗️ Examples:
1. The players cavorted about the pitch
2. Sir Willard White was a superb Mephistopheles: his Song of the Flea danced and cavorted, and he had plenty of menace when it was needed.
3. How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised.
4. People walk across the water; they cavort, splash, dance - and finally someone falls from a great height and vanishes entirely.
5. Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering.
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π Fly, verb.
π /flΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Depart hastily.
❗️ Examples:
1. I must fly!
2. We too must fly, so stride briskly over the bridge to Boat Of Garten, from where a steam railway plies its way across the moor to Aviemore, giving another magnificent aspect of the mountains.
3. And they've just put out the second call for our flight, so I must fly…
4. Thank you. Claudia stood up. I have to fly! We must get together for dinner soon!
5. Well, I really must fly, darling. Congratulations on your engagement and I shall see you on Saturday night!
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π Move, verb.
π /muΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make progress; develop in a particular manner or direction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Aircraft design had moved forward a long way
2. Councillors are anxious to get things moving as soon as possible
3. He wants a council analysis of traffic through his village before the massive new development moves forward.
4. If Blackburn is to move forward, quality development of this nature is required.
5. We have got a huge squad and the competition is rife, but you need that for the club to progress and move forward.
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π Blank, noun.
π /blaΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A space left to be filled in a document.
❗️ Examples:
1. Leave blanks to type in the appropriate names
2. I'd been accumulating information and photographs, but when it came time to write it I knew I'd have to uncover more to fill in the blanks.
3. It had colloquial English phrases and you had to fill in the blanks.
4. This is your chance to fill in the blanks on a missive already written, then simply post it off to the public figure in question.
5. More accurate and logical profiling requires restraint: leave the usual labels and formulas in template until you have enough facts to thoroughly fill in the blanks.
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π Grace, noun.
π /Ι‘reΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A period officially allowed for payment of a sum due or for compliance with a law or condition, especially an extended period granted as a special favour.
❗️ Examples:
1. We'll give them 30 days' grace and then we'll be doing checks
2. A two-month grace period
3. Effectively, the family can be given a year's grace before the court grants possession.
4. He says that the Mars mission could take place as early as 2009, but the two years' grace period allows the agency to spread the cost around that much more.
5. The offer of a period of grace is a critical factor in the underwriting of this form of business.
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π Poor, adjective.
π /pΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a place) inhabited by people with little money.
❗️ Examples:
1. The world's poorest countries
2. Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building.
3. The church is growing most in poor places like Africa and Asia where infant mortality remains high.
4. A poor place to be when, as he expects, the negotiations begin some time after the next elections.
5. The place was poor beyond the conceptions of a privileged 21 st-century Westerner.
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π Dare, verb.
π /dΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take the risk of; brave.
❗️ Examples:
1. Few dared his wrath
2. She had never been brave enough to dare even a tame ride around the temple grounds on its back after that.
3. Her dance instructor was one of the few who dared the wrath of the king, and spoke to the young girl, whom he pitied.
4. Even now, interviewed thirty years later, the wife yells at the husband for daring the wrath of these wiseguys.
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π Onesie, noun.
π /ΛwΚnzi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A loose-fitting one-piece leisure garment covering the torso and legs.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'd had a bath and was in my onesie ready to settle down for yet another reality TV marathon
2. I have often fantasized about living my entire indoor life in a cashmere onesie, with snaps up the front and footie slippers attached.
3. The staple denim cut-offs and printed dresses and "onesies" are spot-on for festival goers.
4. The group is fond of sporting zip-up mechanic's uniforms onstage, or "onesies," as drummer Melissa York lovingly refers to them.
5. I like well-designed, useful things for children and parents, such as cashmere onesies for the entire family.
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π Warren, noun.
π /ΛwΙr(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were also kept in warrens, enclosed areas of land in which they could feed and burrow, and from whence they were conveniently caught.
2. At first rabbits were managed in warrens, but before long they escaped into the countryside.
3. It is thought Zac had gone into an unused rabbit or fox warren.
4. All his senses were focussed upon the rabbits grazing dimwittedly over the open meadowland above their warren.
5. The warrens and enclosures at High and Low Dalby belonged to the Duchy of Lancaster and extended to nearly 3,000 acres.
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π Recreation, noun.
π /ΛrΙkrΙͺΛeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action or process of creating something again.
❗️ Examples:
1. The periodic destruction and recreation of the universe
2. Most recently these boots have been very grotty, having been present for the destruction and recreation of the living rooms and the continuing demolition of the garden.
3. Shiva the destroyer is a necessary part of the trinity because, without destruction, there can be no recreation.
4. The recreation of the Famine ship took place at Blennerville, near Tralee, Co Kerry, and was completed in 2002.
5. They enjoyed television's recreations of more confident times
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π Desert, adjective.
π /dΙͺΛzΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Like a desert.
❗️ Examples:
1. Overgrazing has created desert conditions
2. In a related story, also in the Telegraph, it seems that the army is to modify 234 tanks - the equivalent of two armoured brigades - for use in desert conditions.
3. It has coped well with desert conditions, it has withstood attack from weapons which were designed to defeat it and its gun control equipment has proved to be outstanding.
4. The American-designed tanker has the capacity to hold up to 20,000 litres of fuel, and can operate in both arctic and desert conditions.
5. He believes that the model, which was designed in the 1960s, will perform better than a Landrover in desert conditions.
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π Land, verb.
π /land/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface.
❗️ Examples:
1. We will shortly be landing at Gatwick
2. A fly landed on Tom's nose
3. We flew on a turboprop military plane and landed on the carrier.
4. Before noon, the plane landed on a single runway near town.
5. He said police in a helicopter landed on their farm shortly before 5am with a search warrant.
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π Spirit, noun.
π /ΛspΙͺrΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The real meaning or the intention behind something as opposed to its strict verbal interpretation.
❗️ Examples:
1. The rule had been broken in spirit if not in letter
2. The show, which has been running in Athy for almost ten years, unites the town into the real spirit and meaning of Christmas.
3. Despite being old, this definition gives the spirit behind the discipline.
4. The spirit and intent of this rule dovetails with the interpretation of rule 21.02 I have suggested.
5. A mission statement, a goal to strive for, something that should guide our laws so that effect may be given to its spirit and intent.
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π Balance, noun.
π /Λbal(Ι)ns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An amount left over.
❗️ Examples:
1. To get days off, he continually dips his hands into his quickly dwindling leave balance.
2. Sitting at the end of the longest of three piers, our feet dangling off the edge, we spent the balance of the hour watching it arrive.
3. Any squad member violating this rule will be dismissed from his or her respective squad for the balance of that particular season.
4. Mr Dempsey said that the balance would be pumped into improved waste water treatment plants in the area.
5. Half of this sum will come from contracts with the ARU and the Force, and the balance is sponsorship from businesses.
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π Sinewy, adjective.
π /ΛsΙͺnjuΛi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Consisting of or resembling sinews.
❗️ Examples:
1. William could feel the statues pressing into his back, their sinewy shapes slithering against his skin.
2. Gage is 6-4,212 pounds, with long, sinewy legs.
3. The crowd focuses on Wesley Bunch, a tanned, sinewy mountaineer from Jackson with a massive blond afro.
4. There's a sinewy onion strand nestled between them.
5. Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence.
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π Ideology, noun.
π /ΛΚΙͺdΙͺΛΙlΙdΚi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The science of ideas; the study of their origin and nature.
❗️ Examples:
1. It was this discipline that he described as ideology - literally, the science of ideas.
2. Jyishu had studied environmental politics and ideology in college, and had spent a brief spell working on the conservation parks in the Amazon.
3. Now the other, perhaps rather obvious point that Jameson raises, is the relation between fantasy and ideology.
4. We have to resist engagement in the concoction of large inspiriting narratives, because they so easily seduce in fantasy or ideology.
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π Call, verb.
π /kΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have a specified name.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her companion was called Ethel
2. A book called Street Life in London
3. One of my favourite games is called Hangman.
4. What worked best for us was a book called Choosing Colours by Kevin McCloud, of Grand Designs fame.
5. The French system combining sports and studies is called "sport etude."
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π Unique, adjective.
π /juΛΛniΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.
❗️ Examples:
1. The situation was unique in British politics
2. Original and unique designs
3. His logic is still unique, but unlike his huge stage, his canvas hasn't broadened.
4. Only mankind is unique, in that unlike the fox, he kills his own species by the tens of thousands.
5. The brain is unique in that, unlike any other organ, it can tell you about itself.
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π Function, verb.
π /ΛfΚΕ(k)Κ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Work or operate in a proper or particular way.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her liver is functioning normally
2. Team efforts and long hours of work meant that the town was soon functioning normally.
3. Her kidneys are working again, but we couldn't say they are functioning normally.
4. He said the system had functioned well in the past and did not serve any specific group.
5. Of course, Egg's plans to break even depend on its Web site functioning and fully operational.
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π Plain, noun.
π /pleΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A large area of flat land with few trees.
❗️ Examples:
1. The coastal plain
2. The land terrain in Cambodia is mostly made up of low lands, flat plains, with mountains in the Southwest and north.
3. The landscape includes flat desert plains, rugged savanna, and volcanic mountains.
4. The area covers 1,200 hectares of land and consists of flat plains, foothills and a white sandy beach, sloping down towards a crystal blue sea.
5. A wide area of coastal plains extends across the western seaboard, a region of phosphate mining and the cultivation of citrus, olives, tobacco, and grains.
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π Sorry, adjective.
π /ΛsΙri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used as a polite request that someone should repeat something that one has failed to hear or understand.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'm sorry—you were saying?
2. So sorry, just to understand your question, if an ET1 is received, what would we like to be doing immediately?
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π Interchange, verb.
π /ΙͺntΙΛtΚeΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of two or more people) exchange (things) with each other.
❗️ Examples:
1. Superior and subordinates freely interchange information
2. Generally it appears that he includes all routes of companies that interchanged freight cars with each other.
3. We spent a lot of time interchanging information.
4. Furthermore, all of the rest of us could interchange pedals and feel fine on each other's pedals - just not on his.
5. Here I send you all some photographs from that battle and I hope someday we can interchange more experiences and information.
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π Touch, noun.
π /tΚtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A light stroke with a pen, pencil, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. Burningham really knows how to convey fatigue with the lightest of touches (the strokes of pen that make the eyes do much of the work).
2. Finally, the tiny details were added by the deft pencil, filling in the gaps with intricate strokes in the very lightest of touches…
3. He portrays his wife with the lightest of touches, using red chalk, heightened with white in soft, feathery strokes which evince the profound French influence on his art.
4. Incremental in approach, painstaking in process, the drawings coax a range of associations from the touch of the pencil.
5. A touch of paint is given to the objects to provide special characteristics.
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π Claim, noun.
π /kleΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An application for compensation under the terms of an insurance policy.
❗️ Examples:
1. He should make a claim on his house insurance for storm damage
2. Death and disability claims on insurance policies are being subjected to more intense scrutiny than was the case ten years ago.
3. If you think you do have a case, you should act on any shortfall before you file a claim for compensation.
4. In your particular case the airline is within its rights to reject your compensation claim.
5. For example, there are three kinds of compensation for insurance claims.
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π Right, adjective.
π /rΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Morally good, justified, or acceptable.
❗️ Examples:
1. I hope we're doing the right thing
2. You were quite right to criticize him
3. What I'm saying is, is it actually right, is it morally the right reason to legalise the drug?
4. I believe a change would not only be right for the CIU, but also morally right.
5. This scenario no doubt raises questions as to whether it is morally right for a teacher to date a pupil.
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π Millennial, adjective.
π /mΙͺΛlΙnΙͺΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting or relating to an anniversary of a thousand years.
❗️ Examples:
1. The millennial anniversary of Leif Eiriksson's voyage to the New World
2. The millennial celebrations in New York's Times Square
3. His music has a sense of romanticism missing from millennial pop music.
4. The final result is a textual mapping of the telecom world around the millennial moment.
5. His is in many ways (with a nasty pun) a terminal philosophy embracing millennial disillusionment.
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π Ready, adjective.
π /ΛrΙdi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Immediate, quick, or prompt.
❗️ Examples:
1. Those who have ready access to the arts
2. A girl with a ready smile
3. He was young, bright, fair, full of life, with an open smile and a ready, quick wit.
4. With her doctorate in medieval history, and a quick and ready mind, Pam would be no slouch herself under questioning.
5. He had a quick and ready wit and a mischievous sense of humour.
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π Monitress, noun.
π /ΛmΙnΙͺtrΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A female school pupil assigned disciplinary or other special responsibilities; a female monitor.
❗️ Examples:
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π Replicant, noun.
π /ΛrΙplΙͺk(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in science fiction) a genetically engineered or artificial being created as an exact replica of a particular human being.
❗️ Examples:
1. In the film, Harrison Ford plays a retired Blade Runner - a cop who hunts artificial humans, or replicants - who is brought back to kill four renegade replicants amid a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles.
2. In the film, the replicants show strong feelings and attachments.
3. The story revolves around Harrison Ford's policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as replicants, in a dystopian version of Los Angeles.
4. So much of this is lost on the viewer looking only for replicants and unicorns.
5. As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
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π Set, noun.
π /sΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A warp or bend in wood, metal, or another material caused by continued strain or pressure.
❗️ Examples:
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π Buck, noun.
π /bΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The male of some horned animals, especially the fallow deer, roe deer, reindeer, and antelopes.
❗️ Examples:
1. Some places base the cost of a deer hunt on the size of a buck's antlers - the bigger the antlers, the more the hunt costs.
2. Herein, we consider two main hypotheses to assess the possible function of the post-copulatory vocalization of fallow bucks.
3. When, freezing and exhausted, he finally felt land beneath his limbs, the buck collapsed.
4. Even at the tail end of the season, we were seeing numerous herds of 20 or more antelope marshaled by some very fine quality herd bucks.
5. I saw a beautiful dark-horned buck standing with a doe on a sun-splashed, frost-sparkled flat near the edge of a canyon.
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π Patch, verb.
π /patΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Place a patch over (a good eye) in order to encourage a lazy eye to work.
❗️ Examples:
1. The amblyopia may be treated by patching the good eye
2. The perioperative nurse applies another dose of topical anesthetic drops to the surgical eye and may patch the nonsurgical eye.
3. By patching the good eye, you're effectively making someone use their lazy eye.
4. Both groups of children in the study performed one hour a day of near work, such as coloring, tracing, reading, and crafts, while their eye was patched.
5. Treatment may be surgical for muscle imbalance, use of refractive lenses, or patching the normal eye to allow the affected eye to regain strength and vision.
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π Call, noun.
π /kΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An appeal or demand for something to happen or be done.
❗️ Examples:
1. The call for action was welcomed
2. A call to all sides to remain calm and refrain from violence
3. There are more and more calls on his time
4. He begins by discussing calls in the 1870s for reform of the property tax, the backbone of state and local finance.
5. There are also widespread calls here for our government to intervene and cap prices in Ireland.
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π Ascend, verb.
π /ΙΛsΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a spiritual being or soul) go to heaven.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Prophet ascended to heaven
2. Being engrossed and motionless, she indicated that she saw these souls ascending to heaven.
3. He dies on the spot for his crime, but all see his soul ascend to heaven thanks to Brendan's intercession.
4. No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
5. On the other hand, there is a mystical advantage to standing at the Western Wall, the spot where all prayers ultimately ascend to heaven.
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π Background, noun.
π /ΛbakΙ‘raΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A less important or conspicuous position or function.
❗️ Examples:
1. After that evening, she remained in the background
2. There is a whole system at work here, chugging along quietly in the background, unnoticed, and when you stop to think about it, its just awesome!
3. Ideally, you should be quiet, in the background, unnoticed forever.
4. Surely, there had to be a highly developed public relations conspiracy orchestrated in the background.
5. When I arrived a few young women were tucking into some very well presented fare, as music played unobtrusively in the background.
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π Peaky, adjective.
π /ΛpiΛki/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Pale from illness or fatigue; sickly.
❗️ Examples:
1. You're looking a bit peaky—a change of scene would do you good
2. She was already starting to look peaky and pale.
3. I won't go into the gory details about what's been making me peaky.
4. I was feeling a bit peaky tonight, and I crept off to bed early, and dropped off, despite the soundtrack burbling away in the background.
5. Some of the lads were beginning to look distinctly peaky.
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π Hinge, verb.
π /hΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a door or part of a structure) hang and turn on a hinge.
❗️ Examples:
1. The skull's jaw hinged down
2. When the gallery is open, the door will hinge out into the foyer so that it offers another perspective on the building.
3. The only way in and out was through two huge doors that hinged opposite each other.
4. There was a knock on the door, which hinged open momentarily.
5. James could only stare at Ryouji with his jaw hinging like a gaping fish.
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π New, adjective.
π /njuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Beginning anew and in a transformed way.
❗️ Examples:
1. Starting a new life
2. The new South Africa
3. This was the beginning of a new era with the christening of the third ship to bear the name Perth.
4. The first mission was described as the beginning of a new era of human spaceflight.
5. This marks the beginning of a new kind of diplomacy in which the best of heaven is being invoked.
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π Blow, noun.
π /blΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state or period of flowering.
❗️ Examples:
1. Stocks in fragrant blow
2. I hope you got the list of my flowers in blow, which I had given Sir C.
3. There was a profusion of roses in blow and there was a wildness about it that I thought was very delightful.
4. I wonder what Mrs. Thatcher felt like when she came walking over the heath in her bride-dress, and Mr. Thatcher's arm in her arm, and the blush roses in blow, and none in all that great place but him and her?
5. The thermometer stood at 68° in the shade at noon; butterflies fluttered among the flowers, of which many were in full blow; and we expected to have seen alligators half-awake floating on the numberless logs that accompanied us in our slow progress.
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π Excerpt, verb.
π /ΛΙksΙΛpt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take (a short extract) from a text.
❗️ Examples:
1. The notes are excerpted from his forthcoming biography
2. This article is excerpted from the forthcoming premiere issue of the journal of Green Cross International, The Optimist.
3. The above is excerpted from a short poem I wrote about something that indeed happened to me in Prague.
4. This article is excerpted from their forthcoming book, Surviving Galeras, to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin.
5. This article is excerpted from his forthcoming book Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow to be published by Jewish Lights.
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π Stop, verb.
π /stΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (a rope) fast with a stopper.
❗️ Examples:
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π Cunning, noun.
π /ΛkΚnΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Ingenuity.
❗️ Examples:
1. What resources of energy and cunning it took just to survive
2. Here he personifies folk cunning, good humour and common sense.
3. And while the common law judges, with the prestige, wealth and cunning of the national government behind them, were ascendant forces, they had to tread rather softly.
4. The story is narrated by the chieftain's second son, widely regarded as an idiot but possessing both wisdom and cunning.
5. He's otherwise dull, demonstrating few signs of intelligence or cunning.
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π Trivialize, verb.
π /ΛtrΙͺvΙͺΙlΚΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (something) seem less important, significant, or complex than it really is.
❗️ Examples:
1. The problem was either trivialized or ignored by teachers
2. In fact, many Christians argue that secular display of the Ten Commandments places them in an improper context and trivializes the important role those teachings play in our lives.
3. As a result, the film seems to trivialize important events in Dutch history.
4. I don't mean to trivialize sports and the important role they play in our society.
5. I am happy to debate the policy; I am not happy to see such an important debate trivialised by saying that the law defines women as fathers.
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π But, conjunction.
π /bΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to introduce a response expressing a feeling such as surprise or anger.
❗️ Examples:
1. But that's an incredible saving!
2. But why?
3. We did not know what to expect, but what a fantastic surprise night, it was a real thrill.
4. It is also very funny, but don't be surprised if you have to cross a protest line to see it.
5. I was slow to acknowledge their response as I broke my leg, but thank you, one and all.
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π Reprimand, verb.
π /ΛrΙprΙͺmΙΛnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Address a reprimand to.
❗️ Examples:
1. Officials were reprimanded for poor work
2. He came to the attention of the authorities only because, returning one day from hunting, he had shot a tame bird; reprimanded by a bystander, he replied that if the man would only stay while he charged his piece, he would shoot him too.
3. In 1932 the cast would have been severely reprimanded backstage afterwards - and worse!
4. Things go from bad to worse as Nick returns to the stall moaning about being reprimanded by a security guard for handing out flyers.
5. It was noisy, hot and vast - so vast I often got lost and was reprimanded for skiving off.
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π Churn, verb.
π /tΚΙΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (with reference to liquid) move or cause to move about vigorously.
❗️ Examples:
1. The seas churned
2. Her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal
3. In high winds most of the loch is churned up
4. It churned up the sea even more, and beat the yellow rain macs of the fishermen tying down tarpaulins.
5. His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving.
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π Gutter, verb.
π /ΛΙ‘ΚtΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily.
❗️ Examples:
1. The candle flickered, and after a moment, the little flame guttered out.
2. She turned around and sprinted down the corridor, her candle guttered out, and she was plunged into complete darkness.
3. After we said it a few times I felt the temperature of the room begin to decrease and the candles guttered out for a moment before coming back full force.
4. His voice has taken on a hoarse note, a rough edge which hints at a time - not so long ago - when his own candle guttered, flickered and somehow didn't blow out.
5. He'd gotten about four sentences into it when a small gust of wind made the candles gutter and flicker, and made the incense smoke swirl and twist.
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π Descend, verb.
π /dΙͺΛsΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move down (a slope or stairs)
❗️ Examples:
1. The vehicle descended a ramp
2. The problem presents as anterior knee pain, which is worse after prolonged sitting with the knee flexed, or on climbing or descending stairs or slopes.
3. John Henry is speaking to an acquaintance in the lobby and a beautiful young woman, followed closely behind by a companion, is descending the stairs.
4. A young woman descends the stairs from a low, curtained gallery to hand a sheet of music to a cellist waiting downstairs.
5. Since many elderly patients are unable to walk, the robust young lad carried them on his back when ascending or descending stairs for daily treatment.
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π Pruritus, noun.
π /prΚΛrΚΙͺtΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Severe itching of the skin, as a symptom of various ailments.
❗️ Examples:
1. When the lesions are rubbed, they manifest erythema, edema, pruritus, and occasional bullae formation.
2. Latex allergic reactions range from pruritus to erythematous, weeping lesions.
3. Liver transplantation may be considered in response to liver failure, or if the patient has uncontrollable pruritus or severe osteoporosis.
4. The most common symptom in urticaria pigmentosa is pruritus, which may be treated with [H.sub.1] receptor antagonists.
5. There is no effective treatment for pityriasis rosea, except that patients who experience severe pruritus may benefit from topical corticosteroids and oral antihistamines.
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π Whereby, relative adverb.
π /wΙΛΛbΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: By which.
❗️ Examples:
1. A system whereby people could vote by telephone
2. This follows another story last week whereby prisoners were trying to get permission to vote in elections.
3. Now I'm happy to see a development occur whereby it means something more spiritual.
4. There probably hasn't been a time in history whereby there's so much uncertainty.
5. Last week he ran a competition whereby you had to think of a way to blow a thousand quid so that you could win the same amount.
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π Speed, verb.
π /spiΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take or be under the influence of an amphetamine drug.
❗️ Examples:
1. More kids than ever are speeding, tripping, and getting stoned
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π Romance, noun.
π /rΙ(Κ)Λmans/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The Romance languages considered as a group.
❗️ Examples:
1. Such guidance is simply invaluable to those who face the bewildering inconsistencies in English which Romance, Slav, Germanic and even Hungarian generally lack.
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π Hog, noun.
π /hΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A feral pig.
❗️ Examples:
1. Last month California health officials said feral hogs might be to blame for this summer's E. coli bacteria outbreak in spinach that killed three people and sickened 200 others.
2. This included eradication of mosquitoes, plus elimination of non-native species such as water hyacinth by flooding with salt water and trapping nutria and feral hogs.
3. Feral hogs are often found in the remote, rugged portions of the state's Ozarks mountain range, where thick brush and timber make it hard to locate and kill the animals.
4. Feral hogs have become a major problem in much of Texas, and can do considerable damage to wildlife and wildlife habitat.
5. Deer eat acorns like popcorn, as do feral hogs, squirrels and raccoons.
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π Slop, verb.
π /slΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Dress in an untidy or casual manner.
❗️ Examples:
1. At weekends he would slop about in his oldest clothes
2. We enjoyed the morning in a rather more comfortable manner, taking a late breakfast and slopping about the house until mid-day.
3. They were always immaculate; there was no slopping around in tight, ill-fitting jeans and trainers.
4. On a Saturday morning, when most people are slopping about in a fleece, she was wearing a smart suit.
5. I also indulged myself with a new pair of soft, comfortable grey trousers for slopping about indoors.
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π Infection, noun.
π /ΙͺnΛfΙkΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An infectious disease.
❗️ Examples:
1. A chest infection
2. The rate of shedding is much lower for infections caused by herpes simplex virus type 1.
3. When they do happen, they are similar to other viral infections such as glandular fever.
4. If the virus is cleared with treatment, you are not immune to future infections with hepatitis C.
5. There are immunisations for several of the infections that can cause pneumonia.
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π Get, verb.
π /Ι‘Ιt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to draw attention to someone whom one regards as pretentious or vain.
❗️ Examples:
1. Get her!
2. Get you, having breakfast at ten thirty am.
3. Ooh! Get her! Want to be left alone, love?
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π Fortnight, noun.
π /ΛfΙΛtnΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A period of two weeks.
❗️ Examples:
1. In the last seven years at home there were regular fortnights in hospital: periodic detention, we called it.
2. He began to recover a fortnight ago and, after a sparkling piece of work last Tuesday, he was back on target.
3. In the past fortnight six new sea lion pups have been born and two wolf cubs made their first public appearances.
4. For the past fortnight, some builders have been doing up the flat next door.
5. They aren't visible at any time other than the wettest fortnight of the summer.
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π Require, verb.
π /rΙͺΛkwΚΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Regard an action, ability, or quality as due from (someone) by virtue of their position.
❗️ Examples:
1. The care and diligence required of him as a trustee
2. An abrupt reversal caught the markets off-guard, requiring an immediate liquidation of leveraged long positions.
3. The state and federal government established guidelines requiring a minimum level of quality as indicated on the certified seed tag.
4. Edmond requires the qualities of a romantic hero, which means Errol Flynn, rather than Gary Cooper's boring brother.
5. Fulfilling these goals also requires a realistic assessment of resources, abilities and circumstances.
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π Change, verb.
π /tΚeΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Remove (something dirty or faulty) and replace it with another of the same kind.
❗️ Examples:
1. He scarcely knew how to change a plug
2. She put him on his change table and changed his outrageously dirty diaper with a fresh new one.
3. In terms of child care, having no sense of smell has an up side and a down side. The good thing is that changing dirty nappies is so much less unpleasant.
4. Specialist officers also changed the locks and pulled up the floorboards of the couple's house where Joanne was last seen alive.
5. This meant the tyre went flat, which in turn meant I had to pull over and change the wheel.
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π Savage, adjective.
π /ΛsavΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of something bad or negative) very great; severe.
❗️ Examples:
1. The decision was a savage blow for the town
2. But life had dealt them, and Radio Kilkenny, a savage blow, a knockout punch.
3. Other service industries are reacting to excess capacity and weak demand with savage price wars, further depressing prices.
4. The company has announced a savage price cut of its videogame system.
5. The company's near demise paralleled the savage downturn in market demand, aggravated by an unsupportable overhead structure.
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π Wrap, noun.
π /rap/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small packet of a powdered illegal drug.
❗️ Examples:
1. A £5 wrap of speed
2. A drug dealer who sold wraps of heroin to undercover detectives has been jailed for three years.
3. Lisa has tracked a drug dealer carrying 16 wraps of heroin through York city centre and radioed police to put them on his trail.
4. The next day, officers searched his home discovering three Ecstasy pills, seven wraps of cocaine and cannabis resin hidden in an aftershave box.
5. Two drugs wraps were handed over for a total of £20.
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π Poor, adjective.
π /pΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Deficient or lacking in.
❗️ Examples:
1. The water is poor in nutrients
2. Today, albeit poor in reception quality, I got to catch familiar faces reading news.
3. To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge one spiritual poverty and brokenness.
4. That's how I feel about most of Burton's work - great in concept, poor in execution.
5. The reason why the bones were boiled for a long time was that it was believed the bones were poor in nutritive value.
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π Jibber-jabber, verb.
π /ΛdΚΙͺbΙdΚabΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Talk in a rapid and excited way that is difficult to understand.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was jibber-jabbering with his wife through the entire first piece
2. He's a happy kid, always jibber-jabbering
3. One guy would jibber-jabber, then bend down to tie his shoes and stick $300 worth of stuff in his bag.
4. "I learned everything at Wolves and was really happy to have had that time there," he jibber-jabbered foolishly.
5. As the former prime minister sat under unforgiving studio lights jibber-jabbering with Andrew Marr, his interviewer of choice, it looked positively sandy on top.
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π Introduce, verb.
π /ΙͺntrΙΛdjuΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Bring (a plant, animal, or disease) to a place for the first time.
❗️ Examples:
1. Horses and sheep introduced to the island did not survive
2. The fox was introduced to Australia and has caused havoc to the native animal population.
3. It is understood the disease was then introduced to the trout lake by an angler who had been fishing for carp.
4. In contrast, many pest species are introduced to the region and flourish with the large expanses of a single food source.
5. Rabbits were introduced to the Macquarie Islands, far to the southwest of New Zealand, to provide food.
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π Success, noun.
π /sΙkΛsΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The good or bad outcome of an undertaking.
❗️ Examples:
1. The good or ill success of their maritime enterprises
2. Those who have always good hope in the midst of misfortunes, and who are delighted with good luck, are suspected of being very pleased with the ill success of the affair, if they are not equally distressed by bad luck.
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π Deplete, verb.
π /dΙͺΛpliΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Use up the supply or resources of.
❗️ Examples:
1. Reservoirs have been depleted by years of drought
2. Mansfield started the game with a depleted side
3. Their stocks were severely depleted by whaling, and they remain low.
4. The use of modified plants would take the pressure off severely depleted fish stocks.
5. Irrigation, of course, not only depletes groundwater but reduces surface flow too, with dams and diversions that cause downstream desertification and the loss of productive wetlands and freshwater fish stocks.
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π Get, verb.
π /Ι‘Ιt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty.
❗️ Examples:
1. Nigel got home very late
2. He hadn't got very far with the book yet
3. His knee eventually healed and he got back into pro football, not as a player but as a head coach for his old team.
4. Once the tram gets there, the car is nowhere to be seen.
5. Some kids spent 7-8 hours getting home on the bus.
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