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π Tansy, noun.
π /Λtanzi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A plant of the daisy family with yellow flat-topped flower heads and aromatic leaves, formerly used in cooking and medicine.
❗️ Examples:
1. Plant tansy or basil around the patio and house to repel mosquitoes.
2. It is home to hundreds of species of wildflowers and grasses - including the tansy, meadowsweet, poppy, vetch and marigold - a host of butterflies, insects and beetles, and birds of prey such as the owl and kestrel.
3. Many herbs can help to deter flies, such as lavender, sweet woodruff, lemon verbena, star anise, tansy, any of the mints, rosemary, bay, chamomile, rue, elder, southernwood and basil.
4. This is how you pull tansy: plant your feet wide, bend your knees at a 90-degree angle, grasp the trunk of the tansy ragwort plant near the base, take a deep breath, and pull with everything you've got.
5. Another flavouring agent was alecost, Chrysanthemum balsamita, a plant from western Asia related to tansy which was brought to England sometime in the sixteenth century.
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π Coin, verb.
π /kΙΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (coins) by stamping metal.
❗️ Examples:
1. Guineas and half-guineas were coined
2. Since the one who has money sets the rules, it is no wonder that the man who coins money is wealthy.
3. As a member of the nobility, he had certain rights and responsibilities: he could raise troops and command them in the field, he held his own courts of justice, he could coined his own money.
4. The Romans encouraged this situation by infusing coined money into provincial agrarian economies, which in turn led to money loans and further debt.
5. The Stiefelers coined their own silver money, the deca, and earned a brief mention in Esquire in September 1970.
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π President-elect, noun.
π /ΛprΙzΙd(Ι)ntΙͺΛlΙkt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who has been elected president but has not yet taken up office.
❗️ Examples:
1. President-elect Pearman
2. He said that the new director of the service should be elected after consultations between the government and the president-elect.
3. He is the president-elect of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
4. The president-elect was alluding to the biggest concern of Peru's ruling elite regarding the case.
5. The incident emphasises the gulf between the president-elect and his own supporters.
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π The, determiner.
π /Γ°Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used with an adjective to refer to something of the class or quality described.
❗️ Examples:
1. They are trying to accomplish the impossible
2. I was not surprised to see him standing there alone, but I was hoping for the unexpected.
3. Sometimes I can say the unsayable.
4. Ginger and her sister Brigitte are suburban teenagers with a taste for the macabre.
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π Bag, verb.
π /baΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Put (something) in a bag.
❗️ Examples:
1. Customers bagged their own groceries
2. Under protocols to protect against asbestos contamination, fire personnel and equipment had to be hosed down, while their kit was bagged up and sent for specialist cleaning.
3. So, the computer's got to be moved onto a small coffee table temporarily, and my clothes are either bagged up or hung in various locations at random!
4. After that, they were bagged up for shipping and stored in the freezer until a truck came to get them.
5. It was generally bagged up with everything else and sent for land-fill.
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π Bad, adjective.
π /bad/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Having a harmful effect on.
❗️ Examples:
1. Soap was bad for his face
2. Whether it is good for you or not, I would contend that all food can be good for you or it can be bad for you.
3. Some flower beds and tubs have been planted up but the weather has been to bad for painting.
4. If I did not know better, I would have to say that running is bad for you, with both of us seriously ill.
5. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you.
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π On ice, phrase.
❓ Definition: (of an entertainment) performed by skaters.
❗️ Examples:
1. Dick Whittington on Ice
2. It would be a unique event as Indians for the first time would get to watch white bear performing on ice.
3. In 1973, at the age of 9, Nina Ananiashvili performed on ice an adaptation of Michel Fokine's solo The Dying Swan.
4. Everyone has watched accomplished skaters spin on ice.
5. I admire the skill and dedication of the athletes who perform on ice and snow, and I'll be a faithful viewer of this year's Games.
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π Precious, adjective.
π /ΛprΙΚΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used for emphasis, often in an ironic context.
❗️ Examples:
1. You and your precious schedule—you've got to lighten up!
2. A precious lot you know about dogs!
3. There may be precious little grace in these streets, but there's a precious lot of talent in these pages.
4. I spent my time doing chores and praying, leaving precious little time for friendships.
5. He tore it to shreds, leaving precious little of it intact.
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π Space, noun.
π /speΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A mathematical concept generally regarded as a set of points having some specified structure.
❗️ Examples:
1. Up to this stage quantum theory was set up in Euclidean space and used Cartesian tensors of linear and angular momentum.
2. The maths syllabus covers algebra, shape and space, mental arithmetic, handling data and measures.
3. However he continued to work on topological ideas, in particular embedding complexes in Euclidean space.
4. He worked on conjugate functions in multidimensional euclidean space and the theory of functions of a complex variable.
5. Our interest is in the space of affine equivalence classes of equal-area polygons.
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π Repartee, noun.
π /ΛrΙpΙΛΛtiΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had a quick mind and a splendid gift of repartee
2. Quick-fire repartee
3. You always seem to have a quick remark or witty repartee.
4. Madcap banter and witty repartee were the way everyone conversed.
5. Vithabai with her quick repartee and imaginative extempore dialogues and a vibrating singing voice brought about many changes in the Tamasha performance repertoire.
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π Red, adjective.
π /rΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a ski run) of the second-highest level of difficulty, as indicated by red markers positioned along it.
❗️ Examples:
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π Bread, noun.
π /brΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked.
❗️ Examples:
1. A loaf of bread
2. A bread roll
3. Italian breads
4. Unfortified whole wheat bread and bread baked from cake flour will still be available.
5. Substitute whole-grain flour for half or all of the white flour when baking bread.
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π Best, noun.
π /bΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: That which is the most excellent, outstanding, or desirable.
❗️ Examples:
1. Buy the best you can afford
2. Sarah always had to be the best at everything
3. This film represents the best of mainstream popular cinema
4. Why don't we just grow up and admit that England cannot always be the best at everything.
5. He wants to be the best at everything he does, whether it be football or pool or golf.
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π Leave, verb.
π /liΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a plant) put out new leaves.
❗️ Examples:
1. Trees leaved, wild flowers burst in profusion on the far side of the lake.
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π Doggerel, noun.
π /ΛdΙΙ‘(Ι)r(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.
❗️ Examples:
1. Doggerel verses
2. All the performers wore cloth caps, in token of the proletarian poet whose doggerel verses about the Tay Bridge and its collapse in 1879 provided the work's text.
3. At that time the eighteen-year-old Victoria's feminine virules of sympathy and beauty were proclaimed in doggerel verse to the street ballad-reading public.
4. Afterwards, he sits on the city hall steps reciting doggerel verses on the vagaries of the day's decisions.
5. The characters are still frequently allegorical, but the comic or farcical element is more prevalent, the versification tends to doggerel, and they are shorter than the moralities.
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π Manner, noun.
π /ΛmanΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person's outward bearing or way of behaving towards others.
❗️ Examples:
1. His arrogance and pompous manner
2. Undoubtedly his manner towards Shackleton must have appeared quite subservient.
3. His characteristic manner soon brought customers from near and far and his perfectness in hair styling was always much admired.
4. She probably had a pretty face to start with, but her manner and grace was quite a study in femininity.
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π Hulking, adjective.
π /ΛhΚlkΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person or object) very large, heavy, or clumsy.
❗️ Examples:
1. A hulking young man
2. The thing is, none of these guys and the others who work out regularly are heavy, hulking guys lifting 300 pounds a pop.
3. He is a hulking figure, the heaviest in the British squad at 92 kg, coached by Sean Kelly at Stockport Metro.
4. They first had to go through the hangar-high hall with the crouching pterodactyl and its massive, hulking neighbour.
5. Just to be sure, I asked one of the people outside - a big hulking guy - Is this the 730-9 History class?
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π Actor, noun.
π /ΛaktΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A participant in an action or process.
❗️ Examples:
1. Employers are key actors within industrial relations
2. It will identify the processes and the key actors and how can they be better understood and planned by city authorities.
3. Interaction: a cyclic process in which two actors alternately listen, think and speak.
4. Both approaches allow little room for the role of factors that might be specific to particular actors.
5. What they can do is maintain the legal framework within which political actors struggle.
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π Expose, verb.
π /ΙͺkΛspΙΚz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Reveal the true, objectionable nature of (someone or something)
❗️ Examples:
1. He has been exposed as a liar and a traitor
2. Suddenly he is exposed as just another coach.
3. But just before 1.15 pm on Wednesday, the Prime Minister was exposed as either a liar or an incompetent.
4. He was exposed as a man who thinks so little of the ethics of high office that he lobbied on ministerial letterhead to get his son off a traffic offence.
5. He was officially exposed as a spy by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and was stripped of his knighthood.
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π Cry, noun.
π /krΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The call of a street trader selling goods.
❗️ Examples:
1. The city comes to life after 10 p.m., with the din of car horns, and the cries of street hawkers
2. In the weavers' cottage, weavers would be hard at work, and the streets thronged with people, where visitors would hear the cries of street traders selling their wares.
3. Despite the lights and the trains and the noise, it is quite easy to imagine the cries of the hawkers in a different age.
4. Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys.
5. I have just been reading the Keith Waterhouse column, Echoes from the past, about the cries of street traders.
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π Domain, noun.
π /dΙ(Κ)ΛmeΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An area of territory owned or controlled by a particular ruler or government.
❗️ Examples:
1. The French domains of the Plantagenets
2. The domains under her control included territories in both Burgundy and the Netherlands.
3. The vast domain now had an area of nearly eleven and a half million square miles, and a population of more than a fifth of the people of the globe.
4. The peripatetic household continued to gravitate towards the cities and towns of a ruler's domains, an urban environment providing the necessary infrastructures for court life.
5. They are also similar in that military forces can gain advantages by controlling and exploiting these domains.
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π Recruit, verb.
π /rΙͺΛkruΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Enrol (someone) as a member or worker in an organization or as a supporter of a cause.
❗️ Examples:
1. There are plans to recruit more staff later this year
2. Turnover is the exception, and openings are promptly filled when they occur, often by candidates recruited by current staff members.
3. Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees.
4. With my health clubs, the most effective marketing has always been to reward members for recruiting their friends, family and work colleagues.
5. He was doing poorly in school, and gang members were trying to recruit him.
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π Debauched, adjective.
π /dΙͺΛbΙΛtΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Indulging in or characterized by excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.
❗️ Examples:
1. A debauched lifestyle
2. Still being in their 20s always helps even if their debauched lifestyle of drink and drugs should have pretty much killed them by now.
3. Instead it turned into an orgy of debauched excess.
4. His successors - despite, or because of, debauched lifestyles - were unable to fulfil the basic task of breeding.
5. The average Las Vegas vacation is already a debauched combination of gambling, sex and alcohol.
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π Milquetoast, noun.
π /ΛmΙͺlktΙΚst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A timid or feeble person.
❗️ Examples:
1. Jennings plays him as something of a milquetoast
2. Alarms ring when Garvin speaks of applying to the Olympic Village design standards like those that produced the Milquetoast, nothing-ventured buildings at Battery Park City.
3. Enter Ray Rhodes, a highly regarded defensive troubleshooter with a knack for resurrecting Milquetoast units.
4. Charlie is the self-effacing, Milquetoast dude who allows people to walk all over him.
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π Trend, verb.
π /trΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a topic) be the subject of many posts on a social media website or application within a short period of time.
❗️ Examples:
1. I've just taken a quick look at what's trending on Twitter right now
2. We'll take a look at some of the M. J. stuff trending on the Web.
3. Exciting things like 'Stockport', 'Sugababes' and 'ebay' are trending in Manchester at the moment.
4. The meme started at 11 am CST and spiked around 3 pm when it became a trending topic.
5. KFC is still trending on Twitter - mostly in part to the brilliant Oprah grilled chicken giveaway.
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π Vowel, noun.
π /ΛvaΚΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A letter representing a vowel sound, such as a, e, i, o, u.
❗️ Examples:
1. The vowel letter e can represent a variety of sounds.
2. The Lao alphabet also has 38 vowel symbols, representing 24 vowel sounds.
3. While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter.
4. The Amharic alphabet is made up of 33 letters and has seven vowels.
5. I erased the vowels and double letters in order.
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π Veneer, verb.
π /vΙͺΛnΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cover or disguise (someone or something's true nature) with an attractive appearance.
❗️ Examples:
1. He exuded an air of toughness, lightly veneered by the impeccably tailored suit
2. Small talk and precious jokes veneer the sea of anxiety and anticipation that grips Dix - just one example of his nervous energy.
3. Whilst others try to veneer or pepper their works with Californian melodies, The Forest are purists and for that, much more original than their peers.
4. His inspirations are the slickly veneered melodramas of the 1950s and '60s.
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π Section, noun.
π /ΛsΙkΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A group of players of a family of instruments within an orchestra.
❗️ Examples:
1. The brass section
2. The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
3. The only music to be heard was some of the brass section tuning up their instruments.
4. At that time, women in London could only play in the wind sections of the BBC Symphony and the English Chamber Orchestras.
5. It features dialogues between piano and individual orchestra sections.
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π Drain, verb.
π /dreΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (a valuable resource) to be lost or used up.
❗️ Examples:
1. My mother's hospital bills are draining my income
2. They chose not to turn to a parallel private system, on the grounds that it would drain valuable resources away from the public system.
3. The cost of building a new hospital and local care centres could drain the NHS of resources for patient care in the future, says the MP.
4. All the while, his huge spiritual resources are being drained.
5. In this way the agriculture is being constantly drained and the resources go to the hands of the traders.
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π Dare, noun.
π /dΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A challenge, especially to prove courage.
❗️ Examples:
1. She ran across a main road for a dare
2. His start came at the tender age of 18 when he began performing stand-up comedy on a dare from his University dorm mates.
3. No doubt someone will tell us the design meets the necessary standards, but if so, the standards do not recognise what children will do for a dare.
4. Take on a dare, and demonstrate that you don't always take yourself so seriously.
5. Glenn Hughes was a toll collector at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel until he auditioned for the San Francisco band on a dare.
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π Skirmish, noun.
π /ΛskΙΛmΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An episode of irregular or unpremeditated fighting, especially between small or outlying parts of armies or fleets.
❗️ Examples:
1. The unit was caught in several skirmishes and the commanding officer was killed
2. The key now is to tune out the white noise and stop fighting the daily skirmishes of the last war.
3. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
4. They do not seek a decisive battle, and they prefer to engage in raids, skirmishes, and ambushes.
5. For three years it has been negotiating peace with Manila, all the while keeping up skirmishes against the national army.
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π Judge, noun.
π /dΚΚdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A public officer appointed to decide cases in a law court.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is due to appear before a judge and jury on Monday
2. A High Court Judge
3. The judges made this particular aspect of public policy and the judges are entitled to change it.
4. It has to be applied in a variety of cases, and it is a matter for the judges of the Family Law Court as to whether it applies to a particular case.
5. That would pass over sentencing powers from judges to probation officers, which is the exact opposite of what she said when she began her speech.
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π Blow, verb.
π /blΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (with reference to an electric circuit) burn out through overloading.
❗️ Examples:
1. The fuse had blown
2. The floodlights blew a fuse
3. Most of Simon Fraser University's main campus was thrown into darkness when a high voltage electric cable blew last Friday.
4. I don't actually recommend doing this, because it may well be overloading the header and blowing one of those is a great way to ruin your afternoon and maybe your motherboard.
5. The strike shorted all the electrics and blew all the fuses.
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π Accelerate, verb.
π /ΙkΛsΙlΙreΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Increase in rate, amount, or extent.
❗️ Examples:
1. Inflation started to accelerate
2. The key question is whether stress accelerates ageing
3. It may not have the highest percentage of population infected, but, frighteningly and tragically, its rate of increase is accelerating.
4. This contribution is expected to increase as melting rates accelerate, though ultimately the added runoff is predicted to disappear as glaciers decline many decades from now.
5. The rate of advance of biotech is likely to accelerate to such an extent that many people who are alive right now will live to see aging become at first partially reversible.
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π Lanky, adjective.
π /ΛlaΕki/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) ungracefully thin and tall.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is lanky and a brilliant artist as well as being excellent at crosswords.
2. There seems to be a blind faith in the lad because he's lanky and he makes the ball bounce.
3. While Ethan was rather short and more fit, Brook was tall, thin, and lanky.
4. Revel, my bearded guide, is so unashamedly laid back his tall, lanky frame spends most of the time in the horizontal.
5. A tall, lanky, freakish man with floppy blonde hair was trying to get passed me, so I moved out of his way and gave him a smile.
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π Wrap, verb.
π /rap/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Place an arm, finger, or leg round.
❗️ Examples:
1. He wrapped an arm around her waist
2. He laughed, placing his arms over mine, intertwining our fingers and wrapping both our arms around my upper torso.
3. Her fingers were tightly wrapped over the edge of the mattress and she watched the clock closely.
4. It'll be tough to wrap your fingers all the way around the bar, but that's the point.
5. Fingers go white with loss of feeling having been wrapped round the work bag handles all day.
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π Apple, noun.
π /Λap(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used in names of unrelated fruits or other plant growths that resemble apples in some way, e.g. custard apple, oak apple.
❗️ Examples:
1. After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others.
2. Montego Bay offered us some custard apples, mangoes, guineps, and naseberries.
3. George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple.
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π Uphold, verb.
π /ΚpΛhΙΚld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Confirm or support (something which has been questioned)
❗️ Examples:
1. The court upheld his claim for damages
2. The courts eventually upheld her claim to the property, but only because she had no son to inherit it.
3. The release of the film could be halted if a plagiarism claim is upheld by a High Court judge next week.
4. A recent Court of Appeal decision upheld an insurer's right to refuse a claim for theft because keys had been left in a car.
5. The Indonesian courts upheld Mr Haryanto's claim and rejected Man's claim.
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π By, preposition.
π /bΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Indicating the period in which something happens.
❗️ Examples:
1. This animal always hunts by night
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π Evil, noun.
π /ΛiΛv(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.
❗️ Examples:
1. His struggle against the forces of evil
2. Righting wrongs and fighting evil, corruption, wickedness and stupidity is just part time work.
3. All of which would suggest that a film which casts spiders as the malevolent force of evil would be a natural fit for a when nature attacks horror movie.
4. Watch them battle the forces of evil in the guise of a smiling clown.
5. And we hold you up in pride as our symbol in the fight of Good against the forces of darkness and evil.
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π Earth, noun.
π /ΙΛΞΈ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The planet on which we live; the world.
❗️ Examples:
1. The diversity of life on earth
2. This is because Venus and the Earth orbit the Sun at a slight angle to each other.
3. At the side of the Earth nearest the Moon the oceans bulge upwards due to its pull.
4. It seems that several of the earlier philosophers had concluded that the Earth is a globe.
5. Neither the Earth nor the Moon is a perfect sphere so they do not behave as a point mass.
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π Difficult, adjective.
π /ΛdΙͺfΙͺk(Ι)lt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) not easy to please or satisfy; awkward.
❗️ Examples:
1. Lily could be difficult
2. It's quite a hard thing to say, but my Nan is a very difficult person for me to be around.
3. My character in the film had a very difficult father and there was one scene in which she had to stand up to him.
4. He has succeeded in showing us that he is a difficult man, but that needed no great mastery.
5. He was apparently a difficult man to deal with but always Burnley through and through.
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π Reckon, verb.
π /ΛrΙk(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Rate highly.
❗️ Examples:
1. I don't reckon his chances
2. Marek could play three chords on his nylon-stringed guitar, and Bolek had a sense of rhythm, so we reckoned our chances of a stab at fame and fortune.
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π Ask, verb.
π /ΙΛsk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Talk to different people in order to find out something.
❗️ Examples:
1. There are fine meals to be had if you ask around
2. This week I needed to get some commonly used cells from a few different places, so this involved asking around.
3. They asked around and at least five different people have seen him.
4. We were asking around town who the best people to do this kind of record with were, and everyone said we should talk to James and Tim.
5. After asking around, I found out it happens all the time. A friend of the family lost £400 and someone else got a bill for £700.
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π Respite, noun.
π /ΛrΙspΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.
❗️ Examples:
1. The refugee encampments will provide some respite from the suffering
2. A brief respite from the heat
3. Charlie wasn't sure if she should try to keep the girl awake or not, but at last decided to give her respite from the pain by letting her rest.
4. Everyone is scurrying for shade and some respite from the sun.
5. Colourful deck umbrellas offer respite from the heat.
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π Galvanic, adjective.
π /Ι‘alΛvanΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to or involving electric currents produced by chemical action.
❗️ Examples:
1. Iontophoresis is the use of electric impulses from a low-voltage galvanic current stimulation unit to drive topical corticosteroids into soft tissue structures.
2. Anodically polarizing the alloy (anodic protection) by impressed anodic current or galvanic coupling with a more noble metal in order to maintain the surface oxide film
3. Mercathodes block the flow of destructive galvanic currents in boats' 12-volt electrical systems.
4. Even the mix water in concrete can set the scene for a galvanic current, from the high-potential steel, through the electrolytic moisture in the concrete, to the lower potential soil, water, or other materials.
5. These papers continue Ohm's deduction of results from experimental evidence and, particularly in the second, he was able to propose laws which went a long way to explaining results of others working on galvanic electricity.
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π Open, verb.
π /ΛΙΚp(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Part the lips or lids of (one's mouth or eye)
❗️ Examples:
1. She opened her mouth to argue
2. I remember wanting to scream, but I couldn't open my mouth, couldn't even open my eyes.
3. Her eyes flashed and she opened her mouth to say more, then snapped it shut, and looked away.
4. She opened her mouth, trying to speak, but no words came out.
5. What was going through his head when he decided to open his big fat mouth and blurt out something that was so unexpected?
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π Boa, noun.
π /ΛbΙΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in general use) any snake which is a constrictor.
❗️ Examples:
1. Their analysis also indicated, however, that the two snakes were not primitive ancestors, but advanced snakes similar to modern boas and pythons.
2. They are also preyed upon by mammalian predators such as cats, and by snakes such as boas and anacondas.
3. Non-venomous snakes like boas and pythons grab their prey and squeeze them to death.
4. His team found compelling evidence that in fact these snakes are a side-branch of snake evolution, closely related to modern boas and pythons and not mosasaurs.
5. Some boas live in underground holes while others live in trees.
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π Sow, noun.
π /sΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The female of certain other mammals, e.g. the guinea pig.
❗️ Examples:
1. If the sow has not eaten enough to sustain herself over the hibernation, the egg will not implant.
2. Management of the trial was designed to minimise adverse welfare effects on the badgers and included a three-month period in the spring during which no culling took place in order to protect lactating sows and their cubs.
3. Bill and Madeline had even schooled the children in poses for various combinations of bears: a solo male, a sow with cubs.
4. It was our fourth day out and we had seen a few deer and lots of bears, including a grizzly sow and cub that had run out right in front of us while we were coming up to the hunting spot.
5. These days, in fact, he tries to identify bears - such as the sow and her cubs we're looking for - that might get hooked and move them well before they do.
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π Collocation, noun.
π /kΙlΙΛkeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
❗️ Examples:
1. The words have a similar range of collocation
2. If the substituted words have relevant meanings, so much the better; and if the original collocation is archaic or otherwise non-compositional, that improves the chances still further.
3. This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation.
4. Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front.
5. 3 Wright is careful with his words, and so we can conclude that the repeated collocation of the phrases moral bootstraps and Pelagianism is no accident.
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π Weave, noun.
π /wiΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A hairstyle created by weaving pieces of real or artificial hair into a person's existing hair, typically in order to increase its length or thickness.
❗️ Examples:
1. Trailers show him with dyed blond hair and, in one scene, a flowing blond weave
2. Well, I don't have a weave.
3. Don't weigh down a weave with heavy products like gels or moisturizing lotions, or by adding too much hair.
4. It's not just black women who love to wear a weave.
5. To avoid a weave that looks like a wig, take care not to add too much hair.
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π Meteoric, adjective.
π /ΛmiΛtΙͺΛΙrΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to meteors or meteorites.
❗️ Examples:
1. Meteoric iron
2. At this early point in the history of the Solar System, meteoric bombardment was intense, and it would have continually opened new holes in the crust, immediately filled by magma.
3. Heavy metal is siderion, something made of meteoric iron.
4. In general, the Earth encounters richer meteoric activity during the second half of the year.
5. The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the Ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed.
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π Co-worker, noun.
π /kΙΚΛwΙΛkΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person with whom one works, typically someone in a similar role or at a similar level within an organization.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her strong work ethic and high standards have garnered respect and support from co-workers and employees alike
2. It's always fun to play some tricks on fellow friends, co-workers, and family members.
3. Until the day he was injured, he says he was welcomed on the job by his co-workers and his company.
4. She will also be sadly missed by all her cousins, aunts, uncles and many dear friends and co-workers.
5. Soon it was time to see how audiences not made up of friends and co-workers would react to the band.
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π Make, verb.
π /meΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Score (a specified number of runs)
❗️ Examples:
1. He made a century
2. Fleming stated before this match that he needed to start making runs, as every international batsman does.
3. Can you give some more details of the innings when Don Bradman made 300 in a day in a Test?
4. The batting will be left alone with each of the top five making half centuries.
5. Eight batsmen have made 12 centuries this summer.
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π Ball, noun.
π /bΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in soccer) a pass of the ball in a specified direction or manner.
❗️ Examples:
1. Whelan sent a long ball to Goddard
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π Spread, verb.
π /sprΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Gradually reach or cause to reach a wider area or more people.
❗️ Examples:
1. The violence spread from the city centre to the suburbs
2. She's always spreading rumours
3. There is merely an earnest desire to spread some Yuletide fun and to tell a straightforward story of devotion, determination, and delight.
4. I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
5. Already people are volunteering to work with him on it, and once word spreads it seems likely that Johnnie will have more cast and crew than he knows what to do with.
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π Account, noun.
π /ΙΛkaΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A fixed period on a stock exchange, at the end of which payment must be made for stock that has been bought.
❗️ Examples:
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π Picnic, verb.
π /ΛpΙͺknΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have or take part in a picnic.
❗️ Examples:
1. In summer they picnicked on the beach
2. The visitors, lured by the intrigue of the island's rich monastic history, will spend the day exploring and picnicking on golden beaches.
3. Filming in late summer, the Pride cast picnicked and swam naked in the lake between takes.
4. I have never really walked on the beach, picnicked, or even just talked for hours.
5. The park is open year-round, with activities that include self-guided hiking, interpretive tours, picnicking, canoeing, fishing and wildlife watching.
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π Pigeonhole, noun.
π /ΛpΙͺdΚΙͺnhΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small recess for a domestic pigeon to nest in.
❗️ Examples:
1. It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roost.
2. Her route in the north tower has been transformed into a 6ft-by - 6ft steel cubicle (called a sorting case) surrounded by tall metal racks of pigeonholes.
3. The ladder structure and the thousands of pigeonholes lining the inside are an amazing sight.
4. Her grids may symbolize pigeonholes but she pays homage to the individuality of people.
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π Amount, verb.
π /ΙΛmaΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Come to be (the total) when added together.
❗️ Examples:
1. Losses amounted to over 10 million pounds
2. Furthermore, every employee will be given a significant stake in the company, amounting in total to one-tenth of its value.
3. They amounted respectively to £151,065 (together with interest) and £127,000.
4. The exceptions are practically all African and Arab countries, amounting altogether to only a tenth of the world's population.
5. After the air attacks began, refugee movements multiplied exponentially, amounting ultimately to more than half the population of the province, with another third listed as internally displaced from their homes.
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π Ligature, verb.
π /ΛlΙͺΙ‘ΙtΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Bind or connect with a ligature.
❗️ Examples:
1. He ligatured the duodenum below the pylorus
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π Silence, noun.
π /ΛsΚΙͺlΙns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A short appointed period of time during which people stand still and do not speak as a sign of respect for a dead person or group of people.
❗️ Examples:
1. The game was preceded by a two-minute silence in his memory
2. A short silence in memory of the tsunami victims was observed at the start of the January meeting.
3. As we sat in the departure lounge at the airport there was a national moment of silence to honor the dead.
4. Some shops are also planning to shut down as a mark of respect, while others are considering a two-minute silence at 11.30 am.
5. The House observed two-minute silence in memory of the children.
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π Slim, adjective.
π /slΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Crafty, sly, or unscrupulous.
❗️ Examples:
1. That's all the mannetjie with the forked tail, bad breath and sulphur body odour is waiting for, slim sales talk.
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π Live, verb.
π /lΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Survive (an unpleasant experience or period)
❗️ Examples:
1. Both men lived through the Depression
2. A local historian talked to pupils about his experience of living through the Second World War.
3. Nobody has ever had the experience of living through this kind of hurricane, followed by this flood.
4. Each of these photographers comments on the experience of living through war.
5. She lived through that period of Irish history and it remained fresh in her memory down through the decades.
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π Make, verb.
π /meΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Shuffle (cards) for dealing.
❗️ Examples:
1. Peter made the cards and handed them to Stern to deal.
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π Lauded, adjective.
π /ΛlΙΛdΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Highly praised or admired.
❗️ Examples:
1. A lauded author
2. Her much-lauded rendering of Lady Macbeth
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π Ease, verb.
π /iΛz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Become less serious or severe.
❗️ Examples:
1. The pain doesn't usually ease off for several hours
2. When I get tense, I see the funny side and begin to laugh and then the tension eases, he explains.
3. Then the sadness and shame began to ease, and I realised that they were not productive feelings.
4. Tensions eased with each passing moment and the three friends began joking with each other.
5. There was no sign this weekend that tensions were easing.
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π Blank, noun.
π /blaΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A domino with one or both halves blank.
❗️ Examples:
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π Pursue, verb.
π /pΙΛsjuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Follow or chase (someone or something)
❗️ Examples:
1. The officer pursued the van
2. A heavily indebted businessman was being pursued by creditors
3. The most celebrated story of all, however, was one well-attested case of a monkey hotly pursuing an elderly policeman named Sub Inspector Bhola Ram.
4. Police officers pursuing the car stopped to help their victim, but despite the fact that he was no longer being pursued, the Peugeot driver went on to hit a second student.
5. He was arrested in the Roxy area by other police officers who pursued the bus on motorcycles.
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π Build, verb.
π /bΙͺld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Establish and develop (a business or situation) over a period of time.
❗️ Examples:
1. He'd built up the store from nothing
2. Mr Hussain built up the business when he took over in April last year after a previous arson attack caused £500,000 of damage.
3. The prize-winning herd, established in 1964, was built up to 70 cows, plus followers.
4. Scots settled across the Empire as it developed and built up their own communities such as Dunedin in New Zealand.
5. This is the period when we built up the institutions of democratic government and tried to act according to certain norms of propriety.
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π Creep, noun.
π /kriΛp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An opening in a hedge or wall for an animal to pass through.
❗️ Examples:
1. Low in the wall are creeps, through which ewes gain access to grazing from the pastures behind
2. Young piglets spend most of their time in the creep
3. Perennial ryegrass is excellent for use in creep grazing pastures for young animals.
4. Calving and creep areas should be kept clean and well bedded.
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π Boot, verb.
π /buΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Kick (something) hard in a specified direction.
❗️ Examples:
1. He ended up booting the ball into the stand
2. They shoved the door open - kicking it, booting it, shoving three or four times, and as they shoved the door open I put the knife through the gap.
3. When York kicked off by booting the ball straight out and then giving away a first-minute penalty for offside, things looked bleak.
4. Each time she missed, Jesse taunted her again, until Amber was so angry with him that she booted it the hardest she ever had.
5. He could have allowed it to run for a goal kick or even booted it into the stand.
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π Malcontent, noun.
π /ΛmalkΙntΙnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who is dissatisfied and rebellious.
❗️ Examples:
1. It was too late to stop the malcontents with a show of force
2. It is time to get serious, he tells the malcontents, they should stop messing around.
3. None other than those infamous troublemakers and malcontents, Winston Churchill and Thomas Jefferson, respectively.
4. There is no room for malcontents or troublemakers - an issue Button had to deal with or lose promising coach Greg Gilbert.
5. Turnbull's ironically named Best ticket obviously thinks it will have the numbers to dump 5 malcontents from the board.
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π Injury, noun.
π /ΛΙͺn(d)Κ(Ι)ri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Damage to a person's feelings.
❗️ Examples:
1. Compensation for injury to feelings
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π Prepare, verb.
π /prΙͺΛpΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be willing to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. I wasn't prepared to go along with that
2. Many of those questioned asked to remain anonymous but others were prepared to give their names.
3. That they were prepared to put themselves through such discomfort is an indication of their strength of feeling.
4. They now needed evidence that local authorities were prepared to adopt the same approach.
5. The council were prepared to reconsider granting him a permit at a later date.
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π Amuse, verb.
π /ΙΛmjuΛz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (someone) to find something funny.
❗️ Examples:
1. He made faces to amuse her
2. We were delightfully amused by the cops who came onto the beach to check everyone for booze.
3. Alicia's polite and cheerful demeanor amuses the man, and he begins to chuckle until the tender sparkle in her eye renders him silent.
4. I'm glad you like it, the name thing amuses me every time as well.
5. Unless something amuses me or I happen to be blissfully happy, I'm not usually smiling.
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π Cry, noun.
π /krΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A pack of hounds.
❗️ Examples:
1. He kept a cry of hounds to hunt in the wilderness
2. With four packs of staghounds, sixteen of foxhounds ... besides not a few of those small cries of beagles, which afford such excellent sport in their way.
3. It is the only county in which I have heard a pack of hounds called a cry of dogs.
4. Scent hounds are valued for their sense of smell and are generally used in a pack, known as a cry of hounds.
5. Sometimes I have known such a cry of hounds at uncoupling to take the game at counter.
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π Text, noun.
π /tΙkst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A text message.
❗️ Examples:
1. Just give us a call or send us a text
2. The new system lets you send texts to any cellphone in Britain for 12p, and it receives messages free.
3. You haven't replied any of my emails, texts, voicemails or anything.
4. The product manages phone calls, webcam, emails, texts and instant messaging in one place on a PC, with multi-way video calls expected to be added in 2005.
5. Rumours came in on the limited mobile phone texts and on the one battery radio about earthquakes somewhere nearby, but no clue as to the enormity of the whole thing.
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π Tree, noun.
π /triΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.
❗️ Examples:
1. Both structure-based trees are moderately resolved with very short internal branches.
2. It would be interesting to get data on how widespread the practice of parallel source code trees is outside the Linux project.
3. As you build up the GUI, the design tree reflects the widget hierarchy.
4. Several methods are used here to help understand the similarity of trees from different data sets.
5. To this point, we have discussed the learning of qualitative models represented as qualitative trees.
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π Repose, noun.
π /rΙͺΛpΙΚz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A state of rest, sleep, or tranquillity.
❗️ Examples:
1. In repose her face looked relaxed
2. But those moments of rest and repose are important to feed the soul.
3. It is desirable, at certain times of day or night, to look deeply at objects in repose: wheels that have run long dusty distances bearing great loads of vegetable or mineral, coal sacks, barrels, baskets, carpenters' hafts and helves.
4. It is highly evocative, both in violent action and in repose.
5. Balanced sonorities and evenness of metre direct listeners on a course of undiminishing grandeur that leads naturally to calmness in repose.
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π Book, verb.
π /bΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Register one's arrival at a hotel.
❗️ Examples:
1. He booked in at a hotel
2. On arrival we booked into the hotel and then the festivities began with our annual pre-dive get-together.
3. We booked into our fleapit hotels and checked out, we got on our buses and got off them again, we signed up on lists and then found that a new list was being drawn up which we were not on.
4. Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building
5. A snowstorm dominated the news and led to hundreds of people taking time off work or booking into hotels rather than donning their boots to stride through the slush.
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π Bag, verb.
π /baΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of clothes, especially trousers) form loose bulges due to wear.
❗️ Examples:
1. These trousers never bag at the knee
2. The cloak he wore bagged over his body, making his frail stature appear sturdier.
3. Her jeans, partially soaked from splashing onto the street, now seemed almost like they were made for her, because as she moved they moved too, not bagging at the knees.
4. I feel there is nothing wrong with bagging pants as long as your actual underwear and behind is not showing.
5. I'm tired of being the 5'7 115lb runt in a group of much larger kids, and i'm tired of clothes bagging off of my scrawny body.
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π Ability, noun.
π /ΙΛbΙͺlΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Possession of the means or skill to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The manager had lost his ability to motivate the players
2. All you are paying for is the ability to say that you've seen it early.
3. Britain should adopt a graduated income tax based on the ability to pay.
4. Finally, a more equal system of registration fees should be introduced, based on the ability to pay.
5. The defendant denied that, and said that Michael worked and had the ability to pay.
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π Dub, noun.
π /dΚb/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An inexperienced or unskilful person.
❗️ Examples:
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π Cunning, adjective.
π /ΛkΚnΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.
❗️ Examples:
1. A cunning look came into his eyes
2. The lies he fed me to achieve this were cunning and elaborate, and indeed, I was fooled.
3. First, it has to be said that the game scenario is a very cunning one, cleverly designed to lead the unsuspecting player astray.
4. What remains is a traditional case of a national paranoia being manipulated by a cunning business establishment to protect its entrenched interests.
5. He was supposedly a cunning manipulator who lured his adversary into a fatal trap.
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π Pass, verb.
π /pΙΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a company) not declare or pay (a dividend)
❗️ Examples:
1. The company has already passed its interim dividend
2. When the Company passed its dividend in 1867, the value of its shares fell sharply.
3. They'll have to pass their dividend.
4. It passed its halfyear dividend and turnover fell almost 30 per cent.
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π Participate, verb.
π /pΙΛΛtΙͺsΙͺpeΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be involved; take part.
❗️ Examples:
1. Thousands participated in a nationwide strike
2. He had this great idea to involve people in participating in writing a short fantasy story.
3. Twenty nine cars participated in what was regarded as the best and most enjoyable hunt ever.
4. Thanks also to the swimmers who participated and those who contributed in any way.
5. Join now and participate in the first contest to win Collectible Swept Away Posters!
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π Circumstance, noun.
π /ΛsΙΛkΙmst(Ι)ns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An event or fact that causes or helps to cause something to happen, typically something undesirable.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was found dead but there were no suspicious circumstances
2. They were thrown together by circumstance
3. What is distracting about these two are the circumstances of their political demise.
4. His parents have spoken of their concerns about the circumstances of his death.
5. But they are thrown together by circumstance, of the imperative to experience every moment as if it were their last, which it might well be.
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π Struggle, verb.
π /ΛstrΚΙ‘(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have difficulty handling or coping with.
❗️ Examples:
1. Passengers struggle with bags and briefcases
2. In light of this, it was a shame to learn that the resort is struggling with financial difficulties.
3. Nevertheless, even she struggled with some of the difficulties posed by the system.
4. She struggled with the handle before swinging the door open, diving in and slamming it shut again.
5. I wonder if you could spare a thought this week for these people as they struggle with their present difficulties.
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π Validation, noun.
π /valΙͺΛdeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of checking or proving the validity or accuracy of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The technique requires validation in controlled trials
2. We did independent validations for studies of therapy
3. The first example is a fill-in form with multiple field validations of different types of data using JavaScript.
4. We applied additional filtering criteria, including phylogenetic validations, to enhance the reliability of our predictions.
5. This so-called validation of astrology has been circulating about for years.
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π Water, noun.
π /ΛwΙΛtΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An area of sea regarded as under the jurisdiction of a particular country.
❗️ Examples:
1. Japanese coastal waters
2. The sanctuary is believed to be the largest yet declared by an individual government in waters under its jurisdiction.
3. He added that the mine could also have been washed out to sea from recent Royal Navy manoeuvres in Scottish coastal waters.
4. The first ship sunk by a German submarine in our coastal waters was torpedoed in this area.
5. Japan protested to Russia for allowing South Korean fishing boats to fish for saury in its waters, including the area near the islands, this fishing season from summer to fall.
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π Sack, noun.
π /sak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries.
❗️ Examples:
1. In the Middle Ages many Alsace wines were fortified or spiced in order to compete with the fuller bodied Mediterranean wines such as sack and malmsey.
2. In the 17th century, sack (like sweet sherry), claret, or orange juice were used in eating possets.
3. Yet after wine and mead and sack, man must have a massive snack.
4. As well as drinking a variety of waters… he drank brandy, port, claret, sack, and birch juice wine which he found to be delicious.
5. The modern sherry is a descendent of Falstaff's sack, though shortly after his day it began to be made by the more complicated modern process which includes adding brandy.
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π Tizzy, noun.
π /ΛtΙͺzi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A state of nervous excitement or agitation.
❗️ Examples:
1. He got into a tizzy and was talking absolute tosh
2. With a mass of further celebrations to come, the community is in a tizzy of excitement.
3. Don't let them work you into a tizzy, let them stir their stupid pot.
4. Consternation froths up into a fragrant tizz of sympathetic disapproval.
5. Count Thibault and his servant Andre are in a tizzy after being transported from the 12 th century to modern-day Chicago.
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π Leave, verb.
π /liΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Remain to be used or dealt with.
❗️ Examples:
1. We've even got one of the Christmas puddings left over from last year
2. A retired person with no mortgage left to pay
3. Any sum that happens to be left over when a child reaches maturity is not liable to tax.
4. The four cards that are left over at the end of the deal are set aside until the end of the hand.
5. This compromise gives more certainty that more money will be left over for residents in the two areas.
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π Blank, verb.
π /blaΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (something) blank or empty.
❗️ Examples:
1. Electronic countermeasures blanked out the radar signals
2. A lot of the text in the documents is blanked out, including, intriguingly, the distribution list!
3. Swear words were blanked out, but much more offensive racist remarks were left in.
4. The next three pages of that all-important document are completely blanked out.
5. Your address is blanked out, but your name must be included on the roll, otherwise we are unable to confirm your identity when you vote.
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π Transplant, noun.
π /transΛplΙΛnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person or thing that has been moved to a new place or situation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Both old-time residents and new transplants have deep loyalty to their community
2. The trees were bare-rooted transplants
3. But hey, if they wiped out its whole population and moved in transplants from Center City, I wouldn't complain!
4. The Gang actually was a band of Florida transplants who moved north for bigger purses.
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π Deep, adjective.
π /diΛp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Very intense or extreme.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was in deep trouble
2. A deep sleep
3. When citizens lack confidence in the basic institutions of democracy, the nation is in very deep trouble.
4. We think that humanity could be heading for deep trouble unless we take action very soon.
5. They are in deep, deep trouble, and the economy will get worse and worse.
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π Long, adjective.
π /lΙΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a security) maturing at a distant date.
❗️ Examples:
1. Long securities are such a good substitute for cash.
2. Issuers who are unwilling to pay the price to sell these long securities can instead sell shorter maturities.
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π Circle, verb.
π /ΛsΙΛk(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move in a wide loop back towards one's starting point.
❗️ Examples:
1. He paced away from her, then circled back
2. We circled back towards J Street, passing the St. Francis of Assisi church.
3. The offspring of the Manhattan Project are circling back toward Manhattan.
4. The dog first heads away from the road, then quickly circles back toward the family.
5. Her horse slowed to a trot as she circled back to the starting line.
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π Helm, noun.
π /hΙlm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A tiller or wheel for steering a ship or boat.
❗️ Examples:
1. She stayed at the helm, alert for tankers
2. The second mate took the helm
3. In fact, the Coast Guard allowed Sea Scouts with the rank of quartermaster to take the helm of the small boat during recovery operations.
4. He turned to the quarterdeck, his father falling into the helm, sending the wheel into a vigorous spin.
5. The other side was the helm, where the ship was piloted.
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