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π Set, verb.
π /sΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Start (a fire)
❗️ Examples:
1. The school had been broken into and the fire had been set
2. He was arrested last week for allegedly setting the fire.
3. Have you ever heard of him throwing televisions out of the hotel windows and setting fires and doing this and that?
4. He has, apparently burst out of a burning building, from a fire he set himself.
5. I suppose if I got to that point, would I start setting fires so that I could document the result?
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π Exhaust, verb.
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❓ Definition: Make (someone) feel very tired.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her day out had exhausted her
2. Rolandon prepared to retort, but his muscles and arms were aching madly and he was exhausted, physically and mentally.
3. Fans should try and understand that at a competition, when you finally get off the ice, you're exhausted and drained.
4. But she was exhausted mentally and physically, and was happy to just lie down on the old bed.
5. It was only midday, and he was already exhausted both physically and mentally.
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π Factor, noun.
π /ΛfaktΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A land agent or steward.
❗️ Examples:
1. The house became home to the estate factor
2. The factor who manages the estate is Peter Graham from Bidwells in Inverness.
3. Within two years they were selling paintings and objets d' art, and within five years they had moved into the estate factor's house and mothballed Whittingehame.
4. Peter Ord, the factor of Balmoral Estate, said he hoped that work would start on the scheme within the next 12 months.
5. Patrick Thomson, the factor of Ben Alder Estate, said the plan was to demolish the bothy and replace it with modern workshops.
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π Custom, noun.
π /ΛkΚstΙm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Established usage having the force of law or right.
❗️ Examples:
1. Laws against adultery are a natural outgrowth of laws and customs insisting that marriages be monogamous.
2. The Board shall make its decision with regard to the custom and usage of the insurance and reinsurance business.
3. But by long established custom, such exculpatory statements are also admitted into evidence.
4. This rule does not apply if it can be established that a custom or usage is applicable to each permitting marriage between the two.
5. Thus, since 1977, at the latest, English customs rules are Community customs rules.
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π Flourish, noun.
π /ΛflΚrΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A fanfare played by brass instruments.
❗️ Examples:
1. A flourish of trumpets
2. The Basque Gabriel's Message (again in an arrangement by Harvey) is properly festive with flourishes in the trumpets to accompany the Annunciation.
3. By contrast, St Cecilia sweeps in on joyous flourishes from trumpets and drums, with rushing strings as buoyant as those that welcome Handel's Queen of Sheba.
4. Eskimo Lament comes first, drenched in sombre piano and plucked guitar, before the arrival of gorgeous harmonies and trumpet flourishes.
5. The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens.
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π Oblivion, noun.
π /ΙΛblΙͺvΙͺΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state of being forgotten, especially by the public.
❗️ Examples:
1. His name will fade into oblivion
2. For the unsuccessful ones, their ordeal simply fades into public oblivion.
3. And like the unperfected Polaroid of a beginning we've forgotten, it should fade into oblivion in no time.
4. So yet another great album was destined to fade into oblivion, before being picked up on by a few musos, plundered for sounds and style, hailed in retrospect as a classic and finally reissued on CD.
5. Last year this particular meet was not held, and had it not raced last weekend, the old favourite in the Tennant Creek sporting calendar could well have faded into oblivion.
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π Really, adverb.
π /ΛrΙͺΙli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Very; thoroughly.
❗️ Examples:
1. I think she's really great
2. A really cold day
3. Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
4. The problem is, this is the bit about card writing and receiving I really enjoy.
5. The woman who wrote it was really off with me right from the minute we met.
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π Adopt, verb.
π /ΙΛdΙpt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Choose (someone) as a candidate for office.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was recently adopted as Labour candidate for the constituency
2. The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate.
3. After coming joint top of the civil service exam, he joined the sector in 1946, only to resign the following year when he was adopted as the Parliamentary candidate for Bexley.
4. In 1921 he was adopted as a Labour candidate for Battersea North.
5. He was adopted as a parliamentary candidate in 1976 and within two years was on a key Scottish Labour Party committee.
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π Theologian, noun.
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❓ Definition: A person who engages or is an expert in theology.
❗️ Examples:
1. Some theologians have claimed that theology gives a justification of religion.
2. It would be tough to keep him off the list of the ten most influential theologians in church history.
3. Now if people would cease to read all the junk by the Church Fathers and modern theologians and turn to the Word, they would be informed.
4. The bishops would do better to consult with moral theologians and criminologists.
5. The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
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π Favour, verb.
π /ΛfeΙͺvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Give unfairly preferential treatment to.
❗️ Examples:
1. Critics argued that the policy favoured the private sector
2. If you believe a club gets favoured treatment from the NRL, name the club?
3. Nevertheless, it is widely believed that that current laws disproportionately and unfairly favour women.
4. Critics claim that the Indian government unfairly favors the IITs when education dollars are doled out.
5. To some, Title IX is a quota law, designed to destroy men's sports by unfairly favoring women.
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π Assist, verb.
π /ΙΛsΙͺst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be present as a helper.
❗️ Examples:
1. Two midwives who assisted at a water birth
2. She has also assisted at blood donor sessions in the town, and only stopped doing that in March.
3. She also very graciously assisted in the awards presentation that was done around the pool on the Saturday evening.
4. No subtitles are present to assist, although they would be welcome when the Australian accents are prevalent.
5. Sometimes an official may be present to interpret and assist, but the onus still is on the player.
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π Odd, adjective.
π /Ιd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of whole numbers such as 3 and 5) having one left over as a remainder when divided by two.
❗️ Examples:
1. Atoms which possess an odd number of electrons
2. If the number in the second column is odd, divide it by two and drop the remainder.
3. Notice that smoothing a crossing changes the number of components of a link by one and that multiplication by z switches odd and even polynomials.
4. If you are taking half an odd number, use the integer quotient and ignore the remainder of 1.
5. An odd perfect number is defined to be an odd integer that is equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
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π Live, adjective.
π /lΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of coals) burning or glowing.
❗️ Examples:
1. Nobody wished to retain money, everybody dropped it like a live coal.
2. A live coal from the altar has touched his lips, and they are purified.
3. The rice wine felt like live coal slipping down my throat.
4. He would bank the furnace fires and close the draft to insure live coals the next morning.
5. The batter is poured into a banana-leaf-lined container and baked in a clay oven on live coals.
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π Bunch, verb.
π /bΚn(t)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Collect or fasten into a compact group.
❗️ Examples:
1. She bunched the needles together
2. The tribesmen were all bunched together in clumps, and they too seemed frenzied with excitement.
3. There are more than 1,500 passengers going through the international departure where flights are normally bunched together.
4. The three recent incidents cannot be bunched together to conclude that an irreversible rot has set in the police department.
5. Finally all the cases were bunched together before the Supreme Court and the Army agreed to review the dress.
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π Respiration, noun.
π /rΙspΙͺΛreΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of breathing.
❗️ Examples:
1. Opiates affect respiration
2. Every aspect of life depends on muscular activity, whether it be speech, eating and digestion, respiration, all expressions of brain function.
3. Blood pressure and respiration are checked every five minutes, and the patient's temperature also is recorded.
4. The effects of sleep on respiration include changes in central respiratory control, airways resistance, and muscular contractility.
5. In mammals, external respiration - the ventilation of the lungs - is achieved by breathing, the mechanical basis of respiration: the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
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π Compel, verb.
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❓ Definition: Force or oblige (someone) to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. A sense of duty compelled Harry to answer her questions
2. He could leave for Philadelphia with his new bride as planned, but duty compels him to stay and meet his fate.
3. Blood binds us, duty compels us to serve the Throne, to give up our lives if need be to protect those upon the Throne and those destined by fate to ascend to it when the time comes.
4. Duty and honor compel him to return to face his foe despite the vehement protestations of Amy, a Quaker.
5. If you do not have a work permit or residency then when your passbook comes up for renewal it is being said that the banks are refusing to issue a new one, thereby compelling you to withdraw your funds.
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π Conventional, adjective.
π /kΙnΛvΙnΚ(Ι)n(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.
❗️ Examples:
1. A conventional morality had dictated behaviour
2. Of course, flouting conventional morality was not allowed in the late 19th century.
3. Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this.
4. Recent proposals for training in clinical academic medicine have re-emphasised the view that an excellent clinical training leading to a broad based conventional certificate is essential.
5. If princes ought not to conduct themselves according to the dictates of conventional morality, how ought they to conduct themselves?
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π Numb, adjective.
π /nΚm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Unable to think, feel, or respond normally.
❗️ Examples:
1. The tragic events left us shocked and numb
2. I had been in a meeting with an artist and was left totally numb.
3. It's surprising that one event follows another in such a way that we are left totally numb.
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π Look, verb.
π /lΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Hope or expect to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Universities are looking to expand their intakes
2. This is absolutely vital to the Club as it looks to expand facilities at Balla Town Park.
3. A nursery is looking to expand to keep on children who have grown too old for it.
4. We are looking to expand into the market and move beyond our core competency of racing games.
5. At one stage last year the company was looking to expand and buy the other hangar.
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π Control, noun.
π /kΙnΛtrΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The ability to manage a machine, vehicle, or other moving object.
❗️ Examples:
1. He lost control of his car
2. Improve your ball control
3. Parked cars were damaged when the driver of a car lost control on a roundabout and collided with them yesterday.
4. It is understood that around 10 am, the driver of the car lost control after colliding with a lorry.
5. Last December a car lost control and hit the wall near the village hall.
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π Grace, verb.
π /Ι‘reΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person or thing) be an attractive presence in or on; adorn.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ms Pasco has graced the front pages of magazines like Elle and Vogue
2. One of his prints also graces the entire back cover of the current issue of Harvest - the Diocesan quarterly magazine.
3. Huge wooden beams in the bedroom and drawing room once graced an Aberdeen wool mill.
4. They would grace our otherwise cluttered shelves.
5. His woodcarvings still grace the Hotel Marauw and Biak's House of Arts.
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π Boy, noun.
π /bΙΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A male child or young man who does a specified job.
❗️ Examples:
1. A delivery boy
2. Opperman initially worked as a bicycle messenger and telegram boy.
3. She stood at the front door watching the delivery boy hop back on his bicycle and peddle away.
4. He is busy juggling being a pizza delivery boy, a physics student and a superhero.
5. Una sets off to cycle the moors with Ray, the ex-fish and milk delivery boy who now works as a railway guard.
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π Mere, adjective.
π /mΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to emphasize how small or insignificant someone or something is.
❗️ Examples:
1. Questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals
2. The city is a mere 20 minutes from some stunning countryside
3. On one side, it reduces the people depicted to mere entertainment value, insignificant frogs meant only for visual dissection.
4. They are observed, your Honour, for a number of reasons, some of which may be historical, but basically they are mere insignificant courtesies.
5. I'm open-minded, he said, looking down at his shoes, the mere hint of a smile playing on his lips.
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π Novel, adjective.
π /ΛnΙv(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Interestingly new or unusual.
❗️ Examples:
1. He hit on a novel idea to solve his financial problems
2. Last autumn and winter brought the prospect of a new manager and fresh legs and novel ideas.
3. I simply immerse myself in novel ideas and experiences, and leave it up to my brain to find a solution
4. It is not surprising that Fisher's novel ideas took time to become accepted.
5. New acquaintances may have much to offer you in the way of fresh insights and novel interests.
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π Enlighten, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛlΚΙͺt(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Christopher had not enlightened Francis as to their relationship
2. Still, I was wondering if any readers might know more details, and enlighten me on the subject.
3. Roger was enlightened on the subject and had much to say.
4. Perhaps Professor George could enlighten me on the subject.
5. Please enlighten me on this subject as I am in need of clarification.
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π Hop, noun.
π /hΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A narcotic drug, especially opium.
❗️ Examples:
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π Pen, noun.
π /pΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept.
❗️ Examples:
1. A sheep pen
2. Along with the original small red house, the farm now has two barns, a sheep pen, and several sheds.
3. The sheep pens are on display and all strawed up, but will remain empty for two days whilst the show goes on around.
4. Then he moved on to sniff around the sheep where the lambing pen had been.
5. Local sheep farmers this year put in a special effort putting down pens and selling their sheep in the traditional way.
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π Hoot, verb.
π /huΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Express loud scornful disapproval of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. His questions were hooted down or answered obscenely
2. Somebody came up with this at a brainstorming meeting and nobody else had the good sense to hoot it down then.
3. Some thirty years ago when I suggested at Boeing that software should be distributed in source-code form, the idea was hooted down and rejected out of hand.
4. Lots of advertisers, I predict, will buy time and space from YouTube, only to have users hoot it down.
5. When they tried to speak, however, the crowd hooted them down with cries of We want Teddy'.
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π Reduction, noun.
π /rΙͺΛdΚkΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The amount by which something is made smaller, less, or lower in price.
❗️ Examples:
1. Special reductions on knitwear
2. The Fed's five interest rate reductions this year have lowered the overnight bank lending rate to 4 percent.
3. As we saw in the US earlier in the year, the immediate reaction of share prices to interest rate reductions tends to be positive.
4. In any industry, oversupply leads to price reductions and pressure on profit margins.
5. The spokesman said the signs were very useful in combating excess speed, showing reductions on average of eight or nine miles per hour.
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π Parish, noun.
π /ΛparΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor.
❗️ Examples:
1. A parish church
2. Many of these lay candidates are already deeply involved in church ministry: in parishes, on diocesan staffs, as chaplains on campuses, in hospitals, and in jails.
3. We should pray for renewal explicitly, as individuals, small Christian communities, parishes, and dioceses.
4. In the mainline churches, certain parishes have refused pastoral care to victims and their families.
5. The duties of the post include regular meetings of the clergy of the 12 parishes in the deanery and advising and helping churchwardens of parishes without a parish priest.
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π Edge, verb.
π /ΙdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Ski with one's weight on the edges of one's skis.
❗️ Examples:
1. You will be edging early, controlling a parallel turn
2. Although it seems like skating uphill requires more edging, more pushing back and lots of grunting, focus on forward motion of your core and maximizing glide.
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π Compliment, verb.
π /ΛkΙmplΙͺm(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Praise (something) politely.
❗️ Examples:
1. The manager was heard to compliment the other team's good play
2. I have heard tourists compliment it and couldn't help but feel proud.
3. It seriously means a lot to me to hear you compliment my writing so much.
4. A mere two saves for the game shows the already awesome defence that the team has to compliment the established offence.
5. He then went on to flatter them further by complimenting their car parks.
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π Play, noun.
π /pleΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The space in or through which a mechanism can or does move.
❗️ Examples:
1. The steering rack was loose, and there was a little play
2. The action is smooth, the cylinder locks up tightly with very little play, and the trigger pull is light and crisp.
3. Since then there's been a lot of play in the steering.
4. Our policy allows the market to have freer play
5. It also recognises the fact that the free play of markets creates problems for society.
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π Weasel, noun.
π /ΛwiΛz(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small, slender carnivorous mammal related to, but smaller than, the stoat.
❗️ Examples:
1. A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
2. Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
3. Mammalian carnivores such as weasels and foxes catch voles by chasing or pouncing and are probably just as dangerous in dense cover as in sparse.
4. As mustelids - stoats, ferrets and weasels - were highly mobile and curious, it would be expected that if there were stoats on the island they would have encountered one of the tunnels or traps in their travels.
5. Scientists are attempting to save birds like this one by translocating them to offshore islands free of introduced predators like rats, cats, stoats, and weasels.
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π Publish, verb.
π /ΛpΚblΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Communicate (a libel) to a third party.
❗️ Examples:
1. And if the matter published is contained in a written or printed document the publisher is guilty of publishing a seditious libel.
2. A majority of the jurors were members of a political party that owned the company which had published the alleged libel.
3. A man in good faith may publish a libel believing it to be true, and it may be found by the jury that he acted in good faith believing it to be true and reasonably believing it to be true, but that in fact the statement was false.
4. It is a fundamental aspect of defamation law - certainly in England and Australia but not in Scotland - that you have to publish to a third party.
5. The day after Wilde received the card, he requested a warrant for the marquess's arrest on the charge of publishing a libel against him.
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π Bar, noun.
π /bΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands.
❗️ Examples:
1. The prisoner at the bar
2. His handling of the funds when they did arrive gave rise to vigorous debate at the bar.
3. The lawyers sit at the bar table facing the magistrate and the defendant sits with his or her lawyer.
4. In an unprecedented move Magistrate Nicholas got up from the bench and sat at the bar table with the witness and the accused.
5. And far be it from any court to acknowledge that the defendant standing at the bar has any constitutional rights.
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π Deploy, verb.
π /dΙͺΛplΙΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move (troops or equipment) into position for military action.
❗️ Examples:
1. Forces were deployed at strategic locations
2. Once the strategic lift deploys Army forces to where they are required, tactical logistics moves to the forefront.
3. The Legion was often deployed in hopeless military situations.
4. Profiting from a mutiny, the rebel forces deployed their troops rapidly and cut the country virtually in two.
5. Like any competent warlord, they deploy their troops to watch for intruders.
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π Tight-fisted, adjective.
π /ΛtΚΙͺtΛfΙͺstΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not willing to spend or give much money; miserly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Tight-fisted to the point of miserliness
2. You know how tight-fisted with money Jeremy is.
3. He muttered, Give me my money, you tight-fisted jerk.
4. Hopefully the tight-fisted owner will put that money back into the baseball team, as I believe there is a way for this team to contend soon.
5. A similar observation, however, could be made about tight-fisted conservatives who make campaign pledges they don't keep while local school taxes keep rising.
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π Amateur, noun.
π /ΛamΙtΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid rather than a professional basis.
❗️ Examples:
1. It takes five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider
2. His last fight as an amateur
3. In another key component, the band sponsored a female athlete and an amateur in each sport.
4. Last year, junior rider Kate Hart beat the professionals and the top amateurs to earn the victory.
5. So first off it was probably the top club juniors, then the top amateurs, then, I guess, guys like Faldo and Clarke.
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π Floss, verb.
π /flΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Clean between (one's teeth) with dental floss.
❗️ Examples:
1. Clean and floss your teeth at least twice a day: keep them sparkling, so you'll want to smile at the whole world.
2. Talk to your child's dentist for advice on flossing those tiny teeth.
3. Most pregnant women have some bleeding of their gums, especially while brushing or flossing their teeth.
4. Even choosing something as mundane as flossing your teeth four times per week can be a real chore if you hate to floss.
5. If you floss your teeth, you may continue to do so.
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π Control, verb.
π /kΙnΛtrΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Limit the level, intensity, or numbers of.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had to control his temper
2. By tightly controlling your blood sugar levels, intensive insulin therapy can help prevent long-term diabetes complications such as kidney damage.
3. Mr Keaney said noise and dust generated by the quarry could be controlled by conditions limiting the hours of operation and the cleaning of the public roads.
4. He also called upon the citizens to launch a green revolution to control increasing pollution levels in the City.
5. The girls investigated agriculture and the best practice to control the nitrate levels in the soil.
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π Mimic, adjective.
π /ΛmΙͺmΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Imitative of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were waging mimic war
2. The question was, what was the mimic octopus pretending to be?
3. Yes, sir, here they are, Dirga's first officer handed out the mimic devices to the units.
4. A few yards away, the remainder of the group was kneeling in a semicircle, worshipping the god among cephalopods - the mimic octopus!
5. They were around us throughout the dive at such close distance, making it impossible for us to concentrate on searching for the mimic octopus.
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π Patent, adjective.
π /Λpat(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Easily recognizable; obvious.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was smiling with patent insincerity
2. What seems to plague both of these films and so many like them is their patent insincerity.
3. What is a patent truism to one side is an obvious falsehood to the other.
4. The continued blind oversight of human rights abuses in conjunction with the blatant abuse of democracy is patent, and is incomprehensible.
5. I'm sorry, but this focus on belief is patent nonsense.
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π Plumage, noun.
π /ΛpluΛmΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A bird's feathers collectively.
❗️ Examples:
1. The male in full breeding plumage
2. Colourful crests make birds in breeding plumage easy to identify.
3. Variety in the lovebird's diet is the key to feather perfect plumage and a healthy bird.
4. By spring, the outer tips of the feathers have worn off to reveal the breeding plumage underneath.
5. Bright plumage make this bird unmistakable, though often hard to see in the shade of a river bank.
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π Bar, noun.
π /bΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lawyers collectively.
❗️ Examples:
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π Enter, verb.
π /ΛΙntΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Submit (a statement) in an official capacity.
❗️ Examples:
1. A solicitor entered a plea of guilty on her behalf
2. In nearly all cases, the defendant enters a guilty plea before trial.
3. During a hearing on Monday, his solicitor entered no plea and made no application for bail.
4. She too had been given an indication that upon such pleas being entered, the prosecution would not proceed further against her husband.
5. He again reiterated that he would not have entered his guilty plea had he known of this additional licence suspension.
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π Fatigue, verb.
π /fΙΛtiΛΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Weaken (a metal or other material) by repeated variations of stress.
❗️ Examples:
1. The nails have become rusted through or fatigued
2. Repeated stretching and sizing fatigues the brass to the point where it will eventually split, but I restrict things a little more.
3. For carbon forks in general, there should not be any limited life span, as carbon composites themselves are not subject to fatigue failures as metals are.
4. Given the thin faces of today's drivers, how long does a driver last before the metal becomes fatigued?
5. Have you ever bent a piece of metal back-and-forth until it fatigues and breaks?
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π Buck, noun.
π /bΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A vertical jump performed by a horse, with the head lowered, back arched, and back legs thrown out behind.
❗️ Examples:
1. The horse seemed to leap, making a mighty buck that shipped the rider off
2. Every so often she would give a little buck, rear or jump.
3. About 10 minutes into the lesson he did one of his handstand bucks and sent me flying towards the floor.
4. Quinn's horse went into a gallop, followed by a small buck.
5. The black horse gave a hard buck and finally managed to dislodge his rider who flew through the air and then finally hit the ground with a loud crunch and then she lay there motionless.
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π Rage, noun.
π /reΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The violent action of a natural agency.
❗️ Examples:
1. The rising rage of the sea
2. Michi's eyes reflected the uncontrolled rage of the sea, and the frigid savagery of ice.
3. The heavens cry and moan as the wind's rage stirs up the burning tempest of the sky, tears are unleashed from the firmament, cold and tasteless.
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π Sound, noun.
π /saΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Sound produced by continuous and regular vibrations, as opposed to noise.
❗️ Examples:
1. The sound produced by drums is short; thus, any continuous sound can be produced only by rapid repetition.
2. The speaker converts musical sound into vibrations that can be felt.
3. The sound is more resonant than I would like it to be, but this is not really a big problem.
4. Unamplified orchestral sound resonates distinctly around the hall, though far from brilliantly.
5. Not seeing the need to improve musical sound or a specific technical aspect of playing, or an unwillingness to try new approaches or make changes in playing became a detriment to some students' overall musical progress.
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π Inert, adjective.
π /ΙͺΛnΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lacking the ability or strength to move.
❗️ Examples:
1. She lay inert in her bed
2. We're looking for people who in 15 minutes can make an inert audience move, explains Jonny Rocket, who, with his wife Lisa, has organised the free event.
3. Two hours later, we watched through glass as her inert body was wheeled into the intensive care recovery.
4. Another man strode by with the inert body of a young child in his arms.
5. He glanced over his shoulder, then spun completely around to stare at the inert body crumpled on the asphalt a few feet behind him.
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π Swell, verb.
π /swΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Become or make greater in intensity, number, amount, or volume.
❗️ Examples:
1. The low murmur swelled to a roar
2. The city's population was swollen by refugees
3. The village, its population swollen by refugees, had been thought safe by many local people.
4. The ranks of female players swelled by a similar amount to 132, up from 116 earlier in the decade.
5. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have swelled Monrovia's population to well over a million, scrabbling where they can for shelter and running short of food, water and medical supplies.
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π Come, preposition.
π /kΚm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: When a specified time is reached or event happens.
❗️ Examples:
1. I don't think that they'll be far away from honours come the new season
2. If come January, he's way ahead in the polls, Clark will be able to get away with this approach.
3. The grotto guide is a brilliantly jaded girl whose patience is obviously waning come November.
4. And, likewise, a Republican defeat now would only make them leaner and stronger come 2008.
5. And he predicted that the continuing fall-out from the war could prove crucial come polling day.
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π Trigger, verb.
π /ΛtrΙͺΙ‘Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an event or situation) cause (someone) to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The death of Helen's father triggered her to follow a childhood dream and become a falconer
2. Other teachers may not have believed it was a wise decision and this triggered me to do more.
3. Although he only had the one fit, it triggered me to have his medication levels checked.
4. With all these questions revolving in my mind for a long time, a very fruitful talk with a singer triggered me to pen down my thoughts into words.
5. Weight problems triggered him quitting his job as a stable jockey.
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π Divert, verb.
π /dΚΙͺΛvΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Draw (the attention) of someone from something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Public relations policies are sometimes intended to divert attention away from criticism
2. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives.
3. If you want to stop your baby doing something, the best way is to quickly distract and divert her onto a different activity.
4. Her attempt to get his attention only partially diverted him.
5. A moment of weakness is when you divert someone's attention and throw ground habanero into their soup!
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π But, conjunction.
π /bΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned.
❗️ Examples:
1. He stumbled but didn't fall
2. This is one principle, but it is not the only one
3. The food is cheap but delicious
4. The problem is not that they are cutting down trees, but that they are doing it in a predatory way
5. I would have liked to have had a longer deal but the get out clauses were prohibitive.
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π Sort, noun.
π /sΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A category of things or people with a common feature; a type.
❗️ Examples:
1. If only we knew the sort of people she was mixing with
2. A radical change poses all sorts of questions
3. All sorts of different kinds of property are treated differently by the law, not just intellectual property.
4. All sorts of implications go racing through your mind at this time and I wanted to share these with you.
5. All sorts of cries started to ring out from the animals - starting first with the large black birds flying overhead.
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π Headstrong, adjective.
π /ΛhΙdstrΙΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Energetically wilful and determined.
❗️ Examples:
1. The headstrong impulsiveness of youth
2. John is headstrong and his determination might have rubbed off on me.
3. Iona is a very plucky, determined, headstrong lady and is the unsung heroine in the whole of this saga.
4. There is a flakiness about Ginger; she is captivating, sexy and vulnerable, but also headstrong and determined not to lose.
5. She was a determined and headstrong girl; she wouldn't accept my lack of an explanation.
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π Threaten, verb.
π /ΛΞΈrΙt(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of something undesirable) seem likely to occur.
❗️ Examples:
1. Unless war threatened, national politics remained the focus of attention
2. Rather, they might have set up production lines that can be activated if war threatens.
3. And now, just to make bad worse, another war was threatening.
4. Anzac Day became more intense in those days when war was once more threatening or had begun.
5. Lots of the local farmers bred horses and sold them to the Army, especially when wars threatened.
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π Defy, verb.
π /dΙͺΛfΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Challenge (someone) to fight.
❗️ Examples:
1. Go now, defy him to the combat
2. So the superhero who fights monsters also defies his guardian and falls in love.
3. On his way to Rome he slays the giant of St Michael's Mount; his ambassador Walwain defies the emperor and fights him bravely.
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π Traditionally, adverb.
π /trΙΛdΙͺΚ(Ι)n(Ι)li/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: In a way that is based on a particular tradition.
❗️ Examples:
1. Traditionally styled 1930s-era houses
2. They dress traditionally in kimonos
3. The county has traditionally made its living from fishing, agriculture and tin-mining.
4. They have completed numerous renovations to the traditionally styled 1930s-era houses.
5. She's still installed on a traditionally designed pedestal.
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π Bristle, verb.
π /ΛbrΙͺs(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) react angrily or defensively.
❗️ Examples:
1. She bristled at his rudeness
2. There was a subtle change in Adair towards defensive and Tristin stared at her as she almost bristled at him.
3. At a press conference, the foreign secretary bristled at the suggestion he would be taking a message to New Delhi.
4. Her lawyers bristled at suggestions there may be no other willing witnesses to bring.
5. Daniel bristled at the Captain's accusation, What girl?
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π Property, noun.
π /ΛprΙpΙti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The right to the possession, use, or disposal of something; ownership.
❗️ Examples:
1. Rights of property
2. But how were those notions of ownership and property understood in customary terms?
3. Just because of the abuse of property ownership, private property should not altogether be eliminated.
4. The second major element in communist doctrine was the social ownership of property and central planning of the economy.
5. What we think of as property, as ownership, is about to change.
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π Trivia, noun.
π /ΛtrΙͺvΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.
❗️ Examples:
1. We fill our days with meaningless trivia
2. Weird bits of trivia detailing how much stuff we've lost and how weird some of it is, seem to have become perennial news items.
3. Having heard it repeated a few times, I now find it's one of those pieces of trivia that I simply know.
4. It's a safe piece of trivia that no one expects but then it's pretty easy to remember.
5. We demand information, both essential facts and trivia, about whatever we eat and drink.
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π Blatant, adjective.
π /ΛbleΙͺt(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Blatant lies
2. One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale.
3. He told a blatant lie to all students last time round.
4. To credit the newspaper, they did retract the quote once it was exposed as a blatant lie.
5. I think that we know that there are blatant lies that are being told by both camps.
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π Spank, noun.
π /spaΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A slap or series of slaps with one's open hand or a flat object.
❗️ Examples:
1. When his father caught him he got a spank
2. The last spank made her yelp like a mouse that was caught by an angry cat.
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π Torture, noun.
π /ΛtΙΛtΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Great physical or mental suffering or anxiety.
❗️ Examples:
1. The torture I've gone through because of loving you so
2. We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical torture and trauma they've suffered, she said.
3. Along with the other organisers he was sent to Drapchi where he suffered physical and mental torture.
4. Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture.
5. Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted.
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π Turkish, adjective.
π /ΛtΙΛkΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to or associated with the Ottoman Empire.
❗️ Examples:
1. Much of the architecture in Titograd reflects the Turkish influence of the Ottoman Empire.
2. The bridge, built under the Turkish Ottoman empire, was destroyed.
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π Laugh, verb.
π /lΙΛf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Treat with ridicule or scorn.
❗️ Examples:
1. Many people only laughed at these stories
2. I will think of her laughing at the ridiculousness of what we're both doing.
3. The other driver took my details and he must have been laughing at me as I pulled away - the car was a wreck.
4. To say that I have found motherhood fulfilling and rewarding is sneered and laughed at.
5. We must not permit the criminals to mock us and to laugh at us when they take advantage of us.
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π Surety, noun.
π /ΛΚΚΙrΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who takes responsibility for another's performance of an undertaking, for example their appearing in court or paying a debt.
❗️ Examples:
1. The rights of wives who act as sureties for their husband's debts
2. So far, we have not referred to the practice of landlords requiring a tenant or assignee of a lease to provide guarantors or sureties for his performance of the covenants in the lease.
3. Democracy itself requires that all public power be lawfully conferred and exercised, and of this the courts are the surety.
4. Cost increases and poor response by sureties in some sub defaults have caused more customers to shop around.
5. As previously noted, it is the responsibility of the informant and/or his surety to communicate all changes of address to the court in which the recognizance is lodged.
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π Shabby, adjective.
π /ΛΚabi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of behaviour) mean and unfair.
❗️ Examples:
1. Snooping, was he? That's a shabby trick
2. Finally, on the biographical debit side there are the usual miscellaneous acts of thoughtlessness, rudeness and generally shabby behaviour.
3. This was, I find, a piece of calculatedly shabby behaviour by which he hoped he might seize some tactical advantage over Mrs Ellis.
4. Their increasingly shabby treatment of people like me is one of the reasons their results are in a tailspin, said my friend.
5. If Huck had felt ornery and insignificant in the face of Providence Jim is capable of the same emotion when he recalls his shabby treatment of Elizabeth.
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π Disgruntle, verb.
π /dΙͺsΛΙ‘rΚnt(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (someone) angry or dissatisfied.
❗️ Examples:
1. Nothing disgruntles anyone more than the feeling they are being cheated
2. There aren't any foreign language soundtracks available on the disc, which could disgruntle some.
3. The car's make-over may disgruntle a few buyers who love Audis precisely because they're not BMWs.
4. This new action-heavy approach threatens to disgruntle hardcore fans of the series.
5. Nothing disgruntles anyone more, regardless of nationality, than the feeling they are being cheated or discriminated against.
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π Bag, noun.
π /baΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: One's particular interest or taste.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ask the manager about mild curries, if that's your bag
2. Not that there's anything wrong with that - but not my bag.
3. I tried a course in b/w photography, but realised it was not my bag either.
4. Ostensibly, a Chinwag meeting about PR Online is simply not my bag, but an interface appears to be forming (think Star Trek) between PR and Blogging.
5. Tried out the Super Ego, and I don't know how else to say this, but it's just not my bag.
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π Domain, noun.
π /dΙ(Κ)ΛmeΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A specified sphere of activity or knowledge.
❗️ Examples:
1. The country's isolation in the domain of sport
2. After dark, the street milieu is the domain of the shadowy.
3. The one area where there is some similarity between the two wars is the domain of public opinion.
4. This is the domain of theology, cosmology and psychology.
5. Sport, for the most part, is the domain of the young.
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π Sulky, noun.
π /ΛsΚlki/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for one person, used chiefly in trotting races.
❗️ Examples:
1. The prompters, which are not permitted to put their head in front of the horse in the time trial, were Thoroughbreds hitched to sulkies who galloped behind Moni Maker.
2. The potential for serious injury is high, says the report, and the racing of horses and sulkies near the Rising Sun, on Long Marton Road, at more than 30 mph, with several hundred spectators, gives the most grave concerns.
3. The subject of the racing of sulkies on the main road was discussed.
4. The sport progressed with the development of the light sulky in the early twentieth century and the introduction of regular night meetings at Harold Park, Sydney, in 1949.
5. It is the type of horse racing where the jockey sits on the sulky (the little cart in the back).
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π Pit, verb.
π /pΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Set an animal to fight against (another animal) for sport.
❗️ Examples:
1. There were usually three dogs pitted against one lion
2. The Romans are famous for their wild beast shows in the public arenas, where animals were pitted against one another for entertainment.
3. Ancient Romans pitted dogs against each other in gladiatorial contests.
4. When animals were pitted against each other, the Romans often tied them together with a chain to make sure that they would fight.
5. Increasingly exotic animals were pitted against each other.
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π Renew, verb.
π /rΙͺΛnjuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Replace (something that is broken or worn out)
❗️ Examples:
1. A generator was replaced and filters were renewed
2. Two smashed ribs had poked splintered ends through his skin, and getting at them to renew the dressings was a painful business.
3. Disinfection solutions need to be renewed on a regular basis.
4. Nutrient solutions were renewed on a daily basis.
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π Bonnet, noun.
π /ΛbΙnΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A cowl on a chimney.
❗️ Examples:
1. Bonnet cowl with collar available with 75mm deep collar for ornamental chimney pots.
2. Should I not have the Chimney Cowl in stock I will put on the Mesh Bonnet Cowl (pictured above right), these both cost the same to supply and fit.
3. This is a method and apparatus for providing a flashing system for a chimney-bonnet positioned on a chimney of a building structure.
4. Also called the bonnet, the chimney cap is the cornice at the top of the chimney.
5. The insert on the top is often called the Hood or bonnet top, and is frequently incorrectly mistaken as a terminal that can be used with a live flue.
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π Debris, noun.
π /ΛdΙbriΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Scattered pieces of rubbish or remains.
❗️ Examples:
1. Workmen were clearing the roads of the debris from shattered buildings
2. Leaves and garden debris
3. The plane came down about 100 yards from a row of terrace houses, showering some gardens with debris.
4. Fire services and Gardai also attended the scene of the crash and debris was scattered over both sides of the road.
5. Some of the bodies remained under debris as rescue workers cleared rubble.
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π Pen, noun.
π /pΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept.
❗️ Examples:
1. A sheep pen
2. Along with the original small red house, the farm now has two barns, a sheep pen, and several sheds.
3. The sheep pens are on display and all strawed up, but will remain empty for two days whilst the show goes on around.
4. Then he moved on to sniff around the sheep where the lambing pen had been.
5. Local sheep farmers this year put in a special effort putting down pens and selling their sheep in the traditional way.
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π Cock, noun.
π /kΙk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A friendly form of address among men.
❗️ Examples:
1. Please yourself, cock
2. Don't give her that ring, young cock!
3. Don't go round that corner on your special pedalcar, young cock!
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π Juggle, verb.
π /ΛdΚΚΙ‘(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cope with by adroitly balancing (several activities)
❗️ Examples:
1. She works full time, juggling her career with raising children
2. Many had to juggle work and home commitments in order to cope with a situation where children were on different mid-term breaks.
3. I've got so many activities and subjects to juggle I don't have time for other commitments.
4. What will I need to balance, juggle and organise?
5. How can we juggle one more responsibility or volunteer activity in our lives?
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π Vanish, verb.
π /ΛvanΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Gradually cease to exist.
❗️ Examples:
1. The environment is under threat—hedgerows and woodlands are vanishing
2. Adyar Creek is one such open space, which is gradually vanishing from the city map.
3. As he put more distance between him and his family, the ache in his bones gradually vanished.
4. The US corporate owners won't be needed, and their firms will gradually find their sales drying up, their market share vanishing, and their stock tanking.
5. In British Columbia, ancient forests are vanishing at the rate of one acre every 70 seconds, or 418,000 acres per year.
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π Feast, noun.
π /fiΛst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A plentiful supply of something enjoyable.
❗️ Examples:
1. The concert season offers a feast of classical music
2. The week will then offer a feast of music and poetry.
3. While the game didn't offer a feast of goals for fans back home to enjoy during their World Cup breakfast, it was a case of the result counting for far more than the performance.
4. In Italy, spring offers a feast of events for the art lover.
5. People who actually recognise good music when they see it realise that there is a lot more to this band than may first meet the eye, and that to listen to them is to enjoy a feast of musical delights.
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π Stake, verb.
π /steΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Mark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it.
❗️ Examples:
1. The boundary between the two manors was properly staked out
2. These territories might be staked out I added.
3. Once a territory is staked out and the owner of the property becomes lax in his knowledge that his land is safe is when he is the most vulnerable.
4. Babu snagged the spot last year by dispatching a friend to stake it out two months before the season even started.
5. Elena was staking out a role for herself as a formidable political force
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π Lampoon, verb.
π /lamΛpuΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
❗️ Examples:
1. The actor was lampooned by the press
2. Punch, the satirical magazine that lampooned the establishment for more than 150 years, has closed.
3. He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture.
4. This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world.
5. In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie.
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π Land, noun.
π /land/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Living or travelling on land rather than in water or the air.
❗️ Examples:
1. A land force
2. Every living land animal with a backbone is descended from the same group of fish.
3. And then, as now, it was essentially a debate between maritime forces and land forces.
4. The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg.
5. The screened-in shelter on the lakeshore offered a view of both land and water birds.
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π Touch, verb.
π /tΚtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Handle in order to interfere with, alter, or otherwise affect.
❗️ Examples:
1. I didn't play her records or touch any of her stuff
2. I hadn't touched the gear handle or flaps after the shot, and, therefore, reasoned the gear and flaps still were down.
3. Nevertheless, these are dangerous animals and should not be touched or interfered with in any way by divers.
4. McLaren were also fined even though the contents of the box were not touched and were legal.
5. Education chiefs in York have pledged not to touch the amount of money going to schools, despite planned budget cuts of £884,000.
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π Image, noun.
π /ΛΙͺmΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Semblance or likeness.
❗️ Examples:
1. Made in the image of God
2. They want to spoil the divine likeness of man made in the image of God.
3. His is the pure logic of fiction, shaping a world in the image of the art that depicts it.
4. In the 1980s the two institutions launched a crusade to remake the world in the image of the free market.
5. Part of the uniqueness of humanity, beings created in the image of God, is our instinct to seek and to enjoy the pleasures of seeking.
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π Anterior, adjective.
π /anΛtΙͺΙrΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Coming before in time; earlier.
❗️ Examples:
1. An incident anterior to her troubles
2. It is not contemplated that these prior, anterior selves and actions may be in fact constituted by, or be the effects of, the signs and codes that supposedly reflect them.
3. Since documentary is defined by the viewer's attribution of relevance to the anterior event, the deployment of the zoom and the viewer's reception of it is a very precarious situation.
4. In some anterior time, the burial mound had been desecrated, its jeweled contents taken away.
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π Paw, verb.
π /pΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) touch or handle clumsily or lasciviously.
❗️ Examples:
1. Some overweight Casanova had tried to paw her
2. I wander round looking like a lost child pawing things for a while, and then panic and pick up something which neither fits nor suits me.
3. I wasn't about to let people go around pawing a holy artifact like it was just any old piece of junk.
4. Kassa sat on the sofa nervously twiddling her thumbs; Vlad sat beside her lazily pawing her hair.
5. I was slowly going mad with joy and trying my best to keep looking normal, pawing a CD every now and then.
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π Have, verb.
π /hav/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (something) to be done for one by someone else.
❗️ Examples:
1. It is advisable to have your carpet laid by a professional
2. Other staff will be coming in with bad hair and one teacher is having her hair dyed by the pupils.
3. We're having a small, flat roof added as part of our loft extension.
4. Surely in order to have one's lung cancer treated, one has to, er, go to a hospital and ask to be seen?
5. One Scottish filmmaker who is having his feature screened is Richard Jobson.
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π Cakehole, noun.
π /ΛkeΙͺkhΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person's mouth.
❗️ Examples:
1. You might at least have the courtesy to keep your cakehole closed
2. Every flavourless morsel of sandwich, every last disgusting splodge of bitter, vinegary BBQ gunk, they disappeared down my cakehole as if they were spiced sugar plums.
3. Every once in a long while, he actually shuts his cakehole.
4. It's a rare occasion that I can consciously recall getting up, lugging my bod into the shower, shoveling some toast in my cakehole and lumbering, fresh-faced, out the door.
5. He's got a huge cakehole that needs stuffing.
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π Book, noun.
π /bΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A literary composition that is published or intended for publication as a book.
❗️ Examples:
1. He's writing a book about his experiences
2. Henry Miller had published seventeen books when he sent out an appeal to all his friends to help him out.
3. Merely getting books published serves little purpose if no one reads them.
4. Another, working on a novel for young adults, already has books published in that field.
5. He had just published a book of his life story, and it had become a best seller.
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π Through, adverb.
π /ΞΈruΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: So as to continue in time towards the completion of a process, period, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. She's just started a tour that will keep her busy right through to June
2. My partner was genuinely surprised that babies wake up in the night —he thought newborns sleep through
3. Make sure to watch the video all the way through
4. Though he tried to rally support for his bill, he couldn't push it through
5. We're extremely pleased to be through to the semi-finals
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π Schism, noun.
π /ΛskΙͺz(Ι)m/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The formal separation of a Church into two Churches or the secession of a group owing to doctrinal and other differences.
❗️ Examples:
1. The centralization of the Catholic Church following the schisms of the 14th century changed how builders and patrons approached the construction and layout of churches, monasteries, and chapels.
2. Such controversy, he told The Advocate, is no longer likely to lead to a church schism.
3. It is only in recent years that the dialogue between the two Churches to heal the schism has been effectively re-opened.
4. At the parish level, the fear of schism ensured that the church remained a militant one, committed to the policies of Catholic reform first promulgated by the council of Trent.
5. Since that time, with the exception of brief intervals, the Bulgarian Church has persisted in schism.
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π Good, adjective.
π /Ι‘Κd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to address or refer to people in a courteous, patronizing, or ironic way.
❗️ Examples:
1. A man very like your good self, in fact
2. The good lady of the house
3. The good lady had not realised it was all part of a European Union ruling.
4. One day last week my good lady asked me to pick her up from the office at lunchtime, which I did.
5. However, if this is true, then who could be better than your good self to emerge victorious from all of this?
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π Affirmative, noun.
π /ΙΛfΙΛmΙtΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A position of agreement or confirmation.
❗️ Examples:
1. His answer veeredtowards the affirmative
2. This resolution might, on the surface, seem to lean towards the affirmative, but there are several advantages to both sides.
3. It's a tricky problem, but I think I incline towards the affirmative.
4. And I'm undecided as to whether golf is really a sport, but I'd tend towards the affirmative.
5. Well, it remains to be seen, although we can now once again toss our bets towards the affirmative.
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π Help, noun.
π /hΙlp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A domestic employee.
❗️ Examples:
1. She has taught herself to cook since the defection of the last of the village helps
2. The help cleaned up the leftover food and half-drunk cocktails
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