Cambridge Dictionary:
π Loquacious, adjective.
π /lΙΛkweΙͺΚΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Tending to talk a great deal; talkative.
❗️ Examples:
1. Never loquacious, Sarah was now totally lost for words
2. He cares and worries intensely about movies, and he's eloquent, loquacious, even verbose on the subject.
3. He was loquacious, providing a great deal of his introspection in public.
4. I cannot tell whether he recognised me, but that night he was voluble, almost loquacious.
5. Some of these authors wrote attention-grabbing, grotesque, and overly loquacious pieces, and others settled for merely highly reflective, more conventional literature.
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π Text, noun.
π /tΙkst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.
❗️ Examples:
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π Wrinkled, adjective.
π /ΛrΙͺΕk(Ι)ld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially of fabric or the skin) having wrinkles or slight folds.
❗️ Examples:
1. You just cannot look neat with wrinkled clothes
2. The camera focuses on the wrinkled laughter lines around the man's eyes
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π Credit, noun.
π /ΛkrΙdΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A unit of study counting towards a degree or diploma.
❗️ Examples:
1. The National Certificate consists of twelve credits
2. The geography department is also counting the project as credits towards Rogers' degree.
3. Students not admitted at first try often go into liberal arts where they can work on their prerequisites and accumulate credits toward their degree.
4. Excelling in mathematics and computer studies, he earned 77 college credits, an Associates degree and a paralegal certificate.
5. He was denied the salary increment given to teachers who have attained a master's degree plus 30 credits.
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π Mutual, noun.
π /ΛmjuΛtΚΚΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A mutual building society or insurance company.
❗️ Examples:
1. Life insurance firms are mutuals, owned by their policyholders
2. There are disturbing parallels here with the insurance mutuals, building societies and friendly societies that have already demutualised or are actively contemplating demutualisation.
3. A spokesman said: We are happy to compete with other banks, mutuals and building societies and indeed we do just that.
4. Britain's financial mutuals, including Standard Life, Nationwide and the Equitable are heading towards stormy annual meetings as members line up to launch attacks on the boards and managements.
5. Just as there have always been good companies and bad companies, there have been good mutuals and bad mutuals.
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π Supplant, verb.
π /sΙΛplΙΛnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Supersede and replace.
❗️ Examples:
1. Domestic production has been supplanted by imports and jobs have been lost
2. Most recent anime - and Hollywood movies, for that matter - continually generates two complaints: Style supplants substance and genre replaces originality.
3. And he knows that the economic power of capitalism supplants the dictatorial power he envisions for himself.
4. I have also seen patternmaking techniques designed to fit the human body supplanted by techniques that maximize fabric usage and ease of production, giving us garments that fit no one properly.
5. In some organizations surveillance cameras, electronic pads, and sensors capable of detecting the most minute deviation from stipulated working methods have largely supplanted human supervisors.
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π Count, noun.
π /kaΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An act of reciting numbers in ascending order, up to the specified number.
❗️ Examples:
1. Hold the position for a count of seven
2. I'm trying to get them to emote more, breaking the movements up into counts of four, seven or nine, depending on the music.
3. Dip cookies in hot chocolate to a quick count of five and eat!
4. On the count of five, everyone was to run toward the tree.
5. Each portion of the move should take 2 counts, for a total of 8 counts per rep.
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π Goss, noun.
π /Ι‘Ιs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Gossip.
❗️ Examples:
1. A bit of background goss
2. I know someone who's doing some camerawork for the project, so I'll be sure to get the inside goss off her.
3. We have all the news, all the goss and all the biz on England's new megastar.
4. The discussion on who had bagged what quote was vastly outstripping even the goss on who'd be wearing what to the senior college formal.
5. And the goss is that she visited India again for spiritual growth, shaved her head and is back and living up the coast with her boyfriend in an apartment her parents own.
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π Rely, verb.
π /rΙͺΛlΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Depend on with full trust or confidence.
❗️ Examples:
1. I know I can rely on your discretion
2. This is a situation where an ally, the United States, can rely upon us, can trust upon us.
3. As members of a society, we cope with these complexities and uncertainties by relying on trust.
4. It is impossible to grasp them in full by relying on a single, specific example.
5. As for memoirs, even if there are any, they cannot always be trusted or relied upon.
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π Administer, verb.
π /ΙdΛmΙͺnΙͺstΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a priest) perform the rites of (a sacrament)
❗️ Examples:
1. He administered the sacraments to the flock
2. The Sacrament will be administered by the priests at the ceremonies.
3. Male pastoral workers are allowed to work in parishes; deacons can administer the sacraments of baptism and marriage.
4. Parish directors and lay ministers are asked to prepare candidates for baptism or marriage, then to step aside when a priest arrives to administer the sacraments.
5. Maureen Power read the list of candidates for Confirmation and then the Bishop administered the sacrament with the sponsors by the side of the boys and girls.
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π Pale, adjective.
π /peΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person or their complexion) having less colour than usual, typically as a result of shock, fear, or ill health.
❗️ Examples:
1. She looked pale and drawn
2. She is in shock, and her pale complexion is becoming more and more flecked with blood.
3. He was clean shaven, with a pale complexion and drawn cheeks.
4. She was pale skinned with some freckles and a pixie nose.
5. He was so pale, and his skin felt like fire beneath her fingers.
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π Fuck, noun.
π /fΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A sexual partner of a specified ability.
❗️ Examples:
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π Specify, verb.
π /ΛspΙsΙͺfΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Include in an architect's or engineer's specifications.
❗️ Examples:
1. Naval architects specified circular portholes
2. When architects design buildings and specify construction materials, they are responsible for that building's energy consumption pattern for its lifetime.
3. Do you put up with an architect who specifies beams in places that get in the way of your intended use of the building?
4. Duties included specifying the materials to be used in the construction and fitting out of the factory.
5. The middle level is where the engineers specify models that map onto electrical and electronic components.
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π Walk, verb.
π /wΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a quadruped) proceed with the slowest gait, always having at least two feet on the ground at once.
❗️ Examples:
1. This distinguishes walking from faster gaits in which ground contact is absent for brief periods.
2. Your horse stays by your side always and that includes walking next to you into a trailer.
3. She turned around again, and stroked her stallion's mane as he walked beside her.
4. You apply the aids for a left lead canter and the horse just keeps walking along as though nothing changed at all.
5. Here, Ramirez reined in his horse and they walked forward at a sedate trot.
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π Tawdry, adjective.
π /ΛtΙΛdri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Showy but cheap and of poor quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. Tawdry jewellery
2. Beside them, lines of impoverished street vendors squat on dirty rush mats, displaying their tawdry collections of cheap plastic keyrings and fake Rolex watches.
3. They were once looked down upon as the tawdry poor relations of the fashion industry.
4. Then I distributed the cheap and tawdry things in a convincing fashion all over the house.
5. It was so tawdry and cheap looking, I couldn't resist.
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π Hedging, noun.
π /ΛhΙdΚΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The planting or trimming of hedges.
❗️ Examples:
1. Contract work for hedging and ditching
2. The grants will pay for up to 70% of the cost of hedging, walling, river management, weeding and mowing of grass areas where livestock has been excluded, he added.
3. They will pay for up to 70 per cent of the cost of hedging, walling, river management, weeding and mowing of grass in villages where stock has been excluded.
4. All through the winter the farm worker went hedging.
5. Dense shrubbery and tall hedging offers concealment
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π Adopt, verb.
π /ΙΛdΙpt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.
❗️ Examples:
1. I've adopted this country and feel a certain amount of responsibility towards it.
2. They can trace back their ancestors, who came to India and adopted this country as their own and identify with them.
3. Why shouldn't we open our highest office to those who have adopted this country as their own and have proved their patriotism through decades of devoted citizenship?
4. From humble beginnings in the Welsh valleys he became a national celebrity, who adopted this city as his home and became one of Bradford's leading and best-loved citizens.
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π Pretty, adverb.
π /ΛprΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: To a moderately high degree; fairly.
❗️ Examples:
1. He looked pretty fit for his age
2. It was a pretty bad injury
3. Their match at Bad Blood was pretty decent and I enjoyed it to a certain degree.
4. It was a pretty bad injury, and it was pouring blood onto the already stained carpet.
5. Funny, she thought, his injuries looked pretty bad just ten minutes ago.
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π Ambidextrous, adjective.
π /ΛambΙͺΛdΙkstrΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Able to use the right and left hands equally well.
❗️ Examples:
1. Few of us are naturally ambidextrous
2. He became ambidextrous, using his left hand instead.
3. Although I'm ambidextrous, there are few things I do equally well with either hand.
4. The Nottingham star remarked that his ambidextrous opponent was probably not as good playing with his left hand as his right.
5. Witness the ambidextrous chimpanzee: In captivity, it typically picks branches up with its left hand but digs peanut butter out of a tube with its right.
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π Move, verb.
π /muΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Spend one's time in (a particular sphere) or among (a particular group of people)
❗️ Examples:
1. She moved in the pop and art worlds
2. He was a master at moving within and among very different worlds.
3. We moved within the same social circles and were members of the same clubs.
4. Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher who moved in the same circles as Socrates.
5. They moved in the same circles in London.
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π Take something into account, phrase.
❓ Definition: Consider something along with other factors before reaching a decision.
❗️ Examples:
1. Teachers should take a child's age into account
2. A spokesman for the council said the scheme would be considered on its planning merits and the committee would take all viewpoints into account when reaching its decision.
3. Obviously, any major troop movement must be based on a government decision that takes all relevant factors into account.
4. It is for the tribunal as an industrial jury to take all relevant factors into account in reaching its conclusion, giving such weight to them as it considers appropriate.
5. He said he hoped his views would be taken into account when a decision was made on what disciplinary action would be taken against the officer.
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π Wing, noun.
π /wΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A lateral part or projection of an organ or structure.
❗️ Examples:
1. The posterior aspect of the lateral pterygoid plate may be joined to the angular spine of the greater wing by a pterygopetrosal ligament that may calcify.
2. This branch enters the skull through the superior orbital fissure or a small foramen in the greater wing of the sphenoid to anastomose with the ophthalmic artery.
3. If the patient is able to stand erect, the examiner can estimate the height symmetry of the iliac crests by resting his or her hands on the iliac wings.
4. Flared iliac wings and shallow acetabulae are present along with coxa valga and flaring of the femoral metaphyses.
5. The neat, putty-coloured ribbing of the pectoral muscles forms two perfect wings over the ribcage.
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π Vexed, adjective.
π /ΛvΙkst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a problem or issue) difficult and much debated; problematic.
❗️ Examples:
1. The vexed question of how much money the government is going to spend
2. At the heart of this problem lies the vexed question for the judiciary of separating policy issues from legal issues, and this is well illustrated by the impossibility of accepting the orthodox view of judicial independence at face value.
3. All these issues meet in the vexed question of governance.
4. These legal issues lead into politico-legal questions such as the vexed issue of compliance: there are clearly serious difficulties involved in making states live up to their legal obligations.
5. The cost overrun factor as well as the vexed issue of rehabilitation of displaced problem continued to delay the project time and again.
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π Steam, noun.
π /stiΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Locomotives and railway systems powered by steam.
❗️ Examples:
1. We were trainspotters in the last years of steam
2. For generations, its very name has conjured up the glory days of Britain's railways when steam was king and every town had a station.
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π Inclination, noun.
π /ΙͺnklΙͺΛneΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person's natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way; a disposition.
❗️ Examples:
1. John was a scientist by training and inclination
2. Fanny showed little inclination to talk about anything serious
3. He was free to follow his inclinations
4. From foxhounds to sheep dogs, none can be successful in their natural inclinations without proper training.
5. Previous conflicts between their natural inclinations and their fears would be resolved firmly in favour of the left.
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π Tell, verb.
π /tΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an experience or period of time) have a noticeable, typically harmful, effect on someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. The strain of supporting the family was beginning to tell on him
2. We just did six gigs in seven days so it's told on him a bit.
3. The pressure told on both sets of players as the game got bogged down in a midfield melee with precious little invention from the teams.
4. Confinement and want of fresh air was beginning to tell on her health and spirits.
5. The strain is beginning to tell on her.
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π Dead, adjective.
π /dΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a part of the body) having lost sensation; numb.
❗️ Examples:
1. I severed nerves in my leg so part of my foot is dead
2. She said that her left leg had gone dead and that she had fallen out of bed.
3. Have you ever woken up with a dead arm?
4. His foot is dead and they need to operate immediately to save what's left of his leg.
5. He still has some days when his arm is dead, and he had a scare last week when his shoulder popped during practice.
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π Truth, noun.
π /truΛΞΈ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The quality or state of being true.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had to accept the truth of her accusation
2. Big business acts on a different scale of honesty, morality and truth to we mere mortals.
3. It will say that truth and honesty were the basic disciplines of scientists such as Jones.
4. My research showed that this stereotype once had some truth but is now no longer true.
5. Even true stories do not display the whole truth - just a version or perception of it.
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π Image, noun.
π /ΛΙͺmΙͺdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.
❗️ Examples:
1. Maybe one day it will be sufficient to think about the images involved in a mathematical idea or proof, and a computer will compute the underlying equations for us.
2. In his doctoral dissertation of 1934 he considered permutation groups whose elements are determined by the images of three points.
3. But to determine the center of a spiral similarity one only needs one segment and its image.
4. Consider a triangle and its homothetic image in the Lemoine point of the triangle.
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π Biffo, noun.
π /ΛbΙͺfΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Physical or verbal conflict.
❗️ Examples:
1. He got a red card for a bit of biffo in the box with the keeper
2. The NZ Herald reported a court case over a spot of biffo in Gisborne.
3. I think the only way they will beat the Wallabies is to put the biffo on (Australian for get stuck in).
4. To make matters worse, an alien monster has bobbed up in Hong Kong harbour keen for a bit of biffo.
5. Plenty of runs, plenty of action, a bit of biffo… I'm very excited, very happy, deeply proud.
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π Project, noun.
π /ΛprΙdΚΙkt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A piece of research work undertaken by a school or college student.
❗️ Examples:
1. A history project
2. A couple of weeks ago your diarist was interviewed by pupils at a Lincolnshire school undertaking a history project.
3. Glenn Williams suggested using multi-media projects made by college students and other artists to tell the story, as well.
4. He is an adviser for the Dairy Science Club and has been a mentor for many undergraduate and high school students working on research projects.
5. Offshoots of timber, clothing, stained glass, old Christmas cards and CDs all featured in the projects undertaken by the students.
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π Tweak, verb.
π /twiΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Twist or pull (something) sharply.
❗️ Examples:
1. He tweaked the boy's ear
2. When another had objected he had tweaked the boy's nose.
3. He's had the flu, he tweaked a groin and he pulled a hamstring 10 days ago.
4. Downes was due to be included in the senior squad to face Boston United at Bootham Crescent today but tweaked his medial knee ligaments in training yesterday.
5. He reached over and gently broke the rubber band like cheese, tweaking her nose as well before pulling away.
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π Casual, noun.
π /ΛkaΚjΚΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Clothes or shoes suitable for everyday wear rather than formal occasions.
❗️ Examples:
1. She designs women's casuals
2. From night gowns to casuals, she could find them all.
3. Wearing casuals, they might have been taken for weekenders, just come from the city for a stroll on the beach in the pleasant weather, except that the officers had seen them on the boats.
4. When I came back down, I actually met the guy, and he looked me up and down in that disapproving look, because I was just wearing casuals.
5. The crowd was a mix of men and woman, some in casuals, others dressed up.
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π Squashy, adjective.
π /ΛskwΙΚi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Easily crushed or squeezed into a different shape; having a soft consistency.
❗️ Examples:
1. A big, squashy leather chair
2. Instead I went to sit on the squashy overstuffed leather chair by the books.
3. If you use this entrance, you miss the lovely squashy leather sofas and the trendy wooden bar area that greets the front door customers.
4. The rooms are furnished in period style with squashy sofas and chairs in intimate groupings complete with photographs and hunting trophies from bygone eras and current family snaps.
5. Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
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π Coastal, adjective.
π /ΛkΙΚstl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of or near a coast.
❗️ Examples:
1. Coastal erosion
2. Coastal waters
3. The process of coastal erosion and deposition further down the coast has been going on for centuries.
4. When it opened it was the first of Yorkshire Water's new coastal schemes to be commissioned.
5. A rise in sea level is a concern where economic activity is based in coastal areas.
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π Graveyard, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘reΙͺvjΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A burial ground, especially one beside a church.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was buried in the graveyard of St Mary's parish church
2. A state-sponsored graveyard of artistic ambition
3. He was buried beside my mother in the graveyard beside the church in the little town near our ranch.
4. The graveyard was used from the beginning, as poor people who went to the workhouse couldn't afford to be buried in the church graveyards.
5. She cycled on, through the winding streets of the village to the graveyard beside the old stone church.
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π Goosegog, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘ΚzΙ‘ΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A gooseberry.
❗️ Examples:
1. Tip handfuls of pale, hard goosegogs into a stainless steel pan and sprinkle them generously with unrefined golden sugar and a few good shakes of water - just enough to stop the fruit sticking.
2. The wine has all the usual varietal characteristics; elderflower aromas with flavours of goosegog and lime.
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π Lift, verb.
π /lΙͺft/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Use (a person's work or ideas) without permission or acknowledgement.
❗️ Examples:
1. This is a hackneyed adventure lifted straight from a vintage Lassie episode
2. It could have been lifted straight out of the '80s.
3. The congestion charge, introduced in London on Monday, has been lifted straight out of the professor's 1951 essay.
4. It is the kind of story which could have been lifted straight from the pages of one of her fictional tales.
5. These scenes could have been lifted straight out of the Middle Ages.
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π Emit, verb.
π /ΙͺΛmΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (a sound)
❗️ Examples:
1. She emitted a sound like laughter
2. Pooh briefly emitted a noise that sounded vaguely like some kind of curse.
3. The headphones emit a sound that cancels out airplane noise.
4. Poppy was huddled in a rabbit hutch, both her ears held flat to her head, making meowing actions but emitting no sound.
5. My uncle emitted a sound that I never want to hear again.
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π Give, verb.
π /Ι‘Ιͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to present a speaker or entertainer or when making a toast.
❗️ Examples:
1. For your entertainment this evening I give you … Mister Albert DeNero!
2. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… The Royal Family.
3. Ladies and gentleman, all the way from San Ramon, California, I give you… Mark Busby!
4. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 13 th greatest Canadian of all time.
5. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first superhero movie for grownups.
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π Delta, noun.
π /ΛdΙltΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A change or set of changes made to a file or program, especially as part of an update to a later version.
❗️ Examples:
1. This approach saves disk space by storing only data deltas
2. Updates will be delivered as delta updates instead of complete application downloads
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π Title, noun.
π /ΛtΚΙͺt(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A descriptive or distinctive name that is earned or chosen.
❗️ Examples:
1. The restaurant deserved the title of Best Restaurant of the Year
2. Michael Caine's role in the classic Get Carter has earned the title of nastiest screen character of all time.
3. This distinguishes Taimu from other mountains and earns it the title of Fairyland on the Sea.
4. TV's Pioneer is one of the many titles Milton Berle has earned, but he got into show business long before Americans started turning on the tube.
5. Their efforts earned them the titles of Best Farm Shop and Entrepreneur of the Year.
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π Intonation, noun.
π /ΙͺntΙΛneΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of intoning or reciting in a singing voice.
❗️ Examples:
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π Tokunbo, adjective.
π /tΙ(Κ)ΛkΚmbΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting an imported second-hand product, especially a car.
❗️ Examples:
1. The policy introduced a standard duty rate for all tokunbo vehicles
2. We are all buying tokunbo tyres
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π Lie, noun.
π /lΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The way, direction, or position in which something lies.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was familiarizing himself with the lie of the streets
2. With the lie of Scottish theatreland already shifting, we are seeing a nascent, semiconscious shuffling for position for next year's awards.
3. Then, too, I am scared of tying too much money up here, not being entirely sure where the lie of the politics is.
4. You should brush along the lie of the hair, and in the places hardest for the cat to reach such as under the chin and the back of the neck.
5. You have been invited to play a new golf course and now want to find out more about it, perhaps even walk the course in advance of your game or visualise the lie of the greens.
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π Slew, noun.
π /sluΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A violent or uncontrollable sliding movement.
❗️ Examples:
1. I was assaulted by the thump and slew of the van
2. It is preferred that the control means be adapted to adjust automatically the slew of the discharge boom relative to the hopper car.
3. One object of the invention is to dynamically reduce resistance in order to decrease the time constant during the signal transition for allowing a more rapid slew of the signal from one logic state to another.
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π Full, verb.
π /fΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of the moon or tide) become full.
❗️ Examples:
1. Fulling moon aloft doth ride
2. I have cured many cases of goitre with Iodine, giving a powder every night for four nights, after the moon fulled and was waning.
3. This gross darkness held till about one o'clock, although the moon had fulled but the day before.
4. The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
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π See, verb.
π /siΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Find good or attractive qualities in (someone)
❗️ Examples:
1. I don't know what I see in you
2. Coleman saw the same qualities in him that had caught Whalley's eye in the first place and offered him a two-year deal after a handful of friendlies.
3. At 28 he might be in the prime of his career, but he still sees things in others he would like to add to his own game.
4. For me, the idea is to look at someone and see that they can see in me something that's in them.
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π Revolt, verb.
π /rΙͺΛvΙΚlt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take violent action against an established government or ruler; rebel.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Iceni revolted and had to be suppressed
2. He urged people to revolt against the established government and turn the revolution against the king although he preferred to remain aloof from the actual events.
3. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers.
4. Five calls described the intent of passengers and surviving crew members to revolt against the hijackers.
5. And there will be blood, too, or else people will start to revolt against the Lone Guard and Miskavel's purification.
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π Get, verb.
π /Ι‘Ιt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make contact with, especially by telephone.
❗️ Examples:
1. You can get me at home if you need me
2. Lost my cell phone, but you can still get me at my landline.
3. She called him at home, but got his wife instead.
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π Largish, adjective.
π /ΛlΙΛdΚΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Fairly large.
❗️ Examples:
1. A largish dog
2. Her largish fan base
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π Leap, verb.
π /liΛp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Accept (an opportunity) eagerly.
❗️ Examples:
1. They leapt at the opportunity to combine fun with fund-raising
2. When asked by one of its key suppliers to develop their website, staff leapt at the chance.
3. When the university approached Uncle Sam about the idea of an alumni center, he leaped at the opportunity.
4. She leaped at the opportunity and became one of only two women investment bankers on a staff of 150.
5. No doubt he also leapt at the reportedly very large but undisclosed sum of money.
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π Indicate, verb.
π /ΛΙͺndΙͺkeΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a gauge or meter) register a reading of (a quantity, dimension, etc.)
❗️ Examples:
1. An external tube is used to indicate fluid level
2. Again the camera meter will indicate a shutter speed and an aperture to give you an 18% grey object.
3. Estimates from tide gauges indicate that sea level has changed at the rate of 1.8 to 2.4 mm/yr over the last century.
4. The junction box has two meters indicating the voltage and load capacity readings.
5. The activity LED will blink twice which indicates Speed Boost is enabled.
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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 Expect, verb.
π /ΙͺkΛspΙkt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Regard (something) as likely to happen.
❗️ Examples:
1. It's as well to expect the worst
2. The hearing is expected to last a week
3. One might expect that Hollywood would adjust its approach
4. Meanwhile, the chances of a white Christmas in York looked less likely as showers were expected to stay on the west side of the country.
5. His optimism is based on record profits at banks and oil firms but he also expects the recovery in the stock markets to increase receipts, despite concerns over the US economy.
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π Rebound, verb.
π /rΙͺΛbaΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Bounce back through the air after hitting something hard.
❗️ Examples:
1. His shot hammered into the post and rebounded across the goal
2. He careered towards the hard shoulder, rebounded and collided with the central reservation.
3. Keeping the momentum going Thomas was again unlucky as his drop goal attempt rebounded off the post.
4. She rebounded off the surprisingly hard girl and landed on the floor with a muted cry.
5. Four minutes into the second-half Hampton had a stroke of luck when a shot from Liam Collins struck Iga's right hand post, rebounded against the keeper's body and bounced to safety.
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π Bed, noun.
π /bΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A layer of food on which other foods are served.
❗️ Examples:
1. The salad is served on a bed of raw spinach
2. Chilli peppers are included in a mixture of minced lamb and flavourings served on a bed of Basmati rice.
3. Serve hot on a bed of onion, tomato and cucumber rings and plenty of tomato sauce or any chutney of your choice.
4. The baked lamb is served on the bed of rice liberally garnished with almonds and ghee.
5. These tasty dishes were served on beds of broccoli dressed with chili, garlic, spring onions and other ingredients.
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π Kero, noun.
π /ΛkΙrΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Kerosene.
❗️ Examples:
1. The kero cost a small fortune and we could only have one lamp lit
2. It cost less to produce than petrol, but being less volatile, kero has to be heated before entering the combustion chamber.
3. Where the heck did I leave my kero for the torches again?
4. He just passes the kero to Philip, and again the fire rages.
5. Time to break out the effigies and kero.
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π Appropriate, adjective.
π /ΙΛprΙΚprΙͺΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Suitable or proper in the circumstances.
❗️ Examples:
1. This isn't the appropriate time or place
2. A measure appropriate to a wartime economy
3. In this circumstance it is appropriate to depend upon a set of rules for swift action.
4. A conditional discharge would be appropriate for the offences in all the circumstances.
5. Cook with spices that are appropriate for the season and for your skin and your physiology.
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π Cry, verb.
π /krΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Say something loudly in an excited or anguished tone of voice.
❗️ Examples:
1. Where will it end? he cried out
2. Feet could be heard pounding down the steps to his quarters and a voice cried out, Maurice!
3. Suddenly a voice cried out to her in this manner: Get up quickly!
4. And saying this he cried out with a great voice: Lazarus, come out here.
5. I deserve every pain you may inflict on me, she cried, tears welling up in her eyes.
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π Watch, verb.
π /wΙtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Exercise care, caution, or restraint about.
❗️ Examples:
1. Most women watch their diet during pregnancy
2. You should watch what you say!
3. There aren't many people who have extra weight that workout/exercise regularly and watch their intake.
4. If you start watching your diet along with exercising, you're sure to see changes in your figure.
5. She kept her body slim and healthy with regular exercise and watching the amount of food she ate.
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π Eurasian, noun.
π /jΚ(Ι)ΛreΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person of mixed European (or European-American) and Asian parentage.
❗️ Examples:
1. Evolutionary psychologists say it's because Eurasians and other mixed race individuals appear healthier.
2. Other groups include Arabs, Armenians, and Eurasians.
3. The island nation's population of almost four million comprises 77 per cent Chinese, 14 per cent Malays, eight per cent Indian and one per cent Eurasians and people of other descent.
4. The Eurasians held that the war in Europe and the revolution in Russia were not simply political catastrophes but signs of the breakdown of European culture.
5. Locals are very proud of the fact that the major ethnic groups - the Chinese, Indians, Malays and Eurasians - live harmoniously together.
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π Sink, verb.
π /sΙͺΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause something sharp to penetrate (a surface)
❗️ Examples:
1. The dog sank its teeth into her arm
2. The dog sinks his teeth into the young man's meatballs.
3. He snaps at her with his sharp teeth and sinks them into her paw.
4. These noble big dogs will bleed the ground red as they sink their teeth into one another in the name of nations great and small.
5. Without the aid of soy sauce or wasabi, our dishevelled hero sinks his teeth into the head of a live and writhing squid.
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π Associate, verb.
π /ΙΛsΙΚΚΙͺeΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Connect (something) with something else because they occur together or one produces the other.
❗️ Examples:
1. The environmental problems associated with nuclear waste
2. When dwarf faunas are found in the fossil record, they are invariably associated with times of environmental stress.
3. Outcomes, qualities, behaviors and numerous other characteristics are commonly associated with success.
4. However, repeated messages about smoking cessation over long periods of time are associated with greater success.
5. Remember that every muscle is connected to bone and that every muscle is also associated with an organ.
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π Guber, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘uΛbΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to a governor; gubernatorial.
❗️ Examples:
1. Scores of guber candidates and aspirants attended the rally
2. The guber election
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π Camouflage, verb.
π /ΛkamΙflΙΛΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Conceal the existence of (something undesirable)
❗️ Examples:
1. Grievances should be discussed, not camouflaged
2. Of course, the administration deserves to be criticized for its crude attempts to camouflage the painful reality of the occupation.
3. Her gift for profanity does not a thing to camouflage her upper-class upbringing.
4. Lumping all transition economies into the same academic pot has camouflaged important differences.
5. My personal skill was camouflaging my abilities with a deficiency.
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π In the long run, phrase.
❓ Definition: Over or after a long period of time; eventually.
❗️ Examples:
1. It saves money in the long run
2. The project will both use a renewable source of power as well as save the university money in the long run.
3. As well as improving performance, the new units would also save money in the long run.
4. Although bosses admit the changes will cause teething problems they say it will work well in the long run.
5. Of course it would be difficult, but the benefits in the long run would be worth it.
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π Tumble, verb.
π /ΛtΚmb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Clean (castings, gemstones, etc.) in a tumbling barrel.
❗️ Examples:
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π Love, verb.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Feel deep affection for (someone)
❗️ Examples:
1. He loved his sister dearly
2. There were four memorial pages set up by her friends in honour of Phoebe, saying how much they loved and missed her
3. He truly did love her, and deep down he knew his family would too, but he was still nervous.
4. Though you tried to deny it, you must trust your heart that deep inside you love him.
5. A part of me hoped that deep down he really did love me for that.
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π Guber, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘uΛbΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to a governor; gubernatorial.
❗️ Examples:
1. Scores of guber candidates and aspirants attended the rally
2. The guber election
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π Screw up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of the muscles of one's face or around one's eyes) contract, typically so as to express emotion or because of bright light.
❗️ Examples:
1. His freckled face screwed up with childish annoyance
2. They sat in the shade, their weather beaten faces screwed up against the harsh light.
3. He started when he looked down to see a red, puckered face, screwed up in a scowl while staring up at him.
4. Mr Black's wrinkly face screwed up to such a degree that he looked like a sun dried tomato.
5. Before I pretend to pity him, Christopher Bailey's boyish face is already screwing up into a devilishly conspiratorial smirk.
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π Done for, phrase.
❓ Definition: In a situation so bad that it is impossible to get out.
❗️ Examples:
1. If the guard sees us, we're done for
2. At the end of the fifth book about the schoolboy spy, we thought our young hero was done for.
3. We thought it was done for but then after much jumping up and down and sand throwing we unbeached it.
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π Doh, noun.
π /dΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in tonic sol-fa) the first and eighth note of a major scale.
❗️ Examples:
1. In exercise 2, the fourth note, soh of D major, becomes the new doh of A major, and is therefore given both names (sung as s'doh).
2. Tonic sol-fa was taught as his school and, by eighth grade, he had learned to snap doh, me, sol doh (a four note major chord) and performed this musical trick at a school concert.
3. When a tune modulates, the new key note is named doh, the transition being expressed by a bridge note with a double name.
4. For example, the leading tone, the seventh note of the musical scale, known as ti (doh re me fa so la ti… doh) predicts or refers to the tonic, doh.
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π Cast, noun.
π /kΙΛst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris, moulded to the shape of a limb that is broken and used to support and protect it.
❗️ Examples:
1. I had to spend a month in a cast
2. Why aren't some types of broken bones put in casts right away?
3. Some members of this profession specialize in a narrow range of conditions, for example, bonesetters, who make casts and medicines for broken limbs.
4. Joshua, who is encased from hip to neck in a plaster cast to protect his weak bones, had a huge smile on his face throughout
5. Not all skiing accidents can be mended with a plaster cast or bandage.
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π Remember, verb.
π /rΙͺΛmΙmbΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Do something that one has undertaken to do or that is necessary or advisable.
❗️ Examples:
1. Did you remember to post the letters?
2. Then, when you're stopping the paper and the mail, remember to plant some trees as well.
3. Please list your 5 choices in order, remember to sign your post, and get it in by midnight on the 21st.
4. Paul's strengths are that he vacuums, does dishes, and remembers to turn the car blinker off pretty quick after completing a left hand turn.
5. If we can't manage things at home, such as cooking, cleaning, bathing or remembering to take our medications, we may not know where to go for help.
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π Start, verb.
π /stΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Begin to move or travel.
❗️ Examples:
1. We started out into the snow
2. He started for the door
3. Gently closing the door behind her she started down the stairs rubbing her eyes free from sleep as she did so.
4. Renfrew started forward, suddenly aware that he had not just been talking to himself.
5. I started towards the double doors, thinking that I should explain in person.
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π Guber, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘uΛbΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to a governor; gubernatorial.
❗️ Examples:
1. Scores of guber candidates and aspirants attended the rally
2. The guber election
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π Hold up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Remain strong or vigorous.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Labour vote held up well
2. The counting of postal votes shows 6,000 votes already cast with our vote holding up well.
3. At the last general election the Labour vote held up best in the party's marginal seats.
4. Whether it will hold up under the latest media onslaught remains to be seen.
5. I sweat until pretty much every inch of my clothing is soaked, but my energy holds up.
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π The last straw, phrase.
❓ Definition: A further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable.
❗️ Examples:
1. His affair was the last straw
2. But the recent incident, just two doors up from her house, involving a truck driver who has since admitted being over the drink drive limit, was the final straw.
3. The problem of the compensation payment, coupled with difficulties in keeping up with Inland Revenue repayments, proved the final straw for the club.
4. Shops and vehicles have been targeted in the latest series of attacks in Kew and it has proved the final straw for local people.
5. We observe as a situation under his command ends badly, which is the final straw.
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π Well, noun.
π /wΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A water spring or fountain.
❗️ Examples:
1. By a gurgling well stood a handsome peasant woman with red arms, pouring water into the milk that she was going to carry to the city.
2. A gurgling well sprang from the foot of the altar, saving the townspeople from dying of thirst.
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π Dig, noun.
π /dΙͺΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A push or poke with one's elbow, finger, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ginnie gave her sister a dig in the ribs
2. All three took the digs, the elbows, the studs-up tackles and the raking down the shins and moved on.
3. Martina - not even interrupting her conversation with Julie, but somehow aware of Mike's derogatory comments - digs her elbow into his side.
4. Scott spluttered, earning himself a sharp dig in the ribs from Josh.
5. A dig in the ribs from my puritanical brother told me when I was going too far.
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π Stumble, verb.
π /ΛstΚmb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her foot caught in the rug and she stumbled
2. But when she began stumbling and losing her balance, she knew something was seriously wrong.
3. That way, your bud doesn't have to deal with stumbling or losing his or her balance when the train comes to a bumpy stop.
4. The body tripped and stumbled momentarily but carried on regardless.
5. Thorn ran and thrust the stick into the back of the demon, making him lose his balance, and stumbling.
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π Count, verb.
π /kaΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be significant.
❗️ Examples:
1. It did not matter what the audience thought—it was the critics that counted
2. Logically, in a normal election, governance issues should count significantly.
3. Critics' views count only when they echo the public's, she says.
4. When it mattered, when it counted, you were there, and that's what should count.
5. Perhaps all columnists have to persuade themselves that they count, that they matter, that they are agents of history, whispering words of wisdom into the ear of the history makers.
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π Guber, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘uΛbΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to a governor; gubernatorial.
❗️ Examples:
1. Scores of guber candidates and aspirants attended the rally
2. The guber election
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π Run out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become no longer valid.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her contract runs out at the end of the year
2. My contract runs out at the end of the year, and as yet nothing else has been agreed.
3. I have a five-year contract which runs out next July.
4. Larsson's contract runs out at the end of next season.
5. Either way, around 1000 footballers look likely to be made redundant when their contracts run out at the end of this season.
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π Every cloud has a silver lining, phrase.
❓ Definition: Every difficult or sad situation has a comforting or more hopeful aspect, even though this may not be immediately apparent.
❗️ Examples:
1. After the fire two years ago few could see the silver lining
2. But, every cloud has a silver lining (for me anyway).
3. In a case of every cloud has a silver lining, Bernard had injured his knee and the other soldiers continued on their journey, only to be ambushed.
4. But hey, it's not all bad, every cloud has a silver lining!
5. To the economy, and every cloud has a silver lining, they say, but in the dismal science, as they call economics, the opposite is often true.
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π Encounter, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛkaΚntΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Meet (someone) unexpectedly.
❗️ Examples:
1. What do we know about the people we encounter in our daily lives?
2. Upon his return he encountered Mistress Dorset in the corridor.
3. Rather, it appeared to be shock at encountering the person she least expected to meet.
4. It is only infrequently in life that one encounters people whose talents have been recognised and honoured by society.
5. The middle part of the film becomes a series of incidents, with the girls encountering people who either help or hinder them.
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π Cool, noun.
π /kuΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A time or place at which the temperature is pleasantly low.
❗️ Examples:
1. The cool of the day
2. As they sit at the openings of their tents in the cool of the summer evening, on the completion of a long journey, they break out into song.
3. What better way to end a hot summer's day than to sit back to enjoy the cool of the evening with the latest gripping novel.
4. Sometimes a few small boys are scrabbling about on a road or an old lady is sitting out in the cool of an evening.
5. In the cool of the evening as the day winds down, they gather again for a cold beer or a Pernod.
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π Code, verb.
π /kΙΚd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Convert (the words of a message) into a code so as to convey a secret meaning.
❗️ Examples:
1. Only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded
2. Thus the hats contain a message coded in the manner in which they are worn.
3. The package enables audio traffic - such as a phone conversation - to be coded as data, sent down an internet connection and then decoded at the other end.
4. Given that the messages are claimed to be coded, it would seem that network editing is unlikely to pick them out.
5. Places carry meanings and are coded with narrative significances, and these built-in values are useful to writers.
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π Faith, noun.
π /feΙͺΞΈ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A particular religion.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Christian faith
2. Today's service assembles representatives of a wide range of religions and faiths.
3. Putting all religions or faiths into one hat and saying that they are all like this is untrue and a bit naive.
4. We live in the days of pluralism, when all faiths and religions are of equal worth.
5. It drew in religious scholars of both faiths from around the world.
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π Guber, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘uΛbΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to a governor; gubernatorial.
❗️ Examples:
1. Scores of guber candidates and aspirants attended the rally
2. The guber election
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π Run out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Emerge from a contest in a specified position.
❗️ Examples:
1. The team ran out 4–1 winners
2. The lead changed hands several times with the top Scottish team eventually running out winners.
3. Manchester United ran out comfortable 3-0 winners and qualified for the quarter-finals.
4. Further goals were scored by James Gill and Rob Henson as they ran out 7-2 winners.
5. The home team dominated from the start to finish to run out easy winners.
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π Amid, preposition.
π /ΙΛmΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Surrounded by; in the middle of.
❗️ Examples:
1. Our dream home, set amid magnificent rolling countryside
2. The cabins stand in their own picket-fenced patch of grass amid beautiful countryside.
3. Only about a dozen homes surround the picture-book church, which is set amid rolling fields.
4. These housing projects are cruelly juxtaposed amid the sublime beauty that surrounds Nuuk.
5. To top off her bewilderment, the lad was walking amid his parents who didn't seem to notice at all.
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π Swing, noun.
π /swΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The motion of swinging.
❗️ Examples:
1. This short cut gave her hair new movement and swing
2. Here, layers are added at the chin length to increase hair volume and give some swing.
3. A full skirt adds swing and style.
4. Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
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π Clerk, noun.
π /klΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A lay officer of a cathedral, parish church, college chapel, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. A chapter clerk
2. In Leeds boy choristers and lay clerks from the parish church and pupils from St Peter's Church of England Primary School took part.
3. This was about the clerk of that parish, whose wife used to wash the parson's surplices.
4. It has involved the resignation of the cathedral chapter clerk, bursar and organist.
5. Now a lay clerk in Worcester Cathedral, he also conducts and tours his own chamber choir.
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π Strange, adjective.
π /streΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain.
❗️ Examples:
1. Children have some strange ideas
2. He's a very strange man
3. It is strange how things change
4. It is strange how ideas such as these last almost as long as brick and mortar buildings.
5. It was strange how the country air smelled so different from the city air.
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π Ta-ra, exclamation.
π /tΙΛrΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Goodbye.
❗️ Examples:
1. I said ta-ra and left
2. Afterwards, I said ta-ra to them and I caught the tube train back to Waterloo, where we managed to board a Bristol-bound train that stopped at Didcot with only a minute to spare.
3. Say ta-ra to t' kids for me.
4. Anyhow all that leaves me to say is ta-ra for a few days - emails welcome or you can catch me on snail.
5. He said ta-ra to his girlfriend and his dear old mum, and went undercover.
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π Let out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of lessons at school, a meeting, or an entertainment) finish, so that those attending are able to leave.
❗️ Examples:
1. His classes let out at noon
2. School begins at seven and lets out at two thirty.
3. The last screening of the film festival let out at 7:30 p.m.
4. What time does class let out?
5. It was raining in true Florida fashion the day after the schools were let out.
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π Famous last words, phrase.
❓ Definition: Said as an ironic comment on an overconfident assertion that may later be proved wrong.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'll be perfectly OK on my own. Famous last words, she thought to herself
2. Perhaps the most famous last words in military history were uttered by an American Civil War officer, John Sedgwick: They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
3. So for now I'm off to make my final preparations in the hope that all runs smoothly… famous last words!
4. This time we have no return to boom and bust, a mantra which could turn out to be Gordon Brown's famous last words.
5. No one laughed when Gen. George Custer uttered his famous last words at Little Big Horn: We're not out of it.
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π Cinch, verb.
π /sΙͺn(t)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Fix (a saddle) securely by means of a girth.
❗️ Examples:
1. When I caught up with him he was cinching up the saddle on Rose
2. After cinching the saddle tightly around the donkey's belly, she adjusted the balance of the baskets.
3. He gave her one look before he finished cinching the saddle.
4. The stable man worked quickly, putting a velvet saddle blanket on, then the saddle, which he cinched securely.
5. Joshua cinched the girth on his horse's saddle, pulling it tight and swinging upon the animal's broad back with ease.
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