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π Rack, noun.
π /rak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A bed.
❗️ Examples:
1. They hot-bunk - sharing the use of a rack with a shipmate working an alternate watch.
2. One morning during a heavy rain we shoved our racks to the bulkheads and turned our barracks into a mini-drill-field and practiced close order drill.
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π Marine, adjective.
π /mΙΛriΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of artists or painting) depicting scenes at sea.
❗️ Examples:
1. Marine painters
2. With Turner, however, his marine paintings - a third of his output - are the key to his entire oeuvre.
3. He served as a naval officer in the First World War and by 1945 was the best-known marine artist in Britain.
4. But today he is known as one of the finest living marine artists in the world.
5. Born in Antwerp and trained as a marine artist, he excelled in portraying the busy life of ports.
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π Quarantine, noun.
π /ΛkwΙrΙntiΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.
❗️ Examples:
1. Many animals die in quarantine
2. For nearly one hundred years, bringing a pet into Britain involved a six month period in quarantine.
3. Patients are considered contagious and should remain in quarantine until all scabs separate.
4. After the transplant she had to spend six months in quarantine to avoid catching an infection while her immune system recovered, but now she is fit and well.
5. The English are very strict on their anti-rabies regulations and sometimes keep animals in quarantine for six months.
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π Sitooterie, noun.
π /sΙͺΛtuΛtΙri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small building or area where people can sit outside; a summer house, conservatory, or gazebo.
❗️ Examples:
1. We have a sitooterie for the rare warm evenings
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π Come across, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Meet or find by chance.
❗️ Examples:
1. I came across these old photos recently
2. Even though the book is a popular one, chances of school children coming across it are minimal.
3. Sometimes acquaintances tip him off about such books and at other times he comes across them by chance.
4. They are deep below the ground and, unless you knew where to find them you'd probably never come across them by chance as the entrance is just a small door on the side of the road.
5. I have met or come across people who care about where they live, are moved by what goes on near and far.
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π At stake, phrase.
❓ Definition: At issue or in question.
❗️ Examples:
1. The logical response is to give up, but there's more at stake than logic
2. There does not seem to me to be a fundamental issue of jurisprudence at stake, but more a question of evidence.
3. The issues at stake are issues that people of faith need to confront.
4. There are several issues at stake here, but two stand out in particular.
5. This one makes you sift through the issues at stake in the election in Britain.
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π Anxious, adjective.
π /ΛaΕ(k)ΚΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was extremely anxious about her exams
2. An anxious look
3. There is actually another group of people who are much more anxious about the outcome than any of the above.
4. Now they are also edgy, anxious, fearful, often depressed and undeniably kinder.
5. His anxious relatives are desperate for reassurance that he is safe.
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π Expose, verb.
π /ΙͺkΛspΙΚz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Subject (photographic film) to light when operating a camera.
❗️ Examples:
1. I mainly use the meter setting of 3200 at the camera to expose the film.
2. In the traditional darkroom, a photographer makes a print by projecting light through the original piece of film, which exposes the paper.
3. Some images are printed using the Lightjet, a digital enlarger that exposes photographic paper with red, green and blue lasers.
4. Her work makes excellent use of what looks like badly exposed outdated Polaroid film.
5. Until the early 1900s, photographic films had to be exposed for some 10 seconds.
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π Stop, verb.
π /stΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end.
❗️ Examples:
1. This harassment has got to be stopped
2. They're going to try to do it and I don't think they are going to be capable of stopping the political process.
3. It's a lot harder to stop a ritual process midway than to avoid the process entirely.
4. And so far, the injections have only stopped the degenerative process, not reversed it.
5. Fortunately in Australia this process was stopped before it ran its course.
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π Fine, adjective.
π /fΚΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting or displaying a state of good, though not excellent, preservation in stamps, books, coins, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. Despite the specimen's fine preservation, we are not sure to what species it belongs.
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π Poozle, verb.
π /ΛpuΛz(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Scavenge for collectable or useful items.
❗️ Examples:
1. Collectors were poozling through stores for neglected rarities
2. Assorted chairs were poozled from backyards and basements
3. All the bric-a-brac had already been poozled.
4. We spent one long night out poozling.
5. The big themes of New Zealand art are journeying and "poozling".
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π Turn up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Be found, especially by chance, after being lost.
❗️ Examples:
1. All the missing documents had turned up
2. A large number of dodgy documents have turned up over the last month.
3. As soon as it appeared on some bonus CD, it started turning up in file sharing sites.
4. And Plato does not appear to be a nickname; it turns up frequently in the period.
5. Maybe something turns up in tests, or they don't want to go through with it, or they get a new job while the investigations are being carried out.
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π You scratch my back and i'll scratch yours, phrase.
❓ Definition: If you do me a favour, I'll return it.
❗️ Examples:
1. It's a story of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
2. The amalgamated union of executive and non-executive directors represents a friendly society which operates on the basis of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
3. She said the concept is based on the saying, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
4. What is so objectionable is the cosiness of it all: you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
5. In short, I would prefer honest reviews over the watered-down "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours kind.
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π Abdominal, noun.
π /abΛdΙmΙͺn(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An abdominal muscle.
❗️ Examples:
1. Pilates greatly benefits the lower abdominals
2. Remember that abdominals are muscles, just like triceps, biceps, pecs and lats.
3. I can boast coconut deltoids, pulsating pectorals, bulging biceps and six pack abdominals.
4. More advanced students use their abdominals and thigh muscles to keep their legs extended.
5. The two went to work on her hamstrings, abdominals and back muscles.
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π Fake, verb.
π /feΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (an event) appear to happen.
❗️ Examples:
1. He faked his own death
2. Jim had faked his death by appearing to drown off the coast of Miami, knowing his death would be reported and that his wife would make a claim on his life assurance policy.
3. The second features how-to instructions for faking one's death using various roots & berries.
4. Only his death will be faked, and word will be sent that he died at the claws of a vicious sand dragon!
5. The suspicion that the emperor's death had been faked gained more and more adherents.
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π Serve, verb.
π /sΙΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Operate (a gun)
❗️ Examples:
1. Before long Lodge was the only man in his section able to serve the guns
2. It was even said that she carried hot coffee to all the officers and then carried more hot coffee in pails to the artilleryman serving the guns.
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π Gaze, noun.
π /Ι‘eΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in literary theory) a particular perspective considered as embodying certain aspects of the relationship between observer and observed.
❗️ Examples:
1. The male gaze
2. His blindness ensures that she does not, once again, become the object of the male gaze.
3. There seems to be a female gaze that is pretty much like the male gaze, if you ask me.
4. As a first step, I closely examine the passage, its narrative strategies and the gaze, or rather gazes, that inform it.
5. They do not avert their eye coyly or present a subordinate sex symbol image that invites the male gaze.
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π Bosie, noun.
π /ΛbΙΚzi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An off break bowled with an apparent leg-break action; a googly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Cricket, with its googlies, boseys, chinamen, silly legs, byes, sundries - the whole argot - was incomprehensible without deep explanation.
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π Put up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Stay temporarily in accommodation other than one's own home.
❗️ Examples:
1. We put up at a hotel in the city centre
2. We put up in a hotel full of flies.
3. You cruise through Pensacola and put up in a motel in Marianna
4. We put up in a little hotel, three or four of us in a bed, four or five of us on the floor.
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π Up to, phrase.
❓ Definition: Until.
❗️ Examples:
1. Up to now I hadn't had a relationship
2. The frustrating thing is, we were doing alright up until then and were making good use of our extra player.
3. The autumn and winter months up until the middle of December are traditionally the best time for game.
4. It traces the painter's adult life right up until his death in a car crash in 1956.
5. No one guessed this was possible, at least up until a month ago, but it's going to take place, like it or not.
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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 Occupy, verb.
π /ΛΙkjΚpΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Keep (someone) busy and active.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sarah occupied herself taking the coffee cups over to the sink
2. She hid her face and dashed past them while Jennifer was busy occupying Aaron.
3. At least finding this Daniel Mason person would occupy him for a while when he got back.
4. For the next few hours, the remaining soldiers were occupied by burying those of their group that had been killed by the rogues.
5. The new leisure centre will provide services for the community, including essential activities to occupy young people.
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π Bless, verb.
π /blΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of God or some notional higher power) endow someone with (a particular cherished thing or attribute)
❗️ Examples:
1. We have been blessed with a beautiful baby boy
2. A beautiful city blessed with huge sandy beaches
3. The Lord blessed Tommy with many special attributes, among them a unique stubbornness, a special form of loving, confident arrogance, a quaint sense of humor and an unconditional love for all.
4. The Screening God is one of the most important Gods as he is blessed with the power to see who is worthy of becoming a god, an angel, or thrown back down to earth.
5. I didn't know then that you were blessed with such power.
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π Aggregator, noun.
π /ΛaΙ‘rΙͺΙ‘eΙͺtΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A website or program that collects related items of content and displays them or links to them.
❗️ Examples:
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π Lig, verb.
π /lΙͺΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take advantage of free parties, travel, or other benefits offered by companies for publicity purposes.
❗️ Examples:
1. Instead of touring, the band spent all their time fighting and ligging
2. It's been a wonderful week; I've dined on five-star nosh in a brand-new old-style luxury chalet; I've ligged around Val D' Isere like a bone fide, rich-bint It person and frothed around in the same jacuzzi recently occupied by Bono.
3. Instead of dedicating themselves to breaking America by touring, they spent all their time fighting and ligging.
4. Chris and I are on a guest list for Thursday - fancy ligging it?
5. He failed to disclose exactly how much of licence payers' money he pocketed for hosting the show, nor did he clarify whether he forked out thousands for his daughters' VIP tickets, or ligged them.
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π Bring something back, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Cause something to return.
❗️ Examples:
1. The smell of the tiny church brought back every memory of my childhood
2. To start with Louis embarked on a policy to bring the Huguenots back to the Catholic Church.
3. Pictures of Jonathon and me were hanging all over the tree house bringing the memories back harder then ever.
4. Laughter filled the lodge as happy memories were brought back.
5. Not especially courageous of me, I know, but I was just not ready to bring those memories back to the surface.
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π At large, phrase.
❓ Definition: At length; in great detail.
❗️ Examples:
1. Writing at large on the policies he wished to pursue
2. The column quoted veteran Carnival music-provider DJ Hurricane George, who detailed female Jouvert frustrations at large.
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π Brush, verb.
π /brΚΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Clean (one's teeth) with a brush.
❗️ Examples:
1. Keep your mouth clean by brushing your teeth at least four times a day (after meals and at bedtime).
2. She taught me about what her grooming needs would be, everything from cleaning her face to brushing her teeth.
3. I changed into a long t-shirt and clean underwear and then brushed my teeth, washed my face, and combed my hair.
4. After showering, I brushed my teeth and cleaned the rest of last night's make up off my eyes.
5. When she finished, she dressed into her clean clothes and brushed her teeth.
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π Break into, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Suddenly or unexpectedly burst forth into (laughter or song)
❗️ Examples:
1. He broke into a fit of choking laughter
2. The two girls broke into sudden and unexpected laughter.
3. This appeared to be some sort of private joke because they all suddenly broke into laughter.
4. I just hoped she wouldn't suddenly break into song.
5. He was stunned at first, then broke into a fit of laughter.
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π Retrieve, verb.
π /rΙͺΛtriΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a dog) find and bring back (game that has been shot)
❗️ Examples:
1. Labradors are used to retrieve the birds after the flush
2. If possible, use all the types of birds the dog may retrieve in the future.
3. Each dog was asked to retrieve a pheasant from the river and all of the 16 completed this task without difficulty.
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π Pitch, noun.
π /pΙͺtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The density of typed or printed characters on a line, typically expressed as numbers of characters per inch.
❗️ Examples:
1. A font may have a fixed pitch or a proportional one.
2. The pitch of the font should be at least 10, with a pitch of 12 preferred.
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π Bardo, noun.
π /ΛbΙΛdΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in Tibetan Buddhism) a state of existence between death and rebirth, varying in length according to a person's conduct in life and manner of, or age at, death.
❗️ Examples:
1. If not during one's lifetime, there is a point during the bardo when there occurs a very pure moment.
2. Until you do, you are reborn in a realm if the root cause for that realm drives you as you transition through the bardo, or the stage between one life and the next.
3. In other words, live well and become enlightened in the bardo?
4. When you die you enter the bardo (intermediate stage) and your true nature is uncovered.
5. After each lifetime they meet in the bardo, the antechamber to eternity, to have their karma assessed and a judgment made against them which will determine the nature of their next life.
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π Screw something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Crush a piece of paper or fabric into a tight mass.
❗️ Examples:
1. He screwed the note up and threw it away
2. His eyes flickered, and he screwed the paper up in his fist.
3. He turns the radio off and screws the paper up in a ball and swears that the dictator had the right idea after all.
4. Once you do that you can take your ballot paper and screw it up and throw it away if you want.
5. I want to write my faults out on a sheet of paper; screw it up and throw it in the trash.
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π To make matters worse, phrase.
❓ Definition: With the result that a bad situation is made worse.
❗️ Examples:
1. To make matters worse, free school meals have been withdrawn
2. And to make matters worse, the bloody landlord won't turn on the heat.
3. And to make matters worse, there may be a lengthy struggle to win redundancy cash for employees.
4. And to make matters worse, when I got in there, he was standing there!
5. And, to make matters worse, there is much misunderstanding concerning a few of these high arts and the accusation of being elitist.
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π Within, preposition.
π /wΙͺΓ°ΛΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Inside (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. The spread of fire within the building
2. Despite the fact that the destitution still lingers in my mind, trips like these strengthen the morale within a squad.
3. As a result his goals dried up, his form and morale declined, and he was marginalised within the first team squad.
4. Each stripe indicates a chief's standing within their fire department, he said.
5. Mr Bradbury said people should know better than to start any sort of fire within a forest, even if they thought it was only an old tree trunk.
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π Grave, adjective.
π /Ι‘reΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Giving cause for alarm; serious.
❗️ Examples:
1. A matter of grave concern
2. As we have seen, those structures can distance and muffle even the pleas of parents who are concerned about grave danger to their children.
3. Referring to the situation in the state the statement expressed grave concern over the continuing violence by the insurgents.
4. Furthermore, the conviction of a registered medical practitioner for offences of violence is a matter of grave concern.
5. But if the practice is in fact going on, a child may be in grave danger and yet will remain unprotected because of the difficulty of satisfying this test.
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π Dam, noun.
π /dam/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An artificial pond or reservoir where rain or spring water is collected for storage.
❗️ Examples:
1. The dam was full of water
2. Spring rain left dams full as bellies after chips for tea.
3. At present rain water is being collected in large storage dams and reticulated to the end consumer via a network of pipes, pumps and treatment plant to ensure drinking water quality.
4. When the rains began, the dams were full to the brim.
5. It is situated 13 km from Alice on the Hogsback road and is a landmark with its large storage dams.
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π Heist, verb.
π /hΚΙͺst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Steal.
❗️ Examples:
1. He heisted a Pontiac
2. When thieves heisted a car rented to cricket-star Brian Lara and the perpetrators discovered his bat in the vehicle, they returned it.
3. The brothers who own the house became part of the city's nouveau riche when they heisted a bank during the looting.
4. Disguises are assumed, safes are blown, millions of dollars are heisted according to a completely new and clever scheme, but this is pure escapism.
5. USA Today essentially heisted a big chunk of the Journal's travel-related ad revenue between 1986 and 1996, Fortune reports.
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π Goodo, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘ΚdΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Good.
❗️ Examples:
1. I reckon it was real goodo
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π Screw something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Tense the muscles of one's face or around one's eyes, typically so as to register an emotion or because of bright light.
❗️ Examples:
1. Christina screwed up her face in distaste
2. Willie screwed up his eyes and peered upwards
3. She looks down, screws up her face and peers at me.
4. Margaret listens quietly to our opinions, then screws up her face, deep in thought.
5. Squint your eyes, screw up your face and study the glossy frames and you'll find them fascinating.
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π At risk, phrase.
❓ Definition: Exposed to harm or danger.
❗️ Examples:
1. 23 million people in Africa are at risk from starvation
2. Children who use mobile phones are at risk of memory loss, sleeping disorders and other health problems.
3. Exposure assessment identifies the population at risk and the likelihood of exposure to the hazard.
4. Many include rare or threatened habitats that are home to species at risk.
5. He could have explained to the customers that their information was at risk, without revealing quite so much detail.
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π Apple, noun.
π /Λap(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used in names of unrelated fruits or other plant growths that resemble apples in some way, e.g. custard apple, oak apple.
❗️ Examples:
1. After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others.
2. Montego Bay offered us some custard apples, mangoes, guineps, and naseberries.
3. George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple.
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π Bottle, verb.
π /ΛbΙt(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lose one's nerve and decide not to do (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. The leader had completely bottled his confrontation with them
2. One terrified contestant bottles it and scarpers
3. He accused him of bottling a referendum for the same reason that he decided against an early election: because he knows he would lose.
4. The coach maintained after the game that some of his players had "bottled it" when it came to taking penalties.
5. I completely froze when I was handed the microphone and very nearly bottled it, but I managed to get the words out.
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π Test, noun.
π /tΙst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An event or situation that reveals the strength or quality of someone or something by putting them under strain.
❗️ Examples:
1. This is the first serious test of the peace agreement
2. Thus a potentially useful bargain spawned a serious crisis and test of strength and will between opposed alliance systems.
3. In fact, he usually finished last in training camp endurance and strength tests.
4. Since the beast was invincible by arrow or club the contest was a test of physical strength and endurance.
5. Overall, he believes the game will be a test for their reserve strength.
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π Stare, noun.
π /stΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A long fixed or vacant look.
❗️ Examples:
1. She gave him a cold stare
2. He gave me a cold stare and returned his attention to his girlfriend.
3. He returned his cold stare to the carefree couple below and fantasized about his victory.
4. She gazed at him in wonder, and he returned her stare with a look of friendly curiosity.
5. Jim returned an icy stare, then looked away, towards the judge who was just now coming in.
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π Yeuch, exclamation.
π /jΙͺΙx/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Expressing disgust or strong distaste.
❗️ Examples:
1. Yeuch! I can't stand sherry!
2. One of the things I will not tolerate is Bon Jovi, yeuch!
3. I had an internal ultrasound scan (yeuch) though, which showed everything that one would expect and nothing that one wouldn't.
4. I used to go yeuch to bugs, admitted Kate Shortall, 8, but now I'll turn stones over to see what I might find underneath.
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π Go off, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Go to sleep.
❗️ Examples:
1. But we went off to sleep again as the American warships moved away.
2. But we will soon be together again and knowing that I just went off to sleep…
3. She felt the girl's grip loosen as she went off to sleep.
4. Taylor silently made the sign of the cross and went off to sleep.
5. I was standing next to the patient during induction, held his hand, and he went off to sleep.
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π Add fuel to the fire, phrase.
❓ Definition: Cause a conflict or difficult situation to worsen or intensify.
❗️ Examples:
1. Others in the media have added fuel to the fire by blaming farmers
2. And yet some free traders have gotten on board with the desire to use protectionist means to boost prices and thereby add fuel to the fire of socialized medicine.
3. It adds fuel to the fire, and to the pain and hatred on the other side.
4. But there is another group that adds fuel to the fire, and that is predatory young men.
5. I'm even afraid to respond to this, for fear that it adds fuel to the fire.
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π Impose, verb.
π /ΙͺmΛpΙΚz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Put (a restriction) in place.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sanctions imposed on South Africa
2. She said the present system had come about mainly due to the restrictions imposed by international institutions.
3. In the meantime, if the bill is delayed, local authorities, including Merton, could introduce individual bylaws to impose restrictions in their areas.
4. Financial institutions are expected to impose some restrictions on this for administrative purposes.
5. Numerous restrictions are imposed on the local population.
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π Afloat, adjective.
π /ΙΛflΙΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Out of debt or difficulty.
❗️ Examples:
1. Professional management will be needed to keep firms afloat
2. But, when it came to our showing in the League, we could consider our seventh place to their fifth a great achievement in light of our difficulties merely keeping afloat.
3. In the five years since the financial crisis struck, the country is still struggling to stay afloat as debt payment remains the biggest drag on its economy.
4. It's only the willingness of the foreign central banks to buy our debt that keeps us afloat.
5. Since then, the business has generated sufficient sales and garnered enough grants for basic research to stay afloat without going into debt.
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π Colour, verb.
π /ΛkΚlΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person or their skin) show embarrassment or shame by becoming red; blush.
❗️ Examples:
1. She coloured slightly
2. Judith colored slightly from both embarrassment and anger.
3. Michelle coloured slightly and turned back to her book.
4. Rebecca instantly colored, and raised a hand to rub absently at her cheeks, drawing all the more attention to the fact that she was embarrassed.
5. She colored slightly in embarrassment, finally realizing just how close her new acquaintance was to her.
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π Claim, noun.
π /kleΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A right or title to something.
❗️ Examples:
1. They have first claim on the assets of the trust
2. Because the city is the first creditor, they have the first claim on the property.
3. The Baroness had agreed in a marriage settlement to renounce her claim on the trust.
4. Such a child might use the courts, for example, to establish a claim on inheritance or support.
5. If you've got a claim over some land where a mining company wants to go, all of a sudden the mining company's going to be knocking on your door.
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π Jol, noun.
π /dΚΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An occasion of celebration and enjoyment; a good time.
❗️ Examples:
1. The school holds two jols a term for the pupils
2. It's not all jol—she works very hard
3. Our guide points you in the right direction for a party, among other jols.
4. After 10 pm the party will head off to a venue to be announced at the party to continue the jol.
5. Back in the city we've got lots of great jols for you.
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π Check out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Die.
❗️ Examples:
1. That first weekend I almost checked out - the nurses didn't know if I was going to make it or not.
2. Julie, she said, this is it, I'm checking out.
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π Ring a bell, phrase.
❓ Definition: Sound vaguely familiar.
❗️ Examples:
1. The name rings a bell
2. If the name rings a bell, it is because he might have helped you buy a book, film or album.
3. While her name might not ring a bell in the minds of most people, the festival will screen a snippet from her body of work titled Harlequin.
4. One of the country's legendary tenor saxophone players, his name might not ring a bell for those who are not in tune with Jazz in India, but he deserves to be remembered.
5. If Blackwell's name doesn't ring a bell with you, that's understandable.
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π Help, verb.
π /hΙlp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take something without permission.
❗️ Examples:
1. He helped himself to the wages she had brought home
2. Mum and Dad spent the next hour trying to explain that it was alright for them to take the money, that we hadn't just stolen the book and helped ourselves and then left an IOU.
3. Now, whenever Grandma visits, Zack is careful to whisper for permission in my ear, before reaching out and helping himself.
4. A postal worker who stole more than £25,000 by helping himself to pension and child benefit payments has been spared jail.
5. So we have a campaign that helps itself to a quarter of a million pounds of your money.
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π Casual, noun.
π /ΛkaΚjΚΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A worker employed on an irregular or temporary basis.
❗️ Examples:
1. The business employs eight full-time sales staff and ten casuals
2. Cairns - an important tourism gateway - has only one fulltime airport and employs 11 casuals and 8 part-time workers.
3. At present, childcare workers are employed as casuals.
4. Thousands of young retail workers, for example, continue to work as casuals, employed as little as 16 hours a week, frequently spread over broken shifts.
5. Women are employed as casuals so their employers can slide out of paying full entitlements such as maternity leave.
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π Plague, noun.
π /pleΙͺΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people.
❗️ Examples:
1. Diseases like smallpox wiped out the indigenous people in a succession of plagues
2. In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
3. The country has made headlines lately with the resurgence of preventable diseases such as plague, malaria, dengue fever and tuberculosis.
4. Infectious disease experts say that the agents of greatest concern are the germs that cause anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulism and tularemia.
5. Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered.
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π Go, verb.
π /Ι‘ΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Intend or be likely or intended to be or do something (used to express a future tense)
❗️ Examples:
1. I'm going to be late for work
2. She's going to have a baby
3. He told me that he saw no future at all for the club and that he was going to close us down in two weeks' time.
4. They've come out of a tough division and all the players knew they were going to get a hard game today.
5. I thought we were going to be trapped at the top of the tower block and that my children and me were going to die.
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π Jarg, adjective.
π /dΚΙΛΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not genuine; fake.
❗️ Examples:
1. They've started selling jarg Gucci belts for £4
2. He's blocked me on here so I'm using a jarg name
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π Hook up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of two people) meet or form a relationship.
❗️ Examples:
1. He hooked up with a friend in Budapest
2. She decides to hook up with Jake, a kid from the nearby boys' school
3. Within days, you'll be able to find photos, download songs and hook up with friends you met at the show.
4. He apparently has no problem meeting people and hooking up with people, yet he says that as soon as you're back in town he wants to settle down and be with you and never be with another girl.
5. I've been in two long serious relationships, and hooking up with handsome slightly drunk rich kids was exactly what the doctor ordered.
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π Cut someone some slack, phrase.
❓ Definition: Allow someone some leeway in their conduct.
❗️ Examples:
1. The press is willing to cut the President some slack because they like him
2. Given that these folks have a cemetery in their backyard, however, I guess we can cut them some slack.
3. Should reporters cut General Clark some slack?
4. He adjusted my schedule and cut me some slack when I just wanted to enjoy a ride instead of a focused workout.
5. And remember to cut others slack if they make a bad impression on you.
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π Contemplate, verb.
π /ΛkΙntΙmpleΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have in view as a probable intention.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was contemplating action for damages
2. But when we actually contemplated some evil intention directed towards us, it seemed a little chillier.
3. The book forced me to contemplate my own intentions in participating in a graduate education program that has a partnership with a predominantly Black school.
4. Alexander stood at the edge of the balcony for a moment, contemplating the quandary, intently observed by Constantine.
5. A similar project was being contemplated in the Riverstown area but that was in the early stages at the moment.
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π Rapid, adjective.
π /ΛrapΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an action) characterized by great speed.
❗️ Examples:
1. They made a rapid exit
2. As the name indicates, the eyes of the sleeper move back and forth at rapid speed during their sleep.
3. Billy Whizz, named for the rapid speed at which he could move, escaped on July 16 last year.
4. His ugly face split into a malicious grin and he bore down upon her with rapid speed.
5. She looked up at the horizon and frowned when she saw a dark cloud heading their way at rapid speed.
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π Swerve, verb.
π /swΙΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Change or cause to change direction abruptly.
❗️ Examples:
1. A lorry swerved across her path
2. O'Hara swerved the motorcycle round the corner
3. A few cars swerved and squeezed by us, but finally someone had to stop and give us way.
4. He said his wife had tried to get help by stopping passing cars but one had swerved around her.
5. It should be widened and sidewalks introduced - a truck swerving to avoid a pedestrian was the cause of one of last week's crashes there.
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π Vulnerable, adjective.
π /ΛvΚln(Ι)rΙb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a partnership) liable to higher penalties, either by convention or through having won one game towards a rubber.
❗️ Examples:
1. The authors advise a variable no-trump opening bid which means weak non-vulnerable and strong vulnerable
2. A side which has already won one game towards the current rubber is said to be vulnerable.
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π Kidology, noun.
π /kΙͺΛdΙlΙdΚi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The art or practice of deliberately deceiving or teasing people.
❗️ Examples:
1. And he was presumably using kidology when he said: on current form and league positions we don't have a chance, but we'll give it a good go.
2. But that was just another bit of O'Leary kidology.
3. Maybe it's kidology, but he reckons the chance of surviving this season is only 10%.
4. And he is having none of what he sees as kidology from the other side, downplaying their chances.
5. I doubt very much that O'Connor would be fooled by this sort of juvenile kidology.
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π Burn out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Ruin one's health or become completely exhausted through overwork.
❗️ Examples:
1. Doing one task for too long can cause you to burn out
2. A burned-out undercover cop
3. She had died at the age of 45 from exhaustion, burnt out by the hardships of life.
4. But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered.
5. Rather than improving technique, burned out dancers may report debilitating fatigue, loss of enthusiasm, and injuries.
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π Have a ball, phrase.
❓ Definition: Enjoy oneself greatly.
❗️ Examples:
1. I was miserable but he was having a ball
2. The many young Spanish students who are in town over the past few weeks are having a ball and really enjoyed Music Week.
3. Despite the poor weather conditions on the day everyone enjoyed themselves and had a ball.
4. I suppose that some day Jamie and Craig will outgrow all this pretend play, but, for now, they are having a ball, enjoying each other's company and stretching their imaginations.
5. Normally I don't enjoy it that much but this year I really had a ball.
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π Have, verb.
π /hav/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Organize and bring about.
❗️ Examples:
1. Are you going to have a party?
2. One night, we got back to our rooms after a couple of drinks at Manor Bar and decided to have a Chicago party.
3. We shall have a public banquet in your honor!
4. We head for town in little groups, and end up having our own little post-party parties.
5. They're having a big opening party in Hamilton.
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π Blot, verb.
π /blΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cover writing or pictures with ink or paint so that they cannot be seen.
❗️ Examples:
1. Mary dug her brush into black paint and blotted out her picture
2. Whenever the sight of her father's murder arose, she imagined a black paint brush going over the scene to blot it out.
3. I have thought of blotting these words out with sand and starting again, but the Goddess speaks powerfully in me, and makes me bow my head to Her will.
4. Rather than employing digital trickery or using the old-fashioned method of re-editing, he elected to blot out the offending material by a huge red block.
5. In the Edinburgh University Library copy, it appears that a phallic symbol drawn on the king has been blotted over and has been transferred to the title page.
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π Mother, noun.
π /ΛmΚΓ°Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A woman in relation to her child or children.
❗️ Examples:
1. She returned to Bristol to nurse her ageing mother
2. A mother of three
3. In eight of these cities, more than 60% of births were to unwed mothers.
4. The average age of mothers who gave birth in 2000 was 30.
5. To prove this she interviewed mothers who had given birth prematurely and discovered that a high proportion of them had suffered stress events in pregnancy.
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π Hope, noun.
π /hΙΚp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.
❗️ Examples:
1. He looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information
2. I had high hopes of making the Olympic team
3. Instead the two clubs can still dream of Cardiff, albeit in both cases more in hope than expectation.
4. This time there was hope and expectation, and a certain symbolism.
5. They now await their results in August and September in hope and expectation.
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π Smoodge, verb.
π /smuΛdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Behave in an ingratiating manner.
❗️ Examples:
1. He used to hang around here smoodging to Mum
2. He stated that he had never smooged to any boss in Mort's Dock or told them anything.
3. He genuinely smoodges up to the camera and seems to enjoy having his picture taken.
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π Break up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become emotionally upset.
❗️ Examples:
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π Out of, phrase.
❓ Definition: Indicating the dam of a pedigree animal, especially a horse.
❗️ Examples:
1. Red Rum was out of a lunatic mare, and trained from the back of a car showroom in Southport.
2. He's out of a Hanoverian mare from California named Over Ice. I
3. The Kentucky-bred filly is out of the Green Dancer mare Whisper Who Dares.
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π Light, adjective.
π /lΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relatively low in density, amount, or intensity.
❗️ Examples:
1. Passenger traffic was light
2. Light autumn rains
3. He'd walked her home through the light, early summer rain that was falling on the city.
4. We had run into pretty light resistance, and we had pushed out a couple of thousand yards.
5. It could carry 118,000 barrels of light oil products such as gasoline and heating oil.
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π Yoda, noun.
π /ΛjΙΚdΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who embodies the characteristics of Yoda, especially in being wise; an elder, sage, or guru.
❗️ Examples:
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π Know, verb.
π /nΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be aware of through observation, inquiry, or information.
❗️ Examples:
1. Most people know that CFCs can damage the ozone layer
2. I know what I'm doing
3. It's good to know that the authorities are aware of the need to protect our environment.
4. She said the bus companies knew that customers were very aware of green issues and clean fuel.
5. Anyone who has travelled to Holland knows that they are more aware of human rights.
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π Wet, adjective.
π /wΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of paint, ink, plaster, or a similar substance) not yet having dried or hardened.
❗️ Examples:
1. The waterproofer can easily be washed off while it is still wet
2. Oil paint is a wet mixture of pigments in an oily medium.
3. Painting into wet plaster with water soluble pigments is one of the most difficult of all challenges a painter can face.
4. The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off.
5. The wall was splayed with fresh graffiti and the post was dripping with wet spray paint.
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π Anting, noun.
π /ΛantΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Behaviour seen in some birds, in which the bird either picks up ants and rubs them on the feathers or stands with the wings spread and allows the ants to crawl over it. It is probable that the ants' secretions help to keep the feathers in good condition.
❗️ Examples:
1. Pipits of the genus Anthus will apply ants to their plumage for cleaning, a behavior called anting.
2. Woodcreepers sunbathe and have been seen anting, a behavior that is thought to help prevent or remove ectoparasites.
3. Birds keep their plumage in good condition using a variety of main and subsidiary maintenance behaviors, including preening, scratching, bathing, dusting, sunning, anting, shaking, and ruffling of the feathers.
4. Kingfishers generally preen frequently, and anting has been observed in at least one species of kookaburra.
5. They have been seen sunning themselves and anting.
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π Look back, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Think of the past.
❗️ Examples:
1. Don't waste time looking back on things that have caused you distress
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π Out of, phrase.
❓ Definition: From among (a number)
❗️ Examples:
1. Nine times out of ten, companies are the source of such information
2. Nine times out of ten this is a big mistake.
3. In a survey of users, more than nine out of ten said they would be back.
4. Nine out of ten people are there to study and prepare for the upcoming school or job exam or test.
5. If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
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π Shadow, noun.
π /ΛΚadΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person secretly following and observing another.
❗️ Examples:
1. No matter where Johnson went, his shadow stayed with him
2. Being fascinated by the beauty of the park, she never noticed the shadow following her.
3. I already had a shadow and another shadow following my other shadow.
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π Claw, noun.
π /klΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
❗️ Examples:
1. This he replaced with a mechanical claw plated with a non-tarnishing gold alloy.
2. It took the huge mechanical claw of a giant bulldozer just 35 minutes to crush it to a pile of dust.
3. They resembled green humanoid lizards, except for the black bodysuits and mechanical claws.
4. Mechanical diggers moved in with dinosaur-like claws, ripping away chunks of the six-storey building.
5. Somehow less alarming than that was was the deadly looking metal claw hanging from its left shoulder.
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π Carry on, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Continue an activity or task.
❗️ Examples:
1. You can carry on with a sport as long as you feel comfortable
2. She carries on watching the telly
3. With progression of the disease certain adaptations will probably have to be made in order to carry on with day-to-day activities.
4. We will carry on with the task of building a modern, efficient and collegial university - regardless of irrational rantings.
5. The vast majority of people rush inside and carry on with their day's activities.
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π On thin ice, phrase.
❓ Definition: In a precarious or risky situation.
❗️ Examples:
1. You're skating on thin ice
2. When you deal with this subject you skate on thin ice.
3. His reign has been very controversial and he is on thin ice already.
4. Like the rest of the field, Woods was swinging on thin ice, knowing that the slightest false step or slice of misfortune would draw blood.
5. As far as her film career goes, Courtney is skating on thin ice.
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π Herd, verb.
π /hΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Keep or look after (livestock)
❗️ Examples:
1. They live by herding reindeer
2. Children provide much-needed labor in herding livestock and farming.
3. He will be prepared to participate in political change, engage in rebuilding his country, or return to herding livestock.
4. Unlike most dog breeds, it continues to be bred, used and valued for its original purpose - herding livestock.
5. These are pastoralists or nomads, if you will, who make their living by herding their livestock.
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π Reduce, verb.
π /rΙͺΛdjuΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Bring someone or something to (a worse or less desirable state or condition)
❗️ Examples:
1. She has been reduced to near poverty
2. The church was reduced to rubble
3. A large part of the Paradise Hotel was reduced to rubble and the rest was reduced to a smouldering shell.
4. They'd be reduced to blubbering babies, begging for their lives.
5. Their houses, shops and factories were reduced to ashes.
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π Pick up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become stronger; increase.
❗️ Examples:
1. The wind has picked up
2. I noticed the wind picking up and the lightening increasing, so I figured rain couldn't be far behind.
3. As the pace of the storm increased the wind picked up, driving down out of the hills and across the high grasslands.
4. Forecasters are predicting that the icy conditions will continue into next week with easterly winds picking up and a strong possibility of snow.
5. A strong wind picks up almost knocking me off the branch, as well as making leaves whip at my face.
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π Take the mickey, phrase.
❓ Definition: Tease or ridicule someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. They would take the mickey out of me with sickening enthusiasm
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π Cheapen, verb.
π /ΛtΚiΛp(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Reduce the price of.
❗️ Examples:
1. The depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports
2. A third method was dollar devaluation, to cheapen the selling price of American goods abroad.
3. Some companies' trailers in the lower price range are cheapened in a lot of areas.
4. The idea of competitive price pressures - it sounds like it's all about just cheapening the price of labor.
5. But an increase in the dollar makes US exports more expensive in world markets and cheapens imports, thereby widening the trade gap and creating the need for an even greater inflow of foreign funds.
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π Corona, noun.
π /kΙΛrΙΚnΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A part of the body resembling or likened to a crown.
❗️ Examples:
1. The heart muscle has its own blood supply coming from a crown or corona of blood vessels that circle the heart, sending down branches to various parts of the muscle.
2. In most species, the head carries a corona of cilia that draws a vortex of water into the mouth, which the rotifer sifts for food.
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π Make for, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Tend to result in or be received as (a particular thing)
❗️ Examples:
1. Job descriptions never make for exciting reading
2. We need less hostility, folks, and obeying the laws of the road can go a long way towards making for a peaceful existence.
3. This makes for comic and moving moments in a deep-thinking, pertinent play that is both heavy and light on the heart.
4. It makes for a strangely moving scene, despite or because of the hum of the nearby freeways.
5. Really good vocals, some class songwriters and superb musicianship make for an enjoyable and moving album.
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π As stubborn as a mule, phrase.
❓ Definition: Extremely stubborn.
❗️ Examples:
1. I ride him at home and he is quite a character, as stubborn as a mule.
2. You know that I'm as stubborn as a mule and if I wanted to be, I could be mad at you forever, but I can't be.
3. You're great-great-grandmother was like this, stubborn as a mule.
4. Grandmama was threatening to switch me, but I was stubborn as a mule.
5. They smell, they drool, they're stubborn as a mule.
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π Error, noun.
π /ΛΙrΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state or condition of being wrong in conduct or judgement.
❗️ Examples:
1. Goods dispatched to your branch in error
2. The crash was caused by human error
3. Now, as a consequent of inadvertent human error, conditions are contrary to preferred expectations.
4. The common threads running through most nuclear accidents are unexpected technical conditions and human error.
5. Lastly, don't discount the possibility of human error when conducting the audit.
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π Sheer, adjective.
π /ΚΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so.
❗️ Examples:
1. The sheer ice walls
2. Whereas the canyon's south side is terraced and textured, the north walls are sheer cliffs.
3. That tour became the stuff of legends when the guide walked us out the other end and stopped before a sheer cliff wall.
4. Snails are why I grow strawberries in window boxes, not that a snail sees the sheer cliff of wall leading to the window ledge as anything but a challenge.
5. Our feet would get stuck in mud or we'd come up against a sheer cliff wall.
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π Pick up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Answer a telephone call.
❗️ Examples:
1. Let the machine pick up and return the call later
2. Vacillating between wanting to answer, and not wanting to answer, she finally picked up before the machine did.
3. But on the fifth ring, before the answering machine picked up, Tatiana answered.
4. Rowena set her pen down, pushed back her chair, and managed to answer before the machine picked up.
5. As he slowly reached for the phone, he stopped himself once the answer machine picked up.
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π Out of, phrase.
❓ Definition: From among (a number)
❗️ Examples:
1. Nine times out of ten, companies are the source of such information
2. Nine times out of ten this is a big mistake.
3. In a survey of users, more than nine out of ten said they would be back.
4. Nine out of ten people are there to study and prepare for the upcoming school or job exam or test.
5. If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
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π Hurry, noun.
π /ΛhΚri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A need for haste; urgency.
❗️ Examples:
1. There's no hurry to get back
2. It just seems that there is no hurry and no urgency.
3. But even though the advisers would have loved it to be done in the next 10 minutes, George said, What's the hurry?
4. So now the party's frantically backpedalling: good heavens, we know we said you need congressional approval, but what's the hurry?
5. After a few more kilometres Richard drew up alongside and said, What's the hurry, Skipper?
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