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π Benefit, verb.
π /ΛbΙnΙͺfΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Receive an advantage; profit.
❗️ Examples:
1. The areas would benefit from regeneration
2. Preventing people who may benefit from receiving a drug treatment that works will see us lose a decade of progress and return to a dark age of dementia care.
3. The service can only exist on the subscriptions received from households who benefit from the service.
4. It seems that some patients needing blood transfusions may benefit from receiving chicken blood rather than human blood.
5. To benefit from receiving help, the learner must be an active participant in the learning process.
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π Go off, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of food or drink) begin to decompose and become inedible.
❗️ Examples:
1. Milk went off so quickly in hot weather
2. Milk goes off more rapidly and can harbour pathogenic (food poisoning) bacteria.
3. An upcoming prospect is that soon your household appliances will be linked up to the internet and can share information so that your fridge will tell you when the milk has gone off.
4. All this to stop milk going off for a while longer?
5. Your fridge is no longer a place to pop the milk to stop it going off - it's an expression of who you are and where you want to be in life.
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π As deaf as a post, phrase.
❓ Definition: Having very bad hearing.
❗️ Examples:
1. It seems it's still easier to see me as a Machiavellian force preventing her from communicating with her friends than to accept that she's deaf as a post and increasingly anti-social.
2. Now I live with a woman who is not only deaf as a post but, as a result of her stroke, has short-term memory loss.
3. I found her batting at the door of the spice cupboard, yowling fit to wake Mrs R next door, and she's deaf as a post.
4. But their house was the last one in the terrace, next to a lane - well, you know that, it's yours now - and the old boy that lived over the lane was as deaf as a post.
5. This was always something of a drama as he'd become as deaf as a post and would stand in the hall shouting into the phone, Hello?
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π Prevailing, adjective.
π /prΙͺΛveΙͺlΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Having most appeal or influence; prevalent.
❗️ Examples:
1. The prevailing mood within Whitehall circles
2. By poking holes, lots of holes, in the prevailing theories of today.
3. Return might be the hideous height of his prevailing good intentions.
4. Rather, the original decision is a more accurate reflection of the attitudes prevailing in senior government circles.
5. Critical opinion of his work has undergone the vicissitudes of prevailing tastes in art.
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π Saddle, noun.
π /Λsad(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A low region of a curve between two high points, especially (in three dimensions) one representing the highest point of a curve in one direction and the lowest point in another direction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Indeed, one can imagine the surface as the sum of an infinite number of saddles.
2. Such a surface cannot be drawn in three dimensions, but it can be imagined as a surface which everywhere has the curvature of a saddle.
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π Weal, noun.
π /wiΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A red, swollen mark left on flesh by a blow or pressure.
❗️ Examples:
1. She slapped his cheek and a bright red weal sprang up on it
2. I sat in it once when they were picking tomatoes, my feet dangling, the ridge of the seat hurting my thighs, making red weals.
3. Their idea of a fun Saturday afternoon is to go paintballing and end up covered in golfball-sized red weals from being shot at close range.
4. You could always tell where she'd been in the school, you just followed the red weals on the legs of the kids.
5. The whip came down again, this time leaving a red wheal where it had hit.
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π Take something on, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Undertake a task or responsibility, especially a difficult one.
❗️ Examples:
1. Whoever takes on the trout farm will have their work cut out
2. Repairing this damage, and returning to the centre ground, seem like an almost impossible, and thankless task, for whoever takes it on.
3. Administrative tasks will be taken on by support staff so teachers can concentrate on teaching and a pupil researcher will be appointed to monitor progress.
4. Whoever takes it on now has the fun task of rebuilding the party, just to be dumped a year out from the election.
5. I took the responsibility on because I was convinced that it would be easier than it has turned out to be.
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π Hair of the dog, phrase.
❓ Definition: An alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover.
❗️ Examples:
1. The team also experimented with the hair of the dog - or drinking a little more alcohol in the morning.
2. I started the day off trying to stave off my hangover with the hair of the dog.
3. Down the ages, there have been numerous folk cures and remedies for hangovers, one of the best known being the hair of the dog that bit you - another drink on waking.
4. A heavy night of drinking might be followed by a glass of salted water poured from the jar containing pickled cucumbers - a well-tested Russian hangover cure - accompanied by a shot of vodka as hair of the dog.
5. No need for hair of the dog and standing against accusations of being an alcoholic that way.
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π Roll, verb.
π /rΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a loud, deep sound) reverberate.
❗️ Examples:
1. The first peals of thunder rolled across the sky
2. But the lightening has flashed and the thunder rolled…
3. Captivated by the breathtaking scenery, his sensitive response to nature encapsulated his impression of the roar of the waves rolling into the cavern and the cries of the seabirds.
4. Lightning forked the sky outside and the thunder rolled down the hills in a tumble.
5. One night I heard the sound of thunder rolling in my direction.
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π Reality, noun.
π /rΙͺΛalΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing that is actually experienced or seen, especially when this is unpleasant.
❗️ Examples:
1. The harsh realities of life in a farming community
2. But when image is your concern, the unpleasant realities of war present big problems.
3. It wants to make sure it cannot actually focus on the realities of family life.
4. Some of these children have their own first-hand experience of the realities of war.
5. None has been so determined to finesse the difficult realities of the post-cold war world.
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π Indemnity, noun.
π /ΙͺnΛdΙmnΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Security or protection against a loss or other financial burden.
❗️ Examples:
1. No indemnity will be given for loss of cash
2. Protection and indemnity insurance protects against third parties and environmental damage.
3. That is, no claim other than the claims for indemnity under the insurance policies: in contemplation at the time of entering into the deed.
4. As the accounts stated, the loss was due to claims under a policy written for the solicitors' indemnity fund and for bad debts on reinsurance recoveries.
5. There is no certainty that the IHS will be awarded all the costs it incurs and it is adamant that it cannot take part in the tribunal if guarantees of indemnity are not given.
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π Come across, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Hand over or provide what is wanted.
❗️ Examples:
1. She has come across with some details
2. So if they thought she'd come across with some blockbuster testimony, they'd put her up there.
3. Whether we come across with little or much, the mere gesture can be a spiritually lightening experience.
4. I had a date at eight with Holly, but she wasn't ready to come across yet.
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π Don't give up the day job, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used as a humorous way of recommending someone not to pursue something at which they are unlikely to be successful.
❗️ Examples:
1. Here's a tip to the doorman: don't give up the day job!
2. This singer should heed the old maxim and not quit her day job.
3. The supermodel-turned-actress is adequate as eye candy but shouldn't give up the day job just yet.
4. My advice is that he should not quit his day job.
5. Many thanks to all of those who submitted captions—just do us a favour and don't give up the day jobs.
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π Rig, verb.
π /rΙͺΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to gain an advantage.
❗️ Examples:
1. The results of the elections had been rigged
2. Charges of vote-rigging
3. Once you have the positional advantage you have rigged the race so you can't lose.
4. Yet prosecutors accuse the jailed tycoon of rigging an auction to gain control of Apatit a decade ago and then failing to pay the bid of US $283 million.
5. America has a long history of vote tampering and rigged elections in many local jurisdictions.
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π From, preposition.
π /frΙm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Indicating the date at which something was created.
❗️ Examples:
1. A document dating from the thirteenth century
2. The oldest securely dated complete Korans we possess date only from the ninth century.
3. Customers are invited to pick up a copy of the brochure from the box office from that date.
4. He also tips a wink to counterparts in the brewing trade from centuries ago.
5. An old man with a walnut face and brocade robes rode by, seemingly from the last century.
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π Hold on, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Endure in difficult circumstances.
❗️ Examples:
1. If only they could hold on a little longer
2. We discussed what makes certain people hold on in extreme circumstances.
3. Mark Potts was the club's sole representative in the under-15s race, holding on for a respectable 23rd position.
4. At the finish they were holding on for dear life and with St. Josephs coming at them in waves Bobby Miller must have been relieved to hear the final whistle.
5. In many ways I think we're holding on just to make it to the cabin.
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π Speak of the devil, phrase.
❓ Definition: Said when a person appears just after being mentioned.
❗️ Examples:
1. He, Joe, and Ivan, speak of the devil, appeared in the main hall.
2. Ah, talk of the devil, she announced when she had consumed her snack, nodding towards the van, where Dylan was looking around like he had absolutely no idea where he was.
3. And speak of the devil, there's Pat, and that dimwit Brock.
4. There was a light knock on the door, speak of the devil.
5. And speak of the devil, Bella nodded her head in the direction of an advancing figure.
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π Address, verb.
π /ΙΛdrΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Name someone (in the specified way) when talking to them.
❗️ Examples:
1. She addressed my father as Mr Stevens
2. It took Anna a while to even get Nancy to call her by her name instead of addressing her as your highness.
3. Despite telling them her name, they address her as Bridey or Molly.
4. The phone book is alphabetized by first names, and a man named Sitha Sisana would be addressed as Mr. Sitha.
5. I really liked saying her name but she had addressed me as Mr. Taylor so maybe I thought I should keep some what of a professional air about me.
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π Drink, verb.
π /drΙͺΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Consume or be in the habit of consuming alcohol.
❗️ Examples:
1. She doesn't drink or smoke
2. He drank himself into a stupor
3. We can save a small fortune by simply dropping bad habits like smoking, drinking and gambling.
4. It plans to target a core group of 15 homeless people with chronic alcohol problems who drink on the city's streets.
5. Ryan said he spent much of the time drinking and had consumed eight or nine pints and a number of shorts.
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π Jawbone, noun.
π /ΛdΚΙΛbΙΚn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A bone of the jaw, especially that of the lower jaw (the mandible), or either half of this.
❗️ Examples:
1. In addition to the embryos and eye, the fossil find includes portions of a snout plus jawbones, skull bones, cheekbones, and teeth.
2. French and American paleotologists held that the jawbone and skull were obviously from two different animals and that their discovery was an accident of placement.
3. The man's skeleton was missing its lower legs, while the woman's skull had lost its jawbone.
4. I've recently noticed a swelling on my jawbone just below my earlobe.
5. When you chew gum, the repetitive movement of your jaw puts added tension on the muscles and joints where your jawbone meets your skull, Urbaniak says.
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π Go up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Begin one's studies at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge.
❗️ Examples:
1. Well I think really it began to falter when I went up to Oxford University to study chemistry.
2. In the 1980s, Coutts was the bank with whom Sloane Rangers opened an account before going up to Oxford or Cambridge.
3. They continued to correspond on plant matters after going up to university - Fox Talbot to Cambridge and Trevelyan to Oxford.
4. Born in Oxford she was privately educated before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge, and later Oxford University.
5. The charity Family Matters York is offering a two-hour budgeting course free for students going up to university this autumn.
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π There are plenty more fish in the sea, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used to console someone whose romantic relationship has ended by pointing out that there are many other people with whom they may have a successful relationship in the future.
❗️ Examples:
1. Because if a relationship doesn't work out, they know there are plenty more fish in the sea.
2. Oh and I suppose you will tell me next that there are plenty more fish in the sea yelled Giles.
3. How many more times do we have to remind you of this, he is just using you and there are plenty more fish in the sea, then you will see what love really is!
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π Mean, verb.
π /miΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Design or destine for a particular purpose.
❗️ Examples:
1. The jacket was meant for a much larger person
2. I told him that garlic dipping sauce was meant for the sole purpose of dipping!
3. The Marble Falls design is meant for business users, with two flat-screen displays and a small chassis.
4. We wondered who the oversize sign was meant for.
5. They were meant for all the days they would be sailing and working.
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π Follow, verb.
π /ΛfΙlΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Act according to (an instruction or precept)
❗️ Examples:
1. He has difficulty in following written instructions
2. The instruction was followed immediately as they stepped out in unison before moving one step to the right.
3. Edgar immediately followed instruction and we walked passed him.
4. I was in a hurry to do this and just blindly followed the instructions.
5. The same procedure was strictly followed at the end of the pulmonary rehabilitation program for patients with COPD.
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π Come close, phrase.
❓ Definition: Almost achieve or do.
❗️ Examples:
1. He came close to calling the Prime Minister a liar
2. It doesn't come close to achieving that target.
3. Alexander was the first to dream of world domination and to come close to achieving it.
4. Of course she knew where he was now, knew that he had come close to achieving his lofty goals, and she honoured him for that.
5. Whether he can come close to achieving as a manager what he achieved as a player remains to be seen.
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π Presence, noun.
π /ΛprΙz(Ι)ns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The impressive manner or appearance of a person.
❗️ Examples:
1. Richard was not a big man but his presence was overwhelming
2. Sol is not a big talker on the field, but his physical presence and calm manner reassure others.
3. He's got a real physical presence - his chest is puffed up and it feels like he's taking up too much space.
4. They have a great physical presence and they made that tell on this occasion.
5. For all that, the staging will be simple, a bare set putting the focus on the performers' physical presence.
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π Adult, verb.
π /ΛadΚlt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Behave in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially by accomplishing mundane but necessary tasks.
❗️ Examples:
1. I've adulted with moderate success this week by compiling invoices and billing my client
2. I am 24 and still trying to figure out how to adult
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π Run out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of rope) be paid out.
❗️ Examples:
1. Slowly, he let the cables run out
2. Slowly, he let the cables run out.
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π Claim to fame, phrase.
❓ Definition: A reason for being regarded as unusual or noteworthy.
❗️ Examples:
1. The town's only claim to fame is that it is the birthplace of Elgar
2. Renowned for its wide main street, this average-sized rural town in the heart of mid-Ulster has few particular claims to fame, as its web site freely admits.
3. Chrysorrogiatissa has two claims to fame: the icon of the Virgin, in its massive silver-gilt frame, is reputed to offer succour to criminals; and its vineyards produce one of the best Cypriot wines.
4. One of the claims to fame at Royal St George's is that it was recast as Royal St Mark's by Ian Fleming, and used as the setting for James Bond's epic match in Goldfinger.
5. She sang in the madrigal, one of our school's few claims to fame.
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π Have, verb.
π /hav/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Possess, own, or hold.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had a new car and a boat
2. Have you got a job yet?
3. I don't have that much money on me
4. Football, even at youth level, should be about rewarding best practice and not just who has the most money.
5. Almost every household today has a computer.
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π Accent, noun.
π /Λaks(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.
❗️ Examples:
1. A strong American accent
2. She never mastered the French accent
3. The whole country was a mixture of different languages and accents back then, especially in the rural areas.
4. And is there anywhere in the world with a greater diversity of accents than London?
5. And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages.
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π Whelk, noun.
π /wΙlk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A predatory marine mollusc with a heavy pointed spiral shell, some kinds of which are edible.
❗️ Examples:
1. For main, if your feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
2. Overall, mussels, barnacles and whelks all had higher metabolic activities at SH than BB, whereas there was no difference in metabolic activity for sea stars.
3. Think of molluscs and chances are it is shellfish such as limpets, whelks, scallops and mussels that spring to mind.
4. People forget that Glasgow is by the sea, but I love restaurants that make something of that closeness, bringing mussels and whelks and Firth of Clyde-reared cod onto the menu.
5. Our examples are taken from recent investigations of two key components of rocky intertidal communities, mussels and whelks.
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π Make out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Make progress; fare.
❗️ Examples:
1. How are you making out, now that the summer's over?
2. Newton, who took on the biggest risk back in 1984, made out pretty well, too.
3. It'll be interesting to see how the original director makes out in the wake of the Dawn of the Dead remake.
4. I would love to hear from them, see how they've made out, try to pick up where we left off, and thank them.
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π The elephant in the room, phrase.
❓ Definition: A major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.
❗️ Examples:
1. They've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates
2. I also think the Small decisions are interesting because they completely avoid the elephant in the room: the Second Amendment.
3. But the Iraq issue was the elephant in the room, the issue that the two leaders could not ignore.
4. It's the elephant in the room that everybody avoids talking about, isn't it?
5. Here in Britain the issue of illegal immigration used to be like the elephant in the room that everyone pretended not to notice.
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π Go, verb.
π /Ι‘ΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a bell or similar device) make a sound in functioning.
❗️ Examples:
1. I heard the buzzer go four times
2. Keenan tried one last run but was hauled down, Morrison and company held Couper up, and when the whistle went it was pandemonium as the Hawks celebrated.
3. I still expect to see her standing there every time the door goes, she said.
4. I manage half a day of final tweaking then the phone goes.
5. Scotland's fate was made official with the events in Oslo but, really, they were done as soon as the final whistle went at Hampden hours earlier.
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π British, adjective.
π /ΛbrΙͺtΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to Great Britain or the United Kingdom, or to its people or language.
❗️ Examples:
1. In fact, the first seven presidents of the United States were born as British subjects.
2. We would not have had a united movement and we would have failed a generation of British Muslims.
3. Friends say she is rather shy, retiring and eccentric in the best British sense.
4. If only British builders were as receptive to gifts of bread, biscuits and pineapples.
5. I went back for a Spring Fair, looking for British goods for the shop we now have.
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π Salute, noun.
π /sΙΛl(j)uΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A gesture of respect or polite recognition, especially one made to or by a person when arriving or departing.
❗️ Examples:
1. He raises his arms in a triumphant salute
2. I lifted my glass in salute to all my American friends, enjoying the big Thanksgiving meal, and thought with only a tinge of envy of the delights of roast turkey with all the trimmings.
3. In a final mark of respect, a rescue helicopter circled low over the bay, dropped a wreath into the sea, and dipped its nose in salute to those on the headland.
4. When the jet reached Manchester Airport, the aircraft's wings were tipped in salute to its new home before circling and touching down.
5. To absent friends, said Karen, in salute to their recently departed comrades.
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π Check out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Prove to be true or correct.
❗️ Examples:
1. His claims simply did not check out
2. When his other claims did not check out, it began to look like his photographs were the product of a hoax.
3. Critics, however, began investigating his data and found that a number of his claims did not check out.
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π «You can say that again!», phrase.
❓ Definition: Used to express emphatic agreement.
❗️ Examples:
1. The weather's been bad. You can say that again!
2. Are you guys all right? I know that wasn't the smoothest car ride. You can say that again,I said, my toe still throbbing.
3. It's not something we can predict too far in advance. You can say that again.
4. Jesse cocked his head to one side, muttering, you can say that again.
5. It is unbelievable that we won - yeah, you can say that again.
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π Sprawl, verb.
π /sprΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Sit, lie, or fall with one's arms and legs spread out in an ungainly way.
❗️ Examples:
1. The door shot open, sending him sprawling across the pavement
2. She lay sprawled on the bed
3. Out on the desert white figures lay sprawled dead and dying.
4. The story ends with both lying together sprawled on a bed, as Figures, waiting to be arranged.
5. They sprawled together half on the pavement and half in the gutter.
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π Loose, adjective.
π /luΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a garment) not fitting tightly or closely.
❗️ Examples:
1. She slipped into a loose T-shirt
2. I turned to see Aya leaning in the corner, arms folded and dressed in loose shirt and tight shorts.
3. Clearly emphasising more on the textures and styling, the duo presented an entirely western range with skirts, dresses, jackets and loose trousers.
4. Home again, still a little over-heated, I changed back into shorts and a very loose shirt and cooled down nicely over a cup of excellent espresso.
5. They were instead the baggy costume of a peasant, loose trousers and a short cropped shirt.
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π Celestial, adjective.
π /sΙͺΛlΙstΙͺΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy.
❗️ Examples:
1. A celestial body
2. She also wrote books on astronomy, compiled tables of positions of celestial bodies and designed several scientific instruments.
3. She contributed to her father's texts on mathematics and astronomy, often compiling tables of the position of celestial bodies.
4. This complementary data is also helping astronomers identify the celestial object that is releasing the gamma rays and allow it to be more fully analysed.
5. For it is the duty of an astronomer to record celestial motions through careful observation.
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π Break into, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Interrupt (a conversation)
❗️ Examples:
1. Phil broke into the discussion
2. He had to break into the conversation to make a point.
3. They were all trying to find a way to break into the conversation.
4. She ignored his apprehension and broke into their conversation boldly.
5. She broke into the conversation with her usual want of tact.
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π «Break a leg!», phrase.
❓ Definition: Good luck!
❗️ Examples:
1. Break a leg, and I'll join you on stage when you give the cue.
2. Break a leg, he whispered in my ear before releasing me.
3. Break a leg! I call after her.
4. Invariably, producers, managers, director and fellow cast members decide to pop their heads around dressing-room doors for a quick chat and a cheery Break a leg, darling.
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π Recipe, noun.
π /ΛrΙsΙͺpi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Something which is likely to lead to a particular outcome.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sky-high interest rates are a recipe for disaster
2. The first alternative is a shortcut to insolvency, the second, a recipe for discontentment and civil unrest.
3. Allowing ideology to drive science is a recipe for second rate science.
4. It is a recipe for further volatility in the lead up to next year's elections.
5. This has of course always been a recipe for dictatorship and terror.
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π Scab, noun.
π /skab/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Mange or a similar skin disease in animals.
❗️ Examples:
1. The state was also called in to deal with stock disease, especially scab - a major constraint on wool production.
2. Copperas was used as an eye ointment during the medieval period, to treat scab in sheep, and later (presumably in small quantities) as a laxative.
3. The disappointing turnout was probably due to the regulations which restricted sheep movements in a bid to prevent scab.
4. It is a Government requirement that farmers dip their sheep to prevent scab.
5. Apple scab is a fungal disease that causes black splotches on leaves and fruit.
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π Scilicet, adverb.
π /ΛsΙͺlΙͺsΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: That is to say; namely (introducing a word to be supplied or an explanation of an ambiguity).
❗️ Examples:
1.
2.
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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 «What's up?», phrase.
❓ Definition: What is going on?
❗️ Examples:
1. You can imagine the scenario, Trent's lying on the coach playing Gamecube, and Jeordie walks in the door, Hey man, what's up?
2. As I opened the door to Carolyn's room I smelled the scent of her favorite perfume in the air, and half expected her to appear with a Hey Mom, what's up?
3. I have been talking to my crush online a lot lately, but I never knew what to say in person after the usual, Hey, what's up?
4. He glanced over his shoulder as Harry stepped into the kitchen, Oh hey, what's up?
5. Raine smiled his acknowledgement and Wes returned her greeting, Hey Sally, what's up?
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π Prod, noun.
π /prΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (especially in Ireland) a Protestant.
❗️ Examples:
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π Hook, noun.
π /hΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A stroke that makes the ball deviate in flight in the direction of the follow-through (from right to left for a right-handed player), typically inadvertently.
❗️ Examples:
1. Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices.
2. The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook.
3. Too often players subconsciously misalign their shoulders to compensate for their usual hook or slice.
4. I hit a few hooks, slices, low shots and high fades.
5. An important point to remember is that orienting a shaft in a way that might correct a hook or a slice remains an infraction of the rules.
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π Dover, proper noun.
π /ΛdΙΚvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A ferry port in Kent, in England, on the coast of the English Channel; population 35,200 (est. 2009). It is mainland Britain's nearest point to the Continent, being only 35 km (22 miles) from Calais.
❗️ Examples:
No examples.
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π Come up with, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Produce (something), especially when pressured or challenged.
❗️ Examples:
1. He keeps coming up with all kinds of lame excuses
2. This is a classic case of someone putting two and two together and coming up with 83.
3. This is all that they are coming up with and we all know this is totally untenable.
4. I'm quite excited about some of the ideas we're coming up with, but more details later.
5. We'll have to see what he comes up with, but the portents are grim.
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π Hit the sack, phrase.
❓ Definition: Go to bed.
❗️ Examples:
1. I know there was no wound on my wrist before hitting the sack because upon retiring I took off my watch and did not observe any blemish in the left wrist area.
2. We went for another waltz down Da Street before hitting the sack, only stopping for one last drink at a beachside bar where an Elvis impersonater was performing.
3. Got home around 12:30 or so, played around on the computer for a bit, then finished up Charlotte's Web before hitting the sack.
4. But I am sleepy right now and I will be hitting the sack.
5. Watching them play last night was a nice way to end the day before hitting the sack with a smile.
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π Vet, verb.
π /vΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Investigate (someone) thoroughly, especially in order to ensure that they are suitable for a job requiring secrecy, loyalty, or trustworthiness.
❗️ Examples:
1. Each applicant will be vetted by police
2. He alleges that the charity discriminated against him by vetting him with the Northern Ireland Office.
3. He was vetted by the Home Office when he helped set up the local youth offending team.
4. Two weeks ago ministers decided to require all new teaching staff to be vetted by the bureau.
5. Every man on Hannah's list has been personally vetted by Hannah with references followed up - and they are all police-checked.
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π Small, adjective.
π /smΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used of the first letter of a word that has both a general and a specific use to show that in this case the general use is intended.
❗️ Examples:
1. They are diehard conservatives, with a small c
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π Unctuous, adjective.
π /ΛΚΕ(k)tjΚΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily.
❗️ Examples:
1. He seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way.
2. Another commentator derided the presenter's mixture of solicitous concern, unctuous charm and glib moralising.
3. He is as unctuous as they come and as slippery and lethal as a herd of rattlers in a barrel of oil.
4. I wouldn't waste two seconds listening to that unctuous socialite.
5. Bob, by the way, only casually mentioned his war record, though there is still something unctuous even about that.
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π Make for, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Move or head towards (a place)
❗️ Examples:
1. I made for the life raft and hung on for dear life
2. The fumes of the city stung harshly in my nose as I inched towards the Ramblas, one among twenty thousand making for Barcelona's famous promenade.
3. The crowd has swelled so you can't move, let alone photograph, so I make for a restaurant on a first floor from where I can look down on the concert below.
4. Parliament decided to use its army to cut off Rupert's lines of support and so moved off the moor and made for Tadcaster.
5. He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office.
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π Anticipate, verb.
π /anΛtΙͺsΙͺpeΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Guess or be aware of (what will happen) and take action in order to be prepared.
❗️ Examples:
1. They failed to anticipate a full-scale invasion
2. The basis of the case I had prepared neither required nor anticipated such witness attendance and perhaps with hindsight I should have walked away at this stage.
3. And so we are prepared to anticipate those requests.
4. Of course we had anticipated this, had prepared Lucky for Stone's questions.
5. Even if detailed discussion is not possible, relevant historical details should be taken to anticipate problems and prepare appropriately for the arrival of the preterm infant.
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π Small, adjective.
π /smΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Low or inferior in rank or position; socially undistinguished.
❗️ Examples:
1. At dinner, some of the smaller neighbours were invited
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π Escapism, noun.
π /ΙͺΛskeΙͺpΙͺz(Ι)m/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.
❗️ Examples:
1. Virtual reality offers a form of escapism.
2. There was some fantasy, some escapism and a lot of joy in performing for my parents and my friends in school plays.
3. Entertainment provides escapism, even happiness for a lot of people.
4. It was sheer fantasy, sheer escapism.
5. Thus it suggests a volatile mix of resentment, escapism and childlike fantasy.
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π Come across, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Hand over or provide what is wanted.
❗️ Examples:
1. She has come across with some details
2. So if they thought she'd come across with some blockbuster testimony, they'd put her up there.
3. Whether we come across with little or much, the mere gesture can be a spiritually lightening experience.
4. I had a date at eight with Holly, but she wasn't ready to come across yet.
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π Call it a day, phrase.
❓ Definition: Decide or agree to stop doing something.
❗️ Examples:
1. After three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day
2. It's not a fun job, scanning negatives, and I decided to call it a day when I'd finished the first film.
3. We were late arrivals and calling it a day, we decided just after midnight to put our heads down for the night.
4. The group called it a day after Charlie Simpson decided to leave.
5. And at 60 for two, with 13 overs of play still scheduled, both sides agreed to call it a day.
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π Waste, noun.
π /weΙͺst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products.
❗️ Examples:
1. Nuclear waste
2. Hazardous industrial wastes
3. A nearly inert material, concrete is suitable as a medium for recycling waste or industrial by-products.
4. Many are turned into cesspools and dumping sites for solid waste, including hazardous materials.
5. Americans are right to refuse truckloads of garbage that contain biomedical waste and radioactive material.
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π Mad, adjective.
π /mad/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Great; remarkable.
❗️ Examples:
1. I got mad respect for him
2. This author has mad skills with the written word
3. I give him mad props for keeping his stuff together.
4. Mad love and respect to both of you!
5. But I have to give mad credit to Jennifer Lawrence.
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π Plaintive, adjective.
π /ΛpleΙͺntΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Sounding sad and mournful.
❗️ Examples:
1. A plaintive cry.
2. From a whooshing, gurgling still comes the ringing, plaintive and mournful.
3. The plaintive cry of kids playing in their streets and gardens for many years has been We want our ball back.
4. There are plaintive cries from MSPs about their workload, which, they argue, can only be sustained with their current numbers.
5. My wife was expecting this to be boring but was pleasantly surprised which resulted in the plaintive cry of why wasn't science like that when she was at school.
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π Break up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Disintegrate or disperse.
❗️ Examples:
1. The grey clouds had begun to break up
2. The one mass of land began to break up, and the separating continents took with them living cargoes of animals.
3. Pumps were put on the vessel to keep it afloat so that local boats could try and tow it from the rocks but it began to break up after an hour and a half.
4. One of the workers, Sandile Matshini, tells of his lucky escape when a container in which he was sleeping was pulled up a hill as the ship began breaking up.
5. The temperature rises to between - 20 and - 40 degrees Celsius, and the ice has not yet begun to break up.
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π Out for the count, phrase.
❓ Definition: Unconscious or soundly asleep.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her feet kicked up and hit Sean backwards sending him into a tree knocking him out for the count.
2. She rammed into the back of the man whose head she had just covered, knocking him out for the count, coming to a halt in front of him, still on her feet as he fell.
3. As the in - flight movie, Legally Blonde, played mutely on aeroplane screens, Reid was given two more injections - to make sure he was out for the count.
4. He lay down in another room, finally out for the count.
5. We see the other astronauts, already out for the count, in their sealed sleep bubbles.
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π Gut, verb.
π /Ι‘Κt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (with object) cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed.
❗️ Examples:
1. It guts me to think about what my mother and brother missed out on
2. I wouldn't say it broke my heart, but it absolutely gutted me.
3. It gutted me as a member of the goalkeepers' union when Barthez had that bad spell of three or four games but he's come back with some unbelievable saves.
4. The Elephant man just had me in floods of tears with the sad nobility of Merrick's death, whereas Menace's uber-bleak ending gutted me so much that I ended up choking back tears.
5. What has gutted me the most and has really upset me is it has taken me three years to build up the CD collection.
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π Enjoy, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛdΚΙΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Take delight or pleasure in (an activity or occasion)
❗️ Examples:
1. I enjoy watching good films
2. They allegedly spent the money on watching three movies and enjoying a sumptuous dinner.
3. She was in great form that day and enjoyed the occasion and meeting up with many of her old friends.
4. This gives them their only opportunity to enjoy the occasional meal out or a drink with friends.
5. In spite of the hard work, this is an occasion enjoyed by those who take part.
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π Spiritus, noun.
π /ΛspΙͺrΙͺtΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A particular spirit or quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. As I entered that all-too-familiar room, the creator spiritus took possession of me, held me in its clutches and chastised me for eight weeks, until the work was all but finished.
2. In animal organisms vital and cognitive functions depend on the spiritus.
3. Even when the Renaissance Neoplatonist Marsilio Ficino talked about the health of the scholar he meant to refer to the state of his spiritus.
4. Forget the spiritual connotations of breath, spiritus, soul, or whatever.
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π Come across, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a woman) agree to have sexual intercourse with a man.
❗️ Examples:
1. I had a date at eight with Holly, but she wasn't ready to come across yet.
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π Out of, phrase.
❓ Definition: Indicating the source or derivation of something; from.
❗️ Examples:
1. A bench fashioned out of a fallen tree trunk
2. I get a lot of enjoyment out of teaching
3. Fashioned out of rich black walnut, the chair is as much art as it is furniture.
4. Attempts were made to set fire to another bench created out of recycled plastic and part of this has melted.
5. It's just a way of making lots and lots of money out of the tax payer.
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π Beanery, noun.
π /ΛbiΛnΙri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A cheap restaurant.
❗️ Examples:
1. A hospital cafeteria's mission statement, however, can put that of the most foppish of five-star beaneries to shame.
2. More than one fellow rubbernecker judged it fortunate the truck overturned before having a chance to careen across the gravel parking lot and through the beanery's front windows.
3. The Car Department building in the Here Yard was demolished along with the tiny beanery located between it and the yard office when Toronto Yard opened.
4. Across from the diesel shop, the Roundhouse Deli serves rail workers, taking the place of the old railroad beanery.
5. It's probably the heavy proliferation of this fine beanery that makes Second Cup so popular.
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π Poke, noun.
π /pΙΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A woman's bonnet with a projecting brim or front, popular especially in the early 19th century.
❗️ Examples:
1. A Pennsylvania Amish in a poke bonnet goes next, happy as a bug.
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π Ex-voto, noun.
π /Ιks ΛvΙΚtΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An offering given in order to fulfil a vow.
❗️ Examples:
1. On the walls hung dozens of ex-votos.
2. A collection of ex-voto offerings.
3. The result is one of the smallest, most intensely powerful exhibitions I have seen for a long time, in which each piece, while itself a perfect ex-voto, also contributes to the intercessory impact of the whole.
4. His ex-voto will be a part of himself: his child.
5. The monument was probably constructed as an ex-voto to thank God for having stopped the plague that had broken out in 1598.
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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 Jump on the bandwagon, phrase.
❓ Definition: Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful.
❗️ Examples:
1. Scientists and doctors alike have jumped on the bandwagon
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π Open, adjective.
π /ΛΙΚp(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of the bowels) not constipated.
❗️ Examples:
1. The bowels were open, but the stools consisted only of green and black slime.
2. The nursing record indicates that her bowels were open.
3. He has a good appetite, and his bowels are open.
4. The bowels were not open, and in the evening she had more pain.
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π Compile, verb.
π /kΙmΛpΚΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Produce (a list or book) by assembling information collected from other sources.
❗️ Examples:
1. The local authority must compile a list of the names and addresses of taxpayers
2. Online booksellers, such as Amazon and major book chains including Barnes and Noble now compile their own bestseller lists.
3. All local authorities in England must compile a register of contaminated land in their area under a section of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 which has just come into force.
4. Drawing on written and oral sources, he compiled lists of words from all walks of life, many subsequently shown not to be exclusively Australian.
5. Data from the four general sources used to compile the index should make it possible for companies to produce answers to a number of key questions about their regulatory compliance activities.
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π Glower, verb.
π /ΛΙ‘laΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (no object) Have an angry or sullen look on one's face; scowl.
❗️ Examples:
1. She glowered at him suspiciously.
2. His father's glowering face.
3. I glowered at him with angry tears of frustration shining in my eyes before I dropped my gaze and crossed my arms again.
4. Every time he was given out he gesticulated, frowned, glowered and stared at the umpires.
5. Her brow furrowed and her scorning frown deepened as she glowered at him angrily.
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π Wrap up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Be quiet; stop talking or making a noise.
❗️ Examples:
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π A chip off the old block, phrase.
❓ Definition: Someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance.
❗️ Examples:
1. She smiled at Jimmy, a chip off the old block with his grey eyes and a bit of his dad's twinkle
2. And he's a brick, a chip off the old block, a good un.
3. Daniel '71, Ph.D. '78 (early Islamic history), is what old-timers would call a chip off the old block.
4. Son has worked with father since his teens and, by all accounts, is definitely a chip off the old block for, like his dad, Chris is a practical guy.
5. But the fly-half is a chip off the old block when it comes to meticulous planning and almost disturbing dedication to duty.
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π Deluge, verb.
π /ΛdΙljuΛdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Inundate with a great quantity of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. He has been deluged with offers of work
2. Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with.
3. Unfortunately, nobody considered notifying anyone else, and local and state authorities were soon deluged with calls from panicked citizens.
4. Talking to publisher friends I gather that they are deluged with manuscripts more than ever before, but I think there is a quality control.
5. Talk to too many sources and the writer is deluged with contrary opinions, none of which converge into something close to reality.
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π Mane, noun.
π /meΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A growth of long hair on the neck of a horse, lion, or other mammal.
❗️ Examples:
1. The horse was rushing about in the field, tossing its mane
2. Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity.
3. Most species have a mane on the neck and a lock of hair on the forepart of the head known as a forelock.
4. A lion with a majestic mane has long been a trophy coveted by big game hunters in Africa.
5. There was light snow falling, and it caught in the horses' manes and actors' hair.
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π Caseous, adjective.
π /ΛkeΙͺsΙͺΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Characterized by caseation.
❗️ Examples:
1. They showed that these drugs penetrated throughout lesions and caseous matter in concentrations adequate for bacteriostasis.
2. Histologically these lesions contain caseous necrosis and will eventually be absorbed or become calcified.
3. The first is a population of actively growing bacilli present in liquefied caseous material of the tuberculous lesion and the lining of the walls of pulmonary cavities.
4. There were healing granulomas and caseous foci, presumably tuberculosis, in mesenteric and peripancreatic lymph nodes.
5. The lymph nodes coalesce and break down due to formation of caseous pus.
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π Put out, phrasal verb.
π /ΛpΚt ΛaΚt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Agree to have sexual intercourse with someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. Getting a girl to put out for him had not always been a simple matter
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π Yours faithfully, phrase.
❓ Definition: A formula for ending a formal letter in which the recipient is not addressed by name.
❗️ Examples:
1. We write yours sincerely or yours faithfully at the bottom of a letter, then fret for days about whether we chose the right one.
2. However the basic rule is that when you use Dear Sir/Madam then you end with yours faithfully.
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π Bird, noun.
π /bΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly.
❗️ Examples:
1. I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turkey farm plucking wing feathers as the birds went into the slaughter house.
2. With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize.
3. Such cases of female competition and aggression have been noted in many birds and other vertebrates.
4. After you have clipped his wing, your bird will still be able to fly, but not for any distance.
5. Marine mammals and large flying birds are the animals most likely to be able to benefit from foraging over very large distances.
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π Bewildering, adjective.
π /bΙͺΛwΙͺld(Ι)rΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Confusing or perplexing.
❗️ Examples:
1. There is a bewildering array of holidays to choose from
2. In the opening laps, however, cars were entering corners sometimes three abreast, exchanging positions with bewildering frequency.
3. The end to persecution was always going to be bewildering.
4. I suspect the lay reader will find their content bewildering.
5. A visit to the supermarket can present a shopper with a bewildering array of choices.
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π Shambolic, adjective.
π /ΚamΛbΙlΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged.
❗️ Examples:
1. The department's shambolic accounting.
2. The zombies themselves are well-realised in the vein of George A Romero's classic monsters - as Pegg himself says, they're so shambolic and endearingly rubbish that you could spend an hour in a room just dodging one.
3. The result is admittedly shambolic at times but leaves the distinct feeling that, rather than listening to a jingle-laden radio show, you've popped round to a friend's house to listen to records that they like and think you might like.
4. It could be, perhaps, that the genre is still seen as monolithic and shambolic, Hildas in horn-hats and breastplates.
5. We pass the school bus and reach the beginnings of Troy - a security gate with a man drinking coffee - and then I see the Horse: grey, singed metal, dwarfing our van, strangely shambolic.
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π Screw something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Summon up one's courage.
❗️ Examples:
1. Now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess
2. The scene in which the host and hostess of the tavern screw their courage up before murdering Thomas Cole has been seen as an analogue to Macbeth.
3. I screwed up my courage to ask him what was uppermost in my mind.
4. I've been trying to screw up the courage to call you ever since.
5. The ranger screwed up his courage and decided to look in on Father Goodwin.
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π On the ball, phrase.
❓ Definition: Alert to new ideas, methods, and trends.
❗️ Examples:
1. Maintaining contact with customers keeps me on the ball
2. A woman like that, with so much on the ball
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π Thrill, noun.
π /ΞΈrΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A vibratory movement or resonance heard through a stethoscope.
❗️ Examples:
1. Stenosis in the artery causes a swishing sound, which is heard as a bruit on auscultation and also may be felt as a thrill or slight vibration in the vessel on palpation.
2. This systolic thrill is associated with an ejection type murmur heard best over the pulmonary area.
3. A precordial thrill, machinery-like murmur, and right bundle branch block were noted.
4. An arteriovenous fistula of the left arm had a palpable thrill.
5. All vital signs were within normal limits, and no precordial murmurs, friction rubs, or thrills were present.
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π Feeling, noun.
π /ΛfiΛlΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The capacity to experience the sense of touch.
❗️ Examples:
1. A loss of feeling in the hands
2. Jack wasn't sure if he was going blind, or just crazy, but he lost all feeling, all sense.
3. For a prosthetic heel to be successful it would need to be covered in skin which has feeling and sensation.
4. The disease leaves her with pain, loss of feeling and a burning sensation in her hands meaning she cannot drive for any length of time.
5. He said he was in intense pain and losing feeling in his legs and his doctor recommended a private clinic.
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π Jury-rig, verb.
❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of jury-rigged.
❗️ Examples:
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π Get through, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Make contact by telephone.
❗️ Examples:
1. I could never get through on the telephone, because it was always tied up.
2. After calling twice more and getting busy signals, I finally got through, but was told that they couldn't check on my order because their site was down.
3. I finally got through to someone who told me that we would be getting additional compensation, though he didn't know what, and that it would be mailed to me.
4. Well, after calling the 1-888 number for days, I finally got through.
5. I called her number: it was engaged and it took me more than fifteen minutes before I finally got through to her.
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π Practice makes perfect, phrase.
❓ Definition: Regular exercise of an activity or skill is the way to become proficient in it.
❗️ Examples:
1. Repetition is the mother of skill, and practice makes perfect.
2. But practice makes perfect, and my vocal speech skills can always be bettered.
3. When an athlete is trying to hone his or her skills the clichΓ© often used is practice makes perfect.
4. Subsequently, she advises: Draw like crazy; practice makes perfect.
5. Note: if the batter is not staying together, add an egg; if it's too thin add flour, too thick, add milk - it may be necessary to adjust to get the best results - practice makes perfect, really!
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π Unprecedented, adjective.
π /ΚnΛprΙsΙͺdΙntΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Never done or known before.
❗️ Examples:
1. The government took the unprecedented step of releasing confidential correspondence
2. Now two victims have taken the unprecedented step of suing the Vatican itself.
3. We put together an unprecedented ground operation, but it was matched by the zealots on the right.
4. Since it was unique and unprecedented the coin was dismissed as a modern hoax.
5. One social characteristic was the unique and unprecedented rise in real earnings and incomes.
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π Comprise, verb.
π /kΙmΛprΚΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Consist of; be made up of.
❗️ Examples:
1. The country comprises twenty states
2. The new board will comprise twelve members, including four worker directors.
3. The trust was to comprise five people including his chartered accountant.
4. The remainder of the unit comprises warehouse accommodation and includes a roller shutter door.
5. The cover comprises a lid and a raised rim which is recessed from the outer edge of the lid.
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