Cambridge Dictionary:
π Croesus, proper noun.
π /ΛkriΛsΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (6th century BC), last king of Lydia c.560–546 BC. Renowned for his great wealth, he subjugated the Greek cities on the coast of Asia Minor before being overthrown by Cyrus the Great of Persia.
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π Carry on, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Behave in an overemotional way.
❗️ Examples:
1. If this is how some people behave in public, Heaven only knows how they carry on in their own homes.
2. She's always laughing and carrying on and making a fool out of someone.
3. I really felt like shouting, Don't encourage him - he will just do it more, but they did scream and he continued to carry on.
4. They start behaving like a collection of mad, hydrophobic dogs, carrying on and salivating madly, and trying to bite anybody in sight from the centre-left.
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π Have been around, phrase.
❓ Definition: Have a lot of varied experience and understanding of the world.
❗️ Examples:
1. Look, I've been around, I know what happens with kids like you
2. They have lots of players with Premiership experience, and a coach who has been around.
3. The idea is not new, however, having been around for many years.
4. Annual festivals in cities like Edmonton, Ottawa and Halifax have been around for years.
5. These too have been around for years, and you can still catch them on any day in the mornings and early afternoons.
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π Count, verb.
π /kaΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Determine the total number of (a collection of items)
❗️ Examples:
1. I started to count the stars I could see
2. They counted up their change
3. The percentage of infected cells was determined by counting the total number infected and uninfected cells from 10 randomly selected microscopic fields.
4. When Krohn raised concerns over this lack of accountability, he was told that it would take too long to count the collection and distribution of all the money.
5. We collected fruits and counted the total number of flowers, fruits, and fully developed undamaged seeds from each plant.
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π Theme, noun.
π /ΞΈiΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The first major constituent of a clause, indicating the subject matter, typically being the subject but optionally other constituents, as in ‘smitten he is not’.
❗️ Examples:
1. In the theme-rheme structure, it is the theme that is the prominent element.
2. When a sentence has an indirect object, that constituent may also function as a marked theme, the focus of attention, by beginning the sentence.
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π Alligate, verb.
π /ΛalΙͺΙ‘eΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (no object) To perform alligation.
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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 In front of, phrase.
❓ Definition: In a position facing someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. She sat in front of the mirror
2. If I sit in front of a computer screen long enough, I can actually churn out quite a lot of words.
3. Dr. Rob wades across to the stage and sits in front of it in cross-legged expectancy.
4. They tend to sit in front of televisions and computer screens for hours on end.
5. I found that I liked to program sitting in front of a computer, not a piece of paper.
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π Dither, noun.
π /ΛdΙͺΓ°Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in singular) a state of agitation.
❗️ Examples:
1. All of a dither, he prophesied instant chaos
2. It's the day of the murder-mystery fundraising event and Colleen's all in a dither.
3. After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither.
4. With Hong Kong in a dither, Shanghai is quickly gaining prominence as the gateway to China.
5. But still, the whole experience can send me into a tissy and a dither and you don't want Halley in either of those places.
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π Echo, verb.
π /ΛΙkΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a defender) play a higher card followed by a lower one in the same suit, as a signal to request one's partner to lead that suit.
❗️ Examples:
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π Osmatic, adjective.
π /ΙzΛmatΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Having well-developed olfactory organs and a good sense of smell; macrosmatic. Compare "anosmatic", microsmatic .
❗️ Examples:
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π Make up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Be reconciled after a quarrel.
❗️ Examples:
1. Let's kiss and make up
2. As Paul and Heather prepare to do battle, another celebrity is apparently kissing and making up.
3. The wealthy couple were later seen having a lover's tiff before kissing and making up on the dance floor.
4. They argue almost constantly, only stopping occasionally to hug and kiss and pretend to make up.
5. So big-hearted Melvyn bought Al a slap-up lunch the other day to kiss and make up.
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π Fit as a fiddle, phrase.
❓ Definition: In very good health.
❗️ Examples:
1. What keeps him youthful, healthy and fit as a fiddle?
2. He's as fit as a fiddle of course, lean and strong, just like a good Welsh farm cat should be.
3. When he took that dramatic fall last year, when he looks exhausted and looks pale, as he often does, sometimes he disappears from public view, but then he reappears looking fit as a fiddle and full of energy.
4. I'm no spring chicken any more but I feel fit as a fiddle and if I can help beat the Germans, I'm sure as hell not going to be beaten in a little scrap like this.
5. My immediate impression was that, if anything, the smiling, goodhumoured Dan, who looked fit as a fiddle, appeared to have got a few years younger.
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π Start, verb.
π /stΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Rouse (game) from its lair.
❗️ Examples:
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π Space, verb.
π /speΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in printing or writing) put blanks between (words, letters, or lines).
❗️ Examples:
1. Thus, the basic letter forms and spacing for a word printed with or without diacritics remain unchanged.
2. With print design, we have precise control over spacing between letters, words and lines of text.
3. The length of each copy is represented by the closely spaced horizontal lines.
4. There were eleven perfectly straight, evenly spaced lines drawn on another blackboard.
5. They are several printing / spacing errors and the index of the book is not very accurate and far from complete.
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π Skulduggery, noun.
π /skΚlΛdΚΙ‘(Ι)ri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.
❗️ Examples:
1. A firm that investigates commercial skulduggery.
2. It sounds dull but it this sort of underhand skullduggery that bloggers should be uncovering.
3. What the Sligo County Board have done is to engage in a low, mean-spirited, under-hand piece of skulduggery.
4. Do note, however, the snide tone of the remark, and the imputation of dishonesty and skullduggery among scientists.
5. Ansari depicts the history of the caliphs as a sordid one of oppression and skullduggery.
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π Break away, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Escape from someone's hold.
❗️ Examples:
1. Anna attempted to break away, but he held her tight
2. He was trying to break away from the officer and get at the other man.
3. The victim managed to break away from the assailants and ran off.
4. I broke away from Tobias, moving to attack again.
5. He broke away from Conor and raced into the bushes, fading into the shadows.
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π To hell, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used for emphasis.
❗️ Examples:
1. Damn it to hell
2. She hoped to hell that Thomas would ask her if she would help him.
3. I have never seen him like that before, and I hope to hell that I never have to again.
4. She just had to keep talking to him, and hope to hell that the ambulance would get here soon.
5. I coughed and quickly adjusted my voice, hoping to hell he hadn't noticed the crack.
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π Intrusive, adjective.
π /ΙͺnΛtruΛsΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to or formed by intrusion.
❗️ Examples:
1. Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area.
2. The early Permian rifting in the North Atlantic involved siliciclastic sedimentation in extensional basins and widespread extrusive and intrusive magmatic activity.
3. In addition, a number of intrusive centres, lava flows and dykes crop out in the NW corner of the island (close to Cap St. Andre).
4. The mafic sheets have not contributed at all to the felsic volcanic-derived volcaniclastic breccias, thus supporting an intrusive origin for the mafic volcanic rocks.
5. The field-based studies were supplemented by thin-section petrography and whole-rock geochemistry to characterize different intrusive phases.
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π Repatriate, verb.
π /riΛΛpatrΙͺeΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Send or bring (money) back to one's own country.
❗️ Examples:
1. Foreign firms would be permitted to repatriate all profits
2. Direct foreign investment flows into India were further liberalised in 1996 and firms have been permitted to repatriate any profits earned back overseas.
3. This type of risk is arising from a decision of a foreign government to restrict capital movements, which would make it difficult to repatriate profits, dividends or capital.
4. Restrictions could make it difficult to repatriate profits, dividends, or capital.
5. He subsequently repatriated his money and made voluntary contact with the Revenue Commissioners.
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π Klatch, noun.
π /klatΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An informal social gathering at which coffee is served.
❗️ Examples:
1. The local cafΓ© in the Little Town keeps a pot of Joe hot at all times and throughout the long slow afternoons locals wander in to have a solitary cup or to join various klatsches.
2. Members of this regular klatch include two retired textile mill workers, a warehouse supervisor, a bus driver and a house painter.
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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 Up to, phrase.
❓ Definition: Good enough for.
❗️ Examples:
1. I was not up to her standards
2. If they aren't up to standard, however, it could be a different story.
3. It would easily be up to the standard of our National One matches.
4. He's good at speeches, and this one was up to his usual standard.
5. Luckily for us no one else seemed to be up to the standard either - apart from the hosts and presenters.
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π Coalesce, verb.
π /ΛkΙΚΙΛlΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Combine (elements) in a mass or whole.
❗️ Examples:
1. His idea served to coalesce all that happened into one connected whole
2. We must build a new, electoral bloc, coalescing the parties and individuals of the left; a coalition that will combine grassroots activism with electoral strategy.
3. It is understood the leaked report will recommend a single authority for the whole region, meaning that most boards will be coalesced or abolished.
4. Even though he was a Democrat, he was the hero of Franklin Roosevelt for the way he coalesced the war effort between 1941 and 1945.
5. This is a big opportunity to coalesce many different functions that currently exist and get to a high standard of training across the board, said Jones.
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π Taciturn, adjective.
π /ΛtasΙͺtΙΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
❗️ Examples:
1. After such gatherings she would be taciturn and morose
2. This quiet and taciturn man has been as responsible as any individual for the rise in England's fortunes.
3. A smart yet taciturn girl, she never complained and she always followed her instructions to the letter.
4. He was also taciturn, but enumerated that he wanted a relationship with me.
5. That taciturn man with the eyes of a kind wizard has brought about a veritable revolution in gymnastics.
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π Pinivorous, adjective.
π /pΚΙͺΛnΙͺv(Ι)rΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of a bird or mammal: that feeds on pine seeds. Of an insect: that feeds on pine needles.
❗️ Examples:
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π Go off, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Begin to dislike.
❗️ Examples:
1. I went off chocolate when i was pregnant
2. Any change of routine may cause your cat to go off its food.
3. Even if he had a hard race and he was beaten, where other horses would fade away and maybe go off their grub, he would actually thrive on it.
4. I may have a small steak tartare, but I've gone off food terribly.
5. At 10 am he felt a bit more shivery and was going off his food.
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π Hard up, phrase.
π /ΛhΙΛd ΛΚp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Short of money.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'm too hard up to buy fancy clothes
2. He could be very generous - lending money to hard up locals, or secretly dropping off a carton of groceries at someone's back door.
3. It really worries me when relatives buy you something even though you know they are hard up.
4. I have always been keen to earn money, so while I couldn't say I have ever been really hard up, it's because I have worked to make sure I'm not.
5. I was very hard up when I was at school and university.
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π Euro, noun.
π /ΛjΚΙrΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The common wallaroo.
❗️ Examples:
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π Blow, verb.
π /blΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Play jazz or rock music in an unrestrained style.
❗️ Examples:
1. It took him maybe five choruses to warm up, but then he could really blow
2. What has not escaped their attention amongst all the jazz blowing and beat sampling is the need for melody, musical hooks and the ability to make the essence of the tunes stick in the mind.
3. Can these guys actually play, or are they just making a bunch of groovy thump 'n' blow because that's all they can do?
4. But because of all this, the record companies got kinda afraid, and we weren't really allowed to blow.
5. Hess's blowing opens confidently as he demonstrates his speedy technical mastery.
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π Stridulate, verb.
π /ΛstrΙͺdjΚleΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (no object) (of an insect, especially a male cricket or grasshopper) make a shrill sound by rubbing the legs, wings, or other parts of the body together.
❗️ Examples:
1. The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated, and droned.
2. Stridulating male crickets.
3. Sound production in Libanasidus is similar to that of many New Zealand weta, where the males stridulate by rubbing the lateral abdominal stridulatory pads against the modified inner surfaces of the femora.
4. An arachnologist says most spiders stridulate too quietly for humans to hear; an exception is Australia's barking spider, a kind of tarantula that lets out a hissing sound when threatened.
5. Spiders produce vibration … by drumming with the pales and the abdomen, by stridulating, or by plucking threads of their own or other spiders' webs.
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π Put up with, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Tolerate; endure.
❗️ Examples:
1. I'm too tired to put up with any nonsense
2. He is apparently quite passive, and puts up with all this verbal aggression from his wife.
3. What they will not put up with, however, is a lack of control over other people.
4. There would be howls of outrage from the drinks industry but we can put up with that.
5. I have more important things to do than put up with more of her silly mind games.
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π See eye to eye, phrase.
❓ Definition: Be in full agreement.
❗️ Examples:
1. The boss and I do not always see eye to eye
2. Developers and the government may not always see eye to eye but they agree on the need to provide affordable housing for key workers.
3. We're going through the motions right now of just getting agreements to try to see eye to eye on these very essential practical arrangements.
4. Even though Nick and John did not always see eye to eye, I know that they respected one other as politicians who were aware of their own weaknesses and strengths.
5. We don't always quite see eye to eye on things and I've been so unutterably miserable this week that it's been making him unhappy to see me so unhappy.
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π Obstinate, adjective.
π /ΛΙbstΙͺnΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her obstinate determination to pursue a career in radio
2. You can have really strong, obstinate opinions, so long as your facts are true, you're OK.
3. Thanks to the Prime Minister, s remarks, many people think that both farmers and the county council are being obstinate in refusing to reopen footpaths and bridle ways.
4. Being the obstinate set of girls they were, the debate would carry on until one of them had decided it best to just kill the subject.
5. Despite his obstinate attitude, he beckoned for Eva and Sofia to accompany him.
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π Good, noun.
π /Ι‘Κd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Benefit or advantage to someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. He convinces his father to use his genius for the good of mankind
2. The preservation of old buildings matters because they contribute to the general public good
3. He is too clever for his own good
4. It is fiscal nonsense not to reap the benefits for the good of their own members.
5. The benefits of watching wild animals outweigh any good that might come from killing them.
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π Samaritan, noun.
π /sΙΛmarΙͺt(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (usually Good Samaritan) A charitable or helpful person (with reference to Luke 10:33)
❗️ Examples:
1. Suddenly, miraculously, a Good Samaritan leaned over and handed the cashier a dollar bill on my behalf.
2. The Belfast man and his wife Josephine were stranded for an hour in their car along the Ballydugan Road before a good Samaritan came to their rescue.
3. Just before the police are called, a Good Samaritan, posing as a police officer, steps in to save him.
4. A quick thinking Samaritan jumped over the wall and threw the drowning man a lifebuoy but he was unable to hold on due to the strong waves and cold water.
5. Giving aid to someone you messed up, with them thinking you are some kind of Samaritan, does not leave you with a good feeling about yourself.
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π Screw something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Cause something to fail or go wrong.
❗️ Examples:
1. Why are you trying to screw up your life?
2. Have I done something wrong, did I screw something up?
3. If you do the steps wrong, you screw it up.
4. If he thinks I'm doing something wrong or if I break something or screw something up he gives me extra cleaning duties to do at closing time.
5. Predictably, it screwed everything up not only for my Broadband account email, but 3 other email accounts too - leaving me able to receive mail but unable to send anything.
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π There you are, phrase.
❓ Definition: This is what you wanted.
❗️ Examples:
1. There you are—that'll be £3.80 please
2. All right, there you go, Swingley says - to the dogs, not me.
3. They took it out, looked at it, had a bit of a chuckle and said there you go.
4. One day my husband came home with a computer and said there you go - now start!
5. So there you go, Betty, a little inside look at the bureau.
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π Rocket, verb.
π /ΛrΙkΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sales of milk in supermarkets are rocketing
2. In 2004, the box office take had rocketed to £74.5m, of which Russian films accounted for 12%.
3. Agents in Santa Clara County say sales are rocketing.
4. When the Fed raised rates another 75 basis points in early 2000, spreads were rocketing to historic highs.
5. Sales in the UK, however, have rocketed from 156 million in 2001 to 176 million last year.
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π Shadow, noun.
π /ΛΚadΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A weak or inferior remnant or version of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. This fine-looking, commanding man had become a shadow of his former self
2. That is to say, a facsimile, a carbon copy, a wisp of a ghost of a shadow of a bagel.
3. In memory only part of experiences are seen as they really were, while others fade into a shadow of themselves.
4. Wall Street and the City would be a shadow of themselves.
5. The sickness was far progressed by that time, and the emancipated retching man that had spoken to a younger boy was only a shadow of his father.
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π Dilly, noun.
π /ΛdΙͺli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An excellent example of a particular type of person or thing.
❗️ Examples:
1. That's a dilly of a breakfast recipe.
2. The nameless viewpoint racer is making 'one last run', and it's a dilly.
3. At only $14.95 it's a dilly of a deal for this long sold-out series, previously available only in hardcover (if you could find it).
4. This is their first effort to publish a shotshell reloading manual, and it's a dilly.
5. If the case holds us upon real scrutiny, it's going to be a dilly.
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π Break up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a radio or telephone signal) be interrupted by interference.
❗️ Examples:
1. I found him eventually on an obscure community station that kept breaking up with static and interference from taxi drivers.
2. You're driving on an empty highway and your radio starts breaking up.
3. Indoors, more often than not, the signal breaks up when something cuts your invisible tether to the heavens.
4. The radios started to break up, and we lost our encrypted data link.
5. You're breaking up and very crackly.
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π What the hell, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used to express anger, contempt, or disbelief.
❗️ Examples:
1. What the hell, Jane? You're hanging me out to dry?
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π Tell, verb.
π /tΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an experience or period of time) have a noticeable, typically harmful, effect on someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. The strain of supporting the family was beginning to tell on him
2. We just did six gigs in seven days so it's told on him a bit.
3. The pressure told on both sets of players as the game got bogged down in a midfield melee with precious little invention from the teams.
4. Confinement and want of fresh air was beginning to tell on her health and spirits.
5. The strain is beginning to tell on her.
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π Stab, verb.
π /stab/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a pain or painful thing) cause a sudden sharp sensation.
❗️ Examples:
1. A stitch stabbed at her side
2. Pain stabbed at her from every direction, and she struggled to maintain her stony face.
3. Her heart stabbed with pain as she thought of her father and she turned her attention to the second painting.
4. He paused and straightened up, grimacing at the sharp pain stabbing at his lower back.
5. She took a step from him, only to stumble as a sharp pain stabbed across her abdomen.
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π Augean, adjective.
π /ΙΛΛdΚiΛΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Relating to Augeas.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Augean stables.
2. One can't help thinking of Hercules cleaning up the Augean stables.
3. Cleaning out the Augean stables was one of the labours of Hercules and the incoming Greek government faces similar challenges.
4. Hercules had avoided cleaning the Augean stables by diverting the course of two rivers through the building.
5. When he had come back from cleansing the Augean stables, he would be reminded that he hadn't seized the girdle of the Queen of the Amazons, or brought the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides, or brought up Cerberus from Hades.
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π Go through with, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Perform (an action) to completion despite difficulty or unwillingness.
❗️ Examples:
1. He bravely went through with the ceremony
2. The cops threatened to bust everyone for indecent exposure if they went through with the performance, but failed to show up when the exhibit actually took place.
3. After much consideration and in a complete daze, I went through with the termination feeling all at once ashamed, relieved and scared that I would have ruined my chances of ever having kids.
4. By sheer bloody-mindedness we went through with the law suits, despite threats from the investor, and were recently told we had won our case in the supreme court.
5. I can't believe I actually went through with that.
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π If you ask me, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used to emphasize that a statement is one's personal opinion.
❗️ Examples:
1. If you ask me, it's just an excuse for laziness
2. I dunno, they sound like reasonable people to cast if you ask me.
3. She's lovely in person, but her speeches are a bit boring if you ask me.
4. It's already happening, if you ask me, right now, with this example.
5. These evasive tactics have saved many a relationship for the last many years, but now things have gone out of hand if you ask me.
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π Full, adverb.
π /fΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Very.
❗️ Examples:
1. He knew full well she was too polite to barge in
2. The queer present negotiates with the past, knowing full well that the future is at stake.
3. She understands full well that even when some men are given every option to embrace the role of Mr. Mom, they may still need a push.
4. I'm doing what I can but I know full well I could do more.
5. As a career politician, he knows full well how to work his image.
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π Miss, noun.
π /mΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A girl or young woman, especially one regarded as silly or headstrong.
❗️ Examples:
1. There was none of the country bumpkin about this young miss
2. It is at this site that I found the young miss pictured here.
3. I spoke only half in jest when I said that the young miss might tell us something of history.
4. Anyway, if the young miss above should visit, she'd fit right in!
5. I turn to the birthday boy's niece: a carefully made up young miss in a matching pink crocheted cap and poncho.
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π Antepenultimate, adjective.
π /ΛantΙͺpΙͺΛnΚltΙͺmΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Last but two in a series; third last.
❗️ Examples:
1. The antepenultimate item on the agenda.
2. West African speakers tend to have antepenultimate word stress.
3. This, as the copy editor Steve Pickering liked to say, is the antepenultimate paragraph.
4. Moreover, in the antepenultimate chapter of the novel, when the narrator reflects on his project, he intimates that he has been writing a novel all along.
5. Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled Nightmarch is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
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π Call something off, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Cancel an event or agreement.
❗️ Examples:
1. They held a ballot on whether to call off industrial action
2. An Army spokesman said that due to unforeseen circumstances the event had been called off indefinitely.
3. They were surprised to find that the strike had been called off and that an agreement had been struck supporting a two-tier wage.
4. Just four days before the event was due to take place the Village Business Association called it off.
5. But their protest was called off while they waited on the results of negotiations with the union representative at Fawley.
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π The worse for wear, phrase.
❓ Definition: Feeling rather unwell, especially as a result of drinking too much alcohol.
❗️ Examples:
1. We had a bad trip, and he emerged from his cabin looking the worse for wear
2. Quite often he'd be drunk and rather the worse for wear.
3. McDonald said she was near-speechless with indignation and anger at implications by the police that she had been the worse for wear after drinking.
4. As licensees we don't accept the blame for violent thugs who run riot anywhere because if, in our opinion, we feel someone in our pubs is the worse for wear because of drink then we refuse to serve them.
5. I got the bus at Clapham Common, and three young Australian women got on, rather the worse for wear, one of them with a Smirnoff Ice in her hand.
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π Woo, verb.
π /wuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Try to gain the love of (someone), especially with a view to marriage.
❗️ Examples:
1. He wooed her with quotes from Shakespeare
2. There have been reports of dozens of roses, love letters and chocolates wooing the female of the species.
3. He would have wooed her, loved her and married her.
4. I knew that I would need to tame her, woo her, gain her trust as if she was a gentle doe.
5. He wooed Frances Leonard with adoring love letters, which he continued to write until the end of his life.
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π Rig, verb.
π /rΙͺΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Set up (equipment or a device or structure), typically in a makeshift or hasty way.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had rigged up a sort of tent
2. The power plant of the lifeboat had been rigged to explode
3. Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove.
4. Part of the pub has been sealed off to the form the house and cameras have been rigged up, allowing fellow drinkers to monitor the progress of the contestants.
5. The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
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π Risibility, noun.
π /rΙͺzΙͺΛbΙͺlΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of risible.
❗️ Examples:
1. It is because their work is not so much literature as an insider's joke, and most serious readers don't read for risibility, but sensibility.
2. And contemplate the risibility of the prospect of individuals with a role in these outrages ending up on a press council to sit in judgment on working journalists!
3. We must commend the kindness of the Review Board in sparing their co-workers the embarrassment of having their risibility enshrined in a document of record.
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π Go off, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a gun, bomb, or similar device) explode or fire.
❗️ Examples:
1. The pistol suddenly went off
2. It was believed that on three of the devices the detonators went off but the bomb failed to explode.
3. As more American forces came to the scene, another bomb went off, setting fire to a second vehicle, he said.
4. Neighbours say they were convinced a bomb had gone off when the firework exploded with a massive bang earlier this week in Harington Avenue, off Melrosegate.
5. An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics.
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π Better late than never, phrase.
❓ Definition: It is better to do something or arrive after the expected time than not do it or arrive at all.
❗️ Examples:
1. It took them the majority of the campaign to come to that conclusion, but better late than never
2. The team have probably left such a move about five years too late, but it's better late than never.
3. After breakfast the boys go straight to work on math—better late than never, right?
4. Well, better late than never, for the timing of this exhibition.
5. The website seems to have been very lethargic today, so I gave up after a while and went off to do more productive things—ah well, better late than never.
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π Query, noun.
π /ΛkwΙͺΙri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used in writing or speaking to question the accuracy of a following statement or to introduce a question.
❗️ Examples:
1. On the third night I noted that a snake query, boomslang had slithered across my legs that night.
2. It would have had to be an unwary Hun that let me get near him with my pike—design Circa 1500; origin query Birmingham Small Arms Company.
3. "You reminded me of someone I once knew.‥" (Query her sister?)
4. The brother has a much younger wife, a daughter (query: stepdaughter) now about eighteen, and another daughter who is five.
5. "Arick" is said by a local informant to have been one Eric Corlett who lived there towards the end of the 17th (query 18th?) century.
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π Fill, verb.
π /fΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of the wind) blow into (a sail), causing it to curve outwards.
❗️ Examples:
1. The wind filled the sails and the ropes creaked and stretched with the strain as the ship ploughed through the waves.
2. On its long Atlantic voyage, the armada made good progress with favourable winds filling the sails.
3. By the time I got my main down they'd headed off in a circle because the wind filled their downed sail and it was like trying to catch an insane dolphin - but I did.
4. The wind fills the sails and we are taken back a thousand years, before that first king.
5. Like a sailing barque stuck fast in the Doldrums, I lurch slowly in the swell, holding my breath and waiting for a wind to fill the sails.
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π Inflection point, noun.
❓ Definition: (Mathematics) A point of a curve at which a change in the direction of curvature occurs.
❗️ Examples:
1. In any case, our sample size of 500 was sufficient to have crossed the inflection point on the sampling curve.
2. We estimated the growth-rate constant K, and the inflection point I, using the equations in Table 1.
3. This would give a sensitive initial portion to the curve, an inflexion point at 10-15 Gy, followed by a more resistant portion.
4. The coordinates of the inflection point for each curve are indicated by the horizontal and vertical lines.
5. The logistic curve is symmetric about the inflection point at which t = (ln b) / r and g = a / 2.
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π Break up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become emotionally upset.
❗️ Examples:
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π You can't judge a book by its cover, phrase.
❓ Definition: Outward appearances are not a reliable indication of the true character of someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. And I think that, like this movie says, you can't judge a book by its cover.
2. Despite the admonition that you can't judge a book by its cover, I tend to find that, increasingly, you can.
3. I told you that you can't judge a book by its cover, he reminded her, in an I-told-you-so type of manner.
4. Guess you can't judge a book by its cover after all.
5. But you can't judge a book by its cover or whatever they say.
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π Mad, adverb.
π /mad/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Very; extremely.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was mad cool—we immediately hit it off
2. It's mad topical.
3. Nicki thought his performance was "mad fly."
4. And it was mad funky and soulful.
5. It was mad foggy.
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π Pelt, noun.
π /pΙlt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An act of hurling something at someone.
❗️ Examples:
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π Break into, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Enter or open (a place, vehicle, or container) forcibly, especially for the purposes of theft.
❗️ Examples:
1. Two raiders broke into his home
2. A friend of mine had his car broken into
3. In Italy, four armed burglars broke into a man's house.
4. While he parked at the Trafford Centre to buy a birthday present, thieves broke into the vehicle to seize the laptop, discs and a camera.
5. Residents on a York housing estate woke up to a scene of destruction after thieves broke into a string of vehicles in a private car park.
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π A drop in the ocean, phrase.
❓ Definition: A very small amount compared with what is needed or expected.
❗️ Examples:
1. The £550 million saving is likely to be a drop in the ocean
2. Even so, the amount of money is still a drop in the bucket when compared to the size of the growing global mental health epidemic.
3. Although she was pleased with the £25 increase in child benefit, she felt it was a drop in the ocean when compared to childcare costs and the expense of rearing children.
4. Still, it's a drop in the bucket when you compare it to the overall budget.
5. It is a drop in the ocean compared with the overall cost of the policing operation.
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π Brightly, adverb.
π /ΛbrΚΙͺtli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: In a cheerful and lively way.
❗️ Examples:
1. Chattering brightly
2. Those on stage smiled brightly at the crowd
3. The orchestra plays brightly, although about an hour's worth of the score is missing.
4. The melody rang brightly from the upper gallery.
5. The complex chromatic, often dark harmony, and caressing Latin-American lilt was impelled brightly by the pianist.
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π Referee, noun.
π /rΙfΙΛriΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person appointed to examine and assess for publication a scientific or other academic work.
❗️ Examples:
1. Most journals send the referees' reports to the author
2. We are all familiar with how journal editors can select referees to get the reports they want.
3. We acknowledge the very important role of the many men and women who agree to serve as academic referees for the manuscripts submitted to Sociology of Religion.
4. Connor said that the referees were against publication.
5. As one of my referees pointed out, academic discourse does not allow for this kind of evidence alone.
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π Agnate, noun.
π /ΛaΙ‘neΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person descended from the same male ancestor as another specified or implied person, especially through the male line.
❗️ Examples:
1. The heir will be the nearest agnate.
2. Men's social identity is almost entirely connected to the reputation of their agnatic Houses as well as the nature of their relations with agnates.
3. Most of these marriages were strongly resisted by the kinsfolk of the parties, particularly those that involved agnates from the same village, though none of them were from the same hamlet.
4. A protagonist's supporters, mostly close agnates, are motivated to assist because of the desire to help a brother, that is through conventional motivation.
5. To make things more complicated, all distinction between agnates and cognates in matters of succession had been abolished at the very time when the great collection of Roman law, the Corpus juris civilis, had been assembled and codified.
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π Bring something back, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Reintroduce something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Bringing back capital punishment would solve nothing
2. The Chief Minister proposes to bring the zing back into the capital's nightlife
3. When capital starts to flee, it can be brought back by tax cuts, deregulation, privatization, etc.
4. She will bring the policy back for review in about two weeks.
5. The last state to bring back the death penalty was New York in 1995.
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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 Superior, adjective.
π /suΛΛpΙͺΙrΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Of high standard or quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. Superior malt whiskies
2. Ask for a box rim flushing system over a standard rim flush for superior performance in a close coupled unit.
3. A lot of companies are interested in investing in Ireland - they have superior building systems and can provide a superior standard of service.
4. Krahling buys directly from a number of growers, each selected for the superior quality of his or her product.
5. These consumers tend to buy luxury products for their superior functionality and quality.
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π Tolerate, verb.
π /ΛtΙlΙreΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be capable of continued subjection to (a drug, toxin, or environmental condition) without adverse reaction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Lichens grow in conditions that no other plants tolerate
2. In addition, this medication is well tolerated, with few adverse effects.
3. Antiviral therapy is not highly effective in transplant patients and poses additional problems for these individuals, who may have difficulty tolerating the potent drugs it involves.
4. Patients tolerating the drugs initially are much less likely to develop side effects afterward.
5. The drug was well tolerated, particularly in the lower dosage group.
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π Sippet, noun.
π /ΛsΙͺpΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small piece of bread or toast, used to dip into soup or sauce or as a garnish.
❗️ Examples:
1. Serve with sippets of toast or plain rusks.
2. Season with salt and as much verjuice as will only turn the taste of the pottage; serve up covering meat with whole herbs and adorning the dish with sippets.
3. I believe, Dr Maturin, that if you would so far indulge me, I could relish a little, a very little, of your portable soup again, with just a sippet of toast.
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π Take on, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become very upset, especially needlessly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Don't take on so—no need to upset yourself
2. Don't take on so, it will all turn out right in the end.
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π In terms of, phrase.
❓ Definition: With regard to the particular aspect or subject specified.
❗️ Examples:
1. Replacing the printers is difficult to justify in terms of cost
2. While this is plenty of distance in everyday terms, in astronomical terms, it is a very near miss.
3. He began justifying the war in human rights terms.
4. The cost in financial terms is soaring, the cost in emotional terms is unmeasurable.
5. The last ceremony was a success in ratings terms, attracting half of the TV audience in Scotland.
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π Peculiar, noun.
π /pΙͺΛkjuΛlΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it lies, and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch or an archbishop.
❗️ Examples:
1. Deans and canons of royal peculiars, notably Westminster Abbey and Windsor
2. Yet others, founded by kings or bishops as their own, were later known as peculiars, withdrawn from ordinary diocesan jurisdiction.
3. The abbey is a so-called royal peculiar, one of a handful of churches under the Queen's direct control.
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π Bill, noun.
π /bΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A poster or handbill.
❗️ Examples:
1. He has been hard at work bill posting in a poster and sticker campaign
2. Traffic signboards are blatantly misused for sticking posters and bills.
3. Well, first we did some illegal bill postering and then we stole some milk crates.
4. No controls existed, and as a result adverts and theatre bills were plastered on every available space - hoardings, end walls of buildings, fences.
5. Stop and think about that the next time you see one of those forbidding “Post No Bills” warnings stenciled on fences and construction sites or on any other vacant canvas in New York that isn’t already covered by posters.
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π Faff, verb.
π /faf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (no object) Spend time in ineffectual activity.
❗️ Examples:
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π Faff, verb.
π /faf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (no object) Spend time in ineffectual activity.
❗️ Examples:
1. We can't faff around forever.
2. I have spent all evening faffing with templates to produce my very own photo blog (am hoping it will be an incentive to take the camera out more often).
3. I was worried I was going to spend the day faffing and not get anything done, but I picked up the phone and with some trepidation phoned my first choice farm.
4. Or, I choose to spend my time faffing around on the computer, or cooking.
5. I spend a huge amount of time faffing around because I'm a night person, and it has to stop…
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π Break up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a gathering or collective) disband; end.
❗️ Examples:
1. After about an hour, the meeting broke up
2. There will even be powers for the police to break up public meetings and gatherings without the need for specific permission from the Home Office or any government minister or department.
3. The police clearly have orders to break up even the smallest gathering despite the fact that freedom of expression and assembly are constitutionally guaranteed.
4. Last March, he and other officers broke up a gathering near the scene of the crash.
5. The meeting broke up without any firm decision being taken, as all members are now to be circulated to ascertain attitudes to the proposed £4,500 charge.
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π Bang to rights, phrase.
❓ Definition: (of a criminal) with positive proof of guilt.
❗️ Examples:
1. We've got you bang to rights handling stolen property
2. The combination of the cards and the video meant that he was bang to rights as far as being there and taking something was concerned, and they are saying that now he is admitting it.
3. The downside of this will be that if I ever do commit any kind of crime then the police will pretty much have me bang to rights.
4. I knew I was going to get a ticket because I was bang to rights.
5. He gave a full and frank admission that he was caught bang to rights.
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π Hot, adjective.
π /hΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Involving much activity, debate, or interest.
❗️ Examples:
1. The environment has become a very hot issue
2. These used to be the sites of hot political and literary debate.
3. Both were criminally charged amid hot debate over whether the female officer should be punished in such a situation.
4. But of late the hot debate is why many women are choosing not to marry and others are opting for the union later in life.
5. Simple as the question looks, it has become the centre of a hot debate between some local officials and scholars.
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π Podder, noun.
π /ΛpΙdΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Originally: field crops or their seed grains; fodder for cattle. In later use: plants having pods, pulse.
❗️ Examples:
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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 Sharp as a tack, phrase.
❓ Definition: Extremely clever or astute.
❗️ Examples:
1. As a lawyer in Southern California with a mind that's sharp as a tack, it's not good to miss even one day (she's mega-prolific) of her blog.
2. It should be noted that his mind is sharp as a tack.
3. She's a lovely 77-year-old woman, sharp as a tack, without an enemy in the world.
4. This guy's as sharp as a tack and I respect his opinions immensely.
5. But he was a loyal lieutenant to our ultimate boss, a genial man with a mind as sharp as a tack and a consummate skill at getting people to agree with each other, known to everyone as Jack.
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π Stake, noun.
π /steΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A horse race in which all the owners of the racehorses running contribute to the prize money.
❗️ Examples:
1. The horse is to run in the Craven Stakes
2. All the action from day two of Flat racing's big meeting, where Grandera wins the Prince of Wales' Stakes, the big race of the day.
3. Wando had not won a stakes race since clinching the Triple Crown in the Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine last August.
4. On May 7, the Saudi Arabia Royal Cup, the Oasis Stakes Race, was held at Tokyo Racetrack.
5. All the action from the first day of Flat racing's big meeting, where Rock of Gibraltar won the feature race, the St James' Palace Stakes.
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π Chimney, noun.
π /ΛtΚΙͺmni/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp.
❗️ Examples:
1. He trimmed the wick and put the glass chimney over the flame
2. Add a few drops of ammonia to the rinse water for glass lamps, chimneys, and globes.
3. The improved draft system, utilizing a glass chimney, yielded a brighter light that burned more cleanly.
4. Candles are an inexpensive and easy-to-store lighting option, but to be safe, use them with glass chimneys.
5. A thermal chimney between the glass layers exhausts heat gains at the top and prevents interior heat gains.
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π Schmick, adjective.
π /ΚmΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Smart or stylish.
❗️ Examples:
1. The new white, blue, and orange colour schemes are very schmick.
2. Now, if you haven't got a friend like Howard to present you with the schmick fold-up reflectors, help is on its way.
3. It was refurbished in 2000 and is now very schmick and has eight screens.
4. I really didn't want the joinery and all those things to be really schmick.
5. He was talking very loudly and swearing a lot, and revealing just how much of a nerd he really is, despite his schmick clothes.
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π Give up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Cease making an effort; admit defeat.
❗️ Examples:
1. He wasn't the kind of man to give up easily
2. It's not like you to give up so easily on an assignment so early after starting school.
3. She says that it would be impossible to give up now after all the money and the effort.
4. As long as I don't think about it as giving up, it doesn't seem to be a problem.
5. They may have a setback with a third of the group leaving, but they showed no signs of giving up.
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π Let someone or something go, phrase.
❓ Definition: Relinquish one's grip on someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Adam let go of the reins
2. You must let the past go
3. William refused to let her go as his grip around her tightened.
4. She shivered slightly as his fingers gently gripped hers then slowly let go.
5. I let out a yell and tried to twist out of his grip, he let go and I fell with a thump.
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π Trip, noun.
π /trΙͺp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A flock or group of goats, sheep, or other animals.
❗️ Examples:
1. She exchanged her cows for a trip of goats
2. The boy heard some little noise from afar and thought he saw a trip of goats.
3. The fold course is for the small trip of sheep.
4. Hounds are astonished and divided by the sudden appearance of a trip of hares.
5. Like a trip of mountain goats skipping from crag to crag, a fleet of dozers, tractors, and haulers currently is moving from slope to slope.
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π Buttress, noun.
π /ΛbΚtrΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A source of defence or support.
❗️ Examples:
1. The political police were the main buttress of the regime
2. Even reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way.
3. At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
4. In these short few weeks the coach must re-shape - he vehemently contests the description rebuild - Rangers, with a new midfield, attack, and a defensive buttress or two.
5. These statements only underscore the extent to which the unions and NDP are buttresses of the existing social order.
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π Natheless, adverb.
π /ΛneΙͺΞΈlΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Nevertheless.
❗️ Examples:
1. But natheless: should you be unlucky, it should be possible to talk to them about it.
2. And he was sore vexed and did tell the victor on the field, a knight that hight Sir Arsenius, that for all his men were worsted in the fray, natheless they did fight in the better fashion.
3. He has done me a great service, and I be under monstrous obligations to him, but he be, nathless, the Outlaw of Torn and I the daughter of an earl and a king's sister.
4. For although I know well that you are of gentler birth than I, nathless that would not protect you.
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π Go up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Explode or suddenly burst into flames.
❗️ Examples:
1. Two factories went up in flames
2. It went up in a burst of flame, and only a smoking shell remained when the flames faded.
3. Then all of a sudden I just saw all of the downstairs go up in flames, and all the windows smashed.
4. In Edinburgh, the council is already preparing for the worst and has contacted Lothian and Borders police in order to prevent the city going up in flames.
5. Everything I owned in the world was going up in flames and I was crying, she said.
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π Kind of, phrase.
❓ Definition: Rather; to some extent.
❗️ Examples:
1. It got kind of cosy
2. With just six days worth of posts from the twenty-plus day shoot, the weblog's kind of slight, but it makes for good reading.
3. Jay's kind of working as a field correspondent.
4. Personally, I think she's kind of an idiot.
5. All of a sudden, I was kind of tired of it and fed up and it was just time to do something else.
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π Murder, verb.
π /ΛmΙΛdΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was accused of murdering his wife's lover
2. Judy thought about if someone had murdered the person who killed her family.
3. But to this day they too will never know why a seemingly loving husband murdered his wife before killing himself.
4. Within weeks, around 500,000 people were brutally murdered or killed in action, mostly by the Hutu army.
5. He killed and murdered a dozen women the police know of and twenty others we know of.
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π Strand, verb.
π /strand/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere.
❗️ Examples:
1. Two of the firm's trucks are stranded in France
2. They were stranded by the blizzard
3. Elderly people are regularly stranded in hospital long after they should have been discharged because they have nowhere else to go.
4. However, hundreds of people were still stranded at British airports last night, queuing for limited places.
5. An estimated 500,000 people are stranded in remote mountain villages cut off from aid and supplies by landslides.
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π Pannier, noun.
π /ΛpanΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A basket, especially one of a pair carried by a beast of burden.
❗️ Examples:
1. Large heavy items were either carried on primitive carts or dragged on sledges, and loose bulk materials were carried in panniers on horses.
2. They sounded idyllic and I began to break one of the golden rules of donkey-driving - never feel sorry for the donkey - as I watched Anatole, the brave little trooper, struggling between his 40-pound panniers.
3. Under direction, I tied the wet end to Anatole's saddle, having removed the panniers.
4. Periodically there might be a single rider coming into town with panniers on his llama, but that was about the extent of the traffic.
5. These are the vendors who lug two heavy-looking panniers around with the help of a piece of pliable wood across their shoulder.
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