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π Get through, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (with reference to a piece of legislation) make or become law.
❗️ Examples:
1. We believe we're going to be successful in getting this legislation through, because it just makes good common sense.
2. Actually, the issue is about getting this legislation through before the summer holidays begin, so that we can keep children safe in our community.
3. I am proud to be part of this Government, which is getting this legislation through tonight.
4. The Government certainly would not get this legislation through if it banned smoking completely.
5. At the end of the day I recognize that we are going to have to negotiate with the Senate to get that legislation through.
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π Stick, verb.
π /stΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in pontoon and similar card games) decline to add to one's hand.
❗️ Examples:
1. When you have split your hand, you play the two hands one after the other - once you have stuck or gone bust on the first hand you play the second one.
2. In card games, the quandary is often whether to stick or twist.
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π Bust, noun.
π /bΚst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A raid or arrest by the police.
❗️ Examples:
1. A drug bust
2. During the bust, police seized three kilograms of cocaine having an estimated street value of $255,000.
3. A suspected drug dealer was arrested during a dawn raid on his house, the latest in a series of weekly busts by Merton police.
4. The bust was made after police received a tip from the public.
5. How to fight back against a bad bust or police harassment was something that he and fellow musicians had been discussing for years.
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π Bo-peep, noun.
π /bΙΚΛpiΛp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A quick look.
❗️ Examples:
1. I just took a Bo peep at that awful video of you, and I gotta say, that's some ugly head you got.
2. I just had a bo peep at this album and boy, did you hit the jackpot here.
3. Following the advice from a fellow techie who had worked on it before, I had a bo-peep with the back off and the room lights out and there it was.
4. As an added bonus it appears that customs have had a bo'peep inside the parcel.
5. Don't take my word for it: check it out for yourself and ask your panel to have a bo peep themselves.
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π Pick up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become better; improve.
❗️ Examples:
1. My luck's picked up
2. But it does not expect an improvement until trade starts picking up towards the end of the winter.
3. General sales need to pick up before the business improves.
4. He doesn't see improvement until job growth picks up.
5. We have trained for summer rugby and our performances have improved since the weather picked up.
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π At stake, phrase.
❓ Definition: At risk.
❗️ Examples:
1. People's lives could be at stake
2. The tempo of the game was at the highest point as both teams threw everything into the game with so much at stake.
3. For professional huntsman Richard Emmott the Government's ban means his job and home are at stake.
4. Much more is at stake in the battle which is about to get under way.
5. This is very depressing with the future of the world's climate at stake.
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π Faint, adjective.
π /feΙͺnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a sight, smell, or sound) barely perceptible.
❗️ Examples:
1. The faint murmur of voices
2. I lie there listening for a few minutes and, just as I'm at the point of giving up and going back to sleep I hear it again - a faint noise, barely audible at all.
3. As I get closer, there's a faint gleam behind the stained-glass windows of the 13th-century abbey.
4. I just lay there listening to the faint beat of his heart.
5. Richard stayed silent, nothing stirred and he could hear his heart beating nervously and the faint crackle of the flames.
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π Small, adjective.
π /smΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not great in amount, number, strength, or power.
❗️ Examples:
1. A rather small amount of money
2. Both areas were receiving small amounts of money over the years but little progress was being made.
3. Prior to the euro, some countries used notes for quite small amounts of money.
4. It is making me ridiculously happy, so it must have been worth the small amount of money I spent.
5. The message I want to get across is that what seems like a small amount of money over here can make a huge difference over there.
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π Scrump, verb.
π /skrΚmp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Steal (fruit) from an orchard or garden.
❗️ Examples:
1. I remember Gordon scrumping apples from the orchard next door.
2. They used to go out scrumping and thieving.
3. If kids were bad before it was for scrumping apples or knocking on doors and running away.
4. Aah, those cheeky McFly scamps; we hear that when they're not performing their pop-punk tunes, they're busy scrumping apples from the local farmer's orchard.
5. I know I am old but I always say that when I was young if you did wrong you knew that if you went scrumping apples or whatever there would be a bobby on the beat somewhere around.
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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 So be it, phrase.
❓ Definition: An expression of acceptance or resignation.
❗️ Examples:
1. If the government has decided that ruling by poll is acceptable, so be it.
2. If there are legitimate areas of disagreement, so be it - let the best ideas prevail.
3. If someone doesn't like my beliefs and wants to write about them, so be it.
4. If you want to be victimized by those who are willing to abuse free speech so be it.
5. I claim the right to live my life as I see fit, and if that involves an element of risk, then so be it.
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π Dip, verb.
π /dΙͺp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lower the beam of (a vehicle's headlights).
❗️ Examples:
1. I had this old habit of speeding along the old country roads late at night and dipping my headlights before going around corners or going over the brows of hills.
2. As the oncoming car turned into the straight ahead of them it dipped its headlights.
3. Again, dip the headlights as soon as you notice another vehicle coming in the opposite direction and when closely following vehicles ahead.
4. The lights will also be dipped so they will not shine into houses.
5. Compounding the problem are awfully poor headlights on dipped beam.
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π Holy, adjective.
π /ΛhΙΚli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used in exclamations of surprise or dismay.
❗️ Examples:
1. Holy smoke!
2. But holy smoke, are their doughnuts amazing or what?
3. So he had to be pretty sharp and he fell in love with a girl who he thought he was going to spend a weekend with, it happened to a lot of people, holy God, he was hooked.
4. And I knew immediately, holy heavens, we are under attack.
5. Holy smoke, what will the world come to next???!!!
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π Put one's hands together, phrase.
❓ Definition: Applaud; clap.
❗️ Examples:
1. I want you all to put your hands together for Barry.
2. Would you please put your hands together and join me in welcoming our debaters tonight.
3. Now, put your hands together for the first poet tonight.
4. Please put your hands together for our speakers.
5. How about we put our hands together and welcome the people that helped the newlyweds put this day together?
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π Emissary, noun.
π /ΛΙmΙͺs(Ι)ri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person sent as a diplomatic representative on a special mission.
❗️ Examples:
1. He sent his agents, emissaries to her with fabulous temptations but the virtuous 1ady rebuffed them, one and all.
2. After the marriage date is set, the groom sends out emissaries to personally invite friends and relatives to the wedding.
3. The British sent emissaries here to promote trade.
4. Queen Anne had sent emissaries through Protestant Europe seeking people willing to move.
5. This is not the time for striking back-room political deals, nor the time to send emissaries to our enemies.
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π Yuppie, noun.
π /ΛjΚpi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A fashionable young middle-class person with a well-paid job.
❗️ Examples:
1. Stereotypical 1980s yuppies obsessed with material objects and financial success
2. A yuppie type from the bank
3. The yuppie crowds love the concept and organisers swear that these events are extremely popular.
4. There were even people playing football in the yuppie village this evening.
5. Harlem is a relatively harmless, rather dull patch of a great city still garnering a tiny cachet among the local yuppies because it used to have quite a spunky black community.
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π Walkies, noun.
π /ΛwΙΛkΙͺz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A period of exercising a dog.
❗️ Examples:
1. While the client is being coiffed, one of the salon staff takes the pooch for walkies.
2. They regularly take their dogs for early morning walkies at Thorndon North which is one of three Essex County Council managed parks in Brentwood.
3. You are entitled to 1 ¼ hours daily for lunch and walkies, it states.
4. He refuses to get the hang of going for his walkies.
5. Pet owners blessed with common sense may point out that one of the primary reasons for owning a dog is that all concerned can enjoy walkies.
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π Come up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a specified time or event) approach or draw near.
❗️ Examples:
1. She's got exams coming up
2. The local branch's main fundraising event is coming up in the summer when five bikers will embark on a sponsored motorbike trip on mainland Europe from May to June.
3. After a hard day, it's off to the student bar to talk about the events of nights past and plan the events of the night coming up.
4. The events coming up this year include an art exhibition in October which helps artists earn good money for their work.
5. If you're not available to attend tonight but would like to get involved you could give the school a telephone call at any time and they would fill you in on any other events coming up.
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π By the skin of one's teeth, phrase.
❓ Definition: By a very narrow margin; only just.
❗️ Examples:
1. I only got away by the skin of my teeth
2. You have escaped from going to prison by the skin of your teeth.
3. You have escaped prison by the skin of your teeth, the judge told him.
4. The Oxford University Pool Team has not lost to Cambridge since 1999, when the rascal Tabs managed to grind out a 46-44 victory by the skin of their teeth.
5. A Hampshire firefighter based at Redbridge Fire Station said: They only got out by the skin of their teeth.
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π Go, verb.
π /Ι‘ΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a thing) lie or extend in a certain direction.
❗️ Examples:
1. The scar went all the way up her leg
2. We opened the bridge that goes across the river so people can go back and forth.
3. The mirror went all the way up to the ceiling and was just as wide as it was tall.
4. Her black hair went down to her shoulders and looked as though she had her own person stylist come in and do it every morning.
5. At last the path goes over a rise and you get your first, quite wonderful view of Sandwood Bay.
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π Camouflage, noun.
π /ΛkamΙflΙΛΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Clothing or materials used as camouflage.
❗️ Examples:
1. Figures dressed in army camouflage
2. Two giants appeared from a nearby army barracks in camouflage and studded helmets.
3. There are too many hunters with guns wearing camouflage and Red Sox hats.
4. Woolrich offers both camouflage and traditional hunting clothing for turkey hunters.
5. The Greek soldiers clunk around set with combat boots, camouflage, and sub-machine guns.
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π Silver, noun.
π /ΛsΙͺlvΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Scottish): Money.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had lent him some silver to pay his seamstress's bill. -
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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 At sixes and sevens, phrase.
❓ Definition: In a state of total confusion or disarray.
❗️ Examples:
1. Everything is at sixes and sevens here
2. Harold is the story of an adolescent young man who is at sixes and sevens with practically everything.
3. Without them we were at sixes and sevens and chasing the game.
4. I'm at sixes and sevens on the issue of who is really at fault here.
5. When we left the set we were all at sixes and sevens.
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π Turn up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Put in an appearance; arrive.
❗️ Examples:
1. Half the guests failed to turn up
2. It took a while for the food to arrive but we had turned up early and didn't mind sitting in the sunshine.
3. You know how it is, wait for ages for something to arrive and several turn up at once.
4. She failed to turn up and the judge issued the present warrant.
5. The best present was son Markus turning up from London for the event as a surprise guest.
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π Book, verb.
π /bΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Engage (a performer or guest) for an event.
❗️ Examples:
1. The promoter booked him for another appearance
2. Work got underway booking performers as far back as last September and work on the parade for concepts and ideas got underway in March.
3. The singer was originally booked for a small concert in Hangzhou on June 12, sponsored by an ice tea company.
4. A promoter who booked them to play in Ripley, Derbyshire, suggested he change his name to Cliff Richard.
5. However the programme for this year is going to be hard to improve on as some of the best artistes in Ireland and abroad are booked to perform.
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π Wotcha, exclamation.
π /ΛwΙtΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British • informal): Used as a friendly or humorous greeting.
❗️ Examples:
1. Wotcha, Dunc—thanks for turning out.
2. I've liked her ever since she met Harry with that "Wotcha, Harry!"
3. It would go so easy right now to turn around and go Wotcha Judy, while flashing his recognisable grin.
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π Put up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Stay temporarily in accommodation other than one's own home.
❗️ Examples:
1. We put up at a hotel in the city centre
2. We put up in a hotel full of flies.
3. You cruise through Pensacola and put up in a motel in Marianna
4. We put up in a little hotel, three or four of us in a bed, four or five of us on the floor.
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π Take something into account, phrase.
❓ Definition: Consider something along with other factors before reaching a decision.
❗️ Examples:
1. Teachers should take a child's age into account
2. A spokesman for the council said the scheme would be considered on its planning merits and the committee would take all viewpoints into account when reaching its decision.
3. Obviously, any major troop movement must be based on a government decision that takes all relevant factors into account.
4. It is for the tribunal as an industrial jury to take all relevant factors into account in reaching its conclusion, giving such weight to them as it considers appropriate.
5. He said he hoped his views would be taken into account when a decision was made on what disciplinary action would be taken against the officer.
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π World, noun.
π /wΙΛld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: All of the people and societies on the earth.
❗️ Examples:
1. The whole world hates a Monday
2. On a more serious note, it would appear that the world as a whole is sinking deeper into poverty.
3. It's a nice thought that there's someone who loves you, even when you think the whole world hates you.
4. They sometimes wonder why the rest of the world hates them so much.
5. There are, of course, major differences between the European Union and the world as a whole.
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π On, preposition.
π /Ιn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: As a member of (a committee, jury, or other body)
❗️ Examples:
1. They would be allowed to serve on committees
2. I knew he was on the jury but did not talk to him about it.
3. He was on several committees and was a former Lord Mayor.
4. She served on many advisory councils and boards.
5. A large proportion of members are unwilling to consider serving on the board.
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π Scaramouch, noun.
π /ΛskarΙmaΚtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (archaic): A boastful but cowardly person.
❗️ Examples:
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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 Kick the bucket, phrase.
❓ Definition: Die.
❗️ Examples:
1. When the old girl finally kicked the bucket there was no mention of yours truly in the will
2. He wanted to do his own thing and he wanted to do it now - not down the track when his father finally kicked the bucket.
3. But in spite of the fact, when he kicks the bucket and departs his mortal coil, it is going to be one of the biggest funerals in the Bahamas.
4. Even though the British Empire had long since kicked the bucket, the expats could still be found pretty much anywhere the Brits had a former colony.
5. When rich Americans kick the bucket, they invariably will a good sum to their alma maters, pet charities or research institutions.
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π Hide, noun.
π /hΚΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A camouflaged shelter used to observe wildlife at close quarters.
❗️ Examples:
1. We expect the camera crew to sit patiently in a camouflaged hide, waiting for the wildlife to wander by.
2. The property sleeps nine and has ready access to woodland walks and a five-acre wildlife reserve with bird hides and a trout lake.
3. If you were building a hide from which to observe them in their natural habitat, you would probably situate it somewhere in the north-west between Liverpool and Wigan.
4. Here there is a wildlife hide overlooking a pond.
5. The new canal-side reserve will include special boardwalks and hides from which the wildlife can be viewed.
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π Tie, noun.
π /tΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A strip of material worn round the collar and tied in a knot at the front with the ends hanging down, typically forming part of a man's smart or formal outfit.
❗️ Examples:
1. His hand went up to his collar and started to loosen his tie
2. We have a business casual dress code at my office, which means collared shirts without a tie.
3. At The Mikado's rehearsals, the male actors have on formal jackets and ties and top hats, while the women wear dresses that would not look out of place at a lunch in a good restaurant.
4. All the men still have their shirts buttoned up tight to the collar, their ties knotted, their hair slicked back.
5. When I see someone wearing a formal button-down collar with a tie, I just assume he went to an Ivy League college.
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π Bommie, noun.
π /ΛbΙmi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Australian • informal): A submerged offshore reef.
❗️ Examples:
1. It's an isolated bommie that rises 30m from the sandy seabed.
2. He led us out into the blue to the bommie, which rose from the depths.
3. Our dive site was the top of a bommie, 25 metres deep, a short swim away from the wall.
4. It's is a small bommie at the end of the reef, joined by a low saddle of coral.
5. At that bommie, we watched a manta swimming off into the distance.
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π Hook up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of two people) meet or form a relationship.
❗️ Examples:
1. He hooked up with a friend in Budapest
2. She decides to hook up with Jake, a kid from the nearby boys' school
3. Within days, you'll be able to find photos, download songs and hook up with friends you met at the show.
4. He apparently has no problem meeting people and hooking up with people, yet he says that as soon as you're back in town he wants to settle down and be with you and never be with another girl.
5. I've been in two long serious relationships, and hooking up with handsome slightly drunk rich kids was exactly what the doctor ordered.
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π Without further ado, phrase.
❓ Definition: Without any fuss or delay; immediately.
❗️ Examples:
1. Without further ado he hurried down the steps
2. So, without further ado, let's quickly gloss over his suggestions and move onto my much more sensible and practical top ten.
3. Promptly, without further ado, an entire shift decided to stay at home seriously disrupting production and causing severe losses to the company.
4. So without further ado, let me direct you to their respective tasting notes.
5. So without further ado, may I announce my new project.
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π Camouflage, noun.
π /ΛkamΙflΙΛΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Actions or devices intended to disguise or mislead.
❗️ Examples:
1. Much of my apparent indifference was merely protective camouflage
2. Detailed centralised supervision and inspection is a recipe for decline which official statistics merely camouflage.
3. Bara also warned that such a hasty accusation could prompt a perception among the public that it is merely camouflage for the real masterminds of the bombings.
4. They're complete masters of camouflage and deception.
5. The hijackers kept these accounts in their own names with no attempt at camouflage.
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π School, verb.
π /skuΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of fish or sea mammals) form a large group.
❗️ Examples:
1. Grey snapper schooled in shallow lagoons
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π Napoo, adjective.
π /naΛpuΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British • informal, dated): Used to indicate that something is finished, ruined, or inoperative, or that someone is dead.
❗️ Examples:
1. It is all over, napoo, fini—understand?
2. My poor old dugout is napoo.
3. He had gone white and she knew that he had guessed. He said with a strained smile: Well, that's napoo then. Have a good time in Oxford.
4. They were done for, napoo.
5. 'Napoo, napoo,' shout several voices. I chuckle, then snuggle down.
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π Pick up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become stronger; increase.
❗️ Examples:
1. The wind has picked up
2. I noticed the wind picking up and the lightening increasing, so I figured rain couldn't be far behind.
3. As the pace of the storm increased the wind picked up, driving down out of the hills and across the high grasslands.
4. Forecasters are predicting that the icy conditions will continue into next week with easterly winds picking up and a strong possibility of snow.
5. A strong wind picks up almost knocking me off the branch, as well as making leaves whip at my face.
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π Up to, phrase.
❓ Definition: Indicating a maximum amount.
❗️ Examples:
1. The process is expected to take up to two years
2. After that the dealer earns his profit by adding on a margin of up to a maximum of 3 per cent.
3. In order for a game to proceed, you need at least two people connected and up to a maximum of six.
4. Corporations may deduct from income an amount up to the fair market value of the ecological gift.
5. The Board have offered to make a contribution to our cost up to a maximum of £50,000.
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π Work, noun.
π /wΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing or things done or made; the result of an action.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her work hangs in all the main American collections
2. The bombing had been the work of a German-based cell
3. Since then her career has developed in opera, concert work, recording and broadcasting.
4. The only living artist to have his work hung in the Natyet resonates with images of his Dublin Bay home.
5. Still, she is hanging my work and will be sainted for it, in a weak moment I might have given her one.
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π Fail, verb.
π /feΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Neglect to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The firm failed to give adequate risk warnings
2. In the recent Kendall inspection, the firm was cited for failing to have an adequate design change procedure, according to the warning letter.
3. The Government in turn are guilty of neglect for failing to do anything about it.
4. You and I have have been together for so long now you may feel that I sometimes neglect you, or fail to tell you how I really feel.
5. The group claims the airlines neglected their duty of care by failing to take adequate steps to prevent passengers developing economy class syndrome.
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π Reave, verb.
π /riΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (archaic • with object): Carry out raids in order to plunder.
❗️ Examples:
1. The strong could reave and steal.
2. To slink thro' slaps, an' reave an' steal, At stacks o' pease, or stocks o' kail!
3. As their gods were, so their laws were; Thor the strong could reave and steal.
4. Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast.
5. In silencing my power, I am reft of half my being!
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π Break up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: End the school term.
❗️ Examples:
1. We broke up for the summer
2. The Lowry should be in a class of its own when the schools break up for half term.
3. The school is expected to break up for the summer term today with many students sitting Leaving and Junior Cert exams next week.
4. Schools break up for their half term this Friday, October 22 and return on Tuesday, November 2.
5. The weekend before school broke up, Emily threw a farewell party for Liz and Steven.
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π Rock the boat, phrase.
❓ Definition: Say or do something to disturb an existing situation and upset people.
❗️ Examples:
1. I don't want to rock the boat
2. It is obviously easier to move one person, who is not going to rock the boat, than two, who have rocked the boat, and have got off a discipline proceedings.
3. They are upset that anyone is now rocking the boat and might endanger their hopes to become enriched.
4. They feel compelled to be careful about what they say so as not to upset the people around them or rock the boat.
5. What you'll find now is that arts and culture and cultural diversity cuts both sides of politics and no government will go to an election with a policy which effectively rocks the boat on that.
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π Condemn, verb.
π /kΙnΛdΙm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Express complete disapproval of; censure.
❗️ Examples:
1. Most leaders roundly condemned the attack.
2. The plan was condemned by campaigners.
3. Needless to say, Rampersad was roundly condemned and his plan is probably gathering dust somewhere in the archives.
4. Campaigners have condemned the Government's plans, with non-food pubs exempt from restrictions, as half measures.
5. All such diabolic, yet cowardly actions must be severely condemned, censured and deterred with steeled resolve and equally resolute counteraction.
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π Fuss, noun.
π /fΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun): A display of unnecessary or excessive excitement, activity, or interest.
❗️ Examples:
1. I don't know what all the fuss is about.
2. There is no room in my life for drugs, fights, divorce, adultery, sadism, unnecessary fuss and sex, he says now.
3. That was the whole dream - no excitement, no fuss, no great drama.
4. She appeared bored, and I knew she thought I was making a lot of unnecessary fuss.
5. A lot of unnecessary fuss is being created about the registration procedure required under the bill.
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π Perishing, adjective.
π /ΛpΙrΙͺΚΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British • informal, dated • predicative): Used for emphasis or to express annoyance.
❗️ Examples:
1. I could murder that perishing kid!
2. You've been a perishing long time with that coffee!
3. Even so… I winced, heavily, at the bottom line price of the perishing things.
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π Fall out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of the hair, teeth, etc.) become detached and drop out.
❗️ Examples:
1. The chemotherapy made my hair fall out.
2. They seemed to be no better off than their subjects, with hair and teeth falling out and sores like burns on bare faces and hands.
3. And my hair is falling out, I have sores in my mouth, my teeth ache - my whole body aches!
4. He said that his strong character was tested at the upper school when his hair completely fell out, a condition which is believed to be hereditary in the family.
5. But Val said her lowest point was when her hair fell out.
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π Sit on the fence, phrase.
❓ Definition: Avoid making a decision or choice.
❗️ Examples:
1. But he's going to make change and he's going to bring a lot of confidence to a lot of people who are sitting on the fence with the same decision.
2. You should make a decision; you cannot sit on the fence.
3. If that brings to mind a lot of dithering and sitting on the fence, you couldn't be more wrong.
4. As someone who has deferred the choice thus far (rather than actively making a decision), I know I could be accused of sitting on the fence.
5. They want someone to make all their choices for them, so they just sit on the fence and wait to be told what to do.
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π Grasp, verb.
π /Ι‘rΙΛsp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Seize and hold firmly.
❗️ Examples:
1. She grasped the bottle.
2. Edward grasped her by the wrist.
3. Her eyes pleaded with him, her hand still firmly grasping his.
4. Still firmly grasping Ethan by the arm, Giles propelled him to Melissa's side.
5. John grasped Rob firmly by the wrist and moved toward the door.
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π Pull up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a vehicle) come to a halt.
❗️ Examples:
1. He pulled up outside the cottage.
2. If I remember correctly, it was the sound of the ice-cream van pulling up outside my house.
3. She was gobsmacked when the limo pulled up outside her home in Tattershall, Toothill.
4. When a police vehicle pulls up youngsters hide in the bushes.
5. Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine.
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π Chickabiddy, noun.
π /ΛtΚΙͺkΙbΙͺdi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): An affectionate form of address for a small child or a loved one.
❗️ Examples:
1. She called the ugly fat water snakes her little chickabiddies, and let them crawl and sprawl about on her spongy bosom.
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π Pull out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: (of a bus or train) leave with its passengers.
❗️ Examples:
1. The train pulled out of the station at 2.05.
2. Corinne and I managed to choose a carriage with a bunch of Geordie blokes who started drinking as soon as the train pulled out of the station, at about half ten in the morning.
3. When every man was in possession of two bottles of Tiger beer, the train pulled out of Nagpur Station to continue the five-day journey.
4. The doors closed and the train pulled out of the station.
5. As the train pulled out of Winchester, he staggered to his feet and zig-zagged down the carriage to the toilet.
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π Cry for the moon, phrase.
❓ Definition: Ask for what is unattainable or impossible.
❗️ Examples:
1. There must be no more self-pity, no more time wasted on crying for the moon.
2. If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up.
3. When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted.
4. When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants.
5. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work.
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π Immerse, verb.
π /ΙͺΛmΙΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (immerse oneself or be immersed • with object): Involve oneself deeply in a particular activity.
❗️ Examples:
1. She immersed herself in her work.
2. She was still immersed in her thoughts.
3. To flow in this context means that you are able to immerse yourself in some activity so deeply that you forget about anything else.
4. After his retirement he immersed himself in various charitable activities.
5. The piece questions and explores the ideas of communication and its absence through images and time lags, while immersing the audience in Kitamura's all-encompassing world of movement, sound and images.
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π Ubuntu, noun.
π /ΚΛbΚntΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity.
❗️ Examples:
1. There is a need for understanding not vengeance, ubuntu not victimization.
2. Speaking during the Senior Citizens' Day at the weekend, hosted by Rhema Mthatha Christian Church, MaMbeki singled out ubuntu as one solution to the problems facing society.
3. I hope the summit will bring together a spirit of humanity - ubuntu - for sustainable development.
4. He referred to Africa's concept of ubuntu, equating compassion with it, and bringing smiles to many audience members' faces.
5. This is a demonstration of ubuntu, a show of humanity to other people, says Mdlulwa.
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π Wright, noun.
π /rΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A maker or builder.
❗️ Examples:
1. The lower rank comprises the people of every art besides, who include wrights, blacksmiths, braziers, craftsmen, physicians, judges, Druids, and others.
2. The first operation was laying the foundations, "walling and setting the ground-work of the new hall," payment being about 5d. a day; then the wright for making scaffolds had 4d. a day.
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π Leave off, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Discontinue (an activity)
❗️ Examples:
1. The dog left off chasing the sheep.
2. He resumed the other story at the point where the previous author had left off.
3. He continued where he left off after the break and nearly gave his side the lead after 52 minutes.
4. In the second half the game continued in the same vein, where it left off at the break.
5. I swear it leaves off then, to resume work somewhere in my abdomen, causing the most uncomfortable swelling and, eventually, making it harder and harder to breath.
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π Put the bite on, phrase.
❓ Definition (North American, Australian, New Zealand • informal): Borrow or extort money from.
❗️ Examples:
1. A deadbeat diner tried to put the bite on a restaurant.
2. Damn, I thought, putting the bite on me for food money.
3. I'm no elitist and I'm all for genuine homeless people getting a better deal all round, but it beggared belief to see him shopping with the people he was putting the bite on just minutes before.
4. It is scandalous is that while Catholic schools across the country have missed out on anywhere between $560 million and $2-3 billion over the past four years, they have put the bite on parents to make up some of the difference.
5. Meanwhile, the governor - through a special economic development fund overseen by his office - also has been putting the bite on a host of companies and other special interests to contribute to his pet cause.
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π Star trail, noun.
❓ Definition: A streak on a long-exposure or composite photographic image formed by a star moving across the field of view as a result of the earth's rotation.
❗️ Examples:
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π Frore, adjective.
π /frΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (literary): Frozen; frosty.
❗️ Examples:
1. The beast wept as the frore hills weep in the thaw, and the tears splashed big into the agate bowl.
2. Wildly the frore wind blew the fallen leaves backwards, upwards, back towards the bare branches where they once lived, around circularly in tiny spirals across the street.
3. But through the frore wind and the dripping rain walks a man along the road.
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π Get along, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Have a harmonious or friendly relationship.
❗️ Examples:
1. They seem to get along pretty well.
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π When one's ship comes in, phrase.
❓ Definition: When one's fortune is made.
❗️ Examples:
1. The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in.
2. She's the kind of real life gal who'll buy you a beer, let you cry on her shoulder and be the first one to give you a high-five when your ship comes in.
3. Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe someday when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I am.
4. But my worst fear - echoing my elder daughter's prediction that Dad, when your ship comes in you'll be at the airport!.
5. I remember hearing my parents talk about how much better life would be when their ship came in, but I never knew whether or not they really expected it to happen.
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π Submerge, verb.
π /sΙbΛmΙΛdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Completely cover or obscure.
❗️ Examples:
1. The tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore.
2. In the multipolar world that has ensued from the end of the Cold War, submerged tensions between the US and Europe have come out into the open.
3. A dear friend's wedding can stir up all kinds of submerged emotions — and, crucially, a sense that life is, indeed, moving forward, whether you're ready for it or not.
4. After not getting the pleasure he requires from his only love he turns to Banquo who up till now has kept his feelings submerged.
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π Inborn, adjective.
π /ΛΙͺnbΙΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Existing from birth.
❗️ Examples:
1. An inborn defect in the formation of collagen.
2. There is a high frequency of inborn defects of respiratory organs and bronchiectasis.
3. There are three main categories of congenital problems to be considered in pediatric patients: congenital malformations, inborn errors of metabolism, and other inherited disorders.
4. Apart from these inborn defects, deprivation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) at any time of life interferes with a step in collagen synthesis; the resulting bleeding, bruising, and poor healing are part of the picture of scurvy.
5. Some of the cell lines were from individuals with rare inborn errors of metabolism, although none suffered from a condition known to be associated with their APOE genotype.
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π Ohnosecond, noun.
π /ΛΙΚnΙΚsΙkΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): A moment in which one realizes that one has made a serious mistake, typically by pressing the wrong key on a computer keyboard.
❗️ Examples:
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π Take something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Occupy time, space, or attention.
❗️ Examples:
1. I don't want to take up any more of your time.
2. The rest of that building will be taken up with some retail space, a small number of offices, possibly a hotel, and conference facilities.
3. Phil Burgess, group main board director of Emerson, Orbit's parent company, told the committee that only four per cent of the floor space would be taken up with the goods restricted by the covenant.
4. But many who currently sit in the Main Stand are angry that similar seats will not be available at the new stadium, because the space is taken up with expensive executive seats.
5. It is clear from the wording of s. 84 that the list of matters that may be relevant is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is in the discussion of the nature of the public interest that much of the investigative time is taken up.
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π A shoulder to cry on, phrase.
❓ Definition: Someone who listens sympathetically to someone's problems.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was a fatherly shoulder to cry on when the going was tough.
2. I mean, where's the harm in a guy wanting a drinking buddy, a shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear?
3. Both of them said if I ever needed anything - a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen - to call them.
4. They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune.
5. Mrs O'Toole is a shoulder to cry on for her customers and has experience in talking about the most sensitive subjects.
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π Undertake, verb.
π /ΚndΙΛteΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on.
❗️ Examples:
1. A firm of builders undertook the construction work.
2. When I became president two-and-a-half years ago I undertook a duty and responsibility.
3. This is a mammoth project undertaken by a very committed and brave team of artists and technicians.
4. To undertake the duties and responsibilities of a platoon sergeant, you are expected to be at the top of your game.
5. All of their Lordships spoke in terms of one party having assumed or undertaken a responsibility towards the other.
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π Valley, noun.
π /Λvali/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Thames Valley.
2. The valley floor.
3. It has such beautiful farmland, mountains, valleys, and rivers that one-fifth of the country is designated as national parkland.
4. Mountains, valleys, and rivers provide memorable scenery for tourists.
5. The steep hills and valleys also offer superb rivers for white-water rafting.
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π Shrive, verb.
π /ΚrΚΙͺv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): (of a priest) hear the confession of, assign penance to, and absolve.
❗️ Examples:
1. None of her chaplains knew English or French enough to shrive the king.
2. In the week immediately before lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him and make pancakes.
3. Pascal accompanies the priest on his regular visit to shrive the residents of the local mental hospital, and finds himself hearing one of the confessions, almost but not quite by accident.
4. Without the direct intervention of God's angels, William cannot recognize it and be shriven of it.
5. Neither is he one of those Fianna FΓ‘il people who argues that the party needs to shrive itself and get back to basics.
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π Soak something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Absorb a liquid.
❗️ Examples:
1. Use clean tissues to soak up any droplets of water.
2. The towels soaked up the red liquid with blinding efficiency, soaking up almost ten times their weight in liquid.
3. The bread soaked up the meaty juices in a satisfyingly rustic way.
4. The garden also uses bark chip mulch which soaks up water and slowly releases it into the ground and a combination of soil and gravel to improve drainage.
5. The three-month trial has shown hemp to be a more effective mop crop, in that it grows quicker and produces bigger plants, soaking up more water and nutrients.
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π A tough nut to crack, phrase.
❓ Definition (informal): A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat.
❗️ Examples:
1. He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles.
2. Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack.
3. Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out.
4. Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack.
5. Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job.
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π Obscure, adjective.
π /ΙbΛskjΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not clearly expressed or easily understood.
❗️ Examples:
1. Obscure references to Proust.
2. In fact you appear to have to be very advanced in magical theory in order to understand most of the obscure written references about it.
3. Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics.
4. Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
5. Oblique culinary references and obscure terms go against the grain of the present climate in the culinary world.
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π Ban, verb.
π /ban/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Officially or legally prohibit (something)
❗️ Examples:
1. Parking is banned around the harbour in summer.
2. Cars were banned from the park all day in a bid to keep traffic disruption to a minimum.
3. York tourism boats can continue to ply their trade, but rowers are banned from the river.
4. We therefore, demand that the internet be permanently banned from American homes.
5. As a result of this, the islanders are banned from fishing in their own waters.
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π Moggie, noun.
π /ΛmΙΙ‘i/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British • informal): A cat, typically one that does not have a pedigree or is otherwise unremarkable.
❗️ Examples:
1. I have three other cats (two moggies and one Bengal/Tonkinese cross)
2. Boots the marmalade moggie got his marching orders from the Rose And Crown when he popped in for a beer.
3. True, Leroy is more of a small leopard than a domestic moggy, but surely these three moggies could outflank him and make him overextend his supply chain or something.
4. The little moggy, who is believed to be between two or three years old was found in the Parks area by a RSPCA collection officer.
5. The moggy looked up at me gratefully - well, in so far as cats ever look grateful for anything - and there, hanging from its collar, was the fourth ring.
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π Soak something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Expose oneself to or experience something beneficial or enjoyable.
❗️ Examples:
1. Lie back and soak up the Mediterranean sun.
2. He spends his time painting and soaking up the culture.
3. For half a century now many rich and varied cultural experiences have been soaked up over the scorching hot Perth summers.
4. Lie back and soak it up - the bright tones and soothing vocals are best appreciated horizontally, although there's plenty of wiggle in these wobbly cut-up rhythms as well.
5. We both spent time outside, soaking up some rays and just enjoying the spring weather.
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π Run out of steam, phrase.
❓ Definition (informal): Lose impetus or enthusiasm.
❗️ Examples:
1. A rebellion that had run out of steam.
2. Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam.
3. The two very sexy stars provide enough chemistry in this stylized thriller but the movie runs out of steam halfway through.
4. I'd like watch as each argument just runs out of steam, leaving just the prejudice and chauvinism for all to see.
5. It is laid back, ambling on its jolly way, and just when it should be gathering momentum it runs out of steam.
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π Dodge, verb.
π /dΙdΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement.
❗️ Examples:
1. Marchers had to dodge missiles thrown by loyalists.
2. When the news was wafted to his father's factory, all his colleagues dodged him as if they were avoiding a deadly plague.
3. This time, he wasn't quick enough in dodging any attacks.
4. I pushed myself up and dodged a sudden flurry to my right, just in time to avoid someone else's arms.
5. He attacked right then left, both parried and did a quick back roll to dodged a vertical attack.
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π Disrupt, verb.
π /dΙͺsΛrΚpt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Drastically alter or destroy the structure of.
❗️ Examples:
1. If an explosion of volcanic steam had formed the crater, the blast from below would have disrupted the underlying rock.
2. Applying an irritant chemical to the membrane disrupts the ordered structure: the dye is released and the globular proteins undergo conformational changes.
3. In the shaken solution - which disrupts spatial structure - the ancestral morph persisted solitarily.
4. A hydronium ion, however, disrupts this structure because it can accommodate a maximum of three hydrogen bonds.
5. It is an antistructuralist reading, one that disrupts both the structures within the text and those that frame it.
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π Swash, verb.
π /swΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (no object): (of water or an object in water) move with a splashing sound.
❗️ Examples:
1. The water swashed and rippled around the car wheels.
2. When a heavy lurch came, hot water swashed up and over, a dismal howl, and well I fancy the cook and his mate will be more careful in future!
3. His shoes were dampened and were soaked under the freezing water which swashed around.
4. The first is that the crumbling dead corals swash about in the waves - not a good place for a baby coral to survive.
5. After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
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π Get along, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Used to express scepticism or disbelief or to tell someone to go away.
❗️ Examples:
1. Oh, get along with you!
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π Up and running, phrase.
❓ Definition: (especially of a computer system) in operation; functioning.
❗️ Examples:
1. The new computer is up and running.
2. See my previous post for more info on how to keep your computers up and running.
3. She is in the process of applying for cash from the Lottery Fund and hopes to see the service up and running within a year.
4. She said their computers were down and that they would be up and running at the earliest by noon.
5. That is exactly what the industry is doing, with nearly a dozen online services now up and running.
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π Custody, noun.
π /ΛkΚstΙdi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun • Law): Responsibility for the care, maintenance, and upbringing of a child or children.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was trying to get custody of their child.
2. In a divorce, fathers control custody of sons over the age of two and daughters over the age of seven.
3. Both the applicant and the respondent were seeking sole custody of the children.
4. In Burns, the mother had full custody of two children and the parents shared custody of a third child.
5. The court then has a difficult task in determining which parent should have custody of Michael.
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π Solely, adverb.
π /ΛsΙΚlli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Not involving anyone or anything else; only.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is solely responsible for any debts the company may incur.
2. People are appointed solely on the basis of merit.
3. Does he seriously think that anyone believes we rely solely on the wind to light our streets?
4. It is simply not true that smoking is solely responsible for the current cancer epidemic.
5. To have a true belief is simply and solely to believe that something is so, and to be in fact right.
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π Traghetto, noun.
π /traΛΙ‘ΙtΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in Venice) a landing place or jetty for gondolas.
❗️ Examples:
1. Near to this there is the traghetto stop of San Sofia which is bang opposite the Peshcheria or Fish Market.
2. Do get as detailed a map of the city as you can, and make sure it shows all the vaporetto and traghetto stops.
3. Look for traghetto signs and hand your fare to the gondolier when you board.
4. As our river bus weaves in and out among the swarm of vaporetti, traghetti, gondolas and private craft, Venice begins to reveal itself.
5. He takes off his head gear and the flippers and then takes the traghetto across to our side.
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π Take something up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Become interested or engaged in a pursuit.
❗️ Examples:
1. She took up tennis at the age of 11.
2. Watching opera on television and attending live opera performances got her interested in taking it up as a career.
3. Mostly good weather favoured the event for the three weeks when outdoor pursuits could be taken up.
4. Mr Frost contacted Counsel and Care after reading about its national campaign to encourage older people to continue their artistic pursuits, or take them up for the first time.
5. She told me last week she once did kick-boxing and was interested in taking it up again when she moves to Sheffield!
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π Give someone a dose (or taste) of their own medicine, phrase.
❓ Definition: Give someone the same bad treatment that they have given to others.
❗️ Examples:
1. Tired of his humiliation of me, I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine.
2. I suggest we out this person and give them a taste of their own medicine.
3. Let's give them a taste of their own medicine then perhaps they may have a less arrogant attitude towards Britain.
4. Weathering the storm, Windermere then picked up the pace and gave Workington a taste of their own medicine.
5. After all that's happened to you, don't you want to give them a taste of their own medicine?
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π Paramount, adjective.
π /ΛparΙmaΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: More important than anything else; supreme.
❗️ Examples:
1. The interests of the child are of paramount importance.
2. Free trade is a principle which recognizes the paramount importance of individual action.
3. Victory is paramount and anything that gets in the way is deemed the enemy that must be destroyed at all costs.
4. I didn't do anything about it; her happiness was still of paramount importance in my mind.
5. Public hearings on important matters are paramount to monitoring government.
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π Catch up, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Do tasks which one should have done earlier.
❗️ Examples:
1. He normally used the afternoons to catch up on paperwork.
2. Oh, and there's a backlog of domestic and business stuff to catch up on.
3. I like having the place to myself, though I have a bunch of housework to catch up on.
4. Public holidays are when I catch up on household chores and visit my ailing parents.
5. I really have to catch up on my email, you know what it's like when you're out of the office for a few days.
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π Poptastic, adjective.
π /pΙpΛtastΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British • informal): Denoting or relating to a very good piece of pop music.
❗️ Examples:
1. An album packed with poptastic delights.
2. You may remember her biggest UK and US hit in 1998, the poptastic "Show Me Love."
3. The public's appetite for all things poptastic turned PopStars into a ratings stunner.
4. And "Into The Night" is a poptastic love song that evokes comparisons with U2.
5. Supported by Tyler James, Big Brovaz and former Fame Academy resident Lemar, the musical extravaganza got off to a poptastic start on Saturday.
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π Burn out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition: Cease to function as a result of excessive heat or friction.
❗️ Examples:
1. The clutch had burned out.
2. The first successful light bulbs marketed by Edison in the 1880s produced so much heat that they burnt out very rapidly.
3. Measures like this ensure the chip will not burn out as it heats up from use.
4. Three days later he got a second SMS saying that she had got as far as Parys but her clutch had burnt out and could he let her have R800 more for the repairs.
5. That was early in the race and normally when a clutch slips it will burn out, but that wasn't the case because he was able to finish and restart OK.
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π Bounce an idea off, phrase.
❓ Definition (informal): Share an idea with (someone) in order to refine it.
❗️ Examples:
1. He thrives on bouncing ideas off other people.
2. If someone needs to bounce an idea off of someone, another person is able offer honest insight and feedback.
3. This guy also gave me his card and told me to call him if I wanted to bounce an idea off him.
4. It's for people who need that extra ear, are going it alone, or simply need to bounce an idea off a smart group of people.
5. If you have questions or just want to bounce an idea off us, please give us a call.
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π Daring, adjective.
π /ΛdΙΛrΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person or action) adventurous or audaciously bold.
❗️ Examples:
1. A daring crime.
2. With the lantern, she looked just like a character from one of those old black and white films, like the daring heroine bold enough to uncover ghastly secrets hidden deep within the woods.
3. Cheng is a bold and daring man, working at whatever it takes to give his boy a chance to succeed in life.
4. So who was this daring woman, who ranks alongside the likes of glamorous adventurers such as Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham?
5. He had fallen for her rebellious daring personality the moment they met.
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π Immerse, verb.
π /ΙͺΛmΙΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Dip or submerge in a liquid.
❗️ Examples:
1. Immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes.
2. The food to be poached must be fully immersed in the liquid and not allowed to boil otherwise it can toughen the most delicate protein.
3. The first one involved usage of liquid paraffin for immersing nerves while dissecting and recording from them.
4. In our experiments, however, both tip and sample are completely immersed in liquids.
5. Add artichoke hearts and weigh down so that they are fully immersed in cooking liquid.
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