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π Jam tomorrow, phrase.
❓ Definition (British): A pleasant thing which is often promised but rarely materializes.
❗️ Examples:
1. A promise of jam tomorrow wasn't enough to satisfy them.
2. Policy holders want cash today, not the promise of jam tomorrow, and if people don't appreciate that then they are out of touch.
3. He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces.
4. Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough.
5. We have been promised jam tomorrow but we have never got it.
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π Suspend, verb.
π /sΙΛspΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object • Law): Temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
❗️ Examples:
1. Work on the dam was suspended.
2. While immediate lay-offs have been temporarily suspended, the crisis continues with thousands of jobs among Rover's suppliers also under threat.
3. The traders have been forced to temporarily suspend trading as they do not want any more clients to fall into this black hole.
4. Recently Ryanair was forced to temporarily suspend services on its Strasbourg / London route.
5. Following the Thursday explosion, reports were circulated that claimed the security raid has been suspended and forces were ordered to retreat.
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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 Galactico, noun.
π /Ι‘ΙΛlaktΙͺkΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): An exceptionally skilled and celebrated soccer player.
❗️ Examples:
1. We have all been thoroughly entertained through the age of the ' galactico '.
2. Samuel is lucky nobody has yet stuck the label galactico on him.
3. At Madrid, he joined the galactico, literally a galaxy of stars.
4. Envious minds in Madrid who fumed at the performances of the galactico last season will be praying for a revolution.
5. Over here in England, Thierry Henry is certainly another galactico.
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π Nothing succeeds like success, phrase.
❓ Definition (proverb): Success leads to opportunities for further and greater successes.
❗️ Examples:
1. At the end of the day, nothing succeeds like success.
2. But in America, nothing succeeds like success.
3. In mitigation, this run of bad results was closely tied to a string of away fixtures that would test any team but it once again proved that if nothing succeeds like success then failure facilitates a firing.
4. You know that saying, nothing succeeds like success?
5. Well, its an old saying and a true one: nothing succeeds like success.
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π Valley, noun.
π /Λvali/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (in place names): 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 Bring about, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition (bring something about, bring about something): Cause something to happen.
❗️ Examples:
1. She brought about a revolution in psychoanalysis.
2. Well, he got involved with the actual methods of bringing this revolution about.
3. The important consideration is how those changes are implemented, how they are brought about and made effective.
4. What results have been brought about by this decision-making framework?
5. Sometimes these punishments are deserved but often they are brought about by unfortunate circumstances.
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π Afeared, adjective.
π /ΙΛfΙͺΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (archaic, dialect): Afraid.
❗️ Examples:
1. The point is he was big and mean and everyone was afeared of him.
2. Tonight I return to French class, and am all afeared at the thought I have started forgetting what I know.
3. And I am afeared about what sort of photos of me are going to pop up on other people's sites.
4. I would love to go, but I am afeared that a trip to Sydney is a wee bit out of my budget at this point.
5. He has a tale to tell and I'm afeared that our lives depend on us listening.
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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 Enact, verb.
π /ΙͺΛnakt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Put into practice (an idea or suggestion)
❗️ Examples:
1. The pressure group's aim was to see the proposals enacted.
2. The French Revolution was an attempt to enact his ideas.
3. Because real people formulate and enact political ideas, it is often easy to locate the supposed evil of a given idea in its human agent.
4. The National Security Adviser joined the President at the ranch to discuss enacting recommendations that could be implemented immediately by executive order.
5. He later challenged him to commit to enacting the recommendations of the report during his term as president.
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π Plainly, adverb.
π /ΛpleΙͺnli/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (as submodifier): Able to be perceived easily.
❗️ Examples:
1. A light was plainly visible.
2. She could plainly hear footsteps behind her.
3. A sinister yet plainly demarcated force of evil is ever-present in his films.
4. That same shock was now plainly visible in Mallory's eyes.
5. In that darkness, any little star showed as plainly as a sun.
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π Deurmekaar, adjective.
π /ΛdjΙΛmΙΛkΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (South African • informal • predicative): In a state of muddle or confusion.
❗️ Examples:
1. My tenants left the house so deurmekaar, I'll never get it straight.
2. As far as reading the manual goes… after reading 3 pages I normally forget my first name - getting really deurmekaar to say the least.
3. Leon dressed himself up like this boer, called ‘Rooi Willie’, with a big red beard and big deurmekaar hair and every time Jan speaks Leon would go like ‘Roep!’
4. And as I said, there was no name tag, anything, but I was also so deurmekaar, I didn't even ask him his name or anything.
5. He's a bit deurmekaar.
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π Not a bit of it, phrase.
❓ Definition (British): Not at all.
❗️ Examples:
1. Am I being unduly cynical? Not a bit of it.
2. After the torrential rain on Saturday, we had thought the event might be a bit of a wash-out, but not a bit of it.
3. It sounds like a recipe for gross self-indulgence, but not a bit of it: ‘I've actually lost nearly a stone and a half since coming here.’
4. When the Express closed, and then later the ill - fated Scottish Daily News, you'd have thought the bar would close but not a bit of it.
5. You would think after 20 years he would be jaded, but not a bit of it.
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π Point out, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition (point something out, point out something • reporting verb): Direct someone's gaze or attention towards, especially by extending one's finger.
❗️ Examples:
1. I pointed out a conical heap of stones.
2. He only survived because he was swept into a ditch and a man spotted him and pointed out a route to safety.
3. One would be hard pressed to point out a single fat man among these thousands.
4. As they drove, she played tour guide and pointed out spots of interest in Dover.
5. He pointed out the seat and I made my way towards it, my bag swinging in my hands.
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π Show round, phrasal verb.
❓ Definition (show someone round, show round someone): Point out interesting features in a place or building to someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. He showed us round and took us to the museum.
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π Esurient, adjective.
π /ΙͺΛsjΚΙrΙͺΙnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (archaic, humorous): Hungry or greedy.
❗️ Examples:
1. In Masson's metamorphosis of image and reality in Pygmalion, the sculpture on the right becomes the esurient monster at the table; indeed, it becomes the table itself, devouring its contents.
2. Outside the Hungry Pilgrim restaurant stood an examplar of esurient puritanism dressed in a black-and-white Cromwellian costume with hair in a pigtail.
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π The world, the flesh, and the devil, phrase.
❓ Definition: All forms of temptation to sin.
❗️ Examples:
1. Rossetti struggled with these words in her desire to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
2. A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain.
3. The daily, hourly conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil, shall at length be at an end: the enemy shall be bound; the warfare shall be over; the wicked shall at last cease from troubling; the weary shall at length be at rest.
4. In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives.
5. Epicurus' dubious reputation reflected the Christian tendency to regard earthly pleasures as the evil lures of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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π Mighty, adjective.
π /ΛmΚΙͺti/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially because of size.
❗️ Examples:
1. Three mighty industrial countries.
2. Mighty beasts.
3. This mighty power will continue to press for county councillors to respect the professional judgement of their highway engineers and consultants.
4. This nation, once a mighty world power, is being systematically stripped of all its wealth and influence, and no-one bats an eyelid.
5. A glance at the current spate of hotel marketing deals makes it clear that tykes are wielding some mighty power.
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π Dog-end, noun.
❓ Definition: The last and least pleasing part of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. The dog-end of a hard day.
2. The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom.
3. Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament.
4. It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest.
5. I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat.
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π Doco, noun.
π /ΛdΙkΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Australian, New Zealand • informal): A documentary.
❗️ Examples:
1. A doco on the D-Day landings.
2. Michael Moore who directed Bowling for Columbine was smart enough to interview MM for the doco.
3. A better overview of the band can be found in the 2000 doco The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony.
4. I also saw the tail end of an interesting US doco last night ' Weapons of mass Deception '.
5. What I liked most about the doco was the shift in perspective.
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π None other than, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont.
2. The first victims of his surprise visit were none other than presspersons themselves.
3. And it was none other than Rossellini who advised him to turn professional.
4. This church is supposed to have been founded by none other than Charlemagne.
5. She's played by none other than Kitty Bruce, daughter of standup legend Lenny Bruce.
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π Proverb, noun.
π /ΛprΙvΙΛb/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice.
❗️ Examples:
1. Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common.
2. Beware of proverbs: they are a snare and a delusion.
3. To quote a Kannada proverb it is like water off a buffalo's back.
4. It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
5. It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness, as a rough translation of a Chinese proverb goes.
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π Subtract, verb.
π /sΙbΛtrakt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Take away (a number or amount) from another to calculate the difference.
❗️ Examples:
1. Subtract 43 from 60.
2. Dollar amounts were calculated by subtracting the rework cost from the Navy stock number ‘ready-for-issue’ value.
3. So to get the correct figure, we have to subtract the number of days when it was both.
4. Not only does the game add and subtract a number of different fields to generate a final total for a race, you can easily spend half a minute or more just watching the game tally up the number of mistakes you made.
5. The overconfidence indices were calculated by subtracting the percentage of correct answers from the mean percentage of certainty.
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π Glaciated, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘leΙͺsΙͺeΙͺtΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
❗️ Examples:
1. A glaciated valley.
2. None of the streams draining upland areas of the Southeast were glaciated during Pleistocene ice ages or inundated by Cretaceous seas during interglacial periods.
3. The region is adjacent to the driftless area, and was glaciated during the Wisconsin glaciation.
4. The two maps are genetically related, but very different, in some ways loosely comparable to the ‘Solid’ and ‘Drift’ geological maps of a heavily glaciated area.
5. The schist has been glaciated, resulting in exposed outcrop surfaces of 20-30 meters, studded with staurolite crystals.
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π Look on the bright side, phrase.
❓ Definition: Be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties.
❗️ Examples:
1. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side.
2. He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one.
3. With so many good things happening, it is so difficult not to look on the bright side, isn't it?
4. At first, anti-dam activists looked on the bright side.
5. The move might seem like nothing more than a disruption, but the director is looking on the bright side.
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π Fund, verb.
π /fΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object): Provide with money for a particular purpose.
❗️ Examples:
1. The World Bank refused to fund the project.
2. By contrast, the citizen scientists would be funded by public money to do just that.
3. The money also funded film workshops at secondary schools and colleges across the region.
4. The project is funded by a four year grant from regeneration money provided by the government.
5. The answer is simple since any job in the public services is funded by tax payers' money.
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π Conspire, verb.
π /kΙnΛspΚΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (no object • with infinitive): Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
❗️ Examples:
1. They conspired against him.
2. They deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue.
3. They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them.
4. This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him.
5. Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him.
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π Nointer, noun.
π /ΛnΙΙͺntΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Australian • informal): (especially in Tasmania) a troublesome or annoying person or thing, in particular a mischievous child.
❗️ Examples:
1. We laughed hysterically and generally behaved like puerile nointers.
2. “You come with me, you young nointer,” said Rudge.
3. Mrs Hoare, of Watlington, calls her grandchild a "'nointer" when she is troublesome and restless.
4. Nervous systems are tricky little nointers!
5. As for the kids, could getting the littlenointers trackside be a way of propping up the state's struggling racing industry?
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π Turn a blind eye, phrase.
❓ Definition: Pretend not to notice.
❗️ Examples:
1. Please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening.
2. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help.
3. In many ways, I think he's given the Saudis a pass and he's turned a blind eye to them.
4. It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over.
5. Please, don't turn a blind eye or passively ignore what is happening.
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π Legislation, noun.
π /lΙdΚΙͺsΛleΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun): Laws, considered collectively.
❗️ Examples:
1. Housing legislation.
2. Those are the words that are used in sections of this type in a great deal of legislation.
3. This had made them exempt from certain legislation that does not apply to the Crown.
4. Many of these provisions may make sense if they are placed in ordinary legislation.
5. The legislation made the occupier liable and this was held to include the receiver.
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π Earthquake, noun.
π /ΛΙΛΞΈkweΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
❗️ Examples:
1. When it came to measuring these big earthquakes, the Richter scale fell short.
2. Nine on the Richter scale indicates an earthquake of absolutely awesome destructive power.
3. This is one of the most destructive earthquakes of the twentieth century.
4. They are subject to periodic earthquakes and volcanic activity that can destabilize them.
5. Tsunamis are waves formed when huge masses of water are displaced by undersea volcanic eruptions or earthquakes.
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π Hereat, adverb.
π /hΙͺΙrΛat/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (archaic): As a result of this.
❗️ Examples:
1. Greatly distressed hereat, they declared themselves to deserve a fine.
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π Out of context, phrase.
❓ Definition: Without the surrounding words or circumstances and so not fully understandable.
❗️ Examples:
1. The article portrayed her as domineering by dropping quotes from her out of context.
2. He twists words, quotes people out of context and stretches the truth to suit his purpose.
3. The embarrassment was such that Gilchrist found himself explaining that his words had been taken out of context.
4. She says her words were taken out of context, but soon submits her resignation.
5. He said that his words were taken out of context and he was sorry if he had offended anyone.
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π Subsequent, adjective.
π /ΛsΚbsΙͺkw(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Geology): Coming after something in time; following.
❗️ Examples:
1. The theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906.
2. Had they existed at any time subsequent to their split in 1983, they would have been big.
3. The theft of the items could have been subsequent to the murder and not the reason for it, for example.
4. Mr Milford's conviction has subsequent to the hearing been quashed and a retrial ordered.
5. This comes subsequent to Ganguly appointing two lawyers to handle his appeal.
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π Tempt, verb.
π /tΙm(p)t/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object • be tempted to do something • archaic): Entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise.
❗️ Examples:
1. There'll always be someone tempted by the rich pickings of poaching.
2. Jobs which involve entertaining may tempt you to drink more than you intend.
3. Sometimes, he says, the bad spirits tempt him to do wrong.
4. Their main goal in life is to entice and tempt men.
5. She tempts him to drink and he loses his precious manuscript.
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π Crickle, noun.
π /ΛkrΙͺkl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thin, sharp crackling sound.
❗️ Examples:
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π A trouble shared is a trouble halved, phrase.
❓ Definition (proverb): Talking to someone else about one's problems helps to alleviate them.
❗️ Examples:
1. The saying, ‘a trouble shared is a trouble halved’ is just as true when it comes to your physical health as it is in relation to your emotional health.
2. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but when holiday anxiety strikes, I suffer in silence.
3. Build a social support network of friends and family - remember a trouble shared is a trouble halved.
4. On the basis that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, I will share some of my troubles with you.
5. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved and it's true.
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π Assault, noun.
π /ΙΛsΙΛlt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Law): An act that threatens physical harm to a person, whether or not actual harm is done.
❗️ Examples:
1. He admitted an assault and two thefts.
2. He appeared in court charged with assault.
3. In that case the appellant had been convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by harassing his female victim.
4. The father was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but was acquitted.
5. He has previous convictions for theft, robbery and assault causing actual bodily harm.
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π Whereas, conjunction.
π /wΙΛrΛaz/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: In contrast or comparison with the fact that.
❗️ Examples:
1. You treat the matter lightly, whereas I myself was never more serious.
2. She's the one who is moving on whereas her parents are stuck with the story, are stuck in the past.
3. He lived through his era, whereas so many of his friends died in racing accidents.
4. Nanjing has also in the past been the capital of China, whereas now Beijing has that role.
5. We have natural light whereas working underground we had artificial light.
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π Jemmy, noun.
π /ΛdΚΙmi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A short crowbar used by a burglar to force open a window or door.
❗️ Examples:
1. We armed ourselves with axes, crowbars, jemmies, metal poles, sledge hammers, a quart of paraffin and box of matches.
2. He then forced the latch of the window open using a jimmy.
3. A tool, perhaps a jemmy, was used to open a rear door, but the thieves failed to get inside the car.
4. The stereo was gone, the front door was bent open with a jimmy, and all my cds had been taken.
5. For this was the jemmy in the door of national sovereignty.
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π Don't mention it, phrase.
❓ Definition: A polite expression used to indicate that thanks or an apology are not necessary.
❗️ Examples:
1. ‘Thanks very much.’ ‘Don't mention it, dear boy.’
2. Man, don't mention it; what are friends for?
3. No, don't mention it; I'm sorry I knocked you over.
4. ‘Please don't mention it,’ Vicki snapped slightly.
5. ‘Please don't mention it again,’ she said plainly.
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π Respondent, noun.
π /rΙͺΛspΙnd(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Law): A party against whom a petition is filed, especially one in an appeal or a divorce case.
❗️ Examples:
1. Very well, and these other affidavits, I take it, are affidavits filed by the respondent.
2. The appellant's second ground of appeal is that the respondents are not suitable to be the donor's attorneys.
3. The first respondents to the appeal must pay the appellant's costs of the application.
4. Whether the respondents cross petition against the petitioners was demurrable and should be struck out.
5. The statutory amendments shift the evidential burden of proof to the respondent if the complainant proves what he or she is required to prove at the first stage.
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π Respondent, noun.
π /rΙͺΛspΙnd(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who replies to something, especially one supplying information for a questionnaire or responding to an advertisement.
❗️ Examples:
1. Most respondents to our questionnaire considered their practices to be in accordance with current medical guidelines.
2. Always be clear about how you want respondents to indicate their replies when answering closed questions.
3. The questionnaire invited respondents to comment on each of the 31 indicators.
4. At two years follow up we sent a postal questionnaire to those respondents who had been free of forearm pain at baseline.
5. The cover letter explained that there were no codes that could be used to link a completed questionnaire to a particular respondent.
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π Lief, adverb.
π /liΛf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (as lief • archaic): As happily; as gladly.
❗️ Examples:
1. He would just as lief eat a pincushion.
2. ‘I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician,’ said bibulous Sir Andrew Ague-cheek.
3. Here is W. S. Gilbert's spoof line, ‘I would as lief be thrust through a thicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle’.
4. As for the first, I would as lief pray with him as with any man.
5. I figgered, an’ we had the stuff, we'd jist as lief knock together somethin’ tha’ didn’ take an expert t’ aim.
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π Be party to, phrase.
❓ Definition: Be involved in.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was party to some very shady deals.
2. That is not an example that my party and other parties want to be party to at all.
3. Yes because they were party to what has turned out to be open, active aggression against a third country that in no way was a threat to them and of course their reasons for going in have proved to be absolutely baseless.
4. Mother Teresa once recounted an incident she was party to in London.
5. One wonders, too, if he was a party to, participant indeed in, the villainies of Thomas J. Wise?
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π Reversal, noun.
π /rΙͺΛvΙΛs(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Law): A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action.
❗️ Examples:
1. A dramatic reversal in population decline in the Alps.
2. The reversal of tidal currents.
3. The data therefore chronicle a dramatic reversal in the direction of invasion.
4. Clearly, such a reversal of the current course would not be achievable overnight.
5. The mayor's comments marked a reversal of his previous position on the issue.
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π Espionage, noun.
π /ΛΙspΙͺΙnΙΛΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun): The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
❗️ Examples:
1. The camouflage and secrecy of espionage.
2. Balzac pumped him for information on organised crime and political espionage.
3. He denied his detention had anything to do with politics or espionage.
4. The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail.
5. Even if espionage had taken place at Los Alamos, they argued, it had not mattered.
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π Gulpin, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘ΚlpΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Irish • informal): A stupid or foolish person.
❗️ Examples:
1. A bundle of gulpins messing about in the schoolyard.
2. Knowing the gulpin Vera's saddled with, I wouldn't blame her for giving him the worst word in her stomach.
3. If I could lay my hands on the gulpin who is poisoning the minds of the pupils of this school, I'd flay him to within an inch of his life.
4. I'm going home to a houseful of gulpins who claim they don't know where the kettle is.
5. They try their level best not to put gulpins in charge of their children.
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π In tune, phrase.
❓ Definition: In agreement or harmony.
❗️ Examples:
1. Retailers are becoming more in tune with what the consumers want.
2. The urban radio stations talking about ‘peace in the streets ‘are out of tune with reality.’
3. Martin Dunne: ‘Central policy makers are totally out of tune with the views of the people around the country.’
4. It just seemed to us that the politicians - all of them, in all the different parties - are out of tune with how ordinary people feel about this.
5. We have laws in place which are clearly out of tune with the views of the majority of the population.
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π Outstanding, adjective.
π /aΚtΛstandΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Exceptionally good.
❗️ Examples:
1. The team's outstanding performance.
2. Nepal is also, of course, a country of outstanding natural beauty.
3. I understood this land was an area of outstanding natural beauty.
4. The Lake District National Park is an area of outstanding natural beauty that is protected for the benefit of the nation as a whole.
5. There is an area of outstanding natural beauty right on the doorstep and it is blocked off because of the dangerous stepping stones.
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π Whizz-kid, noun.
π /ΛwΙͺzkΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): A young person who is outstandingly skilful or successful at something.
❗️ Examples:
1. A computer whizz-kid.
2. Aspiring computer whizz-kids will get the chance to learn from the experts.
3. Here, a team of young computer science whizz-kids are putting the finishing touches to Alex.
4. Now they're musicians, computer whiz-kids and heads of corporations.
5. The program features interviews with businessmen as diverse as toilet-seat designers, magazine editors and computer whiz-kids.
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π Overbrim, verb.
π /ΙΚvΙΛbrΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (with object • archaic • no object): Flow over the brim of.
❗️ Examples:
1. The liquor that o'erbrims the cup.
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π Cold feet, phrase.
❓ Definition: Loss of nerve or confidence.
❗️ Examples:
1. After arranging to meet I got cold feet and phoned her saying I was busy.
2. The Rochdale cabaret singer feared his Norwegian bride had got cold feet and decided to return to her homeland without him.
3. The central government has developed cold feet on the promised legislation to regulate fee and admissions in professional colleges.
4. Apparently, one - or possibly more - of the investors may have gotten cold feet.
5. They believed the hype about the cost and got cold feet.
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π Grooming, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘ruΛmΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun): The practice of brushing and cleaning the coat of a horse, dog, or other animal.
❗️ Examples:
1. Regular grooming is essential to the well-being of your dog.
2. Wash your pet outdoors or talk to your veterinarian about professional pet grooming.
3. Shih Tzu can require careful daily grooming.
4. Unless a camper or owns a horse or pony, it's hard for riders to learn proper grooming, tacking, feeding, and equine first aid.
5. Proper grooming helps develop a bond between owner and horse and should never be neglected or rushed.
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π Shady, adjective.
π /ΛΚeΙͺdi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): Of doubtful honesty or legality.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was involved in his grandmother's shady deals.
2. This belongs to the secret world of state-to-state relations, with all their intrigues, shady deals and questionable trade-offs, which most governments hide from their citizens.
3. Because she did not suspect a shady deal was brewing, when she found out the loan was approved, she signed on the dotted line.
4. He walked into the debriefing room and was greeted by General Li, a suspicious and shady character.
5. Although employed at a delicatessen near the East India docks, he is a shady character whose motive for being in the area I suspect has to do with the opium dens.
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π Azan, noun.
π /ΙΛzΙΛn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The Muslim call to ritual prayer made by a muezzin from the minaret of a mosque (or now often played from a recording).
❗️ Examples:
1. But neither this, nor the additions they have in the azan or call to prayer, is reason to consider them non-believers.
2. I found the restaurants and bars serving coffee and liquor with gusto and the cacophony raised by the tinkling of pegs and cups often made it impossible for us to hear azan from the mosque.
3. In the big cities or the remotest rural areas, the azan is called five times a day and the people gather for the congregational prayers at the proper times without fail.
4. With the azan shrilling in the background, the curtain rose on the beautiful Kashmiri dancers holding basketfuls of yellow flowers and yellow hankies, moving in simple and sensuous formations.
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π Two of a kind, phrase.
❓ Definition: The same or very similar.
❗️ Examples:
1. She and her sister were two of a kind.
2. I myself had doubts at first until I went further in and found clothes that are two of a kind.
3. You're two of a kind - genetically designed to get into trouble - and all we bystanders can do is pick up the pieces and try to stick them back together again afterward.
4. Lizzie, can't you tell, we're two of a kind.
5. When I opened my eyes there she was - April from work, with her face up against mine telling me how we were two of a kind, and how we needed to do something about that, her and me.
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π Matter of fact, noun.
❓ Definition (Law): A fact as distinct from an opinion or conjecture.
❗️ Examples:
1. It's a matter of fact that they had a relationship.
2. Some were matters of opinion, others were matters of fact.
3. The extent of flooding is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact.
4. An interpretation is a matter of opinion; it is not a matter of fact.
5. You have raised a matter of fact and I have no reason to doubt you.
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π Picturesque, adjective.
π /ΛpΙͺktΚΙΛrΙsk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a place or building) visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way.
❗️ Examples:
1. Ruined abbeys and picturesque villages.
2. Wiltshire is home to some of the most picturesque towns and villages in the country, often attracting filmmakers to the county.
3. Properties in the village range from picturesque cottages and council houses to large private homes.
4. People like Austrian resorts for their village atmosphere and picturesque settings.
5. We villagers of Dundrum are extremely lucky to live in such a picturesque place in an area of outstanding beauty.
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π Indite, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛdΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (archaic • with object): Write; compose.
❗️ Examples:
1. He indites the wondrous tale of Our Lord.
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π A penny for your thoughts, phrase.
❓ Definition: Used to ask someone what they are thinking about.
❗️ Examples:
1. I haven't heard anyone say that for years - a penny for your thoughts.
2. Next time someone offers you a penny for your thoughts… sell!
3. So, a penny for your thoughts here: what criteria, if any, should be applied in selecting names?
4. When did the phrase "a penny for your thoughts" originate?
5. It's in this book that we find the earliest known citation of the line, "A penny for your thoughts."
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π File, noun.
π /fΚΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A collection of information about a particular person or thing.
❗️ Examples:
1. MI5 were keeping a file on him.
2. The ideal for any organisation is that their employees can access all company information, documents or files within seconds - no matter where they are in the world.
3. Confidential files allegedly containing detailed information about his visit were found on a London Street.
4. My information is that the files pertaining to this particular arrest were sitting on the desk of the DPP for some time previously.
5. They found that nearly one-fifth of them still contained sensitive information such as company files and bank-account details.
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π Heart-to-heart, adjective.
π /ΛhΙΛttΙΛhΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a conversation) candid, intimate, and personal.
❗️ Examples:
1. A heart-to-heart chat.
2. In fact, we need heart-to-heart dialogues between friends, between teachers and students, between husbands and wives, between parents and children.
3. He used to drive his children to school in order to get a chance to have heart-to-heart discussions with them.
4. The happy and complacent resolution to the potentially tragic events, brought about apparently by a couple of five-minute heart-to-heart conversations, should satisfy no one.
5. But what you and I need to learn to do is to have real heart-to-heart communion with God, because, after all, that is what prayer is.
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π Hughie, noun.
π /ΛhjuΛi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Australian, New Zealand • informal): An imaginary being held to be responsible for the weather.
❗️ Examples:
1. More rain next week please, Hughie!
2. May the Weather-god Hughie rain on our BBQs.
3. Hughie, as you probably know, is the weather god, and this is a warning to those who go sailing: Beware of Hughie.
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π Bring something to bear, phrase.
❓ Definition: Exert influence or pressure so as to achieve a particular result.
❗️ Examples:
1. They brought pressure to bear on him to resign.
2. She had reservations about how much influence she could bring to bear.
3. And who, at this distance, can tell what pressures were brought to bear on ordinary citizens to make them conform.
4. NASA finally relented, but only after much pressure was brought to bear.
5. Another way that pressure can be brought to bear on offending nations is through economic sanctions.
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π Deem, verb.
π /diΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (formal • with object and complement): Regard or consider in a specified way.
❗️ Examples:
1. The event was deemed a great success.
2. The strike was deemed to be illegal.
3. At the same time, reports have emerged that the provincial government is making preparations to have the strike declared illegal by deeming it a public emergency.
4. Food was given between two and three stars with judges deeming the service to be slow at times.
5. In the event that scores are deemed to be level, a fourth round is contested to find an overall winner.
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π Avarice, noun.
π /Λav(Ι)rΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun): Extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
2. Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva.
3. The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up.
4. In a time when avarice and greed is epidemic, why is a belief system that targets desire and possessions as the cause of unhappiness drawing hundreds of new followers each year?
5. It's the roar of selfishness, greed, vanity, avarice, addiction, lust and pointless stupidity.
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π Unblown, adjective.
π /ΚnΛblΙΚn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (informal): (of a vehicle or its engine) not provided with a turbocharger.
❗️ Examples:
1. Two new-generation twin-cam engines, unblown and twin turbo.
2. It undercuts the unblown motor's 0-60 mph time by more than one second.
3. In the second round, Bates recorded the quickest pass for an unblown A/Fuel Dragster in VRA competition, a 6.504.
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π Money is the root of all evil, phrase.
❓ Definition (proverb): Avarice gives rise to selfish or wicked actions.
❗️ Examples:
1. Perhaps he should reflect on Timothy's words, ‘For the love of money is the root of all evil.’
2. Many people say that money is the root of all evil.
3. They're also taught at the same time, money is the root of all evil.
4. If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be bad.
5. Now he's talking about the old adage that money is the root of all evil.
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π Estate, noun.
π /ΙͺΛsteΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British): An extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.
❗️ Examples:
1. The grandparents then withdraw to another house on the family estate and cultivate their own land as long as they can.
2. These include extensive country estates at Emmersdorf and Mollenburg and a house in a top location in Vienna's city centre.
3. His family owns an estate in the country as well as a house in town and as eldest son he stands to inherit quite a tidy sum.
4. For 400 years it was the seat of the Tremayne family, an estate of over 1000 acres.
5. He owns a family estate in Mittagong, a south coast beach house, and a string of other investments.
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π Estate, noun.
π /ΙͺΛsteΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: All the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death.
❗️ Examples:
1. In his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter.
2. He is alleged to have taken money from the estates of ten deceased people, including a husband and wife over a ten-year period.
3. The cause of action is deemed to have subsisted before the death, allowing the claimant to sue the estate.
4. If he had done so, on his death his estate would have been entitled to a cash sum to be applied for the purchase of an annuity for his dependants.
5. The will of Dennis Reece provided that Anna receive all of his estate on his death.
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π Bachcha, noun.
π /ΛbΚtΚΙΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Indian • informal): A young person.
❗️ Examples:
1. Last spotted, he was at Scandal Point with two bachchas, eating fresh paneer cubes sprinkled with rock salt.
2. One fine day, he went out and bought them a whole new set - after all there were enough of the bachchas to make two teams so that they could play against each other.
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π Flatten the curve, phrase.
❓ Definition: Prevent a rate or quantity from greatly intensifying or increasing within a short time.
❗️ Examples:
1. Taking actions to slow the spread of this virus will flatten the curve and protect the vulnerable.
2. Excessive falls in bond yields will flatten the curve and erode pension funds.
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π Exempt, adjective.
π /ΙͺΙ‘ΛzΙm(p)t/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.
❗️ Examples:
1. These patients are exempt from all charges.
2. A tax-exempt savings plan.
3. The national department is to amend current exemption procedures and criteria later this year to ensure all those who cannot pay fees are duly exempt from doing so.
4. Book stores, corner stores and TV shops are also exempt from the bylaw.
5. As a middle-aged baby boomer, I am certainly not exempt from the wishes and dreams of the anti-aging movement.
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π Probate, noun.
π /ΛprΙΚbeΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun • count noun): The official proving of a will.
❗️ Examples:
1. The house has been valued for probate.
2. Finally there were courts administering family and probate matters, which had inherited their jurisdiction from the ecclesiastical courts, and the Court of Admiralty.
3. I do not accept that a rate ascertained in that way is a fair measure for a solicitor's hourly rate in dealing with a quite complicated probate matter.
4. A $20 million scam that involved a forged grant of administration from the High Court probate office has been reported to the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation.
5. Holding all the assets through an offshore company will greatly simplify this process, as the executors then only have to prove probate in the jurisdiction where the company was based.
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π Espy, verb.
π /ΙͺΛspΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (literary • with object): Catch sight of.
❗️ Examples:
1. She espied her daughter rounding the corner.
2. ‘I want that,’ my sister Molly says, espying my purchase.
3. We espy the professor and his assistant in the distance and amble over to them.
4. Later, I am in a supermarket, and I espy a former teacher whom I did not like.
5. If I espy a weed trying to masquerade as one of my plants I just yank it out.
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π The shape of things to come, phrase.
❓ Definition: The way the future is likely to develop.
❗️ Examples:
1. Unlike Agee, then, who was drawn to elegy, MartΓnez is drawn to prophecy: he sees the provinces as the future, the towns of CherΓ‘n and Warren as the shape of things to come.
2. Albeit clever, imaginative, notably fertile, this squeaky-voiced, scurrying little ladies' man, the prophet of the shape of things to come, fell short, in every sense, of his predecessor's measure.
3. Every day, a creation takes place as new uses, new mistakes, new copy is generated, each creating a new meaning for the shape of things to come.
4. For those of you living off-campus already, enjoy a stroll down memory lane; for the residents, beware of the shape of things to come.
5. He predicted no end to the poetic image, for the central aim of poetry is to insinuate the shape of things to come, and that is a perpetual process.
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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 • in singular): 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 Callipygian, adjective.
π /ΛkalΙͺΛpΙͺdΚΙͺΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (rare): Having well-shaped buttocks.
❗️ Examples:
1. The last thing I saw before I rolled the bike was the machine-gunner at Hyde Park Corner - a callipygian figure dominating the war memorial on the traffic island.
2. As a gentleman and scholar, he must rush to the defense of the brilliant, principled, and callipygian Jill.
3. The pictures appeared as the result of her discovery by a sharp-eyed prison surgeon in Brixton Jail, where the callipygian captain was temporarily detained a fortnight ago on a charge of bankruptcy.
4. She likes a designer who understands the beauty of the callipygian woman and isn't afraid to accentuate my most important asset.
5. I'm in search of a callipygian woman.
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π Once and for all, phrase.
❓ Definition: Now and for the last time; finally.
❗️ Examples:
1. It is better to strengthen your determination and stop smoking once for all rather than slowing it down.
2. I'd appreciate any information which serves to conclude this dispute once and for all.
3. Several months earlier he had still been despairing over the work and no doubt wondering whether another seizure would leave him speechless once for all.
4. This is one issue that residents and pedestrians would like to see completed once and for all.
5. If there had ever been any doubters, they were silenced once and for all.
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π Next of kin, noun.
❓ Definition (treated as singular or plural): A person's closest living relative or relatives.
❗️ Examples:
1. The police notified the next of kin.
2. The driver's name was being withheld until police could notify next of kin.
3. People worried about who would be notified as their next of kin in case of medical emergency are being urged to carry a new card to avoid confusion.
4. He said next of kin would be notified before the man's identity was released.
5. The British embassy in Manila said it could not confirm details until it had notified the next of kin.
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π Viral, adjective.
π /ΛvΚΙͺr(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulated rapidly and widely from one internet user to another.
❗️ Examples:
1. A viral ad campaign.
2. The video went viral and was seen by millions.
3. The resulting viral spread of hype ensured that their debut album became the fastest selling record in British history.
4. In fact the email is not viral, but the product of an online marketing initiative run by the e-card company.
5. Weblogs are a viral medium of expression, spread by contact with webloggers.
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π Ecorat, noun.
π /ΛΙkΙΚrat/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (Australian • informal): An economic rationalist.
❗️ Examples:
1. For the ecorats, the welfare state is basically the problem.
2. These issues festered in the 1990s in a climate of tally-ho reform, led by an ecorat.
3. The rabid ecorats have already spent how much to try to stop this mining company?
4. If you are an ecorat like him, you convert the differences in children's outcomes to a dollar cost.
5. Ecorats believe that public intervention in markets in the name of equity or social citizenship rights is counterproductive.
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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 Vitally, adverb.
π /ΛvΚΙͺt(Ι)li/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: In a way that is absolutely necessary or essential.
❗️ Examples:
1. They depend vitally on government subsidies.
2. The music plays a vitally important role.
3. He argued that the Bank's zero interest rate policy was precluding vitally required economic restructuring.
4. They are consulted on every issue that vitally affects the country.
5. What is so enjoyable about this is seeing him come into his own, and make a vitally valid contribution to music.
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π Underdog, noun.
π /ΛΚndΙdΙΙ‘/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A competitor thought to have little chance of winning a fight or contest.
❗️ Examples:
1. We go into this game as the underdogs.
2. In his lifetime, he became a symbol of courage to a deprived country, the underdog in all his fights and still coming out on top.
3. We are all on the same side, underdogs fighting against social and environmental oppression.
4. The underdogs in any fight usually prepare body and mind meticulously before stepping into the ring.
5. My vote was giving the underdog a chance; it was a sympathy vote.
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π Scrummy, adjective.
π /ΛskrΚmi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (British • informal): Delicious.
❗️ Examples:
1. You can eat scrummy treats such as ice cream.
2. It's scrummy Sean Bean playing photography lecturer Paul.
3. I served it for dinner, to accompany some absolutely scrummy, more delicious than you can imagine, Lamb Crepinettes with Cumin, Mint and Orange Zest that I had in the freezer.
4. Our waiter suggested a vegetable side dish for us - potatoes with chick peas, which proved to be an excellent choice: the potatoes were fall-away soft and thoroughly scrummy.
5. I am more than happy to play and experiment with this one a few more times before I can share a more solid recipe for this most yummy of scrummy English desserts.
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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 Blurred, adjective.
π /blΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Unable to see or be seen clearly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Blurred vision.
2. The camera caught only two blurred images.
3. We certainly wouldn't be trying to emulate people with blurred vision.
4. The darkness was unworldly, he thought; objects blurred into each other, colors shifted to become unnatural.
5. Symptoms included nausea, vertigo, headaches and blurred vision.
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π Carefree, adjective.
π /ΛkΙΛfriΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Free from anxiety or responsibility.
❗️ Examples:
1. We were young and carefree.
2. The carefree days of the holidays.
3. I'd watched the small children splash around in the sea, so carefree and free from responsibility.
4. The summer is generally associated with being a bright, happy and carefree time of year.
5. It was really nice, sunny weather and these songs remind me of a carefree, happy time in my life.
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π Gi, noun.
π /Ι‘iΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The loose white jacket worn in judo.
❗️ Examples:
1. Inside, people trickled onto a long, white canvas mat dressed in white gis (traditional martial arts uniforms) and white belts.
2. Clip them onto strategic places on the gis of the students (end of sleeve, elbow, ankles, knees, lapel, back of neck, etc.)
3. Competitions in this sport resemble Brazilian Jiu-jitsu competitions, although competitors do not usually wear gis.
4. Seven men in gis stand around him, in attack poses.
5. They were dressed in their gis, having just finished training.
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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 Rucksack, noun.
π /ΛrΚksak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A bag with shoulder straps which allow it to be carried on someone's back, typically made of a strong, waterproof material and widely used by hikers.
❗️ Examples:
1. In addition, no bags, rucksacks & backpacks larger than eight inches square will be allowed beyond the ticketing and security checkpoints or into the grounds of the Belfry.
2. He was carrying a small rucksack and a small green carrier bag.
3. He was wearing a green jacket and dark coloured waterproof trousers and had been carrying a grey rucksack.
4. On the other side, the backpackers, tanned and fit, casually shoulder their rucksacks and adjust their sunglasses.
5. Once all the cash has been collected, it will also be used to purchase necessary items such as rucksacks to carry the equipment, training manuals and oxygen cylinders.
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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 Viridescent, adjective.
π /ΛvΙͺrΙͺΛdΙs(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (literary): Greenish or becoming green.
❗️ Examples:
1. Viridescent vegetation.
2. Meanwhile, beyond the village peripheries, the Welsh hills were getting greener and greener - that iridescent, viridescent green that looks so wonderful on sunny days.
3. New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
4. Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
5. Its body is albino and it has an intricate viridescent camouflage.
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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 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 Nyctophobia, noun.
π /ΛnΙͺktΙ(Κ)ΛfΙΚbΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition (mass noun): Extreme or irrational fear of the night or of darkness.
❗️ Examples:
1. Other standard phobias are nyctophobia, a fear of the dark, and ochlophobia a fear of crowds, from the Greek words for night and crowd respectively.
2. For nyctophobia, try facing the darkness with another person that brings a feeling of safety, such as a parent or good friend.
3. Nyctophobia is mostly present in young children, and starts out with night terrors and a healthy fear of the boogeyman.
4. The American Medical Association believes adult Ncytophobia is very rare and usually treatable with hypnosis and believe it or not, yes prescription drugs.
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