Cambridge Dictionary:
π Premise, verb.
π /ΛprΙmΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: State by way of introduction.
❗️ Examples:
1. I will premise generally that I hate lecturing
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π Frustrated, adjective.
❓ Definition: annoyed, disappointed, or discouraged
❗️ Examples:
1. You just get so frustrated when everything in your vegetable garden is ripe and then the bugs get at them.
2. Frustrated residents protested the situation.
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π Superior, adjective (C1).
π /suΛΛpΙͺΙ.ri.Ι(r)/ π¬π§ /sΙΛpΙͺr.i.Ι/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: better than average or better than other people or things of the same type
❗️ Examples:
1. This is clearly the work of a superior artist.
2. She was chosen for the job because she was the superior candidate.
3. For babies, breastfeeding is superior to bottle-feeding.
4. The government troops were superior in numbers (= there were more of them).
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π Lane, noun.
π /leΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in tenpin bowling) a long, narrow strip of floor down which the ball is bowled.
❗️ Examples:
1. A maximum of six people can play on a lane at any one time
2. In the last issue, we reviewed the terms and definitions for bowling balls, lanes, and lane play.
3. They come in handy when you need to cream some extra traction between your bowling ball and the lane.
4. I am having problems picking out the right type of bowling ball for heavily oiled lanes.
5. You might think that bowling is as simple as a lane, a ball, and an approach, right?
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π Suit, verb.
π /sut/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: To suit also means to make someone look more attractive
❗️ Examples:
1. That new hairstyle really suits you – you look terrific.
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π Accommodation, noun.
π /ΙkΙmΙΛdeΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Accommodation to a separate political entity was not possible
2. Different sets of rights were extended at different periods and this represented a process of gradual accommodation to mass demands.
3. Incoming migrants from rural areas often discard marked dialect forms as part of the process of accommodation to urban speech ways.
4. This process of accommodation to a western audience may be termed occidisation.
5. Analysis involved teacher/researcher and student reflections on the course in a continuous process of accommodation to scaffold learning.
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π Will, noun.
π /wΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The thing that one desires or ordains.
❗️ Examples:
1. Jane tells St. John that she could marry him if she only knew it was God's will
2. Instead, they explain that all humans have wills and desires, and it should not be surprising that infants also express theirs.
3. They are enacting their own selfish wills, and teaching us to do the same.
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π Metaphor, noun.
π /ΛmΙtΙfΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
❗️ Examples:
1. When we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic metaphor
2. Her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor
3. Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor.
4. It is his method of organising words, images and metaphors to create the particular effect he seeks to achieve.
5. Her daily speech is sprinkled with metaphors and witty turns of phrase.
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π Joint, noun.
π /dΚΙΙͺnt/ π¬π§ /dΚΙΙͺnt/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: a piece of meat for cooking, usually containing a bone
❗️ Examples:
1. Fry four chicken joints in a pan with some mushrooms and garlic.
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π Case, noun.
π /keΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law.
❗️ Examples:
1. A libel case
2. A former employee brought the case against the council
3. The Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors may bring the case back to court if his health improves.
4. Ten minutes later a power failure in the High Court brought the manslaughter case to a stop.
5. There are very few important cases decided by this Court that don't offend somebody.
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π Hold, verb.
π /hΙΚld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Keep or sustain in a specified position.
❗️ Examples:
1. I held the door open for him
2. A woman claimed she felt herself being held down as she came round from an operation.
3. He sniffed haughtily, holding open the door for them and watching as they shuffled past.
4. The security men were holding back the crowd to let the shaken minister and the officials get into a waiting car.
5. Firefighters from Leigh, Hadleigh and Southend were held back by the intense heat and smoke as they tried to battle the blaze.
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π Affluence, noun.
π /ΛaflΚΙns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state of having a great deal of money; wealth.
❗️ Examples:
1. A sign of our growing affluence
2. Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them.
3. The era was also one of prosperity and affluence, an era of material plenty.
4. Much greater wealth is concentrated in ever-decreasing numbers of centres of affluence.
5. A decade of affluence and stability has created a backlash.
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π Height, noun.
π /hΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Elevation above ground or a recognized level (typically sea level)
❗️ Examples:
1. The glider is gaining height
2. Climate is in turn controlled not only by latitude but also by height above sea level.
3. Consider, first, a fairly crude altimeter, a device used for measuring altitude or height above sea level.
4. It is a long way, and the average height above sea level is more than 2000 metres.
5. In 1962, tidal levels reached 3.01m above ordnance data level, the height above sea level.
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π Follow, verb.
π /ΛfΙlΙΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) do something after (something else)
❗️ Examples:
1. They follow their March show with four UK dates next month
2. He follows with an account of the place of corn in the Atlantic slave trade.
3. Stojakovic followed with his trade demand after the Kings let go of his good friend Vlade Divac.
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π Area, noun (B2).
❓ Definition: a subject or activity, or a part of it
❗️ Examples:
1. Marketing is Paul's area.
2. Software is not really my area of expertise.
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π Front, verb.
π /frΚnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Present or host (a television or radio programme)
❗️ Examples:
1. She is set to front a new BBC show
2. Kelly Brook is a presenter who has fronted programmes on MTV.
3. Presenter Brian Morton, who fronts Radio Scotland's nightly arts programme, The Brian Morton Show, is to leave the station.
4. Graham's used to fronting his own television programme and has had audiences in stitches with his live stand-up, but can he cut it live on BBC ONE, or will he be just a little bit scared?
5. The role of news anchor is perhaps the most iconic in US TV, its grand status stemming from the days of the legendary Cronkite, who, as the undisputed star of television news, fronted the CBS programme for decades.
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π Hack, verb.
π /hak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Kick wildly or roughly.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand
2. The way they're both playing tonight there's only ever going to be one winner of that contest, and the Liverpool centre-half hacks the ball clear.
3. In this physical game, the Africans hacked Diego Maradona all day.
4. Boston almost scored when a Jason Lee header from Danny Thomas' cross was hacked off the line by Baraclough.
5. His header was hacked off the goal line as Kendal looked to double their lead.
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π Help, noun.
π /hΙlp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of helping someone to do something.
❗️ Examples:
1. I asked for help from my neighbours
2. She gives advice, guidance, help, and motivation to her students at City College.
3. All of you provided me with invaluable help and advice that aided me to gain my first year certificate with a Merit pass.
4. The FBI has also been too reluctant in the past to accept help or advice from other security services.
5. So tonight, I ask for your help in encouraging your representatives to support my plan.
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π Affluence, noun.
π /ΛaflΚΙns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state of having a great deal of money; wealth.
❗️ Examples:
1. A sign of our growing affluence
2. Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them.
3. The era was also one of prosperity and affluence, an era of material plenty.
4. Much greater wealth is concentrated in ever-decreasing numbers of centres of affluence.
5. A decade of affluence and stability has created a backlash.
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π Office, noun.
π /ΛΙfΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The quarters, staff, or collective authority of a particular government department or agency.
❗️ Examples:
1. The Foreign Office
2. The Laois Youth Theatre is an initiative of the Arts Office, Laois County Council.
3. This was reprinted with kind permission of the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
4. The performance is promoted by the Arts Office of Laois County Council.
5. He is Institutional Affairs AttachΓ© at the Quebec Government Office in London.
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π Colour, noun.
π /ΛkΚlΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Features that lend a particularly interesting quality to something.
❗️ Examples:
1. A town full of colour and character
2. Westport is the tidiest town in Ireland, a place full of character and colour, where tidiness and beauty are the norm, or so it seems.
3. A cascade of novels and films featuring the colour and spice of the country has made its way onto bookshelves and into movie houses.
4. Good conversation features colloquialisms, colour and the natural rhythm of speech.
5. Her latest thriller is full of life, colour and character.
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π Release, noun.
π /rΙͺΛliΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The action of releasing property, money, or a right to another.
❗️ Examples:
1. I have been advised by my bank manager that any release of money needs to be authorised by the solicitors who initiated the freezing injunction.
2. The third benefit for Mrs Smith was her husband's release of property claims.
3. There was no deed of release, no terms of settlement; your client just accepted that money, and, presumably there is some rule of court that deals with that.
4. By cross-motion the plaintiff sought a declaration that the settlement and final release were void.
5. Only if that settlement and release is set aside would it be open to the plaintiff to re-litigate those issues.
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π Couple, verb.
❓ Definition: to join or combine
❗️ Examples:
1. The sleeping car and restaurant car were coupled together.
2. High inflation coupled with low output spells disaster for the government in the election.
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π Flower, noun.
π /ΛflaΚΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state or period in which a plant's flowers have developed and opened.
❗️ Examples:
1. The roses were just coming into flower
2. Bulbs planted late in winter come into flower in early summer.
3. Tubers were harvested on August 17, just as the plants were coming into flower and before the tubers were fully mature.
4. And every summer the threat to livestock increases as the plant comes into flower in its millions.
5. Nor are cherries the only plants bursting into flower; camellia, iris, lotus and mustard flowers are abundant.
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π Predicate, noun.
π /Λpred.Ιͺ.kΙt/ π¬π§ /Λpred.Ι.kΙt/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: in grammar, the part of a sentence that contains the verb and gives information about the subject
❗️ Examples:
1. In the sentence "We went to the airport", "went to the airport" is the predicate.
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π Limpid, adjective.
π /ΛlΙͺmpΙͺd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a liquid) completely clear and transparent.
❗️ Examples:
1. The limpid waters of the Caribbean
2. Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.
3. They would converge on the place each summer, moor their yachts in the limpid waters off Capriccioli or Cala di Volpe, and take it in turns to host parties on board or on beach.
4. If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall.
5. The anchor dropped through 20 ft of limpid water and we slipped over the side to swim and snorkel before lunch.
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π Carry, verb.
π /Λkari/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be pregnant with.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was carrying twins
2. But first lets get an update on our baby twins who were carried by a surrogate.
3. I was carrying a bigger baby than in my previous pregnancies.
4. He is a good friend of the couple and is the father of the twins the woman is carrying by in vitro fertilization.
5. According to their testimony, they didn't want to have the twins she was carrying.
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π Engine, noun.
π /Λen.dΚΙͺn/ π¬π§ /Λen.dΚΙͺn/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: something that provides power, often economic power, for other things
❗️ Examples:
1. For much of the 19th century Britain was the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth.
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π Hall, noun.
π /hΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A corridor or area on to which rooms open.
❗️ Examples:
1. She tiptoed quietly to her room down the hall and opened the door; she looked around.
2. Just as they reached the door, the room across the hall opened up, and an older couple came out.
3. I walked out of my room and down the hall, opening the door that was two doors down from his.
4. Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room.
5. Trying to knock down the bedroom door with the skillet, I was able to see another door opening across the hall.
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π Poll, noun.
π /pΙΚl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A hornless animal, especially one of a breed of hornless cattle.
❗️ Examples:
1. A poll goat is one that is naturally hornless ie. it will never grow horns without needing to be disbudded.
2. The black-faced poll-sheep have the shortest legs and the finest wool.
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π Hatch, verb.
π /hΓ¦tΚ/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to break an egg so a baby animal can come out
❗️ Examples:
1. The birds hatched out the next afternoon.
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π Arrangement, noun.
❓ Definition: a plan for how the parts of a piece of music can be played by a particular instrument or instruments
❗️ Examples:
1. An arrangement for trumpet and cello
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π Evanescent, adjective.
π /ΙvΙΛnΙs(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
❗️ Examples:
1. The evanescent Arctic summer
2. It was evanescent, fading just as quickly as it had appeared, and translucent to begin with.
3. This parallel love story clearly relays the obvious frustration that Noah felt due to his wife's evanescent memory and his tender love for her.
4. Next to these markers, family and lived events can seem evanescent, fugitive, and unreal, because memories of them are neither ubiquitous nor collectively shared.
5. However, this sceptical triumph is evanescent, it vanishes when his attention turns to other facts.
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π Hang, verb.
π /haΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Be adorned with (pictures or other decorations)
❗️ Examples:
1. The walls of her hall were hung with examples of her work
2. His walls were hung with pictures of himself.
3. The room was hung with pictures of pastoral scenes and paintings inspired by the cult of Isis, who is symbolized by a cow.
4. Stateley and bright, the entire hall was hung with banners, and in the right-hand corner of the room musicians played on hand-drum, pipe and lute, creating an atmosphere both festive and patriotic.
5. The front hall was hung with magnificent tapestries.
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π Hack, noun.
π /hak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A ride on a horse.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sunday is also unofficially Kids Day and there will more horse events including junior hacks and riding classes as well as some fun prizes for the prettiest mare and handsomest colt in the gala ring.
2. One favoured method of working off excess energy before a work out or a hack is to lunge the horse for a short period before mounting.
3. Bally seemed content with her new role: grazing the field was interrupted by the odd hack out, and then back to eating.
4. My horse actually got a scab on her leg from a hack and I've spent the last four days at the barn treating it and of course, riding!
5. Lessons continued in her 21-horse centre, but the country hacks, popular with tourists, have stopped, bringing a massive loss of business.
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π Change, noun.
π /tΚeΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The substitution of one thing for another.
❗️ Examples:
1. We need a change of government
2. The change of venue was only notified on polling cards, which were issued last week.
3. I work all day, so cannot pick up the email to notify me of the change of venue.
4. People are asked to please take note of the temporary change of venue for the meeting.
5. All those who have already applied for tickets will be contacted and notified of the change of venue.
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π Stick, verb.
π /stΙͺk/ π¬π§ /stΙͺk/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to put something somewhere, especially in a not very careful way
❗️ Examples:
1. "Where shall I put these books?" "Oh, just stick them on the table for now."
2. She stuck her fingers in her ears so that she couldn't hear the noise.
3. I'll pay for lunch - I can stick it on my expenses.
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π Word, noun.
π /wΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A promise or assurance.
❗️ Examples:
1. Everything will be taken care of—you have my word
2. We can only do our best to hold the administration to its word.
3. When the waitress arrives, Beanie's mother remains true to her word and orders only coffee.
4. It is important that they be so, for science needs good communicators whose word can be trusted.
5. The critical issue is whether a university's word can be trusted - and on current evidence it cannot.
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π Thought, noun.
π /ΞΈΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An intention, hope, or idea of doing or receiving something.
❗️ Examples:
1. He had given up all thoughts of making London his home
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π Sibling, noun.
π /ΛsΙͺblΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.
❗️ Examples:
1. I do not know if there were any other siblings or if their parents had any brothers or sisters.
2. The emphasis was on caring for the sick brother or sister and often the sibling got left in the shadows.
3. He joins his parents and siblings for breakfast, basic roti and pumpkin with a cup of tea.
4. This pattern is matched by the way in which the siblings of one's parents are named.
5. Her name was included on that list together with her parents and siblings.
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π Squint, verb.
π /skwΙͺnt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Partly close (one's eyes) in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light.
❗️ Examples:
1. He squinted sleepy eyes against the sudden light
2. Ivya grew closer and closer, squinting her eyes to make out the figure.
3. The door slammed closed and he squinted his eyes against the pain.
4. Stifling a cry, I squinted my eyes closed and bit my lower lip.
5. He hadn't noticed how close his face was to the soft paper as he squinted his eyes to read the scripted writing.
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π Taxi, noun.
π /Λtaksi/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in South Africa) a light vehicle, especially a minibus, transporting passengers along a fixed route for a set fare but not operating to a timetable.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sir, presently, I have noticed that many operators of mini buses, taxis and buses do not maintain and submit books of accounts and hence do not pay appropriate tax.
2. At present, the City collects user fees from minibus taxi and bus operators.
3. A man died and six passengers were severely injured when a car and a minibus taxi collided here on Wednesday night.
4. Kinshasa began returning to normal on Monday, with shops reopening and fleets of taxis and buses operating as normal.
5. The vehicle was apparently mistaken for a minibus taxi.
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π Through, adjective.
π /ΞΈruΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (with reference to public transport) continuing or valid to the final destination.
❗️ Examples:
1. A through train from London
2. The first through train leaves at 8:45.
3. Through trains from Hull to Manchester Airport will run as far as Manchester Piccadilly.
4. Through trains for returning holidaymakers will run from most holiday centres on July 3.
5. Surely there should be a few through trains from Bromley North.
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π Regard, verb.
π /rΙͺΛΙ‘ΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Consider or think of in a specified way.
❗️ Examples:
1. She regarded London as her base
2. He was highly regarded by senators of both parties
3. None of those matters elaborated can possibly be regarded as irrelevant considerations.
4. I regard this statement of considerable importance; it sets the background against which it is crucial to consider the issues in the case.
5. I have set that part of the judgment out in detail because I regard it as of considerable importance.
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π Headline, verb.
❓ Definition: to be the most famous or important performer or speaker to take part in an event
❗️ Examples:
1. Since last year, she has headlined at least 32 fundraising events.
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π Take, verb.
π /teΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Experience or be affected by.
❗️ Examples:
1. The lad took a savage beating
2. He has not stopped scoring since and all this after taking a 75 per cent pay cut when he moved to Hanover.
3. To answer the first question we have to ask ourselves who actually takes offence at receiving Christmas cards?
4. But the slight decline in revenue is good news compared to the loss Sun took in the quarter.
5. For someone purporting to live in Cumbria he takes a very keen interest in our city…
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π Newcomer, noun.
π /ΛnjuΛkΚmΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person who has recently arrived in a place.
❗️ Examples:
1. She's a newcomer to the area
2. There can be legitimate objections, as well as xenophobic ones, to a large number of newcomers arriving in a certain area.
3. Their bus was welcomed just like at any other time when newcomers arrived.
4. We must say goodbye to our friends and colleagues and prepare for the newcomers arriving soon.
5. But that's what happens when newcomers arrive with promise and a family pedigree.
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π Stigma, noun.
π /ΛstΙͺΙ‘mΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.
❗️ Examples:
1. The stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me
2. Debt has lost its stigma and is now a part of everyday life
3. There is no longer any social stigma attached to soft drug use, and the statistics bear this out.
4. The aim is to remove the social stigma attached to the disease.
5. Flynn says that she and the team were determined to remove the stigma attached to working away from the office.
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π That, pronoun.
π /Γ°at/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used instead of ‘which’, ‘who’, ‘whom’, or ‘when’ to introduce a defining clause, especially one essential to identification.
❗️ Examples:
1. The woman that owns the place
2. The book that I've just written
3. The year that Anna was born
4. We all hear about things that go on and generally it is the same people involved over and over.
5. After a few hours of working in silence I heard a sound that immediately awoke my mind.
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π Hack, noun.
π /hak/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An inferior or worn-out horse.
❗️ Examples:
1. Having escaped serious injury throughout his racing career, Tommy was lamed for life through a fall from his hack while riding to the post office in the Curragh Camp.
2. A smart trainer at Newmarket will ride out on the Heath on his hack, which may be a sumptuous former racehorse.
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π Dishonor, noun.
π /disΛΓ€nΙr/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A state of shame or disgrace.
❗️ Examples:
1. They have brought dishonor upon our family
2. I am looked upon with disgrace and dishonor because of my past.
3. The Kels, who had always welcomed me as one of them, felt I had brought deep dishonor upon their people.
4. Every record I can find seems to think this was unjust, but the monks were intent upon his dishonour, for they blamed him.
5. I would never willfully visit dishonor upon our house, but I will not abandon them.
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π While, conjunction.
π /wΚΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Whereas (indicating a contrast)
❗️ Examples:
1. One person wants out, while the other wants the relationship to continue
2. Danny Slatter has signed a one-year contract, while Russell Edwards has been released.
3. Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying.
4. Spain is increasing the size of its fishing fleet while ours is contracting.
5. This indicates that expression of the transgene occurs in tubers while the endogene seems to be silent.
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π Merely, adverb (B2).
π /ΛmΙͺΙ.li/ π¬π§ /ΛmΙͺr.li/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: used to emphasize that you mean exactly what you are saying and nothing more
❗️ Examples:
1. I wasn't complaining, I merely said that I was tired.
2. I didn't say that you had to go - I merely suggested that you might want to go.
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π Spark, noun.
π /spΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A small fiery particle thrown off from a fire, alight in ashes, or produced by striking together two hard surfaces such as stone or metal.
❗️ Examples:
1. A log fire was sending sparks on to the rug
2. Angry sparks were flashing in her eyes
3. Two stones rubbed themselves together and a spark lit and a fire was kindled on the wood piece.
4. She shaded her eyes and crouched beside him, the fire crackling and sending sparks into the morning air.
5. The Duke threw his piece of meat into the fire, causing sparks, and got up.
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π Something, pronoun.
π /ΛsΚmΞΈΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thing that is unspecified or unknown.
❗️ Examples:
1. We stopped for something to eat
2. I knew something terrible had happened
3. Something about her frightened me
4. Probably would be a good idea to stop for something to eat and drink after this, get some energy back.
5. They had stopped at a service station, had something to eat and still caught up with us!
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π Revenge, noun.
π /rΙͺΛvΙn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (in sporting contexts) the defeat of a person or team by whom one was beaten in a previous encounter.
❗️ Examples:
1. Zimbabwe snatched the game 18–16, but the Spanish had their revenge later
2. Bucks were outplayed by Silver Stars who took revenge for a previous defeat.
3. For Eriksson there is some hope of sporting revenge over the man whose Brazil side won the 2002 World Cup quarter-final meeting.
4. This should be a cracking encounter with Enniscrone seeking revenge for last year's defeat by Calry in the quarter final of the competition.
5. Keighley travel to Sheffield a week on Sunday looking for revenge for two defeats at the Don Valley Stadium last season.
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π Nigh, adverb, preposition, adjective.
π /nΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Near.
❗️ Examples:
1. The end is nigh
2. They drew nigh unto the city
3. Thus, my look and in depth coverage of Roman cuisine draws nigh to a close.
4. I suppose time will tell what happens as the date draws nigh.
5. But with Election Day drawing nigh once more, guess who is promising what once again?
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π Management, noun.
❓ Definition: the group of people responsible for controlling and organizing a company
❗️ Examples:
1. Management has/have offered staff a three percent pay increase.
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π Triumph, verb.
π /ΛtrΚΙͺΚmf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Rejoice or exult at a victory or success.
❗️ Examples:
1. She stopped triumphing over Mrs Ward's failure
2. I closed the drawer, I hopped and gloated and laughed, triumphing, completely maniacal, demoniac.
3. Listeners will be invited to stroll down memory lane this week as the station celebrates its 15 years at this frequency with special programming triumphing their contribution to the local listening scene.
4. As usual, under such circumstances in the country, they triumphed a little too soon.
5. The orators who had advocated the war loudly triumphed in the seeming fulfilment of their sanguine predictions.
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π Start, verb.
π /stΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Use a particular point, action, or circumstance as an opening for a course of action.
❗️ Examples:
1. The teacher can start by capitalizing on children's curiosity
2. I shall start with the case you mention first
3. So if you want to have a crack at rockabilly, you can start with a few free lyrics and chords from the band's albums.
4. Can you start by introducing yourself and the core members of the development team?
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π Jocular, adjective.
π /ΛdΚΙkjΚlΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful.
❗️ Examples:
1. She sounded in a jocular mood
2. His voice was jocular
3. Harmless jokes or jocular winking at the workplace can lead to activation of such guidelines.
4. It takes talent to transform a joke into a jocular jewel and the cast of the Mad Mission movies succeeds time and time again.
5. Dublin had just demolished Donegal and he was in particularly jocular mood.
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π Swallow, verb.
π /ΛswΙl.ΙΚ/ π¬π§ /ΛswΙΛ.loΚ/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to use or take away a large part of something valuable
❗️ Examples:
1. Taxes have swallowed up nearly half of my pay increase.
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π Solid, adjective (C2).
π /ΛsΙl.Ιͺd/ π¬π§ /ΛsΙΛ.lΙͺd/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: certain or safe; of a good standard; giving confidence or support
❗️ Examples:
1. This provided solid evidence that he committed the crime.
2. The drama course gives students a solid grounding in the basic techniques of acting.
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π That, conjunction.
π /Γ°at/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Expressing a result.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was so tired that she couldn't think
2. The result is that you pay too much tax in the months before your birthday and too little in the months after.
3. It's all over and above contract, but the result is that kids here tend to be a bit more respectful.
4. The result is that he resolves to return to his true calling: the writing of fiction.
5. The result is that it takes longer to adjust to a shock and requires a stronger policy response.
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π Land, verb.
π /land/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)
❗️ Examples:
1. His exploits always landed him in trouble
2. This ambivalence toward their own goals in life can land them in difficult situations.
3. That lands you in a really difficult scientific problem.
4. It is less about the theatre production and more about the actors, their history and how it landed them in this current situation.
5. Their actions land them in one situation after another that manages to be contrived and clichΓ©d at the same time.
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π Swish, verb.
π /swΙͺΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move with a hissing or rushing sound.
❗️ Examples:
1. A car swished by
2. Serial lights illuminated the trees and the gentle sounds of water swishing in the swimming pool, formed the perfect backdrop for the kebabs and the many side dishes that went with them.
3. But at the moment, I am content to sit here and listen to the cars swishing through the water outside my windows.
4. We go around in anoraks and bicycle clips while they swish through in large cars.
5. Then what sounded like tennis shoes swishing through shallow water (I never had the courage to swim in water more than a foot deep) startled me.
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π Word, noun.
π /wΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Even the smallest amount of something spoken or written.
❗️ Examples:
1. Don't believe a word of it
2. No matter how many experts you throw at them, they won't believe a word spoken by them.
3. Steve's unchanged expression showed that he didn't believe a word Miles had just spoken.
4. The people who know me well don't believe a word of what is written by the media.
5. More than a decade after her fall from power, there are still ordinary, otherwise sane people who wouldn't hear a word spoken against her.
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π Mile, noun.
π /mΚΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A very long way or a very great amount.
❗️ Examples:
1. Vistas which stretch for miles
2. This is my favourite film by a mile
3. It's my favourite album of the year by miles and miles.
4. Apart from The West Wing, it's the best thing on television by miles and miles.
5. The guitar was the 20th century's most popular instrument by miles.
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π Color, noun.
π /ΛkΙlΙr/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Rosiness or redness of the face as an indication of health or of embarrassment, anger, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. There was some color back in his face
2. Color flooded her skin as she realized what he meant
3. Quinn wheezed with embarrassment as color rushed to her face.
4. Laurel smiled deeply and a healthy, warm color flooded her face.
5. Mrs Grimshaw's face began to flood with intense colour.
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π Wide, adverb.
❓ Definition: to the greatest degree possible; completely
❗️ Examples:
1. I was wide awake.
2. The dentist said, "Open wide."
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π Leave, verb.
π /liΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Remain to be used or dealt with.
❗️ Examples:
1. We've even got one of the Christmas puddings left over from last year
2. A retired person with no mortgage left to pay
3. Any sum that happens to be left over when a child reaches maturity is not liable to tax.
4. The four cards that are left over at the end of the deal are set aside until the end of the hand.
5. This compromise gives more certainty that more money will be left over for residents in the two areas.
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π Exertion, noun.
π /ΙͺΙ‘ΛzΙΛΚn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The application of a force, influence, or quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. The exertion of authority
2. It feels spindly, as if it will break with exertion of more force.
3. I rolled my eyes, giving into his exertion of force, and following him down the street back home.
4. I could actually feel my entire body just sink along with my mattress, from his exertion of force.
5. I become adept in my own sphere of influence and exertion, at peace and without fear.
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π Substandard, adjective.
π /sΚbΛstandΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Below the usual or required standard.
❗️ Examples:
1. Substandard housing
2. Families live in housing that is considered substandard by Western or Kenyan standards.
3. In the country's capital city, Santo Domingo, much of the housing is substandard and the quality of the water is poor.
4. The vast majority of the affected in San Salvador are poor inhabitants of apartment buildings and substandard housing.
5. It is meant to discover which areas have substandard housing and need federal help.
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π Hold, verb.
π /hΙΚld/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Consider (someone) to be responsible or liable for a particular situation.
❗️ Examples:
1. You can't hold yourself responsible for what happened
2. He holds the lawyer responsible for the death of his sister.
3. It's time to hold our elected officials responsible for what's happening in our hospitals.
4. Nor can he be held entirely responsible for the inadequacy of the flood defences, despite a specific warning well in advance.
5. They did not hold their doctors responsible for what they perceived to be a consequence of the scarcity of resources in the NHS.
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π Sweat, verb.
π /swΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of chopped vegetables) be cooked slowly in a pan with a small amount of fat.
❗️ Examples:
1. Let the chopped onion sweat gently for five minutes
2. Cover the pot with a lid so the vegetables sweat and soften without colouring, then pour in the stock and bring to the boil.
3. Vegetables are allowed to sweat and cook in their own moisture and the results are remarkable.
4. Put the lid on and, keeping the heat low, allow the vegetables to sweat gently and release their juices - this should take about 10 minutes.
5. Heat the oil in a pan, add the squash and sweat gently for four to five minutes.
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π Result, verb.
π /rΙͺΛzΚlt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have (a specified outcome)
❗️ Examples:
1. Talks in July had resulted in stalemate
2. The group continues to generate cash and a new warehouse will result in significant cost savings.
3. Self-management promotes worker responsibility and results in workers taking on a higher workload.
4. This method of calculating payments results in higher costs should you repay your loan early.
5. Less friction results in less effort involved in sliding the mouse across the surface.
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π Stress, verb.
π /stres/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to give special importance or emphasis to something
❗️ Examples:
1. I’d like to stress the differences between our opinions.
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π Carry, noun.
π /Λkari/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An act of running or rushing with the ball.
❗️ Examples:
1. And the running game struggled again as the two running backs averaged 2.8 yards a carry.
2. He led the NFL with 403 carries last year, a pace that will eventually burn him out.
3. He is a confident individual that only fumbled the ball three times over 233 carries in 2001.
4. Yet, any good running back needs to get plenty of carries in succession to get a rhythm and gets better as the game stretches on.
5. He ended up with four touchdowns in his first 15 carries.
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π Race, noun.
π /reΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A strong or rapid current flowing through a narrow channel in the sea or a river.
❗️ Examples:
1. Angling for tuna in turbulent tidal races
2. It is this submerged reef that causes fierce surges of current in the tide races in the area.
3. The rescue proved timely, as the area is prone to large tidal races.
4. The Crew dropped anchor in the hope of keeping out of the tide race, which is very strong between the Isle of Eynhallow and Mainland.
5. The dhow exits the lagoon just after low tide, going against the now-incoming current but avoiding the tidal race that forms on an outgoing tide.
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π Elegance, noun.
π /ΛelΙΙ‘Ιns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
❗️ Examples:
1. A slender woman with grace and elegance
2. Next to him, Kitako is the picture of refined country elegance.
3. You really have to see the spiral wheel turn to appreciate its elegance.
4. The blond had a classic look to her, with German features, an elegance about her.
5. You need to be able to lose with elegance.
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π Appearance, noun.
❓ Definition: the act of becoming noticeable or the fact of being present
❗️ Examples:
1. It was his first television appearance.
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π Estate, noun.
π /ΙͺΛsteΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A particular state, period, or condition in life.
❗️ Examples:
1. Programmes for the improvement of man's estate
2. The holy estate of matrimony
3. However they might differ on other issues, all the reformers vigorously defended the honourable estate of matrimony.
4. How I dread preaching on the estate of marriage!
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π Move, verb.
π /muΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (with reference to merchandise) sell or be sold.
❗️ Examples:
1. Booksellers should easily be able to move this biography of Lincoln
2. These copies are moving fast and will be sold out in a matter of days.
3. I've seen some shell shocked illustrators at shows lately, completely unable to understand why their prints aren't moving in quantity.
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π Love, noun.
π /lΚv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A strong feeling of affection and sexual attraction for someone.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were both in love with her
2. We were slowly falling in love
3. She did not overtly try to attract Edgar, but he was still falling in love with her.
4. He unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with a young refugee.
5. Falling in love with Maria, he comes to question rigid definitions of masculine and feminine.
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π Cool, adjective.
π /kuΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to express acceptance of or agreement with something.
❗️ Examples:
1. If people want to freak out at our clubs, that's cool
2. I told Bill that I was going to write the final draft of the script and he was cool with that
3. No, it's cool; I don't mind talking about that.
4. I work hard at things to improve, but I also realize it takes time and I'm cool with that.
5. If that's not your thing, that's cool by me, but know that it's encouraged and applauded in this community.
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π Change, noun.
π /tΚeΙͺn(d)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A clean garment or garments as a replacement for something one is wearing.
❗️ Examples:
1. A change of socks
2. There was a carrier bag to his side which held a change of underwear and a shirt and a pair of jeans.
3. After they had bathed and put on a change of clean clothes, there was a knock at the door.
4. Then it occurs to me that I might need a change of underwear after this flight.
5. With him he takes a change of shirt, a camera and some cash, and that's about it.
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π Notorious, adjective.
π /nΕΛtΓ΄rΔΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed.
❗️ Examples:
1. Los Angeles is notorious for its smog
2. He was a notorious drinker and womanizer
3. The list is endless, but here are a few of the more notorious celebrations of recent times.
4. In the process he became the most celebrated, or at least most notorious, journalist of his era.
5. For Dylan is not only the most renowned protest singer of his era but also its most notorious renegade.
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π Good, adjective.
π /Ι‘Κd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used in conjunction with the name of God or a related expression as an exclamation of extreme surprise or anger.
❗️ Examples:
1. Good heavens!
2. Good Lord, the battery is dead.
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π Evil, noun.
π /ΛiΛv(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Something which is harmful or undesirable.
❗️ Examples:
1. The various social evils of our modern world
2. It is a minor skin problem yet it is considered a social evil.
3. We are responsible to God if by our carelessness or neglect we lead our children into a life or crime or other social evils.
4. He had rendered an unrelenting battle against the social evils which was taken up by his disciples later.
5. He urged the people to cooperate the district administration in its fight against social evils.
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π Loss, noun.
π /lΙs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An amount of money lost by a business or organization.
❗️ Examples:
1. Insurance can protect you against financial loss
2. We have incurred huge losses
3. Loss-making industries
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π Round, adjective.
π /raΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a voice) rich and mellow; not harsh.
❗️ Examples:
1. His rich, round voice went down well with the listeners
2. I always like champagne in the afternoon, he informed me in his rich round voice.
3. He speaks this language like every other American, with a deep round voice that seems to come from somewhere below his knees.
4. She spoke without any apparent accent, in a round voice filled with soft vowels and smooth consonants.
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π Reach, noun.
π /riΛtΚ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A distance traversed in reaching.
❗️ Examples:
1. He could sail a clear reach for Key Canaka
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π Eliminate, verb.
π /iΛlΙͺm.Ιͺ.neΙͺt/ π¬π§ /iΛlΙͺm.Ι.neΙͺt/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to murder someone
❗️ Examples:
1. A police officer was accused of helping a drug gang eliminate rivals.
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π Serendipity, noun.
π /ΛserΙnΛdipΙdΔ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
❗️ Examples:
1. A fortunate stroke of serendipity
2. A series of small serendipities
3. I don't worry about surveillance as much as I worry that chance encounters and serendipity may disappear.
4. Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity.
5. While there is appeal in the spontaneity and serendipity of these events, they do not amount to community.
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π Furthermore, adverb.
π /ΛfΙr·Γ°ΙrΛmΙr/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: (used to add information) also and more importantly
❗️ Examples:
1. I don’t know what happened to Roberto, and furthermore, I don’t care.
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π Sign, verb.
❓ Definition: in sport, to make a legal written agreement to employ a player
❗️ Examples:
1. The team has just signed a new player.
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π Light, noun.
π /lΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible.
❗️ Examples:
1. The light of the sun
2. The lamps in the street shed a faint light into the room
3. LEDs are made of semiconductor chips and emit light when a current passes through them.
4. Stockholm is beautiful in the mornings, the golden light glinting off the buildings.
5. Dark clothes don't glow because the dark pigments absorb the UV light.
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π Swing, verb.
π /swΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Shift or cause to shift from one opinion, mood, or state of affairs to another.
❗️ Examples:
1. Opinion swung in the Chancellor's favour
2. The failure to seek peace could swing sentiment the other way
3. As opinion has swung against them, so society's attitude to fatherhood has also begun to change.
4. But public opinion has swung against off-roading, and the police are now actively seeking solutions.
5. As a genius, his thoughts and opinions don't have to be consistent because they swing with whatever mood he happens to be in.
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π Cloudy, adjective.
π /ΛklaΚ.di/ π¬π§ /ΛklaΚ.di/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: not transparent
❗️ Examples:
1. The beer was cloudy and dark.
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π Incendiary, adjective.
π /inΛsendΔΛerΔ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a device or attack) designed to cause fires.
❗️ Examples:
1. Incendiary grenades
2. In addition, it is believed they possess crude electronic devices capable of triggering incendiary bombs.
3. These grenades were both fragmentary and incendiary devices designed to cause either death or serious battlefield injuries.
4. In the High Street two huge concrete water tanks were erected to provide emergency supplies to fight fires if any incendiary devices were dropped.
5. In the latter part of 1993 and in the first months of 1994 its violence was directed almost exclusively against the security forces, and incendiary devices replaced car bombs in attacks on economic targets.
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