Cambridge Dictionary:
π Train, noun.
π /treΙͺn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A series of gears or other connected parts in machinery.
❗️ Examples:
1. A train of gears
2. The engines had twin overhead camshafts which were gear driven via a train of gears coming from the rear of the crankshaft.
3. As our simulations show, a rouleau of flat RBCs behaves quite differently from a train of ellipses of the same size.
4. The authors were able to predict the magnitude of facilitation but not its rate of growth during a train of impulses.
5. Contact between the cams and the tappets in the valve train span the mixed and boundary regions.
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π Price, noun (A2).
❓ Definition: the amount of money for which something is sold
❗️ Examples:
1. The price of oil has risen sharply.
2. House prices have been falling.
3. We thought they were asking a very high/low price.
4. The large supermarkets are offering big price cuts.
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π Verse, noun.
π /vΙΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.
❗️ Examples:
1. We were each required to recite a Bible verse from memory
2. On the walls were framed verses from the Koran
3. These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses.
4. We have many different such divisions ranging from what would be long verses to chapter style divisions.
5. In a short work like this we cannot examine all the verses in the Bible which refer to the devil and Satan.
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π Betray, verb (B2).
π /bΙͺΛtreΙͺ/ π¬π§ /bΙͺΛtreΙͺ/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to not be loyal to your country or a person, often by doing something harmful such as helping their enemies
❗️ Examples:
1. He was accused of betraying his country during the war.
2. She felt betrayed by her mother's lack of support.
3. For years they betrayed the UK's secrets to Russia.
4. He promised never to betray his wife (= never to leave her for another person).
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π Desert, verb.
π /dΙͺΛzΙΛt/ π¬π§ /dΙͺΛzΙΛt/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to leave someone without help or in a difficult situation and not come back
❗️ Examples:
1. He deserted his wife and family for another woman.
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π House, adjective.
π /haΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.
❗️ Examples:
1. The study also showed that rather than living in hutches, four out of 10 pet rabbits were house rabbits.
2. The cougar reportedly snatched a house cat and ran off into the bush with it.
3. It was a paddock for the grazing of house cows and the Governor's horses.
4. They had to make their own bread and their own butter with cream from the house cow.
5. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy one slow step at a time.
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π Chunk, noun.
π /CHΙNGk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A thick, solid piece of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. Huge chunks of masonry littered the street
2. The pieces of rabbit were brown and almost crispy on the outside, encasing solid chunks of nicely roasted meat.
3. The salad was a sad little remnant of a 1980s salad made mostly of iceberg lettuce, thick chunks of onion and thicker chunks of cucumber.
4. The thick meaty sauce with chunks of beef and pork was delicious.
5. The road was so slippery and there were thick chunks of ice on it.
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π Suit, noun.
π /suΛt/ π¬π§ /suΛt/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: a problem taken to a law court by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police in order to obtain a legal decision
❗️ Examples:
1. He brought (US also filed) a $12 million libel suit against the newspaper, claiming his reputation had been damaged.
2. A malpractice/negligence/paternity suit
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π Rank, noun.
π /raΕk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A number specifying position in a numerically ordered series.
❗️ Examples:
1. The STAT scores available for each student range from 100 to 200 for each part and for the total, together with a percentile rank for each.
2. For the purpose of this study, a percentile rank of [is less than or equal to] 25 was considered below average for that group.
3. Based on results from the vocabulary and reading comprehension sections, participants were assigned a percentile rank.
4. Percentile ranks were used to compare performance among institutions.
5. Higher percentile ranks indicated better relative performance.
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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 Sign, verb.
❓ Definition: to give an order or information, or make a request, using hand and body movements
❗️ Examples:
1. He signed for/to the waiter to bring him another drink.
2. He signed to the waiter that he wanted another drink.
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π Fair, noun.
π /fer/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: A fair is also a show at which people who work in a particular industry meet to sell and advertise their products
❗️ Examples:
1. A book/antiques/toy fair
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π Inglenook, noun.
π /ΛΙͺΕΙ‘(Ι)lnΚk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A space on either side of a large fireplace.
❗️ Examples:
1. An inglenook fireplace
2. Inside, there is a reception hall with an inglenook fireplace, lounge, dining room, fitted kitchen, study, and three bedrooms.
3. At the back is a large living room with a brick inglenook fireplace and solid fuel stove.
4. These four and five bedroom properties are, ideal for professionals who like to entertain, and have features such as sunrooms for all year round dining and an inglenook fireplace for relaxing evenings at home.
5. Meals are served in a cosy dining-room with a large inglenook fireplace.
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π Good, adjective.
π /Ι‘Κd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Healthy, strong, or well.
❗️ Examples:
1. She's not feeling too good
2. In good form on the PGA Tour this year, the American is in good shape for a strong finish on Sunday.
3. For the sake of a couple of dollars' worth of eyedrops the whole village would have good eyesight.
4. It was so flat that if you had good eyesight you could look into the far distance and see the back of your own head.
5. I fall backward into good, strong hands and staring up into smiling, violet eyes.
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π Inferior, adjective.
π /ΙͺnΛfΙͺΙrΙͺΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lower in rank, status, or quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country
2. Even the angels are inferior to man in status and are asked by God to pay obeisance to him.
3. Traditionally, the combat service support forces have occupied a status seen as somewhat inferior to those of the other two categories.
4. Obviously, since it is shielded from the burden of having to please customers or compete in a real marketplace, its quality will be inferior to paid research.
5. Its military equipment consists of aging Soviet and Chinese stocks that qualitatively are vastly inferior to both the U.S. and South Korean militaries.
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π Stop, noun.
π /stΙp/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A consonant produced with complete closure of the vocal tract.
❗️ Examples:
1. A bilabial stop
2. Stop consonants
3. Taiwanese has final consonant stops, and Mandarin doesn't.
4. Many varieties of Chinese, including both Mandarin and Cantonese, do not distinguish voiced and voiceless stops and affricates.
5. For example, the aspirated series of stops and affricates are written by adding a horizontal stroke to the letters for the plain series.
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π Father, noun.
π /ΛfΙΛΓ°Ι/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An important male figure in the origin and early history of something.
❗️ Examples:
1. He's held to be the father of abstract art
2. This is the sport devised by the father of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
3. There are several candidates for a designation of the father of the space age.
4. Teller was known as the father of the H-bomb for his work on developing hydrogen bombs.
5. As well as being the father of psychoanalysis, Freud might also be considered one of the founders of neuropsychology.
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π Just, adjective.
π /dΚΚst/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.
❗️ Examples:
1. A just and democratic society
2. Fighting for a just cause
3. It raises the question as to whether it is fair, just and reasonable to impose the duty contended for.
4. She is a fair and just ruler, and she causes unending problems for me and my brothers.
5. How then will the court decide what is a fair and just settlement for Richard and Hyacinth?
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π Condolence, noun.
π /kΙnΛdΙΚl(Ι)ns/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of the death of a person's relative or close friend.
❗️ Examples:
1. We offer our sincere condolences to his widow
2. Letters of condolence
3. All of us here express our sincere condolences to Roger's wife, family and friends.
4. The Garrafrauns group offers their condolences to his relations and wide circle of friends.
5. We wish to express our sincere condolences to all in our community who were bereaved during the year.
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π Desultory, adjective.
π /ΛdΙs(Ι)lt(Ι)ri/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
❗️ Examples:
1. A few people were left, dancing in a desultory fashion
2. Some putter along in a slightly languid and desultory fashion.
3. The rather desultory attempts to bring democracy to post-Taliban Afghanistan speak volumes.
4. Every ten to fifteen years, the earth wobbles in a desultory fashion somewhere in these islands and a roof slate or two drops off.
5. Over the years, there have been some desultory attempts to turn Fungus into a film.
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π Headline, verb.
❓ Definition: to provide a newspaper story with a headline
❗️ Examples:
1. She was judged fourth in a news story headlined: "New York's 100 Coolest People."
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π Inch, verb.
π /Ιͺn(t)Κ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Move along slowly and carefully.
❗️ Examples:
1. He inched away as I approached
2. Spain's conservatives are inching ahead
3. As I sat on a bus today, inching along in traffic, it became clear to me that all buses should be free.
4. Stealthily, you inch along a narrow and foreboding corridor.
5. The light was inching along slowly, but it had almost finished its circuit.
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π Collar, verb.
π /ΛkΙl·Ιr/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to catch and hold someone so that the person can’t escape
❗️ Examples:
1. Fig. We decided to skip the meeting but she collared us in the hotel lobby.
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π Even, verb.
π /ΛiΛ.v(Ι)n/ π¬π§ /ΛiΛ.v(Ι)n/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to make two things equal
❗️ Examples:
1. Sheila was awarded a scholarship in chemistry, and now her brother has evened the score with a scholarship in economics.
2. The whisky industry is campaigning for the taxes on different alcoholic drinks to be evened up.
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π Move, verb.
π /muΛv/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Change one's place of residence or work.
❗️ Examples:
1. His family moved to London when he was a child
2. They moved house four days after the baby was born
3. The family had only moved to the house on Whitworth Road four months ago.
4. His family had moved from a smaller house a few miles away right before he entered seventh grade.
5. Born in Essex to a colonel's family, she moved frequently during her childhood.
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π Gawk, verb.
π /Ι‘ΙΛk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Stare openly and stupidly.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were gawking at some pin-up
2. Most of them were trying to be clandestine about it, but a few were openly pointing and gawking.
3. The door opened and a sailor stepped inside, openly gawking at our still wet clothes.
4. Already, he could see the stares and could almost hear the whispers as his classmates openly gawked at him.
5. All of the guys stared and gawked at the new girl's body figure and style.
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π Start, noun.
π /stΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A person's position or circumstances at the beginning of their life.
❗️ Examples:
1. She's anxious to give her baby the best start in life
2. But, vital as good maternity services are, they're only one part of the picture when it comes to giving our children the best possible start in life.
3. When you are pregnant, you can give your baby the best start in life by refusing to use tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, including over-the-counter medications, unless ordered by your doctor.
4. And how can we make sure they're getting the best possible start in life?
5. Ensuring that all young children have the best possible start in life with quality education is essential.
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π Police, noun.
π /pΙΛliΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The civil force of a state, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.
❗️ Examples:
1. When someone is killed, the police have to be informed
2. The coroner will await the outcome of police inquiries
3. Council officers supported the police in offering crime prevention advice to residents.
4. Faced with rising crime and a lack of public faith in the police she has come out all guns blazing.
5. Workers set up roadblocks in order to prevent the police from entering the industrial facility again.
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π Basis, noun.
π /ΛbeΙͺsΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The system or principles according to which an activity or process is carried on.
❗️ Examples:
1. She needed coaching on a regular basis
2. They also require evidence that these checks are carried out on a regular basis by staff at the home.
3. We intend to carry out similar operations on a regular basis over the coming months.
4. Visit your dentist or hygienist to have your teeth scaled and polished on a regular basis.
5. People are entitled to their opinion and write in to us on a regular basis.
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π Fever, noun.
π /Λfi·vΙr/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: a state of great excitement or enthusiasm
❗️ Examples:
1. Texas was in the grip of football fever.
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π Attitude, noun.
π /ΛatΙͺtjuΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A settled way of thinking or feeling about something.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was questioned on his attitude to South Africa
2. Being competitive is an attitude of mind
3. Public opinion and the public attitude to war is often a key to whether there will be a war in the first place.
4. A sensitive attitude to cultural differences is necessary if the alliance is to succeed.
5. It reminded me of how much we're complete opposites when it comes to our attitude to public transport.
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π Pool, noun.
π /puΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A swimming pool.
❗️ Examples:
1. I spent all my time lounging around the pool
2. Many recreation centers and health clubs have beautiful pools, and open-water swimming can take you to lakes, reservoirs and even the ocean.
3. One of the city's oldest pools, the Yeoville swimming pool, has received a sparkling, multi-toned blue mosaic facelift.
4. A serious drama should be like a swimmer diving into a pool and swimming to the other side in one smooth, perfect trajectory.
5. She got to her feet, brushed the dirt from her bathing suit and legs, and left the swimming pool for the pool house.
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π Opulent, adjective.
π /ΛΙpjΚl(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Ostentatiously costly and luxurious.
❗️ Examples:
1. The opulent comfort of a limousine
2. I bring this to his attention in the opulent comfort of the living room of his Holland Park house.
3. This lavish, opulent approach - one might call it good taste with good humour - is typical of her style.
4. He relishes an opulent lifestyle with palatial homes in Europe and America, private jets, two yachts and a helicopter.
5. A professional and caring staff pamper spa and sauna members in the most opulent and grand setting.
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π Hurt, verb.
π /hΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a person) feel distress.
❗️ Examples:
1. He was hurting badly, but he smiled through his tears
2. However, it is two hours into the program and a recurring trend is that these people are hurting as badly as any progressives are in this country.
3. We were hurting badly and I wanted to know how Paul was feeling because he had missed the decisive penalty.
4. He replied sternly, but his voice indicated how badly he was hurting.
5. She would never let it show to anyone how she really felt, no-one knew just how badly she was hurting inside, not even her closest friends knew the half of it.
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π Release, noun.
π /rΙͺΛliΛs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A handle or catch that releases part of a mechanism.
❗️ Examples:
1. A photographer can point his camera at a subject and press the release down.
2. Next, point the camera at the other extreme and once again half press the release.
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π Prime, verb.
π /prΚΙͺm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a steam engine or its boiler) mix water with the steam being passed into the cylinder.
❗️ Examples:
1. The boiler's metal to water heat exchange surfaces become coated with oil and uneven heat transfer and a violent surging of boiler water (called priming) may occur in extreme conditions.
2. Priming, which is the carry over of boiler water to the cylinders, is likely to occur when the TDS levels are high making the water more unstable and is more likely to occur running with a high water level, and a heavy steam demand allowing the water to easily be carried over.
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π Ground, noun.
π /Ι‘raΚnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A limited extent of the earth's surface; land.
❗️ Examples:
1. An adjoining area of ground had been purchased
2. While in the air, he watched as a tractor pulling a plow cut a dark line of earth across an expanse of ground.
3. In 1757, he leased a back house and some ground adjoining his premises on Cork Hill.
4. Grass surpluses have developed on grazing ground on many farms at present following recent good growth.
5. On the way it swept through 1,500 acres of ground, including 600 acres of regenerating forest.
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π End, noun.
π /Ιnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Either of the halves of a sports field or court defended by one team or player.
❗️ Examples:
1. When they changed ends, the goals kept coming
2. He demands that his players play both ends of the court.
3. Saunders always has used a team approach on both ends of the court.
4. A tireless, relentless player at both ends of the court, he is always in the middle of the action and seems to have a knack for coming up with the ball.
5. Martin plays well on both ends of the court, unlike those one-dimensional players.
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π Shelter, verb.
π /ΛΚΙltΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Protect (income) from taxation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Only your rental income can be sheltered
2. Over time, this would shelter most investment income from taxation, leaving taxes mainly on wage-and-salary income.
3. Real estate tax breaks may shelter that income and perhaps even provide a paper loss to offset other gains.
4. The first of these follows the effect of high tax rates on the incentive to generate taxable income or to shelter income by legitimate means - tax avoidance.
5. Limited partnerships are structured as corporations, so your liability is limited, but you can't use losses to shelter income.
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π Goodwill, noun.
π /Ι‘ΚdΛwΙͺl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Friendly, helpful, or cooperative feelings or attitude.
❗️ Examples:
1. The scheme is dependent on goodwill between the two sides
2. A goodwill gesture
3. You are generous and giving as you share goodwill and hospitality with friends and loved ones.
4. A light and playful rather than heavy and serious attitude brings success and goodwill.
5. The man himself puts everything down to the co-operation and goodwill of the stars.
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π Appeal, noun.
π /ΙΛpiΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An attempt to persuade someone to do something by calling on a particular principle or quality.
❗️ Examples:
1. An appeal to their common cultural values
2. Either way, bigotry is bigotry, and appeals to base instincts should always be repudiated.
3. I kept strictly away from the threats, focussing instead on the promises and appeals to reason.
4. Even when not winning, a racer can benefit from the challenge to his sailing skills and the appeal to his sense of adventure.
5. The appeal to his sense of humor and his sense of justice stimulated him, and being a man who already saw what large consequences sometimes flow from small causes he must have been buoyed up by the thought that any of the cases which came before him might set a very important precedent.
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π Wind, verb.
π /wΙͺnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Cause (someone) to have difficulty breathing because of exertion or a blow to the stomach.
❗️ Examples:
1. The fall nearly winded him
2. She dodged his extremely slow blows and sank her fist into his stomach, winding him.
3. And then Sean punched him in the stomach, winding him completely.
4. Chris quickly kicked me hard in the stomach, winding me badly.
5. Emilia did not want to hear that, and she kicked Tom in the stomach, winding him.
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π Credible, adjective.
π /ΛkrΙdΙͺb(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Able to be believed; convincing.
❗️ Examples:
1. Few people found his story credible
2. A credible witness
3. That is surprising given the fact that he is the only person who is able to give any credible evidence.
4. There are lots of other situations in life when it is vital to be able to make credible promises.
5. As I did not find him to be a credible witness, I am unable to attach much weight to the contents.
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π Built-in, adjective.
π /ΛbΙͺltΛΙͺn/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: included in something at the time that it is created
❗️ Examples:
1. Built-in bookcases lined the walls of the library.
2. With this software, safeguards are built-in.
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π Nest, verb.
π /nest/ π¬π§ /nest/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to fit one object inside another, or to fit inside in this way
❗️ Examples:
1. Nested coffee tables
2. Dolls that nest inside one another
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π Belief, noun.
π /bΙͺΛliΛf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A religious conviction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Christian beliefs
2. The medieval system of fervent religious belief
3. As it's quite a religious belief, many people don't believe there is an Afterlife.
4. It invoked religious beliefs not only to understand different histories but also to change it.
5. I wanted to learn more about the traditional core beliefs of Japanese religious life.
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π Pageant, noun.
π /ΛpadΚ(Ι)nt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A public entertainment consisting of a procession of people in elaborate, colourful costumes, or an outdoor performance of a historical scene.
❗️ Examples:
1. They brought the history books to life at the town's pageant
2. The pageant of public life
3. Street pageants, parades and outdoor concerts have been lined-up to entertain locals and visitors and the street spectacular should not be missed for those who enjoy the magic of performance arts.
4. They have produced full-scale scripted plays, but their outdoor pageants are the breathtaking highlight of the Public Dreams year.
5. The festivities climax tomorrow in a royal state procession and a colourful pageant of music, dance and theatre.
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π Hall, noun.
π /hΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The principal living room of a medieval house.
❗️ Examples:
1. In the living hall was a large central hearth and a raised wooden platform along each wall, which would have been used for seating, sleeping and as a working space.
2. Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings.
3. Like most other farms in Anglo-Saxon England, Linstede consists of a hall and outbuildings, surrounded by fields and pastures.
4. Thegns with fewer resources also established churches, often next to their own halls; and increasingly they were made from stone.
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π Race, noun.
π /reΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A group or set of people or things with a common feature or features.
❗️ Examples:
1. The upper classes thought of themselves as a race apart
2. This sedentary behaviour is apparently turning our kids into a race of slothful fatties who risk a reduced lifespan and other problems.
3. They are a race of nomads, mariners, wanderers and itinerants.
4. The aviators pirouetting high above them might have seemed a race apart.
5. Comedians are a race apart.
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π Search, noun (B1).
❓ Definition: an attempt to find information on a computer, on the internet, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. I did a search for yoga clubs in my area.
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π Cool, noun.
π /kuΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A fairly low temperature.
❗️ Examples:
1. The cool of the night air
2. She sat well back from the fire; the night cool had not set in yet.
3. Emma was shocked at the electricity that had passed between them, an instant heat despite the cool of the June night.
4. It was night now, I could feel the cool of night in the air, and smell it in the breeze.
5. Pushing back the sheets, Loraine lay on her back, staring about at the shadowed room in the pale cool of night.
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π Word, noun.
π /wΙΛd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Speech as distinct from action.
❗️ Examples:
1. He conforms in word and deed to the values of a society that he rejects
2. They reclaim a union between word and deed, utterance and action.
3. The crucial distinction between the fifties and sixties lay in word, not in deed.
4. But our past is fraught with his infidelity in word, in deed and most likely in his heart and mind.
5. He has handled this general problem very poorly in both word and deed.
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π Dead, adjective.
π /dΙd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: No longer current, relevant, or important.
❗️ Examples:
1. Pollution had become a dead issue
2. He thought that it was a dead issue, he had dealt with that.
3. Now that the Eastern Corridor is a dead issue, dramatic action needs to be taken to address the transport woes in the region.
4. In any case, unless there's some clear photo from tonight, I think this issue may be dead.
5. Images move you up the television news agenda; without camera access, my friend, your issue is dead.
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π Rejoice, verb.
π /rΙͺΛdΚΙΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Feel or show great joy or delight.
❗️ Examples:
1. We spent the evening rejoicing at our victory
2. He rejoiced in her spontaneity
3. Blunsdon may be rejoicing at the recent decision to build a bypass for the village but compulsory purchase orders for the land required could threaten a number of businesses.
4. Can he really believe that this depiction of extreme violence, with Roman torturers rejoicing at what they do, will somehow make the world a better place?
5. Not everyone was rejoicing at Thompson's appointment, however.
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π Condition, noun.
π /kΙnΛdΙͺΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The prevailing state of the weather, ground, or sea at a particular time, especially as it affects a sporting event.
❗️ Examples:
1. The appalling conditions determined the style of play
2. In the event of unkind weather conditions, the show will be moved indoors.
3. The weather conditions had grounded the air ambulance usually used for the transfer.
4. Weather conditions, ground conditions, selection policies, and match fixes are too innumerable to measure or adjust for.
5. This was back in the days when aircraft were much more susceptible to being grounded due to weather conditions.
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π Dive, verb.
π /daΙͺv/ π¬π§ /daΙͺv/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: to go down very quickly
❗️ Examples:
1. The plane dived towards the ground and exploded in a ball of flame.
2. The goalkeeper dived for the ball (= tried to catch the ball by jumping towards it and falling on the ground).
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π Badge, noun.
π /bΓ¦dΚ/ π¬π§ /bΓ¦dΚ/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: a flat metal or plastic object, usually round, with a picture or message on it, that can be fastened to clothes with a pin, often in order to show that you like or support a particular group, idea, belief, etc.
❗️ Examples:
1. They used to go round wearing badges with slogans like "No nukes" and "Save the whale".
2. The birthday girl was wearing a badge with a nine on it.
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π Barren, adjective.
π /ΛberΙn/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Devoid of.
❗️ Examples:
1. The room was barren of furniture
2. We rode through farm country where fields stretched as far as I could see, but barren of the crops Willie and I used to see when we came South during the summertime.
3. The Democrats purposely chose a candidate with a 22-year history in elective office entirely barren of any distinction.
4. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues.
5. As it stands, this site is barren of all such annoyances.
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π Hire, noun.
π /haΙͺΙ(r)/ π¬π§ /haΙͺr/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: a person to whom a company has recently given a job
❗️ Examples:
1. She's our latest hire.
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π House, noun.
π /haΚs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A brothel.
❗️ Examples:
1. In an attempt to create Canada’s first cooperative bawdy house, a sex-work organization will submit a request to Parliament for amnesty from an anti-brothel provision within the next six months.
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π Garland, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘ΙΛlΙnd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head or hung as a decoration.
❗️ Examples:
1. District chief officer, Surapol Tiensuwan was the first to light incense, after which everyone attending laid bouquets of flowers, wreaths or garlands with sacred offerings in front of the monument.
2. Winners were crowned with wreath garlands of olive leaves.
3. Staff will be dressing in shorts, Hawaiian shirts, bikinis, flower garlands and grass skirts, and there will be hula-hooping, hula dancing and limbo competitions in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Unit.
4. There were potted trees with lights in them and there were garlands of leaves, flowers and tulle wrapped around the banister on the staircase.
5. Some are holding beautiful flower garlands and decorations they hope to offer the sadhus as they pass.
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π Direction, noun.
π /dΙͺΛrΙkΚ(Ι)n/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The work of directing the actors and other staff in a film, play, or other production.
❗️ Examples:
1. However, the actors and direction are very impressive, and there's some snappy, witty dialogue.
2. His pace is quirky and his direction of the actors inventive.
3. What he does bring to his direction is an actor's flair for bringing out the best in his cast.
4. I imagine the script must have been rather slim, how did you provide direction for your actors without having dialog to build around?
5. I think this film has some clever direction but in a very kind of routine fashion.
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π Good, adjective.
π /Ι‘Κd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used to address or refer to people in a courteous, patronizing, or ironic way.
❗️ Examples:
1. A man very like your good self, in fact
2. The good lady of the house
3. The good lady had not realised it was all part of a European Union ruling.
4. One day last week my good lady asked me to pick her up from the office at lunchtime, which I did.
5. However, if this is true, then who could be better than your good self to emerge victorious from all of this?
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π Cord, noun.
π /kΓ΄rd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Thin, flexible string or rope made from several twisted strands.
❗️ Examples:
1. Hang the picture from a rail on a length of cord
2. My hands were tied with cord
3. Alaine nodded and began rummaging round in the small dark brown suede money pouch she wore on a loose thin strand of black cord around her waist.
4. To keep the deer from munching on the daylilies out front, they put a single strand of white cord along the entire length of the split rail fence.
5. Cut the string or cord to the desired length, and thread it through the first bead.
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π Stab, verb.
π /stab/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make a thrusting gesture or movement at something with a pointed object.
❗️ Examples:
1. She stabbed at the earth with the fork
2. She stabbed the air with her forefinger
3. He let go of my neck and brought it to his eyes, and with his other hand, stabbed wildly into the air.
4. Flashes of lightning cut the sky like daggers, staggeringly bright, stabbing down towards the earth like assassins' blades.
5. Aislinn and Christopher rose up into the air with the other flyers, swinging their blades and stabbing at the glassy robot eyes.
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π Cloudy, adjective.
π /ΛklΙΚ·di/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: full of clouds
❗️ Examples:
1. A cloudy day
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π Color, verb.
π /ΛkΙlΙr/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Change the color of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it.
❗️ Examples:
1. I also got my hair coloured this week.
2. I have my hair coloured every visit, and cut every second visit.
3. Now a native doctor himself, he uses the same medicines to colour the silk for his yarn paintings.
4. For centuries, the Maori had traditionally colored their carvings with paint that did not dry.
5. If you throw a real grenade, most of the time it takes some of the wall with it, but a paint grenade will only color the wall.
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π Ethereal, adjective.
π /ΙͺΛΞΈΙͺΙrΙͺΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her ethereal beauty
2. Her delicate features accentuated her ethereal beauty.
3. Her voice is light but never ethereal, grounded but never guttural.
4. She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
5. Amid the shots of astronauts and soccer players, the viewer suddenly notices an ethereal white light.
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π Staff, noun.
π /stΙΛf/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A long stick used as a support when walking or climbing or as a weapon.
❗️ Examples:
1. A shepherd's staff
2. He adopted literature as the staff of his pilgrimage
3. It was a wide arena, with a lodge at one end; I suppose to store the weapons: staffs, swords, bows, etc.
4. In one cabinet were metal weapons, from staffs to daggers.
5. Both depict Liberty figures standing with their fasces and bonnets supported on staffs before key locations in Rome, as if claiming them as their own.
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π Sigh, noun.
π /sΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A long, deep audible exhalation expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.
❗️ Examples:
1. She let out a long sigh of despair
2. The councils heaved a sigh of relief when they saved over £6m between them
3. They looked at each other for a moment, and then Lisa let out a sigh of what sounded like frustration.
4. I don't expect you to run wailing through the streets but couldn't you rustle up a small sigh of regret?
5. Passengers waiting on the platform breathe a collective sigh of exasperation.
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π Short, adjective.
π /ΚΙΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of odds or a chance) reflecting or representing a high level of probability.
❗️ Examples:
1. They have been backed at short odds to win thousands of pounds
2. Otherwise Mark Read will be offering very short odds indeed on NT Labor being a one term government.
3. George has very short odds to be evicted from Celebrity Big Brother, but he's providing us with too much fun for him to go just yet.
4. Scotland's top trainer over the jumps is short odds to achieve his aim despite the attentions of the handicapper.
5. On current form most bookmakers will surely be offering short odds on them managing even the one point this time around.
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π Take, verb.
π /teΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Hold; accommodate.
❗️ Examples:
1. An exclusive island hideaway that takes just twenty guests
2. The boat takes twenty guests.
3. We intend to buy fertilised eggs - the incubator we have bought takes 24 hen eggs but we might start with 12.
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π Plot, verb.
π /plΙt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Mark (a route or position) on a chart.
❗️ Examples:
1. He started to plot lines of ancient sites
2. Many hardboat skippers have PCs by the helm, displaying electronic charts, plotting their position from a GPS interface and even steering the boat's auto-pilot.
3. Furthermore, the bike can't stop to evaluate its position and plot a new route; everything must be done in real time.
4. Then it was back to the charts, where each team planned a route and then plotted a magnetic course to steer for each leg of the 13-mile trip to Block Island.
5. However, the key to all these innovations was the written word and the chart on which you plotted your course.
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π Form, noun.
π /fΙΛm/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A criminal record.
❗️ Examples:
1. They both had form
2. Paranoid perhaps, but the government does have previous form on this matter.
3. In case you are tempted to believe a word of this disclaimer, remember at Mr Gonzalez has previous form.
4. I think Warne'd get the benefit of the doubt, except he's got form.
5. Facing having to pay out a hefty divorce settlement, he had the motive. He also had form, having nearly strangled Arlene to death just weeks both she disappeared.
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π Togetherness, noun.
π /tΙΛΙ‘ΙΓ°ΙnΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: The state of being close to another person or other people.
❗️ Examples:
1. The sense of family togetherness was strong and excluded neighbours
2. We will experience some real family togetherness as we share our tiny Hong Kong apartment.
3. The Atlanta natives seek to convey messages of love, peace, respect and family togetherness.
4. As the cards and carols remind us, Christmas is supposed to be a time for families and togetherness and peace and well being for all.
5. What is it about the holidays that makes us temporarily forget how misguided the concept of family togetherness is?
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π Route, verb.
π /ruΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Send or direct along a specified course.
❗️ Examples:
1. All lines of communication were routed through London
2. The software lets you use pseudonyms on the Web, and it routes all of your Web activity through encrypted servers, making you virtually untraceable online.
3. In lending, it routes each customer's loan application to four different banks and makes an average of about $500 when the loan closes.
4. He looks at the address on the envelope of a packet of information, and then he routes the packet to the specified mailbox.
5. When e-mail arrives in your inbox - or any of the folders into which you route your mail - SpamNet compares it with a database of known spam.
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π Affordable, adjective.
❓ Definition: not expensive
❗️ Examples:
1. Affordable housing isn’t enough – we also need job opportunities.
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π Take, verb.
π /teΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Make (a photograph) with a camera.
❗️ Examples:
1. He stopped to take a snap
2. In police custody, his solicitors came with a digital camera and took nineteen photographs of his injuries.
3. Mo came round today with her digital camera and took a photograph of what will probably be my image on the publicity.
4. As an additional safeguard, the firearm also contains a tiny camera which takes a photograph every time it is fired.
5. I raised my camera to take a photograph of this to send to Midland Mainline.
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π Act, noun.
❓ Definition: a law made by Congress or another legislature
❗️ Examples:
1. An act of Congress
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π Tension, noun.
π /Λten·ΚΙn/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: anxiety and worry
❗️ Examples:
1. The tension was unbearable as we waited for our exam results.
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π Absolute, adjective.
π /ΛabsΙluΛt/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a construction) syntactically independent of the rest of the sentence, as in dinner being over, we left the table.
❗️ Examples:
1. An absolute clause is not introduced by a subordinating conjunction: after having prepared the dinner and while preparing the dinner are not absolute clauses.
2. Verbs grouped as absolute, relative, or nounal.
3. I grouped them as absolute verbs, relative verbs, and nounal verbs.
4. Though indefinite by default, the absolute quantifiers can be rendered definite through the use of a definite determiner.
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π Take, verb.
π /teΙͺk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Have or require as part of the appropriate construction.
❗️ Examples:
1. Verbs which take both the infinitive and the finite clause as their object
2. There is no infallible rule identifying the verbs that take both, but they generally form nouns in tion.
3. However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
4. For example, the open command takes as an argument the name of the file containing the data.
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π Auxiliary, noun.
π /ΙΛΙ‘ΛzΙͺl.i.Ι.ri/ π¬π§ /ΙΛΙ‘ΛzΙͺl.i.er.i/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: a person whose job is to give help or support to other workers
❗️ Examples:
1. Semi-skilled auxiliaries
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π Something, adverb.
π /ΛsΚmΞΈΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Used for emphasis with a following adjective functioning as an adverb.
❗️ Examples:
1. My back hurts something terrible
2. He used to take the mickey out of me something awful
3. It must hurt something terrible.
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π Blue, verb.
π /bluΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Heat (metal) so as to give it a greyish-blue finish.
❗️ Examples:
1. Nickel-plated or blued hooks
2. All in all, it is an attractive rifle, with nicely blued metal contrasting with an attractive piece of walnut.
3. The hammer, trigger, and trigger guard are also blued to a mirror-like finish, and the sides of the frame sport a somewhat subdued finish, contrasting nicely with the rest of the gun.
4. Having owned several and examined many others I see no difference in terms of overall fit and finish, metal polishing and bluing, or action smoothness.
5. The barrels' subtle blue-grey colors result from charcoal bluing.
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π Particular, adjective.
❓ Definition: special or single, or this and not any other
❗️ Examples:
1. Is there a particular restaurant you’d like to eat at?
2. What in particular (= special things) did you like about the last apartment that we saw?
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π Call, verb.
π /kΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Predict the result of (a future event, especially an election or a vote)
❗️ Examples:
1. In the Midlands the race remains too close to call
2. Few pundits risked calling the election for either Bush or Kerry
3. Your votes are flooding in every day in their hundreds but, with many categories still too close to call, every vote really does count.
4. They are opposed by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, making the final result of the vote too close to call.
5. This election is too close to call.
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π Reminisce, verb.
π /ΛrΙmΙͺΛnΙͺs/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.
❗️ Examples:
1. They reminisced about their summers abroad
2. Violet, an elderly resident in a care home, discusses the present and reminisces about the past, but ends up recalling events she'd rather have forgotten.
3. Kids that weren't even born seem to have acquired memories of that day from their parents when they reminisce about the event.
4. Alex donned the simple silver ring on her fourth finger, and she glanced at it now, the hint of a smile lingering on her face as she reminisced on the past memories.
5. I chuckled at his cheeky outburst and put on a pot of coffee so we could sit down by the shattered window and reminisce of fond memories past.
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π Swing, noun.
π /swΙͺΕ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An act of swinging.
❗️ Examples:
1. With the swing of her arm, the knife flashed through the air
2. Warm hands brushed my shoulders and I shrieked, lashing out with a violent swing of my arms.
3. Turning with a swing of his arms, Randy loped down the steps and across the grass to his own home, already noisy with the bickering of his parents.
4. Dean punctuated the moment with a swing of his arm and a yell.
5. Michael was struggling to deflect a rain of blows, and the swing of his arm was getting slower and slower.
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π Planter, noun.
π /Λplan(t)Ιr/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A manager or owner of a plantation.
❗️ Examples:
1. Sugar planters
2. On the eve of the Civil War Louisiana's sugar planter elite was composed of 525 owners of at least 50 slaves who resided in a thirteen-parish area south of Baton Rouge.
3. This was one appointment that a gold dealer and coffee planter from Kalpetta did not want to miss.
4. Traditionally the sugar planter was both farmer and manufacturer.
5. They were the last large group of agricultural laborers brought to Hawaii by the sugar planters.
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π Blue, adjective.
π /bluΛ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Denoting one of three colours of quark.
❗️ Examples:
1. So for instance, we could start off with a red quark, which emits a red-antiblue gluon and becomes a blue quark.
2. For example, if absorption of a gluon changes a blue quark into a red quark, then the gluon itself must have carried one unit of red charge and minus one unit of blue charge.
3. This blue quark will become red and the original red quark will become blue.
4. A blue quark will bind with a red quark and a yellow.
5. So there must be a red quark, a blue quark and a green quark.
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π Tech, noun.
π /tΙk/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A technician.
❗️ Examples:
1. I cannot count the number of times I have been contacted by auto technicians, mechanics and body shop techs whenever an electrical problem occurs.
2. By the same token, the computer techs out there facilitating all this movement of data don't get any glory.
3. The new regulation makes it impossible for a doctor in the emergency rooms to summon officers on call (X-ray and lab techs, surgeons, etc) since only the telephone operator can make cell phone calls.
4. All thirteen members, in addition to sound engineers, techs, etc., piled into a decrepit two-story apartment in Montreal and remained there, uninterrupted, for five days.
5. I had to go in and meet the two new computer techs today.
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π Savvy, adjective.
π /ΛsΓ¦v.i/ π¬π§ /ΛsΓ¦v.i/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: having or showing practical knowledge and experience
❗️ Examples:
1. Teenagers are savvier about handling their digital information than adults.
2. He dazzled the country as a modern, media-savvy politician.
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π Signal, verb.
π /ΛsΙͺΙ‘n(Ι)l/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Instruct (someone) to do something by means of gestures or signs.
❗️ Examples:
1. She signalled Charlotte to be silent
2. I made motions with my hand signaling Elizabeth to keep it down.
3. She gave the thumbs-up sign to her mechanic, signaling him to get out of the way.
4. He leaned back and waved his hand signalling Andrea to go over to him.
5. And then, he saw Nathan waving a hand, signaling him to come closer.
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π Gossamer, noun.
π /ΛΙ‘ΙsΙmΙ/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: A fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders, seen especially in autumn.
❗️ Examples:
1. So I made a classic cross-hair from spider's gossamer and used it to pinpoint a cell in the area I wanted to watch.
2. In the UK, gossamer is the creation of a million baby spiders that spin threads vertically from the top of bushes which will carry them off into the wind, enabling them to travel for miles.
3. It was thin and wispy, like freshly spun gossamer in the early morning light.
4. No future screams at me, row upon row of the phrase repeats itself, shifting slightly like gossamer on the breeze.
5. But the cold made the sky shimmer like gossamer, and outside it felt crisp and fresh in a way that can only be described as bracing.
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π Proud, adjective.
π /praΚd/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Slightly projecting from a surface.
❗️ Examples:
1. Balls standing proud of the fabric
2. Remarkably, the horn had been thinned down in antiquity, leaving only a curious keel raised proud on the underside.
3. Outliners are fairly firm and leave a proud surface, while the paints can be spread within their area either with the nozzle or with a brush.
4. Next, fill the hole and crater completely with drywall compound, plus an additional thin skiff of compound that sits slightly proud of the surface.
5. Exuberant granulation tissue, or proud flesh as it is more commonly known, is part of the normal wound healing response in the horse.
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π Annual, adjective.
π /ΛanjΚΙl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: (of a plant) living only for a year or less, perpetuating itself by seed.
❗️ Examples:
1. Annual weeds
2. Starting an annual flower garden from seed is one of the greatest joys of spring gardening.
3. Create privacy screens by planting fast-growing annual vines up trellises around your patio.
4. You've probably seen annual flowers planted in all sorts of odd containers, from discarded tires to old boots!
5. This is not the year to plant ornamentals and annual flowers.
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π That, conjunction.
π /Γ°at/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: Expressing a reason or cause.
❗️ Examples:
1. He seemed pleased that I wanted to continue
2. The reason for this is that getting a phone line installed in this area can take up to two years.
3. One of the major reasons for this is that I have been upset by a number of occurrences.
4. The reason given is that this area already contains a high proportion of affordable housing.
5. The first assumption is unproven for the simple reason that viewers are rarely given a chance.
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π Glorious, adjective.
π /ΛΙ‘lΙr·i·Ιs/ πΊπΈ
❓ Definition: very beautiful or excellent
❗️ Examples:
1. July was a beautiful month of glorious sun.
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π Call, noun.
π /kΙΛl/ π¬π§
❓ Definition: An appeal or demand for something to happen or be done.
❗️ Examples:
1. The call for action was welcomed
2. A call to all sides to remain calm and refrain from violence
3. There are more and more calls on his time
4. He begins by discussing calls in the 1870s for reform of the property tax, the backbone of state and local finance.
5. There are also widespread calls here for our government to intervene and cap prices in Ireland.
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