Cambridge Dictionary: Part 8

Cambridge Dictionary:

📚 Hand, noun.

🔉 /hand/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A person's workmanship, especially in artistic work.

❗️ Examples:

1. His idiosyncratic hand

2. It does not matter that they are multiples or that we cannot actually see the artists' hand in the facture of the work.

3. Tyler attributes the strength of the work to the artist's hand.

4. I'm a great hand at inventing

5. I am a wise and experienced hand at this stuff and I know when I am right.

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📚 Bluster, verb.

🔉 /ˈblʌstə/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Talk in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect.

❗️ Examples:

1. You threaten and bluster, but won't carry it through

2. I don't care what he says, I blustered

3. The government blustered, threatened, and finally publicly admitted that the students were right.

4. And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.

5. My own view would be to let him bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants, and let that be a matter between he and his own country.

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📚 Paddle, noun.

🔉 /ˈpad(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A paddle-shaped instrument used for mixing food, or stirring or mixing in industrial processes.

❗️ Examples:

1. For the rose petal cream: In bowl of food processor fitted with paddle, cream buttercream and butter until fluffy.

2. Add this to the batter and mix just until smooth - a few turns of the paddle should do it.

3. The person behind the counter slaps a scoop of ice cream onto a chilled marble slab, throws some cookie crumbs or chopped nuts on top, and mixes the whole thing together using flat paddles.

4. An old fashioned metal ice cream scoop or a flat metal paddle scoop works well to clean out the inside of a pumpkin.

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📚 Love, noun.

🔉 /lʌv/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A formula for ending an affectionate letter.

❗️ Examples:

1. Take care, lots of love, Judy

2. All the very very best to you Tom, and lots of love from Charlie.

3. Hmmm nothing of any import to say so I will sign off again, lots of love.

4. Looking forward to seeing you soon, Lots of love, Grannie

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📚 Hand, verb.

🔉 /hand/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Take in or furl (a sail)

❗️ Examples:

1. Hand in the main!

2. To stow (hand) the sail the sheets are released and the clewlines and buntlines are pulled tight.

3. Hand in the main!

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📚 Race, noun.

🔉 /reɪs/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: The course of the sun or moon through the heavens.

❗️ Examples:

1. The industrious sun already half his race hath run

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📚 Inside, adverb.

🔉 /ɪnˈsaɪd/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈsaɪd/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: in prison

❗️ Examples:

1. Her husband's inside for armed robbery.

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📚 Inexcitable, adjective.

🔉 /ɪnɪkˈsʌɪtəb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: (of a person) not easily excited; unexcitable.

❗️ Examples:

1. I was greeted at the front desk of the New York State Labor Office by the usual inexcitable nose-picking troglodyte.

2. Adam is an inexcitable 28-year-old who works at the local Seattle public radio station and never takes risks.

3. Even the inexcitable old doctor had felt the attraction which had already conquered three such dissimilar people as Alban Morris, Cecilia Wyvil, and Francine de Sor.

4. I suppose it is the result of falling in love with an inexcitable sort of a woman, that I had rather sit here and talk quietly than waltz.

5. For the most part, he's very inexcitable and subsequently unphased by any threat.

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📚 Tintinnabulation, noun.

🔉 /ˌtɪntɪnabjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A ringing or tinkling sound.

❗️ Examples:

1. The tiny tintinnabulation, faint as fairy bells

2. People who were further away from the Minster probably had a better chance of hearing the tintinnabulation because the sound travelled well - despite failing to reach the ears of those gathered right underneath.

3. The trees around them were thin and willowy, soft breezes shook their leaves and sounded like cheery tintinnabulations ringing throughout the air.

4. Inside: the mellifluous cacophony of the gaming machines, the tintinnabulations of the bells.

5. If you can't hear in that the tintinnabulation of heaven, then you have a J-cloth ear and a Bakelite soul.

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📚 Out, adjective.

🔉 /aʊt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Not concealing one's sexuality or gender identity.

❗️ Examples:

1. I had been out since I was 17

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📚 Word, noun.

🔉 /wərd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A person's account of the truth, especially when it differs from that of another person.

❗️ Examples:

1. In court it would have been his word against mine

2. She was condemned on her word alone without proof and lacked defense counsel.

3. Sex offences can be difficult to prove or disprove as it often comes down to one person's word against the other's.

4. It's the attendant's word against that of a patient who can only communicate using ACC.

5. Unfortunately, there are no special identifying marks on the belt to authenticate its once owner, and in fact there's now only my word that his son passed it on to me.

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📚 Train, verb.

🔉 /treɪn/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Be taught through sustained practice and instruction.

❗️ Examples:

1. He trained as a plumber

2. Canada, his native land, the UK where he trained and taught, and the United States all owe much to this sophisticated thinker.

3. Everybody who trains takes lay-offs at one time or another.

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📚 Wind, noun.

🔉 /wɪnd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Used in reference to an impending situation.

❗️ Examples:

1. He had seen which way the wind was blowing

2. There's trouble in the wind.

3. The vibes coming out of the company suggest that radical change is not in the wind.

4. Even media moguls like him are beginning to feel the chill wind of recession.

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📚 Swing, verb.

🔉 /swɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: (of a bowler) make a delivery of (a ball) deviate sideways from a regular course in the air.

❗️ Examples:

1. Sure enough, Bangladesh were soon in trouble as Sri Lanka's fast bowlers swung the new ball, grabbing three quick wickets after the tea interval.

2. In the one day arena, few bowlers swing the ball away from the right-hander for fear of bowling wides.

3. He was a dangerous bowler who could swing the ball both ways and in 21 Test matches took 78 wickets costing 27.13 per wicket.

4. And in the early part of his career before his back trouble, Botham was a genuine strike bowler who could swing the ball both ways.

5. He can swing the ball late and is nippy enough to worry batsmen on a track that has pace and bounce.

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📚 Take, verb.

🔉 /teɪk/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Assume.

❗️ Examples:

1. I take it that someone is coming to meet you

2. Can I take it that you felt you had assumed a huge responsibility in taking on this awesome story?

3. By rediscuss, I take it to mean that we're discussing what the salary & benefits would be.

4. In this particular case, in London, I take it, none of these guys left any indication.

5. Can I take it then oxygen will be provided in these new circumstances?

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📚 Insinuate, verb.

🔉 /ɪnˈsɪnjʊeɪt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Suggest or hint (something bad) in an indirect and unpleasant way.

❗️ Examples:

1. He was insinuating that I had no self-control

2. He has implied it, insinuated it, hinted it, and intimated it, but he has not suggested it.

3. But it appears to be afraid to tackle such issues head-on, and instead hints and insinuates at the possible problems and considerations.

4. Some actors I work with, guys that really aren't qualified, would tell you how to do something, or imply something, insinuate something.

5. The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.

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📚 Hack, noun.

🔉 /hak/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A board on which a hawk's meat is laid.

❗️ Examples:

1. Take up is sometimes used to mean to withdraw a hawk from the mews or from hack with a view to preparing her for hunting.

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📚 Play, verb.

🔉 /pleɪ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Engage in without proper seriousness or understanding.

❗️ Examples:

1. It would be wrong to assume that he is simply playing at right-wing politics

2. So that she could play at being a countrywoman at Versailles, Louis XV provided her with a hermitage comprising a pavilion, a menagerie, a pasture, dairy and kitchen garden.

3. I mean, they were just playing at it before, but now they're completely serious.

4. Lemar doesn't actually seem to know they're just playing at being in love with each other.

5. But they were playing at being villains, like in the movies.

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📚 Front, noun.

🔉 /frʌnt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: The position directly ahead of someone or something; the most forward position or place.

❗️ Examples:

1. She quickly turned her head to face the front

2. Mr. Malik took a step forward from his position at the front of the classroom.

3. Now I'm in a balanced setup position, with the ball toward the front of my stance.

4. After flying into my neck, the roach flew off toward the front of the pool hall.

5. I heard a very loud smack and my eyes went directly to the front of the room.

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📚 Pin, noun.

🔉 /pɪn/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A stick with a flag placed in a hole to mark its position.

❗️ Examples:

1. His third shot out of the sand sees the ball roll 20 feet past the pin but he holes the tricky par putt.

2. Can you imagine wanting to play golf without greens, targets, pins, or holes.

3. In a round that included three birdies and seven pars, she also claimed near pins on holes eight and fifteen, and the long putt on hole nine.

4. And as Fred and his three colleagues approached the green, the wind again took hold to blow the flag pin - and the four watched amazed as the ball plopped into the hole.

5. Daly had an opportunity to force a playoff, but also stroked his four-foot par hole past the pin.

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📚 Lead, noun.

🔉 /liːd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Sheets or strips of lead covering a roof.

❗️ Examples:

1. The ladder was over-short, and it required an effort to heave oneself from it through the casement on to the leads.

2. The church was restored by the late Godfrey Allen, who renewed the leads of the roof.

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📚 Great, adjective.

🔉 /ɡreɪt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Denoting the larger or largest part of a place.

❗️ Examples:

1. Great Malvern

2. The Historic market town of Great Dunmow is proving a hotbed for stars of the future as talented youngsters hit the stage and screen.

3. Although not as hustling and bustling as 100 years ago, the sea town of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding areas are still as busy with everyday life.

4. And the lovely town of Great Malvern itself provides a step back in time to a more genteel era.

5. The Roman town of Great Chesterford lies on the northern boundary of Essex, almost all of it hidden beneath a ploughed field.

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📚 Board, verb.

🔉 /bɔːd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: (of a pupil) live in school during term time.

❗️ Examples:

1. Parents had to cope with their child boarding at a special school

2. Unlike Oxford rival Summer Fields, where most pupils board, at the Dragon day pupils are in the majority.

3. These students board from Sunday night to Friday, going home for the weekend.

4. At eight, Will starts boarding at Horris Hill prep school, taking piano lessons and finally becoming head chorister.

5. She attended the local primary school, but was sent to board at Roedean school near Brighton at the age of nine.

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📚 Challenge, noun.

❓ Definition: something needing great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully, or the situation of facing this kind of effort

❗️ Examples:

1. It’s a challenge being in a marriage when both partners have high-pressure jobs.

2. No matter how long you write, poetry remains a challenge.

3. Germany faces broad challenges in the coming years.

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📚 Love, noun.

🔉 /ləv/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf.

❗️ Examples:

1. Give her my love

2. Big Hugs to Tamsin. I'm sending all my love and best wishes to Tamsin who goes in for her operation today.

3. We also send our best love to you and the children all wish that they were going on the same ship as their Father.

4. Now, I don't know her, but my heart goes out to her, and I'm sending my love.

5. We send our love to a wonderful woman and all the best for a speedy recovery.

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📚 Spoil, verb.

🔉 /spɔɪl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Be extremely or aggressively eager for.

❗️ Examples:

1. Cooper was spoiling for a fight

2. But the drama was only just beginning and, as the Lords began debating the bill, it became obvious that they were spoiling for a fight.

3. Not everyone, however, is spoiling for a fight.

4. Many of the girls who greeted Em warmly happened to date him at one time or another in their lives, and were spoiling for righteous retribution.

5. I didn't bother speaking because he was spoiling for a fight.

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📚 Witness, noun.

🔉  /ˈwɪt·nəs/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: a person in a law court who promises to tell the truth and answers questions about something that was seen or is known

❗️ Examples:

1. Defense/prosecution witnesses

2. Five witnesses are expected to testify at the trial today.

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📚 Salt, verb.

🔉 /sɒlt/ 🇬🇧 /sɑːlt/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: to add salt to or put salt on something

❗️ Examples:

1. Don't forget to salt the potatoes.

2. When it's icy, the city salts the roads to thaw the ice.

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📚 Bubbly, adjective.

🔉 /ˈbʌbli/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Containing bubbles.

❗️ Examples:

1. Bake until the top is crisp and bubbly

2. So I've just spent an hour in the bath wallowing in bubbly stuff, salts, scrubs, my expensive shampoo and conditioner, and it was wonderful.

3. I'm just asking if you want a refreshing bubbly beverage.

4. Perhaps they preferred bubbly drinks to soap bubbles.

5. The result is a bubbly appearance of the carbon/polymer films in the c-TEM micrographs.

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📚 Preserve, noun.

🔉 /prɪˈzəːv/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A foodstuff made with fruit preserved in sugar, such as jam or marmalade.

❗️ Examples:

1. A jar of cherry preserve

2. Home-made preserves

3. However, the preserve we now recognize as jam is a relatively modern descendant of all the rather solid fruit and sugar conserves, preserves, and marmalades of the 17th and 18th centuries.

4. He then opened a jar of cherry preserve, spooned some out, and put it in his mouth.

5. After recently re-discovering the last two jars of her home-made preserve, Mrs Tomkins, 73, wanted to find out whether it was edible.

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📚 Love, noun.

🔉 /lʌv/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A personified figure of love, often represented as Cupid.

❗️ Examples:

1. Dante stands on the left, led by Love who bends to kiss Beatrice.

2. A winged Cupid, or Love, is represented as having gone before them, preparing the nuptial feast.

3. Love is shown as armed with bows and arrows.

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📚 Approach, noun.

🔉  /əˈproʊtʃ/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: (of a person or object) the act of coming near to someone or something, or (of an event) the state of being about to happen soon

❗️ Examples:

1. The approach of winter sends many birds flying south.

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📚 Tell, verb.

🔉 /tɛl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Count (the members of a group)

❗️ Examples:

1. The shepherd had told all his sheep

2. He told the number of girls and officers standing in a line.

3. He told the number of school that they had established, and how they obtained their scholars.

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📚 Lane, noun.

🔉 /leɪn/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A narrow road, especially in a rural area.

❗️ Examples:

1. She drove along the winding lane

2. Then the group set off up the narrow winding lane to the main road and the lay-by.

3. Sitting in front of the computer screen you get a driver's eye view as you travel along narrow streets, busy roads and winding country lanes in various weather conditions.

4. We traveled to the outskirts of Osaka and we proceeded to walk through a traditional residential area with narrow lanes until we arrived at an old house.

5. He added that firemen often found it difficult to reach the sites, which were densely populated with little access to the areas because the small lanes were too narrow for the fire engines to enter.

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📚 Hurt, noun.

🔉 /həːt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Physical injury; harm.

❗️ Examples:

1. Rolling properly into a fall minimizes hurt

2. Actual bodily harm is any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health and so called comfort of the victim and must be more than merely trivial or transient.

3. On Monday, a mystery blast on the capital's main street inflicted direct physical hurt on more than a dozen people.

4. It is to Nicola's eternal credit that her main concern was that those with her in the salon had managed to dash to safety and escape physical hurt.

5. While there was undoubtedly physical hurt, it is the psychological damage that rankles most.

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📚 Rollicking, adjective.

🔉 /ˈrɒlɪkɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Exuberantly lively and amusing.

❗️ Examples:

1. This is all good rollicking fun

2. One would've had more rollicking good fun in an evening of prayers for the dead.

3. But, overall, this is rollicking good fun and a genuinely thrilling entry into the movie series which does much to erase any doubts that their finest had lost his edge.

4. Sunday's closing gala cabaret promises to be a rollicking affair.

5. The rollicking rock moment sounds like it could have been lifted straight from the his songbook and screams hit.

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📚 Good, adjective.

🔉 /ɡʊd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Commanding respect.

❗️ Examples:

1. He was concerned with establishing and maintaining his good name

2. You know how it takes a long, long time to build a good reputation and the flick of an eyelid to lose it?

3. Kenneth had acquired a good reputation in the area, and was asked to take on the role, to which he agreed.

4. Finally she was forced to pay damages to the women whose good names had been dragged through the mud.

5. Being charged in this investigation has affected him greatly and his good name has been slurred.

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📚 Charge, noun (C1).

🔉 /tʃɑːdʒ/ 🇬🇧 /tʃɑːrdʒ/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: a formal police statement saying that someone is accused of a crime

❗️ Examples:

1. The 19-year-old will be appearing in court on Thursday where she will face criminal charges.

2. He has been arrested on a charge of murder.

3. The police brought a charge of theft against him.

4. The police have had to drop (= stop) charges against her because they couldn't find any evidence.

5. He claimed he had been arrested on a trumped-up (= false) charge.

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📚 Race, noun.

🔉 /reɪs/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A group of people descended from a common ancestor.

❗️ Examples:

1. A prince of the race of Solomon

2. These racists believed that not all races of humans had descended from Adam and Eve.

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📚 Take, verb.

🔉 /teɪk/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Capture (an opposing piece or pawn)

❗️ Examples:

1. Black takes the rook with his bishop

2. If the black king takes the rook, black loses the queen.

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📚 Bin, verb.

🔉 /bɪn/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Group together (data) in bins.

❗️ Examples:

1. The mean-variance estimates were then binned into a two-dimensional histogram.

2. The numbers of links to other domains in such graphs were logarithmically binned, and frequencies were thus obtained.

3. Although this meant losing information due to binning quantitative data, it increased the power of the method to describe a large range of morphological variation and large patterns in evolutionary history.

4. The measured end-to-end distances and the bend angles were binned in 10% intervals, and graphed as histograms.

5. The ESTs were binned into clusters with the program Fragment Assembly System (Accelrys).

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📚 Move, noun.

🔉 /muːv/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A manoeuvre in a sport or game.

❗️ Examples:

1. Robson began a move which saw Webb run from the halfway line down the right

2. In probably the best move of the game, Moseley scored the important try.

3. Smith says much of his success throughout his career came from studying tapes of Rice and incorporating Rice's moves into his game.

4. He has incorporated more and more ridiculous moves into his game each year.

5. Unless he trains his body to a fitness level he has never reached and readjusts his game to include moves he has never considered, he will not become a great basketball player.

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📚 Acclimate, verb.

🔉 /ˈaklɪmeɪt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Acclimatize.

❗️ Examples:

1. This should help new students acclimate to college life

2. It will take a few days to get acclimated to the altitude

3. I quickly became acclimated to a variety of cultures and people - which was wonderful because I've always loved learning about new cultures.

4. He tells of getting acclimated to Saudi Arabia and the life of an advisor.

5. The student-athlete is getting more time to get acclimated to the institution, says Steve Mallonee, the NCAA director of membership services and governance liaison.

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📚 Challenge, noun.

❓ Definition: the act of refusing to accept someone as a member of a jury

❗️ Examples:

1. A challenge to a member of the jury should be made before the trial begins.

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📚 Hold, verb.

🔉 /həʊld/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Wait or stop doing something.

❗️ Examples:

1. Hold it right there, mate!

2. Hold it right there. No one's going anywhere.

3. Hold it! Something doesn't sound right.

4. Whoa, hold it a minute, Mike said, sitting up straight in his chair.

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📚 Downsize, verb.

🔉 /ˈdaʊnsʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: (of a company) eliminate staff positions.

❗️ Examples:

1. Recession forced many companies to downsize

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📚 Transportation, noun.

🔉 /transpɔːˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: The action of transporting someone or something or the process of being transported.

❗️ Examples:

1. The era of global mass transportation

2. Could changes in fuel and transportation costs have an impact on your business?

3. Using locally available material minimises transportation costs and helps the local economy.

4. However, the mass transportation of livestock around the country will clearly have to be looked at.

5. Right now, only the United States has the global and transportation resources to manage such a force.

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📚 Repertoire, noun.

🔉 /ˈrɛpətwɑː/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A stock of plays, dances, or items that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform.

❗️ Examples:

1. He accompanied one of the dances, and his repertoire of bagpipe tunes is extensive.

2. This highly respected modern troupe danced an art-conscious repertoire in Chicago and during a Midwestern tour.

3. But to a dance aficionado, the repertoire presented by the popular troupe is inconsistent.

4. You can't fossilize a dance repertoire, but you can pickle it in a love that maintains its ongoing existence.

5. It has developed its own repertoire of liturgical dances and works dedicated to community needs.

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📚 Leave, verb.

🔉 /liːv/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Depart from permanently.

❗️ Examples:

1. At the age of sixteen he left home

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📚 Hopscotch, noun.

🔉 /ˈhɒpskɒtʃ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A children's game in which each child by turn hops into and over squares marked on the ground to retrieve a marker thrown into one of these squares.

❗️ Examples:

1. Children enjoy playing games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek.

2. The purpose of this event - which involved another 50 children - was to see if they would still play traditional street games like hopscotch in the absence of cars and traffic.

3. As a youngster I would run screaming if any of my playmates were sick after eating too much ice-cream before a particularly vigorous game of hopscotch.

4. If it's raining lightly, go out for a game of mud-puddle hopscotch.

5. I stay away from caffeine, sugar, cold medicine, and fast food and my favorite game is hopscotch.

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📚 Run, verb.

🔉 /rʌn/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Move or cause to move between the spools of a recording machine.

❗️ Examples:

1. I ran the tape back

2. When the show aired, I recorded it onto a 3/4" videotape and I don't think I've run the tape since that night.

3. Brendan ran the tape back a few inches, turned the VCR on again and watched the girls at work a second time.

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📚 Horse, noun.

🔉 /hɔːs/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Heroin.

❗️ Examples:

1. For the great horse called heroin will take you to hell.

2. Instead of a bunch of layabouts smoking glue and cracking charlie's horse with LSD, we could have good, fit criminals with discipline and firearms skills.

3. He remembers his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

4. Easy, add someone doing bong hits or horse in the rectum and you've got instant mise en scène.

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📚 Bad, adverb.

🔉 /bad/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Badly.

❗️ Examples:

1. He beat her up real bad

2. I tell you, if we start to win again, I want to beat them real bad this time.

3. No matter how bad I threw the ball, it was still going to knock down at least one pin.

4. It would be disrespectful of me to talk bad of her on a forum that everybody can read.

5. Papa wanted to strap on one of those gliders and run off that hill so bad he could taste it.

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📚 Master, noun.

🔉 /ˈmɑːstə/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A postgraduate degree.

❗️ Examples:

1. I had a master's in computer engineering

2. Vaughn is currently in graduate school pursuing a master's in business administration.

3. Lorenzo has a master's in communications from Boston University.

4. Corliss has a bachelor's degree from Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia and a master's in film studies from Columbia University.

5. Since graduating from the University of Ulster with a master's in 1999 he has had numerous exhibitions in Ireland and London.

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📚 Taxi, noun.

🔉 /ˈtaksi/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ 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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📚 Confusion, noun.

🔉 /kənˈfjuːʒ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A situation of panic or disorder.

❗️ Examples:

1. The guaranteed income bond market was thrown into confusion

2. The knights on the bridge behind were thrown into confusion, panicked, and retreated.

3. Even in these testing situations, panic and confusion ran high when someone hit the water.

4. That's the way to create the impression of confusion, panic and chaos.

5. The biggest risk from a dirty bomb is the chaos and confusion caused by mass panic.

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📚 Retrospectively, adverb.

🔉 /rɛtrə(ʊ)ˈspɛktɪvli/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: With consideration of past events or situations.

❗️ Examples:

1. Medical records were retrospectively reviewed on 120 patients

2. In our model, he is a myth invented retrospectively.

3. The film pieces together Caravaggio's life retrospectively, from the vantage point of the dying artist.

4. He seemed to her, at least retrospectively, to have been the first man she loved enough to have married.

5. Thinking retrospectively about any exhibition is always a complicated assignment.

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📚 Haul, verb.

🔉 /hɔːl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Propel or pull oneself with difficulty.

❗️ Examples:

1. He hauled himself along the cliff face

2. He hauled himself back aboard and pulled the javelin out of the riverbed, allowing the vessel to float free again.

3. One man hauls himself along on a three-wheeled skateboard, propelling himself with his one leg as his opposite hand uses a flat, iron contraption as a cane.

4. I've found it much more difficult to haul myself out of bed in the morning.

5. Steadily he pulled himself across, by the time he hauled himself up, onto the bank he was exhausted.

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📚 Support, noun.

🔉 /səˈpɔːt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Evidence that serves to corroborate something.

❗️ Examples:

1. The study provides support for both theories

2. Old evidence provides support only within the context of competition between hypotheses.

3. The prosecution point principally but not solely to the telephone evidence as providing such support.

4. Two independent lines of evidence provide support for our conclusion.

5. To speak differently, such support is provided by the general fact that neurons are causal.

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📚 Absolute, noun.

🔉 /ˈabsəluːt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Something that exists without being dependent on anything else.

❗️ Examples:

1. Chittamatra, or Mind-Only school, presents a threefold classification of reality as the imaginary, the dependent and the absolute.

2. The devotees sing bhajans, chant incantations, and priests perform aarti and puja, invoking the blessings of Shiva, the divine, the pure, the absolute.

3. The order of reason accepts that the world is the realm of the relative; the order of prophecy imposes upon the world the pattern of the absolute.

4. To assert that this generation is in contact with the absolute: all who came before were mistaken, all whom come after merely inheritors is hubris is it not?

5. Apparently, the word is out that anyone who wants less than the absolute must want no protections whatsoever.

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📚 Tend, verb.

🔉  /tend/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: to be likely to happen or to have a particular characteristic or effect

❗️ Examples:

1. We tend to eat at home.

2. Children tend to be like their parents.

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📚 Call, noun.

🔉 /kɔːl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A command to execute a subroutine.

❗️ Examples:

1. Parameter values may be changed by calls to a special purpose input specification subroutine

2. One direct method to utilize the kernel is for a process to execute a system call.

3. That means, the call to a subroutine must be on its program line rather than somewhere in an expression.

4. To be safe you can use the keyword before any subroutine call even if the subroutine is already defined.

5. A code element issues a call to the first routine.

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📚 Hold, verb.

🔉 /həʊld/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Restrain oneself.

❗️ Examples:

1. Hold, hold! he cried

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📚 Mute, adjective.

🔉 /mjuːt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Refraining from speech or temporarily speechless.

❗️ Examples:

1. Harry sat mute, his cheeks burning resentfully

2. Police officers remained mute spectators as pedestrians, bikers, car drivers, autodrivers and other road users waited out the jams under a bright January sun.

3. The director appears in the last shot of all the stories, a mute spectator who is a symbol of society, which is portrayed as having become insensitive to everything.

4. In both the cases, the public remained mute spectators.

5. These intensive singing sessions are exactly that as I discovered one Tuesday evening recently, sitting in mute admiration.

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📚 Putrid, adjective.

❓ Definition: very unpleasant or ugly

❗️ Examples:

1. A dress in a putrid shade of yellow

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📚 Argument, noun.

🔉 /ˈɑːɡjʊm(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

❗️ Examples:

1. I've had an argument with my father

2. Heated arguments over public spending

3. There was some argument about the decision

4. I didn't see it but after the debate a few students approached the MP and had a heated argument with her, one guy went so far as to say she wasn't welcome here.

5. Last spring, I got into a heated argument with a bunch of lawyers about judicial activism.

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📚 Direction, noun.

🔉 /dɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Instructions on how to reach a destination or about how to do something.

❗️ Examples:

1. Preston gave him directions to a restaurant not far from the studio

2. The manufacturer's directions were followed while performing the test.

3. Read the entire label before use and carefully follow the labeled directions for use.

4. Give one direction at a time during the procedure to help your child if needed.

5. Follow the manufacturer's directions on the label when applying.

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📚 Mat, noun.

🔉 /mat/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A piece of coarse material placed on a floor for people to wipe their feet on.

❗️ Examples:

1. When he walks into the blackness of the entryway, he turns and wipes his feet onto the floor mat before pulling his shoes off.

2. Walking through the doorway Kim carefully wiped her feet on the small mat at the door.

3. As he came in stamping his muddy feet on the porch mat, she paused in the kitchen to listen.

4. She wiped her feet on the welcome mat and stepped into the house.

5. I went in, ignoring him, and stopped on the welcome mat where people might wipe their shoes.

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📚 Take, noun.

🔉 /teɪk/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A particular version of or approach to something.

❗️ Examples:

1. His own whimsical take on life

2. He is obviously having fun with his take on a midwestern everyman, but make no mistake, it is a take and little more.

3. His new takes on the classic tales made us laugh out loud at more than one bedtime.

4. The main problem with his take on the story is his overwhelming niceness as a director.

5. Do you think Hollywood is running out of ideas or do you welcome new takes on classic stories?

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📚 Hurt, adjective.

🔉 /həːt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Physically injured.

❗️ Examples:

1. He complained of a hurt leg and asked his trainer to stop the fight

2. Dogs and cats with hurt paws

3. Now Cutler has a hurt ankle to add to his groin injury.

4. A player comes hobbling off out of the game with a hurt knee.

5. He doesn't have a hurt arm, doesn't have a sore arm.

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📚 Imperil, verb.

🔉 /ɪmˈpɛrɪl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Put at risk of being harmed, injured, or destroyed.

❗️ Examples:

1. They advised against tax increases for fear of imperilling the recovery

2. He was said to be the source of the description of the chancellor as psychologically flawed and that would have fitted: he always seemed ready to do anything and destroy anyone who imperilled his man.

3. Allowing workers to divert some of this money into the stock market will not only put their retirement future at risk, it will imperil the federal government's ability to keep its commitment to current retirees.

4. Here's another comedy in which a neurotic schmuck is imperilled and injured in a series of encounters with his new in-laws.

5. When landscape is destroyed, culture is imperiled.

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📚 Fascinating, adjective.

🔉 /ˈfasɪneɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Extremely interesting.

❗️ Examples:

1. A fascinating book

2. It's a fascinating book following the fortunes of the horse and its owners.

3. So today it's time for some fascinating facts about prime numbers.

4. Another pastime that has kept me away from the keyboard is a fascinating book I've been reading.

5. Those who persevere or browse further than the main listings, will find some of the most fascinating chunks of the book.

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📚 Oil, verb.

🔉 /ɔɪl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Lubricate, coat, or impregnate with oil.

❗️ Examples:

1. I'll oil that gate for you tomorrow

2. Lightly oil the pan

3. Place the balls onto a lightly oiled baking tray and bake them for about 20 minutes, so they are slightly browned.

4. Lightly oil a 12-hole muffin tray then line each mould with a bacon rasher.

5. After coupling to the coach, No. 823 was coaled manually and then had to reverse down the shed road to be oiled and greased for the return journey.

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📚 Term, noun.

🔉 /təːm/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Conditions under which an action may be undertaken or agreement reached; stipulated or agreed requirements.

❗️ Examples:

1. Their solicitors had agreed terms

2. He could only be dealt with on his own terms

3. But he was not prepared to commit to any decisions of policy, or reach any terms of agreement with the British Premier.

4. But being able to make compromises on your own terms means you can live with them.

5. Did the record-company people have designs for you, or were they ready to hear you on your own terms?

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📚 System, noun.

🔉 /ˈsɪstəm/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A set of organs in the body with a common structure or function.

❗️ Examples:

1. The digestive system

2. Decreased kidney function is associated with complications in virtually all organ systems.

3. This in turn enhances the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the body helping the body systems to function to the best of their ability.

4. If you have had part of your stomach or other organs removed, this will affect your digestive system.

5. If the indigestion continues, your doctor may want to send you for further investigation of your digestive system.

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📚 Hand, noun.

🔉 /hand/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A person's arm, including the hand.

❗️ Examples:

1. That dog bite me on mi hand, right below the elbow

2. Leggo mi hand.

3. Mi wife has bought a 'dog' a bound no bigger than mi hand.

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📚 Offensive, adjective.

🔉 /əˈfen.sɪv/ 🇬🇧 /əˈfen.sɪv/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: used for attacking

❗️ Examples:

1. Since the other side had taken offensive action (= attacked), we had no choice but to defend ourselves.

2. Knives of any kind are classed as offensive weapons.

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📚 Polyglot, adjective.

🔉 /ˈpɒlɪɡlɒt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Knowing or using several languages.

❗️ Examples:

1. A polyglot career woman

2. Finally, regional media is thriving on TV, satellite language channels are catering to polyglot populations in various parts of the country.

3. The polyglot orchestra backing her up plays world music from everywhere and nowhere that incorporates Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and other mellifluous sounds in addition to Mexican mariachi guitar.

4. Rebecca West filled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon with brilliant speeches and diatribes by a polyglot cast of characters, and Furst has a similar cacophony of speakers analyzing every detail of the political situation.

5. A polyglot Englishman in Vienna and Berlin, a Jewish immigrant in Britain and a maverick among Communists, Hobsbawm is today almost as much at home in France, Italy and Latin America as he is in Hyde Park.

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📚 Plot, verb.

🔉 /plɒt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)

❗️ Examples:

1. The two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign

2. Brother plots against brother

3. I think that when I sleep, or when I'm out doing whatever, they are secretly plotting against me.

4. France nurtured what was essentially a myth of a united people, secretly despising and plotting against the occupiers for five years.

5. If he is indeed plotting against us, his plans will be foiled.

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📚 Out, adverb.

🔉 /aʊt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: No longer involved in a situation, competition, or activity.

❗️ Examples:

1. Oxford United are out of the FA Cup

2. If you don't get into line quickly in this competition you can be out before you've really begun.

3. England's captain said he knew he had broken ribs in an earlier tackle and would be out for a month.

4. I was out for six months with an ankle injury.

5. You would not have guessed he had been out for six weeks through injury.

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📚 Wonderful, adjective.

🔉 /ˈwʌndəfʊl/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvellous.

❗️ Examples:

1. They all think she's wonderful

2. The climate was wonderful all the year round

3. It is a substantial piece of work and a wonderful, and inspiring, record of bravery.

4. If he's on the tube we can just mute the gabble and marvel at his wonderful face instead.

5. It was the very early stages of what has become an amazing and wonderful relationship.

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📚 Mark, noun.

🔉 /mɑːk/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A particular temperature level in a gas oven.

❗️ Examples:

1. Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5

2. Now tip the mix into the warm soufflé dish and stick the result in an oven at gas mark six.

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📚 Push, verb.

🔉 /pʊʃ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Sell (a narcotic drug) illegally.

❗️ Examples:

1. She was arrested for pushing hard drugs

2. Police today declared war on drug dealers from London pushing cocaine, heroin and crack to children as young as 13.

3. But Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe said legalising cannabis would lead drug barons to push even more hard drugs.

4. They lie, rob, cheat, push hard drugs, intimidate innocent people and run protection rackets.

5. Ah, the shadowy evil dealer, pushing drugs outside the school gate.

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📚 Mind, verb.

🔉 /mʌɪnd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Used to express one's strong enthusiasm for something.

❗️ Examples:

1. I wouldn't mind some coaching from him!

2. I would not mind a fling in the wilderness with said co-worker.

3. Despite a range of food experts claiming that the new product is nothing more than a gimmick, most said they would not mind a spoonful or two.

4. I'm sure our people would not mind a few million dollars spent on tracking down and liquidating these outstanding professionals.

5. In the meantime, however, he would not mind a little help from his team-mates.

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📚 Jiffy, noun.

🔉 /ˈdʒɪfi/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A very short time; a moment.

❗️ Examples:

1. We'll be back in a jiffy

2. This is the sort of movie that will either keep you enthralled at each moment or send you to sleep in a jiffy.

3. After all, it's the very industry that gave us the concept of quick and dirty - you know, solutions conjured up in a jiffy to meet the pressing needs of customers.

4. On display was the Honda fireblade, a 929 cc, four - cylinder bike that can propel the rider to a top speed of 280 km per hour in a jiffy.

5. But a scolding from Ms. Gopi did the trick, and every one, child and parent, hastened to set matters right, and cleared the litter in a jiffy.

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📚 Abandon, noun.

🔉 /əˈband(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Complete lack of inhibition or restraint.

❗️ Examples:

1. She sings and sways with total abandon

2. I drove recklessly and with total abandon as I sped as fast as I could through the suburban streets of Redmond.

3. Later, he looked up into her eyes, and saw an odd concentration there, a lack of abandon.

4. The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos.

5. France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night.

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📚 Out, adjective.

🔉 /aʊt/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Published.

❗️ Examples:

1. The book should be out before the end of the month

2. My new book is out in eight weeks.

3. According to the band, they are going to New York to record and the album should be out before the end of the year.

4. The new album is out next month and marks a return to U2's rock and roll roots.

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📚 Hold, verb.

🔉 /həʊld/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Keep possession of (something), typically in the face of a challenge or attack.

❗️ Examples:

1. The rebels held the town for many weeks

2. White managed to hold on to his lead

3. Only the original rebel group which holds the northern half of Ivory Coast is, so far, in talks with the government.

4. Rebels hold the north and loyalist forces the south of what was considered a haven of peace and prosperity until a 1999 coup.

5. Thousands of others remain trapped in the northern hills held by the rebels.

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📚 Rich, adjective.

🔉 /rɪtʃ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: (of a country or region) having valuable natural resources or a successful economy.

❗️ Examples:

1. Rich countries can afford to spend money on the environment

2. The implication is that protecting manufacturing industries accounts for the success of rich countries.

3. To the extent that the rich countries have bigger economies and more export trade, there is some truth in this claim.

4. The G8 summit at Gleneagles next week will discuss the likely impact of high oil prices on the global economy and what the rich countries of the west ought to do in response.

5. It is a myth that efficient regulation, which protects those it should protect without distorting the economy, is a luxury that only rich countries can afford.

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📚 Bother, verb (A2).

🔉 /ˈbɒð.ə(r)/ 🇬🇧 /ˈbɑː.ðɚ/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: to annoy or cause problems for someone

❗️ Examples:

1. Don't bother your father when he's working.

2. I'm sorry to bother you, but could you help me lift this suitcase?

3. I didn't want to bother her with work matters on her day off.

4. The noise was beginning to bother us, so we left.

5. She threatened to call the police if he didn't stop bothering her.

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📚 Place, noun.

🔉 /pleɪs/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: The second position, especially in a horse race.

❗️ Examples:

1. He comes in after a monster effort last time out that only ended in a place showing.

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📚 Half-and-half, adverb.

🔉 /ˌhɑːf(ə)nˈhɑːf/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: In two equal parts.

❗️ Examples:

1. Views were split almost exactly half-and-half

2. Dip the base of the cuttings in rooting hormone powder or liquid and insert to about a third of their length around the edge of a plant pot filled with a half-and-half mix of multi-purpose compost and vermiculite.

3. I feel very sorry for the poor, but I also feel very sorry for the rich - it's a half-and-half thing.

4. Despite the Uists being roughly half-and-half Presbyterian and Catholic, there are no separate schools.

5. The tapioca pearls are the most popular; you can also choose a half-and-half mix.

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📚 Push, noun.

🔉 /pʊʃ/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: An act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself.

❗️ Examples:

1. He closed the door with a push

2. The Chinese are reportedly already a slight majority but new plans indicate a big push to move more settlers in.

3. The move follows a government push to recruit 3,000 matrons across the country as part of a major plan for the National Health Service.

4. The move is the latest push by baseball to increase its marketing to younger fans - and make money along the way.

5. There is a push now to move the drugs over the counter.

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📚 Good, adjective.

🔉 /ɡʊd/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Strictly adhering to or fulfilling all the principles of a particular religion or cause.

❗️ Examples:

1. I am the eldest of five in a good Catholic family

2. Yet what is said to be good in one religion may not be good in another religion.

3. Merton, confused, answered, “I guess what I want is to be a good Catholic.”

4. A good socialist would not have such aspirations.

5. As long as you follow the rules of the monastery then they will respect you as a good monk.

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📚 Sequence, verb.

🔉 /ˈsiː.kwəns/ 🇬🇧 /ˈsiː.kwəns/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: to discover the order in which nucleotides (= chemical substances) are combined within DNA

❗️ Examples:

1. Researchers sequenced the full genome of a rat.

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📚 Help, verb.

🔉 /hɛlp/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Cannot or could not avoid.

❗️ Examples:

1. He couldn't help laughing

2. I'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience, but it can't be helped

3. As he got closer to Stuart, he couldn't help but laugh when he saw how filthy she was.

4. She did a funny little curtsy which Josh and Silver couldn't help but laugh at.

5. I couldn't help but think that their owners would have felt considerable heartache.

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📚 Raw, adjective.

🔉  /rɔ/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: (of weather) cold and wet

❗️ Examples:

1. It was a raw, wintry day with a cold wind.

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📚 Have, verb.

🔉 /hav/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: Hold or grasp in a particular way.

❗️ Examples:

1. He had me by the throat

2. He had me by the arm and lifted me, forcibly, to my feet.

3. The two tumbled for a minute before Ryan had him in a headlock.

4. In a matter of seconds, Jacob had me by the collar of my shirt.

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📚 Shanty, noun.

🔉 /ˈʃanti/ 🇬🇧 

    

❓ Definition: A small, crudely built shack.

❗️ Examples:

1. They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.

2. Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small-arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members.

3. However, immigrant workers from other African countries often live in shanties that ring these and other cities.

4. Squatters' shanties can be found on the fringes of the cities.

5. As Noel kept up a commentary on his life in the aborigine reservations, he also showed pictures of how tin shanties and flimsy tents were the homes of the aborigines for the better part of the 20th century.

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📚 Bloody, adjective (C1).

🔉 /ˈblʌd.i/ 🇬🇧 /ˈblʌd.i/ 🇺🇸

    

❓ Definition: extremely violent and involving a lot of blood and injuries

❗️ Examples:

1. It was a long and bloody battle and many men were killed.

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