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📚 Conditioning, noun. 🔉 /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)nɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. Social conditioning. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Memento (2000) 💬 All the previous cases responded to conditioning.

📚 Think on one's feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: React to events decisively, effectively, and without prior thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. I am sort of thinking on my feet here as I react to the information from my two correspondents and from other sources. 2. How the candidates think on their feet and react to the audience can be a telling sign as to how they will act once they are in office. 3. I can see Dallas not knowing what to do, but the other three are veterans and talk about not thinking on your feet or reacting to circumstances. 4. She was improvising and having to think on her feet. 5. He thought on his feet, a very bright individual as far as prisoners go. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bruce Almighty (2003) 💬 They're seeing if l can think on my feet, you know, like, l might have to do in a live news anchor situation.

📚 Elicit, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈlɪsɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna. 2. The work elicited enormous public interest. 3. They say they are interested in eliciting strong reactions to their work but, as people, the deepest emotion they seem willing to display is this kind of bland amusement. 4. If some students disagree with an incorrect answer, elicit the correct response. 5. Prolonged question and answer sessions will eventually elicit the response the teacher is looking for. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Captain Fantastic (2016) 💬 Designed to elicit blind obedience and strike fear into the hearts of the innocent and the uninformed.

🎬 Prince of the City (1981) 💬 Needless to say, we're very proud of Detective Ciello's work.

📚 Needless to say, phrase. ❓ Definition: Of course. ❗️ Examples: 1. Needless to say, he didn't believe me. 2. We were in a joint family then and needless to say, it was good fun. 3. And, needless to say, shortly after he began to believe me, he went away. 4. So needless to say, there were a lot of jokes about spies and so on. 5. So, needless to say, I am intimately familiar with the incident and what took place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cantankerous, adjective. 🔉 /kanˈtaŋk(ə)rəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative. ❗️ Examples: 1. He can be a cantankerous old fossil at times. 2. When the cantankerous old miller dies of a heart attack, he bequeaths his property to his eldest son, his donkey to the second, and the mill cat to his youngest son Mark. 3. Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home. 4. This isn't like the cantankerous old Johnboy we've come to know and loathe, and frankly I find this a bit disturbing, but a welcome change. 5. The only other person from my group who was there was Ernie (the old cantankerous fool). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 I Declare War (2012) 💬 Mmhm, and experience the positive effects that these memories evoke.

📚 Evoke, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈvəʊk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind. ❗️ Examples: 1. The sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood. 2. I really need to jog my memory to evoke images of the place. 3. Words are flashing in my mind, recollections of a time past, evoking specific feelings, recalling certain events, ones I do not wish to recollect. 4. What's to say there's not a homeless soul on a cold Dublin street who occasionally glances at a digital photo - using the memories evoked by the image to hold onto reality for yet another day. 5. The bird in hand image immediately evoked a memory I had from childhood. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Once I Was a Beehive (2015) 💬 So she decided to bite the bullet and bring her brooding angst along with her.

📚 Bite the bullet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Decide to do something difficult or unpleasant that one has been putting off or hesitating over. ❗️ Examples: 1. Decisions have to be taken and as director you have got to bite the bullet. 2. But now I have decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. 3. I decided to bite the bullet and spend the money to rebuild her engine. 4. We decided to bite the bullet, and implement the scheme in order to raise standards, for the sake of Merton's children. 5. With a new wife and a baby on the way, Chris decided to bite the bullet and flew over to Canada two weeks ago, enlisting the help of the local paper. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Empath, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛmpaθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (chiefly in science fiction) a person with the paranormal ability to perceive the mental or emotional state of another individual. ❗️ Examples: 1. She didn't need to be a telepath or an empath to know that. 2. Kai, I don't need to be an empath to read your thoughts right now. 3. I don't have telepathic skills I'm not even an empath. 4. Egewe had discerned that a part of the reason for this was that Kjarian did not entirely trust the empath, and so he was largely emotionally guarded when within his presence. 5. Barathor was an empath, he could feel others emotions but most specifically pain. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Saw II (2005) 💬 It was the police and the press who coined the nickname Jigsaw.

📚 Coin, verb. 🔉 /kɔɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Invent (a new word or phrase) ❗️ Examples: 1. He coined the term ‘desktop publishing’ 2. Known for his penchant for coining apt words and phrases, Tukey is credited with inventing the word bit (binary digit) in 1946, and he was responsible for the first use of several terms in mathematical statistics. 3. I'd like to recommend The Word Spy, a fascinating website that collects recently coined words and phrases from the media. 4. Visionary and inventor Buckminster Fuller coined the phrase ‘Think global, act local’. 5. A new word was coined to describe such individuals: ‘cybersquatters.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The world, the flesh, and the devil, phrase. ❓ Definition: All forms of temptation to sin. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rossetti struggled with these words in her desire to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain. 3. The daily, hourly conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil, shall at length be at an end: the enemy shall be bound; the warfare shall be over; the wicked shall at last cease from troubling; the weary shall at length be at rest. 4. In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. 5. Epicurus' dubious reputation reflected the Christian tendency to regard earthly pleasures as the evil lures of the world, the flesh, and the devil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Comprise, verb. 🔉 /kəmˈprʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Consist of; be made up of. ❗️ Examples: 1. The country comprises twenty states. 2. The new board will comprise twelve members, including four worker directors. 3. The trust was to comprise five people including his chartered accountant. 4. The remainder of the unit comprises warehouse accommodation and includes a roller shutter door. 5. The cover comprises a lid and a raised rim which is recessed from the outer edge of the lid. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic