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📚 Outstanding, adjective. 🔉 /aʊtˈstandɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Exceptionally good. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team's outstanding performance. 2. Nepal is also, of course, a country of outstanding natural beauty. 3. I understood this land was an area of outstanding natural beauty. 4. The Lake District National Park is an area of outstanding natural beauty that is protected for the benefit of the nation as a whole. 5. There is an area of outstanding natural beauty right on the doorstep and it is blocked off because of the dangerous stepping stones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 So long, phrase. 🔉 /ˌsəʊ ˈlɒŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Goodbye till we meet again. ❗️ Examples: 1. When she walked out on the Sugababes as they hit the big time, it looked like so long, Siobhan. 2. I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying so long stuff. 3. ‘So long!’, Catharine waved goodbye to Audrey as the door closed. 4. So long, Mother. Be expecting a postcard or two in the mail, if you're lucky. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Andragogy, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): The method and practice of teaching adult learners; adult education. ❗️ Examples: 1. Much has been written about andragogy in general education circles over the past fifty years. 2. The most widely known model of instruction for adult learners is Knowles' model of andragogy. 3. Given these principles of andragogy, experiential learning can be an effective methodology for teaching adults. 4. This principle is consistent with theories of teaching and learning for children (pedagogy) and adults (andragogy). 5. This concept of learning is consistent with andragogy, a learning model frequently preferred by adult learners where practice experiences are integrated with theoretical coursework. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Espionage, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛspɪənɑːʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. ❗️ Examples: 1. The camouflage and secrecy of espionage. 2. Balzac pumped him for information on organised crime and political espionage. 3. He denied his detention had anything to do with politics or espionage. 4. The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail. 5. Even if espionage had taken place at Los Alamos, they argued, it had not mattered. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get the picture, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Understand a situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. Any trouble your father might have we can hide — d'you get the picture? 2. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. 3. I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. 4. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. 5. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Reversal, noun. 🔉 /rɪˈvəːs(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action. ❗️ Examples: 1. A dramatic reversal in population decline in the Alps. 2. The reversal of tidal currents. 3. The data therefore chronicle a dramatic reversal in the direction of invasion. 4. Clearly, such a reversal of the current course would not be achievable overnight. 5. The mayor's comments marked a reversal of his previous position on the issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 How I Met Your Mother (2005) - S01E22 💬 It's gonna rain cats and dogs, folks.

🎬 Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) 💬 I am really sorry that your family got massacred.

📚 Massacre, verb. 🔉 /ˈmasəkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Deliberately and brutally kill (many people) ❗️ Examples: 1. Thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers. 2. In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured. 3. We would massacre their cities, killing woman and children, and they would do the same. 4. Then criminal responsibility would in fact be much clearer than it would be if soldiers had massacred civilians in violation of orders. 5. In the later stages of the campaign, we know the citizens of these villages were killed and massacred and buried in mass graves. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Wild Child (2008) 💬 You so don't need to play hard to get. I'm totally into you.

📚 Play hard to get, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Deliberately adopt an aloof or uninterested attitude, typically in order to make oneself more attractive or interesting. ❗️ Examples: 1. They are playing hard to get with the media, and are keeping us all interested. 2. Sometimes when dates played hard to get, it made the chase more interesting and the inevitable surrender more satisfying. 3. ‘He tried to talk to me for a while after we met, but I was playing hard to get,’ she said with a slight smile. 4. In this love affair, like many others, playing hard to get can only make for a better relationship. 5. After months of being cautious and playing hard to get, I'm going to bravely risk rejection this time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Earthquake, noun. 🔉 /ˈəːθkweɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. ❗️ Examples: 1. When it came to measuring these big earthquakes, the Richter scale fell short. 2. Nine on the Richter scale indicates an earthquake of absolutely awesome destructive power. 3. This is one of the most destructive earthquakes of the twentieth century. 4. They are subject to periodic earthquakes and volcanic activity that can destabilize them. 5. Tsunamis are waves formed when huge masses of water are displaced by undersea volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Like hell, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very much (used for emphasis) ❗️ Examples: 1. My head hurts like hell. 2. All I know is that my mouth hurts like hell and I've about as much chance of getting in to see my dentist this week as I have getting into a size 10 dress. 3. I didn't really think about it much as I grew up, unless I bashed my hand against something then the tiny scar hurt like hell. 4. Either way, it hurts like hell on my right side when I breathe in. 5. It really is a magnificent bruise and I have no doubt it hurts like hell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Legislation, noun. 🔉 /lɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Laws, considered collectively. ❗️ Examples: 1. Housing legislation. 2. Those are the words that are used in sections of this type in a great deal of legislation. 3. This had made them exempt from certain legislation that does not apply to the Crown. 4. Many of these provisions may make sense if they are placed in ordinary legislation. 5. The legislation made the occupier liable and this was held to include the receiver. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Constant work without rest or relaxation is harmful to one's personal life and well-being. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition to firm information, we have a little game because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 2. All work and no play is stressful. 3. Being in shape doesn't have to be all work and no play. 4. It won't be all work and no play at the show. 5. Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quidnunc, noun. 🔉 /ˈkwɪdnʌŋk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic): An inquisitive and gossipy person. ❗️ Examples: 1. Who can be found this quirky capital of curmudgeons and quidnuncs? 2. Being the nosiest person I know, a quidnunc by definition, I usually will do anything to find out something. 3. There will always be at least one quidnunc keen on telling you that your life lacks purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Conspire, verb. 🔉 /kənˈspʌɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act. ❗️ Examples: 1. They conspired against him. 2. They deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue. 3. They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them. 4. This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him. 5. Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Subtract, verb. 🔉 /səbˈtrakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Take away (a number or amount) from another to calculate the difference. ❗️ Examples: 1. Subtract 43 from 60. 2. Dollar amounts were calculated by subtracting the rework cost from the Navy stock number ‘ready-for-issue’ value. 3. So to get the correct figure, we have to subtract the number of days when it was both. 4. Not only does the game add and subtract a number of different fields to generate a final total for a race, you can easily spend half a minute or more just watching the game tally up the number of mistakes you made. 5. The overconfidence indices were calculated by subtracting the percentage of correct answers from the mean percentage of certainty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic