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📚 Pervicacious, adjective. 🔉 /pəːvɪˈkeɪʃəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare): Very obstinate or stubborn; headstrong. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Casino Royale (2006) 💬 Give our guests five minutes to leave... or throw them overboard.

📚 Overboard, adverb. 🔉 /ˈəʊvəbɔːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: From a ship into the water. ❗️ Examples: 1. The severe storm washed a man overboard. 2. Three of these massive steel containers were lost overboard in the water of Man last November and only one has been recovered. 3. Aft of the galley is a head with an integral shower with sump to discharge shower water overboard. 4. The boat's French skipper was still missing last night and is believed to have been washed overboard on Friday. 5. He was seen tossing deckchairs into the water to give people who had already jumped overboard something to cling to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Monster (2003) 💬 Because after my daddy killed himself, we were out on the streets.

📚 On the streets, phrase. ❓ Definition: Homeless. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of people who are out on the streets is lower than twelve months ago. 2. I have seen our lost generation of young people, in hostels for the homeless or out on the streets. 3. A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box. 4. The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Bedford has risen in the last year. 5. It's real hard not to feel sorry for people who have no homes and sleep on the streets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Longest Ride (2015) 💬 The work is circa 1963.

📚 Circa, preposition. 🔉 /ˈsəːkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (often preceding a date) approximately. ❗️ Examples: 1. The church was built circa 1860. 2. The ancient church dates to circa 1000 AD and is the oldest standing building in the parish of Aghamore. 3. He discovered a settlement dating back to the early bronze age, circa 2000 BC, in Warburton. 4. Mountmellick courthouse was built circa 1840 and served the town for close on a century and a half. 5. For some reason we were discussing Coronation Street, and I quoted my favourite line, circa 1966. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Axe Cop (2013) - S01E07 💬 Why don't you go home and catch some Zs?

📚 Catch some Zs, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal): Get some sleep. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'll go back to the hotel and catch some Zs. 2. I was catching a few Zs on the lower bunk in our call room. 3. Why is it whenever I try to catch some Zs all I can hear is you two squawking? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ipse dixit, noun. 🔉 /ˌɪpseɪ ˈdɪksɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A dogmatic and unproven statement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Overall, the Court's peremptory style in addressing the jus ad bellum reflects an unfortunate ipse dixit approach to judicial reasoning. 2. Recent Supreme Court decisions emphasize the need to regulate the admissibility of expert testimony by means of standards that require opinions to go beyond ipse dixit--that is, that are based on more than the fact that the expert said it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 💬 A small, elderly man, smartly dressed, with an exceptionally lively, intelligent face and an immediately perceptible air of sadness.

📚 Lively, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪvli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Full of life and energy; active and outgoing. ❗️ Examples: 1. A lively and uninhibited girl. 2. He was so lively and full of energy that it dawned on us that he must have been in some sort of pain for a lot longer than we had thought. 3. Although a lively and outgoing teenager, he lives with the effects of what his father, Greg, termed ‘subtle neurological damage’. 4. Nine-year-old Ricky is described as a lively, active boy who loves reading, swimming, watching TV and playing computer games. 5. She was so lively and outgoing, and was very popular. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the groove, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Performing confidently or consistently well. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team are not really in the groove tonight. 2. It might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove. 3. A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together. 4. While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song. 5. He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Ship of Theseus (2012) 💬 There are a lot of photographers who stage… elaborate scenes, costumes, lights… and I think this just gives them a sense of purpose.

📚 Elaborate, adjective. 🔉 /ɪˈlab(ə)rət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. ❗️ Examples: 1. Elaborate security precautions. 2. Elaborate wrought-iron gates. 3. She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown. 4. There were some matters the tribunal did not refer to although they could have, and some minor errors in relation to the details of this elaborate and complicated scheme. 5. The buildings were all made of white stone, built carefully with elaborate details, as if every family lived in a miniature castle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the heat of the moment, phrase. ❓ Definition: While temporarily angry, excited, or engrossed, and without stopping for thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. Things said in the heat of the moment. 2. Sadly at this moment all that was found in the heat of the moment, was two angry faces, two rapidly beating hearts and one truth. 3. That had been all too short, and the ones the night before that had been frenzied, excited ones caught in the heat of the moment. 4. ‘I think there's nothing more dangerous than adopting legislation in the heat of the moment,’ he says. 5. One thing is certain, rugby will always be a very tough game, in which injuries can be expected, and in most cases there is very little a referee can do to prevent many of them in the heat of the moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Reboant, adjective. 🔉 /rɪˈbəʊənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary, poetic): Resounding, reverberating; loudly echoing. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 You must be famished, having to wait all that time in your room.