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📚 Ignorance is bliss, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't want to hear about them: ignorance is bliss in this case. 2. Where pop music is concerned, ignorance is bliss. 3. Ignorance is bliss and Reece slept well and happy that night. 4. Ignorance is bliss to the general public when it comes to such sensitive and important institutions as the economy. 5. Unless you believe ignorance is bliss, the discovery of the truth of any situation is a good thing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Henceforth, adverb. 🔉 /hɛnsˈfɔːθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: From this or that time on. ❗️ Examples: 1. Henceforth, parties which fail to get 5% of the vote will not be represented in parliament. 2. It stipulated that no concessions would henceforward be given to individuals, only to recognised institutions. 3. Besides, even if a sensible plan is henceforth followed, it will only prevent future mistakes. 4. Also I am having a party with my flatmate, who henceforth shall be referred to as Blondie. 5. Almost incidentally, on August 2, 1883, a decree went up in every town square in Russia: Yiddish theater henceforward would be illegal throughout the land. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make someone's blood boil, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Infuriate someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It made her blood boil every time he came near. 2. It was those thoughts that made her blood boil with anger and frustration. 3. Experience what makes the Inspector tick, and what makes his blood boil. 4. I am increasingly sensitive to injustice, which makes my blood boil, and these paintings were born from the anger provoked by this horror. 5. All her words make my blood boil with jealousy and anger as she speaks the taboo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cleave, verb. 🔉 /kliːv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain. ❗️ Examples: 1. The large axe his father used to cleave wood for the fire. 2. He swung the mighty blade with one arm cleaving the ground and splitting the tiles around it. 3. As we all know, this issue has caused massive issues for the party internally, this divide cleaves the party right down to its lowest level. 4. Especially around Washington, it was inevitable that speculation about the identity of the killer would cleave along ideological lines. 5. Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rant and rave, phrase. ❓ Definition: Shout and complain angrily and at length. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself. 2. I began to rant and rave angrily, in a loud voice. 3. ‘You can't rant and rave; you can't scream and put people in shock, though I have worked with directors who do that and it's pretty scary,’ Garry says. 4. I could rant and rave about it but that wouldn't make a difference. 5. Only this afternoon did I rant and rave about these designs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Farouche, adjective. 🔉 /fəˈruːʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Sullen or shy in company. ❗️ Examples: 1. How farouche you are — I refuse to stay and talk to you any longer. 2. I once said that Jonny was farouche, which he's never forgotten, but he was less so today, despite one of the conceits of the production being that Iago is conjuring the whole thing. 3. They were farouche, romantic characters riding arrogantly through the gardens on their massive elephants. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Convo, noun. 🔉 /ˈkɒnvəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A conversation. ❗️ Examples: 1. I struck up a convo with the girl sitting next to me. 2. Developing savvy in voicing yourself is a super way to keep any convo going. 3. My friend makes up an excuse to get off the phone five minutes into every convo. 4. Look attentive to let the person know you're into the convo. 5. No more endless discussions with your buds - his name is now banished from your convos. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 What makes someone tick, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): What motivates someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. People are curious to know what makes British men tick. 2. We're good at finding out about people, what makes them tick, what they are interested in, what they have bees in their bonnets about - a key networking skill. 3. I'd like the opportunity to find out a bit what they were like as people, what makes them tick, and, you know, enjoy their company. 4. No one really knows how these people think, what makes them tick, and which of the five contenders stirs their blood. 5. I get a thrill when I can get into the male psyche and learn about what makes them tick. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aurora, noun. 🔉 /ɔːˈrɔːrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A natural electrical phenomenon characterized by the appearance of streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky, especially near the northern or southern magnetic pole. The effect is caused by the interaction of charged particles from the sun with atoms in the upper atmosphere. In northern and southern regions it is respectively called aurora borealis or Northern Lights and aurora australis or Southern Lights. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted auroras near the poles of both Saturn and Jupiter. 2. Gaps in the magnetosphere also allow for one of Earth's most beautiful, eerie phenomena: the aurora borealis, or northern lights. 3. Bound to the Earth, our only naturally occurring experience with space weather comes from what we can see with our eyes: eclipses, comets, auroras, and sunspots. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Adhere, verb. 🔉 /ədˈhɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (adhere to • no object): Closely follow, observe, or represent. ❗️ Examples: 1. The account adhered firmly to fact. 2. In numerous poetry collections, books of essays and fiction that followed, he closely adhered to this view of an unfettered aesthetic - not yoked to any ideology or dogma. 3. The association also holds cat shows and judges them based on how closely they adhere to the standards. 4. The play strikes me as an attempt to recreate a winning formula, adhering rather too closely to the mould of its last show, Hatched. 5. The script adheres pretty closely to the basic plot of the 1949 book, which imagined a totalitarian state where even the thoughts of its subjects are controlled by an all-seeing Big Brother. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make common cause, phrase. ❓ Definition: Unite in order to achieve a shared aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Nationalist movements made common cause with the reformers. 2. Let the humanists make common cause with them to achieve freedom. 3. Today, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on what these developments have meant for your colleagues in public broadcasting, and share some ideas about how our institutions might make common cause in the future. 4. As a hunter-gatherer nation, Australia could play a further role in world affairs by making common cause without a hunter-gatherer peoples, all of whom are taking a terrible hammering. 5. On certain foreign policy issues, Switzerland and Bulgaria have a track record of making common cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cleave, verb. 🔉 /kliːv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (cleave to • no object): Adhere strongly to (a particular pursuit or belief) ❗️ Examples: 1. Part of why we cleave to sports is that excellence is so measurable. 2. Nobody gets points for being virtuous and cleaving to fidelity when there are no opportunities to do otherwise. 3. It struck a chord with one of the superstore's workers, who cleaves to anonymity presumably to cleave to her job. 4. I concluded that I rather regret not having completely cleaved to the letter of the law. 5. Jean Bodin's famous definition of 1576 of the commonwealth was one which the following century could instinctively cleave to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be just what the doctor ordered, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be very beneficial or desirable under the circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. A 2–0 victory is just what the doctor ordered. 2. A media-savvy leader with a vision, with seriousness of purpose, with honesty and decisiveness as his strongest points, a diplomat par excellence, he is exactly what the doctor ordered. 3. The style is apparently a cross between ancient tragedy and TV news, which sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for a sultry summer weeknight. 4. Meantime, let's just say that London is exactly what the doctor ordered - in other words, I am very happy to be here. 5. I know killer heels aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, but I'll take the psychological boost any day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Avalanche, noun. 🔉 /ˈavəlɑːnʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was swept to his death by an avalanche in 1988. 2. During interglacial periods the steep, unstable U-shaped valley sides are subject to mass movements such as rock falls and large rock avalanches. 3. Only on a mountain can you experience avalanches of snow or rock. 4. Find a simple wind that sails your mind and body to Denver, Colorado; don't even think about the avalanches of mountain snow. 5. Then, way up on the mountain, a little avalanche fell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Come off it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Said when vigorously expressing disbelief. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Come off it, he'll know that's a lie.’ 2. Indeed, she claims that there is an unspoken English rule that she calls ‘the importance of not being earnest’, along with a peculiarly English injunction to say, ‘Oh, come off it!’ 3. Come off it, that's not something ‘worth remembering’. 4. My honest (and admittedly, somewhat cruel) reaction is ‘Oh, come off it, you're not that special.’ 5. ‘Oh come off it, mate,’ he said, because he is not only a hawk, but has a keen and impatient mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Suspend, verb. 🔉 /səˈspɛnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect. ❗️ Examples: 1. Work on the dam was suspended. 2. While immediate lay-offs have been temporarily suspended, the crisis continues with thousands of jobs among Rover's suppliers also under threat. 3. The traders have been forced to temporarily suspend trading as they do not want any more clients to fall into this black hole. 4. Recently Ryanair was forced to temporarily suspend services on its Strasbourg / London route. 5. Following the Thursday explosion, reports were circulated that claimed the security raid has been suspended and forces were ordered to retreat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tired and emotional, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used euphemistically to indicate that someone is drunk. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tired and emotional party people. 2. It has the added advantage that he tends to update it when leglessly tired and emotional, so value added humour is practically guaranteed. 3. A source told The Mirror, ‘They'd been at Studio 57 for an hour and a half and were both pretty tired and emotional when Charlotte wanted to move on.’ 4. Finally, somewhat tired and emotional, we ended up having a nightcap around 3am - some 12 hours after we started drinking - before retiring to bed. 5. Increasingly tired and emotional, Cochrane gave Wilson a demonstration of the art of the ‘Glasgow kiss’ - much to the amusement of all concerned. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Consanguineous, adjective. 🔉 /ˌkɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor. ❗️ Examples: 1. Consanguineous marriages may give rise to recessive syndromes. 2. We use the patterns of homozygosity at multiple loci to distinguish between excess homozygosity caused by consanguineous mating and that due to undetected population subdivision. 3. It makes feasible the analysis of multilocus data observed on general pedigrees containing possibly consanguineous marriages and missing information. 4. Horizontal lines represent crosses, thick horizontal lines are consanguineous crosses, and vertical lines represent descendants from such matings. 5. Fully recessive mutations are maintained in higher frequencies than partially recessive ones and thus cause greater declines in fitness under consanguineous matings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic