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📚 Ecstatic, adjective. 🔉 /ɪkˈstatɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ecstatic fans filled the stadium. 2. When my eyes finally adjusted I was ecstatic with happiness. 3. Here's how ecstatic Boston fans got the news from their morning paper. 4. But I hoped he felt the same as I had, ecstatic and bubbling with happiness. 5. And when the game finally became available over the Internet last year, fans were ecstatic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A real live —, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used to emphasize the existence or presence of something surprising or unusual. ❗️ Examples: 1. A real live detective had been at the factory. 2. I think there is a real live monkey living in my computer and he messes with my head by dealing me hands that cannot be won. 3. After three years I am actually taking a real live vacation where I pack a suitcase, get on a plane, and sleep in a hotel. 4. Have I ever shared with you my actual fear of real live trains? 5. He had the advantage of hearing some actual real live witnesses, I gather? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bloviate, verb. 🔉 /ˈbləʊvɪeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US • informal • no object): Talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way. ❗️ Examples: 1. But that is nothing compared to the 4-page bio on her shameless web site, which bloviates at length about, among other things, her ‘honorary degree’. 2. Until this is corrected, a president and secretary of state bloviating about freedom and democracy is received by the rest of the world as mere window-dressing. 3. He spent his entire 10 minutes bloviating and talking about how much he liked him that the the time ran out and he didn't have time to even pose a question. 4. He had apparently been bloviating about civilian casualties caused by military actions. 5. We may have to listen to this obnoxious windbag for another 6 years, bloviating on the Senate floor unrestricted. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Frenzy, noun. 🔉 /ˈfrɛnzi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually in singular): A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage. 2. And in a wild frenzy, Jones also tried to bite other people as police struggled to arrest him. 3. Then suddenly there was a frenzy of excitement in one corner of the square. 4. The sea always reminds me of a slumbering monster, waiting for a storm to whip it into a wild frenzy. 5. Dozens of people come and go in a frenzy of excitement fuelled by coffee and politics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 No rest for the weary, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used as a wry observation on the heavy workload or absence of relaxation that seem to characterize a person's situation. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Transgression, noun. 🔉 /trɑːnsˈɡrɛʃn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'll be keeping an eye out for further transgressions. 2. Few ministers now stand down because of sexual transgressions. 3. Her transgression of genteel etiquette. 4. Mobiles ringing in the dressing room, lateness and the wrong kit are all transgressions that can lead to coughing up dollars. 5. One admits to a crime, a transgression, not an illness, unless the illness is a crime, and depression is not. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A watched pot never boils, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Time seems to drag endlessly when you're waiting for something to happen. ❗️ Examples: 1. Another way of putting it is: a watched pot never boils. 2. They say a watched pot never boils, so you might want to do something else at this point. 3. ‘Um, I hate to sound cliché, but I thought a watched pot never boils,’ Rachel said with interest. 4. While you're waiting (because a watched pot never boils, you know!) go outside and cut the culprits down to their crowns. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sinful, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsɪnfʊl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Wicked and immoral; committing or characterized by the committing of sins. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sinful men. 2. A sinful way of life. 3. Because of the corruption of human reason, which took place in the Fall, humanity has a tendency, not merely to err, but to make wicked, sinful choices. 4. But we live in a fallen, sinful world in which sin invades family units as it does all other aspects of society. 5. Certainly, the real reason man lives wickedly or violently is his corrupt sinful nature. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Beggars can't be choosers, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): People with no other options must be content with what is offered. ❗️ Examples: 1. But my funds are getting down to the wire and so beggars can't be choosers… 2. I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers. 3. Sadly not a two-seater but beggars can't be choosers. 4. It was worth a lot more but beggars can't be choosers. 5. This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Upcoming, adjective. 🔉 /ʌpˈkʌmɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: About to happen; forthcoming. ❗️ Examples: 1. The upcoming election. 2. If he feels well enough and wants to run in an upcoming election, I'd vote for him again. 3. Do you think there has been a lack of international coverage of the upcoming elections? 4. The headland's fate now seems to hang in the result of the upcoming federal election. 5. It will be up to councillors to justify their decision at upcoming elections. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 One good turn deserves another, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If someone does you a favour, you should take the chance to repay it. ❗️ Examples: 1. She stabbed him a season or two back and one good turn deserves another. 2. ‘As I see it,’ the woman said, ‘one good turn deserves another.’ 3. His eyes hardened, ‘Well, I guess one good turn deserves another.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Absorb, verb. 🔉 /əbˈzɔːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action. ❗️ Examples: 1. Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat. 2. Steroids are absorbed into the bloodstream. 3. Molecules may change their rotational energy levels by absorbing energy from electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region of the spectrum. 4. Carbon dioxide primarily absorbs infrared energy emitted by the Earth, thus contributing to the greenhouse effect and warming the Earth's surface and the atmosphere. 5. Electrons in the mineral absorb the energy from the activator and become excited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bat for the other team, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be gay. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sorry to break the news to you ladies but I think he may bat for the other team. 2. I swear all the good-looking guys are batting for the other team. 3. I am seriously considering switching to batting for the other side. 4. Got my gaydar going - he's batting for the other team. 5. I've known several "straight" married men who decided after much soul-searching to bat for the other side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Absorb, verb. 🔉 /əbˈzɔːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or experience) ❗️ Examples: 1. She absorbed the information in silence. 2. Michael understood that he would never fully absorb the French experience if language were a barrier. 3. To a certain extent, all through life we absorb information we understand, or about which we care, and filter the rest. 4. He is a bright young man who absorbs information and experiences like a sponge. 5. Analysts must fully absorb cultural information, an area in which the intelligence community rarely excels. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Blood is thicker than water, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important ones. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know there are people out there who believe that blood is thicker than water and that family is the most important thing in the world, but I have to say - I just don't feel it. 2. He believes in honour and trust between friends, loyalty between lovers, and that blood is thicker than water between family members, but he discovers all these notions have fallen apart. 3. Families can be difficult and demanding, but blood is thicker than water. 4. The relationship between the trade union movement and the Labor Party is always one that is like a family and that is where blood is thicker than water. 5. It's not that you don't love them, and it's not that you are not grateful - but I do think that blood is thicker than water. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Handwriting, noun. 🔉 /ˈhandrʌɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A person's particular style of writing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her handwriting was small and neat. 2. And the style of your handwriting at that point of time could bare your soul in the presence of others. 3. The handwriting and style were that of a class geek that Jeremy probably bullied into writing. 4. Style, flair, neatness and layout of handwriting are the criteria that judges use to assess the entries. 5. I sometimes try to write in between the pictures but my handwriting does not seem to suit the style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic