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📚 Solemnize, verb. 🔉 /ˈsɒləmnʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Duly perform (a ceremony, especially that of marriage) ❗️ Examples: 1. They needed only to find a priest to solemnize their marriage. 2. The sacred theatre in which rites of initiation were solemnized. 3. Having at length obtained Alice's consent, Talbot needed only to find a priest to solemnize their marriage. 4. A Sikh's marriage should be solemnized by Anand marriage rites. 5. Knowing that he is not authorized by the laws of this state to do so, he performs a marriage ceremony or presumes to solemnize a marriage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 🎥 Speed Racer (2008) 💬 Oops. Sorry, trade secret.

📚 Trade secret, noun. ❓ Definition: A secret device or technique used by a company in manufacturing its products. ❗️ Examples: 1. The exact technique for producing it is a trade secret, but Bob describes the finished cheese as being something like a Brie that has been subjected to pressing. 2. For now, all the California Supreme Court has made clear is that information likely to be proven to be a trade secret can stay secret while litigation over its status continues. 3. The technique is a trade secret, so the application must be closed source. 4. Currently, perfume manufacturers are not required to reveal the fragrance formula because it is considered a trade secret. 5. I don't know if this would be divulging a trade secret or anything, but what is your overall success rate? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Once and for all, phrase. ❓ Definition: Now and for the last time; finally. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is better to strengthen your determination and stop smoking once for all rather than slowing it down. 2. I'd appreciate any information which serves to conclude this dispute once and for all. 3. Several months earlier he had still been despairing over the work and no doubt wondering whether another seizure would leave him speechless once for all. 4. This is one issue that residents and pedestrians would like to see completed once and for all. 5. If there had ever been any doubters, they were silenced once and for all. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 I Kill Giants (2017) 💬 Climatologists are dumbfounded by the storm that ripped through Long Island.

📚 Dumbfounded, adjective. 🔉 /dʌmˈfaʊndɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Greatly astonished or amazed. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was utterly dumbfounded. 2. Jay explained to a dumbfounded Nick. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The shape of things to come, phrase. ❓ Definition: The way the future is likely to develop. ❗️ Examples: 1. Unlike Agee, then, who was drawn to elegy, Martínez is drawn to prophecy: he sees the provinces as the future, the towns of Cherán and Warren as the shape of things to come. 2. Albeit clever, imaginative, notably fertile, this squeaky-voiced, scurrying little ladies' man, the prophet of the shape of things to come, fell short, in every sense, of his predecessor's measure. 3. Every day, a creation takes place as new uses, new mistakes, new copy is generated, each creating a new meaning for the shape of things to come. 4. For those of you living off-campus already, enjoy a stroll down memory lane; for the residents, beware of the shape of things to come. 5. He predicted no end to the poetic image, for the central aim of poetry is to insinuate the shape of things to come, and that is a perpetual process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 John Wick (2014) 💬 It seems to be fate, or happenstance... or just bad fuckin' luck caused our paths to cross once again.

📚 Happenstance, noun. 🔉 /ˈhap(ə)nˌstans/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • mass noun): Coincidence. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was just happenstance that I happened to be there. 2. An untoward happenstance for Trudy. 3. Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental. 4. It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be. 5. The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flatten the curve, phrase. ❓ Definition: Prevent a rate or quantity from greatly intensifying or increasing within a short time. ❗️ Examples: 1. Taking actions to slow the spread of this virus will flatten the curve and protect the vulnerable. 2. Excessive falls in bond yields will flatten the curve and erode pension funds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Purloin, verb. 🔉 /pəːˈlɔɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal, humorous • with object): Steal (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. He must have managed to purloin a copy of the key. 2. Their images are purloined, confiscated, appropriated, stolen. 3. Were old trees being purloined, appropriated wrongfully, when they were sectioned by scientists? 4. Bits of our constitution were actually purloined from the United States Constitution. 5. I'm not saying people should go around purloining things, but the bottom line is, it isn't murder. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Rush (2013) 💬 I don't pay you a cent. That's outrageous!

📚 Outrageous, adjective. 🔉 /aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Shockingly bad or excessive. ❗️ Examples: 1. An outrageous act of bribery. 2. This is, as been stated, one of the most outrageous acts I have ever seen. 3. We need the people who are responsible for these stupid and outrageous acts to come to their senses and put a stop to it. 4. It was an outrageous act and what was really upsetting from my point of view is that the referee did not look at it. 5. There had to be a reason why he lost control and watched helplessly as his own body committed such an outrageous act. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Money is the root of all evil, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avarice gives rise to selfish or wicked actions. ❗️ Examples: 1. Perhaps he should reflect on Timothy's words, ‘For the love of money is the root of all evil.’ 2. Many people say that money is the root of all evil. 3. They're also taught at the same time, money is the root of all evil. 4. If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be bad. 5. Now he's talking about the old adage that money is the root of all evil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Now You See Me (2013) 💬 And now we are gonna debunk a few magic myths this evening.

📚 Debunk, verb. 🔉 /diːˈbʌŋk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief) ❗️ Examples: 1. She debunks all the usual rubbish about acting. 2. More importantly, it debunks the idea that educational reform is instituted to enhance the skills of the labour force. 3. A very ordinary rural chap (the Mirror piece certainly debunking the idea that he is a reclusive loner), he has understandably won mass public sympathy for the way he was mistreated. 4. You may have heard of professor Richard Wiseman - a British psychologist famous for debunking irrational ideas. 5. However, by an analysis of econometric studies, case study work and official statistics, this paper debunks the idea that, for the majority of these groups, ‘things are getting better’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the shelf, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal, dated): Past an age when one might expect to have the opportunity to marry (typically used of a woman) ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm all depressed about being left on the shelf cos I'm turning 27 on Sunday. 2. And under no circumstances would I fear being past it or left on the shelf. 3. A woman has few options but to find a husband and provider in Georgian England and Bennet is determined that her girls will not be left on the shelf. 4. And she had decided to try to make the best of being left on the shelf. 5. Beginning to think you are going to be left on the shelf forever and end up as an elderly spinster dying alone and being eaten by your own cats? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Frighteners (1996) 💬 Why do you always have to alienate everybody?