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📚 Rebel, noun. 🔉 /ˈrɛb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tory rebels. 2. Rebel forces. 3. This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity. 4. Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement. 5. However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jump on the bandwagon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Scientists and doctors alike have jumped on the bandwagon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bulwark, noun. 🔉 /ˈbʊlwək/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A defensive wall. ❗️ Examples: 1. After landing virtually unopposed, the Fifth Corps moved toward the San Juan Heights, the principal bulwark in the first of three defensive lines around the city. 2. Trenches and low walls of earth braced with wooden beams zig-zagged their way across the fields to where troops laboured at raising bulwarks against rifle fire. 3. Even in wartime, the army was forbidden to cut down fruit trees, unless they were actually being used as bulwarks in defending against a siege. 4. The security forces are a bulwark against the breakdown of society. 5. And a bold, well-communicated agenda provides a bulwark against politicians offering division rather than solutions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Grey's Anatomy (2005) - S12E11 Romance 💬 Because they're predisposed to not like you.

📚 Predispose, verb. 🔉 /ˌpriːdɪˈspəʊz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (predispose someone to/to do something • with object): Make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action, or condition. ❗️ Examples: 1. Lack of exercise may predispose an individual to high blood pressure. 2. I'm kind of predisposed towards disliking them. 3. Further, our training predisposes us to conduct our research as scholars of particular nation-states or regions. 4. If people begin honest dialogues with others they are predisposed to trust, they might be less inclined to take a hard-line position in the broader gun debate. 5. All three agreed that it is difficult to lead the masses anywhere - unless they are predisposed to head in that direction anyways. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Big Bang Theory - The Celebration Experimentation S09E17 💬 — Have to say, you... you do look good in that suit. — Oh. Thank you. — Maybe later I'll, uh... get to see you in your birthday suit. — But this is my birthday suit.

📚 In one's birthday suit, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Naked. ❗️ Examples: 1. I wanna walk around in my birthday suit. 2. I told her that despite it being cooler than usual… I'm still sleeping in my birthday suit. 3. Women looked away and parents shielded their children's eyes as a foreigner with a receding hairline pranced on the New Delhi railway platform in his birthday suit. 4. And a foxy new foreign exchange student strolls around school in her birthday suit. 5. I had to strip off and stand shivering in my birthday suit in calf-high water while she helped me wash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jouissance, noun. ❓ Definition (formal • mass noun): Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy. ❗️ Examples: 1. He looks just exploding with jouissance, wouldn't you say. 2. And I had a stab of sheer jouissance because I knew what I was about to do. 3. I see accessible, crowd-pleasing entertainment that is rich with meaning and jouissance. 4. The jouissance of this movie lies in what we learn about acting, not about human evil. 5. I can feel the jouissance as she reads what has come to her, the deep ecstasy that writing has occasioned, even though the subject is grief, death. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) 💬 But doesn't the commander distort reality more than, say, you do?

📚 Distort, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈstɔːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Give a misleading or false account or impression of. ❗️ Examples: 1. Many factors can distort the results. 2. Many investors now distrust pension accounting because it distorts reported earnings. 3. In addition, the probability of the results being distorted by confounding factors has not been adequately addressed. 4. The nature of adulation does not distort his impression of reality. 5. The change in goodwill accounting also distorts year-over-year earnings comparisons in 2002 and 2003. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 💬 I'm a little out of sorts today.

📚 Out of sorts, phrase. ❓ Definition: Slightly unwell. ❗️ Examples: 1. She's been feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts. 2. With Tiger slightly out of sorts last year, the Americans had to hold off a stiff challenge from hosts Argentina, who were represented by Eduardo Romero and Angel Cabrera. 3. Occasionally, as if by accident, Nora's daughter Beth would turn up, a bit weary from the sea and slightly out of sorts, and Nora would do her best to get her seaworthy again. 4. With Harrington pulling his iron shots and looking slightly out of sorts, it was left to Montgomerie to steady the European ship. 5. But any nerves harboured by Hibernian were swiftly expunged with a brace of gift-wrapped goals against adversaries who were lethargic, lacklustre and terribly out of sorts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quixotic, adjective. 🔉 /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical. ❗️ Examples: 1. A vast and perhaps quixotic project. 2. Others existed only as working hypotheses, unrealized plans or quixotic fantasies. 3. His quixotic, idealist appeal for justice contrasts sharply with the rest of the exhibition, in which justice does not seem to be expected. 4. It is an old-fashioned project, and a quixotic one, but deeply moving in its hope that Wyclif's Bible and Burns's songs form an inheritance we would all want, if only we knew about it. 5. So while the challenge facing the peace movement in south Asia is daunting, it is by no means impossibly quixotic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Big Brother, noun. ❓ Definition: A person or organization exercising total control over people's lives. ❗️ Examples: 1. Big Brother will be watching you from this week when spy cameras start to operate in Essex. 2. For executives who want the Big Brother touch, there are monitoring systems to keep track of employees. 3. Until September 17 of last year, the Canadian government didn't have any Big Brothers on their payroll and we all lived together in blessed harmony within the wonderful realm of free speech. 4. There is much speculation about what it is that the Big Brothers from Brussels will say, good and bad, about Bulgaria. 5. We can help erode the power of these Big Brothers by highlighting some home truths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Predestination (2014) 💬 Hospital records, orphanage records, medical records... Been there, done that.

📚 Been there, done that, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Used to express past experience of or overfamiliarity with something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I've been there, done that, got the video and the T-shirt. 2. It sometimes just feels like I've been there, done that! 3. I've been there, done that - it's for the younger players. 4. Yes, when it comes to writing 50,000 word novels in a month, I've been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. 5. I can quite confidently say that I've been there, done that, and come back. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aorta, noun. 🔉 /eɪˈɔːtə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system. In humans it passes over the heart from the left ventricle and runs down in front of the backbone. ❗️ Examples: 1. At this time, the surgeon begins to develop a dissection plane between the aorta and the pulmonary artery. 2. In an embryo, the aorta and the pulmonary artery are initially a single vessel. 3. The pump device works by assisting the function of the left ventricle, improving blood supply to the aorta and so to the rest of the body. 4. What they die of is called dissection of the aorta, the artery which leaves the heart to supply blood to the rest of the body. 5. The coronary arteries open from the beginning of the aorta and take blood to all parts of the heart tissue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Leisure, noun. 🔉 /ˈlɛʒə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Time when one is not working or occupied; free time. ❗️ Examples: 1. People with too much enforced leisure. 2. Little did he realize the magnitude of the issue which he raised, and that it would occupy his leisure for nearly twenty years. 3. Rather than giving up work at the age of 65, they will ‘cycle’ between periods of work and leisure well into their golden years. 4. Intelligent soldiers never waste the long periods of leisure that characterize peacetime service. 5. I don't buy the idea that the pre-industrial period was a golden age of self-determination and leisure for the vast majority of the British. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic