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📚 Take for granted, phrase. ❓ Definition: Fail to properly appreciate (someone or something), especially as a result of overfamiliarity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The comforts that people take for granted. 2. The right to own land and other property is taken for granted in many countries. 3. Everything ran smoothly for the next two months, but I guess I took things for granted. 4. I know I took you for granted, expecting you always to be around when that's not possible. 5. The problem with being an All-Star is that good performances are taken for granted and people expect more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Spare, adjective. 🔉 /spɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of time) not taken up by one's usual duties or activities; available for leisure. ❗️ Examples: 1. He tried to write poetry in his spare time. 2. For most acts, this wouldn't work, but Lemon Jelly has a style that requires headphones and a spare 45 minutes to absorb the album from start to finish. 3. A question from another child revealed Mr Blunkett wishes he had more spare time. 4. I have more spare time and I'm more perceptive of my life and my surroundings. 5. With more spare time than younger people, we can spend some of it at the casino. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 My Dinner with Andre (1981) 💬 So the party just comes to a halt and breaks up.

📚 Grind to a halt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Gradually slow down or lose momentum and then stop altogether. ❗️ Examples: 1. In summer traffic all but grinds to a halt. 2. The surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt. 3. It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt. 4. Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said. 5. By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Surrogates (2009) 💬 I can assure you VSI's products have the most stringent safety standards in the industry.

📚 Stringent, adjective. 🔉 /ˈstrɪn(d)ʒ(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stringent guidelines on air pollution. 2. Their produce must be processed under the most stringent conditions by well-trained staff. 3. Discourage or restrict the use of private vehicles by means of stringent conditions. 4. What the PAP's leaders were united over was that candidates must meet stringent conditions. 5. He also argues that more stringent requirements need to be laid down. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Second to none, phrase. ❓ Definition: The best, worst, fastest, etc. ❗️ Examples: 1. The group has a reputation that is second to none in the building industry. 2. The food was quite wonderful, the atmosphere perfect and the welcome second to none. 3. This is a country that's proven second to none when it comes to putting curling on the TV airwaves. 4. He worked harder than anyone and his course management was second to none. 5. The character design is second to none, and they've really taken advantage of the machine's strengths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nomophobia, noun. 🔉 /ˌnɒməˈfəʊbɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Aversion to or fear of laws or rules. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aisle, noun. 🔉 /ʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A passage between rows of seats in a building such as a church or theatre, an aircraft, or train. ❗️ Examples: 1. The musical had the audience dancing in the aisles. 2. Turtle chose his seat on the train across the aisle from Tim in the row behind Megan and Jeff. 3. The bus was headed from the Western Wall to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood on the city's outskirts, and families with children were packed in the seats and aisles. 4. Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row. 5. At a humanist ceremony at York Crematorium, conducted by Maggie Blunt, mourners sat and kneeled in the aisles because every seat was taken. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Lambent, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlambənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary): (of light or fire) glowing, gleaming, or flickering with a soft radiance. ❗️ Examples: 1. The magical, lambent light of the north. 2. His eyes were huge and lambent in his starved face. 3. In the wider connotations of the title it seems to me that the lambent flames can refer to non-technical themes. 4. The lifts had closed, the punters had gone, the domain was ours and a lambent, purplish light settled on the silent mountain. 5. Her fists clench, and he could have sworn that her eyes were blazing with fire, the lambent glow bathing him in an evil red light. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Particle, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɑːtɪk(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A minute portion of matter. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tiny particles of dust. 2. Uncatchables were like magnets for loose electrons, and whenever they became solid, it was because they had attracted all of the minute particles of matter in the area towards them. 3. It is true that Newton did suggest that if we could know the forces that operate on the minute particles of matter, we could understand why macroscopic processes occur in the ways they do. 4. Cloud seeding is a snowmaking technique that discharges minute particles of a chemical called iodide into winter storm clouds to create snow. 5. His entire body was caked with minute particles of dried salt, and it was beginning to drive his Sentinel sense of touch off the irritation scale. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be in the know, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be aware of something known only to a few people. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had a tip from a friend in the know: the horse was a cert. 2. In today's information-based society, there are few things more infuriating than not being in the know. 3. Well, I used to pride myself as being in the know but I have heard nothing about this idea. 4. Essentially, one needs to be in the know to make the most of Berlin's nightlife. 5. But you have to be in the know to have access to the best-kept secret in showbiz. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Conceal, verb. 🔉 /kənˈsiːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Not allow to be seen; hide. ❗️ Examples: 1. A line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea. 2. My dark hair conceals my damp yellow eyes, like a funeral veil that hides a widow's tears. 3. She carefully picked up two small bottles, concealing one with the other. 4. The room in which was entered was both dead and dark, concealing everything that existed in it. 5. No legislation allows that drugs can be concealed in the patients' food. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every man has his price, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone is open to bribery if the inducement offered is large enough. ❗️ Examples: 1. Last week he was appointed Senior manager there and it just goes to show that every man has his price. 2. I'm sure they have discovered it by now but aren't telling, but every man has his price. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Kick-Ass (2010) 💬 In the eighteen months since my mother died... the only epiphany I had was realising that life just goes on.

📚 Epiphany, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈpɪf(ə)ni/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization. ❗️ Examples: 1. Then, as if we all have an epiphany at the same moment, we simultaneously yell out. 2. But I have to believe my epiphany was the decisive moment in my adult life. 3. In a sudden epiphany, he had remembered that he still had Krillir's guns, silver weapons with eagles engraved on the handles. 4. Almost everyone in recovery has an story of an epiphany, the moment they knew they needed to stop using. 5. I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Let sleeping dogs lie, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but may well do so as a result of such interference. ❗️ Examples: 1. And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie. 2. So the Labor party is merely going along with the masses by letting sleeping dogs lie. 3. Somebody sent me an email that said this was all the fault of the U.S. because ‘we should have let sleeping dogs lie.’ 4. But then maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. 5. I'll let sleeping dogs lie for a bit on that front. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic