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📚 Heritage, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (in singular): Valued objects and qualities such as historic buildings and cultural traditions that have been passed down from previous generations. ❗️ Examples: 1. Europe's varied cultural heritage. 2. The estuary has a sense of history and heritage. 3. History is necessary to instil patriotism and pride in the younger generation about the cultural heritage, values systems and religions, she says. 4. The ruins evoke the nation's Indian past and legitimizes both Peru's historical heritage and cultural tradition. 5. In addition, this model helps non-Asian readers to understand and value the cultural heritage of others. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Slippery slope, phrase. ❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous. ❗️ Examples: 1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime. 2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’. 3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness. 4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada. 5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dithyrambic, adjective. 🔉 /dɪθɪˈrambɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «dithyramb». ❗️ Examples: 1. The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed. 2. From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers. 3. Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing. 4. Such is the case with Herrick's ‘Fare-well to Sack,’ a dithyrambic ode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn traitor, phrase. ❓ Definition: Betray a group or person. ❗️ Examples: 1. She'd had the gall to deny she had turned traitor. 2. But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that. 3. One of the key prosecution witnesses at his trial was a trusted comrade who had turned traitor. 4. Others have turned traitor, switching allegiances from synthesisers to guitars. 5. Friends turn traitor and fellow countrymen become the enemy in a war-torn world where the old rules are worthless. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 I Declare War (2012) 💬 It was a psychological fad, a therapistinduced disorder perpetuated by an unending barrage of TV talk shows and novels and illconceived Hollywood movies.

📚 Fad, noun. 🔉 /fad/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze. ❗️ Examples: 1. Some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad. 2. What started off as a fad among stamp enthusiasts has now grown into a veritable cult. 3. It is really quite wonderful, and I truly hope it is the beginning of a trend, not a short-lived fad. 4. Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences. 5. Because of that, they captured trends and fads that were happening at the moment more accurately than movies that took a year to make. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Trip the light fantastic, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Dance, in particular engage in ballroom dancing. ❗️ Examples: 1. They enjoyed a four-course dinner, charity auction and a dance band so they could trip the light fantastic. 2. They are great fans of this style of dancing and trip the light fantastic each Thursday night to keep in practice. 3. She tap-dances and trips the light fantastic in a couple of big-production numbers, wearing a Gloria Swanson-style wig and fabulous frocks. 4. In recent years, ‘6O's nights’ have become very popular, bringing out some not so young rockers for a nostalgic night of tripping the light fantastic. 5. Many who attended the festival in those years have still remained fans and those same drama fans, who were big on dancing, are more at ease in the seats at a play than tripping the light fantastic in earlier years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Asinine, adjective. 🔉 /ˈasɪnʌɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Extremely stupid or foolish. ❗️ Examples: 1. Lydia ignored his asinine remark. 2. A contestant makes a truly asinine remark and the boredom abates slightly, even as annoyance levels are soaring. 3. Each interview conducted by a HR specialist was asinine in the extreme, without exception. 4. However, all of his blind, asinine nonsense was going to be put to an end. 5. I have to admit, with a heavy heart, that when I originally read about the new villains, I thought they sounded asinine, with daft names and even dafter looks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 30 Rock (2006) - S03E16 Apollo, Apollo 💬 I have decided to fulfill my dream of going into space.

📚 Fulfil, verb. 🔉 /fʊlˈfɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Achieve or realize (something desired, promised, or predicted) ❗️ Examples: 1. He wouldn't be able to fulfil his ambition to visit Naples. 2. By destroying trees and killing animals man may be able to fulfill his short-term desires, but he was causing a few irreversible problems in the long run. 3. April suddenly felt her desire to fulfill her oath to Zoe redouble. 4. For if I desire to know the principles of natural things, as soon as I know them this desire is fulfilled and brought to an end. 5. Some aid workers question whether the government is able to fulfil its pledge. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 True Grit (2010) 💬 The particulars is that we bring Chaney down to the magistrate in San Saba, Texas, where they have a considerable reward on offer, which we split.

📚 On offer, phrase. ❓ Definition: Available. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of permanent jobs on offer is relatively small. 2. In Britain it is a few hundred pounds and that can be quickly withdrawn if you don't accept one of the jobs on offer. 3. He and the other sporting figures will tell young people about the wealth of jobs on offer in sport. 4. The event organised by the Department of Tourism had the right mix of fare on offer. 5. Spot prizes will be on offer at the function and the organisers appeal for support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bombogenesis, noun. 🔉 /bɒmbəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Meteorology • mass noun): A phenomenon or process in which there is rapid and sustained falling of barometric pressure in the centre of a low-pressure system, indicative of its strengthening into a powerful storm. ❗️ Examples: 1. The storm will intensify rapidly, so quickly, in fact, that it will likely undergo bombogenesis. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dumpling, noun. 🔉 /ˈdʌmplɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small savoury ball of dough (usually made with suet) which may be boiled, fried, or baked in a casserole. ❗️ Examples: 1. Both Chiao and Sharipov have requested a special take-out of dim sum dumplings and fried rice for their Christmas meal. 2. Appetizers include Spring Rolls, dumplings, Deep fried Wontons, a selection of salad rolls and even a Pan-Fried Turnip Cake. 3. Jacket potatoes are now becoming the preferred option to chips, pasta salads have replaced stew and dumplings, and beef burgers have made way for chicken tikka. 4. Vicky was particularly keen on the dim sum, which consisted of the Chinese dumplings, spinach wonton, Peking ravioli and mini-spring roll, served with a spicy soy dip and sweet chilli sauce. 5. I ordered a potful of chrysanthemum tea and a batch of the fried pork dumplings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Garden State (2004) 💬 lf there's some sort of retarded Oscar, you would win hands down, kick his ass.

📚 Hands down, phrase. ❓ Definition: Easily and decisively. ❗️ Examples: 1. Swindon won hands down. 2. The envious look on my fellow competitors' faces reflected my own view: I was going to win this race hands down. 3. I will say hands down they are the most wondrous thing in the world I have ever seen. 4. McCrann has exhibited how superior intellect will defeat sloganeering hands down. 5. Aliens is hands down one of the most quotable movies of all time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Foretell, verb. 🔉 /fɔːˈtɛl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Predict (the future or a future event) ❗️ Examples: 1. A seer had foretold that the earl would assume the throne. 2. In the Greek theatre Chorus speaks for the citizens, comments on events and foretells the future. 3. A science which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events, by their situation and different aspects. 4. In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events. 5. The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From time to time, phrase. ❓ Definition: Occasionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. Although he is now fluent in Bulgarian, Matt still confuses the odd word from time to time. 2. Chances are you won't get one, but I understand that you feel the need - we all do from time to time. 3. Place on a high heat and bring to the boil, stirring from time to time. 4. Friday night was one of those pleasant surprises the Internet throws my way from time to time. 5. Pack little surprises from time to time like stickers, a novelty pen or a joke. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic