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📚 Eristic, adjective. 🔉 /ɛˈrɪstɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal): Of or characterized by debate or argument. ❗️ Examples: 1. While most of this dialogue is given over to Euthydemus’ and Dionysiodorus' eristic display, there are two Socratic interludes. 2. In the early history of television, program producers could afford an eristic assumption that they were message purveyors to a receiver-only audience. 3. According to Schopenhauer Eristic Dialectic is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyse dishonest stratagems, in order that in a real debate they may be at once recognised and defeated. 4. In Eric Ambler's prewar thrillers, the interest (in Auden's words) is ‘the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them.’ 5. The squaring of the circle by means of lunes is not eristic, but the quadrature of Bryson is eristic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Birthplace, noun. 🔉 /ˈbəːθpleɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The place where something started or originated. ❗️ Examples: 1. Florence was the birthplace of the Renaissance. 2. However, the balance of power could well shift full circle to Asia, the original birthplace of the game. 3. Soon the gene banks in Mexico, birthplace of the original corn varieties, may also be contaminated. 4. It does nothing to burnish the city's proud heritage as the birthplace of American freedoms. 5. The Wright Brothers were born in Ohio, hence Ohio is the birthplace of aviation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From the bottom of one's heart, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very sincerely. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bat, verb. 🔉 /bat/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of a sports team or player) take the role of hitting rather than throwing the ball. ❗️ Examples: 1. Australia reached 263 for 4 after choosing to bat. 2. We almost got out of the inning on our own, but mercifully, the other team had batted through the lineup, which meant it was our turn to bat. 3. Frankly, the team batted worse than it did in the first innings at Lahore. 4. The Indian team batted perfectly, bowled like champions and fielded like tigers. 5. In test cricket, where there are no limits on how long a player may bat, double centuries are considered a major achievement, but they are not all that uncommon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Things that go bump in the night, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal, humorous): Unexplained and frightening noises at night, regarded as being caused by ghosts. ❗️ Examples: 1. The fear of long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. 2. As a youngster I had a dreadful fear of ghost stories and things that go bump in the night. 3. Meanwhile, professional ghost-finders are set to launch a three-day festival in York dedicated to the things that go bump in the night. 4. You are thinking about things that go bump in the night and monsters under your bed and vampires peering at you through your window. 5. I have a fear of things that go bump in the night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ceasefire, noun. 🔉 /ˈsiːsfʌɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A temporary suspension of fighting; a truce. ❗️ Examples: 1. The latest ceasefire seems to be holding. 2. A ceasefire agreement. 3. War with people who break their ceasefire agreements is the default position. 4. Amid great excitement, the government and rebels reached a ceasefire agreement at the beginning of last year. 5. The Good Friday 1998 power sharing agreement led to a ceasefire by most of the paramilitary organisations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Barton Fink (1991) 💬 Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie.

📚 For my money, phrase. ❓ Definition: In my opinion or judgement. ❗️ Examples: 1. For my money, they're one of the best bands around. 2. Now, for my money, Scott's pretty clearly about as guilty as sin. 3. The best thing about the site, for my money, is that I've managed to avoid having any photographic likeness of myself included anywhere on it. 4. ‘For my money, he is one of the best centre-halves in England,’ said Melrose. 5. His famous novel begins with a couple of paragraphs which, for my money, constitute the most mesmerising start of any novel ever written. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Epigenetic, adjective. 🔉 /ˌɛpɪdʒəˈnɛtɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Biology): Relating to or arising from non-genetic influences on gene expression. ❗️ Examples: 1. Epigenetic carcinogens. 2. Such variations might arise from minor genetic differences or by epigenetic influences causing induction, enhancement or inhibition of repair enzyme synthesis or activity. 3. The embryo is human, since it has the genetic constitution and epigenetic primordia characteristic of human beings. 4. Hence, we investigated molecular genetic and epigenetic events in oral carcinogenesis. 5. However, backcrossing is a gradual procedure that, apart from being lengthy, cannot ascertain that genetic and epigenetic changes will modify the original nuclear genotype. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Encompass, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Surround and have or hold within. ❗️ Examples: 1. This area of London encompasses Piccadilly to the north and St James's Park to the south. 2. Surrounding me, encompassing my being as a whole, was a whirlwind of earth and wind, fire and water, increasing in intensity and speed. 3. A cacophony of pounding engines, honking of horns, screeching of brakes and Spanish profanity encompasses me, surround-sound style. 4. They had chosen to walk within the forest encompassing much of the land beyond the Estate. 5. Furthermore the constructed peptide is completely encompassed within the cutoff radius. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Soft touch, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A person who readily gives or does something if asked. ❗️ Examples: 1. We've shown people we're not a soft touch and that we won't be pushed over by the criticism. 2. The bit that still gets to me is the look on her face as she approached me, as though she thought I was a soft touch and I was going to bow down at her feet and beg forgiveness. 3. The trouble with caring too much is becoming a soft touch. 4. I think you know very well that you ought to stop being such a soft touch. 5. They are no soft touch, as they proved again last night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rejuvenate, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈdʒuːvəneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Give new energy or vigour to; revitalize. ❗️ Examples: 1. The exercise and fresh air rejuvenated me. 2. A new challenge may be just what he needs to rejuvenate his career. 3. The Central Bank announced bold stimulus measures to rejuvenate the economy. 4. Exfoliation rejuvenates the skin. 5. The organisation is charged with rejuvenating the centre of town. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vivid, adjective. 🔉 /ˈvɪvɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind. ❗️ Examples: 1. Memories of that evening were still vivid. 2. A vivid description. 3. New moving images may become as vivid and powerful as traumatic memories in the mind of a child survivor. 4. Kit could feel the anger coursing through his mind and everything was vivid and clear. 5. She had another terrible nightmare and could not shake the vivid images from her mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get rid of, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take action so as to be free of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years. 2. Perhaps you should dig it up, getting rid of all the roots, and try something else as a windbreak. 3. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. 4. Can you advise on the best way of getting rid of the smell? 5. I've been trying to get rid of the smoke smell too. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vaudevillian, adjective, noun. ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «vaudeville». ❗️ Examples: 1. He was the character actor, I was more the vaudevillian, pantomime comedian, and we both learnt a lot from each other. 2. Coming to us from Toronto, this ‘dark vaudevillian comedy’ tells the true story of a couple of Victorian girls who claimed they could communicate with the dead. 3. On Wednesday, TV Land is rerunning an episode of Fantasy Island with Phil Silvers as a has-been vaudevillian. 4. Also notable is Charlie Chaplin's elegiac 1952 talkie, Limelight, about the last days of an old vaudevillian. 5. My uncles were vaudevillians, and that's how I got started. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Erase, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈreɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove all traces of; destroy or obliterate. ❗️ Examples: 1. Over twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased. 2. The magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind. 3. If women participated in this myth-making in order to understand themselves and their place in the world, the traces have been erased or repressed. 4. In some parts of Latin America, there's been an attempt to erase many of the traces of liberation theology in any of its forms. 5. That element of my nightmare had been erased, diminished, dissolved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 So long, phrase. 🔉 /ˌsəʊ ˈlɒŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Goodbye till we meet again. ❗️ Examples: 1. When she walked out on the Sugababes as they hit the big time, it looked like so long, Siobhan. 2. I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying so long stuff. 3. ‘So long!’, Catharine waved goodbye to Audrey as the door closed. 4. So long, Mother. Be expecting a postcard or two in the mail, if you're lucky. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bewitch, verb. 🔉 /bɪˈwɪtʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Cast a spell over (someone) ❗️ Examples: 1. A handsome prince who had been bewitched by a sorceress. 2. According to historians, Boyan was not a magician in the sense that he was able to cast spells, bewitch people and transform into animals, but he was a learned man and a poet. 3. I was bewitched when I cast my eyes on him at my father's place. 4. Trying to remain calm Leo asked, ‘And who is this lady sorceress that you say has bewitched men everywhere, and why should you warn me?’ 5. The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic