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📚 Agog, adjective. 🔉 /əˈɡɒɡ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (predicative): Very eager or curious to hear or see something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm all agog. 2. Papa was agog with curiosity. 3. By now we were agog to hear what else she had noticed, but they'd had to leave. 4. Ballina is agog with excitement as it waits for the start this coming weekend of what is promised to be one of the best Festival and Arts Weeks ever in the North Mayo capital. 5. Gilz and I sat open mouthed and agog for most of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flexible, adjective. 🔉 /ˈflɛksɪb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Capable of bending easily without breaking. ❗️ Examples: 1. Flexible rubber seals. 2. Do this when the branches are about 6in long and flexible enough to bend at right angles. 3. This means that flexible pipe can be bent to a much smaller radius of curvature than rigid pipe without exceeding its elastic limit. 4. The body of a sea-lion is so flexible that it can bend over backwards and just about touch its nose to the tips of its back flippers. 5. The flexible rubber sole is unrestricting, enabling great movement of the entire foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @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

📚 Glower, verb. 🔉 /ˈɡlaʊə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Have an angry or sullen look on one's face; scowl. ❗️ Examples: 1. She glowered at him suspiciously. 2. His father's glowering face. 3. I glowered at him with angry tears of frustration shining in my eyes before I dropped my gaze and crossed my arms again. 4. Every time he was given out he gesticulated, frowned, glowered and stared at the umpires. 5. Her brow furrowed and her scorning frown deepened as she glowered at him angrily. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dunk, noun. 🔉 /dʌŋk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Basketball): A shot downwards into the basket with the hands above the rim. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was making everything: jump shots, lay-ups, dunks. 2. You'll have a number of tools at your disposal to rack up the points on the court, along with the usual jump shots, dunks and lay-ups. 3. They cheer at jet-engine volume whenever he fades away for a jumper or throws down a thundering dunk off of a fast break. 4. If anything, women's basketball should work to prove that they're above the fascination with the dunk and that they're willing to focus on the right things. 5. As far as anyone knows, prior to this season, there had been five dunks in the history of women's college basketball. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

🎬 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.

📚 Ennui, noun. 🔉 /ɒnˈwiː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. ❗️ Examples: 1. He succumbed to ennui and despair. 2. The physical environment itself is a crucial factor in the creation of unhappiness, ennui, anger, alienation and despair. 3. He is portraying an English landscape of barren trees, a place of despair, ennui and fear. 4. But for those who are privileged to get their life extended forever, will boredom and ennui not set in? 5. The animals at the zoo seem to be caught in that some place in-between world weariness and ennui. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tentacle, noun. 🔉 /ˈtɛntək(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs. ❗️ Examples: 1. The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles. 2. These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups. 3. The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged. 4. The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name. 5. At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 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

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

📚 Supine, adjective. 🔉 /ˈs(j)uːpʌɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) lying face upwards. ❗️ Examples: 1. A supine man is roughly dragged off like a carcass. 2. A supine figure lay motionless under a stack of blankets. 3. Below each of the two buildings lies a supine male figure, with feet at left and head at right. 4. The sounds of a television, which seems tuned to a crime movie, play across an obstructed vision of a rumpled bed, a supine leg and a discarded handgun. 5. From my point of view, it seems I'm lying supine on some sort of a bench or table. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Specimen, noun. 🔉 /ˈspɛsɪmɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An individual animal, plant, piece of a mineral, etc. used as an example of its species or type for scientific study or display. ❗️ Examples: 1. Specimens of copper ore. 2. Another corner of the display showed zoological specimens, minerals and ores, and surgical instruments. 3. Its displays cover millions of specimens, including fossils, meteorites, mammals, plants, minerals, and insects. 4. Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting specimens and studying animals. 5. Borack shows the specific cases holding mammals, birds, paleontological specimens, fish and reptiles. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 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

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

📚 Mizzle, noun. 🔉 /ˈmɪz(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mainly dialect • mass noun): Light rain; drizzle. ❗️ Examples: 1. The stillness that comes with a Cornish mizzle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Immerse, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈməːs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (immerse oneself or be immersed): Involve oneself deeply in a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. She immersed herself in her work. 2. She was still immersed in her thoughts. 3. To ‘flow’ in this context means that you are able to immerse yourself in some activity so deeply that you forget about anything else. 4. After his retirement he immersed himself in various charitable activities. 5. The piece questions and explores the ideas of communication and its absence through images and time lags, while immersing the audience in Kitamura's all-encompassing world of movement, sound and images. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic