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📚 Submerge, verb. 🔉 /səbˈməːdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Cause (something) to be under water. ❗️ Examples: 1. Houses had been flooded and cars submerged. 2. A sheet of glass was blown out of one window, the car park was submerged and water gradually rose up the main steps. 3. Her claim for damages was still under consideration by City Hall when yesterday morning's flood waters submerged her home. 4. The road was submerged as flood water rose in the area. 5. Crews in Central Texas pulled this woman to safety after fast-moving waters swept and submerged her car. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rant and rave, phrase. ❓ Definition: Shout and complain angrily and at length. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself. 2. I began to rant and rave angrily, in a loud voice. 3. ‘You can't rant and rave; you can't scream and put people in shock, though I have worked with directors who do that and it's pretty scary,’ Garry says. 4. I could rant and rave about it but that wouldn't make a difference. 5. Only this afternoon did I rant and rave about these designs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pantoum, noun. 🔉 /panˈtuːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A Malay verse form, also imitated in French and English, with a rhyme scheme abab. ❗️ Examples: 1. Smart's the word for pantoums and haiku. 2. We could end as a line of pantoum. 3. His poetry is characterized by its openness to the vagaries of consciousness, its wry, beguiling lyricism, and its innovative use of forms such as the pantoum and the sestina. 4. Fascinated throughout his career by venerable poetic fixed forms such as the sonnet, the triolet, and the Malayan pantoum, Jouet chose to invent a new fixed form. 5. Their fourth exercise/poem was their choice of a form using repetition or refrain: a villanelle, rondeaux, traditional ghazal, glosa, sestina or pantoum. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Refine, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈfʌɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make minor changes so as to improve or clarify (a theory or method) ❗️ Examples: 1. Ease of access to computers has refined analysis and presentation of data. 2. The premise is correct: there has been progress; theories are refined, generalised, clarified, simplified, and perfected. 3. We then used the results of our analysis to refine the original theory and to add to the literature in new ways. 4. The course materials and the presentation methods were progressively refined for each course. 5. Freud's theories were incidental - useful in refining traditional methods of popular control perhaps, but a sideshow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 What makes someone tick, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): What motivates someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. People are curious to know what makes British men tick. 2. We're good at finding out about people, what makes them tick, what they are interested in, what they have bees in their bonnets about - a key networking skill. 3. I'd like the opportunity to find out a bit what they were like as people, what makes them tick, and, you know, enjoy their company. 4. No one really knows how these people think, what makes them tick, and which of the five contenders stirs their blood. 5. I get a thrill when I can get into the male psyche and learn about what makes them tick. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Democracy, noun. 🔉 /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. ❗️ Examples: 1. A system of parliamentary democracy. 2. The British system of representative democracy has always abhorred referendums on moral issues. 3. People asserted themselves to save democracy and the parliamentary system was restored. 4. This is their chance to breathe new life into our system of Parliamentary democracy. 5. The politics of parliamentary democracy are not as monolithic as you represent them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Reprimand, noun. 🔉 /ˈrɛprɪmɑːnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A formal expression of disapproval. ❗️ Examples: 1. The golfer received a reprimand for a breach of rules. 2. They both received a written reprimand and were ordered to pay significant costs. 3. His behavior, which did not go unnoticed, became the subject of a formal reprimand by the Cliburn Foundation chairman. 4. Among other unfair treatments she made him mop the floor and issued formal warnings for relatively minor offences for which female employees received mild, informal reprimands. 5. It should also be noted that Harper bravely made those statements outside of the House of Commons because he would receive a severe reprimand for using unparliamentary language. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make common cause, phrase. ❓ Definition: Unite in order to achieve a shared aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Nationalist movements made common cause with the reformers. 2. Let the humanists make common cause with them to achieve freedom. 3. Today, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on what these developments have meant for your colleagues in public broadcasting, and share some ideas about how our institutions might make common cause in the future. 4. As a hunter-gatherer nation, Australia could play a further role in world affairs by making common cause without a hunter-gatherer peoples, all of whom are taking a terrible hammering. 5. On certain foreign policy issues, Switzerland and Bulgaria have a track record of making common cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vote, noun. 🔉 /vəʊt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands. ❗️ Examples: 1. Voters will have two votes on their ballot paper - one to vote for or against a regional assembly and the other to decide on the restructuring of local government. 2. His party candidate polled over 400 votes in the last election, which is higher than the current victory margin. 3. At the recent elections seven candidates polled around 5,200 votes and came second in two seats. 4. The 275 MPs will cast their votes by secret ballot. 5. At the last general election in 2001 he had a majority of 4,275 votes over the Conservative candidate. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Preconceived, adjective. 🔉 /priːkənˈsiːvd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an idea or opinion) formed before having the evidence for its truth or usefulness. ❗️ Examples: 1. The same set of facts can be tailored to fit any preconceived belief. 2. It is the evidence that determines all this, not any preconceived opinion or ideological view. 3. Obviously Gary had never read a romance book in his life, but his preconceived ideas did provide entertainment for the rest of us. 4. It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it. 5. On the future of banking in Ireland he has ‘no preconceived ideas of what is right and what is wrong’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be just what the doctor ordered, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be very beneficial or desirable under the circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. A 2–0 victory is just what the doctor ordered. 2. A media-savvy leader with a vision, with seriousness of purpose, with honesty and decisiveness as his strongest points, a diplomat par excellence, he is exactly what the doctor ordered. 3. The style is apparently a cross between ancient tragedy and TV news, which sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for a sultry summer weeknight. 4. Meantime, let's just say that London is exactly what the doctor ordered - in other words, I am very happy to be here. 5. I know killer heels aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, but I'll take the psychological boost any day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Resurrect, verb. 🔉 /rɛzəˈrɛkt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Restore (a dead person) to life. ❗️ Examples: 1. He queried whether Jesus was indeed resurrected. 2. The plot sinks into absurdity, as dead people are resurrected and the Beast is exposed as a mechanical porcupine. 3. By the tune of her voice, you might have thought she was just told that her dead family was resurrected. 4. The gods of the world are having trouble keeping the demons at bay, and so they come up with a last-ditch scheme - to resurrect a dead hero. 5. But it seemed he was resurrected, as though he were never dead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Come off it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Said when vigorously expressing disbelief. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Come off it, he'll know that's a lie.’ 2. Indeed, she claims that there is an unspoken English rule that she calls ‘the importance of not being earnest’, along with a peculiarly English injunction to say, ‘Oh, come off it!’ 3. Come off it, that's not something ‘worth remembering’. 4. My honest (and admittedly, somewhat cruel) reaction is ‘Oh, come off it, you're not that special.’ 5. ‘Oh come off it, mate,’ he said, because he is not only a hawk, but has a keen and impatient mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Break out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: (of war, fighting, or similarly undesirable things) start suddenly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Forest fires have broken out across Indonesia. 2. The incident happened after a fight broke out between a group of up to six youngsters in the school's playground at about 8.45 am. 3. Police were called after fighting broke out among a group of around 40 men. 4. When war broke out he willingly fought for Britain, and before being sent to France he adopted a British name so that he would not be shot as a traitor if captured. 5. A fight broke out early on Saturday morning, in the car park of the club. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tired and emotional, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used euphemistically to indicate that someone is drunk. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tired and emotional party people. 2. It has the added advantage that he tends to update it when leglessly tired and emotional, so value added humour is practically guaranteed. 3. A source told The Mirror, ‘They'd been at Studio 57 for an hour and a half and were both pretty tired and emotional when Charlotte wanted to move on.’ 4. Finally, somewhat tired and emotional, we ended up having a nightcap around 3am - some 12 hours after we started drinking - before retiring to bed. 5. Increasingly tired and emotional, Cochrane gave Wilson a demonstration of the art of the ‘Glasgow kiss’ - much to the amusement of all concerned. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 No rest for the weary, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used as a wry observation on the heavy workload or absence of relaxation that seem to characterize a person's situation. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mass noun, noun. ❓ Definition (Grammar): A noun denoting something that cannot be counted (e.g. a substance or quality), in English usually a noun which lacks a plural in ordinary usage and is not used with the indefinite article, e.g. china, happiness. ❗️ Examples: 1. When used in a generic sense, only mass nouns and plural count nouns are able to occur without a determiner or quantifier: Water is colourless, Groceries are expensive, Dogs make good companions, * Dog makes a good companion. 2. At the same time, their language does have a distinction between count and mass nouns, so that there is the equivalent of the English difference between " { many / * much foreigners } " and " { * many/much manioc meal’. 3. For example, Mandarin's usage of mass nouns predisposes its discourse to take a more holistic approach to the world than say, English, which demarcates objects more readily. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A watched pot never boils, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Time seems to drag endlessly when you're waiting for something to happen. ❗️ Examples: 1. Another way of putting it is: a watched pot never boils. 2. They say a watched pot never boils, so you might want to do something else at this point. 3. ‘Um, I hate to sound cliché, but I thought a watched pot never boils,’ Rachel said with interest. 4. While you're waiting (because a watched pot never boils, you know!) go outside and cut the culprits down to their crowns. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic