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📚 Bazaar, noun. 🔉 /bəˈzɑː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A market in a Middle Eastern country. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hone your haggling skills in Tunisia's markets and bazaars when you travel with Burnside Travel. 2. Lots of farmers markets, bazaars that were open on the street. 3. The bazaars, colorful food markets and constant flow of border-hoppers provide absorbing spectacles. 4. The problem seems to be more prominent in the bazaars and markets. 5. In real markets - bazaars - customers have choices. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fortify, verb. 🔉 /ˈfɔːtɪfʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Provide (a place) with defensive works as protection against attack. ❗️ Examples: 1. The enclave has been heavily fortified in recent years. 2. He immediately set up a defensive perimeter and fortified his area. 3. I came in from the sides like a well drilled eighteenth century army attacking some fortified town in the Low Countries. 4. Achieving both can fortify a region militarily and put its economy on par with the world's best. 5. The kingdom shall be protected by fortifying the capital and the towns at the frontiers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Beggars can't be choosers, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): People with no other options must be content with what is offered. ❗️ Examples: 1. But my funds are getting down to the wire and so beggars can't be choosers… 2. I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers. 3. Sadly not a two-seater but beggars can't be choosers. 4. It was worth a lot more but beggars can't be choosers. 5. This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Samhain, noun. ❓ Definition: The first day of November, celebrated by the ancient Celts as a festival marking the beginning of winter. ❗️ Examples: 1. The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain was celebrated in style last week in West Kerry when the Díseart Institute of Education and Celtic Culture held a special event to mark what was once the traditional welcoming of the New Year. 2. The origins of Halloween date back over 2,000 years to the ancient indigenous Celtic festival of Samhain, the beginning of the Celtic New Year on November 1. 3. Hallowe'en originates from the ancient Celtic festival, Samhain, which marks the end of summer and harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter associated with death and the return of spirits to Earth. 4. The ancient Celts celebrated Samhain (pronounced SUH-win) on Nov.1 as the day the veil between the world of the living and the dead was at its thinnest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Figurative, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfɪɡ(ə)rətɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical. ❗️ Examples: 1. A figurative expression. 2. For example, is the term metaphor itself literal or figurative? 3. Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors. 4. A figurative remark takes on literal construction, a metaphor is concretized in fact. 5. Using it is too much of a literal and figurative headache, and if you get sloppy there's always the danger of nasty results. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 One good turn deserves another, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If someone does you a favour, you should take the chance to repay it. ❗️ Examples: 1. She stabbed him a season or two back and one good turn deserves another. 2. ‘As I see it,’ the woman said, ‘one good turn deserves another.’ 3. His eyes hardened, ‘Well, I guess one good turn deserves another.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Preternatural, adjective. 🔉 /ˌpriːtəˈnatʃ(ə)rəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Beyond what is normal or natural. ❗️ Examples: 1. Autumn had arrived with preternatural speed. 2. Harte's stories, in their matter-of-fact referencing of the preternatural and supernatural, and in their blending of the fantastic and the mundane may be seen as affiliates of Magic Realism. 3. Abruptly, Beth and the other vampire joined the fray, fighting with teeth as well as preternatural speed and strength. 4. The assistant moves with preternatural delicacy, and speed, and soon the ant is seated. 5. Her eyes were actually glowing with their own otherworldly light, and her hair seemed to be floating around her as if a strange preternatural wind was playing with it, toying with the silky tendrils. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pricey, adjective. 🔉 /ˈprʌɪsi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Expensive. ❗️ Examples: 1. Boutiques selling pricey clothes. 2. People are revered if they are dressed in expensive clothes and have pricy items in their homes. 3. Some homeowners have even traded down from more expensive abodes to less pricey dwellings. 4. We had been told the pub was expensive - but it wasn't unduly pricey. 5. Hand-made saddles may be a diminishing requirement in an age of machining perfection, but Emma still keeps her hand in by constantly working on at least one, even though they are a very pricy item these days. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bat for the other team, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be gay. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sorry to break the news to you ladies but I think he may bat for the other team. 2. I swear all the good-looking guys are batting for the other team. 3. I am seriously considering switching to batting for the other side. 4. Got my gaydar going - he's batting for the other team. 5. I've known several "straight" married men who decided after much soul-searching to bat for the other side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Stunning, adjective. 🔉 /ˈstʌnɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Extremely impressive or attractive. ❗️ Examples: 1. She looked stunning. 2. My new temporary home in Encinitas was quite superb, walking distance away from stunning California beaches. 3. Eddie's stunning Donegal girlfriend Michelle Doherty was also present. 4. Finally tonight, the Mars rover Opportunity today sent stunning new images of Mars back to earth. 5. Andrea Elvey hit the post before stunning interplay between Jo Martin and Kirsty Ormrod led to Brooks firing in Kendal's second. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Blood is thicker than water, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important ones. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know there are people out there who believe that blood is thicker than water and that family is the most important thing in the world, but I have to say - I just don't feel it. 2. He believes in honour and trust between friends, loyalty between lovers, and that blood is thicker than water between family members, but he discovers all these notions have fallen apart. 3. Families can be difficult and demanding, but blood is thicker than water. 4. The relationship between the trade union movement and the Labor Party is always one that is like a family and that is where blood is thicker than water. 5. It's not that you don't love them, and it's not that you are not grateful - but I do think that blood is thicker than water. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Shaman, noun. 🔉 /ˈʃɑːmən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing. ❗️ Examples: 1. While performing the ritual, the shaman (witch doctor) dances and enters into a trance. 2. Rituals of traditional belief systems mark life-cycle events or involve propitiation for particular occasions and are led by shamans, spirit mediums, or prayer masters (male or female). 3. Other religious practitioners include spirit mediums and shamans, most of whom are women. 4. He now suggests they were used as ‘spirit tracks’ by prehistoric shamans who, in trances, travelled along them on out-of-body travel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Thorough, adjective. 🔉 /ˈθʌrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Taking pains to do something carefully and completely. ❗️ Examples: 1. The British authorities are very thorough. 2. I'm trying very hard to be careful and thorough, and to present new information and new claims as they become available. 3. As a mathematician, Dodgson was rather conservative but certainly thorough and careful. 4. Eventually we will know these things, but we must be diligent, thorough, persistent and patient. 5. This does not mean that we will catch less - just be thorough and accurate with your groundbaiting and with your casting and the results will come. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bounce an idea off, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Share an idea with (someone) in order to refine it. ❗️ Examples: 1. He thrives on bouncing ideas off other people. 2. If someone needs to bounce an idea off of someone, another person is able offer honest insight and feedback. 3. This guy also gave me his card and told me to call him if I wanted to bounce an idea off him. 4. It's for people who need that extra ear, are going it alone, or simply need to bounce an idea off a smart group of people. 5. If you have questions or just want to bounce an idea off us, please give us a call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Chase, verb. 🔉 /tʃeɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Pursue in order to catch or catch up with. ❗️ Examples: 1. Police chased the stolen car through the city. 2. The dog chased after the stick. 3. Police arrived and the group fled across fields but were caught when police chased them using a helicopter. 4. I chased after her and caught her left arm with my free hand, forcing her to stop. 5. She chased after her, catching her by the back of her skirt and pulling her to a halt on the second stair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show of hands, phrase. ❓ Definition: A vote carried out among a group by the raising of hands, with numbers typically being estimated rather than counted. ❗️ Examples: 1. A show of hands suggested he has little support. 2. A union motion calling for the policy to be scrapped was clearly carried on a show of hands. 3. After a while, they switched to voting by a show of hands. 4. Each meeting ended with a vote by a show of hands. 5. To cheers in the hall it was carried on a show of hands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Metamorphose, verb. 🔉 /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəʊz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of an insect or amphibian) undergo metamorphosis, especially into the adult form. ❗️ Examples: 1. Feed the larvae to your fish before they metamorphose into adults. 2. Embryonic coelomic structures have specific fates as the bilaterally symmetrical larvae metamorphose into radially symmetric adults. 3. These larvae will also metamorphose into adults sooner than their long-armed brethren and thus are vulnerable to planktonic predators for a shorter period of time. 4. A larva metamorphoses into a small polyp termed the scyphistoma. 5. Ordinarily, between 6 and 11 percent of leopard frog tadpoles survive and metamorphose into adults. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pen pal, noun. ❓ Definition: A penfriend. ❗️ Examples: 1. Every inmate wanted a female pen pal, so they provided vital stats. 2. For example try starting a new club or finding a secret pen pal. 3. I started writing a pen pal from Canada three years ago, and she's one of my great friends. 4. She was also my pen pal when I was in fifth and sixth grade and had an assignment to write to someone famous. 5. It is also a good time to send a note and other items of need with the book, you could come away with a pen pal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic