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📚 Drawback, noun. 🔉 /ˈdrɔːbak/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A feature that renders something less acceptable; a disadvantage or problem. ❗️ Examples: 1. The main drawback of fitting catalytic converters is the cost. 2. The main drawback of a global fitting strategy is the time needed to reach convergence. 3. The main difficulties and drawbacks to these methods are the quality of the obtained parts. 4. Both have good color rendering, but have drawbacks when they're used outdoors. 5. This is one of the main drawbacks of having a business carried on by a company. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be party to, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be involved in. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was party to some very shady deals. 2. That is not an example that my party and other parties want to be party to at all. 3. Yes because they were party to what has turned out to be open, active aggression against a third country that in no way was a threat to them and of course their reasons for going in have proved to be absolutely baseless. 4. Mother Teresa once recounted an incident she was party to in London. 5. One wonders, too, if he was a party to, participant indeed in, the villainies of Thomas J. Wise? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Amiss, adjective. 🔉 /əˈmɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (predicative): Not quite right; inappropriate or out of place. ❗️ Examples: 1. There was something amiss about his calculations. 2. I felt like myself yet there was something wrong, something amiss, something lacking from the scene. 3. At this point the store manager, who was taking stock nearby, sensed that there was something amiss at the till and walked over. 4. If something amiss is detected, the camera alerts a central control. 5. Why would he have had to do so unless he detected something amiss? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Don't mention it, phrase. ❓ Definition: A polite expression used to indicate that thanks or an apology are not necessary. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Thanks very much.’ ‘Don't mention it, dear boy.’ 2. Man, don't mention it; what are friends for? 3. No, don't mention it; I'm sorry I knocked you over. 4. ‘Please don't mention it,’ Vicki snapped slightly. 5. ‘Please don't mention it again,’ she said plainly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Deliberate, adjective. 🔉 /dɪˈlɪb(ə)rət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Done consciously and intentionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. A deliberate attempt to provoke conflict. 2. We have reason to believe at this point in time with the evidence through the course of the investigation this was premeditated, deliberate, intentional. 3. He said there is no deliberate attempt to provoke feelings of isolation, but the looped video of a train constantly leaving the viewer stranded is a touch eerie. 4. And those injuries have been inflicted with deliberate and premeditated intent. 5. You also talk about the ruling class and how to gauge their intentions - to what extent their actions are deliberate and conscious. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A trouble shared is a trouble halved, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Talking to someone else about one's problems helps to alleviate them. ❗️ Examples: 1. The saying, ‘a trouble shared is a trouble halved’ is just as true when it comes to your physical health as it is in relation to your emotional health. 2. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but when holiday anxiety strikes, I suffer in silence. 3. Build a social support network of friends and family - remember a trouble shared is a trouble halved. 4. On the basis that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, I will share some of my troubles with you. 5. They say a trouble shared is a trouble halved and it's true. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cautiously, adverb. 🔉 /ˈkɔːʃəsli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a way that deliberately avoids potential problems or dangers. ❗️ Examples: 1. We must proceed cautiously. 2. Such laws have been cautiously welcomed. 3. The artist appears to have forgotten, or cautiously avoided, his revolutionary ideals. 4. The film is cautiously optimistic in its portrayal of how intense love can transcend death. 5. The camera is now a portal through which we may spy cautiously on his hapless world of emotionally isolated human beings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Out of context, phrase. ❓ Definition: Without the surrounding words or circumstances and so not fully understandable. ❗️ Examples: 1. The article portrayed her as domineering by dropping quotes from her out of context. 2. He twists words, quotes people out of context and stretches the truth to suit his purpose. 3. The embarrassment was such that Gilchrist found himself explaining that his words had been taken out of context. 4. She says her words were taken out of context, but soon submits her resignation. 5. He said that his words were taken out of context and he was sorry if he had offended anyone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Gingerly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈdʒɪndʒəli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a careful or cautious manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. Jackson sat down very gingerly. 2. He jumped as flames licked his tail and sprinted gingerly away, careful to avoid more pain. 3. When he returns I'm sitting gingerly in the corner of the very small dance floor. 4. Nicky returned from washing his hands and sat gingerly on the edge of the sofa. 5. She was laughing as Josh gingerly sat down and started a playful wrestling match. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Counteract, verb. 🔉 /kaʊntərˈakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it. ❗️ Examples: 1. Should we deliberately intervene in the climate system to counteract global warming? 2. Unequally spaced white stripes painted across the road leading up to an off-ramp have been used to create an illusion that counteracts motion adaptation and reduces driving speed. 3. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure that counteracts gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would. 4. Dynamic Drive is another option, fitted to the car we drove; it counteracts body lean to force the BMW level in corners. 5. Inverters can reduce overall crosstalk by counteracting the effects of switching, as long as the victim trace runs alongside both the native signal and its inverted form. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn a blind eye, phrase. ❓ Definition: Pretend not to notice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening. 2. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help. 3. In many ways, I think he's given the Saudis a pass and he's turned a blind eye to them. 4. It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over. 5. Please, don't turn a blind eye or passively ignore what is happening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Phoenix, noun. 🔉 /ˈfiːnɪks/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. ❗️ Examples: 1. The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, died and was reborn from its own ashes. 2. Unicorns, elves, leprechauns, phoenixes, griffins, and humans all existed very peacefully together on Earth, until evil was set loose. 3. The phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt which reputedly burned every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from its ashes. 4. Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool. 5. A phoenix is a bird that rises from the ashes of its deceased predecessor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hide-and-seek, noun. 🔉 /hʌɪdnˈsiːk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A children's game in which one or more players hide and the other or others have to look for them. ❗️ Examples: 1. On a beautiful summer evening the family took a sunset walk to the beach before the children went off to play a last game of hide-and-seek in a cornfield nearby. 2. In the summer there were barbecues and endless games of hide-and-seek and stickball. 3. Find fun activities the entire family can enjoy, like football in the snow, ice skating, skiing, hide-and-seek or a pillow fight. 4. Children enjoy playing games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek. 5. I remember it as a house for Christmases, but it was also fantastic for playing hide-and-seek, because you could climb up metal rungs into the chimney and nobody would ever find you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 If you can't beat them, join them, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavour, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Steve took the view that if you can't beat them, join them. 2. You're saying if you can't beat them, join them. 3. But they have increasingly taken the view that if you can't beat them, join them, and begun offering similar, competitive services. 4. The only solution as far as I can see it is if you can't beat them, join them. 5. Like everyone says, if you can't beat them, join them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Absolve, verb. 🔉 /əbˈzɒlv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment. ❗️ Examples: 1. The pardon absolved them of any crimes. 2. Recovering, he is absolved of his guilt by the understanding daughter. 3. At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly. 4. Zoë, as loving in her death as she was in her life, tried to absolve her family from guilt. 5. There, he says, the cost of calling you or attaching a note to the bottle was low, hence the supplier's failure to secure your consent absolves you of all obligation to pay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Look on the bright side, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side. 2. He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one. 3. With so many good things happening, it is so difficult not to look on the bright side, isn't it? 4. At first, anti-dam activists looked on the bright side. 5. The move might seem like nothing more than a disruption, but the director is looking on the bright side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Come down, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: Be handed down by tradition or inheritance. ❗️ Examples: 1. The name has come down from the last century. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 None other than, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont. 2. The first victims of his surprise visit were none other than presspersons themselves. 3. And it was none other than Rossellini who advised him to turn professional. 4. This church is supposed to have been founded by none other than Charlemagne. 5. She's played by none other than Kitty Bruce, daughter of standup legend Lenny Bruce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic