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📚 Radiant, adjective. 🔉 /ˈreɪdɪənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Sending out light; shining or glowing brightly. ❗️ Examples: 1. A bird with radiant green and red plumage. 2. The bright light was radiant with the morning rays of red, orange, pink, and gold, reflecting brilliantly on the glasslike water. 3. Karya finally awoke to a weak light, nothing like the radiant shine in her now lost home. 4. The contrast is brought across through imaginative use of light and radiant colours. 5. The sun came out from behind a cloud and the entire world shone with warm and radiant delight. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Disrupt, verb. 🔉 /dɪsˈrʌpt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem. ❗️ Examples: 1. Flooding disrupted rail services. 2. It only defers its end by disrupting the social event with which it begins. 3. The contest became a target in 1970 when women protesters disrupted the event. 4. Arrangements also have to be made for visitors to view it, without disrupting the daily activities of the embassy. 5. The roof structure itself can be added on to, again, without disrupting the ongoing activities of the airport. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The world, the flesh, and the devil, phrase. ❓ Definition: All forms of temptation to sin. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rossetti struggled with these words in her desire to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain. 3. The daily, hourly conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil, shall at length be at an end: the enemy shall be bound; the warfare shall be over; the wicked shall at last cease from troubling; the weary shall at length be at rest. 4. In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. 5. Epicurus' dubious reputation reflected the Christian tendency to regard earthly pleasures as the evil lures of the world, the flesh, and the devil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Prevaricate, verb. 🔉 /prɪˈvarɪkeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Speak or act in an evasive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions. 2. Not dissembling, not equivocating, not prevaricating, not misinforming, not distorting. 3. As for the moral arguments, let's insist on a full and complete discussion of those too - without the usual shilly-shallying and prevaricating. 4. That is they kept quibbling and prevaricating and showing stubbornness. 5. They don't have the balls to admit that they were caught out, so they attack and lie and prevaricate and do everything to shuffle out from under it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Absorb, verb. 🔉 /əbˈzɔːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • often be absorbed in): Take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly. ❗️ Examples: 1. She sat in an armchair, absorbed in a book. 2. The work absorbed him and continued to make him happy. 3. I love being so absorbed in a book that I don't hear the things going on around me. 4. He hadn't heard her come up the stairs or enter the apartment he was so absorbed in his book. 5. She managed to make it look as if she were absorbed in the book when John threw her door open. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Not a bit of it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Not at all. ❗️ Examples: 1. Am I being unduly cynical? Not a bit of it. 2. After the torrential rain on Saturday, we had thought the event might be a bit of a wash-out, but not a bit of it. 3. It sounds like a recipe for gross self-indulgence, but not a bit of it: ‘I've actually lost nearly a stone and a half since coming here.’ 4. When the Express closed, and then later the ill - fated Scottish Daily News, you'd have thought the bar would close but not a bit of it. 5. You would think after 20 years he would be jaded, but not a bit of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Thorough, adjective. 🔉 /ˈθʌrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Complete with regard to every detail; not superficial or partial. ❗️ Examples: 1. Planners need a thorough understanding of the subject. 2. Success in this environment requires a thorough understanding of systems theory. 3. Prevention only works when you have a thorough understanding about how and why things fail. 4. Whenever he was doing something in mathematics, he always strove to achieve a thorough understanding of the subject. 5. The experiences may lead to closer contact and more thorough understanding. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Put the bite on, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American, Australian, New Zealand • informal): Borrow or extort money from. ❗️ Examples: 1. A deadbeat diner tried to put the bite on a restaurant. 2. Damn, I thought, putting the bite on me for food money. 3. I'm no elitist and I'm all for genuine homeless people getting a better deal all round, but it beggared belief to see him shopping with the people he was putting the bite on just minutes before. 4. It is scandalous is that while Catholic schools across the country have missed out on anywhere between $560 million and $2-3 billion over the past four years, they have put the bite on parents to make up some of the difference. 5. Meanwhile, the governor - through a special economic development fund overseen by his office - also has been putting the bite on a host of companies and other special interests to contribute to his pet cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 De novo, adverb. ❓ Definition: From the beginning; anew. ❗️ Examples: 1. In a pure meritocracy, everyone must begin de novo. 2. Both the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recommend that Congress remove outdated barriers to de novo interstate branching. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Freckle, noun. 🔉 /ˈfrɛk(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small patch of light brown colour on the skin, often becoming more pronounced through exposure to the sun. ❗️ Examples: 1. She had a light sprinkling of freckles on her nose. 2. She was tall and blonde, light skin, freckles sprinkled across her nose and northern cheeks. 3. She had green eyes, and a light sprinkling of freckles across the bridge of her nose. 4. Her skin was creamy white with a scattering of light freckles on her high cheekbones. 5. Somewhere between his words, he has managed to move so close to me that I can make out light freckles sprinkled on his nose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nothing succeeds like success, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Success leads to opportunities for further and greater successes. ❗️ Examples: 1. At the end of the day, nothing succeeds like success. 2. But in America, nothing succeeds like success. 3. In mitigation, this run of bad results was closely tied to a string of away fixtures that would test any team but it once again proved that if nothing succeeds like success then failure facilitates a firing. 4. You know that saying, nothing succeeds like success? 5. Well, its an old saying and a true one: nothing succeeds like success. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Burn out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: Ruin one's health or become completely exhausted through overwork. ❗️ Examples: 1. Doing one task for too long can cause you to burn out. 2. A burned-out undercover cop. 3. She had died at the age of 45 from exhaustion, burnt out by the hardships of life. 4. But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered. 5. Rather than improving technique, burned out dancers may report debilitating fatigue, loss of enthusiasm, and injuries. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 💬 If ever there was someone who earned a happy ending, it was... Me! Bravo! "You answer to the name of Ernest.

📚 Answer to the name of, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be called. ❗️ Examples: 1. A missing gent answering to the name of Bloom. 2. The owner's children were distraught, as they had travelled as far as Wexford in search of their pet that answers to the name of Prince. 3. He answers to the name of Sam and was last seen on Sunday, September 22 in the Borris Road area. 4. The parrot, which is still missing, has red tail feathers and a blue plastic ring on his foot and answers to the name of Monty. 5. He is grey with a white nose and paws and was wearing a white collar, he answers to the name of Socks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Segue, verb. 🔉 /ˈsɛɡweɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object, with adverbial): (in music and film) move without interruption from one piece of music or scene to another. ❗️ Examples: 1. Allow one song to segue into the next. 2. Once the producers felt we had seen enough of that, the camera seemlessly segued into another grassy scene: one with prehistoric, upright, hairy Homo habilis digging holes and groping for food, circa two million years ago. 3. He captivated the audience, artfully segueing from songs that made you laugh, to ones that stilled the crowd with their meaningfulness, their power. 4. Quickly paced, with each song segueing seamlessly into the next, it's a homage to the golden age of crossover. 5. As songs segued into other songs, and finally the album started over again, I realized that the scenery in my mind hadn't changed very drastically in form at any time throughout the journey. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Easy-peasy, adjective. 🔉 /iːzɪˈpiːzi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • informal): Very straightforward and easy (used by or as if by children) ❗️ Examples: 1. Easy-peasy questions. 2. They insist the new tax forms are easy-peasy. 3. For me, to pose nude was easy-peasy because I've been filmed naked before onscreen, so to pose behind a cider press was fine. 4. One of the 35 children learning to cook the easy-peasy way, Adam is mastering the art of making and - best of all - tasting shortbread. 5. And then there's me, being pleasantly surprised that I can still swim quite easily, even though I'm only mid-way up the easy-peasy pool. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Kim's Convenience (2016) - Service S01E08 💬 Many hands make light work. Let's find the card, hmm?

📚 Many hands make light work, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): A task is soon accomplished if several people help. ❗️ Examples: 1. To quote the old saying, many hands make light work. 2. Just when you are thinking too many cooks spoil the broth, suddenly someone will remind you that many hands make light work. 3. Putting the Lantern Parade together is a huge job and many hands make light work. 4. But as many hands make light work, meals on wheels convenor Margaret Clark says she is always interested in hearing from people who can help getting the food to the clients. 5. The campaign was launched last Thursday night in the Seven Oaks Hotel but like all events, many hands make light work so the more people who can help make the event a success the better. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic