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📚 Meliorism, noun. 🔉 /ˈmiːlɪərɪz(ə)m/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Philosophy • mass noun): The belief that the world can be made better by human effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. The dominant philosophy of statecraft has become a form of pragmatic meliorism with markets and Western democratic institutions as the chosen means for improving our lives. 2. The prevailing pessimism of the cycle is relieved by passages of lyrical beauty and by faith in scientific and social meliorism. 3. Orwell's theoretically skeptical prophetic meliorism resonates with much in Christianity, and especially Catholicism. 4. Liberal and egalitarian in sympathy, they eschewed class analysis for civic meliorism, in keeping with his own social democratic values. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rocket science, noun. ❓ Definition (humorous • mass noun, usually with negative): Something very difficult to understand. ❗️ Examples: 1. We want you to get out and vote — it's not exactly rocket science. 2. Organic weed control is not rocket science, but it does take understanding the anatomy and physiology of the crop plants, the weeds and the soil. 3. Setting up on your own isn't rocket science, but it does take nerve and an injection of capital to get you rolling. 4. The chord changes aren't rocket science, but the rhythms are fast and the fills are rare, quick and poisonous. 5. What Rex said has helped ground me in thinking that this really is not rocket science, it's basic business practices. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn traitor, phrase. ❓ Definition: Betray a group or person. ❗️ Examples: 1. She'd had the gall to deny she had turned traitor. 2. But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that. 3. One of the key prosecution witnesses at his trial was a trusted comrade who had turned traitor. 4. Others have turned traitor, switching allegiances from synthesisers to guitars. 5. Friends turn traitor and fellow countrymen become the enemy in a war-torn world where the old rules are worthless. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Arcane, adjective. 🔉 /ɑːˈkeɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Understood by few; mysterious or secret. ❗️ Examples: 1. Arcane procedures for electing people. 2. The compact libretto used less of the flowery, arcane language that once had seemed a requisite of high style. 3. This is not a task to be undertaken lightly: the language is convoluted and arcane. 4. Here at least, the lyrics are quite clear and not concealed beneath some arcane reference. 5. It may seem an arcane issue to go to war over, but the unions are worried that they are losing an increasing number of workers to the private sector. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Solely, adverb. 🔉 /ˈsəʊlli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Not involving anyone or anything else; only. ❗️ Examples: 1. He is solely responsible for any debts the company may incur. 2. People are appointed solely on the basis of merit. 3. Does he seriously think that anyone believes we rely solely on the wind to light our streets? 4. It is simply not true that smoking is solely responsible for the current cancer epidemic. 5. To have a true belief is simply and solely to believe that something is so, and to be in fact right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Trip the light fantastic, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Dance, in particular engage in ballroom dancing. ❗️ Examples: 1. They enjoyed a four-course dinner, charity auction and a dance band so they could trip the light fantastic. 2. They are great fans of this style of dancing and trip the light fantastic each Thursday night to keep in practice. 3. She tap-dances and trips the light fantastic in a couple of big-production numbers, wearing a Gloria Swanson-style wig and fabulous frocks. 4. In recent years, ‘6O's nights’ have become very popular, bringing out some not so young rockers for a nostalgic night of tripping the light fantastic. 5. Many who attended the festival in those years have still remained fans and those same drama fans, who were big on dancing, are more at ease in the seats at a play than tripping the light fantastic in earlier years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Marked, adjective. 🔉 /mɑːkt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Clearly noticeable. ❗️ Examples: 1. A marked increase in UK sales. 2. She said the school has shown a marked improvement this year in their efforts to retain the green flag. 3. Demand in Waterford City Centre for good retail locations is extremely strong and there has been a marked scarcity of suitable properties. 4. Intensive immunization campaigns have resulted in a marked decrease in polio throughout the world. 5. While the use of accounting information intensified, there was no marked change in the system itself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 True Grit (2010) 💬 The particulars is that we bring Chaney down to the magistrate in San Saba, Texas, where they have a considerable reward on offer, which we split.

📚 On offer, phrase. ❓ Definition: Available. ❗️ Examples: 1. The number of permanent jobs on offer is relatively small. 2. In Britain it is a few hundred pounds and that can be quickly withdrawn if you don't accept one of the jobs on offer. 3. He and the other sporting figures will tell young people about the wealth of jobs on offer in sport. 4. The event organised by the Department of Tourism had the right mix of fare on offer. 5. Spot prizes will be on offer at the function and the organisers appeal for support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Arioso, noun. ❓ Definition (Music • mass noun): (especially in opera and oratorio) vocal music that is more melodic than recitative but less formal than an aria. ❗️ Examples: 1. Short passages of arioso. 2. His final arioso was more assured. 3. These anthems contain arioso writing. 4. We aren't surprised that Handel employs, for this grand theme, all the resources of classical Heroic Opera, involving recitative, arioso, aria, chorus, and ceremonial dance. 5. In Act 3 when Guido and Emilia meet, he urges her to kill him in a remarkable sequence of secco recitative, accompanied recitative and arioso. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Impact, noun. 🔉 /ˈɪmpakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A marked effect or influence. ❗️ Examples: 1. Our regional measures have had a significant impact on unemployment. 2. The adverse effect immediately made an impact on the company's financial performance. 3. All these influences have had an impact on me becoming who and what I am today. 4. Moreover, advances in medicine and medical technology have had a marked impact on the process of dying. 5. So the potential environmental impact is markedly reduced by that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Garden State (2004) 💬 lf there's some sort of retarded Oscar, you would win hands down, kick his ass.

📚 Hands down, phrase. ❓ Definition: Easily and decisively. ❗️ Examples: 1. Swindon won hands down. 2. The envious look on my fellow competitors' faces reflected my own view: I was going to win this race hands down. 3. I will say hands down they are the most wondrous thing in the world I have ever seen. 4. McCrann has exhibited how superior intellect will defeat sloganeering hands down. 5. Aliens is hands down one of the most quotable movies of all time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Eagre, noun. ❓ Definition: Dialect term for «bore». ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Wheat, noun. 🔉 /wiːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A cereal which is the most important kind grown in temperate countries, the grain of which is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc. ❗️ Examples: 1. Other Iron Age crops included the more ancient emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum, which was grown on light soils), bread wheat, oats, rye, peas, Celtic beans, and flax. 2. Three species exist both as wild and domesticated wheats, einkorn, emmer, and breadwheat. 3. The many thousands of grains comprise not just emmer and naked barley, but also bread wheat - which points clearly to the Neolithic - and linseed. 4. Items to be covered include options in crop sequences, wheat breeding directions, tramline farming, potential for durum wheats, lupins and various pests and their control. 5. Perhaps 2,000 years later, durum wheat hybridised with goat grass to give us bread wheat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From time to time, phrase. ❓ Definition: Occasionally. ❗️ Examples: 1. Although he is now fluent in Bulgarian, Matt still confuses the odd word from time to time. 2. Chances are you won't get one, but I understand that you feel the need - we all do from time to time. 3. Place on a high heat and bring to the boil, stirring from time to time. 4. Friday night was one of those pleasant surprises the Internet throws my way from time to time. 5. Pack little surprises from time to time like stickers, a novelty pen or a joke. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vaticinate, verb. 🔉 /vaˈtɪsɪneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare • no object): Foretell the future. ❗️ Examples: 1. He vaticinated a period of peace for the continent. 2. He spent much of his time vaticinating on learned panels. 3. The experts vaticinate that, in some years, the European electrical sector will be reduced to five or six groups. 4. In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ostrich, noun. 🔉 /ˈɒstrɪtʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A flightless swift-running African bird with a long neck, long legs, and two toes on each foot. It is the largest living bird, with males reaching a height of up to 2.75 m. ❗️ Examples: 1. Both of these bird families had reduced wings and could not fly, and looked something like living ratite birds - ostriches, emus, rheas, and so on. 2. He's not just talking about pigeons and sparrows either; kiwis, ostriches, penguins, and rare flightless parrots are just a handful of the exotic avians featured in this series. 3. Living relatives of moa include the emus, ostrich, and kiwi, which are members of a bird group called ratites. 4. There are only two kinds of animal that spend their whole lives performing the tricky balancing act of walking on two legs - humans and some flightless birds, like ostriches. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic