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🎬 Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 💬 The tropical cyclone, which originated last week off the coast of British Honduras, has intensified rapidly and is now designated Hurricane Mabeline.

📚 Designate, verb. 🔉 /ˈdɛzɪɡneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Officially give a specified status or name to. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Wye Valley is designated an area of outstanding natural beauty. 2. Certain schools are designated ‘science schools’ 3. The engineering status will be designated to the school from September. 4. We follow the general rules of zebrafish nomenclature for designating locus and allele names. 5. Perhaps it might increase the awareness of the problem if we were officially to designate a day in the year in testimony to them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 As plain as the nose on someone's face, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very obvious. ❗️ Examples: 1. I knew what he was up to — it was as plain as the nose on his face. 2. He explained why he chose him: ‘That was a decision I felt had to be made as plain as the nose on my face - and that's fairly apparent.’ 3. What's the point of saying something that is as plain as the nose on your face? 4. After eliminating the impossibilities, the master of deduction explained, he had been left with one simple irrevocable conclusion, as plain as the nose on one's face. 5. After the verdict was handed down, the press were talking to the jurors, interviewing the jury, and the one juror said Michael's innocence was as plain as the nose on his face. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ailurophile, noun. 🔉 /ʌɪˈljʊərəˌfʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A cat lover. ❗️ Examples: 1. Get any two ailurophiles together and the discussion will inevitably turn to litter boxes and litter. 2. If the outdoors is too dangerous, ailurophiles often forgo feline companionship rather than confine a cat indoors. 3. Among other notable ailurophiles were Byron, Anatole France, Montaigne and Lope de Vega, known as the Spanish Shakespeare. 4. The ailurophiles say that they do not anthropomorphize cats but, rather, that cats have such human qualities as they may condescend to adopt for their own selfish purposes. 5. Either way, I don't think you'll find much help on science fiction related groups, where we tend to be ailurophiles for the most part. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 JFK (1991) 💬 These are crucial documents classified top secret.

📚 Classified, adjective. 🔉 /ˈklasɪfʌɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of information or documents) designated as officially secret and accessible only to authorized people. ❗️ Examples: 1. Classified information on nuclear experiments. 2. It is very serious if they were collecting and disseminating cheap political dirt from a classified document labeled ‘secret.’ 3. Think about a powerful government official leaking sensitive classified information to the press solely to discredit a critic of the government's policy. 4. I should mention here that merely having a certain level of Security Clearance does not mean one is authorized to view classified information. 5. The maximum penalty would be imposed on people who knowingly spread classified information or provided access to it to other parties. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 From the bottom of one's heart, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very sincerely. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Deponent, noun. 🔉 /dɪˈpəʊnənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Law): A person who makes a deposition or affidavit under oath. ❗️ Examples: 1. I understand from the affidavits that the various deponents have inconvenienced themselves by coming to the Court today. 2. The deponents to these affidavits state that they have suffered injuries which were not fully compensated for under the prior settlements. 3. You are the deponent of the affidavit which you have provided to the Court Registry in support of the application? 4. The adoption of such a test would sometimes require the trial of an issue or at least cross-examination of deponents to affidavits. 5. If that is what the deponent of this affidavit wants to say, I want to cross-examine him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Things that go bump in the night, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal, humorous): Unexplained and frightening noises at night, regarded as being caused by ghosts. ❗️ Examples: 1. The fear of long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. 2. As a youngster I had a dreadful fear of ghost stories and things that go bump in the night. 3. Meanwhile, professional ghost-finders are set to launch a three-day festival in York dedicated to the things that go bump in the night. 4. You are thinking about things that go bump in the night and monsters under your bed and vampires peering at you through your window. 5. I have a fear of things that go bump in the night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ukiyo-e, noun. 🔉 /uːˌkiːjəʊˈeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life, dominant in the 17th–19th centuries. ❗️ Examples: 1. The prints have a lot of color graduation instead of plain even color areas that are so typical for classical Japanese ukiyo-e. 2. The origins of Japanese woodblock prints or ukiyo-e go back to the middle of the 17th century. 3. Sukeroku is frequently depicted in ukiyo-e, easily recognized by his stylish purple headband. 4. Kunichika was one of the old-style artists of ukiyo-e towards the end of the nineteenth century. 5. And they are written for the beginners to the subject of ukiyo-e and for experts alike. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Spare, noun. 🔉 /spɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out. ❗️ Examples: 1. The wheel's broken and it would be suicide to go on without a spare. 2. After E, above you put the kit back together and have a large box of spares left over. 3. He played his bass like he had five spares waiting backstage. 4. Everybody in the world should buy all Miyazaki's films twice and then give their spares to each other. 5. I thought it was in case one broke down, then he'd probably use that other one as a spare. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Barton Fink (1991) 💬 Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie.

📚 For my money, phrase. ❓ Definition: In my opinion or judgement. ❗️ Examples: 1. For my money, they're one of the best bands around. 2. Now, for my money, Scott's pretty clearly about as guilty as sin. 3. The best thing about the site, for my money, is that I've managed to avoid having any photographic likeness of myself included anywhere on it. 4. ‘For my money, he is one of the best centre-halves in England,’ said Melrose. 5. His famous novel begins with a couple of paragraphs which, for my money, constitute the most mesmerising start of any novel ever written. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Wizen, adjective. 🔉 /ˈwɪz(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Archaic variant of «wizened». ❗️ Examples: 1. He is an old man, worn and wizen - blind and wasting away. 2. Seats all cascaded in a waterfall towards the pit at the bottom where a single wizen man stood with a rod, prodding at one of the black slates mounted on the vast black wall of the room. 3. Buxom for her age, like so many pubescent children she seemed to have siphoned off vital bulk from her parents and left them to dwindle, wizen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Confirmation (2016) 💬 What she really wants is to be a columnist, so to prove herself to her bosses, she wrote a sample column: «I know Thomas is capable of doing these things because he did them to me...» We need to depose her.

📚 Depose, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈpəʊz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove from office suddenly and forcefully. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had been deposed by a military coup. 2. His physicality is extraordinarily powerful, and he paces around the office like a miserably deposed silverback gorilla now unsure of anything other than his own brute strength. 3. But even though he was unceremoniously deposed from office last year, could the mild-mannered leader really be capable of such deeds? 4. Clergy members found guilty of such a charge can be admonished, removed from office or, in extreme cases, be deposed from holy orders - ‘unfrocked’. 5. He has been in exile since being deposed by military coup in 1967. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Soft touch, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A person who readily gives or does something if asked. ❗️ Examples: 1. We've shown people we're not a soft touch and that we won't be pushed over by the criticism. 2. The bit that still gets to me is the look on her face as she approached me, as though she thought I was a soft touch and I was going to bow down at her feet and beg forgiveness. 3. The trouble with caring too much is becoming a soft touch. 4. I think you know very well that you ought to stop being such a soft touch. 5. They are no soft touch, as they proved again last night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Lido, noun. ❓ Definition (British): A public open-air swimming pool or bathing beach. ❗️ Examples: 1. In the summer time, the lido area's outdoor swimming pool is a popular gathering spot. 2. In 2002, there was a spate of vandalism, including one incident in which damage put at £1, 000 was caused to the open-air lido. 3. There is talk of really striking out and walking down to Taurito Centro (the bottom of the hill) to check out the beach and the lido, but I'm not sure how much will come of it. 4. We also liked the photo of what looked like a submerged lido on the beach at Broadstairs (although we would have liked the photo to be a bit bigger). 5. Of course, lidos weren't your average swimming pool. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic