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📚 Intercalate, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈtəːkəleɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Insert (an intercalary period) in a calendar. ❗️ Examples: 1. A system was introduced to intercalate an extra month in the calendar. 2. To keep the lunar calendar synchronized with the solar year, an extra month was intercalated in summer as necessary, in so-called ‘embolismic’ years. 3. An extra month is intercalated every three years, just before the month of Nisan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Gratitude, noun. 🔉 /ˈɡratɪtjuːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. ❗️ Examples: 1. She expressed her gratitude to the committee for their support. 2. As a return of gratitude, he is willing to share a large percentage of the sum with you. 3. He realised his life since had been wasted on drugs and wanted to express gratitude to the police for having caught him. 4. Ken would like to extend sincere gratitude to all who voted for him during the competition. 5. Olivia expressed her gratitude for the grant, which will be used to pay just some of her fees. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The coast is clear, phrase. ❓ Definition: There is no danger of being observed or caught. ❗️ Examples: 1. The streetcleaners kept stopping off for a smoke when the coast was clear. 2. She then looks up and down the street, as if she's making sure the coast is clear, and then she just takes off. 3. And then, if the coast is clear, we can safely follow. 4. Our characters were supposed to look around to make sure the coast is clear, then jump in the truck and race off. 5. They all start running off and, thinking the coast is clear, I get out of my car. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hoary, adjective. 🔉 /ˈhɔːri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Greyish white. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hoary cobwebs. 2. The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out. 3. The Fifth Commandment of the Bible reminds us to honor our fathers and mothers and to ‘rise up before the hoary head of the old man, to pay respect to the elders of the tribe’. 4. And even if you could never bring yourself to back England, there is some good news - now they've finally won a World Cup, those hoary old pictures of the 1966 final might finally get put to the back of the cupboard. 5. What I guessed to be a hawk's feather hung from the back of his skull, probably tied there by a short leather thong attached to his hoary mane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 File, verb. 🔉 /fʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Submit (a legal document, application, or charge) to be placed on record by the appropriate authority. ❗️ Examples: 1. Criminal charges were filed against the firm. 2. The company had filed for bankruptcy. 3. No charges were ever filed against the accountant. 4. The applicant filed an application for judicial review, but it was dismissed by consent. 5. In December, charges were filed against the women who testified. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get laid, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Have sex. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was keeping himself busy with his life's work - trying and failing to get laid. 2. He had a Playboy duvet cover and still got laid! 3. I don't go out to get laid - I go out to have fun. 4. What does one's opinion on politics have to do with getting laid? 5. It's like they all just went on the show to get laid more than usual. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Chagrin, noun. 🔉 /ˈʃaɡrɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Annoyance or distress at having failed or been humiliated. ❗️ Examples: 1. To my chagrin, he was nowhere to be seen. 2. The long-awaited breakup will ensue, to the embarrassment and chagrin of many. 3. He coughed up his Bickfords and turned purple with a mixture of shame and chagrin. 4. To his embarrassment and chagrin, not one of these claims has turned out to be true. 5. At the mention of Vannington, the look changed to chagrin and embarrassment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Phineas and Ferb (2007) - S01E25 Got Game? 💬 You look sporty.

📚 Sporty, adjective. 🔉 /ˈspɔːti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of clothing) casual yet attractively stylish. ❗️ Examples: 1. A sporty outfit. 2. The atmosphere was relaxed and deceptively informal, with low-key lighting and dancers wearing socklets and casually sporty costumes of muted blue. 3. This sporty red knit hat comes emblazoned with the Life Aquatic insignia, while the tight, skimpy blue bathing suit leaves little to the imagination. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Every dog has its day, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Everyone will have good luck or success at some point in their lives. ❗️ Examples: 1. There comes a time to stop, every dog has its day, and I think I have had mine. 2. In parallel with his ascendancy to the top of the NFL tree went his present team, their unlikely transformation from zeroes to heroes last season illustrating that every dog has its day. 3. It's not nice to keep losing but every dog has its day. 4. I'm aware that, very, very occasionally a performance is given which astonishes us all, but every dog has his day, and England's problem is having too few of these. 5. However, no sooner had I written this than I get to find out every dog has his day, right? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Litigate, verb. 🔉 /ˈlɪtɪɡeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Resort to legal action to settle a matter; be involved in a lawsuit. ❗️ Examples: 1. The plaintiff is prepared to litigate. 2. It is not an abuse of process merely to require a litigant to litigate in a tribunal of a Convention country if that tribunal in fact has jurisdiction under the convention. 3. One does not take away that choice by permitting, encouraging or preventing the exhortation of the citizen to litigate or not to litigate. 4. At the same time, the church has every incentive to litigate, because the litigation is cost-free. 5. It is expensive to litigate in defamation, even in the smaller cases, let alone monster cases like this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Distress, noun. 🔉 /dɪˈstrɛs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain. ❗️ Examples: 1. To his distress he saw that she was trembling. 2. Her fingers flew to her throat in distress. 3. Considerable social stigma is associated with infection, which may cause psychological distress in the sufferer. 4. Caring for people experiencing mental distress is often complex and challenging. 5. They say that the school didn't protect her and that she's suffering emotional distress. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In person, phrase. ❓ Definition: With the personal presence or action of the individual specified. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had to pick up his welfare cheque in person. 2. Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far. 3. His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper. 4. The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry. 5. There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Prefatory, adjective. 🔉 /ˈprɛfət(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Serving as an introduction; introductory. ❗️ Examples: 1. In his prefatory remarks the author claims that … 2. It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory. 3. As Nelson writes in a prefatory note, ‘A requiem, by definition, is sad; the person it honors has died.’ 4. After a prefatory reference to the ‘inherent dignity’ of all human beings, the Universal Declaration simply declares certain values to be human rights. 5. ‘I am neither a historian nor a lawyer,’ Malkin reminds her reader in the book's prefatory note. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Upfront, adverb. 🔉 /ʌpˈfrʌnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually up front • informal): (of a payment) in advance. ❗️ Examples: 1. The salesmen are paid commission up front. 2. Payment is up front and there is a choice between a damage waiver or a security deposit. 3. He'd waited five years on the list, and he'd needed to pay up front a year in advance. 4. She had been paid up front, and she had carried out the task for which she had been paid. 5. The budget is paid in a lump sum up front, so the practice knows where its money is coming from. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Eminem – Berzerk 💬 Say fuck it before we kick the bucket.

📚 Kick the bucket, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Die. ❗️ Examples: 1. When the old girl finally kicked the bucket there was no mention of yours truly in the will. 2. He wanted to do his own thing and he wanted to do it now - not down the track when his father finally kicked the bucket. 3. But in spite of the fact, when he kicks the bucket and departs his mortal coil, it is going to be one of the biggest funerals in the Bahamas. 4. Even though the British Empire had long since kicked the bucket, the expats could still be found pretty much anywhere the Brits had a former colony. 5. When rich Americans kick the bucket, they invariably will a good sum to their alma maters, pet charities or research institutions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mbira, noun. 🔉 /(ə)mˈbɪərə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (especially in southern Africa) another term for «thumb piano». ❗️ Examples: 1. The album is made entirely from a multitracked mbira (thumb piano) and occasional rhythmic accompaniment. 2. These songs conjure a sense of community and activity with their lively mbira parts and the ecstatic singing, making the mbira an instrument of sociality, festivity, and fierce activity. 3. The artist's brother makes mbiras, the musical instrument intimately associated with possession ceremonies; his grandfather carved head rests; and his mother was a potter and his source of inspiration. 4. His music focuses on the social and economic issues that affect the daily lives of ordinary people, and is influenced by the traditional mbira and drumming rhythm of his clan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic