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📚 Brave, verb. 🔉 /breɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Endure or face (unpleasant conditions or behaviour) without showing fear. ❗️ Examples: 1. These six men braved the rough seas. 2. The last few weeks have been relatively quiet in the West, with few anglers braving the cold conditions. 3. Since she was a child, Elliott has loved the outdoors, so she's used to braving unsavoury weather conditions. 4. But like his hardened ancestors from Achill island he braved the weather and endured. 5. Men and women braved the arctic weather conditions and set off on the long trail. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Like hell, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Very much (used for emphasis) ❗️ Examples: 1. My head hurts like hell. 2. All I know is that my mouth hurts like hell and I've about as much chance of getting in to see my dentist this week as I have getting into a size 10 dress. 3. I didn't really think about it much as I grew up, unless I bashed my hand against something then the tiny scar hurt like hell. 4. Either way, it hurts like hell on my right side when I breathe in. 5. It really is a magnificent bruise and I have no doubt it hurts like hell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Stevedore, noun. 🔉 /ˈstiːvədɔː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person employed at a dock to load and unload ships. ❗️ Examples: 1. The group represents importers, exporters, stevedores and ship owners throughout Australia and overseas using Geraldton port. 2. Although contractual arrangements are normally between stevedores and ship operators/owners for the supply of stevedoring services, stevedoring demand is best measured in terms of cargo volume than numbers of ships serviced. 3. Mariners and merchants made money managing the trade, carters and stevedores stowed staples on ships, and coopers created barrels to contain flour bound for the sea. 4. The boys ducked past Mr. Thomas as he roared orders to the stevedores on the dock below. 5. The previous day workers blocked vehicles entering and leaving the port and preventing Atlantic Ports Services and Speedline stevedores unloading cargo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Heart-warming, adjective. ❓ Definition: Emotionally rewarding or uplifting. ❗️ Examples: 1. Heart-warming stories about life as a country vet. 2. For a film that's honestly committed to being heart-warming and uplifting, it just about gets there. 3. It's a heart-warming story of love, loss, love, biscuits, tea, friendship, tea, token Americans, tea and love. 4. This film tells the heart-warming story of a Belgian woman trying to make it in an economically depressed former mining town. 5. The stories range from the heart-warming to the bone chilling, without ever giving in to sentimentality or farce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Constant work without rest or relaxation is harmful to one's personal life and well-being. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition to firm information, we have a little game because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 2. All work and no play is stressful. 3. Being in shape doesn't have to be all work and no play. 4. It won't be all work and no play at the show. 5. Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get along, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Used to express scepticism or disbelief or to tell someone to go away. ❗️ Examples: 1. Oh, get along with you! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 As if there was no tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition: With no regard for the future consequences. ❗️ Examples: 1. I ate as if there was no tomorrow. 2. He gnawed and bit and scratched as if there was no tomorrow! 3. The banks are still lending as if there was no tomorrow. 4. She and Dan would swim and swim as if there was no tomorrow. 5. Before I could say anything, he was kissing me as if there was no tomorrow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Finicky, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfɪnɪki/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a person) fussy about their needs or requirements. ❗️ Examples: 1. A finicky eater. 2. Success in that business comes not by understanding and meeting the demands of millions of finicky customers, but by cementing relationships with and winning the support of a handful of powerful decision-makers. 3. He'll have to offer higher levels of service than he's used to, catering to finicky women who often demand multiple alterations. 4. He said: ‘Sky-divers are finicky people, and are incredibly safety conscious.’ 5. Not Don - he's really finicky, nitpicking a lot, going, ‘Oh, could we try that again,’ or ‘Could we change this detail?’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Disrupt, verb. 🔉 /dɪsˈrʌpt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Drastically alter or destroy the structure of. ❗️ Examples: 1. If an explosion of volcanic steam had formed the crater, the blast from below would have disrupted the underlying rock. 2. Applying an irritant chemical to the membrane disrupts the ordered structure: the dye is released and the globular proteins undergo conformational changes. 3. In the shaken solution - which disrupts spatial structure - the ancestral morph persisted solitarily. 4. A hydronium ion, however, disrupts this structure because it can accommodate a maximum of three hydrogen bonds. 5. It is an antistructuralist reading, one that disrupts both the structures within the text and those that frame it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hang loose, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal • often as imperative): Be relaxed; refrain from taking anything too seriously. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hang loose, baby! 2. Still, if you go in not expecting very much, and relax and just hang loose, you will find a lot to smile about. 3. He likes to joke around and is tremendous about creating a positive atmosphere so the guys can stay loose. 4. The key I believe is to stay loose and just write whatever pops into your head. 5. ‘Just chill out and hang loose,’ she said knowingly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hobbledehoy, noun. 🔉 /ˈhɒbldɪˌhɔɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal, dated): A clumsy or awkward youth. ❗️ Examples: 1. It listed the views of various members of Congress: not any old hobbledehoys either, but the party leaders, mostly Republican, whose support would be crucial to the political viability of any Pentagon plan. 2. The true hobbledehoy is much alone, not being greatly given to social intercourse even with other hobbledehoys. 3. He looked frankly what he was - a hobbledehoy - though he made great efforts to seem grown up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dodge, verb. 🔉 /dɒdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement. ❗️ Examples: 1. Marchers had to dodge missiles thrown by loyalists. 2. When the news was wafted to his father's factory, all his colleagues dodged him as if they were avoiding a deadly plague. 3. This time, he wasn't quick enough in dodging any attacks. 4. I pushed myself up and dodged a sudden flurry to my right, just in time to avoid someone else's arms. 5. He attacked right then left, both parried and did a quick back roll to dodged a vertical attack. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight one's corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Defend one's position or interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. We need someone in the cabinet to fight our corner. 2. The company argues that the fact the shareholders are getting anything at all - something some creditors fiercely opposed at the time - was only because the company fought their corner. 3. The same ferocity with which a young, disadvantaged Motherwell side have fought their corner for much of the league campaign was the game's most compelling feature. 4. I fought my corner to the very last, though, and as we waited at the check-out I gave it a final shot. 5. But Mr Jones fought his corner and delivered a prepared, three-minute speech pressing his argument that public services needed to be reformed and firms had to deal with the increasing demands of competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Inspirit, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈspɪrɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Encourage and enliven (someone) ❗️ Examples: 1. The photograph, published in a newspaper, was meant to inspirit the troops. 2. I'm still inspirited by how authentically she captures-she incarnates-Smith's signature style, her particular way of voicing herself, of being in the world. 3. From ‘the cacophonous and diligent howling’ of dogs to the ‘enchanting and inspiriting sound of mandolins’, the paired adjectives are ‘correct and satisfactory’. 4. To see the history I was engaged with being protected to maintain the large, inspiriting Nightingale narrative was a sobering, but not baffling, experience. 5. And Reagan sort of inspirits the nation, gives it a feeling that it has shared values and a better future. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Obscure, adjective. 🔉 /əbˈskjʊə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Not clearly expressed or easily understood. ❗️ Examples: 1. Obscure references to Proust. 2. In fact you appear to have to be very advanced in magical theory in order to understand most of the obscure written references about it. 3. Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics. 4. Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge. 5. Oblique culinary references and obscure terms go against the grain of the present climate in the culinary world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sort out the men from the boys, phrase. ❓ Definition: Show or prove who is the best at a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mountains apparently sort out the men from the boys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic