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📚 Voltaic, adjective. 🔉 /vɒlˈteɪɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to electricity produced by chemical action in a battery; galvanic. ❗️ Examples: 1. Alpha voltaic batteries use a radioisotope such as Americium, the substance commonly used in smoke detectors, coupled with a semiconductor device that acts like a solar cell to convert alpha energy into usable electricity. 2. The redox reaction in the battery is the source of the electrical energy; batteries are voltaic cells. 3. Because electrons originate at the anode in a voltaic cell, the anode has a (-) charge; electrons enter the cathode, which has a (+) charge. 4. Eventually, these hopes were fulfilled, and in 1863 Raoult gained a doctorate from the University of Paris, for a thesis on the electromotive force of voltaic cells. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Undertake, verb. 🔉 /ʌndəˈteɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on. ❗️ Examples: 1. A firm of builders undertook the construction work. 2. When I became president two-and-a-half years ago I undertook a duty and responsibility. 3. This is a mammoth project undertaken by a very committed and brave team of artists and technicians. 4. To undertake the duties and responsibilities of a platoon sergeant, you are expected to be at the top of your game. 5. All of their Lordships spoke in terms of one party having assumed or undertaken a responsibility towards the other. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Used to express indifference to an insult or abuse. ❗️ Examples: 1. If anyone ever tells you that little rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ well tell them they are full of it. 2. We say things like ‘actions speak louder than words’, or ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. 3. But the child's nursery rhyme is true: sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. 4. As that old saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 5. Remember the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Monsoon, noun. 🔉 /mɒnˈsuːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and SE Asia, blowing from the south-west between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon), or from the north-east between October and April (the dry monsoon). ❗️ Examples: 1. This creates winds that generally blow from the southwest during the summer monsoon and from the northeast from October to April. 2. The south-west monsoon from May to October brings heavy rain and heavy seas and can restrict diving. 3. Besides, both north-east and south-west monsoons have a higher level of rainfall which may discourage farmers from applying more fertilisers. 4. But those states were spared when record-breaking monsoons brought heavy summer rains instead of the fierce fires officials had expected. 5. The other good news is that the northerly monsoons have arrived in the Gulf, blowing steadily from north-west veering north-east. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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🎬 Watchmen (2009) 💬 As a result of the Soviet activity, the watchdog group of nuclear scientists moved the Doomsday Clock up to five minutes until midnight: destruction by nuclear war. -
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📚 Watchdog, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɒtʃdɒɡ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person or group that monitors the practices of companies providing a particular service or utility. ❗️ Examples: 1. The consumer watchdog for transport in London. 2. The council is the watchdog established to set, monitor and enforce standards in all areas of general insurance, including the fair treatment of customers. 3. To others it's an essential watchdog needed to prevent discriminatory practices in the workplace. 4. The watchdog's practice of warning nurseries of the month that they would be inspected was also highlighted. 5. The trading watchdog is currently undertaking a review of estate agents' practices. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Easy does it, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. ❗️ Examples: 1. With father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it. 2. Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more. 3. So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise. 4. Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way. 5. Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Mano a mano, adverb. 🔉 /ˈmanəʊ a ˈmanəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US • informal): With two parties confronting each other directly. ❗️ Examples: 1. They want to settle this mano a mano. 2. The time has come for Calgary's business community to compete with Toronto mano a mano. 3. Who could race mano a mano with The King or The Silver Fox? 4. Had he shrunk himself down to the size of a cell and injected himself into sick patients' bodies, to battle mano-a-mano with their disease-causing microbes? 5. Akiko and Hashio get to settle an old-time lovers' feud mano-a-mano. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic 
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📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (take something up, take up something): Occupy time, space, or attention. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't want to take up any more of your time. 2. The rest of that building will be taken up with some retail space, a small number of offices, possibly a hotel, and conference facilities. 3. Phil Burgess, group main board director of Emerson, Orbit's parent company, told the committee that only four per cent of the floor space would be taken up with the goods restricted by the covenant. 4. But many who currently sit in the Main Stand are angry that similar seats will not be available at the new stadium, because the space is taken up with expensive executive seats. 5. It is clear from the wording of s. 84 that the list of matters that may be relevant is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is in the discussion of the nature of the public interest that much of the investigative time is taken up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Rest on one's laurels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be so satisfied with what one has already done or achieved that one makes no further effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. With TV sports coverage becoming increasingly competitive, the BBC should beware of resting on its laurels. 2. He has experienced more adventure than most of us enjoy in a lifetime but he is not resting on his laurels and is already planning further adventures. 3. He is not resting on his laurels and has already begun working for further improvement. 4. We cannot rest on our laurels after the efforts of the weekend. 5. But I've rested on my laurels and never put effort into anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Adze, noun. 🔉 /adz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tools consist now of bone, wood and stone, made up as an adze, knife blade, borer, arrow or spearhead. 2. Specialized war weapons may be lacking - after all, war can be fought with such ordinary tools as adzes or hunting spears. 3. A man sat near his house using an adze to sculpt a handle for his bill-hook. 4. There, slowly but surely, a keel took shape as the axes and adzes flew and the wood chips piled up below. 5. Hand tools like the axe and the adze have thousands of years of history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic
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📚 Inborn, adjective. 🔉 /ˈɪnbɔːn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Existing from birth. ❗️ Examples: 1. An inborn defect in the formation of collagen. 2. There is a high frequency of inborn defects of respiratory organs and bronchiectasis. 3. There are three main categories of congenital problems to be considered in pediatric patients: congenital malformations, inborn errors of metabolism, and other inherited disorders. 4. Apart from these inborn defects, deprivation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) at any time of life interferes with a step in collagen synthesis; the resulting bleeding, bruising, and poor healing are part of the picture of scurvy. 5. Some of the cell lines were from individuals with rare inborn errors of metabolism, although none suffered from a condition known to be associated with their APOE genotype. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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🎬 Suits (2011) - S06E07 💬 And his execution date is set in stone. -
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📚 Be set in stone, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize that something is fixed and unchangeable. ❗️ Examples: 1. This pricing scheme is not set in stone and will likely change when the service has a full launch. 2. Anything can change — nothing is written in stone. 3. Your training goals are not written in stone; changes should be made as necessary to work toward a common goal. 4. However, an RFL spokesman said ten teams per division was a minimum, not a fixed figure, while the new format was not yet set in stone. 5. While many thought that the current proposed standard was written in stone might have to change their minds and wait until the squabbling is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic -
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📚 Convivial, adjective. 🔉 /kənˈvɪvɪəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, and enjoyable. ❗️ Examples: 1. A convivial cocktail party. 2. It was a lively, convivial atmosphere - gone but not forgotten. 3. Or you could simply soak up the convivial atmosphere and practise your French with the friendly stallholders. 4. There's an exceptionally warm, relaxed and convivial atmosphere here, with comfy sofas on rugged quarry tiles and a log-burning stove. 5. The audience thrilled to everything they watched and a festive, convivial atmosphere marked the whole occasion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic