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📚 Egalitarian, adjective. 🔉 /ɪˌɡalɪˈtɛːrɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. ❗️ Examples: 1. A fairer, more egalitarian society. 2. This probably reflects a primitive form of egalitarian society. 3. That is not the kind of egalitarian base on which Australians would want to see their taxation system working. 4. Sure, there were times when Australia was definitely a much more economically egalitarian society. 5. Would you say that your struggle is for an egalitarian society? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Arbitrage (2012) 💬 Assuming we shed debt through some small liquidations, we're looking at a significant uptake in ROI.

📚 ROI, abbreviation. ❓ Definition (Finance): Return on investment. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Money talks, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Wealth gives power and influence to those who possess it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I twisted Billy's statement to demonstrate that money talks, and therefore gives its bearer power that others lack. 2. I know money talks but at the end of the day it is always going to be the player's choice as to where he plays his rugby. 3. The state of the union is that money talks and public policy is sold to the highest bidder. 4. Meritocracy was not totally absent in this story - if anything, it shows that money talks, but it doesn't necessarily call the shots. 5. Petitions and letters are nice, but money talks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Suffrage, noun. 🔉 /ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The right to vote in political elections. ❗️ Examples: 1. Universal adult suffrage. 2. The women's suffrage movement. 3. General elections with universal adult suffrage were held in April 1965, with several political parties represented. 4. Successive extensions of the right to vote produced universal adult suffrage by 1928 and made the House of Commons representative of the nation. 5. Bulgaria's 1991 constitution, which established a parliamentary republic, provides for a multiparty parliamentary system and free elections with universal adult suffrage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Full Monty (1997) 💬 The good news is that the outlook for the rest of the week is much better, with the storms clearing by Friday to leave the weekend warm and sunny.

📚 Outlook, noun. 🔉 /ˈaʊtlʊk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person's point of view or general attitude to life. ❗️ Examples: 1. He had a practical outlook on life. 2. Still active and alert Mary attributes her longevity to plenty of hard work, good genes, a healthy lifestyle and a positive outlook on life in general. 3. His reflections on that, his life, his ongoing dialysis treatments and his general outlook on the world are well worth perusing. 4. Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life. 5. Johnny was a lovely man and his warm smile will not be forgotten or his great outlook on life in general. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Oil the wheels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Help something go smoothly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sales promotions oil the wheels of commerce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Liberation, noun. 🔉 /lɪbəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release. ❗️ Examples: 1. The liberation of all political prisoners. 2. The liberation of Kabul led to a decision to re-open the UK diplomatic mission. 3. It is a prodigious warning to the privileged classes, rather than a means of liberation for the exploited classes. 4. The President is not "an ordinary civil servant like others"; he is the greatest contributor to the liberation of this country. 5. They had been raised on edifying tales of Greek tyrannicides that always ended in the liberation of the city. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Award, noun. 🔉 /əˈwɔːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A prize or other mark of recognition given in honour of an achievement. ❗️ Examples: 1. The company's annual award for high-quality service. 2. Women from across Yorkshire were honoured yesterday in awards recognising their outstanding achievements. 3. Nobody ever said it would be easy to establish an annual awards ceremony honouring the best productions in Scottish film and television. 4. The annual award recognizes outstanding achievements in sports turf management among the 180 state members. 5. He was presented with a special recognition award to mark his achievements since his days as young student at the old Waterville Vocational School. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All of a sudden, phrase. ❓ Definition: Suddenly. ❗️ Examples: 1. I feel really tired all of a sudden. 2. All of a sudden, he's being asked to dinner by leading writers and noblemen. 3. All of a sudden, the normal drone of the training room was shattered by peals of laughter! 4. All of a sudden, you're face to face with a black, hairy spider the size of a beach ball. 5. All of a sudden, the sky cleared, became blue and a perfect rainbow arched over me with one end in the sand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Galvanize, verb. 🔉 /ˈɡalvənʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Shock or excite (someone) into taking action. ❗️ Examples: 1. The urgency of his voice galvanized them into action. 2. No sense of shock galvanizes the audience when we witness the details of her murder before he learns of it. 3. As your job in the United Nations Humanitarian Agency, it's your job to galvanize the people, to get their attention, to get them to take the money out of their pocket. 4. She could provide the required political leadership to galvanize her people, being the daughter of Indonesia's founding father. 5. Frustration, disillusionment and above all a fear of the future began to galvanize people to write, question and think as they had not done before. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Brooklyn (2015) 💬 May they do your will and live in peace with you in mutual love.

📚 Mutual, adjective. 🔉 /ˈmjuːtʃʊəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a feeling or action) experienced or done by each of two or more parties towards the other or others. ❗️ Examples: 1. A partnership based on mutual respect and understanding. 2. My father hated him from the start and the feeling was mutual. 3. His contract with City has been terminated by mutual consent. 4. ‘We met around town in Detroit and just had a mutual admiration and respect, then just sort of gravitated toward one another,’ says Benson. 5. But this has not affected the mutual love and respect he and his children feel for one another. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the groove, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Performing confidently or consistently well. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team are not really in the groove tonight. 2. It might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove. 3. A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together. 4. While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song. 5. He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Autonomy, noun. 🔉 /ɔːˈtɒnəmi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The right or condition of self-government. ❗️ Examples: 1. Between the First and Second World Wars, Canada gained greater autonomy from Britain. 2. Its aim was to suspend the moves towards separation for three months, whilst negotiating greater autonomy within a federal structure. 3. This allowed for greater autonomy within the boundaries of the Federal Republic. 4. A former province of a state is being prepared for substantial autonomy and self-government. 5. A relatively small group of nationalists demand outright independence for the island while others prefer autonomy within the French Republic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bob's Burgers (2011) - S04E02 💬 Crawl to freedom! - Crawl to Halloween!

📚 Crawl, verb. 🔉 /krɔːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground. ❗️ Examples: 1. They crawled from under the table. 2. I leaned forward, crawling on my knees to a bottle of beer resting on the desk next to the door. 3. Rolling across the ground, she crawled forward on her belly, ignoring the taste of grime and blood in her mouth. 4. Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward. 5. Out of morbid curiosity she pushed herself back into the storm drain and crawled forward on hands and knees toward the body. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic