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📚 In the heat of the moment, phrase. ❓ Definition: While temporarily angry, excited, or engrossed, and without stopping for thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. Things said in the heat of the moment. 2. Sadly at this moment all that was found in the heat of the moment, was two angry faces, two rapidly beating hearts and one truth. 3. That had been all too short, and the ones the night before that had been frenzied, excited ones caught in the heat of the moment. 4. ‘I think there's nothing more dangerous than adopting legislation in the heat of the moment,’ he says. 5. One thing is certain, rugby will always be a very tough game, in which injuries can be expected, and in most cases there is very little a referee can do to prevent many of them in the heat of the moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Draconian, adjective. 🔉 /drəˈkəʊnɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Nazis destroyed the independence of the press by a series of draconian laws. 2. The penalty imposed by law is not draconian, and serves more as a reminder to perform a common sense action. 3. These hard facts indicate real motives behind enactment of this draconian law. 4. There was a time when I would have argued that our libel laws were draconian and should be amended. 5. It's about time we sorted a sensible compromise and not a draconian law. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 American Pie (1999) 💬 Be sensitive to her feelings. Relationships are reciprocal.

📚 Reciprocal, adjective. 🔉 /rɪˈsɪprək(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an agreement or obligation) bearing on or binding each of two parties equally. ❗️ Examples: 1. The treaty is a bilateral commitment with reciprocal rights and duties. 2. And he hopes that the surprise move to open up UK media franchises to American companies means that the UK government is close to getting a reciprocal agreement from the US. 3. The plan came unstuck when the Department of Health said medical charges could not be waived as Britain did not have a reciprocal agreement with the west African country to treat its residents. 4. But you will only qualify for any pension increases after you retire if you go to live in a country with which we have a reciprocal agreement. 5. Exceptions were made where there were reciprocal agreements with other countries. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All in all, phrase. ❓ Definition: On the whole. ❗️ Examples: 1. All in all it's been a good year. 2. They wreak havoc on our nervous systems and, all in all, make for generally unsavoury experiences. 3. But all in all, I would much rather have been running on the straight. 4. So all in all, they are asking you to close your eyes and believe. 5. It's an extremely odd little movie, all in all, and it's a little tough to understand the high expectations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dissent, noun. 🔉 /dɪˈsɛnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held. ❗️ Examples: 1. There was no dissent from this view. 2. I have continually argued for France's right to express its dissent from the opinion of the international community. 3. It is at delicate moments in world affairs, such as this, that expressions of widespread dissent from opinion-formers can become a real political force. 4. He pointed out that it was easy to exaggerate the importance of Australian expressions of dissent from Allied plans, and Curtin's messages. 5. Brown wrote the Committee for the Nation expressing his dissent from the President's gold purchasing program in late 1933. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons - Chief of Hearts S21E18 💬 You just put yourself on AMBER Alert.

📚 AMBER Alert, noun. ❓ Definition (trademark in UK): An emergency response system that disseminates information about a missing person (usually a child), by media broadcasting or electronic roadway signs. ❗️ Examples: 1. Our state's AMBER Alert became operational last September. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A means to an end, phrase. ❓ Definition: A thing that is not valued or important in itself but is useful in achieving an aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Higher education was seen primarily as a means to an end. 2. We view our technology as a means to an end, and the end is always to deliver business value. 3. However, it must be used as a means to an end and not the end itself. 4. ‘I don't think much of gaming,’ says Morgan, ‘but it was a means to an end.’ 5. So advertising is only a means to an end - if an alternative method existed to increase the reputation of the product, it would also serve the seller's purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Choice, noun. 🔉 /tʃɔɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An act of choosing between two or more possibilities. ❗️ Examples: 1. The choice between good and evil. 2. The capacity of consumers to drive efficiency can be undermined by an inability to make an informed choice between plans. 3. Other findings showed that consumers wanted to be able to make an informed choice between GM and non-GM food. 4. I had a choice between cancelling my appointment, or attempting the journey with one mirror. 5. That choice between settling for what we've got, or striving for what we [want], is at the core of every challenge we face in education. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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🎬 The Blacklist (2013) - S01E18 💬 Don't justify the terrible things you've done.

📚 Justify, verb. 🔉 /ˈdʒʌstɪfʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Show or prove to be right or reasonable. ❗️ Examples: 1. The person appointed has fully justified our confidence. 2. Your anxiety may prove to be fully justified, and if after the first year I'm persuaded that you are right I will have an opportunity to remedy the situation. 3. His sentiments were echoed by Richard Crumlish and it seems their confidence has been fully justified after the opening shows. 4. Wall was immense throughout and fully justified the complete confidence management had in him. 5. The defendant cannot justify one libel by proving the truth of another distinct libel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Simpsons (1989) - S07E21 Comedy 💬 I'm edgy. I got ants in my pants.

📚 Have ants in one's pants, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be fidgety or restless. ❗️ Examples: 1. What's the matter with you, always fidgeting — you got ants in your pants? 2. Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well. 3. He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute. 4. I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants. 5. I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Opprobrious, adjective. 🔉 /əˈprəʊbrɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of language) expressing scorn or criticism. ❗️ Examples: 1. Opprobrious remarks. 2. Sponsors are withdrawing advertisements featuring the couple and websites have been flooded with opprobrious messages. 3. In short, valuing for the increment added by improvements, if not an everyday occurrence, is by no means so odd as to attract the opprobrious epithet ‘impractical’. 4. The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent. 5. Growing up, it's funny how words get to be opprobrious. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Malinger, verb. 🔉 /məˈlɪŋɡə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work. ❗️ Examples: 1. People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering. 2. Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave. 3. There's a fine line between what's classed as malingering and what is accepted as genuine illness. 4. Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering. 5. Is Miss Mason suffering from Chronic Pain Disorder or is she malingering…? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic