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🎬 Charlie Countryman (2013) 💬 He's fucking crazy! He's a party animal! Yes.

📚 Party animal, noun. ❓ Definition (informal): A very gregarious and outgoing person who enjoys parties and similar social activities. ❗️ Examples: 1. A buzzing bar makes this a good place for party animals. 2. Somehow, none of the party animals notices that he's drinking non-alcoholic brew. 3. She's a party animal who's never read a book in her life; he's an aspiring novelist who demands absolute quiet for his work. 4. We're party animals here, so we make music for the party people. 5. They have some kind of reputation over here for being like wild and crazy party animals or something. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight or flight, phrase. ❓ Definition: The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sure you've heard of fight or flight in a stressful situation. 2. Humans, like all animals, have an inborn stress alarm system that initiates a fight or flight response to stressful situations. 3. It's true, when you feel that your life might be in danger your natural instinct is fight or flight. 4. In that situation, an animal has two choices - fight or flight. 5. This is when those who haven't punched a ticket feel fight or flight in their bellies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ubi sunt, noun. 🔉 /ˌʊbi ˈsʊnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Literature): A passage or formula in a poem or other work of literature, usually beginning with ‘where are—’, lamenting the mutability of things, the transitoriness of life and beauty, or the loss or death of particular individuals; a poem of this nature. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Neuroplasticity, noun. 🔉 /ˌnjʊərəʊplaˈstɪsɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience or following injury. ❗️ Examples: 1. Neuroplasticity offers real hope to everyone from stroke victims to dyslexics. 2. A non-invasive brain stimulation technique was also used to obtain a measure of the participants' neuroplasticity. 3. Neuroplasticity researchers have demonstrated that our brains are indeed malleable. 4. Our chronic headache patients did not get better at the task and there were no associated changes in the brain, suggesting impaired neuroplasticity. 5. "We needed to find a way to measure neuroplasticity without the task depending on the amount of effort the person was putting in." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 - S01E35 Haredevil Hare 💬 One man's meat is another man's poison, I always say.

📚 Jubilant, adjective. 🔉 /ˈdʒuːbɪl(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph. ❗️ Examples: 1. A large number of jubilant fans ran on to the pitch. 2. Mark Williams was jubilant after his title triumph ended his 26-month wait for a tournament win on home soil. 3. The Sligo fans were definitely jubilant and dozens of camera phones captured the moment but that's as far as it went. 4. After the game the jubilant fans carried on celebrating, filling the pubs and painting the Welsh capital blue and white. 5. The big fellow immediately sprinted towards jubilant home fans and was booked for throwing his jersey to the ground. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Memento (2000) 💬 All the previous cases responded to conditioning.

📚 Conditioning, noun. 🔉 /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)nɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. Social conditioning. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ignorance is bliss, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't want to hear about them: ignorance is bliss in this case. 2. Where pop music is concerned, ignorance is bliss. 3. Ignorance is bliss and Reece slept well and happy that night. 4. Ignorance is bliss to the general public when it comes to such sensitive and important institutions as the economy. 5. Unless you believe ignorance is bliss, the discovery of the truth of any situation is a good thing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Patronymic, noun. 🔉 /patrəˈnɪmɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A name derived from the name of a father or ancestor, e.g. Johnson, O'Brien, Ivanovich. ❗️ Examples: 1. A patronymic derived from the name of their original lordship. 2. Adult acquaintances and casual friends usually talk to each other using the first name combined with the patronymic. 3. Thus, everyone has a patronymic, or father's name. 4. They were always smart and neatly dressed, and always called each other - in public - by their first name and patronymic. 5. It is interesting that their usual surnames are all patronymics or matronymics, rather than the locatives that would be more likely were any of the four from immigrant families. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Captain Fantastic (2016) 💬 Designed to elicit blind obedience and strike fear into the hearts of the innocent and the uninformed.

📚 Elicit, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈlɪsɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna. 2. The work elicited enormous public interest. 3. They say they are interested in eliciting strong reactions to their work but, as people, the deepest emotion they seem willing to display is this kind of bland amusement. 4. If some students disagree with an incorrect answer, elicit the correct response. 5. Prolonged question and answer sessions will eventually elicit the response the teacher is looking for. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make someone's blood boil, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Infuriate someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It made her blood boil every time he came near. 2. It was those thoughts that made her blood boil with anger and frustration. 3. Experience what makes the Inspector tick, and what makes his blood boil. 4. I am increasingly sensitive to injustice, which makes my blood boil, and these paintings were born from the anger provoked by this horror. 5. All her words make my blood boil with jealousy and anger as she speaks the taboo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ghibli, noun. 🔉 /ˈɡɪbli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A hot, dry southerly wind of North Africa. ❗️ Examples: 1. Spring and summer can bring the hot, dusty sirocco wind from the Sahara to Malta, Italy and Greece, while France sometimes gets the strong mistral, and the ghibli blows across from north-west Africa towards Spain. 2. Fierce winds - the khamsin and the ghibli - threw dust into men's faces, obscuring the battlefield. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 I Declare War (2012) 💬 Mmhm, and experience the positive effects that these memories evoke.

📚 Evoke, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈvəʊk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind. ❗️ Examples: 1. The sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood. 2. I really need to jog my memory to evoke images of the place. 3. Words are flashing in my mind, recollections of a time past, evoking specific feelings, recalling certain events, ones I do not wish to recollect. 4. What's to say there's not a homeless soul on a cold Dublin street who occasionally glances at a digital photo - using the memories evoked by the image to hold onto reality for yet another day. 5. The bird in hand image immediately evoked a memory I had from childhood. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rant and rave, phrase. ❓ Definition: Shout and complain angrily and at length. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself. 2. I began to rant and rave angrily, in a loud voice. 3. ‘You can't rant and rave; you can't scream and put people in shock, though I have worked with directors who do that and it's pretty scary,’ Garry says. 4. I could rant and rave about it but that wouldn't make a difference. 5. Only this afternoon did I rant and rave about these designs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic