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📚 One good turn deserves another, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If someone does you a favour, you should take the chance to repay it. ❗️ Examples: 1. She stabbed him a season or two back and one good turn deserves another. 2. ‘As I see it,’ the woman said, ‘one good turn deserves another.’ 3. His eyes hardened, ‘Well, I guess one good turn deserves another.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Caterwaul, verb. 🔉 /ˈkatəwɔːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat. ❗️ Examples: 1. He seems to think that singing soulfully is to whine and caterwaul tunelessly. 2. The caterwauling of a pair of bobcats. 3. A caterwauling guitar. 4. The roofers went up there yelling and screaming and caterwauling in an attempt to get them to go. 5. Tielli is best known for his perfect vocal and guitar caterwauling, and for song-writing with the Toronto rock group the Rheostatics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flesh, noun. 🔉 /flɛʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The soft substance consisting of muscle and fat that is found between the skin and bones of a human or an animal. ❗️ Examples: 1. She grabbed Anna's arm, her fingers sinking into the flesh. 2. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - I might even be said to possess a mind. 3. He reached out and grabbed his wife's shoulder here, pushing his fingers into the soft crevice of flesh over bone. 4. Jim felt the pulsing of the sun as its heat, magnified by the window it was pouring through, met with soft flesh and willing muscle. 5. The two went down in a clash of flesh and muscle and bone, the two ripping at each other for every opening possible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bat for the other team, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be gay. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sorry to break the news to you ladies but I think he may bat for the other team. 2. I swear all the good-looking guys are batting for the other team. 3. I am seriously considering switching to batting for the other side. 4. Got my gaydar going - he's batting for the other team. 5. I've known several "straight" married men who decided after much soul-searching to bat for the other side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Caterwaul, verb. 🔉 /ˈkatəwɔːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat. ❗️ Examples: 1. He seems to think that singing soulfully is to whine and caterwaul tunelessly. 2. The caterwauling of a pair of bobcats. 3. A caterwauling guitar. 4. The roofers went up there yelling and screaming and caterwauling in an attempt to get them to go. 5. Tielli is best known for his perfect vocal and guitar caterwauling, and for song-writing with the Toronto rock group the Rheostatics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flexible, adjective. 🔉 /ˈflɛksɪb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Capable of bending easily without breaking. ❗️ Examples: 1. Flexible rubber seals. 2. Do this when the branches are about 6in long and flexible enough to bend at right angles. 3. This means that flexible pipe can be bent to a much smaller radius of curvature than rigid pipe without exceeding its elastic limit. 4. The body of a sea-lion is so flexible that it can bend over backwards and just about touch its nose to the tips of its back flippers. 5. The flexible rubber sole is unrestricting, enabling great movement of the entire foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Blood is thicker than water, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important ones. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know there are people out there who believe that blood is thicker than water and that family is the most important thing in the world, but I have to say - I just don't feel it. 2. He believes in honour and trust between friends, loyalty between lovers, and that blood is thicker than water between family members, but he discovers all these notions have fallen apart. 3. Families can be difficult and demanding, but blood is thicker than water. 4. The relationship between the trade union movement and the Labor Party is always one that is like a family and that is where blood is thicker than water. 5. It's not that you don't love them, and it's not that you are not grateful - but I do think that blood is thicker than water. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pagoda, noun. 🔉 /pəˈɡəʊdə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in India and East Asia) a Hindu or Buddhist temple, typically in the form of a many-tiered tower. ❗️ Examples: 1. Buddhist temples incorporate pagodas, a design which came from India around the first century C.E. (the time when the religion made its way to China). 2. Hirayama's paintings are based on religious themes; most of these are representations of mosques, pagodas, Buddhist temples and Bodhisattvas. 3. Outstanding examples of Korean architecture can be seen in historic palaces and Buddhist temples and pagodas. 4. Anawrahta's capital, Pagan, was sacked by the Mongols in 1287 and the city with its many thousand pagodas and temples was abandoned. 5. Here, the first port of call should be Wat Phra Keow, a collection of pagodas, stupas, frescos and mosaics under arching roofs of red and gold; its small emerald Buddha is of tremendous cultural significance to the nation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dunk, noun. 🔉 /dʌŋk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Basketball): A shot downwards into the basket with the hands above the rim. ❗️ Examples: 1. I was making everything: jump shots, lay-ups, dunks. 2. You'll have a number of tools at your disposal to rack up the points on the court, along with the usual jump shots, dunks and lay-ups. 3. They cheer at jet-engine volume whenever he fades away for a jumper or throws down a thundering dunk off of a fast break. 4. If anything, women's basketball should work to prove that they're above the fascination with the dunk and that they're willing to focus on the right things. 5. As far as anyone knows, prior to this season, there had been five dunks in the history of women's college basketball. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bounce an idea off, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Share an idea with (someone) in order to refine it. ❗️ Examples: 1. He thrives on bouncing ideas off other people. 2. If someone needs to bounce an idea off of someone, another person is able offer honest insight and feedback. 3. This guy also gave me his card and told me to call him if I wanted to bounce an idea off him. 4. It's for people who need that extra ear, are going it alone, or simply need to bounce an idea off a smart group of people. 5. If you have questions or just want to bounce an idea off us, please give us a call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hypnopaedia, noun. 🔉 /ˌhɪpnəʊˈpiːdɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Learning by hearing while asleep or under hypnosis. ❗️ Examples: 1. We may need to shock her into unconsciousness and reinstate hypnopaedia during this final month. 2. At one point, yet another simultaneous situation is added to the collage of dialogue: the voices of hypnopaedia. 3. He was the catalyst for the discovery of hypnopaedia, or sleep-teaching. 4. Lenina, true to her hypnopaedia, remarks what an ugly color khaki is. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tentacle, noun. 🔉 /ˈtɛntək(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs. ❗️ Examples: 1. The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles. 2. These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups. 3. The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged. 4. The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name. 5. At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show of hands, phrase. ❓ Definition: A vote carried out among a group by the raising of hands, with numbers typically being estimated rather than counted. ❗️ Examples: 1. A show of hands suggested he has little support. 2. A union motion calling for the policy to be scrapped was clearly carried on a show of hands. 3. After a while, they switched to voting by a show of hands. 4. Each meeting ended with a vote by a show of hands. 5. To cheers in the hall it was carried on a show of hands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Piebald, adjective. 🔉 /ˈpʌɪbɔːld/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white. ❗️ Examples: 1. The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing the long acre presents an attractive picture and few of us have not, at some time, envied these nomadic people their happy ways of life. 2. Puppies, palm readings, pots, piebald ponies and porcelain were all haggled over at one of the biggest fairs for years. 3. These and the hedgerows drifted in and out with the ebb and flow of the firelight, but the two piebald horses were too far away to be seen, although they could be heard occasionally, blowing and stamping. 4. Cade sat astride his piebald gelding, Stetson tipped low over his eyes. 5. The Mage rode in on a beautiful piebald draft horse just before the first dinner bell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Specimen, noun. 🔉 /ˈspɛsɪmɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An individual animal, plant, piece of a mineral, etc. used as an example of its species or type for scientific study or display. ❗️ Examples: 1. Specimens of copper ore. 2. Another corner of the display showed zoological specimens, minerals and ores, and surgical instruments. 3. Its displays cover millions of specimens, including fossils, meteorites, mammals, plants, minerals, and insects. 4. Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting specimens and studying animals. 5. Borack shows the specific cases holding mammals, birds, paleontological specimens, fish and reptiles. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Run out of steam, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lose impetus or enthusiasm. ❗️ Examples: 1. A rebellion that had run out of steam. 2. Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam. 3. The two very sexy stars provide enough chemistry in this stylized thriller but the movie runs out of steam halfway through. 4. I'd like watch as each argument just runs out of steam, leaving just the prejudice and chauvinism for all to see. 5. It is laid back, ambling on its jolly way, and just when it should be gathering momentum it runs out of steam. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dauntless, adjective. 🔉 /ˈdɔːntləs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Showing fearlessness and determination. ❗️ Examples: 1. Dauntless bravery. 2. In Beckwourth's self-portrait, he amassed so many honors as a Crow warrior that he rose to a chieftainship, rich in wives and ponies, dauntless in battle, and venerated for his wisdom and leadership. 3. After months of dauntless determination, the rover is now on the last leg of the hike. 4. He was determined, she could tell, perhaps even dauntless. 5. The anti-heroic stance has nothing to do with being infallible or superhuman or invulnerable or dauntless. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Immerse, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈməːs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (immerse oneself or be immersed): Involve oneself deeply in a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. She immersed herself in her work. 2. She was still immersed in her thoughts. 3. To ‘flow’ in this context means that you are able to immerse yourself in some activity so deeply that you forget about anything else. 4. After his retirement he immersed himself in various charitable activities. 5. The piece questions and explores the ideas of communication and its absence through images and time lags, while immersing the audience in Kitamura's all-encompassing world of movement, sound and images. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic