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📚 Flatten the curve, phrase. ❓ Definition: Prevent a rate or quantity from greatly intensifying or increasing within a short time. ❗️ Examples: 1. Taking actions to slow the spread of this virus will flatten the curve and protect the vulnerable. 2. Excessive falls in bond yields will flatten the curve and erode pension funds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hootenanny, noun. ❓ Definition (mainly US • informal): An informal gathering with folk music. ❗️ Examples: 1. We invited friends to a hootenanny in our backyard. 2. Hootenanny numbers. 3. And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them. 4. Music lovers spent less time getting together for hootenannies on the porch or jam sessions around a piano. 5. Performing a live version of ‘Don't Think Twice, It's Alright,’ Elliott tells a story about the first time he sang it at a hootenanny in New York, with Dylan in the audience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Stew, noun. 🔉 /stjuː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan. ❗️ Examples: 1. Lamb stew. 2. Add to casseroles, stews, and sauces. 3. He lifted up the lid of the pot where lamb stew was simmering. 4. They cooked a thick stew for dinner and had mulled cider. 5. Meat stews are often cooked with fruits such as quince. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Money is the root of all evil, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Avarice gives rise to selfish or wicked actions. ❗️ Examples: 1. Perhaps he should reflect on Timothy's words, ‘For the love of money is the root of all evil.’ 2. Many people say that money is the root of all evil. 3. They're also taught at the same time, money is the root of all evil. 4. If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be bad. 5. Now he's talking about the old adage that money is the root of all evil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vitally, adverb. 🔉 /ˈvʌɪt(ə)li/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In a way that is absolutely necessary or essential. ❗️ Examples: 1. They depend vitally on government subsidies. 2. The music plays a vitally important role. 3. He argued that the Bank's zero interest rate policy was precluding vitally required economic restructuring. 4. They are consulted on every issue that vitally affects the country. 5. What is so enjoyable about this is seeing him come into his own, and make a vitally valid contribution to music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the shelf, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal, dated): Past an age when one might expect to have the opportunity to marry (typically used of a woman) ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm all depressed about being left on the shelf cos I'm turning 27 on Sunday. 2. And under no circumstances would I fear being past it or left on the shelf. 3. A woman has few options but to find a husband and provider in Georgian England and Bennet is determined that her girls will not be left on the shelf. 4. And she had decided to try to make the best of being left on the shelf. 5. Beginning to think you are going to be left on the shelf forever and end up as an elderly spinster dying alone and being eaten by your own cats? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Agglutinative, adjective. 🔉 /əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Linguistics): (of a language, e.g. Hungarian, Turkish, Korean, and Swahili) tending to express concepts in complex words consisting of many elements, rather than by inflection or by using isolated elements. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Korean language is agglutinative and usually regarded as a Uro-Altaic language. 2. The hallmark of agglutinative languages is multisyllabic words composed of linear sequences of morphemes. 3. The fact that Arabic is an agglutinative language with a complex affix structure involving prefixes, infixes and suffixes presents a special case for testing the general assumption of this study. 4. One interesting aspect should be the interaction between task and word types because there are many inflected verbs in the agglutinative Turkish. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Exertion, noun. 🔉 /ɪɡˈzəːʃn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Physical or mental effort. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was panting with the exertion. 2. A well-earned rest after their exertions. 3. The physical and mental exertions on Sunday may take its toll. 4. Signs of mental and physical fatigue after midweek exertions manifested themselves in some sluggish play from O'Neill's men early on. 5. Hence, the intellectual, mental, moral and physical exertions will be greater. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bring something to bear, phrase. ❓ Definition: Exert influence or pressure so as to achieve a particular result. ❗️ Examples: 1. They brought pressure to bear on him to resign. 2. She had reservations about how much influence she could bring to bear. 3. And who, at this distance, can tell what pressures were brought to bear on ordinary citizens to make them conform. 4. NASA finally relented, but only after much pressure was brought to bear. 5. Another way that pressure can be brought to bear on offending nations is through economic sanctions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aegis, noun. 🔉 /ˈiːdʒɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (in singular): The protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization. ❗️ Examples: 1. The negotiations were conducted under the aegis of the UN. 2. As a quasi-governmental organization, it enjoys protection under the aegis of HM Government. 3. These facilities are hidden in various ways, frequently coming under the aegis of innocuous organizations. 4. That piece of evidence is the document produced under the aegis of the UN Security Council. 5. The Government gave the green light to the commissioning of a national strategy to be undertaken under the aegis of the Department of Health. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Recuperate, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈkuːpəreɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Recover from illness or exertion. ❗️ Examples: 1. She has been recuperating from a knee injury. 2. Christmas is a time to recuperate. 3. The course is a programme of exercise for people with physical disabilities and for those new to exercise, recuperating from illness or injury, or requiring a specially devised programme. 4. When I was recuperating from a long illness last year, doctors advised me against using public transport. 5. Ellis had been recuperating from a serious illness when the wedding assignment happened. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Have a thing about, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Have a strong liking for or dislike of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She had a thing about men who wore glasses. 2. I've always had a thing about mirrors — I can't have one near my bed. 3. I have a thing about sumptuously comfortable beds. 4. And, perhaps as a result, I've always had a thing about not eating too many sweets, although this never seemed to extend to alcohol. 5. And he had a thing about not looking directly at her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cherubic, adjective. 🔉 /tʃɪˈruːbɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having the innocence or plump prettiness of a young child. ❗️ Examples: 1. A round, cherubic face. 2. The day's troubles seemed to waste away as Laurel looked down at her brother's innocent, cherubic blue eyes and pale blonde hair. 3. Back then, it was us against the world, our cherubic innocent faces blissfully wiped clear of reality. 4. She had bright green eyes that looked like the leaves on the trees at spring and her lips were cherubic and plump. 5. Giles widened his eyes innocently, keeping his voice sweet and cherubic as he sang the very slightly altered lyrics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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