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📚 Sumptuous, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsʌm(p)tjʊəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Splendid and expensive-looking. ❗️ Examples: 1. The banquet was a sumptuous, luxurious meal. 2. It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance. 3. Deep yellow-green, this has a sumptuous perfumed nose of rich tropical fruits. 4. The set pieces with full orchestral backing are sumptuous, rich collages of light and colour. 5. In this respect, there is a proverb that if a person with a warm heart gives a glass of cold water, it is really a sumptuous meal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A penny for your thoughts, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to ask someone what they are thinking about. ❗️ Examples: 1. I haven't heard anyone say that for years - a penny for your thoughts. 2. Next time someone offers you a penny for your thoughts… sell! 3. So, a penny for your thoughts here: what criteria, if any, should be applied in selecting names? 4. When did the phrase "a penny for your thoughts" originate? 5. It's in this book that we find the earliest known citation of the line, "A penny for your thoughts." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Toxophilite, noun. 🔉 /tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare): A student or lover of archery. ❗️ Examples: 1. However, a more technical term for an archer is a a toxophilite, which is someone who is devoted to or is a lover of archery. 2. One thing is for sure they are not toxophilites. 3. A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who is fond of or an expert at archery is sometimes called a toxophilite. 4. In uncertain times, it makes sense to have as many strings to your bow as a well-provisioned fiddler or a prudent toxophilite. 5. Developed from the best quality metal in diverse shapes and sizes, our range of archery equipment is most popular amongst worldwide toxophilites. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Viral, adjective. 🔉 /ˈvʌɪr(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulated rapidly and widely from one internet user to another. ❗️ Examples: 1. A viral ad campaign. 2. The video went viral and was seen by millions. 3. The resulting viral spread of hype ensured that their debut album became the fastest selling record in British history. 4. In fact the email is not viral, but the product of an online marketing initiative run by the e-card company. 5. Weblogs are a viral medium of expression, spread by contact with webloggers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Two of a kind, phrase. ❓ Definition: The same or very similar. ❗️ Examples: 1. She and her sister were two of a kind. 2. I myself had doubts at first until I went further in and found clothes that are two of a kind. 3. You're two of a kind - genetically designed to get into trouble - and all we bystanders can do is pick up the pieces and try to stick them back together again afterward. 4. Lizzie, can't you tell, we're two of a kind. 5. When I opened my eyes there she was - April from work, with her face up against mine telling me how we were two of a kind, and how we needed to do something about that, her and me. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bilious, adjective. 🔉 /ˈbɪlɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting. ❗️ Examples: 1. A bilious attack. 2. Two day old full term male with bilious vomiting and a palpable right lower quadrant mass. 3. The usual onset is 10 to 12 days of age, with presenting symptoms of gastric retention, bilious vomiting, ileus, abdominal distention and bloody stools. 4. When a neonate develops bilious vomiting, one should suspect a surgical condition. 5. Abdominal distention with bilious vomiting is observed within the first 24 hours after birth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Next of kin, noun. ❓ Definition (treated as singular or plural): A person's closest living relative or relatives. ❗️ Examples: 1. The police notified the next of kin. 2. The driver's name was being withheld until police could notify next of kin. 3. People worried about who would be notified as their next of kin in case of medical emergency are being urged to carry a new card to avoid confusion. 4. He said next of kin would be notified before the man's identity was released. 5. The British embassy in Manila said it could not confirm details until it had notified the next of kin. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cold feet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Loss of nerve or confidence. ❗️ Examples: 1. After arranging to meet I got cold feet and phoned her saying I was busy. 2. The Rochdale cabaret singer feared his Norwegian bride had got cold feet and decided to return to her homeland without him. 3. The central government has developed cold feet on the promised legislation to regulate fee and admissions in professional colleges. 4. Apparently, one - or possibly more - of the investors may have gotten cold feet. 5. They believed the hype about the cost and got cold feet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Baksheesh, noun. 🔉 /bakˈʃiːʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): (in parts of Asia and North Africa) a small sum of money given as a tip, bribe, or charitable donation. ❗️ Examples: 1. The children smiled back and asked for baksheesh. 2. By the time we finished, a small group of children had gathered around our car and they called out in Arabic, ‘baksheesh! baksheesh!’ 3. In the old days the uncertainty provided a lucrative source of supplemental income for town-hall bureaucrats who would tip you the wink for a little discreet baksheesh. 4. He explained: ‘I love baksheesh because it gives me certainty and predictability.’ 5. Since the average baksheesh for foreigners is between 10 and 20 leva, I am well ahead of the game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Mr. Holmes (2015) 💬 My study is my sanctum sanctorum.

📚 Sanctum sanctorum, noun. 🔉 /saŋ(k)ˈtɔːrəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (humorous): A very private or highly secret place or area of activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The sanctum sanctorums of foreign policy. 2. Equally striking was that he earned the warmest welcome from the audience, which in its front ranks was composed of Cabinet ministers and diplomats, with the general public to the rear, beyond the sanctum sanctorum of the VIP area. 3. Now for Cola companies to allow those lucky few winners to enter the game's arena during the course of a match violates one its sanctum sanctorum. 4. With the cameras of the world focused on it, St. Peter's has become the sancta sanctorum of the digital world. 5. The sancta sanctorum, guarded by three sad-looking security staffers, is the podium, where I count roughly one hundred seats. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In tune, phrase. ❓ Definition: In agreement or harmony. ❗️ Examples: 1. Retailers are becoming more in tune with what the consumers want. 2. The urban radio stations talking about ‘peace in the streets ‘are out of tune with reality.’ 3. Martin Dunne: ‘Central policy makers are totally out of tune with the views of the people around the country.’ 4. It just seemed to us that the politicians - all of them, in all the different parties - are out of tune with how ordinary people feel about this. 5. We have laws in place which are clearly out of tune with the views of the majority of the population. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tantivy, noun. 🔉 /tanˈtɪvi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic): A rapid gallop or ride. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fuss, noun. 🔉 /fʌs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A display of unnecessary or excessive excitement, activity, or interest. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't know what all the fuss is about. 2. ‘There is no room in my life for drugs, fights, divorce, adultery, sadism, unnecessary fuss and sex,’ he says now. 3. That was the whole dream - no excitement, no fuss, no great drama. 4. She appeared bored, and I knew she thought I was making a lot of unnecessary fuss. 5. A lot of unnecessary fuss is being created about the registration procedure required under the bill. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be party to, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be involved in. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was party to some very shady deals. 2. That is not an example that my party and other parties want to be party to at all. 3. Yes because they were party to what has turned out to be open, active aggression against a third country that in no way was a threat to them and of course their reasons for going in have proved to be absolutely baseless. 4. Mother Teresa once recounted an incident she was party to in London. 5. One wonders, too, if he was a party to, participant indeed in, the villainies of Thomas J. Wise? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Colcannon, noun. 🔉 /kɒlˈkanən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): An Irish and Scottish dish of cabbage and potatoes boiled and mashed together. ❗️ Examples: 1. I like places where you can dine on things like Arbroath smokies with eggs and colcannon [mashed potato with cabbage]. 2. A dish called colcannon, made from cabbage, potatoes, and milk, was traditionally served on Halloween with a ring, coin, thimble, and button inserted into it. 3. Afterwards the guests were treated to traditional bacon, cabbage and colcannon while All Ireland Champion accordionist Teddy Barry played traditional Irish and Scottish airs. 4. You get everything from sauté potatoes to colcannon, which is an Irish potato dish, but absolutely no chips. 5. The side dishes of potato dauphinois and colcannon went down a treat, although I always feel cheated when I have to pay extra for some much-needed vegetables to accompany a £22 main course. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Condemn, verb. 🔉 /kənˈdɛm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Express complete disapproval of; censure. ❗️ Examples: 1. Most leaders roundly condemned the attack. 2. The plan was condemned by campaigners. 3. Needless to say, Rampersad was roundly condemned and his plan is probably gathering dust somewhere in the archives. 4. Campaigners have condemned the Government's plans, with non-food pubs exempt from restrictions, as ‘half measures’. 5. All such diabolic, yet cowardly actions must be severely condemned, censured and deterred with steeled resolve and equally resolute counteraction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Don't mention it, phrase. ❓ Definition: A polite expression used to indicate that thanks or an apology are not necessary. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Thanks very much.’ ‘Don't mention it, dear boy.’ 2. Man, don't mention it; what are friends for? 3. No, don't mention it; I'm sorry I knocked you over. 4. ‘Please don't mention it,’ Vicki snapped slightly. 5. ‘Please don't mention it again,’ she said plainly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic