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📚 Auriferous, adjective. 🔉 /ɔːˈrɪf(ə)rəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of rocks or minerals) containing gold. ❗️ Examples: 1. Not all the quartz veins are auriferous. 2. To protect potential mining sites and timber supplies, the Box-Ironbark eucalypt forests which characterised auriferous soils were held back from agricultural settlement. 3. The combination of these factors limited the nature of auriferous fluids, if any, that could have deposited gold in zones of structurally induced permeability. 4. The auriferous veins there are usually interbedded sandstone mudstone varieties metamorphosed into greenschist facies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) 💬 He spoke long and earnestly until the baboon began to pay attention.

📚 Probate, noun. 🔉 /ˈprəʊbeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • count noun): A verified copy of a will with a certificate as handed to the executors. ❗️ Examples: 1. She has been granted a probate to execute her late father's estate. 2. There will be workshops each day and talks on a variety of subjects, including how to research your family history online, how to use the Census, service records, wills and probates. 3. Oddly, the reply refers to only 12 probates from San Francisco, in contrast to the ‘few hundred’ he claimed to have examined when Seckora interviewed him. 4. Hood draws upon probates, tax records, account books, newspaper ads, tax records and other government records in a study that contributes to social and family history as well as economic history and the history of technology. 5. Wills, probates, property and tax records are also valuable sources of information. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Out of context, phrase. ❓ Definition: Without the surrounding words or circumstances and so not fully understandable. ❗️ Examples: 1. The article portrayed her as domineering by dropping quotes from her out of context. 2. He twists words, quotes people out of context and stretches the truth to suit his purpose. 3. The embarrassment was such that Gilchrist found himself explaining that his words had been taken out of context. 4. She says her words were taken out of context, but soon submits her resignation. 5. He said that his words were taken out of context and he was sorry if he had offended anyone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nurturance, noun. 🔉 /ˈnəːtʃ(ə)rəns/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Emotional and physical nourishment and care given to someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sources of nurturance and security. 2. While attachment folks would probably agree with this, these same people want their baby to expect them to consistently respond to their needs for emotional and physical care and nurturance. 3. So, the lack of emotional nurturance and feedback is a major part of the G2's problem. 4. Perhaps most important, a first generation of children are learning that artifacts have a life cycle, and that they need care, even emotional nurturance. 5. From my own clinical experience, incest appears to have a more complicated impact on development, which may arise from the mixed feelings felt toward the abuser who not infrequently may also be the main source of nurturance for the child. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Exempt, adjective. 🔉 /ɪɡˈzɛm(p)t/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others. ❗️ Examples: 1. These patients are exempt from all charges. 2. A tax-exempt savings plan. 3. The national department is to amend current exemption procedures and criteria later this year to ensure all those who cannot pay fees are duly exempt from doing so. 4. Book stores, corner stores and TV shops are also exempt from the bylaw. 5. As a middle-aged baby boomer, I am certainly not exempt from the wishes and dreams of the anti-aging movement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Turn a blind eye, phrase. ❓ Definition: Pretend not to notice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening. 2. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help. 3. In many ways, I think he's given the Saudis a pass and he's turned a blind eye to them. 4. It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over. 5. Please, don't turn a blind eye or passively ignore what is happening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tatterdemalion, adjective. 🔉 /ˌtatədɪˈmeɪljən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Tattered or dilapidated. ❗️ Examples: 1. Al's tatterdemalion figure was washed out in a psychedelic rainbow as Sam Beckett leaped again. 2. In the haphazard tatterdemalion surroundings of sheds and abandoned industrial buildings, the new centre stands out as an organized oasis. 3. They began with a tatterdemalion parade of musicians and baton twirlers down the aisle and onto the stage. 4. The Web sites supporting ‘The Living Wage Movement’ have a tatterdemalion, homemade feel to them. 5. And a circus happens where and whenever some tatterdemalion body discards itself in leaps and somersaults. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Estate, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈsteɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: All the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death. ❗️ Examples: 1. In his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter. 2. He is alleged to have taken money from the estates of ten deceased people, including a husband and wife over a ten-year period. 3. The cause of action is deemed to have subsisted before the death, allowing the claimant to sue the estate. 4. If he had done so, on his death his estate would have been entitled to a cash sum to be applied for the purchase of an annuity for his dependants. 5. The will of Dennis Reece provided that Anna receive all of his estate on his death. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 If you can't beat them, join them, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavour, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Steve took the view that if you can't beat them, join them. 2. You're saying if you can't beat them, join them. 3. But they have increasingly taken the view that if you can't beat them, join them, and begun offering similar, competitive services. 4. The only solution as far as I can see it is if you can't beat them, join them. 5. Like everyone says, if you can't beat them, join them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Disambiguate, verb. 🔉 /ˌdɪsamˈbɪɡjʊeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove uncertainty of meaning from (an ambiguous sentence, phrase, or other linguistic unit) ❗️ Examples: 1. Word senses can be disambiguated by examining the context. 2. Nonetheless, when text is read, the absence of a vowel is a cue to retrieve the semantic context so as to disambiguate opaque words that are ambiguous. 3. Interestingly, when creating the spirituality and health thesaurus, I thought we were disambiguating terms until we did the indexing pilot study. 4. Unless you are using it to disambiguate items in a list, a semicolon should be used only between independent clauses - that is, clauses that can stand as complete sentences on their own. 5. In order to disambiguate the term, I shall call paradigms of this second kind ‘disciplinary paradigms', as opposed to the ‘exemplary paradigms' described earlier. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Estate, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈsteɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization. ❗️ Examples: 1. The grandparents then withdraw to another house on the family estate and cultivate their own land as long as they can. 2. These include extensive country estates at Emmersdorf and Mollenburg and a house in a top location in Vienna's city centre. 3. His family owns an estate in the country as well as a house in town and as eldest son he stands to inherit quite a tidy sum. 4. For 400 years it was the seat of the Tremayne family, an estate of over 1000 acres. 5. He owns a family estate in Mittagong, a south coast beach house, and a string of other investments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Look on the bright side, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side. 2. He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one. 3. With so many good things happening, it is so difficult not to look on the bright side, isn't it? 4. At first, anti-dam activists looked on the bright side. 5. The move might seem like nothing more than a disruption, but the director is looking on the bright side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Paso doble, noun. 🔉 /ˌpasə ˈdəʊbleɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A fast-paced ballroom dance based on a Latin American style of marching. ❗️ Examples: 1. She danced a sensuous paso doble with a handsome officer. 2. Last came the paso doble. 3. As usual, at the first opportunity, the Monkey stood up and danced a paso doble, juggling raw fish and grapes. 4. Latin is the rumba, jive, paso doble, cha-cha and samba. 5. Two energetic and angry sailfish on the line at the same time takes a certain amount of fancy footwork on a small deck and Raphael and I did a neat paso doble for about 20 minutes until both fish were tagged and released. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 1984 (1984) 💬 Then perhaps you imagine a huge network of conspirators prepared to commit any atrocity to demoralize and weaken the order of our society.

📚 Atrocity, noun. 🔉 /əˈtrɒsɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury. ❗️ Examples: 1. A textbook which detailed war atrocities. 2. They are forced to commit atrocities against their own families and communities. 3. Those responsible for atrocities against the Acehnese should be brought to trial. 4. Rights advocates say that the number of atrocities against women in the country is increasing. 5. Much of the fighting and many atrocities against civilians took place in Bosnia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 None other than, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont. 2. The first victims of his surprise visit were none other than presspersons themselves. 3. And it was none other than Rossellini who advised him to turn professional. 4. This church is supposed to have been founded by none other than Charlemagne. 5. She's played by none other than Kitty Bruce, daughter of standup legend Lenny Bruce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic