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📚 Sabre, noun. 🔉 /ˈseɪbə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge. ❗️ Examples: 1. Police sabers, cavalry sabers, European-type dress swords and other non-traditional blades are outside the scope of this discussion. 2. Further support of this theory is demonstrated in the Battle of Balaclava where the sabers of the cavalry had little or no effect through heavy clothing. 3. The design of the sabre came from the cutting sword used by cavalries. 4. They want to dominate Europe by bureaucratic cleverness where they could not do so by muzzle-loading cannon, muskets and cavalry sabers. 5. The blades were usually double-edged and up to 90 cm, or a little over, in length, but early single-edged sabres are also known. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Welfare, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɛlfɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group. ❗️ Examples: 1. They don't give a damn about the welfare of their families. 2. He said that the health, safety and welfare of officers was always of concern. 3. Provision for the pupils' care, health, safety and welfare is very good. 4. After a month or so a programme of home visits begins, and enquiries are made about the health and general welfare of each family. 5. All or most states already have laws to protect the health and welfare of animals. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The world, the flesh, and the devil, phrase. ❓ Definition: All forms of temptation to sin. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rossetti struggled with these words in her desire to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain. 3. The daily, hourly conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil, shall at length be at an end: the enemy shall be bound; the warfare shall be over; the wicked shall at last cease from troubling; the weary shall at length be at rest. 4. In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. 5. Epicurus' dubious reputation reflected the Christian tendency to regard earthly pleasures as the evil lures of the world, the flesh, and the devil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Communiqué, noun. 🔉 /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An official announcement or statement, especially one made to the media. ❗️ Examples: 1. The country's foreign ministry issued a communique. 2. A number of media attended the media conference at the end of it, and a media communiqué was issued. 3. He will not engage in direct dialogue, but will issue communiques, or press releases, said the movement's secretary general. 4. It said that a spokesman was no longer needed, and the Commission would just issue direct communiques. 5. In an official communique released here, it was stated that a number of teams have been constituted to check the cases of theft of canal water. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Interest rate, noun. ❓ Definition: The proportion of a loan that is charged as interest to the borrower, typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan outstanding. ❗️ Examples: 1. Reduced interest rates encourage people to spend money on home improvements. 2. An interest rate of 10 per cent. 3. The student loan interest rate will stay at 7 % for the year. 4. Higher taxes and surging interest rates in the 1990s limited the growth of the industry and drove some galleries out of business. 5. The biggest concern for voters was the future of interest rates. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Not a bit of it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Not at all. ❗️ Examples: 1. Am I being unduly cynical? Not a bit of it. 2. After the torrential rain on Saturday, we had thought the event might be a bit of a wash-out, but not a bit of it. 3. It sounds like a recipe for gross self-indulgence, but not a bit of it: ‘I've actually lost nearly a stone and a half since coming here.’ 4. When the Express closed, and then later the ill - fated Scottish Daily News, you'd have thought the bar would close but not a bit of it. 5. You would think after 20 years he would be jaded, but not a bit of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Saturnian, adjective. 🔉 /səˈtəːnɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to the planet Saturn. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cassini has found another Saturnian moon with an atmosphere: this time, it is Enceladus. 2. At an emotional press conference, the Huygens mission team announced that their probe has started to send experimental data back from the surface of Saturnian moon, Titan. 3. The Huygens probe has travelled 789 million miles to the Saturnian system tethered to the Cassini spacecraft. 4. This brings the unofficial count of Saturnian moons to 30, two more than the tally of Jupiter, the biggest planet of our solar system. 5. If life does exist on the Saturnian moon, the evidence might have been recorded by the Huygens probe when it landed on Titan on 14 January. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Avarice, noun. 🔉 /ˈav(ə)rɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Extreme greed for wealth or material gain. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was rich beyond the dreams of avarice. 2. Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva. 3. The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up. 4. In a time when avarice and greed is epidemic, why is a belief system that targets desire and possessions as the cause of unhappiness drawing hundreds of new followers each year? 5. It's the roar of selfishness, greed, vanity, avarice, addiction, lust and pointless stupidity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Put the bite on, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American, Australian, New Zealand • informal): Borrow or extort money from. ❗️ Examples: 1. A deadbeat diner tried to put the bite on a restaurant. 2. Damn, I thought, putting the bite on me for food money. 3. I'm no elitist and I'm all for genuine homeless people getting a better deal all round, but it beggared belief to see him shopping with the people he was putting the bite on just minutes before. 4. It is scandalous is that while Catholic schools across the country have missed out on anywhere between $560 million and $2-3 billion over the past four years, they have put the bite on parents to make up some of the difference. 5. Meanwhile, the governor - through a special economic development fund overseen by his office - also has been putting the bite on a host of companies and other special interests to contribute to his pet cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Makai, adverb. 🔉 /məˈkʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Hawaiian): In a seaward direction. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Deem, verb. 🔉 /diːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal • with object and complement): Regard or consider in a specified way. ❗️ Examples: 1. The event was deemed a great success. 2. The strike was deemed to be illegal. 3. At the same time, reports have emerged that the provincial government is making preparations to have the strike declared illegal by deeming it a public emergency. 4. Food was given between two and three stars with judges deeming the service to be slow at times. 5. In the event that scores are deemed to be level, a fourth round is contested to find an overall winner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Nothing succeeds like success, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Success leads to opportunities for further and greater successes. ❗️ Examples: 1. At the end of the day, nothing succeeds like success. 2. But in America, nothing succeeds like success. 3. In mitigation, this run of bad results was closely tied to a string of away fixtures that would test any team but it once again proved that if nothing succeeds like success then failure facilitates a firing. 4. You know that saying, nothing succeeds like success? 5. Well, its an old saying and a true one: nothing succeeds like success. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rebec, noun. 🔉 /ˈriːbɛk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A medieval stringed instrument played with a bow, typically having three strings. ❗️ Examples: 1. Viols, rebecs, citterns, lutes, and wooden flutes help. 2. The moment these records first appeared, pop groups were experimenting with sackbuts, rebecs and crumhorns. 3. For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes. 4. Traditional Arabic music uses string instruments, such as the rebec, lotar, ud, and kamanja. 5. The rebec was played with a bow, probably of wood and horsehair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Heart-to-heart, adjective. 🔉 /ˌhɑːttəˈhɑːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a conversation) candid, intimate, and personal. ❗️ Examples: 1. A heart-to-heart chat. 2. In fact, we need heart-to-heart dialogues between friends, between teachers and students, between husbands and wives, between parents and children. 3. He used to drive his children to school in order to get a chance to have heart-to-heart discussions with them. 4. The happy and complacent resolution to the potentially tragic events, brought about apparently by a couple of five-minute heart-to-heart conversations, should satisfy no one. 5. But what you and I need to learn to do is to have real heart-to-heart communion with God, because, after all, that is what prayer is. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Answer to the name of, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be called. ❗️ Examples: 1. A missing gent answering to the name of Bloom. 2. The owner's children were distraught, as they had travelled as far as Wexford in search of their pet that answers to the name of Prince. 3. He answers to the name of Sam and was last seen on Sunday, September 22 in the Borris Road area. 4. The parrot, which is still missing, has red tail feathers and a blue plastic ring on his foot and answers to the name of Monty. 5. He is grey with a white nose and paws and was wearing a white collar, he answers to the name of Socks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic