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📚 Sardonic, adjective. 🔉 /sɑːˈdɒnɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Grimly mocking or cynical. ❗️ Examples: 1. Starkey attempted a sardonic smile. 2. You can bet, though, that the Frenchman has allowed himself a sardonic smile. 3. I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth. 4. The play has moments of sharp humour, mostly emanating from the sardonic Jean. 5. Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 File, noun. 🔉 /fʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A collection of information about a particular person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. MI5 were keeping a file on him. 2. The ideal for any organisation is that their employees can access all company information, documents or files within seconds - no matter where they are in the world. 3. Confidential files allegedly containing detailed information about his visit were found on a London Street. 4. My information is that the files pertaining to this particular arrest were sitting on the desk of the DPP for some time previously. 5. They found that nearly one-fifth of them still contained sensitive information such as company files and bank-account details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Many hands make light work, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): A task is soon accomplished if several people help. ❗️ Examples: 1. To quote the old saying, many hands make light work. 2. Just when you are thinking too many cooks spoil the broth, suddenly someone will remind you that many hands make light work. 3. Putting the Lantern Parade together is a huge job and many hands make light work. 4. But as many hands make light work, meals on wheels convenor Margaret Clark says she is always interested in hearing from people who can help getting the food to the clients. 5. The campaign was launched last Thursday night in the Seven Oaks Hotel but like all events, many hands make light work so the more people who can help make the event a success the better. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Teapoy, noun. 🔉 /ˈtiːpɔɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small three-legged table or stand, especially one that holds a tea caddy. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tables, chairs, dining tables and teapoys made of wood as well as cane with glass tops priced from Rs.250 onwards are there in the fair. 2. All elements are placed on antique looking furniture, teapoys, plant stands and traditional Irani chairs. 3. Cots, chairs, teapoys, swings, television stand, sofa - the choice is wide in cane. 4. Besides, they also have teapoys, telephone stands, mirror frames, puja stands, television stands, cots and room-partitions with designer carvings of floral patterns. 5. While a sofa set consisting of two pairs of cushioned chairs and a small teapoy is priced at Rs.22,500, a television stand is priced Rs.4,950. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Picturesque, adjective. 🔉 /ˌpɪktʃəˈrɛsk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a place or building) visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ruined abbeys and picturesque villages. 2. Wiltshire is home to some of the most picturesque towns and villages in the country, often attracting filmmakers to the county. 3. Properties in the village range from picturesque cottages and council houses to large private homes. 4. People like Austrian resorts for their village atmosphere and picturesque settings. 5. We villagers of Dundrum are extremely lucky to live in such a picturesque place in an area of outstanding beauty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jam tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): A pleasant thing which is often promised but rarely materializes. ❗️ Examples: 1. A promise of jam tomorrow wasn't enough to satisfy them. 2. Policy holders want cash today, not the promise of jam tomorrow, and if people don't appreciate that then they are out of touch. 3. He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces. 4. Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough. 5. We have been promised jam tomorrow but we have never got it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Guerdon, noun. 🔉 /ˈɡəːd(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mainly archaic): A reward or recompense. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rather he returns us to the experience of reading, ‘knowing coldly a need for guerdons, guardians.’ 2. The second half is taken up by the literary contest between the robust but somewhat archaic Aeschylus and the more modern but slightly too glib Euripides for the guerdon of resuming life and reluming Athenian patriotic fervor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Antithesis, noun. 🔉 /anˈtɪθəsɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. ❗️ Examples: 1. Love is the antithesis of selfishness. 2. The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers. 3. Again, one could infer that it is the direct antithesis to works. 4. Yet Edward always saw reconciliation in the form of its antithesis or opposite. 5. Fixed identities rooted in the past represent the antithesis of historical thinking. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On the back foot, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent; at a disadvantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Messi's early goal put Milan on the back foot. 2. The government found itself on the back foot as peaceful demonstrations continued. 3. By the early summer of 1918, the German submarines were clearly on the back foot. 4. The Irish government appeared to be put on the back foot. 5. The polls may not show much change but the government gives all the appearances of being on the back foot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Disjecta membra, plural noun. 🔉 /dɪsˌdʒɛktə ˈmɛmbrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Scattered fragments, especially of written work. ❗️ Examples: 1. We are getting a little tired of this, and the compost heap has been put off limits to Man the Hunter - - they will just have to dispose of their disjecta membra at a sensible distance from the house. 2. In a broader sense as well, the disjecta membra of truth must be gathered from far-flung places, in both a temporal and geographical sense. 3. We go picking up from year to year and laying side by side the disjecta membra of truth, as he who picked up one by one a row of a hundred stones, and returned with each separately to his basket. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Matter of fact, noun. ❓ Definition: A fact as distinct from an opinion or conjecture. ❗️ Examples: 1. It's a matter of fact that they had a relationship. 2. Some were matters of opinion, others were matters of fact. 3. The extent of flooding is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact. 4. An interpretation is a matter of opinion; it is not a matter of fact. 5. You have raised a matter of fact and I have no reason to doubt you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jump on the bandwagon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Scientists and doctors alike have jumped on the bandwagon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Paludal, adjective. 🔉 /pəˈl(j)uːd(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Ecology): (of a plant, animal, or soil) living or occurring in a marshy habitat. ❗️ Examples: 1. Paludal tufas develop predominantly in waterlogged valley bottom situations, where line-sourced waters emerge from valley side and bottom aquifers. 2. A paludal atmosphere has the effect of shortening the duration of life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Shady, adjective. 🔉 /ˈʃeɪdi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Of doubtful honesty or legality. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was involved in his grandmother's shady deals. 2. This belongs to the secret world of state-to-state relations, with all their intrigues, shady deals and questionable trade-offs, which most governments hide from their citizens. 3. Because she did not suspect a shady deal was brewing, when she found out the loan was approved, she signed on the dotted line. 4. He walked into the debriefing room and was greeted by General Li, a suspicious and shady character. 5. Although employed at a delicatessen near the East India docks, he is a shady character whose motive for being in the area I suspect has to do with the opium dens. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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