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📚 Take something with a pinch of salt, phrase. ❓ Definition: Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something. ❗️ Examples: 1. I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt. 2. An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made. 3. The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself. 4. Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt. 5. Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Háček, noun. 🔉 /ˈhatʃɛk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A diacritic mark (ˇ) placed over a letter to indicate modification of the sound in Slavic and other languages. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Respondent, noun. 🔉 /rɪˈspɒnd(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Law): A party against whom a petition is filed, especially one in an appeal or a divorce case. ❗️ Examples: 1. Very well, and these other affidavits, I take it, are affidavits filed by the respondent. 2. The appellant's second ground of appeal is that the respondents are not suitable to be the donor's attorneys. 3. The first respondents to the appeal must pay the appellant's costs of the application. 4. Whether the respondents cross petition against the petitioners was demurrable and should be struck out. 5. The statutory amendments shift the evidential burden of proof to the respondent if the complainant proves what he or she is required to prove at the first stage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take root, phrase. ❓ Definition: Become fixed or established. ❗️ Examples: 1. The idea had taken root in my mind. 2. Spatial sequences merging across the shifting levels prevent fixed identities from taking root anywhere. 3. Because he had little to say about social need and there was no legislative provision for subsidising loss-making services, the idea took root that the issue had simply been ignored. 4. Nevertheless, the idea took root in their minds. 5. I quickly stomped on that idea before it fully took root. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Challenger Disaster (2013) 💬 I just heard an interesting new definition of the word "failure".

📚 Definition, noun. 🔉 /dɛfɪˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary. ❗️ Examples: 1. A dictionary definition of the verb. 2. The Judge said she had, in the absence of any statutory definition, consulted several dictionaries for a definition of the word record. 3. No, it's not exactly the dictionary definition of the word. 4. The dictionary definition of the word is to ride on or along a wave on a board. 5. Your browser loads a page from an online dictionary with the definition of the word. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Downton Abbey (2010) - S01E04 💬 I'm a lost soul to you.

📚 Lost soul, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): A person who seems unable to cope with everyday life. ❗️ Examples: 1. A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at the stage. 2. The nice thing is that everyone left at 12, so I have the entire building to myself - and have locked my office door in case some lost soul wanders by looking for help I can't give. 3. He is an emotionless, lost soul wandering the streets and helping out strangers while looking for a clean razor and dry cleaner for his dirty overcoat! 4. While not locked in his office, he wanders the corridors like a lost soul. 5. One such lost soul turned up at my office door earlier today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Defenestrate, verb. 🔉 /diːˈfɛnɪstreɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • rare): Throw (someone) out of a window. ❗️ Examples: 1. She had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had been suicide. 2. Playing the whole album might cause a hungover person to defenestrate themselves. 3. Later in the film, Richard, a gaunt, haggard, disease-ravaged poet defenestrates himself before the eyes of his best friend and former lover, the achingly frustrated Clarissa Vaughan. 4. He allegedly ordered the two male students to pick her up and throw her out the window. I've heard of students being suspended and expelled, but this is the first time I've heard of a student being defenestrated. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Whereas, conjunction. 🔉 /wɛːrˈaz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: In contrast or comparison with the fact that. ❗️ Examples: 1. You treat the matter lightly, whereas I myself was never more serious. 2. She's the one who is moving on whereas her parents are stuck with the story, are stuck in the past. 3. He lived through his era, whereas so many of his friends died in racing accidents. 4. Nanjing has also in the past been the capital of China, whereas now Beijing has that role. 5. We have natural light whereas working underground we had artificial light. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 See the back of, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be rid of (an unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We were always glad to see the back of her. 2. This New Year's Eve I was alone, glad to see the back of 2004 and preparing to move forward in the coming year. 3. I won't be sorry to see the back of all these roadworks so we can all go about our daily business. 4. They will be glad to see the back of him in Edinburgh. 5. By the sounds of it, they're glad to see the back of him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Chaparral, noun. 🔉 /ˌʃapəˈral/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • mass noun): Vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes. ❗️ Examples: 1. This species lives exclusively in or near sandy soils within coastal dune and scrub communities and maritime chaparral. 2. Also important are mountain tops or ‘sky islands,’ and in some cases deep, shady canyons, that support chaparral, woodlands, or other communities that are relics of more temperate periods. 3. The thick chaparral of a remote region in the Sespe Wilderness, part of the Los Padres National Forest, in Ventura, California, has concealed a lost herd of desert bighorn sheep for more than five years. 4. We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Assault, noun. 🔉 /əˈsɔːlt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Law): An act that threatens physical harm to a person, whether or not actual harm is done. ❗️ Examples: 1. He admitted an assault and two thefts. 2. He appeared in court charged with assault. 3. In that case the appellant had been convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by harassing his female victim. 4. The father was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but was acquitted. 5. He has previous convictions for theft, robbery and assault causing actual bodily harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Back to the drawing board, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training. 2. The developers must now go back to the drawing board in relation to this second phase of their project. 3. The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world. 4. York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre. 5. They have also decided to go back to the drawing board on the idea for bus priority in Shipton Road between Loweswater Road and Rawcliffe Lane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Quasar, noun. 🔉 /ˈkweɪzɑː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Astronomy): A massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies. ❗️ Examples: 1. Astronomers believe that quasars are galaxies with very massive black holes in the center. 2. Rich in objects, from galaxies to quasars to white dwarf stars, this vast data archive will serve as a resource for the entire astronomical community. 3. Radio astronomers found pulsars, quasars, and massive molecular clouds dotting the celestial landscape. 4. But they are still being created in the heart of the hottest, most energetic regions in the Universe, such as supernovae, gamma ray bursts, quasars and even stars like our Sun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Looter, noun. 🔉 /ˈluːtə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who steals goods, typically during a war or riot. ❗️ Examples: 1. Last summer's riots saw thousands of businesses ransacked by looters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 For Love or Money (1993) 💬 When it rains, it pours.