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📚 Misnomer, noun. 🔉 /mɪsˈnəʊmə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A wrong or inaccurate name or designation. ❗️ Examples: 1. Morning sickness is a misnomer for many women, since the nausea can occur any time during the day. 2. The latter designation is a misnomer, because a mild degree of ketosis often is present, and a true coma is uncommon. 3. Indeed, the very name seems a misnomer, suggesting that justice has been definitely achieved just by spending a few extra pennies that fair trade guarantees above the market price. 4. I always thought that was a just a cute name… or a misnomer, like Pennsylvania Dutch. 5. The disease name is actually a misnomer because North Carolina reports the most number of cases. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Conspire, verb. 🔉 /kənˈspʌɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act. ❗️ Examples: 1. They conspired against him. 2. They deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue. 3. They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them. 4. This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him. 5. Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Under the weather, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Slightly unwell or in low spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was sufficiently under the weather to have to pull out of the championship. 2. He's been under the weather since he's been on his own. 3. I feel sick, have a painful headache and feel a bit under the weather, but I know that if I push myself and get out of bed I will feel better. 4. And every time I go for a stroll by the river when I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I come back home wondering why I felt so poorly in the first place. 5. So I'm more than a bit under the weather at present. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Saccade, noun. ❓ Definition (usually saccades • technical): A rapid movement of the eye between fixation points. ❗️ Examples: 1. The pattern of fixations and saccades during visual exploration of a scene using only the eyes is strikingly similar to the intermittent locomotion of an animal searching for food in a physical landscape. 2. A reader's eye still moves in a series of jumps and stops known as saccades and fixations. 3. Also, in a variation of the boundary paradigm used in reading research, they obtained evidence that Chinese readers rely on phonological codes when integrating information across saccades. 4. An interesting way to observe the effect of drifts, along with associated saccades, on your visual system is to carefully study the type of graphic shown here. 5. He started staring at them really intently, and his eyes were making these little saccades over the patterns, scanning them like crazy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fund, verb. 🔉 /fʌnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Provide with money for a particular purpose. ❗️ Examples: 1. The World Bank refused to fund the project. 2. By contrast, the citizen scientists would be funded by public money to do just that. 3. The money also funded film workshops at secondary schools and colleges across the region. 4. The project is funded by a four year grant from regeneration money provided by the government. 5. The answer is simple since any job in the public services is funded by tax payers' money. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 What goes around comes around, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): The consequences of one's actions will have to be dealt with eventually. ❗️ Examples: 1. And it's a powerful belief, offering both hope to the oppressed - suffering cannot last forever - and a warning to the oppressor - take care, what goes around comes around. 2. Watford were on the receiving end of some decisions tonight as we were on Saturday, so what goes around comes around. 3. But although I strive daily to do the right thing - believing firmly in the karmic law that what goes around comes around - I've never, ever aspired to returning to earth as the Dalai Lama. 4. I have no idea what makes someone go to those lengths, but I believe what goes around comes around and she has got what she deserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Iftar, noun. 🔉 /ˈɪftɑː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan. ❗️ Examples: 1. After the award ceremony and Iftar (a typical Ramadan meal), the celebration continued with music and dancing. 2. Ramadan is followed by Iftar, a sumptuous banquet where friends and family gather to celebrate the break of fast. 3. As the time for the evening Iftar - the breaking of the Ramadan fast - drew closer, the squatters became more desperate. 4. In the Month of Ramadan, specially at the time of Iftar (breaking of the fast), a lot of dishes are prepared. 5. Firstly, there is no need to consume excess food at Iftar (the food eaten immediately after sunset to break the fast), dinner or Sahur (the light meal generally eaten about half an hour to one hour before dawn). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Subtract, verb. 🔉 /səbˈtrakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Take away (a number or amount) from another to calculate the difference. ❗️ Examples: 1. Subtract 43 from 60. 2. Dollar amounts were calculated by subtracting the rework cost from the Navy stock number ‘ready-for-issue’ value. 3. So to get the correct figure, we have to subtract the number of days when it was both. 4. Not only does the game add and subtract a number of different fields to generate a final total for a race, you can easily spend half a minute or more just watching the game tally up the number of mistakes you made. 5. The overconfidence indices were calculated by subtracting the percentage of correct answers from the mean percentage of certainty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Where there's a will there's a way, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Determination will overcome any obstacle. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know it will be difficult but where there's a will there's a way. 2. There would be a problem playing all those games but where there's a will there's a way. 3. As they say, where there's a will there's a way, and if anything can be read into Sunday's game, and its scintillating finish, the will is certainly strong in Galway and Kerry. 4. The problem for the fixtures board might be finding an alternative but where there's a will there's a way. 5. It seems to me that in politics, as in life, where there's a will there's a way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Raillery, noun. 🔉 /ˈreɪləri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Good-humoured teasing. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers. 2. There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke. 3. Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery. 4. Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. 5. The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Hippity-hoppity, verb. 🔉 /ˌhɪpɪtɪˈhɒpɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: To walk, jump, skip, etc., with an uneven or hopping step or gait; = hippity hop . Chiefly with adverbial complement. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The best thing since sliced bread, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Used to emphasize one's enthusiasm about a new idea, person, or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. They think that she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. 2. She finally locates the Assistant Wine Whatever-His-Title-Is, and he of the broad-smile-on-a-wide-face recommends the wine as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread. 3. Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread. 4. While some analysts think it's the next best thing since sliced bread, it has the feeling of WAP redux. 5. That's not to say there isn't a market there, rather that we haven't been convinced it's quite the next best thing since sliced bread. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Septentrion, noun. 🔉 /sɛpˈtɛntrɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The north; a northerly direction; the northern regions of the world; the northern part of the heavens. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Proverb, noun. 🔉 /ˈprɒvəːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice. ❗️ Examples: 1. Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common. 2. Beware of proverbs: they are a snare and a delusion. 3. To quote a Kannada proverb it is like water off a buffalo's back. 4. It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. 5. It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness, as a rough translation of a Chinese proverb goes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take a back seat, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role. ❗️ Examples: 1. In future he would take a back seat in politics. 2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation. 3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled. 4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment. 5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Abient, adjective. 🔉 /ˈabɪənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Psychology): Designating a response of withdrawal from or avoidance of a stimulus; characterized by or exhibiting such a response; avoidant. Opposed to adient . ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Abide, verb. 🔉 /əˈbʌɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (abide by • no object): Accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation) ❗️ Examples: 1. I said I would abide by their decision. 2. The serious collector of funny names accepts only those of real people, and abides by certain rules of the game, just as do those who fish for trout. 3. The PA said that it had always abided by the decisions of the court. 4. There was always the arguing, but in the end, the men had made a decision and all had abided by it. 5. If that is if that is a Government decision, we will always abide by the Government decision. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic