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📚 Verdurous, adjective. ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «verdure». ❗️ Examples: 1. There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land. 2. As its wide spate washes up against a small verdurous spur, it swirls over waterweeds and drenched rocks to form an inlet in which goats splash. 3. The room, if it could be called that, appeared verdurous, contradicting that of the cavernous underground she had been previously. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Untraceable (2008) 💬 Their numbers were sky-high.

📚 Sky-high, adjective. 🔉 /skʌɪˈhʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Very high in price, level, or degree. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sky-high premiums. 2. Their confidence is sky-high. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Non-Stop (2014) 💬 Flying is not my cup of tea.

📚 Not one's cup of tea, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Not what one likes or is interested in. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cats were not her cup of tea. 2. If sitting and listening is not your cup of tea, sightseeing in a drift boat makes for an interesting alternative. 3. And if running, dodging and shooting was not your cup of tea, there were car and motorcycle rallies, with dirt tracks and the grand prix. 4. If this is not your cup of tea or if you only have a few items for sale then, of course, they will take your items to their auction rooms, where they will be sold on your behalf. 5. Free verse can be wonderful - but it's just not our cup of tea. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Teocalli, noun. 🔉 /ˌtiːəˈkali/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A temple of the Aztecs or other Mexican peoples, typically standing on a truncated pyramid. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition, Mr. Bellecourt travels with Mexican elders to visit the pyramids of the sun and moon, teocallis in Nahuatl, the Aztec earth history calendar at the Museum of Anthropology, and the grandmother moon-time calendar, Coyolxauiqui. 2. On top of the Mexican teocallis - a truncated, or polled pyramid, with a temple atop - stood two colossal statues, one to the sun, the other to the moon. 3. I just remember Cortez ordering his cannon to fire and the Spaniards marching around the bloodstained teocallis and little else. 4. Around the teocallis their were large sculptures. 5. Having accomplished this good work, the Spaniards descended the winding slopes of the teocalli with more free and buoyant step, as if conscious that the blessing of Heaven now rested on their arms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 💬 A small, elderly man, smartly dressed, with an exceptionally lively, intelligent face and an immediately perceptible air of sadness.

📚 Lively, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪvli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Full of life and energy; active and outgoing. ❗️ Examples: 1. A lively and uninhibited girl. 2. He was so lively and full of energy that it dawned on us that he must have been in some sort of pain for a lot longer than we had thought. 3. Although a lively and outgoing teenager, he lives with the effects of what his father, Greg, termed ‘subtle neurological damage’. 4. Nine-year-old Ricky is described as a lively, active boy who loves reading, swimming, watching TV and playing computer games. 5. She was so lively and outgoing, and was very popular. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Unforgiven (1992) 💬 And we were young and full of beans.

📚 Full of beans, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Lively; in high spirits. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was laughing and shouting and generally full of beans. 2. Chirpy, smiley, full of beans - these are just some of the words which do not describe first-time quarter-finalist David Gray. 3. When I last spoke to her yesterday she was full of beans, very cheerful and chirpy, so I deduce from that that all was going well. 4. They were lovely kids: bright, intelligent and full of beans. 5. Driver Murugan is there at the appointed time. I have risen early again, but today I'm neither bright nor full of beans, unlike yesterday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Polychromatic, adjective. 🔉 /ˌpɒlɪkrə(ʊ)ˈmatɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Of two or more or of varying colours; multicoloured. ❗️ Examples: 1. Patterned polychromatic brickwork. 2. All around the main concourse there is a polychromatic array of multicultural mixed sex, mixed aged groups doing their own thing. 3. Purple is particularly in at the moment, along with polychromatic paint that changes colour with the light, for those that can afford it. 4. The thin, polychromatic striations of the different coloured tiles add surprising texture and visual animation to the internal and external wall planes. 5. Even the standard bulb-shaped balloons are an eyeful in their polychromatic splendour, shown to best effect at the ‘night glows,’ when the balloons are lit up inside like Chinese lanterns to the strains of classical music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Ship of Theseus (2012) 💬 There are a lot of photographers who stage… elaborate scenes, costumes, lights… and I think this just gives them a sense of purpose.

📚 Elaborate, adjective. 🔉 /ɪˈlab(ə)rət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. ❗️ Examples: 1. Elaborate security precautions. 2. Elaborate wrought-iron gates. 3. She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown. 4. There were some matters the tribunal did not refer to although they could have, and some minor errors in relation to the details of this elaborate and complicated scheme. 5. The buildings were all made of white stone, built carefully with elaborate details, as if every family lived in a miniature castle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Finding Neverland (2004) 💬 Opening night, doctors, lawyers, businessmen and their wives, all dressed to the nines.

📚 To the nines, phrase. ❓ Definition: To a great or elaborate extent. ❗️ Examples: 1. The women were dressed to the nines. 2. Apart from the willingness of the staff to dress up to the nines, preferably in drag, the secret of the unfailing success of this bash is an alcoholic punch whose recipe, if it isn't already, really ought to be classified information. 3. Horse racing is always an excuse to dress up to the nines and no more so than on Ladies Day - on Thursday - when women enter their own particular race: to be the best-dressed female at Knavesmire. 4. I can be dressed up to the nines in a slinky frock, fabulous hair and make-up, and 6 inch stilettos, but I actually feel embarrassed at having to clutch hold of a handbag, or have it slung over my shoulder. 5. If you like dressing up to the nines, expect to pay a fortune for a drink, and enjoy fancy-sounding grub, then you'll feel quite at home in the Living Room, York's new million-pound bar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Felicitous, adjective. 🔉 /fɪˈlɪsɪtəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Well chosen or suited to the circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. A felicitous phrase. 2. Despite the messiness inherent in natural systems, evolution has produced ‘machines of extreme perfection,’ to use Darwin's felicitous phrase. 3. Has there ever been an economist with a more felicitous turn of phrase? 4. Perhaps because Thérèse stands, to borrow Oscar Wilde's felicitous phrase (which he applied to himself), in symbolic relation to the culture of her age. 5. To adapt Benedict Anderson's felicitous phrase, hockey is one cultural activity through which Canadians are often said to imagine their community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Evil Under the Sun (1982) 💬 You must be famished, having to wait all that time in your room.

📚 Famished, adjective. 🔉 /ˈfamɪʃt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Extremely hungry. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm famished — is there anything to eat? 2. The evacuees were famished, having had no food for 12 hours. 3. She had to admit she was quite hungry, famished even. 4. Ashton while we do this go into the kitchen and eat something, you look famished. 5. We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic