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📚 Oenology, noun. 🔉 /iːˈnɒlədʒi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The study of wines. ❗️ Examples: 1. Early on, Shari went back to school to study viticulture and enology at the University of California, Davis. 2. The curriculum is based on the existing beverage studies core that includes classes in beverage service, oenology and related areas. 3. ‘I read Maynard Amerine's book,’ he said, referring to the longtime University of California at Davis viticulture and enology professor. 4. There's a practical, workhorse ethic about the school's enology and viticulture programs, where students learn winemaking on a commercial scale. 5. When modern professors of oenology see this in their nightmares, they wake up screaming. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sinful, adjective. 🔉 /ˈsɪnfʊl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Wicked and immoral; committing or characterized by the committing of sins. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sinful men. 2. A sinful way of life. 3. Because of the corruption of human reason, which took place in the Fall, humanity has a tendency, not merely to err, but to make wicked, sinful choices. 4. But we live in a fallen, sinful world in which sin invades family units as it does all other aspects of society. 5. Certainly, the real reason man lives wickedly or violently is his corrupt sinful nature. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Constant work without rest or relaxation is harmful to one's personal life and well-being. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition to firm information, we have a little game because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 2. All work and no play is stressful. 3. Being in shape doesn't have to be all work and no play. 4. It won't be all work and no play at the show. 5. Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Guillemet, noun. ❓ Definition: Each of a pair of punctuation marks (« ») used as quotation marks in French and other European languages. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Upcoming, adjective. 🔉 /ʌpˈkʌmɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: About to happen; forthcoming. ❗️ Examples: 1. The upcoming election. 2. If he feels well enough and wants to run in an upcoming election, I'd vote for him again. 3. Do you think there has been a lack of international coverage of the upcoming elections? 4. The headland's fate now seems to hang in the result of the upcoming federal election. 5. It will be up to councillors to justify their decision at upcoming elections. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 As if there was no tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition: With no regard for the future consequences. ❗️ Examples: 1. I ate as if there was no tomorrow. 2. He gnawed and bit and scratched as if there was no tomorrow! 3. The banks are still lending as if there was no tomorrow. 4. She and Dan would swim and swim as if there was no tomorrow. 5. Before I could say anything, he was kissing me as if there was no tomorrow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Absorb, verb. 🔉 /əbˈzɔːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action. ❗️ Examples: 1. Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat. 2. Steroids are absorbed into the bloodstream. 3. Molecules may change their rotational energy levels by absorbing energy from electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region of the spectrum. 4. Carbon dioxide primarily absorbs infrared energy emitted by the Earth, thus contributing to the greenhouse effect and warming the Earth's surface and the atmosphere. 5. Electrons in the mineral absorb the energy from the activator and become excited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hang loose, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American • informal • often as imperative): Be relaxed; refrain from taking anything too seriously. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hang loose, baby! 2. Still, if you go in not expecting very much, and relax and just hang loose, you will find a lot to smile about. 3. He likes to joke around and is tremendous about creating a positive atmosphere so the guys can stay loose. 4. The key I believe is to stay loose and just write whatever pops into your head. 5. ‘Just chill out and hang loose,’ she said knowingly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Acequia, noun. 🔉 /əˈseɪkɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Chiefly in Mexico and the south-western United States: an irrigation channel. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Absorb, verb. 🔉 /əbˈzɔːb/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or experience) ❗️ Examples: 1. She absorbed the information in silence. 2. Michael understood that he would never fully absorb the French experience if language were a barrier. 3. To a certain extent, all through life we absorb information we understand, or about which we care, and filter the rest. 4. He is a bright young man who absorbs information and experiences like a sponge. 5. Analysts must fully absorb cultural information, an area in which the intelligence community rarely excels. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight one's corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Defend one's position or interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. We need someone in the cabinet to fight our corner. 2. The company argues that the fact the shareholders are getting anything at all - something some creditors fiercely opposed at the time - was only because the company fought their corner. 3. The same ferocity with which a young, disadvantaged Motherwell side have fought their corner for much of the league campaign was the game's most compelling feature. 4. I fought my corner to the very last, though, and as we waited at the check-out I gave it a final shot. 5. But Mr Jones fought his corner and delivered a prepared, three-minute speech pressing his argument that public services needed to be reformed and firms had to deal with the increasing demands of competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Jovial, adjective. 🔉 /ˈdʒəʊvɪəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Cheerful and friendly. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was in a jovial mood. 2. His jovial manner and friendly approach sets him aside from all others that ever worked in town. 3. The atmosphere was electric and both sets of fans were jovial and friendly for much of the game. 4. If they were nervous, it was pretty tough to tell, they had such a friendly, jovial way about them. 5. It took the form of a very jovial round faced friend of mine called Bill who lived two streets away. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Handwriting, noun. 🔉 /ˈhandrʌɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A person's particular style of writing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her handwriting was small and neat. 2. And the style of your handwriting at that point of time could bare your soul in the presence of others. 3. The handwriting and style were that of a class geek that Jeremy probably bullied into writing. 4. Style, flair, neatness and layout of handwriting are the criteria that judges use to assess the entries. 5. I sometimes try to write in between the pictures but my handwriting does not seem to suit the style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sort out the men from the boys, phrase. ❓ Definition: Show or prove who is the best at a particular activity. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mountains apparently sort out the men from the boys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Descry, verb. 🔉 /dɪˈskrʌɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (literary • with object): Catch sight of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She descried two figures. 2. Venturing further into the meadow, he descried four figures near the other side of the meadow. 3. Ostensibly sympathetic to those on the raft, the painting shows the survivors descrying a ship barely visible on the horizon. 4. While he clearly indicates productions he considers successful, I would be hard-pressed to descry a pattern among them. 5. How could she possibly descry the ship's position from a standpoint of utter blindness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bandwagon, noun. 🔉 /ˈbandwaɡən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Used in reference to an activity, cause, etc. that is currently fashionable or popular and attracting increasing support. ❗️ Examples: 1. The environmental bandwagon is feeling mighty crowded. 2. Concerns over the risk posed by this emerging technology threaten to derail the bandwagon. 3. Apart from the integrated oil outfits, lots of other businesses are now climbing on board the environmental bandwagon. 4. FOXY BROWN is the latest member of the hip hop contingent to jump on the fashion bandwagon. 5. One thing Clinic could never be accused of is copying anyone's sound or jumping aboard the latest fashionable bandwagon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic