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📚 Earnestly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈəːnɪstli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: With sincere and intense conviction; seriously. ❗️ Examples: 1. They earnestly hope to come back in the summer. 2. Any given scientific project may be good, but it may also be earnestly pursued and gravely in error. 3. I know that he earnestly and seriously believes the factual content of everything he says. 4. Many of the youngsters entering the arena of serious theatre now take this objective quite earnestly. 5. I earnestly looked through the magazine hoping to find some justification for the cover. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make ends meet, phrase. ❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were finding it hard to make ends meet. 2. Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy. 3. Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet. 4. This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is. 5. By doing some casual work, like designing computer software, he has managed to make both ends meet and has enough left over to invest in his bicycle journeys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Probate, noun. 🔉 /ˈprəʊbeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • count noun): A verified copy of a will with a certificate as handed to the executors. ❗️ Examples: 1. She has been granted a probate to execute her late father's estate. 2. There will be workshops each day and talks on a variety of subjects, including how to research your family history online, how to use the Census, service records, wills and probates. 3. Oddly, the reply refers to only 12 probates from San Francisco, in contrast to the ‘few hundred’ he claimed to have examined when Seckora interviewed him. 4. Hood draws upon probates, tax records, account books, newspaper ads, tax records and other government records in a study that contributes to social and family history as well as economic history and the history of technology. 5. Wills, probates, property and tax records are also valuable sources of information. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Above and beyond, phrase. ❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was always there to help us out in difficult times, above and beyond the call of duty. 2. And just ahead are our weekly tribute to a member of our Armed services who served above and beyond the call of duty. 3. She has been my campaign manager for three elections, and has served above and beyond the call of duty. 4. She said she appreciated their passion and their concern even above and beyond the official job. 5. No words can do justice to their efficiency, thoroughness, and all-around human compassion above and beyond the call of duty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Craic, noun. 🔉 /krak/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mainly Irish • mass noun): Enjoyable social activity; a good time. ❗️ Examples: 1. He loves the craic, the late nights. 2. It was great craic and I look forward to it this year again. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Exempt, adjective. 🔉 /ɪɡˈzɛm(p)t/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others. ❗️ Examples: 1. These patients are exempt from all charges. 2. A tax-exempt savings plan. 3. The national department is to amend current exemption procedures and criteria later this year to ensure all those who cannot pay fees are duly exempt from doing so. 4. Book stores, corner stores and TV shops are also exempt from the bylaw. 5. As a middle-aged baby boomer, I am certainly not exempt from the wishes and dreams of the anti-aging movement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Slippery slope, phrase. ❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous. ❗️ Examples: 1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime. 2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’. 3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness. 4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada. 5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Estate, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈsteɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: All the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death. ❗️ Examples: 1. In his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter. 2. He is alleged to have taken money from the estates of ten deceased people, including a husband and wife over a ten-year period. 3. The cause of action is deemed to have subsisted before the death, allowing the claimant to sue the estate. 4. If he had done so, on his death his estate would have been entitled to a cash sum to be applied for the purchase of an annuity for his dependants. 5. The will of Dennis Reece provided that Anna receive all of his estate on his death. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Snollygoster, noun. 🔉 /ˈsnɒlɪɡɒstə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US • informal): A shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician. ❗️ Examples: 1. Snollygosters must be thrown out of political office and other positions of power. 2. He is not a snollygoster . He wants to change Jamaica . 3. We are up to our necks in lying, cheating, back-stabbing snollygosters. 4. Snollygosters must be thrown out of political office and other positions of power, and kept out. 5. Let's stop messing around and elect fresh voices to City Council in our next municipal election. Snollygosters need not apply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Coquettish, adjective. 🔉 /kəˈkɛtɪʃ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction; flirtatious. ❗️ Examples: 1. A coquettish grin. 2. The manual encourages her to face up to the extent of her mendacity and list her lies, an exercise which allows Porter to go through a series of coquettish and flirty set pieces. 3. The bedroom scenes with a playful and coquettish Cariola show the duchess and Antonio's fragile happiness and the sensuality of their love. 4. Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute. 5. Peering out from behind a helmet of black hair, she is stylish but not styled, neither coquettish sex kitten nor guitar-toting tomboy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Terricolous, adjective. 🔉 /tɛˈrɪkələs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Zoology): (of an animal such as an earthworm) living on the ground or in the soil. ❗️ Examples: 1. The great majority of formicine genera, however, are both terricolous and cocoon-makers. 2. Similarly, some terricolous mosses are confined to calcareous soils in polluted areas, but are more widespread in non-polluted areas. 3. The book starts off with an colourful introduction to the pros and cons of the terms terricolous and epigaeous, and an overview of the terricolous lichen vegetation typology in Italy. 4. The proposition that tolerance of SO2 by these terricolous mosses depends on metabolic detoxification of dissolved bisulfite was investigated. 5. The first phase of my research addressed the question ‘do distinct terricolous lichen assemblages occur within these badlands as opposed to a random distribution of species?’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hadal, adjective. 🔉 /ˈheɪdəl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to the zone of the sea greater than 6000 m in depth (chiefly oceanic trenches). ❗️ Examples: 1. The hadal environment (water depths greater than 6000m) is one of the last habitats on earth to be impacted by unsustainable human activity. 2. Submarine trenches usually develop downward from depths around 6,000 m, the beginning of the hadal region, exclusive domain of highly specialized and exquisite molluscan communities. 3. The hadal zone makes up only 1 or 2 percent of the ocean and is located in narrow oceanic trenches. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Soft touch, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): A person who readily gives or does something if asked. ❗️ Examples: 1. We've shown people we're not a soft touch and that we won't be pushed over by the criticism. 2. The bit that still gets to me is the look on her face as she approached me, as though she thought I was a soft touch and I was going to bow down at her feet and beg forgiveness. 3. The trouble with caring too much is becoming a soft touch. 4. I think you know very well that you ought to stop being such a soft touch. 5. They are no soft touch, as they proved again last night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Whizz-kid, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɪzkɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A young person who is outstandingly skilful or successful at something. ❗️ Examples: 1. A computer whizz-kid. 2. Aspiring computer whizz-kids will get the chance to learn from the experts. 3. Here, a team of young computer science whizz-kids are putting the finishing touches to Alex. 4. Now they're musicians, computer whiz-kids and heads of corporations. 5. The program features interviews with businessmen as diverse as toilet-seat designers, magazine editors and computer whiz-kids. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get rid of, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take action so as to be free of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing) ❗️ Examples: 1. We have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years. 2. Perhaps you should dig it up, getting rid of all the roots, and try something else as a windbreak. 3. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. 4. Can you advise on the best way of getting rid of the smell? 5. I've been trying to get rid of the smoke smell too. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic