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📚 Oil the wheels, phrase. ❓ Definition: Help something go smoothly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sales promotions oil the wheels of commerce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Laissez-aller, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): Absence of restraint; unconstrained freedom. ❗️ Examples: 1. No laissez-aller exploration of these rocks should be undertaken. 2. Well, I'm not sure what an intoxicatingly Floridian aura of laissez-aller is, but it sure sounds fun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Fracture (2007) 💬 Now, he just provoked my witness with an outrageous allegation.

📚 Allegation, noun. 🔉 /alɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof. ❗️ Examples: 1. He made allegations of corruption against the administration. 2. Allegations that the army was operating a shoot-to-kill policy. 3. The burden of proof in an allegation of undue influence rests upon the person who claims to have been wronged. 4. He said in the case of the association some people had been making allegations without proof. 5. Any allegation for nuisance is often met with a counter allegation which must also be investigated. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All of a sudden, phrase. ❓ Definition: Suddenly. ❗️ Examples: 1. I feel really tired all of a sudden. 2. All of a sudden, he's being asked to dinner by leading writers and noblemen. 3. All of a sudden, the normal drone of the training room was shattered by peals of laughter! 4. All of a sudden, you're face to face with a black, hairy spider the size of a beach ball. 5. All of a sudden, the sky cleared, became blue and a perfect rainbow arched over me with one end in the sand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Girls Trip (2017) 💬 All allegations of infidelity are false.

📚 Infidelity, noun. 🔉 /ɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her infidelity continued after her marriage. 2. I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities. 3. Sure, there are drugs and infidelities and deviant sexuality, but that's the exception for this otherwise decent lot. 4. Affairs, infidelities, sexual peccadilloes fall generally outside the purview of inquisitive political eyes; at any rate, they do not make for fodder for a dirty election campaign. 5. My lovely partner, Patrick, suffered the knowledge of my infidelities and witnessed my mental, physical, and spiritual decay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the groove, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Performing confidently or consistently well. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team are not really in the groove tonight. 2. It might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove. 3. A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together. 4. While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song. 5. He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Pinyin, noun. 🔉 /ˌpɪnˈjɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese. ❗️ Examples: 1. The transliteration used is the standard Pinyin as formally adopted by China in 1979. 2. Folk transcriptions of Chinese by English speakers tend to be like Pinyin in this respect. 3. The use of Pinyin poses problems of distinguishing homographs, as in the 24 etymologically unrelated forms spelt lian. 4. As far as I know, President Chen Shui-bian supports Hanyu Pinyin. 5. A good example is the word ‘gold’ which is ‘kim’ in Korean, ‘kin’ in Taiwanese-Hokkien and ‘jin’ in Pinyin. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Bitter Moon (1992) 💬 I'd always found infidelity... the most titillating aspect of any relationship.

📚 Titillating, adjective. 🔉 /ˈtɪtɪleɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious. ❗️ Examples: 1. She let slip titillating details about her clients. 2. Then came a lot of titillating tabloid speculation. 3. Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities. 4. Yet there is more here than just titillating visuals. 5. By the time that same child is 18 years old, approximately 40,000 sexually titillating scenes will have been viewed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 In the heat of the moment, phrase. ❓ Definition: While temporarily angry, excited, or engrossed, and without stopping for thought. ❗️ Examples: 1. Things said in the heat of the moment. 2. Sadly at this moment all that was found in the heat of the moment, was two angry faces, two rapidly beating hearts and one truth. 3. That had been all too short, and the ones the night before that had been frenzied, excited ones caught in the heat of the moment. 4. ‘I think there's nothing more dangerous than adopting legislation in the heat of the moment,’ he says. 5. One thing is certain, rugby will always be a very tough game, in which injuries can be expected, and in most cases there is very little a referee can do to prevent many of them in the heat of the moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Telluric, adjective. 🔉 /tɛˈljʊərɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Of the earth as a planet. ❗️ Examples: 1. These stones, or these steeples, are working in tandem with the earth's telluric energies coming up from the wells. 2. Yet Hepworth consistently professed a Romantic attitude of emotional affinity with nature, speaking of carving both as a ‘biological necessity’ and as an ‘extension of the telluric forces which mould the landscape’. 3. Let's see, and we also call this period the Anthropogene, the era in which mankind's activities became a ‘new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth’. 4. It became increasingly obvious that this was the secret of the ancients - they used this natural telluric energy, focusing it in certain places, for their own purposes. 5. The aim was to detect long-term abnormal changes of the telluric field, which were possibly related to imbedding earthquakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Scent of a Woman (1992) 💬 When the wife gets restless, the wife gets racy.

📚 Racy, adjective. 🔉 /ˈreɪsi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Lively, entertaining, and typically sexually titillating. ❗️ Examples: 1. The novel was considered rather racy at the time. 2. As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here. 3. The film is probably most notable for its attempts to entertain adults with racy jokes and visuals. 4. Entertainment Weekly wrote about racy Y / A novels in this week's issue. 5. Readers looking for a racy, entertaining romp full of plot twists, scandal and exposed secrets will not be disappointed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 All in all, phrase. ❓ Definition: On the whole. ❗️ Examples: 1. All in all it's been a good year. 2. They wreak havoc on our nervous systems and, all in all, make for generally unsavoury experiences. 3. But all in all, I would much rather have been running on the straight. 4. So all in all, they are asking you to close your eyes and believe. 5. It's an extremely odd little movie, all in all, and it's a little tough to understand the high expectations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aver, verb. 🔉 /əˈvəː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (reporting verb • formal): State or assert to be the case. ❗️ Examples: 1. He averred that he was innocent of the allegations. 2. ‘I don't have to do anything — it's his problem,’ he averred. 3. ‘I guess these sorts of things happen in every field but since this is a glamour field, they are highlighted more,’ she avers. 4. In his prologue he avers that the international community faces a period that is ‘uncertain and politically unstable’. 5. ‘When I went to the US and the UK for training, I visited hospitals, schools, police stations and other organisations to study their management methods,’ he avers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 💬 The horses are restless... and the men are quiet.