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📚 Ungulate, noun. ❓ Definition (Zoology): A hoofed mammal. ❗️ Examples: 1. Feeding mainly on small ungulates - roe deer, chamois and musk deer - lynx are capable of killing prey three to four times their own size, and in some parts of their range, they take large ungulates, including red deer and reindeer. 2. This group of ungulates includes horses, tapirs, and rhinos. 3. The taxa in this study vary in both size and degree of specialization; prey type ranges from the birds and lizards of small cats and mustelids to the larger ungulates favored by big cats. 4. Like many other wild ungulates, Bactrian camels live in social groups dominated by a single male, but I had no idea that a bull could control such a large harem. 5. Bighorn sheep and other large ungulates are highly dimorphic, with males being substantially larger than females, and variation in male reproductive success is also high in these species. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bill, noun. 🔉 /bɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion. ❗️ Examples: 1. A debate over the civil rights bill. 2. Within a few weeks a draft bill was presented to parliament; it had two clauses later to become sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1916. 3. Last week, a private members' bill was presented to Parliament calling for a ban on masts near classrooms and homes. 4. The government has presented around 30 bills to the parliament, which it wants to pass rapidly during final two weeks of August. 5. I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Around the corner, phrase. ❓ Definition: Very near. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's a chemist around the corner. 2. The commander was claiming that peace was just around the corner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Forfend, verb. 🔉 /fɔːˈfɛnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • archaic): Avert or prevent (something evil or unpleasant) ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘The fiend forfend’ said the grim Earl. 2. This forfends what one may call the natural development of the natural man so overlaid with social man. 3. Brenda forfended this possibility by isolating groups of sculptures inside a designated pathway: they stood aloof from touch save by imagination. 4. Thus a tradition died, and thus the Masters and Wardens of today rejoice in a happy immunity, all unknowing of the danger their predecessors forfended. 5. The reinforcement with the additional U-shaped flexible elongated metal folder improves the structure of conventional end hook in enhancing considerably the strength to withstand the stress of impact, forfending the usual disadvantage of fracture or rupture of the tape and rivet failure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Belligerent, adjective. 🔉 /bəˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Engaged in a war or conflict, as recognized by international law. ❗️ Examples: 1. A conference of socialists from all belligerent countries. 2. It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations. 3. It is widely recognized that access by belligerent groups to the gains from drug production and trafficking contributes to the intensity and prolongation of military conflict. 4. Take also the case of lawful belligerent reprisals (for example, the use of prohibited weapons). 5. Even between belligerent states, such treaties will not necessarily be suspended; a fortiori, if the conflict is not international, treaty rules will in general continue to apply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tomorrow is another day, phrase. ❓ Definition: Said after a bad experience to express one's belief that the future will be better. ❗️ Examples: 1. There's always hope because tomorrow is another day. 2. Who knows, tomorrow is another day and you never know what is going to come in the door. 3. Take each day as it comes and at the end of the day, if things still aren't done, remember that tomorrow is another day. 4. This is just a phase, it will pass, now get some rest, tomorrow is another day! 5. Duncan is obviously disappointed, but tomorrow is another day for getting it right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Xebec, noun. 🔉 /ˈziːbɛk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (historical): A small three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship with lateen and square sails. ❗️ Examples: 1. After a week or so of smooth sailing, they were becoming accustomed to life aboard the hundred-and-thirty foot long xebec. 2. The xebec, as in most ship types, possesses origins difficult to trace. 3. Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France. 4. The Forte, however, having received intelligence that no other British ship than the Seahorse was cruising in the Archipelago, despatched a squadron, composed of two frigates, two corvette, two mortar-vessels, and some xebecs, upon the service in view. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Exaggerated, adjective. 🔉 /ɪɡˈzadʒəreɪtɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Regarded or represented as larger, better, or worse than in reality. ❗️ Examples: 1. An exaggerated account of his adventures. 2. Comic book characters are drawn with exaggerated features so you will remember them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The villain of the piece, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): The person or thing responsible for all of the trouble or harm in a particular situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. TV tends to be cast as the villain of the piece. 2. Holdsworth was the villain of the piece when he missed an open goal. 3. He thinks she's trying to make him out to be the villain of the piece. 4. The locked-up wife is transformed into the villain of the piece. 5. Jones, the villain of the piece to Americans, was an Australian. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Instigate, verb. 🔉 /ˈɪnstɪɡeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Bring about or initiate (an action or event) ❗️ Examples: 1. They instigated a reign of terror. 2. I will be instigating legal proceedings. 3. Here the audience obtains a glimpse of the power bloc which oversaw and instigated the events. 4. Over the years she has instigated various events in the Court and the town itself. 5. Does the development team have the power and flexibility to instigate catastrophic events in the game? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Fight or flight, phrase. ❓ Definition: The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sure you've heard of fight or flight in a stressful situation. 2. Humans, like all animals, have an inborn stress alarm system that initiates a fight or flight response to stressful situations. 3. It's true, when you feel that your life might be in danger your natural instinct is fight or flight. 4. In that situation, an animal has two choices - fight or flight. 5. This is when those who haven't punched a ticket feel fight or flight in their bellies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Pruinose, adjective. 🔉 /ˈpruːɪnəʊs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Botany): Covered with white powdery granules; frosted in appearance. ❗️ Examples: 1. In L. forcipatus, it was completely pruinose (covered ventrally, laterally and dorsally) 72.5% of the time; L. disjunctus was never completely pruinescent, and never covered dorsally. 2. Main branches have a pruinose bark; twigs are either glabrous, pruinose or hairy. Phyllodes are greyish-green or glaucous, occasionally pruinose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Englished, adjective. 🔉 /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Made English in character or form; translated into English. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 One man's meat is another man's poison, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Things liked or enjoyed by one person may be distasteful to another. ❗️ Examples: 1. These very different concepts require very different musical interpretations, and one man's meat is another man's poison. 2. It is not so much that one man's meat is another man's poison as it is that one man's poison is another man's poison. 3. It cuts both ways and one man's meat is another man's poison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Mystique, noun. 🔉 /mɪˈstiːk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A quality of mystery, glamour, or power associated with someone or something. ❗️ Examples: 1. The mystique surrounding the monarchy. 2. As a child, there was some mystique associated with a power outage. 3. His glamour and mystique remain as potent now as they were at their height in 1921. 4. Much mystery and mystique surrounds opinion polling and focus groups conducted for political parties. 5. Do you ever sit back and laugh at the mystery or mystique that surrounds you? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic