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📚 Incite, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈsʌɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behaviour) ❗️ Examples: 1. They conspired to incite riots. 2. The Public Order Act of 1986 made it a criminal offence to incite racial hatred - but its provisions do not extend to sexual orientation. 3. I am aware that Britain has legislation which makes it a criminal offence to incite racial hatred. 4. Many priests refused to collaborate with the authorities, and some incited disobedience. 5. Generally, it is perfectly obvious what kind of language or imagery incites racial hatred. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ignorance is bliss, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't want to hear about them: ignorance is bliss in this case. 2. Where pop music is concerned, ignorance is bliss. 3. Ignorance is bliss and Reece slept well and happy that night. 4. Ignorance is bliss to the general public when it comes to such sensitive and important institutions as the economy. 5. Unless you believe ignorance is bliss, the discovery of the truth of any situation is a good thing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Hatred, noun. 🔉 /ˈheɪtrɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Intense dislike; hate. ❗️ Examples: 1. Racial hatred. 2. His murderous hatred of his brother. 3. They must make it clear that religious hatred will not be tolerated and they must be seen to take a stand. 4. It set an end to a terrible century of war and hatred between France and Germany. 5. I read them and am hurt by the injustice and often outright hatred of some of the posters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make someone's blood boil, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Infuriate someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It made her blood boil every time he came near. 2. It was those thoughts that made her blood boil with anger and frustration. 3. Experience what makes the Inspector tick, and what makes his blood boil. 4. I am increasingly sensitive to injustice, which makes my blood boil, and these paintings were born from the anger provoked by this horror. 5. All her words make my blood boil with jealousy and anger as she speaks the taboo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Elytron, noun. 🔉 /ˈɛlɪtrɒn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Entomology): Each of the two wing cases of a beetle. ❗️ Examples: 1. A typical male will clasp the lateral edges of the female's elytra with his prothoracic and mesothoracic legs, while his metathoracic legs are extended behind to serve as stabilizers when they drag on the substrate. 2. Because beetle elytra may be common fossils in Pleistocene deposits, they are often important sources of data on Pleistocene environments. 3. However, familiarity with potential prey items greatly enhances recognition of even soft-bodied prey from diagnostic indigestible body parts such as wings, elytra, mandibles, or chelicerae. 4. The unique elytra may well be the reason for the beetles success. 5. Elytron length was measured with calipers from the apex to humeral edge of the left elytron to the nearest 0.05 mm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Influential, adjective. 🔉 /ˌɪnflʊˈɛnʃ(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having great influence on someone or something. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her work is influential in feminist psychology. 2. A quarter of a century on, the clergyman remains a powerful and influential figure even in death. 3. So, what do you think is the most important and influential car ever to be sold in Britain? 4. So a handful of votes will determine the direction of the world's most powerful and influential country. 5. National actors play important and influential roles at all stages of the EU policy process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rant and rave, phrase. ❓ Definition: Shout and complain angrily and at length. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself. 2. I began to rant and rave angrily, in a loud voice. 3. ‘You can't rant and rave; you can't scream and put people in shock, though I have worked with directors who do that and it's pretty scary,’ Garry says. 4. I could rant and rave about it but that wouldn't make a difference. 5. Only this afternoon did I rant and rave about these designs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Inveigle, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈviːɡ(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object and adverbial): Persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery. ❗️ Examples: 1. We cannot inveigle him into putting pen to paper. 2. The ego's greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own. 3. Only when she has managed to inveigle him into a marriage would the process of dismantling and rebuilding his character begin. 4. Emmy had even inveigled him to resume his incessant smoking once more. 5. Equally, the somewhat vulgar individuals known as ‘bar reps’ will attempt to inveigle you into participating in all manner of hideous rituals, known collectively as ‘drinking games’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rebel, noun. 🔉 /ˈrɛb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tory rebels. 2. Rebel forces. 3. This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity. 4. Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement. 5. However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 What makes someone tick, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): What motivates someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. People are curious to know what makes British men tick. 2. We're good at finding out about people, what makes them tick, what they are interested in, what they have bees in their bonnets about - a key networking skill. 3. I'd like the opportunity to find out a bit what they were like as people, what makes them tick, and, you know, enjoy their company. 4. No one really knows how these people think, what makes them tick, and which of the five contenders stirs their blood. 5. I get a thrill when I can get into the male psyche and learn about what makes them tick. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Palingenesis, noun. 🔉 /ˌpalɪnˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Biology • mass noun): The exact reproduction of ancestral characteristics in ontogenesis. ❗️ Examples: 1. In a process the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, in his Essay on Man, called palingenesis, the past is recreated as a living organism in which every separate element is connected. 2. Palingenesis has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance. 3. There was no obvious palingenesis bone shown in. the X-ray images. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Take off, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: To become successful or popular very quickly or suddenly. ❗️ Examples: 1. The new magazine has really taken off. 2. Her singing career took off after her TV appearance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Big Brother, noun. ❓ Definition: A person or organization exercising total control over people's lives. ❗️ Examples: 1. Big Brother will be watching you from this week when spy cameras start to operate in Essex. 2. For executives who want the Big Brother touch, there are monitoring systems to keep track of employees. 3. Until September 17 of last year, the Canadian government didn't have any Big Brothers on their payroll and we all lived together in blessed harmony within the wonderful realm of free speech. 4. There is much speculation about what it is that the Big Brothers from Brussels will say, good and bad, about Bulgaria. 5. We can help erode the power of these Big Brothers by highlighting some home truths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make common cause, phrase. ❓ Definition: Unite in order to achieve a shared aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Nationalist movements made common cause with the reformers. 2. Let the humanists make common cause with them to achieve freedom. 3. Today, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on what these developments have meant for your colleagues in public broadcasting, and share some ideas about how our institutions might make common cause in the future. 4. As a hunter-gatherer nation, Australia could play a further role in world affairs by making common cause without a hunter-gatherer peoples, all of whom are taking a terrible hammering. 5. On certain foreign policy issues, Switzerland and Bulgaria have a track record of making common cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Contumacious, adjective. 🔉 /ˌkɒntjʊˈmeɪʃəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Law • archaic): (especially of a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority. ❗️ Examples: 1. His refusal to make child support payments was contumacious. 2. I have found him to be in wilful and contumacious breach of the injunction on him, which I am quite certain he knew perfectly well he had to obey in every respect. 3. The current law in Ontario is that, in order to be ordered to pay costs personally, a solicitor, acting in bad faith, must be guilty of outrageous conduct that is contumacious and so egregious as to engage the contempt powers of the court. 4. Parliament was intending to impose a penalty on a contumacious employer who decides he is not going to give the employee the required statement. 5. These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Leisure, noun. 🔉 /ˈlɛʒə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Time when one is not working or occupied; free time. ❗️ Examples: 1. People with too much enforced leisure. 2. Little did he realize the magnitude of the issue which he raised, and that it would occupy his leisure for nearly twenty years. 3. Rather than giving up work at the age of 65, they will ‘cycle’ between periods of work and leisure well into their golden years. 4. Intelligent soldiers never waste the long periods of leisure that characterize peacetime service. 5. I don't buy the idea that the pre-industrial period was a golden age of self-determination and leisure for the vast majority of the British. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Be just what the doctor ordered, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be very beneficial or desirable under the circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. A 2–0 victory is just what the doctor ordered. 2. A media-savvy leader with a vision, with seriousness of purpose, with honesty and decisiveness as his strongest points, a diplomat par excellence, he is exactly what the doctor ordered. 3. The style is apparently a cross between ancient tragedy and TV news, which sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for a sultry summer weeknight. 4. Meantime, let's just say that London is exactly what the doctor ordered - in other words, I am very happy to be here. 5. I know killer heels aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, but I'll take the psychological boost any day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Yurt, noun. 🔉 /jʊət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A circular tent of felt or skins on a collapsible framework, used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkey. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her students will make use of the project's three on-site yurts. 2. He was greeted by dune buggies, which then took him across a lunar landscape for five hours to a collection of yurts, or Mongolian tents. 3. The movie team pitched their yurts about 1km away from the household. 4. At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles. 5. In Mongolia, the yurt's covering would normally be made from sheep hides - but the York volunteers decided on a canvas covering instead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic