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📚 Spare, adjective. 🔉 /spɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of time) not taken up by one's usual duties or activities; available for leisure. ❗️ Examples: 1. He tried to write poetry in his spare time. 2. For most acts, this wouldn't work, but Lemon Jelly has a style that requires headphones and a spare 45 minutes to absorb the album from start to finish. 3. A question from another child revealed Mr Blunkett wishes he had more spare time. 4. I have more spare time and I'm more perceptive of my life and my surroundings. 5. With more spare time than younger people, we can spend some of it at the casino. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Come off it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Said when vigorously expressing disbelief. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Come off it, he'll know that's a lie.’ 2. Indeed, she claims that there is an unspoken English rule that she calls ‘the importance of not being earnest’, along with a peculiarly English injunction to say, ‘Oh, come off it!’ 3. Come off it, that's not something ‘worth remembering’. 4. My honest (and admittedly, somewhat cruel) reaction is ‘Oh, come off it, you're not that special.’ 5. ‘Oh come off it, mate,’ he said, because he is not only a hawk, but has a keen and impatient mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Epicurean, noun. 🔉 /ˌɛpɪkjʊ(ə)ˈriːən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A disciple or student of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. ❗️ Examples: 1. They lift the curtain on a hitherto unknown community of philosophical debate among Epicureans and with other schools. 2. He was dealing with ‘certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics’. 3. Other schools of thought - the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Sceptics - dominated the philosophical stage, and the sciences developed separately from philosophy and became the domain of specialists. 4. But then, legitimate or not, this kind of appeal to nature runs through almost all of ancient ethics: it can be traced in the moral theories of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics, among others. 5. By these three virtues we ascend to philosophize in that celestial Athens where Stoics and Peripatetics and Epicureans, by the light of eternal truth, join ranks in a single harmonious will. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Aisle, noun. 🔉 /ʌɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A passage between rows of seats in a building such as a church or theatre, an aircraft, or train. ❗️ Examples: 1. The musical had the audience dancing in the aisles. 2. Turtle chose his seat on the train across the aisle from Tim in the row behind Megan and Jeff. 3. The bus was headed from the Western Wall to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood on the city's outskirts, and families with children were packed in the seats and aisles. 4. Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row. 5. At a humanist ceremony at York Crematorium, conducted by Maggie Blunt, mourners sat and kneeled in the aisles because every seat was taken. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tired and emotional, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used euphemistically to indicate that someone is drunk. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tired and emotional party people. 2. It has the added advantage that he tends to update it when leglessly tired and emotional, so value added humour is practically guaranteed. 3. A source told The Mirror, ‘They'd been at Studio 57 for an hour and a half and were both pretty tired and emotional when Charlotte wanted to move on.’ 4. Finally, somewhat tired and emotional, we ended up having a nightcap around 3am - some 12 hours after we started drinking - before retiring to bed. 5. Increasingly tired and emotional, Cochrane gave Wilson a demonstration of the art of the ‘Glasgow kiss’ - much to the amusement of all concerned. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Firth, noun. 🔉 /fəːθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A narrow inlet of the sea; an estuary. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Moray Firth. 2. He told her the tales of the sea lochs and the firths that decorated the coast. 3. It was then stationed off Fife Ness to guide ships approaching the firths of Tay and Forth. 4. The project would be in addition to the new £89m road crossing already planned 14 miles upstream in the upper firth to take pressure off the existing bridge. 5. The path leads you out to the headland with spectacular views over the firths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Particle, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɑːtɪk(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A minute portion of matter. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tiny particles of dust. 2. Uncatchables were like magnets for loose electrons, and whenever they became solid, it was because they had attracted all of the minute particles of matter in the area towards them. 3. It is true that Newton did suggest that if we could know the forces that operate on the minute particles of matter, we could understand why macroscopic processes occur in the ways they do. 4. Cloud seeding is a snowmaking technique that discharges minute particles of a chemical called iodide into winter storm clouds to create snow. 5. His entire body was caked with minute particles of dried salt, and it was beginning to drive his Sentinel sense of touch off the irritation scale. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A real live —, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used to emphasize the existence or presence of something surprising or unusual. ❗️ Examples: 1. A real live detective had been at the factory. 2. I think there is a real live monkey living in my computer and he messes with my head by dealing me hands that cannot be won. 3. After three years I am actually taking a real live vacation where I pack a suitcase, get on a plane, and sleep in a hotel. 4. Have I ever shared with you my actual fear of real live trains? 5. He had the advantage of hearing some actual real live witnesses, I gather? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Altruistic, adjective. 🔉 /altruːˈɪstɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was an entirely altruistic act. 2. I question how altruistic his motives were. 3. Don't be fooled into thinking I do this for altruistic reasons though. 4. His benevolent and altruistic nature made him very well known to everyone in the area. 5. Humans are far more co-operative and altruistic than any other species. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Conceal, verb. 🔉 /kənˈsiːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Not allow to be seen; hide. ❗️ Examples: 1. A line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea. 2. My dark hair conceals my damp yellow eyes, like a funeral veil that hides a widow's tears. 3. She carefully picked up two small bottles, concealing one with the other. 4. The room in which was entered was both dead and dark, concealing everything that existed in it. 5. No legislation allows that drugs can be concealed in the patients' food. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 No rest for the weary, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Used as a wry observation on the heavy workload or absence of relaxation that seem to characterize a person's situation. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Passage, noun. 🔉 /ˈpasɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. ❗️ Examples: 1. The larger bedroom was at the end of the passage. 2. The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher. 3. Excavations revealed a massive timber gate about halfway along the passage allowing access to be controlled. 4. As one walks through the different rooms, passages and interstices of the gallery, there is a tremendous but transient concatenation of sound. 5. Within the narrow passages candles were placed along the walls, dimly lighting up the blood red stone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A watched pot never boils, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Time seems to drag endlessly when you're waiting for something to happen. ❗️ Examples: 1. Another way of putting it is: a watched pot never boils. 2. They say a watched pot never boils, so you might want to do something else at this point. 3. ‘Um, I hate to sound cliché, but I thought a watched pot never boils,’ Rachel said with interest. 4. While you're waiting (because a watched pot never boils, you know!) go outside and cut the culprits down to their crowns. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Reinforcement, noun. 🔉 /riːɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The process of encouraging or establishing a belief or pattern of behaviour. ❗️ Examples: 1. Positive feedback leads to reinforcement. 2. Teachers are often unaware that they encourage inappropriate behavior through reinforcement. 3. It is essential to teach and model desired behaviours, and the benefits of positive reinforcement are well established. 4. All owners will be told how to correct the dog's behaviour and how reinforcement of good behaviour will pay more dividends than punishment. 5. However, some will need continued encouragement and positive reinforcement from parents and teachers for this good start not to become swamped by schoolyard attitudes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Beggars can't be choosers, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): People with no other options must be content with what is offered. ❗️ Examples: 1. But my funds are getting down to the wire and so beggars can't be choosers… 2. I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers. 3. Sadly not a two-seater but beggars can't be choosers. 4. It was worth a lot more but beggars can't be choosers. 5. This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic