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📚 Veil, noun. 🔉 /veɪl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face. ❗️ Examples: 1. A white bridal veil. 2. The simple veil headpiece works great with elaborate bridal gowns since the veil does not detract from the overall look. 3. Women wear long dresses with embroidered bodices and side panels, and tall hats with long white veils. 4. Black party hats with veils made of black pantyhose or some other translucent material can also be made. 5. For a dinner of state, like tonight, the dancers were covered in light, flowing material with veils, only their faces showing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 One good turn deserves another, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): If someone does you a favour, you should take the chance to repay it. ❗️ Examples: 1. She stabbed him a season or two back and one good turn deserves another. 2. ‘As I see it,’ the woman said, ‘one good turn deserves another.’ 3. His eyes hardened, ‘Well, I guess one good turn deserves another.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Will-o'-the-wisp, noun. 🔉 /wɪləðəˈwɪsp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A phosphorescent light seen hovering or floating at night on marshy ground, thought to result from the combustion of natural gases. ❗️ Examples: 1. Pale blue light, the colour of Egewe's hair or a will-o'-the-wisp, filled the room. 2. When lit, the cloth can be made to dance like a will-o'-the-wisp in the dark - a stunt that would definitely not amuse a modern fire marshal. 3. I saw it now, a dull orange will-o'-the-wisp bobbing and winking through the trees. 4. And yet if a writer succeeds in catching the will-o'-the-wisp she will go on existing, elusive and transformed, in the character she has created. 5. As the years passed, he became even more of a will-o'-the-wisp; not to be pinned down; difficult to track. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Surrender, verb. 🔉 /səˈrɛndə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority. ❗️ Examples: 1. Over 140 rebels surrendered to the authorities. 2. The policy, while savage, often meant the next towns along the way would surrender rather than resist. 3. Two days later, on May 2, 1945, all enemy forces in Italy surrendered unconditionally. 4. Noriega eventually surrendered voluntarily to U.S. authorities. 5. Enemy soldiers can also surrender and go home as civilians as soon as the war is over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bat for the other team, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): Be gay. ❗️ Examples: 1. I'm sorry to break the news to you ladies but I think he may bat for the other team. 2. I swear all the good-looking guys are batting for the other team. 3. I am seriously considering switching to batting for the other side. 4. Got my gaydar going - he's batting for the other team. 5. I've known several "straight" married men who decided after much soul-searching to bat for the other side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Corvine, adjective. 🔉 /ˈkɔːvʌɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Of or like a raven or crow, especially in colour. ❗️ Examples: 1. This attractive member of the corvine family. 2. In appearance they are distinctly corvine. 3. This corvine do-it-yourselfer sometimes fashions the tool from the left edge of a leaf and sometimes from the right. 4. It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws. 5. But again, the article is worth reading for its loving portrait of corvine life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Underneath, preposition. 🔉 /ʌndəˈniːθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Situated directly below (something else) ❗️ Examples: 1. Our bedroom is right underneath theirs. 2. Four names written underneath each other. 3. She was no longer hiding underneath her black hair and had showed her true colors during the auditions. 4. A girl wearing thick sunglasses with her hair tucked underneath a black hat pushed her way through the crowd. 5. He fetched a garbage bag from underneath the sink and, without entering the bedroom, handed it to her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Blood is thicker than water, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important ones. ❗️ Examples: 1. I know there are people out there who believe that blood is thicker than water and that family is the most important thing in the world, but I have to say - I just don't feel it. 2. He believes in honour and trust between friends, loyalty between lovers, and that blood is thicker than water between family members, but he discovers all these notions have fallen apart. 3. Families can be difficult and demanding, but blood is thicker than water. 4. The relationship between the trade union movement and the Labor Party is always one that is like a family and that is where blood is thicker than water. 5. It's not that you don't love them, and it's not that you are not grateful - but I do think that blood is thicker than water. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Skookum, adjective. 🔉 /ˈskuːkəm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • informal): (of a person or animal) strong, brave, or impressive. ❗️ Examples: 1. I haven't done the search engine yet, but other than that it looks skookum. 2. Most people who've learned English in this part of the world would understand if you said something was skookum, but those from elsewhere would be puzzled. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Conceal, verb. 🔉 /kənˈsiːl/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Prevent (something) from being known; keep secret. ❗️ Examples: 1. They were at great pains to conceal that information from the public. 2. The problem for me is how unfreedom is hidden, concealed in precisely what is presented to us as new freedoms. 3. The knowledge of this has always been there, but it's been half hidden, concealed for its own good. 4. Humankind's deceptive nature is probably the one thing we cannot hide or conceal. 5. She said he concealed his darker side behind a veneer of respectability in order to hide his true character from adoring fans. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bounce an idea off, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Share an idea with (someone) in order to refine it. ❗️ Examples: 1. He thrives on bouncing ideas off other people. 2. If someone needs to bounce an idea off of someone, another person is able offer honest insight and feedback. 3. This guy also gave me his card and told me to call him if I wanted to bounce an idea off him. 4. It's for people who need that extra ear, are going it alone, or simply need to bounce an idea off a smart group of people. 5. If you have questions or just want to bounce an idea off us, please give us a call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Cantillate, verb. 🔉 /ˈkantɪleɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare • with object): Chant or intone (a passage of religious text) ❗️ Examples: 1. He cantillated the verses of the ancient Avesta. 2. Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money. 3. Augusta Levine tutors each child in learning how to cantillate the Torah and Haftarah with special emphasis upon the child's own Torah portion. 4. They do at least agree that the tradition of cantillating the scriptures is a very old one, and was probably firmly established in tradition before the Massoretes began their work. 5. As Kahn observes, the saxophone itself does the chanting - articulating and cantillating the word patterns of Coltrane's poem of praise and thanksgiving to his Creator. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Dreadfully, adverb. 🔉 /ˈdrɛdfəli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • often as submodifier): Extremely. ❗️ Examples: 1. You're dreadfully thin. 2. I'm dreadfully sorry! 3. I am really, truly, extremely, dreadfully, horribly sorry! 4. His behaviour was terrible and I am dreadfully sorry that you were exposed to it. 5. I feel dreadfully sorry for her and I know Michael will be really upset about it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Show of hands, phrase. ❓ Definition: A vote carried out among a group by the raising of hands, with numbers typically being estimated rather than counted. ❗️ Examples: 1. A show of hands suggested he has little support. 2. A union motion calling for the policy to be scrapped was clearly carried on a show of hands. 3. After a while, they switched to voting by a show of hands. 4. Each meeting ended with a vote by a show of hands. 5. To cheers in the hall it was carried on a show of hands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tchotchke, noun. 🔉 /ˈtʃɒtʃkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • North American): A small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional; a trinket. ❗️ Examples: 1. A pig mug and a dozen or so other porcine tchotchkes adorn his office. 2. The group staged golf tournaments and cruises and sold innumerable collectible tchotchkes - limited-edition wooden plaques, team pictures, 25th anniversary prepaid calling cards. 3. He has a huge collection of tchotchkes. 4. In return, he gets an eagle tchotchke for his knickknack shelf because ‘eagles have no borders.’ 5. The L-shaped dining room possesses a modern-man aesthetic too, what with its spaciousness, absence of tchotchkes, copper-sponged walls, pillow-lined banquettes and unclothed brown tables. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic