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📚 Mudroom, noun. 🔉 /ˈmʌdruːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American): A small room or entryway where footwear and outer clothes can be removed before entering a house. ❗️ Examples: 1. Shoes don't come into the house — they are removed and stashed away in the mudroom. 2. The old kitchen was transformed into a mudroom. 3. More storage, often in the form of a back-door mudroom, is a must. 4. They stood in the aptly named mudroom just off of the great kitchen trying to remove the grime. 5. A mudroom, which features a playroom above, separates the family space from the garage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Birthplace, noun. 🔉 /ˈbəːθpleɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The place where something started or originated. ❗️ Examples: 1. Florence was the birthplace of the Renaissance. 2. However, the balance of power could well shift full circle to Asia, the original birthplace of the game. 3. Soon the gene banks in Mexico, birthplace of the original corn varieties, may also be contaminated. 4. It does nothing to burnish the city's proud heritage as the birthplace of American freedoms. 5. The Wright Brothers were born in Ohio, hence Ohio is the birthplace of aviation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 If you can't beat them, join them, phrase. ❓ Definition (humorous): If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavour, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. ❗️ Examples: 1. Steve took the view that if you can't beat them, join them. 2. You're saying if you can't beat them, join them. 3. But they have increasingly taken the view that if you can't beat them, join them, and begun offering similar, competitive services. 4. The only solution as far as I can see it is if you can't beat them, join them. 5. Like everyone says, if you can't beat them, join them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Bat, verb. 🔉 /bat/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of a sports team or player) take the role of hitting rather than throwing the ball. ❗️ Examples: 1. Australia reached 263 for 4 after choosing to bat. 2. We almost got out of the inning on our own, but mercifully, the other team had batted through the lineup, which meant it was our turn to bat. 3. Frankly, the team batted worse than it did in the first innings at Lahore. 4. The Indian team batted perfectly, bowled like champions and fielded like tigers. 5. In test cricket, where there are no limits on how long a player may bat, double centuries are considered a major achievement, but they are not all that uncommon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Look on the bright side, phrase. ❓ Definition: Be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side. 2. He was always the one who looked on the bright side, the optimistic one. 3. With so many good things happening, it is so difficult not to look on the bright side, isn't it? 4. At first, anti-dam activists looked on the bright side. 5. The move might seem like nothing more than a disruption, but the director is looking on the bright side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ceasefire, noun. 🔉 /ˈsiːsfʌɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A temporary suspension of fighting; a truce. ❗️ Examples: 1. The latest ceasefire seems to be holding. 2. A ceasefire agreement. 3. War with people who break their ceasefire agreements is the default position. 4. Amid great excitement, the government and rebels reached a ceasefire agreement at the beginning of last year. 5. The Good Friday 1998 power sharing agreement led to a ceasefire by most of the paramilitary organisations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 None other than, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont. 2. The first victims of his surprise visit were none other than presspersons themselves. 3. And it was none other than Rossellini who advised him to turn professional. 4. This church is supposed to have been founded by none other than Charlemagne. 5. She's played by none other than Kitty Bruce, daughter of standup legend Lenny Bruce. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Neurodiversity, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): The range of differences in individual brain function and behavioural traits, regarded as part of normal variation in the human population (used especially in the context of autistic spectrum disorders) ❗️ Examples: 1. His book about living with bipolar disorder is having some influence on the way people in his home country view neurodiversity. 2. He will help design and co-teach a one-credit course on neurodiversity to be offered through interdisciplinary studies in the spring. 3. They say brain differences, like body differences, should be embraced, and argue for an acceptance of 'neurodiversity.' 4. The neurodiversity movement is based on the belief that there is no such thing as "normal" when it comes to the human mental landscape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Encompass, verb. 🔉 /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Surround and have or hold within. ❗️ Examples: 1. This area of London encompasses Piccadilly to the north and St James's Park to the south. 2. Surrounding me, encompassing my being as a whole, was a whirlwind of earth and wind, fire and water, increasing in intensity and speed. 3. A cacophony of pounding engines, honking of horns, screeching of brakes and Spanish profanity encompasses me, surround-sound style. 4. They had chosen to walk within the forest encompassing much of the land beyond the Estate. 5. Furthermore the constructed peptide is completely encompassed within the cutoff radius. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The world, the flesh, and the devil, phrase. ❓ Definition: All forms of temptation to sin. ❗️ Examples: 1. Rossetti struggled with these words in her desire to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain. 3. The daily, hourly conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil, shall at length be at an end: the enemy shall be bound; the warfare shall be over; the wicked shall at last cease from troubling; the weary shall at length be at rest. 4. In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. 5. Epicurus' dubious reputation reflected the Christian tendency to regard earthly pleasures as the evil lures of the world, the flesh, and the devil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Evanesce, verb. ❓ Definition (literary • no object): Pass out of sight, memory, or existence. ❗️ Examples: 1. Water moves among reeds, evanesces, shines. 2. There was also the folk memory of real poverty, which might be rapidly evanescing, but still persisted in most families. 3. Like the lovers seated on the grass outside, the music evanesces along the narrowing vista between the trees, and the fountain flows only to ebb. 4. One of the greatest linguists of the day, Noam Chomsky, believes that the complexity of English has many advantages, signposting roots and connections while allowing subtleties that might otherwise evanesce. 5. In Untitled, 2000, the artist's forehead dissolves into an expansive, pastel checkerboard pattern that in turn evanesces into light. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vivid, adjective. 🔉 /ˈvɪvɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind. ❗️ Examples: 1. Memories of that evening were still vivid. 2. A vivid description. 3. New moving images may become as vivid and powerful as traumatic memories in the mind of a child survivor. 4. Kit could feel the anger coursing through his mind and everything was vivid and clear. 5. She had another terrible nightmare and could not shake the vivid images from her mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Not a bit of it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): Not at all. ❗️ Examples: 1. Am I being unduly cynical? Not a bit of it. 2. After the torrential rain on Saturday, we had thought the event might be a bit of a wash-out, but not a bit of it. 3. It sounds like a recipe for gross self-indulgence, but not a bit of it: ‘I've actually lost nearly a stone and a half since coming here.’ 4. When the Express closed, and then later the ill - fated Scottish Daily News, you'd have thought the bar would close but not a bit of it. 5. You would think after 20 years he would be jaded, but not a bit of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bezoar, noun. 🔉 /ˈbiːzɔː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A small stony concretion which may form in the stomachs of certain animals, especially ruminants, and which was once used as an antidote for various ailments. ❗️ Examples: 1. They induced him to swallow therapeutic potions of oriental bezoar stone from the stomach of a goat and boiled spirits from a human skull. 2. An obstruction series or plain abdominal radiographs may be necessary to distinguish obstruction from parasites or bezoars. 3. Endoscopy revealed a large gastric bezoar and a 2 x 3 em lower esophageal ulcer that was thought to be the source of bleeding. 4. This sometimes results in a serious medical problem called gastric bezoar - more commonly known as a hairball - which may require surgical removal. 5. Patients were still observed to empty liquids rapidly, leading to the ‘dumping syndrome’, and to retain solids, leading to bezoar formation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Erase, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈreɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove all traces of; destroy or obliterate. ❗️ Examples: 1. Over twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased. 2. The magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind. 3. If women participated in this myth-making in order to understand themselves and their place in the world, the traces have been erased or repressed. 4. In some parts of Latin America, there's been an attempt to erase many of the traces of liberation theology in any of its forms. 5. That element of my nightmare had been erased, diminished, dissolved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Put the bite on, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American, Australian, New Zealand • informal): Borrow or extort money from. ❗️ Examples: 1. A deadbeat diner tried to put the bite on a restaurant. 2. Damn, I thought, putting the bite on me for food money. 3. I'm no elitist and I'm all for genuine homeless people getting a better deal all round, but it beggared belief to see him shopping with the people he was putting the bite on just minutes before. 4. It is scandalous is that while Catholic schools across the country have missed out on anywhere between $560 million and $2-3 billion over the past four years, they have put the bite on parents to make up some of the difference. 5. Meanwhile, the governor - through a special economic development fund overseen by his office - also has been putting the bite on a host of companies and other special interests to contribute to his pet cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic