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your idea or opinion of yourself, especially your feeling of your own importance and ability: |
I'm glad she got the job - she needed something to boost/bolster her ego (= give her confidence |
That man has such an enormous ego - I've never known anyone so full of themselves |
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someone who studies plants |
Have you met a botanist |
the scientific study of plantsعِلم النباتات He's a botany |
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unusual, interesting, and often foreignغَريب / نادِر |
exotic fruit |
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to break or act against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect |
Questions of this kind violate my privacy and I am not willing to answer them. |
It seems that the troops deliberately violated the ceasefire agreement. |
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a rule, principle, or law, especially in the Christian Church |
To violate a canon |
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the scientific study of the body and how its parts are arranged: |
He later became professor of anatomy at Kiel. |
An understanding of human anatomy is important to a dancer. |
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in a way that gives all your attention to something: |
She was listening intently to everything he said. |
The child stared intently at her. |
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to suggest or show something, without saying it directlyيَدُلّ ضِمْنًا على |
She implied that she wasn’t happy at work |
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giving complete attention, or showing complete involvement, or (of attention) complete: |
She sat with a rapt expression reading her book. |
The children watched with rapt attention. |
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approval or agreement, often given by an official group: |
The council has finally indicated its approbation of the plans. |
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veryلِلْغاية |
He was immensely popular |
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to walk slowly around a place without any purpose |
They wandered around the town |
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expensive and only for people who are rich or importantمَقصور على |
an exclusive club |
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Straight |
Sitting very erect |
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a long line of bones in a person’s or animal’s backعَمود فِقَري |
Do snakes have spines ? |
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the top part of your legs when you are sitting down |
His little daughter was sitting on his lap. |
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someone who is involved in a conversation |
Abraham was able to act as interpreter and interlocutor for our group. |
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clear or obvious without needing any proof or explanation: |
Solutions which seem self-evident to humans are often beyond the grasp of computers. |
self-evident facts |
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in a way that is attractive or interesting: |
Her voice has an appealingly husky quality. |
The children asked appealingly if it was time to go home yet. |
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to say that what someone else has just said is wrong |
He said we were all happy at work, and nobody dared to contradict him. |
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a material that covers the inside of something بطانه |
a jacket lining |
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to close or repair something by sewing the edges together: |
Let me sew up that hole in your jeans |
A nurse will come and sew up that wound for you soon |
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goods that are bought and sold: |
Shoppers complained about poor quality merchandise and high prices |
Japan exported $117 billion in merchandise to the US in 1999. |
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in an angry way, because of something that is wrong or not fair: |
"I said no such thing!" she cried indignantly. |
He indignantly denied that he ever treated the two children differently |
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the support given to an organization by someone |
The charity enjoys the patronage of many prominent local business people |
We would like to thank all of our customers for their patronage in the pas |
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to get rid of something |
How did they dispose of the body? |
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a person or group that supports an activity or organization, especially by giving money: |
The Princess Royal is a well-known patron of several charities. |
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especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time |
chronic diseases/conditions |
Mr. George is resigning because of chronic heart disease. |
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If a person is subdued, they are not as happy as usual or they are quieter than usual: |
He seemed a bit subdued at lunch - is he all right? |
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showing that you understand and care about someone’s problemsمُتَعاطف |
My boss is very sympathetic about my situation. |
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to (cause a part of the body to) become wider or further open: |
The doctor put drops in my eyes to dilate the pupils |
This drug will dilate the arteries. |
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If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts: |
The volcano spewed a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air. |
The drains spew (out) millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river. |
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violent and dangerous |
a vicious attack on a child |
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to speak in an uncontrolled way, usually because you are upset or angry, or because you are ill: |
He's always raving (on) about the government |
She raved about/over the clothes she had seen at the Paris fashion shows. |
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too many to be counted |
The project has been delayed by innumerable problems. |
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to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work, or to formally ask for a special piece of work from someone: |
She's commissioned an artist to paint her portrait |
Grandfather was commissioned as Group Captain in the RAF just before the war. |
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someone who says that they do not approve of someone or somethingمُعارِض |
a critic of the government |
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someone who troubleshoots (= discovers why something does not work and tries to improve it): |
He became the most respected troubleshooter in the oil business. |
He is an important strategist and troubleshooter for the organization |
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a bird with a curved beak that spends most of its life flying over the sea |
It is a stormy petrel |
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annoyed and tending to argue and complain a lot |
By dinner, we were all tired and cantankerous. |
By dinner, we were all tired and cantankerous |
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a long, angry speech expressing strong disapproval: |
She launched into an angry/furious tirade about how she had been unfairly treated. |
My father’s tirades against politicians were famous. |
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a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly: |
A special committee has been appointed to handle prisoners' grievances. |
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to remove something, especially because of an official decision or If an army withdraws, or if someone withdraws it, it leaves the place where it is fighting. |
He has threatened to withdraw his support. |
The president has ordered troops to be withdrawn from the area. |
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someone who makes a determined effort to achieve or stop something because of their strong beliefs: |
He caught the public imagination as a crusader against corruption. |
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cruel and not caring about other people |
a callous remark |
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a situation in which someone treats another person unfairly in order to get an advantage for himself or herselfاستِغلال |
the exploitation of child workers |
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an organization that supplies goods to shops and companiesمُوزّع |
World's largest distributor |
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to make someone want to have or do something that they should not |
Can I tempt you to go shopping? |
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to become less angry or excited about something: |
Come on kids! Simmer down and get on with your work! |
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willing to listen to and accept new ideas and suggestions: |
The government is not receptive to the idea of a Freedom of Information Act |
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a matter or item of little value or importance |
I'm a trifle confused about the arrangements for tonight. |
It was such a trifling sum of money to argue about |
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to have a fight or an argument |
I loved him isteam of scrapping with him |
He was always getting into scraps at school. |
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in a way that involves hesitating before doing something because you do not want to do it or because you are not sure that it is the right thing to do |
We reluctantly agreed to go with her. |
Reluctantly, he started the engine and drove off. |
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to put something somewhere and then be unable to find it again, especially for only a short time |
I seem to have mislaid my keys. |
Our luggage was temporarily mislaid |
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A stray animal is lost or has no homeطائش |
A stray dog/coal |
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a hard black mineral that is found below the ground and burned to produce heat |
I put more coal on the fire🔥 |
A hot coal fell out of the fire and burned the carpet. |
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surprising or shocking because not known about or previously experienced: |
It was unheard-of for an unmarried couple to live together. |
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to be a candidate in an election for a political position, especially in the U.S. |
to run for president |
Bush ran a second time in 2004 |
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to fill somebody/something with strong feelings, opinions or values |
Her voice was imbued with an unusual seriousness |
Her poetry was imbued with a love of the outdoors. |
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making you support or approve of someone or somethingإيجابي |
She made a very favourable impression on us |
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the fact that something should or should not be done in order to avoid a problem |
They discussed the advisability of building so near to the airport. |
Experts point to the advisability of a healthy lifestyle to remain well as you age. |
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an official announcement: Or an official statement about something important that is made to the public; the act of making an official اعلان |
to issue a proclamation |
Restrictions governing building in London were first issued by royal proclamation. |
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to criticize something or someone strongly and publicly: |
The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides. |
His former colleagues have denounced him as a spy. |
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to free yourself of something that is worrying you, by talking about it to someone |
He'll unburden himself to anyone who'll listen |
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If it strikes you that something is true, you think of it, or that is your opinion. ///////Or ///////not used in the progressive tenses)(of a thought or an idea) to come into somebody’s mind suddenlyيَخْطُر عَلى بال |
It struck me that I’d forgotten to order the flowers |
awful thought has just struck me. |
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in a way that makes something very clear |
It struck me forcibly how honest he'd been. |
No one is likely to be forcibly vaccinated against their will. |
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If something penetrates an object, it moves into that object. |
The bullet penetrated his skull |
Water from the leak penetrated the ceiling. |
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If the weather in winter is mild, it is not cold. لطيف |
His eyes were mild |
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friendly and pleasant: |
The teacher is very genial/has a genial manner |
a genial personality |
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to avoid or ignore someone or something |
He was shunned by colleagues and family alike. |
They were both shunned by their families when they remarried |
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without stopping |
to talk incessantly |
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to break something or of the police) to suddenly enter a place and search it or arrest somebody |
Come out, or I'll bust the door down! |
The cops busted the place frequently |
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having lost some control of your actions or behaviour under the influence of alcohol or another drug: |
She was charged with driving while intoxicated. |
Intoxicated by success, she wanted to go further. |
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a lack of food for a long time in a particular place |
A famine in china |
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