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at/from the beginning of something |
You should have made that clear right at the outset. |
I made it clear right from the outset that I disapproved |
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not sensible; likely to cause difficulties in the future |
Her remarks were ill-advised, to say the least. |
You would be ill-advised to travel on your own. |
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for this reason |
His mother was Italian, hence his name - Luca. |
We suspect they are trying to hide something, hence the need for an independent inquiry. |
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an affirmative word or reply means ‘yes’ or expresses agreement |
an affirmative response to the question |
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to change direction or make something change direction, especially after hitting something |
The defender nearly deflected the ball into his own net.(Harry Maguires) |
He raised his arm to try to deflect the blow. |
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a single living plant, animal, virus, etc.: |
Amoebae and bacteria are single-celled organisms. |
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that can be seen or noticed |
observable differences |
The political crisis seems to be having little observable effect on share prices. |
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the act of saying that you no longer believe that something you have previously said is true [Rejection] |
The newspaper published a withdrawal the next day. |
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saying or showing the opposite |
For a long time, it was thought to be a harmless substance, but we now have proof/evidence to the contrary. |
Show me some evidence to the contrary (= proving that something is not true). |
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to cause something..Or..to persuade or influence somebody to do something |
Nothing would induce me to take the job |
drugs that induce sleep |
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to do something to make somebody angry with you |
Not wishing to antagonize her further, he said no more. |
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to suddenly become very annoyed or offended at what somebody says or does |
His lies made her bristle with rage. |
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a person who works in a bank, receiving and paying out money from and to customers |
Mike is a teller |
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expected to do something or to become something [Potential] |
I had a phone call from a prospective client today. |
a prospective buyer |
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a person who puts money in a bank account |
A prospective depositor |
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a final warning to a person or country that if they do not do what you ask, you will use force or take action against them |
He gave her an ultimatum - she could either stop seeing Peter and come back to him or it was divorce. |
The government denied that it had presented the union with an ultimatum. |
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to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it[defy] |
Motorists regularly flout the law |
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practical knowledge and good judgment about ordinary life |
The parents and children of this country have a certain amount of horse sense. |
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your family or your relatives |
Marriage between close kin is prohibited 🚫 |
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to do something that you have said you will do or have been asked to do |
I carry out a promise/a threat/a plan/an order |
the training necessary to enable them to carry out their duties |
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a person who receives money or property when somebody dies |
She was the sole beneficiary of her father’s will. |
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a person who did a job before somebody else |
My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years. |
my predecessor at the Ministry of Defence |
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the way a person is feeling: |
I've been in high/low spirits (= feeling happy/sad) lately. |
The negative reply dashed his spirits (= made him unhappy). |
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of or using a scale of temperature in which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° |
fifty degrees Fahrenheit |
Temperatures tomorrow will rise to around seventy degrees Fahrenheit. |
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used meaning ‘only’ or ‘simply’ to emphasize a fact or something that you are saying |
He said nothing, merely smiled and watched her |
I'm merely stating what everybody knows anyway. |
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to burn yourself or part of your body with very hot liquid or steam |
Be careful not to scald yourself with the steam. |
Tears scalded her eyes. |
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) a device in a tap that controls the flow of liquid from a container |
A spigot |
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that happens after or as a result of another event [Following] |
They lost track of each other in the ensuing years. |
He had become separated from his parents in the ensuing panic |
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the owner of a business, a hotel, etc |
newspaper proprietors |
Enquiries must be made to the proprietor. |
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the amount of money that you pay to use something for a particular period of time |
Telephone charges include line rental. |
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a person who annoys or criticizes other people in order to make them do something |
He was a political gadfly, turning up at city council meetings and complaining about the waste of taxpayers’ money. |
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the amount of something that can be held in one hand Small amount |
a handful of rice |
Only a handful of people came |
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the process of conducting a complicated argument with somebody over a long period of time |
After six months of legal wrangling, the case was no further forward. |
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clever and showing skill |
an adroit negotiator |
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a quantity that you can carry in one or both arms |
an armful of flowers |
She scooped up an armful of clothes. |
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to accept an idea, a proposal, a set of beliefs, etc., especially when it is done with enthusiasm |
to embrace democracy/feminism/Islam |
It is unlikely that such countries will embrace capitalist ideas. |
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to obtain or collect something such as information, support, etc. [Gather] |
All the information that we garnered has been kept on file. |
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the ability to understand somebody/something very quickly and accurately |
Perspicacity |
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to arrange people or things in a straight line or row. |
He lined the bottles up along the shelf |
Mark had a job lined up when he left college. |
