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disapproving or suggesting that something is not good or is of no importance:
Make sure students realize that 'fat' is a pejorative word.
It comes as quite a shock to still hear a judge describing a child as 'illegitimate', with all the pejorative overtones of that word. |
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| some1 who aint got no cash |
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| that's one good cake, blimey |
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ministrations
› acts of helping or taking care of people or providing for their needs:
In her last difficult years, she relied on the careful ministrations of her beloved husband.
(humorous:) That plant seems to be dying in spite of all my ministrations |
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a word or phrase that is often used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaning:
In the phrase "a hard frost", "hard" is a collocation of "frost" and "strong" would not sound natural. |
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to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down):
The puppy flopped down on the couch. |
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a person employed by a newspaper, a television station, etc. to report on a particular subject or send reports from a foreign country:
a war correspondent
the education correspondent for the Guardian |
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positioned at or towards the front:
Specimens for examination were taken from the anterior side of the left ventricle from each heart. |
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Prefix:a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to make a new word:
In the word 'unimportant', 'un-' is a prefix.
Suffix:a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word:
The suffix '-ness' added to the end of the word 'sweet' forms the word 'sweetness', changing an adjective into a noun. |
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without money, food, a home, or possessions:
The floods left thousands of people destitute. |
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(of a verb) having or needing an object:
In this dictionary, transitive verbs, such as 'put', are marked [T]. |
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| its raining cats and dogs |
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| to take the blame or responsibility for something that is wrong or has not succeeded: |
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| to ask someone who knows a lot about a subject for information or their opinion: |
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| a system in which you are rewarded for some actions and threatened with punishment for others: |
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Schuhlöffel.
to fit something tightly in a particular place, often between two other things:
This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks. |
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In many parts of the English speaking world (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and South Africa) “practice” is the noun, “practise” the verb. However, in the U.S.A the spelling “practice” is more often used for both the noun and the verb.
I need to practise my English.
Dr Haines has a practice in Hudson Way.
Magda is a practising Roman Catholic. |
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having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary:
"uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble."
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mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange:
"Uncanny sounds filled the house." |
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