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Word of the Day: emulsify
This word has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Phrasal Verb of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub
make for
to move towards something
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Slang of the Day | Vocabulary | EnglishClub
meat market
a place like a bar or nightclub in which people looking for sexual partners can meet
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Word of the Day: doldrums
This word has appeared in 111 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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penalize
Definition: (verb) Impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on.
Synonyms: punish.
Usage: The students were penalized for their tardiness and had to stay after school for detention.
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jabberwock
noun: Nonsensical or wildly incoherent speech or writing. verb intr.: To speak or write in this manner.
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Idiom of the Day
strap on the (old) feed bag
slang To begin eating; to have a meal. Watch the video
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carry out
If you carry out a task or a piece of work, you do whatever is needed to complete it.
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oddball
a strange or eccentric person (n.) | strange, weird (adj.)
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pull a prank (on someone)
To carry out a trick, deception, or practical joke (against someone). Watch the video
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vote in
If a person or a political party is voted in, they have won the most votes in an election.
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mule
a person paid to carry illegal drugs from one country to another
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wipe away
to remove something by wiping it with a tissue, a cloth or a hand
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upchuck
to vomit, throw up
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nonviolence
Definition: (noun) Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
Synonyms: passive resistance.
Usage: Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., were two of the most articulate advocates of nonviolence.
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white knight
noun: 1. One who comes to the rescue of another. 2. A well-meaning but ineffective helper.
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Idiom of the Day
be put in (one's) place
To be humbled or have one's dignity lowered (by someone); to be made aware that one is not as important, respected, influential, etc., as one thinks. Watch the video
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be put behind bars
To be arrested and held in prison; to be serving time in prison. Watch the video
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clean out (2)
If you have been cleaned out, all your money has been taken by someone, or spent on something.
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top
a man who takes the active role in gay or homosexual sex
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Word of the Day: estuary
This word has appeared in 25 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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coerce
Definition: (verb) To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral, or intellectual means.
Synonyms: force, hale, pressure, squeeze.
Usage: The lawsuit alleged that her boss had coerced her into resigning and that she therefore deserved compensation.
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phlizz
noun: Something existing only in name: an illusion or empty semblance.
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Word of the Day: clamorous
This word has appeared in 12 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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cultivator
Definition: (noun) Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil.
Synonyms: agriculturalist, grower, raiser.
Usage: He soon became a land-holder, then a prosperous cultivator of the soil, and shortly after a town-officer.
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rabbit hole
noun: 1. A bizarre, confusing, or disorienting situation that's hard to exit. 2. A lengthy and often unproductive detour, especially one involving a unexpectedly deep dive, whether into conspiracy theories, cat videos, or Wikipedia browsing.
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stepwise
Definition: (adjective) Marked by a gradual progression as if step by step.
Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step.
Usage: Quantum mechanics is a natural system of stepwise interactions that governs very small things.
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Idiom of the Day
pull a face (at someone)
To make a grimacing or humorously distorted facial expression (at someone). Watch the video
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hackneyed
Definition: (adjective) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
Synonyms: banal, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn, tired, shopworn, commonplace.
Usage: For God's sake do not thrust upon me your hackneyed remarks, repeated to nausea, that "I was only a dreamer," while they even then had an understanding of life.
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