Cambridge Dictionary

2022-06-19 09:00:01 Memento (2000)

All the previous cases responded to conditioning. Open / Comment

2022-06-19 09:00:01 Conditioning, noun.

/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)nɪŋ/

Definition (mass noun): The process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances.

Examples:

1. Social conditioning.
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2022-06-18 20:00:01 Ignorance is bliss, phrase.

Definition (proverb): If one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it.

Examples:

1. I don't want to hear about them: ignorance is bliss in this case.
2. Where pop music is concerned, ignorance is bliss.
3. Ignorance is bliss and Reece slept well and happy that night.
4. Ignorance is bliss to the general public when it comes to such sensitive and important institutions as the economy.
5. Unless you believe ignorance is bliss, the discovery of the truth of any situation is a good thing.
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2022-06-18 16:00:03 Patronymic, noun.

/patrəˈnɪmɪk/

Definition: A name derived from the name of a father or ancestor, e.g. Johnson, O'Brien, Ivanovich.

Examples:

1. A patronymic derived from the name of their original lordship.
2. Adult acquaintances and casual friends usually talk to each other using the first name combined with the patronymic.
3. Thus, everyone has a patronymic, or father's name.
4. They were always smart and neatly dressed, and always called each other - in public - by their first name and patronymic.
5. It is interesting that their usual surnames are all patronymics or matronymics, rather than the locatives that would be more likely were any of the four from immigrant families.
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2022-06-18 09:00:02 Captain Fantastic (2016)

Designed to elicit blind obedience and strike fear into the hearts of the innocent and the uninformed. Open / Comment

2022-06-18 09:00:02 Elicit, verb.

/ɪˈlɪsɪt/

Definition (with object): Evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone.

Examples:

1. I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna.
2. The work elicited enormous public interest.
3. They say they are interested in eliciting strong reactions to their work but, as people, the deepest emotion they seem willing to display is this kind of bland amusement.
4. If some students disagree with an incorrect answer, elicit the correct response.
5. Prolonged question and answer sessions will eventually elicit the response the teacher is looking for.
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2022-06-17 20:00:02 Make someone's blood boil, phrase.

Definition (informal): Infuriate someone.

Examples:

1. It made her blood boil every time he came near.
2. It was those thoughts that made her blood boil with anger and frustration.
3. Experience what makes the Inspector tick, and what makes his blood boil.
4. I am increasingly sensitive to injustice, which makes my blood boil, and these paintings were born from the anger provoked by this horror.
5. All her words make my blood boil with jealousy and anger as she speaks the taboo.
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2022-06-17 16:00:01 Ghibli, noun.

/ˈɡɪbli/

Definition (mass noun): A hot, dry southerly wind of North Africa.

Examples:

1. Spring and summer can bring the hot, dusty sirocco wind from the Sahara to Malta, Italy and Greece, while France sometimes gets the strong mistral, and the ghibli blows across from north-west Africa towards Spain.
2. Fierce winds - the khamsin and the ghibli - threw dust into men's faces, obscuring the battlefield.
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2022-06-17 09:00:01 I Declare War (2012)

Mmhm, and experience the positive effects that these memories evoke. Open / Comment

2022-06-17 09:00:01 Evoke, verb.

/ɪˈvəʊk/

Definition (with object): Bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.

Examples:

1. The sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood.
2. I really need to jog my memory to evoke images of the place.
3. Words are flashing in my mind, recollections of a time past, evoking specific feelings, recalling certain events, ones I do not wish to recollect.
4. What's to say there's not a homeless soul on a cold Dublin street who occasionally glances at a digital photo - using the memories evoked by the image to hold onto reality for yet another day.
5. The bird in hand image immediately evoked a memory I had from childhood.
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