lily of the ˈvalley
noun [countable]

a plant with several small white bell-shaped flowers

❇️ I love the smell of those yellow winter blooms - just like lily of the valley.


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overlook

o‧ver‧look /ˌəʊvəˈlʊk $ ˌoʊvər-/ ●●○ verb [transitive]

3 if a house, room etc overlooks something, it has a view of it, usually from above


❇️ Our room overlooks the ocean.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/overlook

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cord 1 /kɔːd $ kɔːrd/ ●●○ noun

1 [countable, uncountable] a piece of thick string or thin rope

❇️ The robe was held at the waist by a cord.
❇️ He pulled explosives and some tangled cord from his bag.

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read between the lines

look for or discover a meaning that is implied rather than explicitly stated.

❇️ "reading between the lines, I think Clare needs money"

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ˌself-ˈcentred British English
self-centered American English

adjective

paying so much attention to yourself that you do not notice what is happening to other people

SYN selfish (B1)

❇️ Robert is a self-centered, ambitious, and bigoted man.


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🌐 The Internet — The new pathway to success?

📚 Touchstone 4, Second Edition, Unit 11, Lesson D, Pages 114 & 115

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🌐 The Internet — The new pathway to success?

📚 Touchstone 4, Second Edition, Unit 11, Lesson D, Pages 114 & 115

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🐑 lamb /læm/ ●●○ S3 noun


1 [countable] a young sheep

2 [uncountable] the meat of a young sheep
→ mutton

❇️ roast lamb
❇️ a leg of lamb
❇️ lamb chop/cutlet/stew etc

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👩‍🦰 barrette

bar‧rette /bæˈret/ noun [countable]

American English a small metal or plastic object used to keep a woman’s hair in place

SYN hair-slide British English


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receptionist

re‧cep‧tion‧ist /rɪˈsepʃənɪst/ ●●○ noun [countable]

someone whose job is to welcome and deal with people arriving in a hotel or office building, visiting a doctor etc.

▪️ One of us would be a hotel receptionist, the other a lost tourist.


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🦑 squid

/skwɪd/ noun (plural squid or squids) [countable]

a sea creature with a long soft body and ten arms around its mouth


▪️ It is a giant squid, its long tentacles twisting about like huge snakes.

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🦑 squid

US pronunciation

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🦑 squid

UK pronunciation

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peninsula

pe‧nin‧su‧la /pəˈnɪnsjələ $ -sələ/ ●○○ noun [countable]

a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land

▪️ the Korean peninsula
▪️ They built their house on a narrow peninsula.


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