? Chock-a-block, adjective.

? /tʃɒkəˈblɒk/ ??

❓ Definition (British • informal • predicative): Crammed full of people or things.

❗️ Examples:

1. The manual is chock-a-block with information.
2. With TV schedules chock-a-block full of irritating property makeover shows, you can't deny we're all obsessed with interiors.
3. The whole film is chock-a-block full of amazing FX gadgets, surprising twists and interesting characters (not to mention product placements for a leading car manufacturer).
4. Usually this free newspaper is chock-a-block full of advertisements and feces for articles.
5. The 100g bar of Chocolat Noir, which I scoffed in one heady moment of shameless indulgence, was chock-a-block with cocoa solids - a whopping 76 per cent.
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? The Whistleblower (2010)

? But I will assert over and over again, I run a Zero Tolerance program... for that type of activity.

? 30 Rock (2006) - S06E18

? My heyday was also the '90s.

? Non-Stop (2014)

? Flying is not my cup of tea.

? O Lucky Man! (1973)

? Unanimous decision, I'm afraid.

? Unforgiven (1992)

? And we were young and full of beans.

? Sycophant, noun.

? /ˈsɪkəfant/ ??

❓ Definition: A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.

❗️ Examples:

1. An assortment of hatchet men, opportunists and sycophants gained access to the levers of power.
2. There will be several servile sycophants who will come forward as ‘White Knights’ to regain their lost positions.
3. Only the most sycophantic of the sycophants would even begin to make such a comparison. [In the past] there was at least a real enemy, there were real things to be done.
4. We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough.
5. As time has passed, the meaning of ‘faithful dog’ has changed entirely as when, nowadays, the term is used to describe someone who behaves like a sycophant toward some powerful politician.
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? Oxymoron, noun.

? /ˌɒksɪˈmɔːrɒn/ ??

❓ Definition: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).

❗️ Examples:

1. Yes, but it does leave a reader ever more certain that the term ‘mature male’ is an oxymoron.
2. One day I sat her down to explain to her the word oxymoron and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults.
3. The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an oxymoron, certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics.
4. The prose poem is a hybrid form, an anomaly if not a paradox or oxymoron.
5. A medley of oxymorons, contradictions, and double-standards.
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? Sesquipedalian, adjective.

? /ˌsɛskwɪpɪˈdeɪlɪən/ ??

❓ Definition (formal): (of a word) polysyllabic; long.

❗️ Examples:

1. Sesquipedalian surnames.
2. Helplessly, he would manipulate every sesquipedalian word he encountered until he had wrung all possible combinations out of it.
3. Geologists (who never shy away from sesquipedalian words) call the process ‘differentiation.’
4. The sesquipedalian prose of scientific journals.
5. The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city.
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? Oblique, adjective.

? /əˈbliːk/ ??

❓ Definition: Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; slanting.

❗️ Examples:

1. We sat on the settee oblique to the fireplace.
2. In older well-elongated cells, part of the immobile mitochondria is already arranged along parallel lines transverse or oblique to the cell axis.
3. Entocristid and oblique crests run parallel in a longitudinal direction.
4. Trabs rise upward parallel to or slightly oblique to excurrent canals and form regular ladder-like structure.
5. A large, angular semi-pelite clast contains two tectonic fabrics, one of which is parallel to bedding within the clast whereas the other is oblique to it.
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